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Sen. Sanders Fires Back at Hillary Clinton Over Excerpt in New Book ‘What Happened’

Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt. speaks to governors at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss ways to stabilize health insurance markets​, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders fires back at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over comments made in her new book.
Sanders appeared in an interview Thursday, and was asked to comment on an excerpt from the book which talked about why she lost the presidential election.
Clinton claims Senator Sanders pitched bigger and wilder ideas than what she based her campaign on, saying his policies were “the same — just quicker.”
“The truth is, and the real story is that the ideas we brought forth during that campaign, which were so crazy and and so radical, have increasingly become mainstream,” said Sanders, “I talked about a $15 an hour minimum wage, Hillary did not.”
Critics of her new book said Clinton is essentially blaming Sanders, as well as other political figures, for her unsuccessful campaign for president.

President Trump Makes Disaster Assistance Available for Storm Victims

President Donald Trump stops to answers questions on at South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Trump continues to help those impacted by Hurricane Irma.
The White House says the president is making disaster assistance available to the people the Virgin Islands.
The increase in funding is for debris removal and emergency protective measures.
Additionally, the president approved a disaster declaration in Puerto Rico after the island nation was struck by the storm.
The assistance the federal government is offering includes grants for temporary housing and repairs, along with other programs to help individuals and businesses.

Antifa throws smoke and projectiles at police at Portland rallies; 7 arrested

Antifa demonstrators hurled smoke and projectiles at police officers during rallies in downtown Portland on Sunday, injuring at least two, according to police.

The Rally and March Against White Nationalism, which was organized by the Portland Stands United Against Hate group, started off at a park on the waterfront with speakers leading demonstrators in song and prayers, Fox 12 reported.

After police changed the planned route of the march to avoid violence, tensions built up between the demonstrators and an opposing group, Patriot Prayer, also scheduled to hold a rally.
Police said demonstrators threw projectiles and smoke bomb — and knocked down a fence that police had put up. They also said seven suspects were in custody.
Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson originally planned to hold a larger rally in Portland but it was moved to nearby Vancouver, Wash., to try and keep it safe and family-friendly, according to Fox 12.
Patriot Prayer bills itself as a peaceful First Amendment advocacy group that appears in locations where there have been past confrontations over free speech.
Gibson told Fox News their rallies are rooted in “a philosophy about promoting love and peace but doing it in a way that’s respectful. It’s about building bridges.”
Antifa members, Fox News previously reported, have over the last year increasingly made their violent presence known at progressive demonstrations and counter-protests to alt-right groups and speakers across the country — leaving critics to question Antifa’s role in the leftist protest movement and to ask if the group is causing more harm than good.
Antifa, short for anti-fascist, traces its roots back to militant anti-fascists operating in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. The emergence of these modern groups in the United States — which are comprised predominantly of radical anarchists and focus more on fighting far-right ideology than on encouraging pro-left policies — coincided with a rise of white nationalists following the election of Barack Obama in 2008, analysts said.
Since the election of President Trump, Antifa activists have become even more active, fighting with right-wing activists and police in cities from Philadelphia to Houston to Hamburg, site of this year’s G-20 summit.

'Miss America' gets political: Contestants asked about Trump-Russia collusion, Confederate statues

Miss North Dakota, Cara Mund, was named Miss America 2018 Sunday night in Atlantic City following a night of political questions ranging from the Trump administration's alleged collusion with Russia to Confederate monuments.

The event got political after the Miss America candidates were asked multiple questions about the current political climate and President Trump during the question-and-answer session.

During one of the onstage interviews, Mund said Trump was wrong to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord aimed at combating climate change.
“I do believe it's a bad decision,' she said. “Once we reject that, we take ourselves out of the negotiation table and that's something that we really need to keep in mind.”
“There is evidence that climate change is existing. So whether you believe it or not, we need to be at that table, and I think it's just a bad decision on behalf of the United States,” she added.
In an interview before the preliminary event, Mund said she hopes to become the first elected woman governor of her state.
“It's important to have a woman's perspective,” she said, stressing the importance of women in important government jobs. “In health care and on reproductive rights, it's predominantly men making those decisions.”
Mund, however, was not the only candidate to receive political questions.
Miss Missouri Jennifer Davis was asked to be “the jury” on whether Trump colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton and give “innocent or guilty” verdict.
“Right now I'd have to say innocent because not enough information has been revealed,” Davis said, adding however that “we should investigate it to its fullest extent.”
Miss New Jersey Kaitlyn Schoeffel, meanwhile, was asked to give her opinion on Confederate statues and whether they should be removed from public display – to which the contestant suggested to move the statues to museums.
The contest’s hosts also asked Miss Texas Morgana Wood what she thought about Trump’s comments after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville where he blamed the violence on “both sides”.
Wood branded the death of counter protester Heather Heyer as a “terrorist attack” and said the President “should have made a statement earlier addressing the fact and making sure all Americans feel safe in this country.”
The first runner up of the competition was Miss Missouri, while Miss New Jersey was the second runner up.