H4A News Clips 7.8.15

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*H4A News Clips* *June 8, 2015* *LAST NIGHT’S EVENING NEWS* ABC reported on Hillary Clinton’s CNN interview, specifically her comments about Donald Trump's recent remarks about Mexican immigrants. NBC had a segment about the PGA canceling a golf tournament that was to be held at one of Trump's courses in response to his immigration comments. Trump officials claimed that contractors require documentation from workers. Serta, Macy’s, Farouk, NBC, ESPN, PGA, Televisa, Univision, and NASCAR have withdrawn from Trump’s business. Trump remains confident that these companies and industries pulling from him will not affect his businesses. CBS reported on Hillary Clinton's trip to Iowa, and stated that Bernie Sanders is closing in on Hillary Clinton, by doubling his support in Iowa since May. Sanders claims that he is surprised by how many supporters he is getting and has raised $15 million, but not nearly as much as Hillary Clinton. *LAST NIGHT’S EVENING NEWS........................................................................ **1* *TODAY’S KEY STORIES..................................................................................... **7* Hillary Clinton Courts Bigger Crowds in Return to Iowa // NYT // Amy Chozick – July 7, 2015.... 7 Clinton steps up attacks on GOP presidential candidates in Iowa — but steers clear of knocking her Democratic rivals // WaPo // Jose Del Real – July 7, 2015.......................................................................... 9 Hillary Clinton: On immigration, the GOP is just like Donald Trump // Politico // Gabriel Debenedetti – July 7, 2015.................................................................................................................................. 11 *SOCIAL MEDIA................................................................................................ **13* Zeke Miller (7/7/15, 4:53 pm) - Inbox: Tomorrow in NH, @MartinOMalley will unveil his plan to make college debt-free for every student in America................................................................................... 13 Philip Rucker (7/7/15, 5:25 pm) - Very good @brikeilarcnn interview of Hillary. Tough questions, serious issues. But also served up dessert like woman on $10 bill and SNL......................................... 13 David Drucker (7/7/15, 5:25 pm) - .@HillaryClinton survives @CNN intvw unscathed; looks at ease. But there's plenty there to mine that HRC still hasn't put to rest................................................... 13 *HRC NATIONAL COVERAGE............................................................................ **13* Hillary Clinton Opens a Previously Guarded Door // NYT // Maggie Haberman – July 7, 2015.. 13 Hillary Clinton relied heavily on white voters in 2008. In 2016, it’s reversed. // WaPo // Philip Bump – July 7, 2015..................................................................................................................................... 14 Hillary Clinton: Republican candidates ‘on a spectrum of hostility’ toward immigrants // WaPo // Ed O’Keefe – July 7, 2015....................................................................................................................... 15 Hillary Clinton Blames ‘Constant Barrage of Attacks’ by GOP for Polls Questioning Her Honesty // WSJ // Laura Meckler – July 7, 2015................................................................................................. 17 The making of a Hillary Clinton echo chamber // WaPo // Philip Rucker – July 7, 2015............ 18 Lawmakers: Feds Should Have Deported Undocumented Immigrant Before SF Pier Shooting // AP – July 7, 2015..................................................................................................................................... 21 Hillary Clinton Hands Jeb Bush A Present On Immigration // HuffPo // Igor Bobic – July 7, 2015 23 Hillary Clinton Piles On San Francisco Officials, Putting Sanctuary Cities Under Even More Heat // HuffPo // Elise Foley – July 7, 2015...................................................................................................... 24 Clinton says GOP field ranges from 'grudgingly welcome' to 'hostile' toward immigrants // AP // Catherine Lucey & Ken Thomas – July 7, 2015....................................................................................... 26 Hillary confronts the enemy // Politico // Annie Karni & Gabrielle Debenedetti – July 7, 2015. 28 Hillary Clinton plans meeting with black lawmakers // Politico // Lauren French – July 7, 2015 30 Hillary Clinton not amused by fax machine mockery // Politico // Adam Lerner – July 7, 2015 30 A defensive Clinton promises 'more press' // Politico // Dylan Byers – July 7, 2015.................. 31 Clinton says Puerto Rico should have access to U.S. bankruptcy laws // Reuters // Amanda Becker – June 30, 2015..................................................................................................................................... 32 Meme says Hillary Clinton's top donors are banks and corporations, Bernie Sanders' are labor unions // Politifact // Louis Jacobson – July 7, 2015............................................................................. 34 Clinton vows to make ‘comprehensive’ immigration reform cornerstone issue // Radio Iowa // Kay Henderson – July 7, 2015....................................................................................................................... 36 Clinton emails may revive environmental group's lawsuit // The Washington Examiner // Sarah Westwood – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................... 37 Hillary On San Francisco Illegal Immigrant Murder: ‘The City Made A Mistake’ // The Daily Caller // Al Weaver – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................... 38 Three questions for Hillary Clinton // The Washington Examiner // Byron York – July 7, 2015. 39 Committed, undecided line up to see Clinton in Iowa City // The Gazette // James Lynch – July 7, 2015 39 Hillary Clinton rips GOP on immigration: She says their problem is much bigger than Trump // Salon // Sophia Tesfaye – July 7, 2015................................................................................................ 41 Hillary Clinton: GOP on 'Spectrum of Hostility' Towards Immigrants // NBC News // Carrie Dann – July 7, 2015..................................................................................................................................... 42 Hillary Clinton on Her 'Last Rodeo' // The National Journal // Emma Roller – July 7, 2015...... 43 Clinton backs 'pathway to citizenship,' criticizes GOP // USA Today // David Jackson – July 7, 2015 46 Clinton says 'very disappointed' in Trump's immigration comments // Reuters – July 7, 2015. 47 Hillary Clinton slams Trump, Bush on immigration // MSNBC // Alex Seitz-Wald – July 7, 2015 47 Hillary Clinton just used Donald Trump to attack the entire GOP field // Business Insider // Colin Campbell – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................... 48 Hillary Clinton Says She Is "Very Disappointed" in Donald Trump // Mother Jones // Inae Oh – July 7, 2015............................................................................................................................................ 49 Hillary Clinton Ties Jeb Bush to GOP Field on Immigration // TIME // Sam Frizell – July 7, 2015 49 Hillary Clinton: Jeb Bush 'doesn't believe in a path to citizenship' // Miami Herald // Patricia Mezzai – July 7, 2015.................................................................................................................................... 50 Hillary: All GOP candidates on a ‘spectrum of hostility’ toward immigrants // Breitbart // Pam Key – July 7, 2015..................................................................................................................................... 51 Hillary Clinton 'very disappointed' in Trump, GOP on immigration // The Hill // Niall Stanage & Jonathan Easley – July 7, 2015............................................................................................................ 52 Hillary to meet with black lawmakers // The Hill // Christina Marcos – July 7, 2015................ 53 The Clinton Campaign Corralled Reporters, But Don't Expect Them To Skip The Next Parade // HuffPo // Michael Calderone – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................... 55 Hillary Clinton: ‘People Should and Do Trust Me’ // CNN // Eric Bradner – July 7, 2015........... 56 Top 8 takeaways from Hillary Clinton's first big interview // CNN // Eric Bradner - July 7, 2015 59 Hillary Clinton Tweets & Deletes This Photo Of Her Shaking Hands With A White Man With A "White" Tattoo // Bustle // Melissah Yang – July 8, 2015.............................................................................. 62 Hillary Clinton Thinks Email Scandal Is Annoying, Says Everything She Did Was Legal, So Back Off // Bustle // Chris Tognotti – July 7, 2015............................................................................................. 64 Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders: It’s going to be ‘competitive’ // MSNBC // Alex Seitz-Wald – July 7, 2015............................................................................................................................................ 66 Grassley Probing Clinton Aide’s Dual Role at State, Clinton Foundation // Free Beacon // Alana Goodman – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................... 67 Dem Millenials In Iowa Not Ready To Fully Support Clinton // CBS – July 7, 2015................... 68 Hillary Clinton Deletes Photo Of Herself And Man With “White” Tattoo // Buzzfeed // Claudia Koerner – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................. 69 Hillary Clinton's guide to throwing a house party // Political Party Time // Nicko Margolies – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................................... 70 Hillary Clinton: hacking problem not limited to China // Reuters – July 7, 2015...................... 71 Hillary Clinton: Cyber Legislation in Congress Is 'Not Enough' to Stop Foreign Hackers // National Journal // Dustin Volz – July 7, 2015..................................................................................................... 71 Hillary Clinton calls for bankruptcy law change so Puerto Rico can tackle debt // Reuters – July 7, 2015 72 Clinton Blames 'The Right' For Trust Attacks // NPR // Jessica Taylor – July 7, 2015............... 74 Hillary Blames GOP for Negative Press, Insists People ‘Can and Do’ Trust Her // NY Mag // Margaret Hartmann – July 7, 2015....................................................................................................... 76 Hillary Clinton blames trust issues on GOP // Boston Herald // Hillary Chabot – July 8, 2015. 78 'People should and do trust me,' says Hillary Clinton // The Hill // Nial Stanage & Jonathan Easley – July 7, 2015..................................................................................................................................... 79 Clinton voices support for deported Iowa immigrant // The Des Moines Register // Tony Leys – July 7, 2015............................................................................................................................................ 81 Clinton campaign adds 20 paid Iowa staffers // The Des Moines Reigister // Jennifer Jacobs – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................................... 83 The Clintons’ headache is back: First brother Roger was paid $100,000 to influence Bill and ex-president bought him house despite IRS demand for his property // The Daily Mail // Francesca Chambers – July 7, 2015.................................................................................................................................... 84 Hillary Clinton to pay 'summer fellows' after reports of interns working for free // The Guardian // Ben Jacobs – July 7, 2015....................................................................................................................... 87 Clinton Still Far Outpaces Her Democratic Rivals // Rasmussen Reports – July 7, 2015........... 88 Hillary Clinton: People who dis the government are ‘dissing our democracy’ // The Washington Times // Jessica Chasmar – July 7, 2015............................................................................................. 89 Clinton hits on local issues in Iowa City campaign stop // KCRG // Mark Carlson – July 7, 2015 89 Will Hillary Clinton swear off fossil-fuel money? Bernie Sanders already has // Grist // John Light – July 7, 2015.................................................................................................................................... 89 Judicial Watch: Federal Judge Orders State Department to Release Documents Regarding Hillary Clinton’s iPhone and iPad Use // Judicial Watch – July 7, 2015............................................................. 91 Hillary Clinton to visit Michigan July 21 // The Detroit News // David Shepardson – July 7, 2015 92 *OTHER DEMOCRATS NATIONAL COVERAGE................................................. **93* *DECLARED................................................................................................. **93* *O’MALLEY............................................................................................... **93* O’Malley expresses distaste for super PACs after one backing him attacks Sanders // WaPo // John Wagner – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................... 93 Martin O’Malley racked up $339,200 in loans putting two kids through college. He wants to lighten the load for others. // WaPo // John Wagner – July 7, 2015................................................................. 94 O'Malley to Lay Out Plan for Debt-Free College // AP // July 8, 2015...................................... 97 Martin O’Malley Has the Right Solution for Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis // The Nation // John Nichols – July 7, 2015.................................................................................................................................... 98 Martin O’Malley: A Strong Foreign Policy Starts With a Global Middle Class // TIME // Martin O’Malley – July 7, 2015............................................................................................................................... 100 O'Malley Denounces Super PACs As One Supporting Him Goes After Sanders // NHPR // Rachael Brindley – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................ 101 *SANDERS............................................................................................... **102* Can Bernie Sanders Beat Hillary Clinton? Reporter’s Notebook // NYT // Pat Leary – July 7, 2015 102 Why we shouldn’t just call Bernie Sanders a ‘liberal’ // WaPo // Hunter Schwartz – July 7, 2015 103 The issue on which Bernie Sanders aims for ‘the middle’ // MSNBC // Steve Benen – July 7, 2015 105 Bernie Sanders is no Ron Paul: What the press gets all wrong about the Vermont senator...... 106 He'll always be an underdog, but Sanders is a more viable candidate than even the left-wing media will acknowledge // Salon // Zaid Jilani – July 8, 2015................................................................ 106 Bernie Sanders’ Plan To Make Solar Power More Accessible // Think Progress // Ari Phillips – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 107 Jimmy Carter: Bernie Sanders Is A 'Surprising' Democratic Competitor // HuffPo // Paige Lavender – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 109 The Clinton Campaign Is Afraid of Bernie Sanders // The Atlantic // Peter Beinart – July 7, 2015 109 This Could Be Bernie Sanders' Biggest General Election Challenge // NBC News // Mark Murray – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................................... 111 Rep. Barbara Lee: Bernie Sanders’ Message “Resonating,” “Galvanizing Progressives” // Buzzfeed // Andrew Kaczynski – July 7, 2015...................................................................................................... 112 Bernie Sanders Hits a Triumphant Note As His Crowds Grow // TIME // Sam Frizell – July 7, 2015 112 As Labor Grapples With Candidate Endorsements, Transit Union Head Applauds Bernie Sanders // IB Times // Cole Stangler –July 7, 2015.............................................................................................. 114 Coons: "Not Confident" In Bernie Sanders' Qualifications // Bloomberg // Kendall Breitman – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 116 Fox News’ big Bernie Sanders lie: The right’s laughably lame effort to link Donald Trump and Sanders // Salon // Sean Illing – July 7, 2015................................................................................................. 117 *UNDECLARED........................................................................................... **119* *OTHER................................................................................................... **119* How durable is the Democratic advantage among Latinos? // WaPo // Greg Sargent – July 7, 2015 119 Here's what Clinton, O'Malley and Sanders told America's biggest teachers union // The Washington Examiner // Jason Russell – July 7, 2015............................................................................. 121 *GOP................................................................................................................ **121* *DECLARED................................................................................................ **121* *BUSH...................................................................................................... **122* Florida’s Economic Leap Under Jeb Bush Helped By Housing Bubble, Economists Say // WSJ // Bob Davis – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................ 122 Did Jeb Bush cut taxes each year as Florida governor? // Politifact – July 7, 2015.................. 123 Jeb Bush's Aggressive July Fundraising Schedule // Bloomberg // Michael Bender – July 7, 2015 124 Jeb Bush: No Leniency for Edward Snowden // CBS News // Rebecca Kaplan – July 7, 2015... 124 Jeb Bush plans first Sioux City campaign stop // Sioux City Journal // Bret Hayworth – July 7, 2015 125 Jeb Bush: 'No leniency' toward Snowden // The Washington Examiner // Elizabeth Potter – July 7, 2015 126 *RUBIO.................................................................................................... **127* Marco Rubio’s Education Plans Echo Some Obama Ideas // NYT // Alan Rappeport – July 7, 2015 127 Marco Rubio Attacks Higher Education ‘Cartel’ and Jabs Rivals // NYT // Jeremy Peters – July 7, 2015 128 Five takeaways from Marco Rubio’s speech on the innovation economy // WaPo // Steven Overly – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 129 Marco Rubio Outlines Economic Initiatives // WSJ // Patrick O’Connor – July 7, 2015............ 131 Rubio rips GOP, Clinton // AP // Steve Peoples – July 8, 2015............................................... 133 Marco Rubio Economy: ‘The old ways no longer work’ // AP // Steve Peoples – July 7, 2015.... 134 Marco Rubio slams Hillary Clinton, higher ed ‘cartel’ in policy speech // Politico // Eli Stokols – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 136 Marco Rubio is about to give a major economic speech that he hopes will kick-start his campaign // Reuters // James Oliphant – July 7, 2015............................................................................................. 138 Rubio: College 'cartels' need busting in new economy // CNN // Tom LoBianco – July 7, 2015 139 Marco Rubio's 'New' Plan For Creating Jobs Is Actually Old And Borrowed // HuffPo // Igor Bobic – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 139 Rubio: Don't expect a Romney endorsement soon // The Hill // Jesse Byrnes – July 7, 2015.. 141 Marco Rubio 2016 Campaign: Nonprofit Backing GOP Candidate Rubio Raises Almost $16 Million // Latin Post // Andre Puglie – July 7, 2015.............................................................................................. 142 Nonprofit with secret donors, linked to Rubio super PAC, raises millions // CBS News // Stephanie Condon – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................ 143 Marco Rubio: “We need a new president for a new age” // CBS News // Sopan Deb – July 7, 2015 144 Marco Rubio’s Economic Plan Calls For Students To Sell Themselves To Private Investors // Think Progress // Alice Ollstein – July 7, 2015................................................................................................. 146 Marco Rubio Outlines Domestic Policy Agenda, Jabs Clinton // NBC News // Alex Jaffe – July 7, 2015 147 *PAUL...................................................................................................... **149* Rand Paul, dorm room philosopher: Why his “slavery” nonsense is so outrageous // Salon // Simon Maloy – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................ 149 *CRUZ...................................................................................................... **150* Blogging Federal Judge Says Ted Cruz ‘Not Fit to be President’ // WSJ // Jacob Gershman – July 7, 2015 150 Blogging judge calls political candidate “unfit” for office // WSJ // Orin Kerr – July 7, 2015.... 152 Ted Cruz's angry allies // Politico // Katie Glueck – July 7, 2015............................................ 154 Ted Cruz partners with donor’s 'psychographic' firm // Politico // Kenneth Vogel & Tarini Parti – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 157 Ted Cruz To Chris Christie: Your “Oppo Research Guys” Got The Facts Wrong When You Attacked Me // Buzzfeed // Andrew Kaczynski – July 7, 2015....................................................................... 160 Ted Cruz’s 2016 campaign says its raised $14.2M since launch // Bell Jar – July 8, 2015......... 161 Ted Cruz’s unique spin on the 11th Commandment // CBS News // Steven Benen – July 7, 2015 161 Top GOP lawyer absolutely scorches Ted Cruz: “Most graduates of Harvard Law School know” better // Salon // Sophia Tesfaye – July 7, 2015.............................................................................................. 163 *CHRISTIE.............................................................................................. **164* NJ Voters Tepid on Chris Christie’s Handling of State Pension System // WSJ // Heather Haddon – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 164 New Jersey Democrats troll Chris Christie // Politico // Daniel Strauss – July 7, 2015............. 165 N.J. Dems Prod a Defiant Chris Christie to Resign // NBC News // Kelly O’Donnell – July 7, 2015 166 Webb: The real deal about Chris Christie // The Hill // David Webb – July 7, 2015................ 166 Chris Christie Administration Whistleblower To Justice Department: Bridgegate Prosecutor May Be Compromised // IB Times // David Sirota & Andrew Perez – July 7, 2015.............................. 168 Governor Chris Christie: Media Should Apologize to Me for Bridgegate // Newsbusters // Randy hall – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 170 Why Chris Christie may have an edge in GOP race // CNBC // Mark Macias – July 7, 2015...... 172 *GRAHAM................................................................................................ **174* Lindsey Graham Protests 'Brad Pitt' Debate // Bloomberg // Ben Brody – July 7, 2015.......... 174 Lindsey Graham On Trump: GOP “Must Speak Up,” He’s “Not Part Of The Party I Want To Have” // Buzzfeed // Andrew Jaczynski – July 7, 2015...................................................................................... 174 Graham Questions Obama’s Commitment to Removing Assad From Power // Free Beacon // Blake Seitz – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................ 175 Lindsey Graham campaign joins Fiorina in attacking Clinton’s CNN Interview: Clinton has ‘selective hearing and memory’ // Breitbart // Alex Swoyer – July 7, 2015........................................................ 176 *HUCKABEE............................................................................................ **176* Huckabee blasts Obama, ‘Still in denial about the threats we face’ // Breitbart // Alex Swoyer – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 176 *CARSON.................................................................................................. **177* Ben Carson's godly riches // Politico // Tarini Parti – July 7, 2015.......................................... 177 A Movie Was Once Made About Ben Carson (And It May Be Helping Him) // The Daily Caller // Alex Pappas – July 8, 2015........................................................................................................................ 179 Ben Carson signs ‘no new tax’ pledge, visits New Hampshire // The Washington Times // Seth McLaughlin – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................ 181 Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other 2016 Republican Combined — By A Lot // Buzzfeed // McKay Coppins – July 7, 2015........................................................................... 183 Ben Carson calls for banning sanctuary cities // Boston Herald // Chris Cassidy – July 7, 2015 184 *FIORINA................................................................................................ **185* Carly Fiorina Condemns Donald Trump for Comments on Mexicans // TIME // Sam Frizell – July 7, 2015 185 Fiorina Responds: I’ve Done 24 TIMES As Many National TV Interviews As Hillary // The Daily Caller // Al Weaver – July 7, 2015......................................................................................................... 186 'Rope line' jokes aplenty as Fiorina knocks Clinton // The Union Leader // Dan Tuohy – July 7, 2015 187 *JINDAL.................................................................................................. **188* Bobby Jindal mocked for posing with gun at campaign stop // The Economic Times – July 8, 2015 188 Bobby Jindal: Sanders and Clinton Would Both Turn Us Into Greece // TIME // Bobby Jindal – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 189 Jindal back to Iowa, will fundraise with Grassley // Des Moines Register // Linh Ta – July 7, 2015 190 Bobby Jindal super PAC drops $700k on Iowa commercials, website reports // Bayoubuzz – July 7, 2015 191 Jindal: No break for Puerto Rico in debt crisis // The Union Leader // Dave Solomon – July 7, 2015 191 *TRUMP................................................................................................... **193* P.G.A. Moves Event From Donald Trump Golf Course // NYT // Brendan Prunty – July 7, 2015 193 GOP donors call for sidelining Donald Trump // Politico // Nick Gass – July 7, 2015............... 195 Workers Building Trump Hotel Present Different Immigrant Image // NBC News // Suzanne Gamboa – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 196 Take on Trump? GOP senators opt against it // The Hill // Alexander Bolton – July 8, 2015... 198 Donald Trump Employees’ 401(k) Plans Come With a Huge Catch // TIME // Susie Poppick – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 201 These GOP Candidates Are Standing Behind Donald Trump // Mother Jones // Allie Gross – July 7, 2015 201 Donald Trump Taking Message To Hollywood For GOP Event Friday // Deadline // Liosa de Morales – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 202 How much money will running for president cost Donald Trump? // CNN // MJ Lee – July 7, 2015 203 Donald Trump defiant on business fallout amid fresh salvos on immigration // The Guardian // Ben Jacobs – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................ 205 Obama’s housing chief calls Trump ‘de facto face’ of GOP // The Boston Globe // Jim O’Sullivan – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 205 *UNDECLARED.......................................................................................... **206* *WALKER............................................................................................... **207* Nearing launch, Walker team sees Bush, Rubio as 2016 competition // WaPo // Dan Balz – July 7, 2015 207 Tea partiers and liberals tell Gov. Scott Walker: ‘No more games on Common Core’ // WaPo // Valerie Strauss – July 7, 2015..................................................................................................................... 209 Scott Walker hoping new bundlers help vault him over fundraising hurdles // CNN // Sara Murray – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 211 Scott Walker plans post-announcement blitz, NH stops // Union Leader // Dan Tuohy – July 7, 2015 212 Scott Walker's Home Crowd Disadvantage // US News // Jamie Stiehm – July 7, 2015........... 213 The magical, disappearing Scott Walker conversation // MSNBC // Steve Benen – July 7, 2015 214 Busted!: Walker Admits Role in Failed Government Secrecy Rule // TPM // Tierney Sneed – July 7, 2015 215 *KASICH.................................................................................................. **216* Kasich: Obama administration ‘in love’ with Iran deal // Fox News – July 7, 2015.................. 216 John Kasich Tries To Gin Up Interest In Presidential Bid // The Daily Caller // Alex Pappas – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 217 *OTHER................................................................................................... **219* Candidates Start Showing Their Cards // Bloomberg // Joshua Gallu - July 8, 2015................ 219 Inside the GOP’s Effort to Close the Campaign-Science Gap With Democrats // Bloomberg // Sasha Issenberg - July 8, 2015........................................................................................................................ 220 Republicans have won the battle over money in politics. Should anyone celebrate? // WaPo // Paul Waldman – July 7, 2015..................................................................................................................... 229 *OTHER 2016 NEWS........................................................................................ **231* ‘Super PACs’ Take On New Role, Organizing Voters // NYT // Trip Gabriel – July 7, 2015........ 231 Puerto Rican debt crisis forces its way onto presidential political agenda // WaPo // Steven Mufson - July 8, 2015................................................................................................................................... 234 Christie, Paul and Perry Court the Black Vote // WSJ // Jason Riley – July 7, 2015................ 238 2016ers tiptoe around Puerto Rico's debt bomb // Politico // Daniel Strauss – July 7, 2015.... 240 Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton to share stage in Fort Lauderdale // Tampa Bay Times // Alex Leary – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................................................... 242 Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton support bankruptcy rights for Puerto Rico // CNN – July 7, 2015 242 *OPINIONS/EDITORIALS/BLOGS................................................................... **244* The non-Clinton alternative for Democrats // WaPo // Eugene Robinson – July 7, 2015......... 244 How Politico became a GOP stooge: Republicans want to destroy Hillary Clinton—and the media is helping them out // Salon // Heather Digby Parton – July 7, 2015..................................................... 245 Stop the bed-wetting: Hillary Clinton's doing fine // CNN // Dan Pfeiffer – July 7, 2015......... 249 Donald Trump's Latino comments are just GOP orthodoxy in a cruder shell // The Guardian // Jeb Lund – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................ 251 Why Hillary Clinton Is Revising Expectations Downward // Commentary Magazine // Noah Rothman – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 254 *TOP NEWS..................................................................................................... **255* *DOMESTIC................................................................................................ **255* ‘Complicated’ Support for Confederate Flag in White South // NYT // Richard Fausset – July 7, 2015 256 Air Force jet collides with Cessna over South Carolina, killing two people // WaPo // Mark Berman – July 7, 2015................................................................................................................................... 259 *INTERNATIONAL..................................................................................... **260* Afghans and Taliban end peace talks with plans to meet again // WaPo // Sudarsan Raghavan & Tim Craig – July 7, 2015........................................................................................................................ 260 Eurozone Sets Sunday Deadline for Greece Financing Deal // WSJ // Gabriele Steinhauser And Matthew Dalton – July 7, 2015.......................................................................................................... 263 *TODAY’S KEY STORIES* *Hillary Clinton Courts Bigger Crowds in Return to Iowa <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/07/clinton-returns-to-iowa-as-she-courts-bigger-crowds/> // NYT // Amy Chozick – July 7, 2015 * Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to one of the most liberal pockets of the state that shunned her in 2008, to speak at a public library packed with Iowans who ranged from those curious to see the former first lady to those committed to caucusing for her in next February’s contest. “I want people’s lives to be better when I finish as your president than when I started,” Mrs. Clinton told a crowd of roughly 350 people in remarks that ranged from foreign policy and economic issues to the drug epidemic and mental health. The event marked the start of another phase in Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign in which she intends to speak to larger crowds and take more questions from voters in the early nominating states of Iowa and New Hampshire. On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton also sat down for an interview with CNN, her first with a national television outlet since she announced her candidacy official in April. This liberal college town, home to the University of Iowa, that overwhelmingly favored Barack Obama and John Edwards in 2008 (she came in third statewide) could serve as a test of whether Mrs. Clinton’s message resonates with the Democratic Party’s base. Senator Bernie Sanders, a socialist who is also seeking the party’s nomination, drew a crowd of 300 people at an event here in May. In her speech, an animated Mrs. Clinton seemed to try to hit all the liberal notes, including combating climate change, giving women access to reproductive health care and celebrating the Supreme Court’s recent decisions to legalize same sex marriage nationwide and uphold a key provision of Mr. Obama’s health care overhaul. “If a Republican is elected president, that will be the end of the Affordable Care Act,” Mrs. Clinton said. Her calls to make college more affordable played well in the almost all-white and largely female crowd. “How many of you had loans to go to higher education? I did, I did, so did Bill,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I had like two jobs. He had like five. We were just working around the clock.” Despite pleas from liberal groups, Mrs. Clinton has not gone as far as Mr. Sanders, who said he would eliminate tuition at public colleges to reduce student debt. Mrs. Clinton pushed for greater gun control measures, which contrasts her to Mr. Sanders, who has been one of the Democratic Party’s most ardent defenders of Second Amendment rights. “Let’s not be afraid of the gun lobby, which does not even really represent the majority of gun owners,” she said. After the event, Mrs. Clinton took questions from reporters. She called the collapse of the Greek economy a “tragedy” and called on European leaders to reach an agreement. And she declined to comment on a controversial provision of a nuclear agreement with Iran that would require the nation to disclose its previous nuclear experimentation, an issue that has divided the Obama Administration. When asked about Mr. Sanders’s surge in the polls, Mrs. Clinton said she always expected the race to be competitive. “It should be competitive. It’s only the presidency of the United States we’re talking about, so the more the better,” she said. After Iowa City, Mrs. Clinton headed to Ottumwa, Iowa, where she would talk to Iowans at a grassroots-organizing event. The campaign said it has already directly reached 16,000 Iowans and recruited at least one committed caucusgoer in each of the state’s 1,682 precincts. But Mrs. Clinton still has much to do in this state where voters expect to personally meet their candidates before participating in the famous caucuses, which take place Feb 1, 2016. Her lead over Mr. Sanders has narrowed in a recent poll — she still leads by double digits — and Iowans are clearly checking their options. “I think I’m here out of curiosity more than anything else at this point,” said Ashley Heffernen, 22, a recent graduate who waited in line with her boyfriend to hear Mrs. Clinton and hopefully ask a question about immigration. “I want t see all the candidates,” Ms. Heffernen said. Colleen Russo also waited in line outside the library. She supported Mr. Obama in 2008, but said she wanted to show her five-year-old granddaughter Viviana, who wore a pink dress and purple tiara, that a woman could be president. “She couldn’t be more experienced,” Ms. Russo said of Mrs. Clinton. Jorge Guerra, 26, who stood next to the Ms. Russo and her grandchild, interjected: “Well, I’m glad you didn’t bring her to see Michele Bachmann.” Mr. Guerra said part of what is holding him back from being all-in for Mrs. Clinton was her relationship to Wall Street and corporations. “It unnerves me,” he said. “I want her to be as honest about and be as open as possible about a lot of these questions.” Ms. Russo agreed and said there were still things about Mrs. Clinton that gave her pause, but said Mrs. Clinton was most likely to win a general election. “I think she needs to be more exposed and talk to bigger groups, like Bernie does,” she said, referring to Mr. Sanders. Mr. Guerra nodded. “She can’t hide. Not someone like her.” Mrs. Clinton seemed acutely aware of how tough things may be for her in Iowa. After her remarks, she took questions from the audience. Dozens of hands went up. “I’m gonna let you pick,” she told the crowd. “Because I don’t want to lose any potential caucusgoers.” *Clinton steps up attacks on GOP presidential candidates in Iowa — but steers clear of knocking her Democratic rivals <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/07/clinton-steps-up-attacks-on-gop-presidential-candidates-in-iowa-but-steers-clear-of-knocking-her-democratic-rivals/> // WaPo // Jose Del Real – July 7, 2015 * Hillary Rodham Clinton escalated her criticism of her GOP presidential rivals during a campaign stop here in Iowa City on Tuesday, knocking the field of candidates on immigration reform, health care and LGBT issues while steering clear of directly attacking her Democratic primary rivals. "How many people running on the Republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on immigrants? They know as well as we know, we are not going to deport 11 or 12 million people living here,” she told a crowd of about 250 attendees in a packed room at the Iowa City Public Library. "I hear the Republican candidates — and it's not even the most vitriolic — none of them any longer support a path to citizenship. All of them would basically consign immigrants to second-class status." Clinton echoed those sentiments in an interview with CNN after the campaign event, in which she said the Republican field is on "a spectrum of hostility." During that interview she denounced controversial comments by GOP presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump about Mexican immigrants. She specifically criticized former Florida governor Jeb Bush for not supporting an immigration reform plan that would give immigrants a path to citizenship, a position he once said he favored. The former secretary of state paired those comments with warnings that a Republican president in 2016 would roll back the Affordable Care Act and would continue fighting for same-sex marriage bans, which the Supreme Court recently ruled were unconstitutional. She told supporters at the event that those issues highlight why she believes the country needs a Democrat in the White House after President Obama leaves office. “The Republicans want to turn the clock back. They are going to look for every way they can,” she said. “Instead of saying marriage equality is the law of the land and now let’s move on to the next part of the agenda, which is ending discrimination against LGBT folks, they are going to try to fight a rearguard action.” But even while she spoke critically and aggressively about the GOP presidential hopefuls, the presumed Democratic frontrunner avoided making swipes at her primary challengers — mostly pointedly, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has received outsize attention from the left flank of the party and is drawing crowds at campaign events that reach into the thousands. "This is going to be competitive. It should be competitive — it's only the presidency of the United States we're talking about," she joked during a question-and-answer session with reporters after the campaign event. She did not, however, directly answer the question: what she thought about Sanders's recent surge on the left. Meanwhile, the campaign's months-long ramp-up in the four early voting states hit a new peak Tuesday when 20 additional field organizers joined the Clinton campaign's Iowa operation, where the campaign has already invested a large amount of resources in hopes of capturing a decisive win in the first-in-the-nation caucuses. That addition, as the Des Moines Register first reported and the Washington Post confirmed, means her team now includes an imposing 47 paid organizers — in Iowa alone. “This continues from our assumption that this is a competitive caucus that needs a significant organization to earn every vote,” said Clinton spokesperson Jesse Ferguson. “[W]e’ll have to work for every vote.” *Hillary Clinton: On immigration, the GOP is just like Donald Trump <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-last-rodeo-campaign-stop-iowa-2016-119810.html#ixzz3fIDR7BDz> // Politico // Gabriel Debenedetti – July 7, 2015* IOWA CITY, Iowa — Hillary Clinton believes Donald Trump should be thrown in the doghouse for his comments on immigration. And that the rest of the Republican party should be tossed in there with him. In her first national TV interview since she launched her campaign, the Democratic front-runner seized on the real estate mogul’s controversial comments on immigration (calling many Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “criminals”) to shame the rest of the Republican presidential field. “I’m very disappointed in those comments and I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with the Republican Party for not responding immediately and saying, enough, stop it,” Clinton said to CNN after headlining an organizing meeting in a local public library. “But they are all in the — you know, in the same general area on immigration. They don’t want to provide a path to citizenship. They range across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile toward immigrants.” Clinton has already publicly bashed Trump for his comments, through not by name, after having previously accepted campaign contributions from him and even attending one of his weddings. But on Tuesday, she played into fears the Republican establishment has about Trump dragging down the rest of the party with his inflammatory comments. She also took aim at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has been more supportive of immigration reform than his rivals. “He doesn’t believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does,” Clinton said. “And so pretty much they’re — as I said, they’re on a spectrum of, you know, hostility, which I think is really regrettable in a nation of immigrants like ours.” Clinton touched on the email controversy that has bogged down the early days of her campaign, as well, saying she did not violate any rules by using a private email server while serving as secretary of state. “Let’s take a deep breath here. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation,” she said. And, she added, there’s an upshot — the public now gets a glimpse into her daily life, from telling aide John Podesta to wear socks, to her struggles with operating a fax machine. “Now I think it’s kind of fun. People get a real-time behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about and what I was communicating about,” she said. The interview, with Brianna Keilar, touched on a broad range of topics — from Clinton’s doppelganger on “Saturday Night Live” to her plans for an economic policy speech in Kansas City on Monday to Democratic rival and surging candidate Bernie Sanders (“I always thought this would be a competitive race.”) Clinton also answered a question about the brouhaha around a woman possibly bumping Alexander Hamilton off the $10 bill. Clinton’s not crazy about a compromise in which a woman might share the bill with Hamilton. “That sounds pretty second class to me. So I think a woman should have her own bill,” she said. The airing of the interview followed a full day in Iowa, during which the front-runner appeared looser-than-usual on the campaign trail. Nearly three months into what could be the political fight of her life, Clinton noted on Tuesday that her time to ride off into the sunset is not all that far away. “This is my last rodeo,” Clinton said during a campaign stop in the first-in-the-nation voting state on Tuesday afternoon before taking questions from reporters. Clinton said she wants to play a role in setting the country on the right path before hanging up her hat — but hopefully, she said, not until 2025, after eight years in the Oval Office. “I believe that we can leave not just the country in good shape for the future, but we can get a deep bench of young people to decide they want to go into politics to continue the fights that we’re going to be waging,” she said. The rodeo characterization may have been more apt than she intended. Her campaign has been criticized in recent days for using a rope to corral reporters who were following Clinton during a parade over the July 4th weekend. Greeting reporters after an organizing meeting at the Iowa City Public Library, Clinton nodded to the minicontroversy, looking at the barrier between her and the press and asking if it was the equivalent of a rope holding them back. “I think it should come down,” she deadpanned. She also glanced upon a range of issues in the news. “Let’s not be afraid of the gun lobby, which does not even really represent the majority of gun owners in America,” Clinton told the crowd of more than 350 locals. While she refused to take the bait and attack Sanders when prompted, she has recently been speaking more about gun control — an issue on which she differs from Sanders, who hails from gun-friendly Vermont. Clinton also focused on the dangers of climate change more than she usually does, calling it “one of the most existential threats to our country and our world.” And she again said that “if a Republican is elected president, that will be the end of the Affordable Care Act.” Hillary Clinton 'disappointed' in Donald Trump At times musing on her career as secretary of state, Clinton at one point said that she jokes with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about the difficulties of conducting diplomacy in the modern era. But she refused to weigh in forcefully on the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, telling reporters, “I don’t think it’s useful for me to publicly comment right now on what the negotiations are attempting to resolve. “There needs to be full transparency, disclosure and verifiable inspections going forward, and certainly any part of the Iranian nuclear or military establishment that has anything to do with the program past, present and future needs to be subject to that,” she added. Nonetheless, the former top diplomat did call the economic situation in Greece a “tragedy,” insisting that it is important “that we can see an outcome here that will actually help Greece recover and keep them in the eurozone, and keep Europe united.” *SOCIAL MEDIA* *Zeke Miller (7/7/15, 4:53 pm)* <https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/618523312272977920>* - Inbox: Tomorrow in NH, @MartinOMalley will unveil his plan to make college debt-free for every student in America.* *Philip Rucker (7/7/15, 5:25 pm)* <https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/618531335456600065>* - Very good @brikeilarcnn interview of Hillary. Tough questions, serious issues. But also served up dessert like woman on $10 bill and SNL.* *David Drucker (7/7/15, 5:25 pm)* <https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/618531401105805312>* - .@HillaryClinton survives @CNN intvw unscathed; looks at ease. But there's plenty there to mine that HRC still hasn't put to rest.* *HRC** NATIONAL COVERAGE* *Hillary Clinton Opens a Previously Guarded Door <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/07/today-in-politics-hillary-clinton-opens-a-previously-guarded-door/> // NYT // Maggie Haberman – July 7, 2015 * Mrs. Clinton is about to give her first national close-up in her second presidential campaign. She has been a candidate for almost three months. In that time, she’s done a few news conferences and a smattering of local interviews in early states, but no national sit-downs. But this afternoon, she will sit with the CNN reporter Brianna Keilar in Iowa. The interview comes as Mrs. Clinton has faced increasing criticism for avoiding questions on policy (the trade deal supported by President Obama but opposed by many Democrats) and on personal issues (her use of a private email account at the State Department and the fund-raising practices of her family’s foundation). Mrs. Clinton’s aides said that her early focus was on interacting with as many voters as possible in small settings and that this national interview would be the first of several. Much of the early campaign was about allowing Mrs. Clinton to exist in a safe political space, bringing one of the world’s most famous political faces back down to earth from her days as secretary of state so that voters could forge a bond with her. But over the weekend, a half-dozen protesters created an unpredictable environment for Mrs. Clinton as she marched in a parade in northern New Hampshire. At the same time, her aides sought to give her a buffer so that voters could see her, separating journalists with a rope, creating a series of viral photos that ricocheted through Twitter. The challenges that the Clinton campaign, and the candidate, face are unique. But while her political problems may be complex, the solution that her team seems to have settled on, at this point, is fairly simple: Open the doors to the news media a bit wider. *Hillary Clinton relied heavily on white voters in 2008. In 2016, it’s reversed. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/07/hillary-clinton-relied-heavily-on-white-voters-in-2008-in-2016-its-reversed/> // WaPo // Philip Bump – July 7, 2015 * There are a lot of reasons that Hillary Clinton lost in 2008. One of the most prominent was that she was running against one of the most dynamic candidates in recent memory at a time when people were eager for something new. Another was that the dynamic candidate she was running against was black. The latter became more of a problem over the long term, as Obama racked up primary victories in states with large black populations in the Deep South and cut into Clinton's dominance elsewhere. In Iowa and New Hampshire, two of the whitest states in the union, it played less of a role. But now, weirdly, the whiteness of those early states might be something of a problem for her. And she's actually doing better among non-whites. The CNN/ORC poll released last week reinforced that Clinton is doing much better in 2016 than any of her opponents -- especially among non-white voters. She leads among white voters, too, of course -- and handily. But her lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) among white voters is 34 points and appears to be narrowing. Among non-white voters -- which we will emphasize also includes Latinos -- it's 52 points. If Sanders keeps closing the gap with white voters, that could be a problem in Iowa and New Hampshire. Clinton's big lead among non-white voters won't be much of an advantage until South Carolina -- which, incidentally, she lost by a wide margin in 2008. One question mark: What becomes of the support for Joe Biden if he finally decides not to run? In CNN's polling, Biden ate up one-fifth of the non-white support. If that support goes to Clinton, the dynamic above becomes even more stark. Remember, there is no reason at this point to think that Hillary Clinton will not be the Democratic nominee. There is not much of a reason to think that she will lose Iowa, and there's only a speculative idea that she might lose New Hampshire. But those two states might end up being much closer than we might once have expected in part because they are awfully white -- a fact that might have been one reason Clinton won New Hampshire in 2008 and was able to stay in the race. *Hillary Clinton: Republican candidates ‘on a spectrum of hostility’ toward immigrants <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/07/hillary-clinton-republican-candidates-on-a-spectrum-of-hostility-toward-immigrants/> // WaPo // Ed O’Keefe – July 7, 2015 * Hillary Clinton says that Republican presidential candidates "range across a spectrum of hostility" when it comes to immigration and that her campaign will advocate for comprehensive reforms. Sitting on Tuesday for her first national television interview as a declared presidential candidate, the Democratic frontrunner lumped together all GOP candidates when asked by CNN about Donald Trump's recent comments about Mexican immigrants. Interviewer Briana Keilar asked Clinton what she made of Trump's comments, noting that he had been a donor to some of her previous campaigns. "I’m very disappointed in those comments and I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with the Republican Party for not responding immediately and saying 'Enough, stop it,' " she said. "But they are all in the same general area on immigration. They don’t want to provide a path to citizenship. They range across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile toward immigrants. And I’m going to talk about comprehensive immigration reform. I’m going to talk about all the good, law-abiding, productive members of the immigrant community that I personally know, that I’ve met over the course of my life. That I would like to see have a path to citizenship." Clinton added that no Republican candidate supports establishing a system that would allow eligible illegal immigrants to eventually apply for citizenship. But Keilar noted that Bush has previously supported such a system. Clinton shot back: "He doesn’t believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does." She added that Republicans are "on a spectrum of hostility, which I think is really regrettable in a nation of immigrants like ours. All the way to kind of grudging acceptance but refusal to go with a pathway to citizenship. I think that's a mistake." In his 2013 book "Immigration Wars," Bush laid out a specific set of criteria that illegal immigrants — adults and children — would need to meet to apply for legal status and in limited circumstances, perhaps citizenship. He has more recently suggested that citizenship could be extended only as part of a bipartisan agreement that included changes in U.S.-Mexico border security, a reduction in immigrants allowed to enter the country due to family ties and an increase in the number allowed to enter the United States for economic purposes. Bush's campaign responded to Clinton's comments just moments after they aired, noting that she voted for amendments that stopped immigration reform when she was a senator and that she said last year that unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border "should be sent back." "She is now running further to the left on immigration policy than even President Obama’s White House believes is legally feasible," Bush spokeswoman Emily Benavides said in a statement. "Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it." Benavides added that as he wrote in his book, Bush "believes in a conservative legislative solution to fix our broken immigration system that includes earned legal status for those currently in the country after they pay fines and taxes, learn English, and commit no substantial crimes while securing our border." In the CNN interview, Clinton sounded similar to Bush when expressing general views on immigration — that the United States will never be able to deport the 11 million to 12 million people believed to be in the country illegally, and that a revamped immigration system would spur economic growth and increase tax revenues. "We know we're not going to deport 11 or 12 million people. We shouldn't be breaking up families," she said. "We shouldn’t be stopping people from having the opportunity to be fully integrated legally within our country. It’s good for us, it’s good economically, it’s good for the taxes that will be legally collected. It’s good for the children so that they can go as far as their hard work and talent will take them. So I am 100 percent behind comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship." Another GOP presidential candidate, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), co-authored the bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate in 2013, and remains an advocate for allowing eligible immigrants to apply for citizenship. Clinton made similar charges against GOP candidates to a wider group of reporters just before taping the CNN interview in Iowa City. "How many people running on the Republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on immigrants? They know as well as we know, we are not going to deport 11 or 12 million people living here," she told reporters. "I hear the Republican candidates — and it's not even the most vitriolic — none of them any longer support a path to citizenship. All of them would basically consign immigrants to second-class status." Keilar also asked Clinton about the possibility that she might face Bush in the general election. "Well, we'll see, that’s up to first the Republicans on his side and the Democrats on my side," she said. "What’s great about America is anyone can run for president. That’s literally true. And you have to go out and do what everybody else does … you have to work really hard. So whoever is nominated by their respective parties will be the nominee, and then we'll see who’s on the other side." *Hillary Clinton Blames ‘Constant Barrage of Attacks’ by GOP for Polls Questioning Her Honesty <http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-blames-constant-barrage-of-attacks-by-gop-for-polls-questioning-her-honesty-1436312049> // WSJ // Laura Meckler – July 7, 2015 * Hillary Clinton on Tuesday blamed voter perceptions that she is untrustworthy on a “constant barrage of attacks” by Republicans over many years, and said she’s confident she will overcome them during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign. Some of those attacks have focused on her exclusive use of a private email account for official business as secretary of state. In an interview with CNN, Clinton repeated her assertion that she had complied with rules in place at the time. Mrs. Clinton added that said she went “above and beyond” those standards by submitting her emails to the State Department, though rules in place did require her to preserve the records. In her first national television interview, and before that in a brief news conference with reporters in Iowa, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination hedged as much as she revealed. She declined to say whether she supports raising taxes on the wealthy, said it was best for her to withhold comment on the Iran nuclear negotiations, and dodged a question about which woman’s image should be on the $10 bill. She also declined to discuss the rise of the long-shot campaign of rival Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. She said she is “very disappointed” by the disparaging remarks Republican candidate and entrepreneur Donald Trump uttered last month about Mexican immigrants, calling them “rapists,” and denounced the GOP presidential field for opposing a path to citizenship for people in the U.S. illegally. “They are all in the same general area on immigration,” she said. “They don’t want to provide a path to citizenship. They range across the spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile toward immigrants.” Mrs. Clinton also criticized the city of San Francisco for failing to facilitate the deportation of a repeat felon who had been kicked out of the U.S. five times before and who earlier this month killed a woman walking on a city pier. “The city made a mistake not to deport someone that the federal government thought should be deported,” she said. Some recent polls have found a drop in the number of voters who see Mrs. Clinton as honest and trustworthy. Asked about that by CNN, Mrs. Clinton said that was to be expected “when you are subjected to the kind of constant barrage of attacks that are largely fomented by and coming from the right.” “This has been a theme that has been used against me and my husband for many, many years,” she said. She said that entire books were filled with “unsubstantiated allegations” so “of course that’s going to raise questions in people’s minds.” A recent book suggested conflicts of interest between foreign donations to the Clinton family foundation and her work as secretary of state, though it failed to reveal evidence of a quid pro quo. “I have every confidence during the course of this campaign people are going to know who will fight for them and be there for them,” she said. “At the end of the day, I think voters sort it out.” On the question of her email practices, she said that everything she did was permitted by law in place at the time. “There was no law. There was no regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate,” she said. She dismissed concerns expressed by Republicans about her decision to delete emails that she and her aides determined to be unrelated to government work. “I turned over everything I was obligated to turn over and then I moved on,” she said. “People delete on a regular basis.” She said that her decision to turn over the government-related emails to the State Department, which requested them last year, was “above and beyond” what was required. In fact, in 2009, the National Archives and Records Administration issued regulations that said agencies allowing employees to do official business on unofficial email accounts had to ensure that any records sent on private email systems are preserved “in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.” *The making of a Hillary Clinton echo chamber <http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-making-of-a-hillary-clinton-echo-chamber/2015/07/07/01625c5e-24ae-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html> // WaPo // Philip Rucker – July 7, 2015 * One day in May, operatives from a Washington-based super PAC gathered New Hampshire mayors, state representatives and local politicos at St. Anselm College for a day of training. They rehearsed their personal tales of how they met Hillary Rodham Clinton and why they support her for president. They sharpened their defenses of her record as secretary of state. They scripted their arguments for why the Democratic front-runner has been “a lifetime champion of income opportunity.” And they polished their on-camera presentations in a series of mock interviews. The objective of the sessions: to nurture a seemingly grass roots echo chamber of Clinton supporters reading from the same script across the communities that dot New Hampshire, a critical state that hosts the nation’s first presidential primary. The super PAC, called Correct the Record, convened similar talking-point tutorials and media-training classes in May and June in three other early voting states — Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada — as well as sessions earlier this spring in California. Presidential campaigns have for decades fed talking points to surrogates who appear on national television or introduce candidates on the stump. But the effort to script and train local supporters is unusually ambitious and illustrates the extent to which the Clinton campaign and its web of sanctioned, allied super PACs are leaving nothing to chance. When, say, a Londonderry Times reporter calls a Rockingham County Democratic Committee member for comment on Clinton, he or she will parrot Correct the Record’s talking points about Clinton having been a fighter for the middle class — from improving rural health care as first lady of Arkansas to raising the minimum wage as a senator from New York. “We are holding sessions with top communicators across the country where we talk about the best ways to discuss Secretary Clinton’s strong record of accomplishments, how to articulate Secretary Clinton’s positions most effectively and how to correct Republican operatives’ distortions of the facts,” said Adrienne Watson, communications director at Correct the Record. But asking local supporters to use talking points could undermine the organic nature of grass-roots political interactions. No longer can a journalist call up a state representative in Iowa and expect to hear his or her personal, unvarnished take on Clinton — nor can a Rotary Club member watch a fellow small-business owner talk about Clinton at their monthly luncheon — without suspecting he or she is reading from a script. The super PAC’s effort also comes as Clinton struggles on the campaign trail to appear accessible and genuine. Some Democrats have long believed Clinton sounds too scripted on the stump, especially compared to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), her insurgent primary rival whose authenticity and liberal message are drawing thousands of Democrats to his rallies. New Hampshire state Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, a local elected official for decades and a longtime Clinton supporter, said he did not attend Correct the Record’s session, which was held May 18 at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm. “I’ve known Hillary for a long time,” D’Allesandro said. “I’ve known her husband for a long time. She’s been at our home. I’ve visited her in Washington. I believe that I can articulate where she is on issues and I really don’t need anybody to tell me what to say. I believe that you stand for people because you believe what they stand for and you articulate it.” Correct the Record — one of several super PACs run by Clinton ally David Brock — coordinates some of its activities with Clinton’s campaign, but officials said the campaign played no role in the training sessions. The Clinton campaign has its own surrogate operation that distributes talking points to supporters to ensure that their messages in local and national media are consistent. The super PAC’s on-camera media training was conducted by the Franklin Forum and led by the group’s president, John Neffinger, a Democratic strategist who specializes in coaching people for television interviews. Correct the Record held a series of similar media sessions in the spring of 2014 to prepare Clinton backers for interviews surrounding her national book tour for “Hard Choices,” the memoir from her State Department years. Watson said the super PAC plans to hold additional campaign-oriented training sessions later this year. To supporters like Eleni Kounalakis, who served as ambassador to Hungary in Clinton’s State Department, the program is welcome news. In March, she participated along with about 20 other supporters in a Correct the Record session in San Francisco and said she thought it helped her and other Clinton fans refine the case they make for Clinton’s candidacy in public. “Many people who are very vocal in supporting Secretary Clinton are very comfortable taking about why among their friends and in small groups — but when it comes to talking to the media, that can be very intimidating,” Kounalakis said. “Some people feel like, I know Hillary has been there for the working person in her life, in her career, but I want someone to help me prepare those arguments so that I have that confidence to speak in a broader context.” Nick Sottile, 21, president of the College Democrats of South Carolina, said he felt “lucky” to attend a May 7 Correct the Record session in Columbia, S.C. “It got right to the heart of things — how to cut through the noise and talk about Secretary Clinton’s record,” Sottile said. “And not just what to say, but how to talk about her as a young person in South Carolina. It was good training in how to be an effective talker.” *Lawmakers: Feds Should Have Deported Undocumented Immigrant Before SF Pier Shooting <http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Lawmakers-Feds-Deported-Francisco-Sanchez-Steinle-Pier-14-312193501.html> // AP – July 7, 2015 * Lawmakers and politicians are criticizing the failure to deport an immigrant with multiple felony convictions and an outstanding drug warrant who allegedly went on to murder a woman in San Francisco. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CNN, said that the City of San Francisco's law enforcement officials were wrong to release from jail Mexican national Francisco Sanchez, who is now at the center of a national immigration controversy. "The city made a mistake, not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported,'' Clinton said. "So I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on.'' The Sheriff's Department ignored "strong evidence" that Sanchez should have been turned over to immigration officials and deported, according to Clinton. In a similar vein, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) issued a statement Tuesday saying that she has personally been investigating the circumstances surrounding Kathryn Steinle's fatal shooting July 1. “I strongly believe that an undocumented individual, convicted of multiple felonies and with a detainer request from ICE, should not have been released," she said. "We should focus on deporting convicted criminals, not setting them loose on our streets." Feinstein also wrote to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to express her "deep concern" about Sanchez's release, adding that it "led to last week’s tragic death." Her letter "urged" Lee to "prevent such a tragedy" from reoccurring by joining the Department of Homeland Security's Priority Enforcement Program, which would enable local law enforcement agencies to "provide notice to ICE before releasing aliens with long criminal records." The San Francisco mayor's office said it has reached out to Department of Homeland Security officials to determine if there's a way to cooperate with federal immigration officials while still maintaining the sanctuary policy. "Mayor Lee shares the senator's concerns surrounding the nature of Mr. Sanchez' transfer to San Francisco and release,'' said Christine Falvey, a spokeswoman for the mayor. "As the mayor has stated, we need to gather all of the facts as we develop potential solutions.'' Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, also from Northern California, said she asked Gov. Jerry Brown if state law was followed in the release of Sanchez. "For decades, I have supported deporting violent criminals, and I have always believed that sanctuary should not be given to felons,'' Boxer said. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis) echoed the same sentiment. "He had a criminal warrant but was released into the general society to commit a murder. Does that make any sense to you?'' Johnson, who chairs the Senate's homeland security committee, demanded to know at a hearing. "Because I'll tell you it doesn't make any sense to the American public.'' Philip Miller, an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, blamed San Francisco, saying officials there did not honor a federal request, known as a "detainer," to keep Francisco Sanchez in custody. Sanchez, who is from Mexico and is in the United States illegally, allegedly shot and killed 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle last week as she was sightseeing with her father along a popular local pier. "In that particular case our detainer was not honored,'' Miller said. "San Francisco sheriff's department did not honor our detainer.'' San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has defended his office's decision, saying ICE should have issued an arrest warrant earlier. Miller declined after the hearing to comment on that assertion. But Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for ICE told NBC Bay Area this week that "obtaining judicial warrants is not only unnecessary, it would place an immense burden on both ICE and the federal courts." She added that last year, ICE deported more than 177,000 immigrants with criminal convictions. Steinle's death has offered ammunition to GOP critics of Obama administration policies, including presidential candidate Donald Trump, who's cited it to justify his claims that many immigrants are criminals. Sanchez has a long criminal history, but mostly for drug use, dating back to the 1990s, federal records show. At the same time it plays into a larger, politically charged immigration debate between federal authorities and local jurisdictions. Hundreds of local jurisdictions have refused to participate in a disputed federal program, Secure Communities, that allows local authorities to turn over information on immigrants they pick up to the federal government. San Francisco takes it farther than many, even boasting of itself as a ``sanctuary city'' that protects immigrants. President Barack Obama announced last fall he was ending the Secure Communities program and replacing it with a new approach meant to address concerns about immigrants being targeted. But that has sparked more criticism from Republicans who embraced Secure Communities as an effective law enforcement tool and oppose Obama's attempts to change immigration law through executive actions without Congress' consent. House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., announced Tuesday he would bring Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson before his committee next week to answer questions on the matter. "Just recently, we were reminded that the Obama administration's reckless actions, such as permitting sanctuary city policies, lead to tragic and deadly consequences,'' Goodlatte said. *Hillary Clinton Hands Jeb Bush A Present On Immigration <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/hillary-clinton-jeb-bush-immigration_n_7747652.html?1436306696> // HuffPo // Igor Bobic – July 7, 2015 * Hillary Clinton denounced Donald Trump's controversial comments about immigrants in her first national interview as a 2016 presidential candidate. But in the process, she inadvertently handed Republican rival Jeb Bush a present on a silver platter. The Democratic front-runner told CNN's Brianna Keilar Tuesday that she was "very disappointed" with the celebrity hotelier for calling some Mexican migrants rapists and criminals. She criticized the rest of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates for not moving quickly enough to distance themselves from Trump and noted their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform. "He doesn't believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does," she said of Bush, the former governor of Florida. The broadside could hurt Bush among Hispanic voters if Clinton succeeds in portraying him as opposed to immigration reform. It's a smart, long-term play against a well-funded Republican with a decent chance of winning the nomination. For the moment, however, Bush faces more immediate challenges as he traverses early primary states. Chief among them is his effort to win over conservatives who believe that he supports granting undocumented immigrants "amnesty." In fact, Bush says that undocumented workers should be able to earn legal status, “not necessarily citizenship.” Clinton, however, says that anything short of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants is "code for second-class status." Immigration remains one of the most divisive topics among Republicans in the early caucus state of Iowa, but there are still far more who oppose a path to citizenship than support it. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, 46 percent of likely Republican caucus goers in Iowa said undocumented immigrants should be required to leave the country, while 34 percent said they should be allowed to stay with some sort of path to citizenship. Any reminder that Bush opposes "amnesty" is good news in Iowa -- regardless of whether it comes from the candidate or his potential Democratic rival. *Hillary Clinton Piles On San Francisco Officials, Putting Sanctuary Cities Under Even More Heat <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/sanctuary-cities_n_7749406.html> // HuffPo // Elise Foley – July 7, 2015 * After a deadly shooting in San Francisco, allegedly by a man who had been deported five times, lawmakers are calling on the county to drop its policy against cooperating with immigration enforcement. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton became the most high-profile Democrat to wade into the debate on Tuesday, telling CNN that San Francisco should have worked with agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "The city made a mistake, not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported," she said in an interview. "So I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on." Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), meanwhile, sent a letter on Tuesday to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee urging him to cooperate with ICE, implying the county's failure to do so allowed for the shooting of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle, allegedly at the hands of a previously deported undocumented immigrant named Francisco Sanchez. GOP lawmakers, who are more prone to support a greater federal thumbprint on detention policy, have decried San Francisco leaders for acting irresponsibly. One of them, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), said he plans to introduce a bill penalizing cities that do not cooperate with ICE. With the debate around immigration already red hot due to the charged rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, the incident in San Francisco could end up prompting a shift in recent trends in detention policy. For years, local communities have been limiting their collaboration with immigration enforcement officials, with more than 300 cities and counties adopting policies against fully complying with ICE's requests. Some, like San Francisco, barely deal with the agency at all, while others limit interactions except in cases of more serious crimes. The widespread resistance led the Obama administration to announce in November that it would drop the Secure Communities program, which asked police to hold individuals for ICE so they could be picked up for deportation purposes. The immediate fallout from the shooting in San Francisco appears to be a change in those particular political winds. But the debate remains a sensitive one, with activists and even local officials warning that a greater federal role could harm other law enforcement activities, drain resources and spark court challenges. At issue is whether local law enforcement, at the request of ICE, should -- or even legally could -- hold individuals who it otherwise would have released. Immigration advocates have warned that doing so creates fear in the undocumented community and sweeps up people for deportation because of low-level crimes or arrests they are never convicted for. To accommodate those concerns, the administration is pushing a new policy called the Priority Enforcement Program, which was announced last November. Under PEP, according to the administration, ICE would target individuals at higher priority for deportation, such as convicted criminals. The program also will ask local law enforcement to notify the agency when it plans to release a suspected deportable immigrant, rather than for holds. That program hasn't been rolled out nationwide, and an ICE official said their appeals to San Francisco officials to work with them haven't gone anywhere. But critics are charging that had ICE implemented PEP in San Francisco sooner, Sanchez, who said he shot Steinle last Wednesday before saying on Tuesday that he was not guilty, would not have been released into the community. Prior to the shooting, Sanchez had been deported five times and had seven felony convictions, according to authorities. Twice, ICE put in detainer requests for him. The first was with the Bureau of Prisons, where he was serving a sentence for the federal crime of illegally re-entering the U.S. as a felon. Sanchez was transferred by the Bureau of Prisons to the San Francisco sheriff's office because he had an arrest warrant for a 20-year-old marijuana case. ICE then put in a request to the sheriff's office to detain him. After the district attorney declined to prosecute that charge, he was released in April. Officials at the San Francisco County Sheriff's Office and ICE have since blamed each other for that release, with the local authorities saying ICE should have gotten a judicial warrant if they wanted Sanchez to be held, and ICE claiming it was never notified that the man was about to be let go. With the debate expanding beyond the particulars of what happened and into the realm of public policy, critics of Secure Communities worry the tragedy in San Francisco will be used as a cudgel against cities that have tried to move their police departments out of the immigration enforcement business. They warn there are not just humanitarian and budget constraints to consider, but constitutional complications as well. "I've seen this happen over and over again where anti-immigrant groups try to use these types of horrible cases to change policies but there are constitutional protections, and people cannot be held for immigration without a judge signing a warrant," said Angela Chan, a policy director at the Asian Law Caucus. Police chiefs could be an ally in pushing back against greater federal involvement in local immigration matters. Many have contended that they need to strike a balance between acting as enforcement agents and performing their duties to protect the public. Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger, also the president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, said doing too much of the former risks hurting the relationship law enforcement has with the broader community. Montgomery County officials announced last year that immigrants would no longer be held for ICE without demonstration that the individual likely committed a crime. Manger approves of PEP and said his office notifies ICE when individuals are being released upon request. But the fact that individuals are released and go on to commit crime is a risk in all law enforcement, he insisted, and not just specific to immigration. "I've been a cop for 38 years," he said. "And for longer than I've been a cop, [criminals] have been getting out of jail and doing bad things again. The fact is that the law allows you to hold someone for a certain amount of time and when the law says you've got to release them, you've got to release them. *Clinton says GOP field ranges from 'grudgingly welcome' to 'hostile' toward immigrants <http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/07/07/clinton-in-iowa-warns-about-gop-control-of-white-house> // AP // Catherine Lucey & Ken Thomas – July 7, 2015 * Hillary Rodham Clinton said a Republican in the White House would mark a "big U-turn" for the nation and assailed the GOP presidential field's stance on an immigration overhaul. Asked about Jeb Bush, the Democratic presidential candidate said: "He doesn't believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does." In an interview Tuesday with CNN, Clinton said the Republican presidential contenders range "across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile toward immigrants." Campaigning in one of the most liberal pockets of Iowa, Clinton offered herself up as a Democratic standard-bearer at a time when her main Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, has generated big crowds and stoked interest among progressives. Clinton also addressed criticism that she has avoided scrutiny, taking questions from reporters and then sitting down for her first national television interview since starting her campaign. Clinton cited her husband's eight years in office as a time of strong economic growth that helped not only the wealthy but the poor as well. She said Republicans afterward left President Barack Obama to tend to an economic crisis. "Right now our country deserves to keep moving forward, not to do a big U-turn going back to where we came from," Clinton said at the Iowa City Public Library. "That didn't work before. It won't work again." She told CNN she planned to outline some of her economic policies Monday. Clinton has said any immigration legislation needs to include a path to "full and equal citizenship." She has defended Obama's use of executive actions to shield millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally from deportation. In the interview, Clinton said she was "disappointed" in Republican candidate Donald Trump for his disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants along "with the Republican Party for not responding immediately and saying, 'Enough, stop it.'" Clinton demurred in discussing the possibility of another Bush-Clinton campaign — Bill Clinton defeated President George H.W. Bush in 1992 — but lumped former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in with other Republicans who have opposed immigration overhauls in Congress. Bush, in his 2013 book "Immigration Wars," called for a process that would allow people living in the U.S. illegally to remain, as long as they take a series of steps. He wrote that withholding citizenship is a suitable penalty for those who have broken the law. Bush's co-author, Clint Bolick, said the former Florida governor would probably bend to support citizenship, if that was necessary to strike a deal on immigration. Bush spokeswoman Emily Benavides said in a statement that Bush "believes in a conservative legislative solution to fix our broken immigration system that includes earned legal status for those currently in the country after they pay fines and taxes, learn English and commit no substantial crimes while securing our border." During the CNN interview, Clinton defended her decision to delete some of her emails as secretary of state from her private email server, saying, "Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation." She said she used one device for email, although an email message obtained by The Associated Press earlier this year showed Clinton used an iPad for email, in addition to her BlackBerry, while she was secretary of state. Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, responded Tuesday, saying "the committee does not know why or when she chose to wipe clean her personal server, but we do know her way of doing things provided an incomplete public record." The committee sought Clinton's emails as part of its investigation into the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. At her Iowa event, Clinton made no mention of Sanders but drew an implicit contrast with his record on gun control. Sanders, a favorite of liberal Democrats, has opposed some gun control measures in the Senate and drew criticism from some Democrats for voting in 2005 to protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits filed by victims of gun violence. Clinton said she would speak out "about the uncontrollable use of guns in our country" and believes most Americans and gun owners support universal background checks. "Let's not be afraid of the gun lobby, which does not even really represent the majority of gun owners in America," she said. Sanders says most gun owners in the country obey the law, and he makes a distinction on the gun-control question between rural states like Vermont, where hunting is common and gun-ownership traditions go deep, and big cities. "I want to see real, serious debate and action on guns, but it is not going to take place if we simply have extreme positions on both sides," he told CNN on Sunday. "I think I can bring us to the middle." Asked about Sanders, Clinton said she welcomed a contested race. "This is going to be competitive — it should be competitive," Clinton said. *Hillary confronts the enemy <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-confronts-the-enemy-119826.html> // Politico // Annie Karni & Gabrielle Debenedetti – July 7, 2015 * Hillary Clinton’s campaign, unlike those of her rivals, has provided the media with information about the fundraisers attended by the former secretary of state, down to the names of the donors who hosted and the head count for each event. Its communications shop has so far maintained a constructive working relationship with the press corps — senior staffers last month mingled with reporters over beers after a background briefing at the Brooklyn campaign headquarters. That new spirit of openness may have neutralized the famously toxic relationship between the press and the Clinton operation, but with Bernie Sanders turning out huge crowds and the Republicans about to steal the spotlight next month with their first debate, Clinton operatives have realized it’s time to cross the final, harrowing frontier: providing access to the candidate herself. For the first three months of her campaign, Clinton remained virtually off-limits to the national press. She did not sit down for a national television interview (her most recent occurred during her book tour for “Hard Choices” in 2014), nor did she grant any interviews to national newspapers or websites. With questions surrounding her use of private email during her years at the State Department, and surrounding the Clinton Foundation, the candidate herself remained as distant from the national media as ever — and it shows in the press coverage of her second presidential bid. On Tuesday, after a campaign stop in New Hampshire, the campaign sought to enter a new phase of its relations with the press — Clinton sat with CNN’s Brianna Keilar (notably a beat reporter, not one of the network’s anchors who are household names) for her first nationally broadcast interview. More interviews will follow, communications director Jennifer Palmieri has promised. Clinton insiders said July makes sense for Hillary’s moment to finally embrace national television — enough time has passed since the height of the controversies surrounding the Clinton Foundation and her use of a private email address at the State Department that she will have space to talk about her own campaign message. But the campaign doesn’t have the luxury of waiting much longer: In August, Clinton is scheduled to go on vacation, and then the crowded Republican field will be chewing up news cycles with the first debate — possibly defining Clinton on a national stage. “Now is a good time for the campaign to take back control of the story of who Hillary Clinton is,” said longtime donor Jay Jacobs. “She can now use [national television] to accomplish that.” In terms of the controversies she will have to respond to, he said, “The tide has been turned.” Beginning Monday, Clinton will also start rolling out more detailed policy proposals to discuss. Until now, Clinton has favored the confines of local media outlets. Since her Roosevelt Island rally in early June, she has participated in interviews only in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. For a candidate with effectively 100 percent name recognition in the country, national media interviews have been low on the priority list. During the “ramp-up” period of her campaign, which lasted two months, Clinton answered only a handful of questions from reporters, mostly yelled at her from a large gaggle. Instead, she spent time asking the questions at roundtable events in the early voting states. Some of that is par for the course in a primary. “It’s important to do some national press, but your time should be heavily weighed towards the places where people vote first,” said Tommy Vietor, a former Obama campaign spokesman. But even the favored local press has begun to note — and chafe at — the lack of access. “High-horse Hillary corrals a wimpy news media,” blared the headline of a front-page editorial in Manchester, New Hampshire’s influential Union-Leader newspaper, after reporters were corralled with a rope during a July 4 parade in Gorham, New Hampshire. Ironically, it was the “high-horse” image that the campaign has tried to avoid by steering clear of the national news networks and focusing instead on “everyday Americans.” But on Sunday, Palmieri conceded to Fox News’ Howard Kurtz that “we’re paying a price” for not participating in sit-down interviews on national television and that the inevitable pivot to more engagement would start now. The tipping point may have come over the weekend in New Hampshire, where the awkwardness of the situation came to a head. Clinton answered four questions from a group of pool reporters while waiting for a scoop at the Daily Twirl ice cream stand. The following day, reporters were awkwardly corralled away from Clinton by a rope line as she marched in a small July 4 parade in Gorham. Afterward, while speaking to locals at a diner, she refused to answer any questions, even a softball about Donald Trump. “You know, I’m gonna sit down and have some pie,” she smiled, before the gaggle of press was ushered out, leaving the rope-line incident to take on greater significance because there was no other news to report on. The next phase of the campaign’s media strategy, as unveiled Tuesday, seems designed to avoid a similar situation. “The more media interviews you do,” Palmieri explained to Kurtz, “the less any one interaction matters.” Yet judging from Clinton’s CNN interview, it’s not quite clear the candidate has bought in — while she sat down for questions, she didn’t really open up. Asked by CNN why she decided to sit for an interview, and whether anything has changed when it comes to her approach to the media, the famously press-averse candidate had a ready answer. “Well, nothing’s really changed,” she said. “I just have a different rhythm to my campaign. I’m not running my campaign for the press. I’m running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do. But I wanted and was determined to have the time that I needed to actually meet and listen to people.” *Hillary Clinton plans meeting with black lawmakers <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-meet-lawmakers-congressional-black-caucus-2016-119811.html> // Politico // Lauren French – July 7, 2015* Hillary Clinton will meet with members of the Congressional Black Caucus next week. The 2016 front-runner for the Democratic nomination will travel to Capitol Hill to hold a members-only meeting Tuesday with the nearly 50 lawmakers in the black caucus. The meeting is expected to focus on policy issues, according to sources familiar with the agenda. “Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are invited to a policy meeting with Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The meeting will be an overview on pressing foreign and domestic policy issues impacting the African American Community,” according to an email sent by the Clinton campaign. The black vote will be critical for Clinton in 2016. Democrats will need strong support from African-Americans to push their party over the finish line in key congressional races and during the general election. Meanwhile, the GOP is also actively courting black voters. The Tuesday meeting will be one of the first that Clinton has he