Rand Paul

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., waits to speak at a campaign stop at the Craig Lang farm, Thursday, July 2, 2015, in Brooklyn, Iowa.

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Today's Rand Paul news: Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that he believes "there's a very good chance" Hillary Clinton was lying when she said in 2013 that she didn't know about the alleged U.S.-backed flow of weapons to rebels in Libya and Syria when she was secretary of state. "Whether or not she told the truth is a big deal and some of the emails coming out about Benghazi indicate that maybe she did know a lot more about this arms trade than she let on," said Paul, who is also running for president. "And I don't think our public officials should be allowed to come before congressional committees and lie:" FoxNews

Paul is making a three-stop swing through Michigan on Saturday. The son of 2012 GOP White House hopeful Ron Paul will visit the Flint Farmers' Market and the Draft House Restaurant in Dewitt before joining U.S. House member Justin Amash for "happy hour" at the New Holland Brewery Beer Garden at 3 p.m. The Tulip City visit is also a fundraiser for the Paul campaign, with tickets going from 100 to 27 hundred dollars: WHTC

Fairfield, Iowa, the center of Transcendental Meditation in the U.S., is a hotbed of support for Paul. Jeff Shipley and Roger Leahy helped turn it and surrounding Jefferson County into a stronghold for Paul's father, Ron, the Texas congressman who came in a close third in the 2012 Iowa caucuses. Now they're using the Earth & Water tea house as a base to help Rand get all the way to the White House. "There's a self-reliant attitude here," says Shipley. "The people who want to end the wars and end NSA spying are the same people who want to be able to sell raw milk:" Bloomberg