WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he believes his former secretary of state did not intentionally endanger national security in her handling of classified information. But he also says he's not trying to influence his administration's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
The White House on Tuesday was under pressure to reconcile those two statements — asserting Obama's public defense of Clinton was not an attempt to meddle in an ongoing FBI probe and that federal investigators wouldn't be swayed by the commander-in-chief's views.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan is definitively ruling out a bid for president this year, telling the GOP, "Count me out."
In a statement at the Republican National Committee, Ryan said if the party can't choose a nominee on the first ballot, the eventual choice should only be a candidate who participated in the primaries.
