Clinton: Sanders Doesn’t Really Have A Foreign Policy Network Advising Him

Photo by: Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx 2/6/16 Hillary Clinton at "The Get Out The Vote" Event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton argued Sunday that rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) didn’t really have a network of advisers counseling him on foreign policy.

NBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd asked Clinton how her criticisms of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy experience in the 2008 debate differed from those on Sanders.

Clinton argued that Obama had a “network of advisers on national security and foreign policy issues” who were helping him prepare.

“And they really went toe-to-toe with all the people supporting me. That’s
not happening in this campaign. There really isn’t any kind of foreign
policy network that is supporting and advising Senator Sanders. I’ll
let him speak for himself,” Clinton said. “I think that what’s important is this job
requires you to be ready on all aspects of it on the first day. And we
know we’ve got a particularly complex world right now. And the President’s not going to have the time.”

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