Clinton plans to rely on Obama for campaign help

Following Obama’s video endorsement a reporter asked the president’s spokesman about a potential conflict of interest.

Biden and Warren – the former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a former Harvard Law School professor, respectively – were speaking at the American Constitution Society’s convention.

But less than an hour after Barack Obama announced his endorsement for Clinton, the president’s spokesperson, Josh Earnest, said that the FBI probe was a “criminal investigation” and that responsibility lay in the hands of the FBI and the prosecutors – and not Obama.

REPORTER: Has President Obama ever discussed the Department of Justice investigation with Mrs. Clinton?

“I don’t believe she had quite processed the magnitude of all of this”, the official said. The President has complete confidence that that’s exactly what they’ll do, ‘ he said.

“And just this week, perhaps in an effort to stay in line with the inevitability of Clinton’s candidacy while remaining sympathetic to Sanders and his millions of supporters, Biden straddled the party line by acknowledging Clinton’s nominee status while adding that Democrats should “be a little graceful and give [Sanders] the opportunity to decide on his own” when to formally drop out of the race”.

The situation has put Mr Obama, the outgoing leader of his party, in the sensitive position of having to smooth relations between Mrs Clinton and Mr Sanders without alienating the runner-up’s supporters, many of whom are angry over what they see as the Democratic establishment’s efforts to force him out of the race. “I know some say these primaries have somehow left the Democratic Party more divided: Well, they said that eight years ago, as well”.

“What’s happened in that party culminating in this current nomination, I think is not actually good for the country as a whole”.

After the video was released, a bit of a Twitter spat erupted between Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“You have other employees of the executive branch, career prosecutors, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, working this case who have now just heard how the president wants to see this case resolved, in essence”.

Obama planned to use the meeting, requested by Sanders, to discuss how to build on the enthusiasm Sanders brought to the primary and advance issues like income inequality and campaign finance reform that Sanders championed, the White House said.

The adviser said that Clinton, along with Obama, Biden, and Warren, would face down “a single figure and a one-trick pony” in Trump.

“Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary”.

Biden’s support of Sanders and inevitable endorsement of Clinton could help broker a truce between the two rivals.

“He has said that he’s certainly going to do everything he can to defeat Trump”, Mrs Clinton said of Mr Sanders in an Associated Press interview.