Clinton blasts Trump’s comments on military generals, Putin

The U.S. presidential candidates appeared back-to-back on the same stage for the first time during NBC’s “commander-in-chief” forum, answering questions about national security in front of a live TV audience aboard the decommissioned USS Intrepid, which is now a floating museum in NY.

A group of 54 Iowans who are veterans of military service have announced their support for Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and will serve on a new Iowa Veterans and Military Families for Hillary leadership council that was unveiled Wednesday.

He says Trump wants to build a stronger military, cut taxes and reduce regulation, foundation blocks of the Reagan agenda.

There’s a belief gaining traction Thursday morning that Matt Lauer did bad and should feel bad about his performance as moderator for NBC’s “Commander in Chief Forum”. In July, Trump encouraging Russian Federation to find and release the deleted emails from the private server Clinton maintained at the State Department.

Both the FBI and U.S. Justice Department have cleared Clinton of criminal wrongdoing in the email scandal, but FBI Director James Comey has called her behaviour “extremely careless”.

“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, Trump said, but “it’s not going to get him anywhere”.

Donald Trump’s campaign released a letter Tuesday signed by 88 retired military leaders endorsing his presidential candidacy, including four four-star generals and 14 three-star flag officers, according to the campaign.

Boone said the Clinton campaign will likely continue the small-scale approach it took throughout August.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton confronted their key weaknesses in a televised national security forum.

Trump also flirted with revealing what he had been learning in classified intelligence briefings given to him by USA officials because he is the Republican nominee.

During his speech Mr Trump attacked Mrs Clinton as “trigger-happy and very unstable”. “I said it would destabilize the Middle East, which it has”.

While Trump has often complained that US forces are not large enough or well-equipped, he’s also said that he’d save money by cutting waste and ensuring that contractors aren’t getting sweetheart deals due to their connections or lobbying efforts.

It will be a one-hour forum where Clinton and Trump will answer questions about national security, military affairs and veterans issues in front of an audience mainly made up of 300 or so members of the military.

Clinton, when asked about her vote to authorize the war, said: “I have said that my voting to give President Bush that authority was, from my perspective, my mistake”, she said. Trump said in an interview with Rolling Stone in 2015.

“I communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system”.

Taking questions from reporters for more than 20 minutes on her campaign plane, Clinton said both Democrats and Republicans should be concerned about Russia’s behaviour.

Lauer, apparently blinded by Trump’s sparkling XY chromosomes, did not press him on this, though he did repeatedly ask him if he was prepared to be president. “We need change, and we need it fast”.

The Republican also repeated an incorrect claim that he was opposed to the war with Iraq before the invasion.

Mr Trump insisted that his tweet was correct. “We don’t know exactly what it is but we are getting better guesses about what it probably is”, she said. Republicans have made much of the fact that the USA ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, was killed in an Islamist attack in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.

For Clinton, the challenge ahead is deciding whether cloaking herself in the conventional mantle of experience and sobriety distinguishes her from Trump but might not jibe with public anger at the Washington establishment.

Clinton said US policies under her leadership at the State Department had helped promote security.