A locked office, getaway car and secret flight: The final steps in picking Clinton's vice president
Source: MSN News
It was early evening Friday, when four of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, including campaign chairman John Podesta, snuck out of her campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, using a freight elevator to avoid being seen.
The four traveled 15 miles to the airfield in Teterboro, N.J., rather than one of the region’s larger commercial airports, where they might have been spotted, then flew to North Kingston, R.I. From there, Podesta drove to a parking lot near a beach in Newport and waited in the car.
Nearby, the man he had come to see, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, was conducting a fundraising event for a fellow senator, Rhode Island’s Jack Reed.
For weeks, reporters had speculated that Kaine was at the top of Clinton’s short list for her running mate, and Friday had been quietly touted as the day an announcement would come. But up until the last minute, as cable news speculated about the timing and the name, no word of a final decision had leaked.
To maintain the secrecy, Podesta was careful to stay in the car. He was dressed in a suit and “would have stuck out like a sore thumb,” said a Clinton campaign official who described the events to reporters on condition of anonymity. As Podesta waited, he and Clinton started making calls. At 7:32 p.m. the former secretary of State called Kaine, who was at the reception for Reed, and told him, among other things, “John Podesta is outside, hiding.”
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Myself, being an aging rock star* whose better days are behind me, I'm always taking freight elevators... 
*in my own mind...
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Michael R. Bloomberg, who bypassed his own run for the presidency this election cycle, will endorse Hillary Clinton in a prime-time address at the Democratic convention and make the case for Mrs. Clinton as the best choice for moderate voters in 2016, an adviser to Mr. Bloomberg said.
The news is an unexpected move from Mr. Bloomberg, who has not been a member of the Democratic Party since 2000; was elected the mayor of New York City as a Republican; and later became an independent.
But it reflects Mr. Bloomberg’s increasing dismay about the rise of Donald J. Trump and a determination to see that the Republican nominee is defeated.
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Mrs. Clinton is seeking to reach out to middle-of-the-road swing voters and even moderate Republicans uneasy about Mr. Trump. Polls show that significant numbers of Republicans remain wary of Mr. Trump, and question his fitness for the presidency.
Mr. Bloomberg will vouch for Mrs. Clinton “from the perspective of a business leader and an independent,” said Howard Wolfson, a senior adviser to Mr. Bloomberg.
Mr. Bloomberg, who has been sharply critical of Mr. Trump’s views on immigration and the economy, may fortify Mrs. Clinton’s appeal to the political center
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Clinton campaign — and some cyber experts — say Russia is behind email release
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official with Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Sunday accused the Russian government of orchestrating the release of damaging Democratic Party records in order to help the campaign of Republican Donald Trump — and some cyber security experts in the U.S. and overseas agree.
The extraordinary charge came as some national security officials have been growing increasingly concerned about possible efforts by Russia to meddle in the election, according to several officials familiar with the situation.
Late last week, hours before the records were released by the website Wikileaks, the White House convened a high-level security meeting to discuss reports that Russia had hacked into systems at the Democratic National Committee.
Although other experts remain skeptical of a Russian role, the hacking incident has caused alarm within the Clinton campaign and also in the national security arena. Officials from various intelligence and defense agencies, including the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, attended the White House meeting late Thursday, on the eve of the email release.
If the accusation is true, it would be the first time the Russians have actively tried to influence an election in this manner, analysts said-
BREAKING: Democratic party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz steps down on eve of convention after being exposed for bias in humiliating WikiLeaks email hack
Democratic party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has stepped down following Bernie Sanders' call for her resignation in the wake of a humiliating Wikileaks email hack that exposed her bias.
Party officials took part in crisis talks on Sunday afternoon - the eve of the party's national convention in Philadelphia - over mounting calls for Wasserman Schultz's resignation.
The controversy exploded over the weekend, prompted in part by the publication of some 19,000 hacked emails last week, some of which suggested the Democratic Nation Committee was favoring Hillary Clinton during the primary season.
The revelations prompted runner-up Bernie Sanders to call for Wasserman Schultz's resignation on Sunday - a day before Democrats open their convention to nominate Clinton as the party's presidential candidate.
On Sunday afternoon, Wasserman Schultz issued a statement announcing that she will be stepping down from her role as party chair at the end of the convention.
'I have been privileged to serve as the DNC Chair for five and a half years helping to re-elect President Obama and Vice President Biden, strengthening our State Party Partnership in all 50 states, leading a vigorous primary election this past year while preparing for the general election and representing millions of Democrats across the country,' she said in a statement announcing her departure.
'I couldn't be more excited that Democrats are nominating our first woman presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, a friend I have always believed in and know will be a great President
