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Former Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted Wednesday that Democrats "erred" in their mocking of Mitt Romney in 2012 for calling Russia the nation's top geopolitical foe.

Fallon posted a tweet linking to a clip of Max Boot, who advised Romney on foreign policy in 2012, sparring with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday evening. Boot criticized Carlson for being too soft on Russian President Vladimir Putin, which retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters also did on Carlson's show this week.

"Bravo @MaxBootfor calling out Putin lovers in Trump's GOP. We Dems erred in '12 by mocking Boot/Romney Russia worry," Fallon wrote.

Fallon, now a CNN commentator, served as the national press secretary for Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016.

Romney, the Republican nominee running against then-President Barack Obama, said in 2012 that Russia was "our No. 1 geopolitical foe." Obama's campaign and many members of the press derided the comments, with Obama himself quipping in a debate that "the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

"The Cold War's been over for 20 years," Obama said.

The media praised Obama's comment as a strong remark against Romney at the time.

Democrats have changed their tune on Russia since the U.S. intelligence community stated that the Kremlin was behind meddling in the 2016 election to try to help Donald Trump win the White House. The Russia investigation has dominated headlines throughout the Trump administration, with a sprawling investigation ongoing into whether the Trump campaign illegally colluded with Russian entities to affect the election.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson said defeated 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton really won the election against Republican President Donald Trump last November and that it was stolen.

Jackson made his remarks Thursday during a labor breakfast at the annual conference of his organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, in Chicago.

Here are Jacksons words in context beforeintroducing Tom Perez, head of the Democratic National Committee:

To have a head of our party who is sensitive to the plight of working people is the order of this day, Jackson said. Dont forget when you lose, you tend to amplify woulda, coulda, shoulda. When you win, you cover up your sins. Dont let anybody fool you, we worked last year, we won the election. It was stolen.

A hesitant and mild applause followed and Jackson continued:

From John F. Kennedy to Nixon to Carter to Ford to Clinton to Barack, if any of them had to face the impact of Russian interference in such a bold way the foolishness of the Electoral College and the interference of the FBI none of them Hillary won in spite of having a 3-million vote lead. So were not gonna let anybody break our spirit. Were gonna keep fighting back. A big election is coming up this year, and we intend to win.

With that, Jackson introduced Perez.

You can watch Jacksons above remarks just after the 38-minute mark on the Rainbow PUSH Coalitions YouTube page.

Below is a shorter version of his remarks:

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The Justice Department turned over paperwork Thursday morning showing that Attorney General Jeff Sessions didnt tell the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador when he applied for his security clearance.

The revelation came because a new watchdog group successfully sued for Sessions clearance application under the Freedom of Information Actthough the document they got was heavily redacted.

The Justice Department says Sessions wasnt obligated to tell the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador because he had them in his capacity as a U.S. senator. But Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight, the watchdog group that got the DOJ to release the document, said Sessions should have revealed the meetings.

We are not talking about the ambassador from the Vatican or from Canada, he said. We are talking about the ambassador from Russia, about whom there is common knowledge there are significant espionage concerns. You should not get cute with questions from the FBI related to national security.

Evers would know. After all, he helped the State Department manage FOIA requests on Benghazi and Hillary Clintons emails.

Using his extensive FOIA experience, hes moved to the other side of those lawsuits, heading a group with six attorneys and three additional staffers looking to dredge up as much information as possible on the new administrationstarting with Sessions.

Through a failure of reading comprehension, they didnt realize we asked for Jeff Sessions signature block as well, said Evers. Theres nothing on the document that shows that its Jeff Sessions.

Sessions told the Senate under oath that he hadnt met with Russians during the presidential campaign, though he had had two conversations with the Russian ambassador. After news broke about those conversations, he recused himself from the Russia probe, which has since been handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller.

American Oversight will return to court next month in hopes of getting more information from the DOJ on Sessions clearance form.

But it isnt stopping there.

Evers and his group are also pursuing a host of other documents, including communications related to the health care bill. They got a tranche of documents from the Office of Management and the Department of Health and Human Services about the negotiations leading up to the passage of the Houses bill, and will get more emails July 31 and Sept. 5.

They are also digging for documents related to Ivanka Trump and are suing the departments of Commerce, Education, Labor, and Treasury for communications the presidents daughter has had with senior officials there.

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The group is small but could do to the Trump administration what Judicial Watch did to Hillary Clinton.

Evers is more aware than most of the extraordinary power of the Freedom of Information Act. A litigator himself, he spent two and a half years as an Obama appointee at the State Department, where he helped handle the release of documents from investigations into the Benghazi attack and Clintons personal email server.

As a political employee, Evers had no role in deciding which documents were released, or when. He told The Daily Beast his job was to ensure the various congressional committees investigating Clintons emails and Benghazi got documents that the agency released because of FOIA requests.

No investigator likes to be the last to know, Evers said. And so one of the main things that we did was to ensure that if a document came up in one context, that it was transferred over to the other investigations to ensure the disclosures went to everybody they should.

FOIA requests can have enormous political impact. The year before the 2016 presidential election, the State Department had to release thousands of pages of emails that Clinton sent through her personal server, and the content of those emails generated hundreds of additional stories.

The revelations put Clintons email server in the headlines for months and months, and did nothing to help her shake her reputation of being secretive.

That said, American Oversight is much smaller than Judicial Watch, which has been embarrassing both Republicans and Democrats with its own dogged litigation for decades.

Still, six litigators can do a lot of damage. The Trump administration will give them plenty to work with, and they know it.

Were holding the Trump administration accountablebecause Congress wont, reads its homepage.

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As President Donald Trump's approval rating remains historically low, the first lady's popularity has been blossoming as of late, surpassing not only her husband but now former first lady Hillary Clinton.

According to a new FOX News poll, Melania Trump holds a approval rating of 51 percent, an increase of 16 points since last August.

When Clinton was first lady, she was close behind at 49 percent. Former President Bill Clinton had the same approval rating as Melania his first year as president.

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Melania attends National Prayer Serviceson January 21, 2017, in Washington, DC. in Christian Louboutins.

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The first lady attends the 60th Annual Red Cross Gala on February 4, 2017, in pink Dior.

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FLOTUS turns to The Row and Derek Lam to watch the Super Bowl at Trump International Golf Club Palm Beach in West Palm Beach, Florida on February 5, 2017.

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Melania steps off Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airporton February 10, 2017, in head-to-toe Michael Kors.

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US First Lady Melania Trump wears Calvin Klein as she tours the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida, on February 11, 2017, with and Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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FLOTUS stuns in a black lace number with POTUS, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akke Abe at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 11, 2017.

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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump (in Karl Lagerfeld) welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, on February 15, 2017.

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US First Lady Melania Trump wears Alexander McQueen as she listens as her husband addressa rally in Melbourne, Florida, on February 18, 2017.

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US First Lady Melania Trump wears Ralph Lauren for the White House for a luncheon on International Women's Day on March 8, 2017.

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Melania Trump donned Alice Roi while departing the White House on March 17, 2017.

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Melania Trump walks into the East Room dressed in The Row to attend an event celebrating Women's History Monthon March 29, 2017.

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The first lady arrives in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017 in a patterned, belted black dress.

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FLOTUS sports a Hermes scarfwhile visiting the Bak Middle School of the Arts on April 7, 2017 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Melania visits the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on April 22, 2017 in Bethesda, Maryland in a short, tan trenchcoat and black pants.

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The first lady wears a navy blue suit with a large belt on her birthday on April 26, 2017.

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Melania wears a white eyelet dress as she takes part in a ribbon cutting for the Healing Garden at the Children's National Medical Center on April 28, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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FLOTUSwalks into the East Room for an event for military mothers on National Military Spouse Appreciation Day at the White House May 12, 2017, wearing wide-legged black trousers and a crisp white blouse.

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First lady Melania Trump walks across the South Lawn on May 19, 2017, wearing an orange leather skirt byHerv Pierre.

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US First Lady Melania Trump chats with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on May 20, 2017 in a Stella McCartney jumpsuit.

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Melania Trump wearing Michael Kors during an official welcoming ceremony on Trump's arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport on May, 22 2017 near Tel Aviv, Israel

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The first lady lays a wreath during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on May 23, 2017, wearing Roksanda.

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Melania Trump wears a white fit-and-flare dress as she departs from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2017.

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Melania disembarks from Air Force One at Fiumicino international Airport in an all-black ensemble on May 24, 2017.

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Melania Trump dons Dolce & Gabbana again as she attends the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra on May 26, 2017 at the ancient Greek Theater in Taormina, Sicily.

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First lady Melania Trump returns to the White House on May 27, 2017 in white culottes and a mint green cardigan.

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First Lady Melania Trump walks on stage in Monique Lhuillier during the annual gala at the Ford's Theatre to honor President Abraham Lincoln's legacy, on June 4, 2017.

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Melania Trump opts for flat,a shirt dress by Gabriela Hearstand a Michael Kors belt as she departs the White House for Camp David, June 17, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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Melania Trump leaves the MedStar Washington Hospital Center on June 14, 2017 inWashington D.C.

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U.S. First Lady Melania Trump poses in Michael Kors for photographs with Lorena Castillo Garca de Varela, first lady of Panama, near the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 19, 2017.

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First Lady Melania Trump arrive at the Congressional picnic at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 22 in aMary Katrantzou dress.

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The first lady turns heads in Emilio Pucci while meeting Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modiat the White House on June 26.

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First Lady Melania Trump arrives in New Jersey to spend a weekend at the Trump National Golf Club on June 30, 2017, wearing a high-waisted patterned skirt, a tucked-in white blouse and matching white pumps.

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FLOTUSjoins in the singing of the National Anthem at a Fourth of July picnic on the South Lawn of the White House in Esteban Cortazar.

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Melania Trump wears DVF as she arrives in Warsaw, Poland on July 5, 2017.

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FLOTUS turns heads in Delpozo as she arrives at the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 6, 2017.

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The first lady poses in a flapper-style Michael Kors number prior to a concert at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 7, 2017.

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Melania Trump walks to Marine One while departing from the White House on July 12, 2017, wearing black wide-legged trousers and a blazer.

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FLOTUS arrives in Paris in Dior on July 13, 2017.

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Trump though is slumping to an average of 40 percent since he took office, according to Gallup.

But who's the leading first lady? Michelle Obama, with a whopping 73 percent.

Still, Melania has come a long way. A year ago, only about a quarter of Americans approved of her, according to Gallup.

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A Minneapolis-area family is suing U.S. officials for civil rights violations after what they describe as an abusive detention in early 2015 at the Canada border.

Abdisalam Wilwal, who was allegedly held for more than 10 hours with his wife and four children at the Portal, N.D., station of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was detained because of his placement on a terrorist watch list used by agencies of the federal government. A lawsuit filed Thursday in district court on the Wilwal familys behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union and private litigation firm Robin Kaplan LLP states Wilwal does not know why he is on such a list and does not believe there is cause.

Wilwal and his wife, Sagal Abdigani, are originally from Somalia and immigrated to the U.S. in 2000. They were both U.S. citizens when they were crossing the border to re-enter the country from Canada, where they said they had been visiting Abdiganis sister in Saskatchewan.

The complaint filed by the ACLU and Robin Kaplan asserts the detention at the border violated the Wilwal familys protection under the Administrative Procedure Act, as well as constitutional rights namely their Fourth Amendment right to be be free from unreasonable search and seizure as well as due process rights contained in the Fifth Amendment. The lawsuit names as defendants a host of high-ranking U.S. officials, including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Homeland Security head John Kelly and FBI chief Andrew McCabe.

The complaint seeks a declaration from the court that the defendants violated the Wilwal familys rights. It also seeks an injunction preventing the defendants from arresting, seizing, searching, or interrogating (Wilwal) because of his placement on a terrorism-related watch list, as well as subjecting Wilwals family to similar treatment due to their association with him.

The lawsuit also asks the court to require the defendants to provide Wilwal with the rationale leading to his placement on a watch list and allow him an opportunity to contest that listing and be removed from it. Finally, the injunction asks the court to require the defendants to destroy information illegally gathered on the family.

Hugh Handeyside, an ACLU attorney listed on the complaint, described the watch list system in a press release as a due process disaster that accuses people while providing them with no legal recourse to deny claims of terrorist activity.

Wilwal also spoke against the system in the release.

I came to this country seeking safety and freedom, and Im proud to be an American, he said. But our own government just shouldnt be treating my family and me or anyone else this way. Its wrong.

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