Washington Post | Hillary Clinton's full speech at Georgetown Washington Post March 31, 2017 11:40 AM EDT - Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton spoke about the role of women in peace and conflict resolution at Georgetown University on March 31. Here is her full speech. (Reuters) ... |
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WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton returned to public life in Washington on Friday, giving a speech at Georgetown University about the role of women in the peacemaking process in Colombia and around the globe.
Her message was all on-point, but we couldnt help but detect just a soupcon of shade directed at her onetime campaign-trail rival, President Donald Trump, and to the critiques of her own presidential campaign.
As Clinton, who was giving out an award named in her honor by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, described how womens involvement in negotiations to end conflicts is proven to help ensure they succeed, she added this aside: Here I go, talking about research, evidence and facts.
That was, apparently, a reference to the frequent criticism of her presidential run - that she often relied on the dry stuff while Trump played to voters emotions.
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A less oblique dig at Trump came a few moments later. Women are not inherently more peaceful - thats a stereotype, Clinton said. Then a beat. That belongs in the alternative reality, she said - a seeming invocation of White House aide Kellyanne Conways alternative facts.
Both lines drew big applause from the friendly crowd.
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Donald Trump repeatedly questioned why Hillary Clintons aides needed immunity if they were innocent when the House Oversight Committee investigated her use of a private email server.
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As recently as last September, the president said her aides didnt need immunity if they didnt do anything wrong.
The reason they get immunity is because they did something wrong, if they didnt do anything wrong, they dont think in terms of immunity, Trump said at a Wisconsin rally. (RELATED: Flynn Said People Who Receive Immunity Are Probably Criminals)
He repeated the claim at a Florida rally as well.
If you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for? Right.
Then again in Michigan.
Heres my question to Hillary Clinton, he said. Can you promise that not one of the five people who were granted criminal immunity will ever be allowed to serve in a Clinton administration if that ever happens? Oh, would that be bad. Lets see what happens.
The president also tweeted out this the day of the last presidential debate in October.
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On Friday, Trump encouraged his former national security adviser Michael Flynn to request immunity if he agreed to be interviewed by the Senate and House Intelligence Committees in their investigation of whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.
Trump said Flynn needed to avoid falling victim to a media-led witch hunt. (RELATED: Trump Encourages Michael Flynn To Seek Immunity)
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Senate intelligence committee leaders have received reports that Russia hired at least 1,000 trolls to spread fake news stories to hurt Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the presidential election.
What really concerns me [are reports] there were upwards of 1,000 paid internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia, in effect taking over a series of computers which are then called botnets that can generate news down to specific areas, said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. He appeared Wednesday with GOP intel chair Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) at a press conference before committee hearings began.
The revelations reflect the results of a Huffington Post investigationthis month, which found Sen.Bernie Sanders(I-Vt.) had faced a tsunami of misinformation during his presidential campaign.
Warner said in the latest case, the paid trolls apparently focused on swing states in an attempt to influence votes there Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania where people were reading during the waning days of the election that Clinton is sick, or Clinton is taking money from whoever for some source fake news.
Warner said its crucial that investigators determine if voting results were actually affected. Each of the three states narrowly fell to Trump.
An outside foreign adversary effectively sought to hijack the most critical democratic process, the election of a president, and in that process, decided to favor one candidate over another, Warner said.
Burr said that he and Warner were committed to getting to the bottom of Russian interference in the election. He accused Russia of blatant attempts to also impact elections in Germany and France. We feel part of our responsibility is to educate the rest of the world, he said.
By the end of the first day of hearings Thursday, no one had yet testified about the 1,000 trolls, but the investigation is just beginning.
Former FBI agent Clint Watts, now a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, testified that Russian attempts to influence the election started before the party nominees were chosen. Trumps GOP presidential rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)appeared to be a particular target, he said.
Through the end of 2015 and the start of 2016, the Russian-influenced system began to push themes and messages seeking to influence the result of the presidential election, Watts said.
Russian overt media outlets and covert trolls sought to sideline opponents on both sides of the political spectrum with adverse views towards the Kremlin, he added. They were in full swing during both the Republican and Democratic primary season, and may have helped sink the hopes of candidates more hostile to Russian interests long before the field narrowed.
Watts said more details about the targeting of Rubio would be included in his written report to the committee.
He also testified that Trump helped spread fake news by embracing the stories that served the Russian agenda against his opponents.
Watts told the committee tofollow the dead bodies to learn more, referring to several Russians connected to Kremlin fake news who have died in the past few months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursdaydismissed allegations of Kremlin interference in the U.S. elections as fictional, illusory, provocations and lies.
This article has been updated with more details, including comment from Putin.
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WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton's speech Wednesday night to a group of businesswomen in San Francisco may have been the most political she has been since losing November's election. But people close to the former secretary of state stress the speech doesn't foretell a more forceful jump back into the political fray.
The small group of Clinton aides who are still in regular contact with the 2016 Democratic nominee say Clinton, through a series of speeches she will give in the coming months, won't shy away from defending "core American values" when they are questioned or challenged.
Does that mean she will take on Trump and his administration if needed? Yes, advisers say, as was clear by Tuesday's broadside against White House press secretary Sean Spicer. But, to date, Clinton has tried not to hone her critiques directly at the President, who she has not spoken to since she conceded to him early in the morning on November 9.
"I know there's a tendency to ascribe political motives to all she does. But what you saw yesterday was simply a woman who isn't going to stand by and watch other women be bullied, insulted and demeaned," said Nick Merrill, Clinton's spokesman. "And more broadly, as you heard her say in her speech, when it comes to standing up for core American values, she's going to speak out."
Clinton learned about Fox News' Bill O'Reilly's comments about Rep. Maxine Waters' hair and Spicer's back-and-forth with April Ryan on Twitter, aides said, and decided Tuesday that she wanted to work the comments into her speech on sexism.
"She was patronized and cut off as she tried to ask a question," Clinton said of Spicer's exchange with Ryan, adding later: "Any woman who thinks this couldn't be directed at her is living in a dream world."
Clinton, after spending time with her family and famously hiking in the woods around her New York home, has started to reemerge into public life in the last few months. Things have changed for the former secretary of state, too: Gone is the near-constant attention, cadre of aides and constant political fighting. Same goes for the private plane. Clinton took a commercial red-eye flight back to New York after Tuesday night's speech.
Aides say that Clinton has yet to make a final decision about how she wants to spend her time in the coming years and is taking her time, unlike after she left the State Department and had to quickly get ready to run for president.
A number of top colleges have reached out to Clinton about using them as a venue for her future advocacy, said people who have talked to the former Democratic nominee. While a decision is far from imminent, Clinton did spend time earlier this month at both Wellesley College, her alma mater, and Harvard University, where she sat for an extended interview for the American Secretaries of State Project.
The former secretary of state has also spent time meeting with with young activists who are trying to start new organizations or get their projects off the ground, an aide said. The meetings are an attempt to motivate and spur activism among young people.
Clinton's next speech will be at Georgetown University, where she will discuss women in politics and peace efforts. And on April 10, Clinton will speak at a fundraising dinner for the LGBT Community Center in New York. Clinton will also speak at the Wellesley graduation later this year, a speech that will bring her back to the 1969 commencement speech that helped launch her career.
The former secretary of state is regularly talking to friends, former donors and close campaign aides, but those who have spoken with her describe the calls as more personal than political or professional.
A source familiar with Clinton's plans said that while she has had meetings and phone calls with aides to try to understand what happened in 2016, the calls are more focused on making sure things improve for Democrats going forward and less about reliving the mistakes her campaign made.
Working with Dan Schwerin and Megan Rooney, her top campaign speechwriters, Clinton is currently spending much of her time writing her forthcoming book of personal essays, set to publish in fall 2017. (CNN)