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Some news organizations have beefed up their ranks with conservative voices since the 2016 presidential election, a response Hillary Clinton said is misguided.

The cable networks seem to me to be folding into a posture of, Oh, we want to try to get some of those people on the right, so maybe we better be more, quote, evenhanded, Clinton said in an interview with New York magazinepublished Friday.

Author Rebecca Traister described how Clintons brow furrows upon mention of climate changes skepticsBret Stephens and George Willrecently joining The New York Times and MSNBC, respectively.

Whywouldyoudothat? Sixty-six million people voted for me, plus, you know, the crazy third-party people, said Clinton, who won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. So theres a lot of people who would actually appreciate stronger arguments on behalf of the most existential challenges facing our country and the world, climate change being one of them! Its clearly a commercial decision. But I dont think it will work. I mean, theyre laughing on the right at these puny efforts to try to appease people on the right.

Clinton also jabbed at The New York Times for recently launching a feature encouraging people toSay Something Niceabout President Donald Trump:I never saw them do that for me.

Looking back on the 2016 race, Clinton said she underestimated the impact of WikiLeaks publishing unflattering emails from members of the Democratic Party. The U.S. intelligence community has since concluded that Russian hackers stole the messages.

Emails dripped out daily in October in a fashion that wasinnocuous, boring, inconsequential, Clinton said yet people played like it was some breathless flash. She said conservative media outlets amplified the contents of the emails, but added that the mainstream pressplayed its own role in giving the documents outsize attention.

Look, we have an advocacy press on the right that has done a really good job for the last 25 years, Clinton said.They have a mission. They use the rights given to them under the First Amendment to advocate a set of policies that are in their interests, their commercial, corporate, religious interests. Because the advocacy media occupies the right, and the center needs to be focused on providing as accurate information as possible. Not both-sides-ism and not false equivalency.

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Hillary Clinton Questions Media Trying To 'Appease' Conservatives After Election - HuffPost

(CNN)Hillary Clinton's ongoing struggle to deal with the revelation that she used a private email server during her time as secretary of state dominated the conversation about her presidential candidacy, and research suggests it might have doomed her campaign, according to a new study by a consortium of pollsters released over the weekend.

Here's what people had read, seen or heard about Clinton looks like in a word cloud (the bigger the word, the more often it was mentioned):

As you can see, "email" drowns out every other term mentioned about Clinton. It was, without question, the dominant narrative of the election for her -- at least in the five months that this paper documents. And, according to the study, the mentions of email correlate directly to negative views of Clinton.

There's nothing to match the Clinton "email" mentions. And although some of the most commonly mentioned words are negative storylines for Trump -- "women," most notably -- there's a lot of more neutral mentions: "debate," "people" and "president." This speaks to the theory that by throwing so many balls up in the air every day -- via his stump speeches, Twitter, etc. -- Trump made it impossible for anyone to follow all of them. Everything seemed like a molehill. Even the mountains.

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What's more, the word "email" came up more and more in the final weeks of the election -- particularly in the wake of then-FBI Director James Comey's announcement in late October that he was re-starting an investigation into Clinton's server.

Here's the word clouds broken into a week-by-week timeline of the last month of the campaign. Again, the larger the word appears, the more it was mentioned as something people had seen, read or heard about Clinton or Trump.

Not only did "email" dominate the conversation around Clinton, it dominated the entire conversation in the race. From October 23 on, Trump is barely talked about -- an amazing feat for someone so willing to make news.

This study will be used by liberals as evidence that the media's unnecessary focus on Clinton's email server cost her the election.

I'd agree that Clinton's email server played a decisive role in deciding the election. But I wouldn't agree with the idea that the media is responsible for it.

After all, it was Clinton who never seemed to grasp the seriousness of the issue and how it eroded the public's already shaky confidence in her. Her inability to do those things meant she was never able to put the story behind her. And then the Comey announcement came, which undoubtedly surged the issue back to the top of many voters' minds.

Whatever the reasons, when people thought of Clinton in the final weeks of the race, they thought of her emails. And that was a very bad thing for her.

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Hillary Clinton's 'email' problem was bigger than anyone realized - CNN

The U.S. intelligence community has long since concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and it was reported shortly after the 2016 presidential election that a GOP superPAC linked to Paul Ryan used illegally hacked material to attackDemocratic House candidates. But a bombshell report published on Thursday confirms that Republican political operatives were working with the Russian government to hurt Hillary Clinton and Democrats during the election the first direct evidence of so-called collusion.

The Wall Street Journal reported that hacked information was posted on a blog run by Aaron Nevins, the political operative, and then passed along to top Trump adviser Roger Stone during the campaign. The Republican operative in Florida received a trove of Democratic documents from the allegedly Kremlin-linked hacker, Guccifer 2.0. For months, both Congress and the FBI have been scrutinizing evidence that associates of Trump may have colluded with Russiaduring the campaign.

Nevins confirmed to the Journal that he told hacker Guccifer 2.0 to feel free to send any Florida based information after learning that the hacker had tapped into Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) computers last summer. From the DCCC, Guccifer 2.0 released internal assessments of Democratic congressional candidates, known as self-opposition research, to GOP operatives using social media. Nevins told the Journal that, after receiving the stolen documents from the hacker, he realized it was a lot more than even Guccifer knew that he had. The stolen DCCC documents also contained sensitive information on voters in key Florida districts, breaking down how many people were considered dependable Democratic voters, undecided Democrats, Republican voters and the like. Nevins made a war analogy, describing the data he received to Guccifer 2.0 as akin to a map to where all the troops are deployed.

After Nevins published some of the material on the blog HelloFLA.com, using his own pseudonym, Guccifer 2.0 sent a link of the information to close Trump associate Roger Stone who is currently under federal investigation for potential collusionwith Russia.

I just threw an arrow in the dark, Nevins, who set up a Dropbox account for Guccifer 2.0 to transfer data, told the Journal. If your interests align, the operative concluded, never shut any doors in politics.

Stone told the Journal that while he did receive a link to Nevinss blog from Guccifer 2.0, he didnt share the stolen data published on the blog with anyone.

In addition to receiving hacked information about Democratic races in Florida, Nevins also received internal detailsabout congressional districts in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC with close ties to House Speaker Paul Ryan, eventuallyused the material that was stolen by hackers in attack ads against several Democrats.

Anthony Bustamante, a Republican campaign consultant for Rep.Brian Mast (R-FL), told the Journal that he used the stolen information to plan ad buys and better target a mailer effort: I did adjust some voting targets based on some data I saw from the leaks.

Republicans ignored Democrats pleas not to use the hacked material for political gain.

After Guccifer 2.0 targeted thechair of the DCCC, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to Paul Ryan arguing that the NRCCs use of documents stolen by the Russians plays right into the hands of one of the United States most dangerous adversaries, and if the National Republican Campaign Committee continued using the materials, the GOP will be complicit in aiding the Russian government in its effort to influence American elections. Ryan never responded.

For his part, Trump has repeatedly denied any coordination with Russian officials. The Kremlin has also rejected any connection to Guccifer 2.0. But both the Department of Homeland Security and Director of National Intelligence believe Guccifer 2.0 is tied to Russian military intelligence.

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GOP strategist admits he colluded with Russian hackers to hurt Hillary Clinton, Democrats - Salon

Hillary Clinton proclaimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump's budget shows an "unimaginable level of cruelty" for millions of Americans and children.

The former Democratic presidential nominee, who recently declared herself part of the Trump resistance, lashed out at the Republican president's spending plan in aggressive terms after being honored in New York City by the Children's Health Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps provide health care to poor and homeless children.

"This administration and Republicans in Congress are mounting an onslaught against the needs of children and people with disabilities, women and seniors," Clinton charged.

She said the budget, which was released earlier in the day, "shows an unimaginable level of cruelty and lack of imagination and disdain for the struggles of millions of Americans, including millions of children."

She added, "None of us can remain silent in the face of these attacks."

Trump's budget calls for a drastic rollback of programs for the poor and disabled along with a robust hike for the military and border security. The plan, which won't become law without Congress' approval, is laced with $3.6 trillion in cuts to domestic agencies, food stamps, Medicaid, highway funding, crop insurance and medical research, among others.

"It hurts the well-being of children," Clinton said. "It's time to send a resounding message that we will not stand for this attack on the most vulnerable among us."

Earlier in the month, Clinton launched a new political organization designed to push back against Trump's agenda. She said the group would "encourage people to get involved, organize and even run for office."

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Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonTrump, Clinton campaign aides launch their own bids Hannity: I won't discuss Seth Rich story for now 'out of respect for the family' Clinton slams Trump's budget: 'An unimaginable level of cruelty' MORE on Tuesday expressed anger over the deadly bombing at a concert in Manchester, England, the previous night.

Outraged & angry about this cowardly terror attack on a crowd of young people. Sending sympathy & strength to victims & people of Manchester, Clinton wrote on Twitter.

Outraged & angry about this cowardly terror attack on a crowd of young people. Sending sympathy & strength to victims & people of Manchester

Clintons daughter, Chelsea, also expressed her condolences to the victims of the attack.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria claimed responsibility for the Monday night attack that occurred at the conclusion of an Ariana Grande concert.

Police said at least 22 people were dead after an attacker detonated an improvised explosive device at the arena. Police identified the suspected attacker as Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old who was reportedly born in Britain to Libyan immigrants.

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