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07-07-2015, 05:29 PM
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Hillary Clinton slammed the GOP field on immigration, defended her use of a private email server while secretary of State and pushed back at suggestions she is distrusted by large swaths of the public in her inaugural national TV interview as a presidential candidate.
Clinton moved back and forth from offense to defense during the 20-minute interview, saving her strongest comments for GOP candidate Donald Trump, whose comments that illegal immigrants from Mexico were “rapists” bringing drugs and crime to the country have lit a political firestorm.
“I'm very disappointed in those comments and I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with the Republican Party for not responding immediately and saying, enough, stop it,” the Democratic frontrunner told CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who scored the interview.
Clinton also criticized former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s approach to immigration, linking him and the rest of the GOP field to Trump.
“Well, he doesn't believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does. And so pretty much they’re… on a spectrum of, you know, hostility… all the way to kind of grudging acceptance but refusal to go with a pathway to citizenship.”
The remarks were clearly a play for the support of Latino voters, with whom the Democratic Party has enjoyed a considerable advantage in recent presidential elections.
The most tense moments of the interview — and Clinton’s most defensive tone — came when Keilar asked her about her use of a private email server during her time at the State Department.
Clinton insisted that that “everything I did was permitted” and that “I didn’t have to turn over anything.”
Under further challenge from Keilar, Clinton shot back: “You know, you're starting with so many assumptions…Again, let's take a deep breath here. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation. I had one device. When I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system.”
On the broader issue of her trustworthiness, Clinton sought to dismiss recent polls that show a large number of voters saying she’s not honest. She blamed the “constant barrage of attacks,” which she said had “largely fomented by, and coming from, the right,” for dragging her numbers down.
“I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign people will know who will fight for them when they need them and that’s the person who I am and what I will do if I am president,” she said.
At another point she insisted, starkly: “People should and do trust me.”
Clinton repeatedly alluded to “unfounded” attacks against her, but didn’t specify which attacks she believed were unfair. However, she appeared to allude at one point to the book Clinton Cash, which alleges her family’s foundation took millions from foreign entities who could have benefitted from decisions she made at the State Department.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/247144-clinton-people-should-and-do-trust-me
Hillary Clinton slammed the GOP field on immigration, defended her use of a private email server while secretary of State and pushed back at suggestions she is distrusted by large swaths of the public in her inaugural national TV interview as a presidential candidate.
Clinton moved back and forth from offense to defense during the 20-minute interview, saving her strongest comments for GOP candidate Donald Trump, whose comments that illegal immigrants from Mexico were “rapists” bringing drugs and crime to the country have lit a political firestorm.
“I'm very disappointed in those comments and I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with the Republican Party for not responding immediately and saying, enough, stop it,” the Democratic frontrunner told CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who scored the interview.
Clinton also criticized former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s approach to immigration, linking him and the rest of the GOP field to Trump.
“Well, he doesn't believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does. And so pretty much they’re… on a spectrum of, you know, hostility… all the way to kind of grudging acceptance but refusal to go with a pathway to citizenship.”
The remarks were clearly a play for the support of Latino voters, with whom the Democratic Party has enjoyed a considerable advantage in recent presidential elections.
The most tense moments of the interview — and Clinton’s most defensive tone — came when Keilar asked her about her use of a private email server during her time at the State Department.
Clinton insisted that that “everything I did was permitted” and that “I didn’t have to turn over anything.”
Under further challenge from Keilar, Clinton shot back: “You know, you're starting with so many assumptions…Again, let's take a deep breath here. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation. I had one device. When I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system.”
On the broader issue of her trustworthiness, Clinton sought to dismiss recent polls that show a large number of voters saying she’s not honest. She blamed the “constant barrage of attacks,” which she said had “largely fomented by, and coming from, the right,” for dragging her numbers down.
“I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign people will know who will fight for them when they need them and that’s the person who I am and what I will do if I am president,” she said.
At another point she insisted, starkly: “People should and do trust me.”
Clinton repeatedly alluded to “unfounded” attacks against her, but didn’t specify which attacks she believed were unfair. However, she appeared to allude at one point to the book Clinton Cash, which alleges her family’s foundation took millions from foreign entities who could have benefitted from decisions she made at the State Department.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/247144-clinton-people-should-and-do-trust-me