Jun. 30, 2016, 11:27 a.m.
Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch has spent the past two days fending off questions about her private meeting on a government jet with former President Bill Clinton, whose wife's use of a personal email server while serving as secretary of State is being investigated by the Justice Department.
The 30-minute conversation Monday night, Lynch said, was mostly about personal matters and did not delve into the investigation into Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren.
“Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren,” Lynch told reporters in Phoenix on Tuesday afternoon. “It was primarily social and about our travels. He mentioned the golf he played in Phoenix, and he mentioned travels he’d had in West Virginia. We talked about former Attorney General Janet Reno, for example, whom we both know, but there was no discussion of any matter pending for the department or any matter pending for any other body.”
Jun. 30, 2016, 5:25 p.m.
Vice President Joe Biden is certain that Bernie Sanders will endorse Hillary Clinton.
"Oh I've talked to Bernie. Bernie's going to endorse her. This is going to work out," Biden told NPR's Rachel Martin in an interview that will air Sunday on "Weekend Edition."
Asked about Biden’s statement Thursday evening, Sanders said he last spoke with the vice president three weeks ago and repeatedly demurred when asked about a potential endorsement.
Jun. 30, 2016, 1:59 p.m.
Donald Trump again defied Republican orthodoxy during an event in a former factory New Hampshire on Thursday, declaring that “we’re better off paying a little bit more” for consumer products if it means protecting American jobs.
“The goods will also be of a higher quality,” Trump added. “We’re known for that.”
The comments came as Trump builds on the issue that has surpassed immigration as his central campaign theme: that decades of trade pacts have depressed U.S. manufacturing and lowered wages.
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Hillary Clinton will also hold her first joint campaign appearance with President Obama in North Carolina on Tuesday.
Jun. 30, 2016, 10:33 a.m.
French President Francois Hollande backed Hillary Clinton for president in an interview published Thursday.
According to a portion of the interview translated by Politico, Hollande said the best thing for U.S. Democrats would be to ensure Clinton gets elected, adding that a Donald Trump presidency would strain U.S.-European relations.
The interview was published by the French newspaper Les Echos.
Jun. 30, 2016, 8:44 a.m.
Soon after an American Indian tribe announced plans to open a casino at a Catskills horse track, ads started appearing in local newspapers and on radio, sounding an alarm about unbridled crime and corruption.
They came from the New York Institute for Law and Society, a new self-described grass-roots anti-gambling group targeting the St. Regis Mohawks. Its campaign in 2000, supposedly supported by 12,000 “pro-family” donors, warned of the evils an Indian casino would bring: “increased crime, broken families, bankruptcies and, in the case of the Mohawks, violence.”
But there were no 12,000 donors. Virtually all the money for the campaign, more than $1 million, came from Donald Trump.
Jun. 30, 2016, 6:18 a.m.
Republicans who go back on their word and refuse to endorse the party's nominee for president shouldn’t be allowed in public office, Donald Trump argued.
"They broke their word,” Trump said Wednesday at a campaign rally in Bangor, Maine. “In my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again because what they did is disgraceful."
Trump’s Republican primary rivals, including Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and John Kasich, opted not to endorse the presumptive GOP nominee despite early assurances that they would support the party's nominee, no matter who it was.
Jun. 30, 2016, 5:53 a.m.
Republican Sen. Mike Lee angrily denounced Donald Trump, making a personal case for why he won't endorse his party's presumptive nominee for president.
During an interview, Lee talked about Trump's effort during the GOP primaries to falsely tie rival Ted Cruz’s father to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lee, who calls Texas Sen. Cruz a friend, said he can’t support a nominee who espouses such a conspiracy theory.
“I hope I can get over these concerns,” Lee, of Utah, said on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show.” “I hope Mr. Trump can help me identify them. But don’t sit here and tell me, Steve, that I have no reason to be concerned about Donald Trump.”