Hillary Clinton on Democrats and Putin….

“I’m not quite sure what the disconnect is between the accomplishments of the administration, and this Congress, and the understanding of what’s been done, and the impact it will have on the American public, and some of the polling and the ongoing hand-wringing,” she said.

Nonetheless, Clinton said Democrats need to stand up to Republicans’ “nuttiness” and that Americans don’t “want to be governed by people who live in a totally different reality.”….

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the U.S. to “impose even greater costs” on Russian President Vladimir Putin as punishment for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Driving the news: Clinton on NBC’s “Meet the Press” said the U.S. should not allow Russia back into international organizations.

What she’s saying: Clinton said she wouldn’t allow Russia at the upcoming G-20 summit in November, “and if they insisted on literally showing up, I would hope there would be a significant, if not total, boycott,” she added.

Clinton called for more financial punishments on Putin and Russia.

• “There are more banks that can be sanctioned and taken out of the so-called SWIFT relationship,” she said. “There is an increasing call for doing more on gas and oil.”
• She added: “I think now is the time to double-down on the pressure.”

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