After President Obama let slip that his daughters were hoping to meet soccer star Lionel Messi, the player said even though the meeting didn’t work out he’d be “proud” to meet Obama and his family.
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Bernie Sanders Campaign Mocks Hillary Clinton’s High-Dollar Clooney Fundraiser
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign mocked rival Hillary Clinton’s expensive planned fundraisers with George Clooney in California next month, telling supporters in an email that the exorbitant ticket prices for the events prove that his campaign is the one that represents “working Americans.” George and Amal Clooney are set to host Clinton for a pair of back-to-back fundraisers in San Francisco and Los Angeles in April. Two seats at the head table with Mr. and Mrs. Clooney and Clinton at the April 15 San Francisco event will set supporters back a staggering $353,400, far more than most regular Clinton fundraising events. “In the movie Oceans 11, a gang of lovable thieves successfully heist $150 million from a vault in the basement of the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver wrote in an email to supporters on Friday, according to The Hill. “Fueled primarily from high-dollar donations, Hillary Clinton has raised more than that in this campaign, and is now enlisting the support of George Clooney (Danny Ocean) to pad that total at a dinner event that will cost people up to $353,400 to attend.” Weaver reportedly called the ticket price “an obscene amount of money,” and added that it
Krauthammer: Obama’s Strategy Is To Shrink and Contain Islamic State, Then ‘Hand It Over to the Next Guy’
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Obama’s ISIS strategy is “shrink them a bit, contain them, and then hand it over to the next guy” on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Krauthammer said [relevant remarks begin around 3:10] that “the tempo and the scope of these operations [by terrorists] has increased. That’s the reason it’s worsened. But let me just say a word about the decapitation. I think it’s a good thing, you want to kill these guys. I don’t think the removal of senior people is important in and of itself, because, particularly in religious organizations, they are replaced instantly. What is important is the fact we had this guy surrounded, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, in the middle of the desert, which tells them we know where they are, which suggests they have been infiltrated. … In the end, the strategy of shrinking the territory, I think, is the right one. The question is, is Obama devoting enough resources, and doing it quickly enough? I think his strategy is, shrink them a bit, contain them, and then hand it over to the next guy.” Krauthammer later added of claims that the president had
Sanders in LA: I Would Beat Trump by Wider Margin than Clinton
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sat down for an interview with the Los Angeles Times editorial board this week and claimed that he would be a better general election candidate than rival Hillary Clinton.
Chuck Todd: Benghazi Happened Because of Hillary’s Miscalculation in Libya
Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Chuck Todd, the moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said one of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s vulnerabilities is the miscalculation to topple Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi because it helped to create the dangerous conditions that lead to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack. Todd said, “Competency has been her strength but I do believe what Benghazi and Libya present was this was an example of her being miscalculating, the policy was wrong. I’ve always believed she’s more vulnerable than on the policy than on what happened. You know, why was Benghazi a dangerous situation? Because of the decision to topple Qaddafi. That has always been her real policy vulnerability there. I actually think the incompetent tag, I see what he’s trying to do there.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel ‘Mansplains’ to Hillary Clinton, Reads Her ‘Boring’ Emails
Hillary Clinton returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night, where the late-night host read aloud some of her infamous email, proposed some new slogans for her campaign, and gently “mansplained” some of the finer points of running for president.
If You Only Watch One Clip from the Vice President's Supreme Court Speech, Watch This One:
“What difference does it make if the Court has eight members or nine members?”
The audience at the Georgetown University Law Center laughed when the Vice President Biden posed this question during his remarks there yesterday. But it’s a question that many Republicans in the Senate are genuinely asking right now, and every American needs to know the answer to it.
There are few people better positioned to break this down for us than the Vice President, who served in the U.S. Senate for 36 years and oversaw the fair nomination processes of nine Supreme Court justices as either Chairman or Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee. (Much to his chagrin, that’s more than anyone else alive today.)
Watch him explain why a nine-member court matters now:
Sen. Barbara Boxer: Donald Trump Doesn’t Deserve ‘Even One Woman’s Vote’
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) says GOP frontrunner Donald Trump doesn’t deserve “even one woman’s vote” after he targeted rival Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) wife, Heidi.
‘Lost’ Emails Show Hillary Clinton Used Server Earlier Than Admitted, Has Not Turned Over All Emails
Watchdog group Judicial Watch has uncovered new Hillary Clinton emails that demonstrate she was using her illicit homebrew email server at least a month earlier than she has previously admitted, and also make it clear she has not handed over all of he…