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President Obama Covers Many Things On ’60 Minutes’ Sunday
President Encourages Hispanics To Vote In Large Numbers
President Obama speaks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s gala on Thursday. Many rushed the stage to take photos of the President.
President Obama ap- peared on ’60 Minutes’ On Sunday.
ON HILLARY CLINTON’S EMAILS
HILLARY CLINTON
President Obama on Sun- day called Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a private email server “a mistake.
The President made the comments during an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” pro- gram in which he also de- fended his policy in Syria during a lengthy interview with Steve Kroft, a veteran corre- spondent.
Mrs. Clinton’s use of the email server during her tenure as Secretary of State has be- come the centerpiece of Repub- lican-led investigations into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Ameri- cans. She is certain to face questions about the emails during Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate and later this month when she is set to appear before a House com- mittee.
In the interview, which was taped Tuesday and broadcast Sunday evening, President Obama called those questions legitimate and said — without
directing the comments specif- ically at Mrs. Clinton — that public officials in high office “As a general proposition, when we’re in these offices, we have to be more sensitive and stay as far away from the line as possible when it comes to how we handle information, how we handle our own per- sonal data,” President Obama said. “And, you know, she made a mistake. She has acknowledged it.”
The President said Mrs. Clinton “could have handled the original decision better” and might have been quicker to disclose work-related emails that had been kept on a private server outside government control.
ON CONFLICT IN SYRIA
VLADIMIR PUTIN
On Syria, President
Obama acknowledged the failure of his $500 million mis- sion to “train and equip” as many as 5,000 fighters in the battle against the Islamic State. The President said he had long been skeptical that the program could create an effec- tive “proxy army,” but tried it anyway in an effort to confront what he called a “difficult prob- lem for the entire world com- munity.”
Mr. Kroft repeatedly chal- lenged President Obama on his policy in Syria and at one point complained that the President was “filibustering” with long answers. President Obama responded, “If you ask me big, open-ended ques- tions, expect big, open-ended answers.”
The President accused critics of expecting better re- sults in Syria after just a year of
American intervention, noting that Afghanistan still needs at- tention over 13 years after the United States sent its military there. He said the situation in Syria would not be resolved by American troops.
“Resolving the underlying crisis is going to be something that requires ultimately the key players there to recognize that there has to be a transition to new government,” he said. “And in the absence of that, it’s not going to work.”
Mr. Obama rejected the idea that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is challenging American lead- ership by using fighter jets and missiles in Syria.“If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally, is leadership, then we’ve got a different defi- nition of leadership,” the Pres- ident said.
ON DONALD TRUMP BECOMING PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP
He added later: “The fact that they had to do this is not an indication of strength.” Mr. Putin’s aggressive moves into Syria, in particular strikes by warplanes and missiles, in the last several weeks appeared to take the United States govern- ment by surprise. But Presi- dent Obama suggested in the interview that officials had some warning of the Russian plans.
“We had pretty good intelli- gence,” he said in response to a question about whether Mr. Putin told the President about the military moves when the two met at the United Na- tions last month.
The President also said that he is fairly certain of one thing when it comes to next year's election: Donald Trump won't succeed him in the White House.
The billionaire business- man, the frontrunner in the race to become the Republican party's White House nominee, has raised hackles with his con- troversial comments on immi- gration, gun control and women, among other issues.
"He knows how to get atten- tion. He is, you know, the clas- sic reality TV character, and at this early stage, it's not surpris- ing that he's gotten a lot of at- tention," President Obama said of Trump.
President Barack Obama on Thursday slammed the Re- publican presidential candi- dates’ policies on Hispanics — calling for the community to show their “boos” by voting.
“You’ve gotta recognize that Americas greatness doesn’t come from building walls, our great- ness comes from opportunity,” said Pres. Obama, who was speaking at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s gala.
Pres. Obama touted a long list of successes during his time in the White House but said vot- ers will not hear about them in the debates.
“They have invented this new
reality where everything was ter- rific back in 2008 ... That was the golden era apparently, the good old days, then I came along and messed it all up,” Pres. Obama said. “Now when you listen to them you still don’t know what they’re for — except turning back the clock on the work that we’ve done together.
“There’s nowhere they want to go further backwards than on immigration,” the president said.
Audience members booed.
“In these circumstances I al- ways say don’t boo - vote,” he said. “They can’t hear the boos but they can hear your vote.”
Aerosmith Tells Donald Trump To Stop Using Their Song
Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler wants Donald Trump to stop using “Dream On” on the campaign trail.
Attorneys for Tyler have sent a cease-and-desist letter to the real estate mogul and Republican presidential contender, stating that Trump was not granted au- thority to use the lyrics for politi- cal promotion, according to The Associated Press.
Trump does "not have our client's permission to use 'Dream On'" or any of Tyler's other songs, and the song's use "gives the false impression that he is connected with or endorses Mr. Trump's presidential bid,” the letter states.
Tyler's request is just another in a long series of such requests made by aggrieved musicians over the years. Last month, Michael Stipe, longtime lead singer of the band R.E.M., asked Trump's
Steven Tyler lead singer of Aerosmith. Donald Trump.
campaign to stop using its 1987 hit "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" at his events. Most of the time — as with Stipe's request — the re- quest seems to be ideological; in this case, it appears to have been more of a business decision.
President Obama And White House News
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