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Spicer remindedreporters that Clintons campaign manager John Podesta sat on the board of a Kremlin-backed energy company, while his brother Tony Podesta lobbied against U.S. sanctions on Russian banks.

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He also accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of having much more extensive ties with Russia than Trump.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, along with the Obama Administration, approved a deal that gave Russia one-fifth of Americas uranium reserves. Hillarys husband, former President Bill Clinton, received over half-a-million dollars by a paid speech by a bank connected to the uranium deal. And Vladimir Putin personally called the former President and thanked him for giving the speech.

Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign in August after reports highlighted his business dealings with pro-Russian political forces in Ukraine. Today, the Associated Press reported that Manafort signed a $10 million contract in 2006 to represent the interests of a Russian billionaireclose to Putin.

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FBI Director James Comey repeatedly referred to Russian President Vladimir Putins personal animus to Hillary Clinton as one of the major motivations in Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election during congressional testimony Tuesday.

Comey described how Putin hated Hillary Clinton so much he developed a preference for President Donald Trump. Comey deployed a sports metaphor, saying, I hate the New England Patriots, and no matter who they play, Id like them to lose.

His statements echo the main findings of the Jan. 6 U.S. intelligence communitys report on Russian attempts to undermine the 2016 election. Russias goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency, the reports key judgement found.

Comeys statement and the reports key judgementcontradict major media reports that Putins primary aim was to help the Trump campaign, and discount the role of Putins feelings regarding Clinton. The FBI director in part deployed his New England Patriots analogy to walk back such accusations.

Comey described how Putins campaign to denigrate Clinton accelerated after Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, an assertion which is also found in the Jan. 6 report, Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trumps election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.

Former President Barack Obamas ambassador to RussiaMichael McCaul confirmedhe shared this feeling toNBCNews in December, saying thatPutin has had a vendetta against Hillary Clinton, that has been known for a long time because of what she said about his elections back in the parliamentary elections of 2011.

Russias government did not even believe Trump would win the election, by the intelligence communitys own admission, and focused the latter part of its influence campaign towards undermining Clintons future presidency.

Putins vendetta against Clinton stem from her2011 remarks as U.S. secretary of state alleging widespread fraud in Russias 2011 parliamentary elections. He became so incensed by Clintons remarks, that he accused her of trying to meddle, saying her comments gave a signal to his opponents. He told reporters in 2011 that leaders of the opposition tried to undermine him with the support of the US state department began active work.

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Hillary Clinton is ready for a comeback.

The former secretary of state announced Friday during a St. Patricks Day speech, shesready to come out of hidingand help the American people find common ground.

Im like a lot of my friends right now. I have a hard time watching the news, Ill confess, Clinton said as part of a 20-minute speech she made in front of the Society of Irish Women in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

I am ready to come out of the woods and to help shine a light on what is already happening around kitchen tables, at dinners like this.

Clintons reference to coming out of the woods can be taken both literally and figuratively. The Clinton family has been laying somewhat low since her stunning presidential election loss in November. Save for a few tweets from daughter Chelsea, the Clintons havebeen spending most of their time in their home in Chappaqua, New York, spending afternoons hiking in the surrounding woods.But now, Clinton said, its time to help heal a divided nation.

I do not believe that we can let political divides harden into personal divides. And we cant just ignore, or turn a cold shoulder to someone because they disagree with us politically, Clinton saidin her speech.

It appears Clinton really means it when she says shes ready to make a roaring comeback. Her dance card is filled with public appearances and speeches in the coming months, includinga May 26 commencement address at Wellesley College in Massachusetts,her alma mater.

The newly invigorated and more public version of Clinton may be leading up to another huge announcement: a run at becoming mayor of New York City. According to celebrity gossip site TMZ, a source says Clinton is honestly considering a run against current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. According to a January 2017 poll byQuinnipiac University, in a hypothetical race, Hillary Clinton, running as an independent, tops incumbent Bill de Blasio, running as a Democrat, 4930 percent. While surely a promising poll, we all remember what happened last time Clinton relied on such data.

Check out Clintons entire 20-minute speech below.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton have led the tributes to deceased billionaire banker David Rockefeller, who has died at his New York home aged 101.

The Clintons remembered Rockefeller Monday as a kind, good man and expressed their gratitude for his friendship and his remarkable life in a joint statement, published on the Clinton Foundation website.

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"David Rockefeller was a consummate businessman, a great humanitarian, and a serious scholar. He was a kind, good man to all who met him. Hillary and I are grateful for his friendship and his remarkable life, the statement read.

The Clintons were among other political heavyweights who shared their condolences upon hearing the news that the Chase banker died in his sleep Monday.

President George HW Bush said in a statement that he and his wife, Barbara, were deeply saddened by the passing of their wonderful friend, going on to call the businessman one of his brightest points of light.

Bush commended Rockefeller for his commitment to the widest range of worthy causes, making him a valuable advisor to presidents of both parties - and yours truly certainly included.

The grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller was the last generation in the famous Rockefeller family, and guardian of the clans billions.

No individual has contributed more to the commercial and civic life of New York City over a longer period of time than David Rockefeller, said former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. During my time in City Hall, he was always there for the city when we called."

Today the world has lost a great man and philanthropist, and we, a dear friend and inspiration, wrote the president of The Rockefeller Foundation, Rajiv J Shah, in his statement.

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During todays White House press briefing which was occurring while the House Intelligence Committee was holding a hearing on Russian election interference White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked about President Donald Trumps tweet this morning seemingly accusing Hillary Clinton of having ties to Russia.

Is he under the impression that the Clinton campaign had inappropriate contact with Russia during the election? One America NewssTrey Yingst asked.

After answering Yingsts first question about Trump slamming the DNC for not being forthright with the FBI regarding the hacks of their servers, Spicer then went onto the Clinton issue.

There is a whole second set of concerns here in terms of what was Hillary Clintons role, the press sec exclaimed. When you look at the Obama history the Obama administration and the Clintonthe Clinton involvement with Russia in terms of donations that the Clinton received from Russian entities, the idea that they sold off tremendous amount of the uranium to the Russian government, and yet where was the concern for that?

Bringing up Clinton signing off on a uranium deal with Russia when she was Secretary of State, Spicer wondered aloud, What did they get?

Watch the exchange above, via CNN.

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