Hillary Clinton with Rachel Maddow

To cap off a tumultuous day wherein AG Barr stonewalled many incisive questions from Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hillary Clinton paid a visit to Rachel Maddow. Here are a few snippets.

ICYMI you can find the full episode here >>>>

Here is a synopsis from CNN. (Nice sign that the free media is inter-cooperative.)

Clinton: Barr's argument for the President being able to fire investigators is 'the road to tyranny'

 

By Kate Sullivan, CNN

Updated 0321 GMT (1121 HKT) May 2, 2019

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during an event at Barnard College, January 7, 2019 in New York City.

Washington (CNN)Reacting to Attorney General William Barr's testimony on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton said the notion that the President can fire any prosecutor investigating him if he feels the accusations are false is "the road to tyranny."

Clinton made the comments during an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Wednesday evening. During the show, Maddow pointed to something Barr had said in his public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

 

"The point I was trying to make earlier is that, in the situation of the President, who has constitutional authority to supervise proceedings, if in fact a proceeding was not well founded, if it was a groundless proceeding, if it was based on false allegations, the President does not have to sit there, constitutionally, and allow it to run its course," Barr said during his testimony. "The President could terminate that proceeding, and it would not be a corrupt intent, because he was being falsely accused."

Maddow said Barr was making the argument that "the President can't be investigated if the President doesn't want to be investigated."

 

"And that, that is the road to tyranny," Clinton said. "That is what authoritarians believe and those who service them argue."

 

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Re: Suspicious Devices

You may have heard by now of multiple devices, likely related to/similar to that sent to George Soros, that were discovered near the Clintons' house and Obama's office. October surprise?

Here is the Secret Service statement.



Related:

.@realDonaldTrump with every fiber of your rotten being you‘ve incited & condoned hate. Never in 643 days have you discouraged people from unleashing the violence inside them. Your very existence requires anger & fear. You need it like normal people need oxygen.

This is on you.

— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) October 24, 2018

I agree with Philippe. It is also on all the morons who circulated Hillary's home address online. I know that it is "findable,"  however advertising it made it so much easier to access.

It is not clear what "in the vicinity" means. (Probably for the best.)  According to the statement this was a routine screening.

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating after a suspicious package was found "in the vicinity" of the Clintons' Chappaqua, New York, home. A suspicious package addressed to former President Obama was also intercepted in Washington, DC. https://t.co/yr4JwHOZXA

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) October 24, 2018

CNN also targeted.

The device sent to Time Warner Center was constructed with a pipe and wires, according to an NYPD source. Law enforcement authorities are treating the device as a real explosive. The device was discovered in the mailroom of Time Warner Center in New York. https://t.co/iIxKk6HUko

— CNN (@CNN) October 24, 2018

Examination of Conscience

Everyone knows that Catholics confess. Not everyone knows that, before they do, they perform an examination of conscience: a mental inventory of their sins. It is a purposeful, conscious act. But it is not the only way for the conscience to bring past failures to the surface. Conversations revisiting the past can serve that purpose. Apparently that is what happened to Jeffrey Toobin.

Before posting this, I want to say that, among media personalities, Toobin is one that I found least offensive in the 2015-2016 election cycle, yet he feels some guilt.

washingtonpost.com

 

CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: ‘I regret my role’ in Hillary Clinton false equivalence

https://www.facebook.com/erik.wemple

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Candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on stage during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis in October 2016. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)

So long as President Trump continues disgracing the Oval Office, thoughtful people will probe their own role in helping him get there.
Such appeared to be the motivation behind a mea culpa issued by CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on comedian Larry Wilmore’s “Black on the Air” podcast. In a discussion of presidential politics, Wilmore argued that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, was the victim of a “coordinated attack” coming from Republicans. “Benghazi was … the expression of that attack. In fact, what’s his name, was it [former Rep. Jason] Chaffetz who actually kind of agreed that that’s what they were doing, was weakening her as a candidate.” (Wilmore may have been referring to Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who said in 2015, ““Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”)
No question about the attack on Clinton, responded Toobin, citing “all that bogus stuff about the Clinton Foundation” — perhaps a reference to the Uranium One story or even to the pre-election reporting of Bret Baier — later withdrawn — that there would be an indictment relating to the foundation.
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Perhaps it is time for other media personalities to examine their roles in the avalanche of false equivalences that preoccupied reportage during the election cycle. After all, their "normal" role is to communicate postions on issues and policies put forth by candidates. There was an imbalance to these false equivalences. Trump's bad behavior and prejudices were right out front for all to see. Of course they merited reporting. Bells and whistles should have gone off when the negatives they reported on the other side were obscure and lacked evidence.

Donald Trump was an unusually immoral candidate. Reporting his indiscretions and outrageous remarks should not have precipitated a hunt for transgressions on the other side so assiduous as to co-opt fictions being circulated by questionable sources. Their normal job should have been to question those sources and to report the excellent and extensive policies and plans Hillary Clinton was outlining at every campaign stop.

It is time for all of them to examine their consciences. We can thank Jeffrey Toobin for leading the way.

October 28: Day of Infamy

Last May, Hillary Clinton sat down with Christiane Amanpour at the Women for Women International Luncheon and told her that but for James Comey's letter of October 28, 2016, she probably would have won the election, a theory she fleshes out in her memoir What Happened.



Hillary supporters had a new date to add to the list of days that we will never forget as October 28 joined May 31, 2008 - the day the Democratic Party Rules and Bylaws Committee altered the delegate count in the wake of the primaries that year.

So here we are a year later. CNN chose to commemorate the day with a chronological look at social media one year ago today for the record of how attitudes changed over the course of the day.

Reliving the day Hillary Clinton says cost her the election, one year later

By Gregory Krieg, CNN

Updated 10:03 AM ET, Sat October 28, 2017
CNN)"I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey's letter, on October 28th, and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. And the evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling, persuasive, and so we overcame a lot in the campaign, we overcame an enormous barrage of negativity, of false equivalency and so much else, but as Nate Silver, who doesn't work for me, he's an independent analyst, but one considered to be very reliable, has concluded: If the election had been on October 27th, I'd be your president."
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Sigh. You've got to love Hillary!

Oh is that today? https://t.co/AYy7CtYRWj

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 29, 2017

ICYMI: Hillary Clinton with Fareed Zakaria

Earlier in the week, Hillary stopped by for a chat with Fareed Zakaria. The interview aired today on Fareed's GPS.

Hillary Clinton with Anderson Cooper

ICYMI Here is Hillary's extensive interview with Anderson Cooper from Wednesday night. It could be my imagination, but it seemed to me that Hillary is more relaxed than ever. That alternate nostril breathing must really work!

The Needle Moves for Christie Whitman ... to Hillary! (And MORE!)

She clearly deliberated long and hard about this, and we respect her dedication to her Republican principles.  But Christine Todd Whitman could no longer simply be #NeverTrump.  She has joined the band of brave Republicans endorsing Hillary Clinton and we could not be happier to have her in our camp.  Welcome, Christie!

Ex-GOP gov Whitman says she's backing Clinton

By Dan Merica, CNN

Sat October 8, 2016

Christine Todd Whitman attends Making Strides: Advancing Women's Leadership - Opening Reception at Vizcaya Museum & Gardens on November 17, 2015 in Miami, Florida.

(CNN)Hillary Clinton picked up another Republican endorsement on Saturday when Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey, endorsed the former secretary of state.

Whitman has been an outspoken critic of Trump and says in her Star-Ledger op-ed that Clinton "has many faults" but "would at least walk into the Oval Office ready to govern."

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We have been waiting for this for awhile, but we knew that sooner or later Christie would team up for the best choice in this election.

The Christie Bombshell … No! Not THAT Christie!

February 26, 2016 Thank you, Governor Whitman!  Nice to have you aboard.

Bonus!  The conservative Enid News has also thrown its chops behind Hillary!  The reasonable choice!

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton is our choice for commander in chief

ENE Editorial Board

To paraphrase Albert Einstein, what is right is not always popular.

For our newspaper — a historically conservative voice in a conservative, Republican region of arguably the reddest state in the union — endorsing a Democrat for president is truly an exception.
But this is not a routine campaign. In fact, Nov. 8 will see the most crucial presidential election race in contemporary American history.

Realistically, we have only two candidates for president, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, though other names will appear on the ballot. As has been demonstrated time and again in recent months, Trump does not have the skills, experience or temperament to hold office. For voters, Clinton is the only reasonable choice.

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CNN: WTH are you saying about Hillary Clinton???

For one thing, Joe Johns, her health is not a "major campaign issue," although we will agree that she tends to plow forth no matter what, as you said.  The diagnosis is cause, perhaps, for tweaking the schedule, but it is not a "major issue."  Hillary will follow doctor's orders, and the campaign will roll on.
Hillary, amidst a packed day on Friday, sat down with CNN's Chris Cuomo for an interview that played throughout the day of 9/11 on CNN.  Great! It was a touching and sincere interview. She was impressive.
Now that Hillary's diagnosis of pneumonia has been made public, these are the images CNN chooses to accompany the "story" of her interview and her appearance at the 9/11 ceremonies at the World Trade Center yesterday.

So I need to ask WTH????  (Fifth-graders - the H stands for "heck." Grandma S4H says that is an OK word.)  Why not these pictures before she had a fainting incident yesterday and why now?

She was a Senator from New York serving her constituents when these photos were taken.  OH! And where is Donald Trump in the September 12, 2001 pics?  Nowhere!

But now that this diagnosis is out there all over the interwebs, let's make these photos available so we can make it look like Hillary got sick long ago while serving as a Senator.  There is implication in the choice to use these photos now.

Shame on you, John Berman an Christine Romans. Juxtaposing these pictures with the pneumonia story creates a false narrative.

As an educator, I am well aware of Gardner's multiple intelligences.  It is a theory, but I will concede that for some, perhaps for many, a visual image creates more impact than the spoken or written word.
That being the case, why would a news organization pair photos of a candidate looking distressed and wearing a mask with a story about her having been found to be battling a respiratory infection?
Oh wait!  I know!  I get it!  You want to attach a deeper meaning!

Somehow, going to Ground Zero (on more than one occasion) is now connected, visually, to the diagnosis which appeared, coincidentally, on 9/11.

Serving her constituents made her too sick to serve.  I get it.  So please stop!

She developed a case of pneumonia that is being treated.  She has a minor incident of feeling faint.  It can happen to the strongest among us.

General Petraeus fainting at a hearing on Afg. Hillary, our next President, is a warhorse. #Hillary'sHealth pic.twitter.com/mreuYC5jyO

— Molly (@Plantflowes) September 11, 2016

Hillary went many hours more than General Petraeus when she testified last year before the Benghazi committee without fainting.

Stop trying to make Hillary Clinton look sicker and weaker than she is. Media malpractice.  Very disappointing. While we're at it, lose the snide, John Berman. It comes off like a know-it-all ninth-grader at a debate contest.  Unbecoming.

Hillary has seasonal allergies.  See this from last year when there were 17 Republicans and she blamed her cough on Republican histamines. Many have allergies. Nothing exclusionary about that.

I agree with this >>>>.  Recently a friend asked if I could believe that she gets coughing fits in church. Well, yes. I can. When did a cough ever keep me out of church, school, eventually out of work?  Never!  That is how you keep your grades and your job. You go in sick.  A cough got me my only A- in a doctoral program. The halls at Columbia might as well have been the Alps for the echoes generated. It was not the actual cough that did it.  It was the fatigue.  My inability to clear that highest bar that particular "bronchitis semester."  My research was sub-par  -  my par.   I did work full-time and teach part-time throughout.  Never missed a day.  Could not afford to.  I kept my jobs.  Coughs happen. So do bronchitis and pneumonia.

Hillary did, wisely, cancel a trip west.  We can help her make up for the fundraisers by kicking in a few extra contributions.  Let's do this!
Get well, Hillary!  We love you and need you.  We have the wheel for now!

Hillary Clinton Calls In to CNN on Orlando Massacre: Sets Sights on Gun Law Reform

Hillary Clinton focused her comments squarely on gun regulations when she spoke by phone to Chris Cuomo this morning.  She called for statesmanship not partisanship in the wake of the terrorist attack in Orlando.

Cuomo pressed her on Trump's charge that she refuses radical Islamist as a term. She said that she has not rejected the term but will not demonize a religion citing risk in alienating American Muslim community.

Hillary Clinton ‏@HillaryClinton

"We cannot demonize, demagogue, and declare war on an entire religion...Hate is not the answer to hate." —Hillary

Hillary turned the conversation to the bigger issue of gun regulations.  Florida does not regulate assault weapons or high-capacity magazines.  Hillary has called for common sense gun reform many times in the course of her campaign.  She called for reinstatement of the  assault weapons ban.
Asked about the right to bear arms, she responded that there are common sense steps that can be taken and pointed to 23 shootings this year by toddlers.

Cuomo asked her to respond to Trump's messages.  She called his rhetoric dangerous. We have to prevent radicalization. But we also have to be aware that people who are not radicalized also use guns to hurt people. She wants to protect people from ISIS but also from others who inflict injury and death outside of jihadist motivations.



Donald Trump called in later and repeatedly said "we are letting in too many Syrian refugees."  The shooter was of Afghan descent and, like Trump, was born in New York. He said " We are taking in too many people like this guy."

Hillary Clinton, Presumptive Dem Nominee, Dominating the TV Screens

The day after claiming the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary was all over the TV networks tonight. She appeared with Anderson Cooper on CNN discussing such topics as party unity, Bill Clinton's possible role in her administration, and her pick for Veep.

In the post mortem, Jeffrey Toobin said what someone should have long ago: that there is a word for what happened to Bernie Sanders - he lost and needs to get over it.  Toobin said the party has coddled Sanders long enough, and it is time for him to get in line.  He said Hillary cannot tell Bernie this, but President Obama can and, he supposes, probably will at their meeting tomorrow. He backed up his statement by arguing that Hillary got the most votes, the most delegates, and the most states.  Case closed as far as he is concerned.
Hillary also spent some time last night before her big speech last night with ABC's David Muir. The segment aired on World News Tonight.

The video and transcript are here >>>>

Before Hillary left the west coast, she also sat down with Mario Lopez, and that segment aired tonight as well.  It was very short and focused on the history of the moment.



Finally, Lester Holt interviewed Hillary for the Nightly News.  She rejected the notion that Bernie Sanders brought any new ideas to the table but praised the passion he inspired.  Lawrence O'Donnell replayed this at 10 EDT on MSNBC.



 

Lawrence O'Donnell  ended his hour recalling that other California primary. The 1968 one. I did not cry last night when Hillary claimed the nomination. I knew she was going to do it, and thank God. She is healthy and fine. But 1968..... I woke up early in the morning and the TV was on. I asked my husband - "Why are they talking about JFK?" He said, "They are talking about his brother." 

The cortege went through NJ by train on the way to D.C. People lined the tracks the whole way. It still hurts after all these years. Eight years ago, after suspending her campaign, Hillary Clinton went to the fields of California and began campaigning for the Obama/Biden ticket. She had, long before that, filled the Bobby space in my heart along with his Senate seat. Where she went and what she did after accepting defeat was so much like Bobby as were her visions and plans as laid out in her campaign that year. There is a grace in what she did.  There was a grace in Bobby.

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