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Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonHillary Clinton: Biden less 'constrained' than Clinton and Obama due to prior administration Biden's unavoidable foreign policy crisis Democrats seek to keep spotlight on Capitol siege MORE gave her assessment of President BidenJoe Biden1.6 million US air passengers fly in a day for first time since last March Biden administration eyeing long-term increase in food stamps: report Conspiracy against the poor MOREs first 100 days in an interview aired on Sunday where she said Biden was less constrained than previous Democratic presidents due to the prior administration.

While appearing on CNNs Fareed Zakaria GPS, host Fareed Zakaria asked Clinton how she felt about Bidens wide-reaching proposals so far, noting that her husband, former President Clinton, had once said in a State of the Union address that the era of big government is over.

I really think it's a new age, Clinton said. And in part because what had to happen in the 90s did happen, there was a lot of, you know, positive economic growth that was aided and abetted by government policy, and huge amounts of advancement for people up and down the income scale.

Clinton opined that the pandemic had made more people aware that there's lots of times when we need the government. She added that she was thrilled that Biden was taking advantage of this moment to push progressive policies.

I think both President Obama and Clinton did too, but they were more constrained given, you know, what the climate was politically during their administrations, Clinton said. So yes, I think it builds on a lot of what did happen in prior Democratic administrations, but it also goes further and it can go further because people understand, Guess what, you know, we kind of were failed by our government for four years.

Zakaria noted Biden faces a great deal of opposition from GOP lawmakers, particularly when it comes to his proposed infrastructure bill and asked Clinton if she believed in compromise with the possibility of lowering the amount of money spent through the bills.

Well I think there needs to be a good faith negotiation, and I'm not sure yet, that the Republicans are engaging in a good faith negotiation and that has to be tested, Clinton replied. So I'm very confident that, given his years in the legislature legislative body in the Senate, and certainly as vice president, President Biden will test that.

However, the former secretary of Stateadded that she believed theadministrationwould have to make "a very clear political calculation" at some point if an agreement could not be reached.

She suggested the administration would have to split its proposals into two parts: one they know the GOP agrees and another that have yet to reach a compromise on anddetermine whether or not negotiations have been made in good faith.

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Like many teenagers, Rebecca Roldn Gordon loved spending time on the internet. In 1999 they began writing to Nick Reynolds, who was then known as Katherine. We were on a fanfiction website for Trigun, a comic and TV series, says Rebecca. I read a story hed written and told him it was the funniest thing Id ever read. The next day I was so excited to get an email back. Although they were living in different parts of the US Nick in Georgia and Rebecca in Texas they formed a close friendship online. It wasnt romantic at first, we just liked talking, says Nick. I found Rebecca very creative and we shared the same sense of humour. Rebecca says he was like a celebrity to me because they were so impressed with his writing.

Their online relationship continued for years, graduating to phone calls and the exchange of a few photographs. By 2003 Nick wasnt getting on with his mum at home and Rebecca realised they were in need of a change of scene. They made the decision to move to Florida and live together as roommates. We got on just as well in real life, says Rebecca. We were making eyes at each other all the time but we were both a bit nervous about taking things further because we were living together.

After a month of pretending they didnt fancy each other, Nick says they realised they couldnt be apart any longer. They came out to their families as a couple soon after. Rebecca says that after taking a little while to get used to the idea, their mum was very accepting; some of Nicks family were less supportive. Im from a Latter Day Saints family and I ended up losing touch with a few of my more religious family members. My dad was brilliant, though. When I told him we were a couple he just laughed and said he kind of knew.

The pair moved north in 2004 so Rebecca could attend the Art Institute of Seattle, before settling in Dallas, Texas, a year later. At the time both Rebecca and Nick were living as women, and same-sex marriage was illegal in Texas. Rebecca has dual US and Spanish citizenship, so they travelled to Spain in 2011 to marry.

Soon after the wedding, Rebecca was hospitalised with serious health problems. As well as PTSD and chronic depression, they were suffering from endometriosis and an autoimmune condition. Nick was pretty much running the household and caring for me then. I could only work and sleep. Around the same time, they both began to question their gender identity. I was going through therapy and realising things Id previously ignored, says Rebecca. They both began meeting transgender people through online health communities. Id never heard of trans masculine, says Nick. But I became really interested in talking to trans men. Eventually I started trying to disguise my body and realised how much better I felt. By 2013, Nick made the decision to socially transition. I considered transitioning too, says Rebecca. In the end, I decided I didnt really identify as a man either. I realised I was non-binary.

As Rebeccas health deteriorated, the medical bills mounted up. In 2015, they became homeless, and lived with different family members and friends. After two years of moving around, Rebeccas delayed disability payments finally came through. When Hillary Clinton lost the election [to Donald Trump, in 2016], we spent the night planning how we were going to leave America, says Nick. We moved to Madrid and then to the countryside in Andaluca just before the pandemic hit. The couple had been running a dog-sitting business, and now hope to open a pet shop. They live with their three cats, three dogs and two donkeys.

Nick says his partner is incredibly strong and funny. Rebecca constantly underestimates themselves. Theyre so hardworking and creative and always make me laugh. They are both incredibly proud of their relationship after everything they have been through. Hes really funny and smart and always understands my perspective, says Rebecca. Weve changed genders, the sexual identity of our relationship, experienced poor health and homelessness, but were still together and still crazy about each other.

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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warrenattributes her failed 2020 presidential bid to her stumbles on explaining how to pay for her signature healthcare plan and the role that gender, particularly her omnipotentfemale predecessors, played in the campaign.

The Massachusetts Democrat doesn't blame sexism directlyin her new book "Persist," but Warren suggestsher campaign was hamperedbythe failed political efforts of women before her.

"I had to run against the shadows of Martha and Hillary," Warren wrote in her new book, according to excerpts reviewed by the Washington Postin reference toMartha Coakley, who lost her MassachusettsSenate bid in 2010, and Hillary Clinton, who failed to beat Donald Trump in 2016.

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Warren suggestedDemocrats were fearful about nominating another woman who could lose to President Trump.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks with reporters while campaigning in Marshalltown, Iowa on Jan. 12, 2019. Warren comes out with a new book, "Persist" on May 4, 2021.

Warren drew energeticcrowds and plenty of buzz during her 2020 Democratic presidential run where she stayed hours after events taking selfies with enthusiastic fans and making pinkie promises with young girls to encourage them to dream big. ButWarren failed to finish better than third in any of the primary contests and dropped out of the race in March 2020, lamenting that the prospects for a history-making first female president were essentially gone.

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"One of the hardest parts of this is all those pinky promises and all those little girls who are gonna have to wait four more years," Warren said at the time,her voice cracking, referring to promises she makesabout women running for president. "That's gonna be hard. ... I take those pinky promises seriously."

Warren ran on a bold progressive vision for America, but backed back it up with policy chops and a litany of legislative plans. She and her campaign embraced a motto that "Warren has a plan for that."

But in her book, Warren acknowledges that she stumbled in explaining to Americans how she would pay for her "Medicare for All"plan, which allowed her rivals to pounceand weakened her argument that she had a plan for everything.

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"It can be risky to learn on the run, particularly if some of that learning is happening in public," Warren wrote, according to the Post.

Warren's "Persist" goes on sale in early May.

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GOP Rep Lauren Boebert left a stinging message for Hillary Clinton saying the "only good thing" about Joe Biden's first 100 days in office is that she wasn't at the helm of the government.

The Colorado rep hit out at the former US president hopeful after she took to Twitter to praise Biden's leadership so far.

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Clinton wrote: "100 days. 220 million shots in arms. 160 million relief checks. Just getting started. Thanks, @JoeBiden."

But a less-than-impressed Boebert snapped back at Clinton's remark, responding: "The only good thing I have to say about the past 100 days is that you were not serving in the federal government."

Following the president's addresson Wednesday to a joint session of Congress on the eve of his 100th day in the White House, Boebert has posted a series of scathing tweets.

"Biden would have been better off reading Kamalas childrens book to Congress," the 34-year-old wrote in one.

In another tweet, the guns rights activist said: "Ive got to give credit where credit is due.

"Staying up for two whole hours after Jeopardy & Wheel of Fortune got off the air must NOT have been easy for Joe."

During his first speech to Congress since his election, Biden made a number of errors - but the most jarring was flubbing over the word "escalation" in regards to Russia.

"With regard to Russia, I made very clear to Putin that we're not going to seek escalation, excuse me"Bidensaid while taking a while to get over the last word.

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Biden has a stutter that he is very vocal about, hoping kids and those who have stutters can overcome their fears of public speaking.

Meanwhile, he caused a ring-wing backlash across social media when during the address he called the January 6 riots at the Capitol the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War".

Some Twitter users were quick to point out other historical events that, they felt, were much more severe attacks on U.S. democracy.

The examples included theSeptember 11terrorist attacks,presidential assassinations, the attack onPearl Harborand the Oklahoma City bombing.

The president also had a dig at Donald Trump, saying he took on a "nation in crisis" as he unveiled his tax-and-spend splurge during the speech.

In swipe at his predecessor he told lawmakers: "We have stared into the abyss of insurrection and autocracy."

Biden said he inherited a "nation in crisis" as he pitched his $2 trillion "America Jobs Plan," which he described as the largest infrastructure program since World War II.

"One hundred days since I took the oath of officelifted my hand off our family Bibleand inherited a nation in crisis," he said.

"The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.

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"One hundred days ago, America's house was on fire. We had to act."

Biden's speech was an address to a joint session of Congress, talking through not only his first 100 days in office, but outlining his economic plans for the future.

These plans, Biden said, would focus on have two main focal points: infrastructure and families.

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In the universe of historic photographs, few are more iconic this this image of key White House policymakers watching and waiting for confirmation that SEAL Team Six had succeeded in capturing or killing Osama bin Laden.

Although this photo is known as the Situation Room picture, White House photographer Pete Souza actually took it squeezed into a corner of the small adjacent conference room into which President Barack Obama had stepped in order to watch the video feed in real time. A plate of sandwiches and other snacks, fetched earlier in the day from Costco by a White House staffer, was abandoned in the main Situation Room.

The result: a moment of almost tangible tension and anxiety among the silent group of senior leaders. We dont see CIA Director Leon Panetta, who brought the first news of bin Laden'sAbbottabad compoundeight months earlier, only days before the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Nor do we see Vice Admiral William McRaven, the head of JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), a special ops veteran who had commanded or participated in more than a thousand similarly hazardous ventures. He was in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, supervising the SEAL teams mission from there. Still, the image captures a defining moment in history, offering a rare glimpse into who the key White House players wereand what they were thinkingas they waited to hear the words Geronimo (bin Ladens code name) EKIA (enemy killed in action).

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What no one looking at this photo can see is that Biden, Obamas vice-president and later elected as president, was fingering his rosary beads as he watched events unfold. The devoutly Roman Catholic Biden had been wary of the raid, Obama would recall in his memoirs. Biden himself later insisted that his advice had merely been to wait to be sure it was the right decision. The photo does capture some of that ambivalence and anxiety, to a greater extent than can be seen on the stony visages of other opponents of the raid, like Defense Secretary Robert Gates. When the SEAL team confirmed that Osama was dead, the VP gripped Obamas shoulder, squeezed it and softly said, Congratulations, boss.

President Barack Obama andNational Security Adviser Tom Donilonduring a meeting in the White House Situation Room, discussing the mission to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, May 1, 2011.

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The 44th president of the United States, perched on what Souza described as a folding black chair, is one of the most informally dressed people in the roomand simultaneously the most intensely focused on what was unfolding in front of him. Obama had decided very early on in his first term that he wanted to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. I wanted to remind the worldthat these terrorists were nothing more than a band of deluded, vicious killers, he later recounted in his memoirs. The president, still wearing the clothes in which he had played golf earlier in the day (to avoid alerting anyone else to the fact that something unusual was happening at the White House), stayed out of the way of his team until just before the helicopters arrived at the compound. He wrote that didnt want to sidetrack them by having them rehash all the plans and the strategies theyd deploy to address any glitches.

When he realized there was a live aerial view of the compound on offer in a smaller conference room, thats where he headed; thats how the most powerful figure in the room ended up sitting on the side of the image. This was the first and only time as president that Id watch a military operation unfold in real time, he wrote later. When one of the helicopters was damaged on landing, a disaster reel played in my head. Waiting and watching, he wrote, was excruciating.

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At the center of the table, in a commanding central chair, sits Brad Webb, an Air Force general, watching the live stream of the video and overseeing all the communications with the special forces. When Obama walked into the small conference room from the main situation room, Webb tried to give Obama his seat, only to be told by the president to stay where he was. When he raised his head to glance around the room, Webb later recalled thinking to himself, I should be freaking out right now, with all of the countrys leadership watching him. Instead, he stayed calm and in the zone.

The fact that McDonough was fast enough to follow the president and grab a seat around the small conference room table, leaving his boss, Tom Donilon, standing behind him, may give us a hint of his growing influence in the Obama administration; he would become chief of staff to the president when Obamas second term began. McDonough, involved in the planning of the operation from its earliest stages, sweated the details, as Obama recalled.

National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listen as Leon Panetta, Director of the CIA speaks during a meeting in the Situation Room on May 1, 2011 in Washington, D.C.

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There were audible gasps, Obama later recalled, when the group received confirmation of bin Ladens death. Is Hillary Clinton trying to contain a gasp in this photo, or to stifle a cough due to springtime allergies? Even she couldnt later recall clearly. Those were 38 of the most intense minutes, she later said. The risks were enormous. In spite of the tension that clearly shows on Clintons face, she had supported the decision to go ahead with the raid. She was also concerned about the presidents decision to monitor the video feed in real time. Do you think its a good idea for the president to watch this? she asked a national security staffer, who reassured her he wouldnt be directly managing anything. Having cast her vote in favor of the raid, Clinton clearly remained anxious about the consequences of any mishaps for Obamas presidency.

Gates had been one of those wary of undertaking the Abbottabad raid, reminding Obama of what had happened in 1980 when U.S. forces tried to use helicopters to rescue 53 Americans held hostage in the embassy in Teheran. (The mission was aborted when one helicopter crashed en route in the desert; eight military service members died.) A safer option, he believed, would be to use bombs to obliterate the compound altogether. Nonetheless, he would call the presidents decision to go ahead with the raid courageous.

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Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks during a meeting in the Situation Room on May 1, 2011 in Washington, D.C.

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If he had failed that night, I think it would have cost Obama the presidency, Mullen said later, citing the thought that haunted him as he and others watched the raid unfold. Curious about what he had been thinking at the precise moment that photographer Pete Souza clicked the shutter, Mullen later asked whether the photo had a timestamp. It didnt.

Donilon had been among the first to learn of Obamas determination to find bin Laden, during a May 2009 Oval Office meeting during which the president instructed him to help develop a formal plan and issue a presidential directive. Like Clinton, he wanted to avoid the impression that Obama was micromanaging the raid and suggested that the president not communicate directly with McRaven in Jalalabad. It was at Donilons suggestion that Webb and his video feed had been based in the smaller conference room.

Daley, who served as Obamas chief of staff for a year until January 2012, is the only man in the room wearing a full suit and tie, thanks to his wifes insistence that he recognize the momentous nature of the day. One way or the other this presidency is either over, or were still breathing, he recalled thinking. For Daley, the only person to sit in on every meeting during the raids planning stages who wasnt part of the intelligence or national security establishments, it had been the right decision. The next morning, he awoke with the realization that, if I got fired today, it would be OK.

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In 2021, Blinken achieved a national profile as President Joe Bidens secretary of state. At the time this picture was taken, he was largely unknown outside the Beltway and the Washington community. Shortly after Souzas iconic photograph was published, David Letterman interviewed Mullen on his talk show, and, producing the photo, pointed to Blinken. Who is that guy? He obviously doesnt belong in the photograph, Blinken remembered Letterman joking. Did he just come in off the tour of the White House?

The only other woman in the room and the youngest member by far of this lofty group of policymakers, Tomason became well-known as a result of the photo. But the woman herselfand her thoughtsremain a mystery, probably because of the clandestine nature of her work for the National Security Council.

Together with Donilon, Brennan had been tasked with trying to conceive what the Abbottabad raid would look like. In spite of his support for a mission that was in part his brainchild, his knuckles were white throughout the entire attack. Minutes seemed like hours, he recalled, even after the SEAL team members were back on board their helicopters with bin Ladens body and a trove of data retrieved from the compound. They still had to get out of Pakistani airspace safely, he knew. Obama named Brennan to head the CIA in 2013.

Right up until the last minute, we couldnt confirm he was there, recalled Clapper, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who served as president Obamas top intelligence official from 2010 until 2017. Hed been an advocate of launching the mission, arguing that at least with a raid, youd have people on the ground who could make judgments. In this image, hes waiting to find out whether that vote of confidence was justified.

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