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President and Obama News Race To The White House
First Debate Between Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Is Monday Night
President Obama Makes Final Speech As Commander-In-Chief To United Nations
President Obama final speech as president Tuesday at the United Nations was about the benefits of the free market and liberal democracy. There also wasn’t much diplomacy when it came to Donald Trump.
President Barack Obama
and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon re- peatedly denounced Donald Trump and his brand of poli- tics as they addressed leaders from around the world Tues- day.
Three days after declaring that Trump’s candidacy is a threat to American democracy, President Obama said that while globalization has its downsides, the wrong response comes “more often from the right” to produce an “aggres-
President Obama addresses the United Nations.
sive nationalism, a crude pop- ulism...which seeks to restore what they believe was a better, simpler age free of outside con- tamination.”
He didn’t say Trump’s name. He didn’t say Make America Great Again. But he didn’t need to, as he quickly
moved into attacking the Re- publican nominee’s proposed Mexican border wall.
“Today a nation ringed by walls would only imprison it- self,” President Obama said. The President received sig- nificant applause from the filled room as he finished.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
The first general election presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on Monday, Sept. 26. The debate will start at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time and run for 90 minutes without commercial breaks.
It will be broadcast on all of the major television networks, as well as the websites for major cable news channels and C-SPAN.
Lester Holt, who anchors "NBC Nightly News," will be the moderator. It’s his second time serving in that role in the 2016 presidential cycle. Holt was also a moderator for the Democratic primary debate on January 17.
The debate will be divided into six segments of 15 minutes each. Each segment will start with a question from Holt, after which each candidates will have two minutes for an initial response and then will be allowed to respond to each other.
NBC anchor Lester Holt will be the moderator.
The Commission on Presi- dential Debates announced the tentative topics for the debate: “America's direction,” “achiev- ing prosperity,” and “securing America.”
The topics are subject to change based on news develop- ments, according to the com- mission.
Libertarian Party presiden- tial nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party presidential nomi- nee Jill Stein were not invited by the presidential debate com- mission to participate in the debate.
First Lady Michelle Obama Responds To Speech By Trump’s Wife; Gives Impression Of President On Late Night Show
First Lady Michelle Obama visited Stephen Col- bert’s Late Show to promote her Let Girls Learn initiative and to reminisce about her FLOTUS years as they draw to a close: ordering French fries during a sleepover at Bucking- ham Palace, mispronouncing people’s names. Mrs. Obama also did an impression of the President in response to sev- eral questions about her fa- mous husband.
Colbert asks Mrs. Obama how did the President leave his job at the door once he arrives inside the residential quarters of the White House. She also shared that President Obama usually arrives at din- ner time and that The Presi- dent “ is really into gossip.” Why? She responds, “Because he doesn’t have a life.”
Colbert wondered if she has
any “sympathy” for the current presidential candidates’ spouses. “No. not really,” she answered, explaining candi- date spouses also have to be in it to win it.
Colbert segued to what he really wanted to know: “Mela- nia [Trump] was so criticized for using what turned out to be portions of your speech. Do you have any sympathy?”
“Do you have any sympathy? There are people around her, creating things” Colbert con- tinued, adding, “I have some sympathy for her.”
Mrs. Obama gave him a look.
“Yeah, that was tough,” she said, and no more.
“Let’s move on,” Colbert quipped, smiling.
Trump Draws Big Crowd In Florida; Hillary Not So Much In Philly
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump packed an Estero, Florida arena with 8,000 inside and more outside for a Monday rally.
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton spoke at Temple University the same day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was report- edly attended by less than 200 people. At the event targeted to millennial voters she acknowl- edged a need to court the youth vote, according to local NBC10 News.
By way of further compari-
son, Hillary Clinton held a rally at the University of South Florida on September 6 that drew a 1,500 person crowd, while a September 9 rally for Trump in Pensacola drew 12,000.
White House Considering Arming Kurdish Fighters Against ISIS
According to reports, the Obama administration is weighing a military plan to di- rectly arm Syrian Kurdish fighters combating the Islamic State, a major policy shift that could speed up the offensive against the terrorist group, but also sharply escalate tensions
between Turkey and the United States.
The plan has been under discussion by the National Se- curity Council staff at a mo- ment when President Obama has directed aides to examine all proposals that could accelerate the fight
against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. Mr. Obama has told aides that he wants an offensive well under- way before he leaves office that is aimed at routing the Is- lamic State from Raqqa, the group’s de facto capital in northern Syria.
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