| | | | Squeamish Senate candidates duck on Trump, Clinton | | CNN's Manu Raju went to New Hampshire and found two candidates -- Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Democratic challenger Maggie Hassan -- who haven't quite figured out what to say about their parties' standard-bearers.
First up: Ayotte, who has not endorsed Donald Trump yet, says she'll vote for him in November. "There's actually a big distinction: Everyone gets a vote. I do too," Ayotte said. "And an endorsement is when you are campaigning with someone."
Other Republicans are in the same boat. Marco Rubio stood by calling Trump a "con artist," yet still supports him. Freshman Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner says he's "voting Republican up and down the ticket."
Is Hillary Clinton honest? It's a question Hassan wouldn't answer -- despite three attempts by Manu. "I support Hillary Clinton for the presidency because her experience and her record demonstrate that she is qualified to hold the job," Hassan said the first time. Asked again if she believed Clinton is honest, Hassan touted Clinton's agenda. And asked a third time, Hassan ultimately said: "She has demonstrated a commitment always to something beyond herself, bigger than herself." Her campaign later sought to clarify Hassan's statement, saying she does believe Clinton is honest. | | FBI sends Clinton investigative report to Congress | | | The FBI sent Congress a report the bureau provided to the Justice Department last month to explain why it recommended no charges in the Hillary Clinton email server investigation. The decision to provide the investigative material on a case in which charges were not brought is exceedingly rare -- and Clinton's campaign, in a preemptive move, is calling for the whole thing to be released publicly, not just to members of Congress. Here's CNN's latest. | | Happening Wednesday: Trump's first security briefing | | | Donald Trump will receive his first classified national security briefing Wednesday in New York, two sources told CNN. The briefing, prepared by the director of national intelligence, will be the first in what could be several classified briefings Trump will receive as the Republican nominee for president. Trump has never before had access to classified national security information. More from Shimon Prokupecz, Evan Perez and Jeremy Diamond. | | Boston Globe: End the Clinton Foundation | | The Boston Globe's editorial board made waves this afternoon by calling for the Clinton Foundation to stop accepting donations -- and shut down entirely if Hillary Clinton is elected president to avoid an "inherent conflict of interest."
The key lines in the editorial: "The once-and-maybe-future first family will have plenty to keep them busy next year if Hillary Clinton defeats Donald Trump in November. The foundation should remove a political -- and actual -- distraction and stop accepting funding. If Clinton is elected, the foundation should be shut down." | | CNN's Gregory Krieg went to South Texas to talk about Donald Trump's border wall plans -- with photographer Peter van Agtmael.
One great scene features Trump in Laredo, Texas, last year, sitting across from its mayor, Pete Saenz, in the backseat of an SUV as it sped toward a border crossing. "He asked me whether I knew whether or not Mexico had a policy, direct or indirect, of sending bad guys over here," Saenz recalled. "No," he told Trump, "I really haven't heard that."
So who's the guy in the photo? Krieg emails: "His name is Max Pons. He is a biologist and manager of the Nature Conservancy in Brownsville, Texas, a nature preserve in the Rio Grande Valley. The land, home to all kinds of rare plants and animal species, is now mostly south of the border fence -- built in compliance with a 2006 federal law -- but north of the actual border. Why? Because of the river's unpredictable path and a decades-old treaty with Mexico, the US can't build a border barrier inside the Rio Grande flood levees." | | What Jason Miller thinks of Trump's media bias blasts | | Donald Trump communications aide Jason Miller went into depth with Yahoo's Hunter Walker about the strategy behind the "MEDIA BIAS OFFENDER" emails the Trump campaign is sending to reporters, highlighting and attempting to knock down specific members of the press.
"I get a little bit of a smile when I see at night … when journalists take a look and essentially acknowledge that they're reading these and that they're paying attention," Miller said. "Our goal in this is to call attention to what we see as the most extreme examples of media bias with an effort of making folks think twice about everything from story placement to fairness."
Debate prep: Roger Ailes, the ex-Fox News chief ousted over decades of sexual harassment allegations, is helping Trump with debate prep. | | Warren's 2018 opponent: Curt Schilling? | | Outspoken former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is weighing a bid to unseat Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren when she comes up for re-election in 2018. In an interview Monday with WRKO's "The Kuhner Report," Schilling said he had begun to seriously consider a political career and that one job had caught his eye.
"I thought about it, and one of the things I would like to do is be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics," he said. "I think she's a nightmare and I think that the left is holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton, but Lord knows we don't even need the first one." | | | Rick Perry says Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father involved in a war of words with Donald Trump, shouldn't get a "free ride" from public criticism because he "went out and struck the first blow." ... Hillary Clinton is using the Olympics to scold Trump. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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