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CNNs Ana Navarro slammed Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock on Fridays New Day over their razzing pose in front of the White House portrait of Hillary Clinton.

I see it as immature, childish, foolish, and to be expected from that crowd, Navarro contended.

The commentator, who voted for Mrs. Clinton (despite her past Republican affiliation), continued by underling that one day, theres going to be a picture of Melania Trump hanging on those walls; and a picture of Donald Trump hanging on those walls; and folks are going to go and stick their tongue out at it. And people are going to say, well, but do you remember when Sarah Palin posed in front of Hillary Clinton, making fun of her?

Navarro also emphasized that as somebody who has been at the White House, I can tell you that you see a lot of pictures hanging there some people you agree with; some dont but theres this, you know, gravitas to the White House. Theres this respect for the place. Theres this respect for the office.

Earlier in the segment, pro-Trump guest Kayleigh McEnany asserted that this is overblown. They were having fun. They were taking a picture with Hillary Clinton. Theyre obviously not fans of her. You know, Hillary Clintons picture isnt shrouded with some sort of honor that has to be respected.

Anchor Alisyn Camerota interjected, We do generally afford first ladies respect. McEnany replied, And they respect her. I think they just wanted to take a fun picture. Oh, heres Hillary Clinton. You didnt make it to the White House. Were here. You never thought youd see this day.

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Donald Trump Jr. hopped on the Montana campaign trail Friday with tech entrepreneur Greg Gianforte, who is gunning for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's vacated House seat.

Don't forget: Last year Gianforte failed to win a bid for the governor's seat to a Democrat.

Why it matters: All eyes are on Montana after the GOP won by a narrower margin than usual in the Kansas special election and now that the Georgia special election is headed to a hotly contested runoff. Like Kansas and Georgia, the seat is usually a shoo-in for GOP candidates, but the DCCC announced their six-figure investment Thursday, ramping up the stakes for Gianforte.

Context: Trump Jr. is following in his father's footsteps; President Trump robo-called for both candidates in Kansas and Georgia.

Prairie dogs: You read that right. Trump Jr. and Gianforte are hunting prairie dogs later today Jr. is an avid hunter although the Humane Society of the United States condemned it, per the AP.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hitting back at Trumps CIA director Mike Pompeo following a speech last week in which Pompeo accused WikiLeaks of being a hostile nonstate intelligence agency operating outside of the protections of the First Amendment. We can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us. To give them the space to crush us with misappropriated secrets is a perversion of what our great Constitution stands for, Pompeo declared, adding an ominous assertion: It ends now.

Speaking from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living since June 2012, Assange said Pompeo appeared to be issuing a threat. So how does he propose to conduct this ending? He didnt say. But the CIA is only in the business of collecting information, kidnapping people, and assassinating people. So, its quite a menacing statement that he does need to clarify, said Assange.

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Assange made the remarks during an exclusive interview for the Intercepted podcast. The reason why Director Pompeo is launching this attack, is because he knows were in this series exposing all sorts of illegal actions by the CIA, Assange said, referring to WikiLeaks ongoing publication of secret CIA hacking documents as part of its Vault 7 project. Pompeo, he said, is trying to get ahead of the publicity curve and create a preemptive defense.

When he watched Pompeos speech, Assange said he was struck by what he perceived as a lack of gravitas. We thought it was quite a weak speech in that it put Director Pompeo, it put the CIA, in a position where they looked like they were frightened and worried that we were the better intelligence service, Assange said.

Regarding Pompeos declaration that WikiLeaks was not entitled to First Amendment rights, Assange said: For the head of the CIA to pronounce what the boundaries are, of reporting or not reporting is a very disturbing precedent. The head of the CIA determining who is a publisher, whos not a publisher, whos a journalist, whos not a journalist, is totally out of line.

In the wide-ranging interview, Assange discussed the allegations that WikiLeaks was abetted by Russian intelligence in its publication of DNC emails, his allegedrelationship with Roger Stone and his newfound admirers on the right, from FOX News to Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.

Assange said that if WikiLeaks had obtained a cache of RNC emails, it would have published those as well. Just imagine if WikiLeaks had obtained information that it knew was true about the Democratic party and corruption of the primary process, and it decided that it was not going to publish that information, but suppress it it would be completely unconscionable, he said. We specialize in really big scoops. You cant go, Oh, we have this massive scoop about corruption in the DNC. Now we need to balance this with a massive scoop about corruption in the RNC. These things come along once every few years.

Questioned aboutWikiLeakss aggressive targeting of Hillary Clinton, Assange rejected the notion that he went afterherfor personal reasons. Ive never met Hillary Clinton, he said. I think Id probably like her in person. Most good politicians are quite charismatic in person. In some ways shes a bit like me, Shes a bit wonkish and a bit awkward. So maybe wed get along.

The entire conversation with Assange can be heard on the latest episode of Intercepted.

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Lissa Muscatine, a co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, is finally ready to tell her story about working with Hillary Clinton.

Her upcoming book, titled Hillaryland, will describe the 25-year journey of Hillary and her closest advisors at the intersection of politics and gender dynamics, according to a statement released by Penguin Press.

This is a journey Muscatine experienced firsthand before and after she and her husband, Bradley Graham, bought Politics & Prose in 2011. Penguin Press President and Editor-in-Chief Ann Godoff said, Muscatine has intimately witnessed events that define who we are culturally and politically in a changing America through her close association with Hillary Clinton for the last quarter century.

[Clinton and Muscatine: From first lady and speechwriter to author and bookseller]

After working as a reporter and editor for the Washington Star and The Washington Post, Muscatine first met Hillary Clinton in 1993, when she was hired as a presidential speechwriter in the Clinton White House. Her work quickly shifted to Hillary. She wrote speeches for the first lady and then for Secretary of State Clinton in the Obama administration. She served as a senior adviser on Clintons 2008 presidential campaign and as an unofficial adviser during the 2016 campaign. And she collaborated on Clintons 2003 memoir, Living History, which garnered an $8 million advance.

The decision to step out from behind the curtain and write in her own voice was a significant step for Muscatine. Her parents were authors, her husband has written two books, and she helps run one of the countrys most famous indie bookstores, but, she says, I promised myself long ago that I would never write a book of my own unless I had something meaningful to say.

The rise of Donald Trump changed everything for her. The election was devastating, and Im still reeling from it, she said. After years of writing in someone elses voice, I just felt absolutely compelled to write this book. I hope that by telling this story in my own words, I can offer insights into an important slice of history a window into Hillarys world, and how that world is a mirror back on ourselves, our nation and our times.

Clintons cooperation with the book seems likely. When Clinton finished the manuscript for her second memoir, Hard Choices, she sent the manuscript to Muscatine to get her comments. At a joint presentation in Washington in 2014, Clinton said, Lissa has been my partner in some of the most important writing and speaking that Ive done, going back to the White House years.

Hillaryland will join a growing shelf of books about Clinton. Just this month, Susan Bordo published The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, and Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes released Shattered: Inside Hillary Clintons Doomed Campaign. Clinton herself plans to publish a collection of personal essays in September.

The title is a reference to the self-designated name of a group of about a dozen devoted supporters and staffers that includes Huma Abedin, Mandy Grunwald and Patti Solis Doyle, who is credited with coining the word.

A release date for Hillaryland has not yet been set.

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A new book is claiming that former President Obama considered Hillary Clinton's mishandling of her email scandal a form of "political malpractice," reports the Charlotte Observer.

The book, titled, 'Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign,' says about Obama, "He couldn't understand what possessed Hillary to set up the private e-mail server, and her handling of the scandal obfuscate, deny, and evade amounted to political malpractice."

However, the two authors, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, also point out that Obama did try to show his support in the form of a pep talk as they were en route to their first campaign rally together in July 2016.

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Representative Susan Brooks, a Republican from Indiana, questions Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, not pictured, during a House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Under scrutiny for her handling of the Benghazi attacks and her use of a private e-mail server, Clinton plans to invoke the memory of slain U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens to defend her approach to diplomacy, saying they shared a common belief in the need for America to lead. Photographer: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at an event at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business in New York on July 24, 2015. The Justice Department said it had received a request to probe whether Hillary Clinton mishandled sensitive government information by using her private email for State Department business. 'The Department has received a referral related to the potential compromise of classified information,' a department official said in a brief statement that confirmed in part a story that first appeared in The New York Times. AFP PHOTO/ KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - MARCH 10: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women's Empowerment Event at the United Nations March 10, 2015 in New York City. Clinton answered questions about recent allegations of an improperly used email account during her tenure as secretary of state. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton answers questions from reporters March 10, 2015 at the United Nations in New York. Clinton admitted Tuesday that she made a mistake in choosing for convenience not to use an official email account when she was secretary of state. But, in remarks to reporters after attending a United Nations event, she insisted that her email set-up had been properly secure and that she had turned over all professional communications to the State Department. AFP PHOTO/DON EMMERT (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - MARCH 10: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women's Empowerment Event at the United Nations March 10, 2015 in New York City. Clinton answered questions about recent allegations of an improperly used email account during her tenure as secretary of state. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - MARCH 10: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women's Empowerment Event at the United Nations March 10, 2015 in New York City. Clinton answered questions about recent allegations of an improperly used email account during her tenure as secretary of state. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - MARCH 10: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women's Empowerment Event at the United Nations March 10, 2015 in New York City. Clinton answered questions about recent allegations of an improperly used email account during her tenure as secretary of state. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - MARCH 10: Huma Abedin (R), aide to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, looks on during a news conference following Clinton's keynote speech at a Women's Empowerment Event at the United Nations. Clinton answered questions about recent allegations of an improperly used email account during her tenure as secretary of state. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and other members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi speak to reporters at a press conference on the findings of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal emails at the U.S. Capitol on March 3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The New York Times reported that Clinton may have violated the law by using a personal email account for official business at the State Department. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: Peter Roskam (R-IL), Susan Brooks (R-IN) and Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) of the House Select Committee on Benghazi speak to reporters at a press conference on the findings of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal emails at the U.S. Capitol on March 3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The New York Times reported that Clinton may have violated the law by using a personal email account for official business at the State Department. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton answers questions from reporters March 10, 2015 at the United Nations in New York. Clinton admitted Tuesday that she made a mistake in choosing for convenience not to use an official email account when she was secretary of state. But, in remarks to reporters after attending a United Nations event, she insisted that her email set-up had been properly secure and that she had turned over all professional communications to the State Department. AFP PHOTO/DON EMMERT (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) of the House Select Committee on Benghazi speaks to reporters at a press conference on the findings of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal emails at the U.S. Capitol on March 3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The New York Times reported that Clinton may have violated the law by using a personal email account for official business at the State Department. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

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He reportedly told Hillary, "It's a four-month sprint to the end, and it will go quickly. It's hard and it's tiring. But this is a different stage than the primary." This was around the same time that FBI Director James Comey had announced that her use of a private email server had not broken any laws but was, in his words, "extremely careless."

Nevertheless, the controversy would continue to dog her throughout the remainder of the election.

According to the Washington Post, "She and her campaign are convinced that Comey was the pivotal factor and there is evidence to support that view." In late October, Comey announced that the investigation into Hillary's emails was possibly going to be renewed.

However, the publication also points out that "...the Comey episode doesn't address why the race in the reliably blue Rust Belt was so close to begin with or what Clinton could have done to alter it."

Ultimately, Clinton lost the election, and, as the book reveals, she not only congratulated Donald Trump on his victory but also apologized to Obama about her loss, reportedly telling him, "Mr. President, I'm sorry."

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