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*[image: Inline image 1]* *Correct The Record Tuesday July 8, 2014 Morning Roundup:* *Headlines:* *Politico: “Clinton Foundation disclosures sought” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/clinton-foundation-disclosures-108631.html#ixzz36pdLARTC>* “Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the pro-Clinton group Correct the Record, blasted back that America Rising was ‘attacking Hillary Clinton for donating all honoraria from colleges and universities to the Clinton Foundation to help people around the world who need assistance — for example, children who need clean water and protection from malaria and young Americans who will receive additional skills training to help them gain employment.’ She added, ‘Paid for by private donors, Clinton’s honorarium at UNLV is a win-win, considering even before the university sent invitations, they raised more than $350,000 in table sponsorships.’” *USA Today: “House Benghazi panel may cost $3 million this year” <http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/07/07/benghazi-committee-33-million-republicans/12301935/>* “House Republicans are planning to spend as much as $3.3 million for this year's operations of the special committee they created in May to investigate the September 2012 Benghazi attacks, a bigger budget than the House Veterans Affairs and Ethics committees were given this year.” *National Journal: “The Media's Made-Up Catfight Between Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren” <http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/the-media-s-made-up-catfight-between-hillary-clinton-and-elizabeth-warren-20140707>* "This type of sourcing is completely irrelevant and guaranteed not to produce any real news, just pot shots (it's not Whalen's fault; if you give a mouse a cookie, etc.)." *Politico: “Benghazi panel ramps up” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/benghazi-trey-gowdy-108625.html?ml=tb>* “While the South Carolina Republican [Rep. Gowdy] isn’t committing to specifics, such as whether there will be public hearings with high-profile witnesses like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his methodical approach could help the GOP savor a scandal that has at times looked more like a political sideshow.” *New York Times: “Wall Street Offers Clinton a Thorny Embrace” <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/us/08wallst.html>* “As its relationship with Democrats hits a historic low, Wall Street sees a solution on the horizon: Hillary Rodham Clinton.” *Associated Press: “Hillary Clinton: US-Europe Must Nurture Ties” <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/hillary-clinton-us-europe-must-nurture-ties>* “Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that Europe and the United States must nurture their ties because ‘there is no more important force for progress, prosperity and peace than the trans-Atlantic alliance.’” *CNN: “Clinton explains defense in controversial rape case” <http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/07/clinton-explains-defense-in-controversial-rape-case/>* “Hillary Clinton pushed back at ongoing criticism of her providing legal defense decades ago to an accused rapist, explaining that she had asked not to be assigned to the case but ultimately had a responsibility to represent her client." *Business Insider: “Hillary Clinton's Inner Circle Calls This Man The Most 'Despicable' Person In The World” <http://www.businessinsider.com/ed-klein-hillary-clinton-inner-circle-despicable-2014-7>* “The Clinton confidante described Klein's writing about Hillary as ‘creepy.’” *Daily Caller: “Jimmy Fallon Mocks Hillary Clinton’s Hairstyle” <http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/08/jimmy-fallon-mocks-hillary-clintons-hairstyle/>* “During Monday night’s edition of NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show,’ Fallon noted how Hillary’s book sales have dropped dramatically since its release and suggested it could be because the book lacked a catchy title.” *Daily Mail (U.K.): “Girl power! Liv Tyler champions Hillary Clinton for president as she flashes her long slender legs in outdoor fashion shoot” <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2683912/Liv-Tyler-champions-Hillary-Clinton-president-flashes-long-slender-legs-outdoor-fashion-shoot.html>* “The Lord Of The Rings star strikes an inspired, triumphant pose, with one fist in the air, while rooting for the 66-year-old former Secretary Of State.” *Articles:* *Politico: “Clinton Foundation disclosures sought” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/clinton-foundation-disclosures-108631.html#ixzz36pdLARTC>* By Maggie Haberman July 7, 2014, 7:11 p.m. EDT The Republican research group America Rising is calling on the Clinton Foundation to make sweeping public disclosures about how it spends its money, after Hillary Clinton said she’s donated her six-figure speaking fees to her family’s nonprofit. Clinton’s payments from universities have become controversial in the wake of an uproar over her $225,000 speaking fee from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. School officials said over a week ago that the honorarium will be paid to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Some critics have questioned the propriety of accepting large speaking fees from universities at a time when tuitions and student debt are rising. In many cases, officials have said, the money was earmarked from a donor and not from tuition. Clinton said in recent days that she’s given those speaking fees, which are estimated at more than $2 million, to the foundation. The foundation files IRS Form 990 (for tax-exempt organizations) annually, although America Rising executive Tim Miller said the one due last month had not yet been filed. Miller called for a more thorough accounting on a number of specific points. “In the past, the Clinton Foundation has spent millions on opulent travel and lodging for her family, financed glitzy, celebrity-fueled donor events and paid key Democratic aides who would likely play key roles in her presidential campaign,” Miller said. “For Americans to credibly believe these speaking fees are being donated to charitable endeavors, the foundation must be transparent about how and where it has spent its millions since Hillary Clinton joined last year.” Clinton aides declined to comment on the America Rising push. The foundation became fodder for critics last year after media reports about an internal review of practices that was conducted in 2011. Clinton allies argue the foundation was always going to come under renewed scrutiny if she ran for president, but the speaking fees controversy has accelerated that process. Miller called on the Clinton Foundation to release any financial audits stemming from the 2011 review; a full list of staff or paid consultants who have worked for Bill or Hillary Clinton in their official government offices, the Democratic National Committee or the Obama campaign; costs related to the Clinton Global Initiative; travel expenses incurred by all three Clintons; and whether Bill Clinton had any of his own speaking fees paid to the foundation. Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the pro-Clinton group Correct the Record, blasted back that America Rising was “attacking Hillary Clinton for donating all honoraria from colleges and universities to the Clinton Foundation to help people around the world who need assistance — for example, children who need clean water and protection from malaria and young Americans who will receive additional skills training to help them gain employment.” She added, “Paid for by private donors, Clinton’s honorarium at UNLV is a win-win, considering even before the university sent invitations, they raised more than $350,000 in table sponsorships.” *USA Today: “House Benghazi panel may cost $3 million this year” <http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/07/07/benghazi-committee-33-million-republicans/12301935/>* By Paul Singer July 7, 2014, 7:12 p.m. EDT House Republicans are planning to spend as much as $3.3 million for this year's operations of the special committee they created in May to investigate the September 2012 Benghazi attacks, a bigger budget than the House Veterans Affairs and Ethics committees were given this year. According to a committee document provided by Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi's office, House Republicans want a $3.3 million budget for this year's operations of the 12-member select committee on the Benghazi attacks. As with most congressional committees, the document indicates the majority party gets the bigger share of the resources for the panel; the budget provides just under $2.2 million for Republicans and just over $1 million for Democrats on the committee. There are seven GOP lawmakers and five Democrats serving on the committee, and it is expected to have a staff of 30. By comparison, the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — which has a roster of 25 lawmakers and about 27 staff members — spent $2.5 million in 2013 and has a $3 million budget for 2014. The Ethics Committee budget for 2014 was more than $3 million, with a staff of about 25 serving 10 lawmakers. Amanda Duvall, spokeswoman for committee chairman Trey Gowdy, R- S.C., said Monday, the budget is "the high end estimate, and we expect there will be less spent as the staffing process is still ongoing, and since not all the staff came on board immediately in May." USA TODAY has reported that hiring for the committee was going slowly because of the need for security clearances. Duvall noted that the funding for the committee "comes from already-appropriated legislative branch funds," so it does not represent a new expenditure. "This money funds the functions of an investigatory committee and ensures sufficient funds are available to the Republicans and Democrats at a two-thirds, one-third split, per typical committee allocation," Duvall explained. "These costs include salaries for staff, technology, IT support, publications and document management for classified information." Since the Benghazi committee was created in May, its full-year equivalent budget would be more than $5 million. This is more than the House Intelligence Committee, which has a $4.4 million budget this year and spent $4.1 million last year. The largest House committees — Energy and Commerce; Oversight and Government Reform; Transportation and Infrastructure — have budgets between $8 million and $9.5 million for the year. A special committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming created by Democrats in 2007 spent about $2 million a year until it was shut down by the new Republican majority in January 2011. The Benghazi committee has no deadline for a final report, and it is almost certain it will continue into next year. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said, "It is unfathomable that House Republicans are spending more taxpayer money per day on this new committee to re-investigate Benghazi than the committee charged with oversight of the entire U.S. intelligence community." The budget for the Benghazi committee does not include the costs of other Benghazi investigations that have already been done by four other House committees: Oversight and Government Reform; Foreign Affairs; Intelligence; and Armed Services. Those costs are impossible to calculate because they are part of the committees' regular operating budgets. *National Journal: “The Media's Made-Up Catfight Between Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren” <http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/the-media-s-made-up-catfight-between-hillary-clinton-and-elizabeth-warren-20140707>* By Emma Roller July 7, 2014 [Subtitle:] Here comes the return of the '"Dems in Disarray" narrative. On Sunday, Edward Klein wrote what was supposed to be an explosive story in the New York Post setting up the "blood feud" between the Obamas and the Clintons in 2016. Klein is the author of Blood Feud, a new book documenting the (allegedly) frosty relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. Klein's book currently sits at No. 2 in The New York Times' list of nonfiction bestsellers­—right behind Hillary Clinton's own book, Hard Choices. In his Post story, Klein reports that President Obama "quietly promised" to fully support Elizabeth Warren if she decided to run for president, and he instructed Valerie Jarrett to "conduct a full-court press to convince Warren to throw her hat into the ring." On Monday, The Wall Street Journal alley-ooped Klein's thesis with its own story positing that Clinton is trying to distance herself from the Obamas "in tone and substance." The evidence? A less cheery tone about the economy, and this money quote: “Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chief speechwriter for Pete Wilson when the Republican was California's governor, suggested that Mrs. Clinton's distancing strategy at least partly reflects Mr. Obama's lackluster popularity.” This type of sourcing is completely irrelevant and guaranteed not to produce any real news, just pot shots (it's not Whalen's fault; if you give a mouse a cookie, etc.). But the narrative that Klein et al are crafting is basically Dems In Disarray, 2.0—a theme that relies on reports from both conservative and liberal voices that are short on facts and long on speculation. It's true that Clinton and Obama don't exactly have a Vulcan mindmeld—but they never have. Check the 2008 Democratic primaries. That doesn't mean Clinton is "distancing" herself from Obama. It means that Clinton and Obama have always held fundamentally different views on some topics (such as foreign policy), and now is a convenient time in the news cycle to talk about them. The reports of an impending Warren-Clinton catfight are also overblown. Warren has repeatedly said, "I am not running for president," while avoiding a Shermanesque statement about whether she will be running in the future. In 2003, Warren called Clinton a hypocrite for allying with corporate interests on a bankruptcy bill. Since then, however, Warren has publicly endorsed a Clinton candidacy. "All all of the women—Democratic women, I should say—of the Senate urged Hillary Clinton to run, and I hope she does. Hillary is terrific," Warren told ABC in April. Klein also doesn't attribute any of his juicy tidbits to a source until the 10th paragraph of the story—and all of his sources are, naturally, anonymous. In the story, one "Obama administration source" tells Klein that Warren, like Obama, "wants to transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state." But, ruling out some serious Deep Throat-level subterfuge, it's hard to believe that a source with that negative a view of Obama would have the clearance level within the White House required to actually know that. Klein does not exactly have the reputation of Woodward and Bernstein. In the past, Klein has suggested that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian. His support? Clinton attended Wellesley, an all-women's college, and has friends who are gay. Klein has somewhat of a fixation on powerful women—he's written one other book about Clinton, along with a book about Katie Couric and three separate books about Jackie Kennedy. Media Matters has called Klein a "smear peddler" and a "conspiracy theorist," and points out that even conservative pundits such as Brian Kilmeade, Rush Limbaugh, and James Taranto have called Klein's sourcing into question. (All of these accusations raise the question: If the Clintons are as devious and coldly strategic as Klein paints them, wouldn't they have ferreted out his sources by now?) And then there's the criticism Klein has gotten from the left. When his last book, The Amateur, came out in 2012, White House spokesman Eric Schultz had this to say: "Ed Klein has a proven history of reckless fabrication in order to sell books. Nobody in their right mind would believe the nonsense in this one." Unlike Klein and his ilk, left-leaning news outlets haven't settled on a unified Warren-versus-Clinton narrative. Last August, Daily Kos argued that a Clinton-Warren primary challenge would be terrific for the Democratic Party. In November, Noam Scheiber wrote a much-shared cover story for The New Republic calling Warren "Hillary's Nightmare" (since then, he's written another cover story calling Clinton the inevitable Democratic pick). It's a good rule that when there is a news vacuum, pundits will happily fill the void with "truthy" theories about 2016. But until you see photos of Warren and Clinton brawling outside a Georgetown bar, you'd do well to take these reports with a big block of Himalayan salt. *Politico: “Benghazi panel ramps up” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/benghazi-trey-gowdy-108625.html?ml=tb>* By Lauren French July 7, 2014, 5:58 p.m. EDT There are no Benghazi hearings on the House calendar, but the silence doesn’t mean the investigation is fading away. Rep. Trey Gowdy is launching a special committee to wrangle a probe that’s sprawled across the jurisdictions of multiple headline-hungry committee chairmen. And while the South Carolina Republican isn’t committing to specifics, such as whether there will be public hearings with high-profile witnesses like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his methodical approach could help the GOP savor a scandal that has at times looked more like a political sideshow. “No one [has] defended the five-minute questioning [process] as the most calculated way of eliciting the most amount of information,” Gowdy said in an interview. “There is most assuredly a place for hearings but not if your primary focus is to gather facts.” While there isn’t much happening publicly, the House select committee investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, is busy behind the scenes. The panel is examining subpoenas from committees that previously investigated the Benghazi attacks to develop a list of unanswered questions from the Obama administration. There is also outreach to agencies that received requests for information. Meanwhile, Gowdy is planning a series of closed-door meetings this month that could include a screening of a classified video from the Benghazi compound. He’s also checking with the 11 other lawmakers on the panel about working through the August recess. And committee leaders from both parties are busy staffing up. The response to the 2012 attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi deeply divided Congress. The attack left four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead. Republicans accuse the Obama administration of covering up evidence that the attack was linked to terrorism while Democrats argue the GOP is simply drumming up a scandal. As the committee’s investigation unfolds, perhaps the biggest challenge for Gowdy is to prove that his work isn’t simply a partisan exercise. “I don’t want to appear naive but I do hold out some hope that a few things left remaining in politics, or in our society, can be above politics,” Gowdy said. “People who have worked with me in the past and the people on the other side of the aisle who I work with now, I don’t think they are at all surprised this is the approach that I am taking. My goal is to find out what happened.” So far, Gowdy seems to be forging productive relationships with Democrats. He meets regularly with Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the panel, and the two often chat privately in the speaker’s lobby during House votes. “I have a great working relationship with Chairman Gowdy, and I am hopeful that this will be the serious, bipartisan fact-finding investigation that he has promised,” Cummings told POLITICO. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) gave Gowdy a loose set of guidelines to pursue his investigation: Determine how the attacks occurred and issue recommendations on ways the U.S. could avoid future assaults on diplomatic outposts. Gowdy isn’t setting a timeline for the committee, but the investigation is expected to extend into 2015. The committee has been allocated an expansive budget from the House. The panel has $3.3 million to spend this year on operations, according to documents from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office. That amounts to about $2.2 million for the Republicans and just above $1 million for the Democrats. The budget was first reported by USA Today. Panel members are already examining the notes, documents and interview transcripts provided by the other congressional committees that investigated the terrorist attacks, including the House Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Judiciary committees. That amounts to nearly 25,000 pages of documents, Gowdy said, which all need to be reorganized and categorized for the new committee. “They have to be assimilated,” he said. “I was on OGR, but I would have no way of knowing what Intel or HASC had or how it was cataloged.” Beyond sifting through documents, Gowdy said most of the focus right now is on hiring employees for the committee. He plans to personally interview job candidates, but finding qualified staffers with the appropriate security clearance is a slow-going task. The committee will dive into classified material, which limits much of the staffing pool to those with established clearances. “Obviously, going from not existing to fully functioning takes some time,” Gowdy said. “Hiring staff is widely important but not always terribly exciting from a reader’s or viewer’s standpoint. …. You have to do that before you can fully constitute a committee and start work.” Republicans tapped former Smith-Free Group Vice Chairman Phil Kiko as the panel’s staff director in May. The party hopes to fill roughly half of the staff positions by the end of July. Democrats on the committee recently hired Susanne Sachsman Grooms as their staff director. She is a former Department of Justice prosecutor, who was the lead attorney for Oversight Committee Democrats on three highly controversial investigations: the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation, the IRS targeting of tea party groups, and Benghazi. *New York Times: “Wall Street Offers Clinton a Thorny Embrace” <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/us/08wallst.html>* By Nicholas Confessore and Amy Chozick July 7, 2014 As its relationship with Democrats hits a historic low, Wall Street sees a solution on the horizon: Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton was the industry’s home state senator, and the financial sector was the second-largest giver to her presidential campaign in 2008. In her post-State Department life, she has been showered with lucrative speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, J. P. Morgan and other financial firms. In her talks, she says it is unproductive to vilify the industry, and she avoids the kind of language that puts off financial executives, as when President Obama referred to “fat cat” bankers in 2009. But as Wall Street hopes for a warm embrace from the former secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton must grapple with a populist surge coursing through politics, on both the right and the left. Attacks on Wall Street bailouts are a staple of Tea Party campaigns. Republicans, many of whom deliberately stood on the sidelines during the legislative battle over the Dodd-Frank legislation and have quietly reaped the benefits of Wall Street’s disenchantment with Mr. Obama, are now reeling from the primary election defeat of Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the former majority leader. Mr. Cantor’s opponent, David Brat, won in part by attacking Mr. Cantor’s ties to the financial world. In Mrs. Clinton’s years away from politics, income inequality has become a defining political issue in the Democratic Party, elevating a new generation of stars like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has pushed for the breakup of large financial institutions. Late last month, Ms. Warren campaigned in Kentucky for Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic candidate for Senate, a sign that some in the party believe the Massachusetts senator’s message resonates well beyond the left. (Mrs. Clinton has not yet campaigned on behalf of Ms. Grimes, though an adviser said she will likely do so this fall.) “I think there’s a potential window for Democrats to come back, but if it is one wing of the party pushing the populist line — anti-big banks, punishing people whether or not they had anything to do with the crisis — they’ll lock this crowd into a Republican alternative,” said Bill Daley, a former chief of staff to Mr. Obama and commerce secretary under President Bill Clinton who is now a hedge fund executive. During her 2008 primary campaign against Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton emphasized her husband’s economic record. But running on the 1990s will not work in 2016, Mr. Daley suggested. “She has to figure out where she is going forward,” Mr. Daley said. At stake is not merely tens of millions of dollars in campaign money, but the shape of debates about social mobility, taxation and regulation. In the next few years, lawmakers may consider proposals to allow American corporations to “repatriate” overseas income at a reduced tax rate; change how the government backs home mortgages; eliminate the “carried interest” loophole that allows private equity managers to avoid paying higher tax rates; and more tightly regulate commodities trading. “Secretary Clinton’s time in the Senate was characterized by a willingness to work with all of the stakeholders, but she left the Senate just as the crisis was hitting its low point,” said Francis Creighton, the top lobbyist for the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade association representing the largest banks and financial firms. “As an industry, we’re not sure how her views have evolved over the last five years on what we do. The question is: Will her perspective have changed?” The last time Mrs. Clinton waded deeply into these issues, she was locked in a heated primary and the country was on the verge of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. She was early to call for tougher regulation of financial derivatives and private-equity markets, and in a 2007 speech called for major federal intervention in the market for subprime loans, arguing that “we need to acknowledge that Wall Street has played a significant role in our current problems, and in particular the housing crisis.” Several people who advised Mrs. Clinton on her 2008 presidential campaign said the speech angered some of her Wall Street donors, who complained about what they viewed as her increasing antagonism to the industry. Mrs. Clinton has also called for eliminating the carried interest tax loophole. “If you look at her positions, in my view, she was very aggressive on ensuring that Wall Street was better regulated and her argument about all these proposals is that this is going to be better for all of us,” said Neera Tanden, who was Mrs. Clinton’s policy director during the 2008 campaign. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Nick Merrill, declined to describe her positions on a variety of current regulatory and Wall Street issues but said in an email: “Reducing inequality and increasing upward mobility has been an uninterrupted pursuit of hers through every job she’s held, and it continues to this day in her work at the Clinton Foundation.” If Mrs. Clinton runs for president, she will step into a heated debate about the interplay between financial regulation, growing inequality and the economic squeeze of the middle class. The Third Way, a center-left think tank founded by two former Clinton administration aides, has assailed Ms. Warren, saying her economic populism would be “disastrous for Democrats.” As Democrats debate whether to get tougher on Wall Street, the industry appears to have taken notice. Securities and investment firm employees have given a smaller proportion of their political donations to Democrats over the last three years than any period for which data is available, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Financial regulation has also become a pivotal issue in the jockeying over who will become chairman of the Senate Banking Committee should Democrats keep control of the Senate. Some Wall Street donors have been unwilling to give to Senate Democrats’ re-election efforts, according to two Democratic lobbyists, because one of the leading contenders for the chairmanship of the Banking Committee is Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who is pushing for a host of measures resisted by Wall Street, including higher capital requirements for big banks and a closer look at potential manipulation of commodities trading. “I think most Democrats agree that Wall Street is too powerful,” Mr. Brown said. “I understand some don’t — talk to them about why. Too many in my party are too close to Wall Street.” Few political families are closer to Wall Street than the Clintons. Their family foundation has raised millions from financiers and the foundations of big banks, and recently held its annual briefing for donors in the auditorium of Goldman Sachs’s headquarters in Manhattan. Major financial firms are stocked with Clinton alumni. And the Clintons often interact with the titans of finance on the Manhattan charity circuit and during their vacations in the Hamptons. Last month, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton sat at a table with Hamilton E. James, president of the Blackstone Group, and mingled with the billionaire David H. Koch at a benefit for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Mrs. Clinton has recently staked some ground in the debate over wealth and opportunity, sprinkling speeches with calls to address what she has called the “cancer of inequality.” In an opinion article in The Denver Post, Mrs. Clinton wrote: “No matter who you are or where you come from, if you work hard and play by the rules, you should have the opportunity to build a good life.” But Mrs. Clinton has also taken heat for recent comments she has made about her family’s own wealth, including the lament about being “dead broke” after leaving the White House. And some on the left say Mrs. Clinton’s less combative approach to issues of taxation, Wall Street regulation and growth — “We’re all in this mess together,” as one person who had attended several of Mrs. Clinton’s paid speeches described her message — was out of step with the current political climate. In 2016, said Michael Lux, a political consultant who worked in the Clinton White House, “People are going to be in a surly mood, a populist mood. To have a Democrat too close to Wall Street, raising too much money from them, having a ‘We’re all in this together’ message is a big mistake.” *Associated Press: “Hillary Clinton: US-Europe Must Nurture Ties” <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/hillary-clinton-us-europe-must-nurture-ties>* [No Writer Mentioned] July 7, 2014, 4:09 p.m. EDT Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that Europe and the United States must nurture their ties because "there is no more important force for progress, prosperity and peace than the trans-Atlantic alliance." Clinton, who was in Paris Monday for the publication of her book "Hard Choices" there, said "we have to constantly be nurturing it, helping it to stay on course." At a gathering hosted by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Clinton said she was happy waiting to become a grandmother this fall, instead of dealing with papers like those on Fabius' desk. Noting last week's Fourth of July celebrations, Clinton had warm words for France, which "took a chance on us" fighting in the Revolutionary War. *CNN: “Clinton explains defense in controversial rape case” <http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/07/clinton-explains-defense-in-controversial-rape-case/>* [No Writer Mentioned] July 7, 2014, 2:49 p.m. EDT Hillary Clinton pushed back at ongoing criticism of her providing legal defense decades ago to an accused rapist, explaining that she had asked not to be assigned to the case but ultimately had a responsibility to represent her client. In 1975, Clinton, a 27-year-old attorney, was appointed by a judge to represent Thomas Alfred Taylor, a 41-year-old man accused of raping a young girl, for free while working at the legal aid clinic at the University of Arkansas. "I asked to be relieved of that responsibility but I was not and I had a professional duty to represent my client to the best of my ability, which I did," Clinton told Mumsnet, a British-based online parenting network, in an interview publishedSaturday. Based on court documents obtained by CNN and Clinton's own account in her 2003 memoir "Living History," she won a plea deal for Taylor, securing a significantly reduced charge and sentence, based on a forensic mistake that cast doubt on the semen and blood samples found in the defendant's underwear. Critics have pounced on Clinton's involvement in the nearly four-decade-old case to suggest that the likely 2016 presidential candidate is not the champion of women's issues she frames herself to be, pointing to court documents that show then Hillary Rodham questioned the girl's emotional state and an audio recording of Clinton from the 1980s where she says she believed her client was guilty. Asked about her defense method, Clinton told the British outlet: "When you're a lawyer you often don't have the choice as to who you will represent and, by the very nature of criminal law, there will be those you represent that you don't approve of but, at least in our system, you have an obligation, and once I was appointed I fulfilled that obligation." Previously Mahlon Gibson, the prosecuting attorney in the case, told CNN Clinton was appointed by the judge and expressed reservations in taking the case. *Business Insider: “Hillary Clinton's Inner Circle Calls This Man The Most 'Despicable' Person In The World” <http://www.businessinsider.com/ed-klein-hillary-clinton-inner-circle-despicable-2014-7>* By Hunter Walker July 8, 2014 Author Ed Klein has published hundreds of pages of attacks on President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton. On Monday, as Klein's latest "exposé" of the former first family topped Hillary's memoir on the bestseller list, a source close to the Clintons fired back with a scathing, lengthy email to Business Insider blasting Klein as a pathological liar. "This might sound hyperbolic, but there is no bigger liar in the entire world," the source said of Klein. "Lying isn't even the word for it. It's some kind of sickness where every single thing you write is fabricated. Every. Single. Thing. I mean, even the photos in his book were found to be altered." Klein, who made headlines last weekend with a questionable article in Sunday's New York Post in which he claimed President Barack Obama is backing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren rather than Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, would not discuss criticism of his work when Business Insider called him Monday. Instead, he repeatedly referred us to his publicist, Jeremy Little, who provided us with a three sentence statement from Klein defending his reporting. "In typical Clinton fashion, when people can’t handle or respond to the truth, they attack the messenger," Klein said. Klein also cited a Wall Street Journal report published Monday that described Hillary Clinton, who is widely viewed as the Democratic frontrunner for 2016, distancing herself from some of the Obama administration's policies. He implied this proved his claim Obama "has quietly promised Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren complete support if she runs for president." "Reports surfaced this morning that Hillary Clinton is deliberately separating herself from the Obamas and their agenda. This is why, as I reported yesterday in the New York Post, the Obamas are searching for a new candidate for 2016 who is willing to carry on their legacy," Klein said. However, there is a long history of alleged factual issues in Klein's work. As the source close to the Clintons noted, a photographer released evidence showing Klein misrepresented a salaciously cropped photo of President Clinton in his 2005 book, "The Truth About Hillary." That's just one of many problems that emerged from the book where Klein cast Hillary Clinton as "the most polarizing figure in American politics." The Clinton confidante described Klein's writing about Hillary as "creepy." "We have had to contend with all sorts of dastardly characters over the years, being a bad actor isn't unique in this business. But there is a special circle of hell reserved for his combination of pathological lying, hate, and just flat out creepiness," the source said of Klein, adding, "But he's got a good gig. He sits in his creepy lair and once every few years bangs out another pack of lies, doesn't have to bother with any nettlesome issues that get in the way, like sources or facts." After writing "The Truth About Hillary," Klein moved on to President Barack Obama. Klein co-authored "The Obama Identity" in 2010. It was a fictional work that delved into the widely debunked conspiracy theories about Obama's birthplace. In 2012, Klein released "The Amateur," which attempted to expose Obama as "a callow, thin-skinned, arrogant president with messianic dreams of grandeur supported by a cast of true-believers, all of them united by leftist politics and an amateurish understanding of executive leadership." New York Magazine subsequently found an error on the book's very first page. In addition to specific factual errors, Klein's political books have been widely criticized for their widespread reliance on anonymous sources to provide detailed behind-the-scenes stories from Obama and the Clintons' inner circles. These accounts have included shocking revelations and conversations that people on all sides of the political spectrum have described as improbable. Klein's latest book, "Blood Feud," purports to reveal "the mutual loathing" that he claims exists between Obama and Hillary Clinton, the president's former secretary of state. Multiple close Obama allies did not respond to requests for comment on Klein including Valerie Jarrett, the senior White House advisor Klein claimed was leading the "full-court press" to convince Warren to challenge Hillary Clinton in 2016. An aide to Jarrett responded to an email from Business Insider by pointing to comments White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest made about Klein's claims Obama was pushing Warren to run for president. "At this point it’s still in the middle of 2014," Earnest said. "I’m not aware of any particular positions or candidates — or all that much thinking, to be honest with you — that the president has done as it relates to the next presidential elections. I haven’t actually seen those reports." Earnest may not have seen reports based on Klein's claims, but they have been generating substantial media coverage. However, the source close to the Clintons argued Klein doesn't get as much attention as he did when he wrote his first book about Hillary. "On it getting traction, I don't think he gets much anymore. When he did this in 05 people thought, Wow, he's a former NYT Magazine editor, he's reputable. It was a real fight to keep him off mainstream air," the source explained. "But as soon as people read any of it, it was absurd. I mean, he contends that Chelsea Clinton was conceived in a rape. He'll claim he didn't say that, but go back and read the chapter. It is nothing short of despicable." The questions raised about Klein's work over the years do seem to have affected his standing in the mainstream media. In April, Buzzfeed reported the major publishing house HarperCollins terminated its contract with Klein due to concerns about his reporting. Both "The Amateur" and "Blood Feud" were published by a smaller, conservative publishing house, Regnery. In addition to his past roles as an editor at Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine in the 1970's and 80's, Klein has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, which excerpted both "The Truth About Hillary" and "The Obama Identity." Vanity Fair spokeswoman Beth Kseniak told Business Insider Klein is still with the magazine, however, "we are not excerpting Ed's current book." According to the Clinton source who emailed Business Insider, Hillary's team was unaware of "Blood Feud" until it came out because Klein made no effort to contact them during the course of his reporting. They also said no one in Hillary's inner circle reached out to her to report being approached by Klein about the book. "In terms of contacting us, no, he hasn't. But that's neither here or there. What's amazing is that when people work on anything, a story, a documentary, a book, you hear from SOMEONE who checks in and say, Hey, I got a call from this guy Ed Klein, are you guys cooperating with him, should I talk to him?" the source said. "In this case, not one person. Not a single solitary human being. Didn't know about the book until it came out." The source described this apparent lack of effort by Klein to contact Hillary's team and allies as proof his new book is fabricated. "Do you know how hard that is?" the source said of the fact they heard from no one who spoke to Klein. "It's impossible. UNLESS you are fabricating every word, in which case you don't need to talk to anyone. Which is why he didn't. I haven't even looked at the book, but I'd be curious who he quoted and whether it was an interview or if the sourcing indicates that it's taken from the public record." Klein and his publicist did not respond to questions from Business Insider about whether he attempted to contact Hillary's team and whether this called his work into question. The Clinton source concluded with a blunt assessment of Klein: "I'll end by saying the same thing I started with: there is no one anywhere near this despicable. Nobody." *Daily Caller: “Jimmy Fallon Mocks Hillary Clinton’s Hairstyle” <http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/08/jimmy-fallon-mocks-hillary-clintons-hairstyle/>* By Jamie Weinstein July 8, 2014, 12:09 a.m. EDT After mocking Hillary Clinton for dressing like a man, Jimmy Fallon has moved on to poking fun of her history of hairstyles. During Monday night’s edition of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” Fallon noted how Hillary’s book sales have dropped dramatically since its release and suggested it could be because the book lacked a catchy title. So Fallon offered a few possible alternatives, including a couple that knocked Hillary for her appearance. “Hillary Clinton And The Deathly Haircuts,” Fallon put forward as one possible alternative Hillary book title. Watch the video to see the rest. [VIDEO] *Daily Mail (U.K.): “Girl power! Liv Tyler champions Hillary Clinton for president as she flashes her long slender legs in outdoor fashion shoot” <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2683912/Liv-Tyler-champions-Hillary-Clinton-president-flashes-long-slender-legs-outdoor-fashion-shoot.html>* By Helen Zhao July 7, 2014 The Lord Of The Rings star strikes an inspired, triumphant pose, with one fist in the air, while rooting for the 66-year-old former Secretary Of State. Her long brown hair cascades down her back as she gazes with hopeful blue eyes toward the sky. Liv, who is currently starring in the new HBO TV series The Leftover, was also pictured seated on a log, with her feet dipped in a body of water, flashing her long slender legs. The daughter of Steven Tyler is shrouded in a flannel blanket and expressing great mirth while caught in mid laugh. Liv was also captured in a couple more pensive moments, one gazing off to the side with her hands touching, showing off the bright blue nail polish that brought out the colour of her eyes. In another, she is lying on her back, appearing almost frozen, while clad in a striped red and white knit sweater. Liv shared her appreciation for women with the publication. ‘It’s a competitive world I guess, but all we can do is feel our best,’ the Jersey Girl star said. ‘I’m not a competitive person. I love women, I’m intrigued by them. I think they’re fascinating and complex.’ She also emphasized the importance of inner beauty, asserting, ‘There’s no cream that can fix you if you’re not beautiful on the inside.’ *Calendar:* *Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official schedule.* · July 8 – France (AFP <https://uk.news.yahoo.com/clinton-takes-book-tour-europe-164143589.html#8EKq7Zq> ) · August 9 – Water Mill, NY: Sec. Clinton fundraises for the Clinton Foundation at the home of George and Joan Hornig (WSJ <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/06/17/for-50000-best-dinner-seats-with-the-clintons-in-the-hamptons/> ) · August 28 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton keynotes Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit (BusinessWire <http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140702005709/en/Secretary-State-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Deliver-Keynote#.U7QoafldV8E> ) · September 4 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit (Solar Novis Today <http://www.solarnovus.com/hillary-rodham-clinto-to-deliver-keynote-at-national-clean-energy-summit-7-0_N7646.html> ) · October 2 – Miami Beach, FL: Sec. Clinton keynotes the CREW Network Convention & Marketplace (CREW Network <http://events.crewnetwork.org/2014convention/>) · October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton keynotes the UNLV Foundation Annual Dinner (UNLV <http://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-foundation-annual-dinner?delta=0>)