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Hillary Clinton speaks at Oakland University in Rochester 10-16-14 – Video


Hillary Clinton speaks at Oakland University in Rochester 10-16-14

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Hillary Clinton Michigan Visit – Video


Hillary Clinton Michigan Visit
Mark Schauer: Just like I #39;ve done my whole career, I #39;m gonna wake up each and every morning fighting for an economy that works for regular people.

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That #39;s why you have to take this election seriously.

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Clinton Aides Faulted for Strong-Arming State Investigations

TIME Politics State Department Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state, speaks during the DreamForce Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. BloombergBloomberg via Getty Images

A State Department investigation has found that aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton contributed to the appearance of undue influence and favoritism in three departmental investigations related to alleged sexual conduct by officials in the field.

In the highest-level case, the departments inspector general found that senior State Department officials declared an allegation that the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium had solicited a prostitute in a public park as a management issue. The move effectively halted an investigation by the departments Bureau of Diplomatic Security. The ambassador, Howard Gutman, was recalled to Washington from Belgium to meet with Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy and Clinton Counselor and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, according to the report.

At the meeting, the Ambassador denied the allegations and was then permitted to return to post. The Department took no further action affecting the Ambassador. But the inspector general report finds that department officials offered varying reasons for declaring it a management issue, and that the diplomatic security investigation was halted before all potential witnesses, including the Ambassador, were interviewed.

In the second case, department managers were found to have interfered in the investigation into a Regional Security Officer accused of sexual misconduct and harassment. In the third, the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security was found to have improperly delayed for four months a diplomatic security interview with Brett McGurk, the Obama administration nominees to be Ambassador to Iraq in 2012. McGurk withdrew his nomination after flirtatious emails were leaked between him and a then-Wall Street Journal reporter while the two were based in Baghdad in 2008. The inspector general said the investigation into the leak was brought to a temporary standstill until McGurk could be interviewed.

The revelations were first reported in a 2013 leaked draft of the inspector general report.

Republicans, looking for any ammunition to use against Clinton as she prepares for a likely presidential run in 2016, are likely to attempt tying Clinton to the reports findings, though the inspector general did not find any direct link to the former secretary.

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Why is this 10-year old so excited to meet Hillary Clinton?

Macy Friday, flashing peace signs, poses with (right to left) her 12-year old brother Finn, her father Derek, Hillary Clinton and her grandmother Elaine. Sen. Mark Udall photobombs on the left.

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Washington (CNN) -- Macy Friday can't remember what she was thinking when -- mouth agape, eyes bugged -- she shook hands with Hillary Clinton in Denver this week. It all happened so fast, she says.

What she does remember is the national response to the photo of her reacting with pure, unadulterated excitement to meeting the former secretary of state.

Media outlets pounced on the story. The Washington Post captured the reaction perfectly, writing that Macy had a "look on her face that has never been witnessed by anyone who is not a dad chaperoning a minivan full of teenagers at a One Direction concert."

But why was Macy so excited? What does she like about Hillary Clinton? And who else would she react that way to meeting?

CNN spoke with Macy Friday over the phone Thursday. Here is our conversation:

CNN: How did you get to meet Hillary Clinton?

Macy: I went to Union Station unsuspecting that she would come. I had seen her in the elections and I have heard a lot about her. I was just like, 'Wow.' I was excited because, I thought, she was saying hi to a lot of people. I didn't think she was going to say hi to me. They went into a coffee shop and we were like, 'Oh no, they are going to leave.' And then, she came out and she is like, 'Hey you.' And I didn't know who she is talking to. And then I realized it was me and I went up and I turned back at my family. (long pause) I had never met anybody famous before. (long pause) I turned back at my family and I, like, I, you know, made the face.

CNN: What did you think about all the attention your photo received?

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