They, I think, despised her remarks about the flawed 2011 elections in Russia. They feared that she would be very tough on Russia in terms of sanctions.
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While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans
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All of the dirty tricks, basically, the Russians employ to tear down liberal democracy, we need to work together on a bipartisan basis, and we need the president Trump help.
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The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.
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It was an echo of Director Comey’s testimony that Trump showed no curiosity, no interest, no concern over the Russia hack.
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And if they’re not in existence, if this was yet another fabrication by the president, he needs to come clean about it.
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An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
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Then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn’t have prevented it altogether.
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Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
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A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas.
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In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II
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In fact, that is done quite often. And the standard is whether the unmasking of those names is necessary to determine the significance of the intelligence.
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Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely
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We need Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together to fashion a very comprehensive pushback to Russia, not just the cyber-hacking, but their bribery of officials in Europe, their social media campaign, their overt media campaign.
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And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they’re coming to visit or stay with.
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Donald Trump and his personal attorney want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever Bob Mueller comes up with.
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The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
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Frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.
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That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president,
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The most important thing to me is that the president Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey all because of the Russia investigation.
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When Donald Trump focuses on a fight with the press or investigating leaks but doesn’t seem committed to standing up to what Russia is doing at home and around the world, that is of profound concern.
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That says, I think, a lot about where the president is coming from, but it was quite jarring given this was an attack on our democracy by a foreign power.
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The attorney general was supposed to have recused himself from anything involving Russia.
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We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world.
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Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
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We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].
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The only element of it that concerned him was how it might impact him personally.
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