Sen. Bernie Sanders weighed the idea of banning cigarettes, but opposed taxing sugary soda, because that would discriminate against poor people, who he said don’t vote enough for him to be truly successful.
Trump campaign aide Paul Manafort argued that yes, there will be a new, more presidential Trump, but that the media misunderstands the nature of the planned transformation. Trump will not sell out, Manafort said.
Former Senator Bob Graham explicitly implicated Saudi Arabia in the planning of 9/11.
This, and much more:
Sanders thinks about banning cigarettes: Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that he is not sure cigarettes should remain legal. “Cigarettes are causing cancer, obviously, and a dozen other diseases,” Sanders said on “Meet the Press.” “And there is almost the question as to why it remains a legal product in this country.”
Sanders: ‘Poor people don’t vote’: Sen. Bernie Sanders attributes Hillary Clinton’s lead over him in the Democratic primary to lack of turnout among what should be his core constituency. “Poor people don’t vote,” Sanders said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
DNC chairwoman cautions Clinton, Sanders over heated ‘rhetoric’: “What I have cautioned over the last several weeks is that we need to make sure that the rhetoric that each candidate uses is such that it doesn’t make it more difficult for us to reunify,” DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” Sanders, for his part, said the Democratic party is treating him unfairly.
DNC chairwoman on Clinton’s private email usage: ‘I am not counting’: “Hillary Clinton has released 55,000 pages of emails [and] has provided the most transparency of any previous presidential candidate in terms of the conversations she had as secretary of state, as a public official,” Wasserman Schultz told Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
Manafort: Media misunderstood comments about Trump: “We were evolving the campaign, not the candidate and the settings were going to start changing,” Manafort said Sunday. Trump is expected to deliver the first in a series of major policy speeches in Washington next week.
Former senator: Saudi Arabia likely behind 9/11: “The most important unanswered question of 9/11 is did these 19 people conduct the very sophisticated plot alone or were they supported? I think it’s implausible to think people who couldn’t speak English, had never been in the United States before as a group, were not well educated, could have done that,” Graham, the former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman said on “Meet the Press.”
Italian PM hopes Clinton is next president: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Sunday that he hopes Hillary Clinton wins the presidency. “I hope the next president of the United States could be a woman,” Renzi said. “Finally.” In an interview that also aired on Sunday, billionaire conservative donor Charles Koch said it is “possible” that Clinton would be a better president than the eventual Republican presidential nominee.
Kasich vetting veep picks: Republican presidential candidate John Kasich confirmed that his campaign is already looking into potential choices as his running mate, should he become his party’s nominee. “We have some old hands now who are beginning to do that,” the Ohio governor said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday.
Trump will be Trump, aide says: “Donald Trump will always be Donald Trump. And that’s what voters love about him. And you’re not going to see that change,” said Trump senior campaign adviser Sarah Huckabee Sanders in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.”
