But in the wake of a performance at Wednesday night's NBC "Commander-in-Chief Forum" that some observers saw as sub-par, Clinton appeared to have decided it was finally time to meet the demands of her press corps. He said that hundreds of billions of dollars can be gained in revenue by finding and stopping incorrect overpayments and recovering unpaid taxes.
"He looks at a judge and doesn't see a distinguished federal judge, but the son of Mexican immigrants", she said. Trump has condemned the war during his presidential campaign and said he would avoid lengthy conflicts in the Middle East.
That's a "record" haul for the Trump campaign and its joint fundraising committees, the campaign bragged in a Thursday statement, but it's no match for Hillary Clinton, who raised $143 million in August, as her campaign reported last week.
"I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the generals have been reduced to rubble".
Election officials across the country are pushing back against Donald Trump's assertions that the presidential election may be rigged, arguing that too many safeguards exist against engineered results nationally or in individual states.
Trump said Clinton's handling of Libya proved disastrous.
'So, I am not interested in giving aid and comfort to their evil ambitions, ' Clinton said in the interview, vowing to defeat the extremist group.
Late Show host Stephen Colbert explained why Matt Lauer has been declared loser of NBC's Commander-in-Chief Forum, for his "pizza delivery" handling of military members' foreign policy questions to Hillary Clinton: "Sorry, Secretary Clinton, if you can't get your plan out in 30 seconds or less, Russian Federation gets a free Ukraine".
But, he told the crowd, people can't be asked to embrace others "unless you embrace them".
Clinton said she would convene a meeting of bipartisan security experts on Friday to discuss the fight against Islamic State militants.
Robby Mook said on ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday that Trump's answer for how to defeat the Islamic State group shows he had "no plan" in the first place.
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Trump also angered many in the military community with mocking remarks against US Senator and former prisoner of war John McCain for being captured in Vietnam.
"We made the world safer", she said.
"I find it frustrating", she said.
He also touched on Hillary Clinton's proposals for reduced college debt and said UCF - "one of the biggest relatively unknown universities in the country" - has made "maximum use of an important part of her platform, investment in science and technology".
The GOP nominee said that he would also ask Congress to fully offset the cost of defense spending increases.
A day earlier, on FOX News' "Fox and Friends", Trump had been asked if he trusted intelligence.
"The obvious takeaway from these numbers is that Donald Trump has staged a comeback from his post - Democratic convention lows, especially in Pennsylvania and Ohio". As Trump was again dismissing the tax-return matter, The Post that afternoon published an extensive report by Dana Priest, Ellen Nakashima and Tom Hamburger laying out what US intelligence officials believe is "a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in USA political institutions". "I don't even know how you can credibly make the claim to begin with", the Wisconsin Republican said during an interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show", a conservative talk radio program.
He added: "Now, it's a very different system, and I don't happen to like the system".
The former governor of New Mexico added that Syria is "a mess" and "the only way we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russian Federation to diplomatically bring that (to) an end".
Vice presidential nominee Indiana Gov. Mike Pence backed up those sentiments from his running mate, telling CNN that it was "inarguable" that Putin was a stronger leader than President Obama.
