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*​**Correct The Record Thursday January 22, 2015 Morning Roundup:*

*Headlines:*

*CNN: “Clinton emerges from hiatus with updated vision for future”
<http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/21/politics/hillary-clinton-canada-future-vision/>*

“Hillary Clinton emerged from a month-long speaking tour hiatus on
Wednesday with a host of new potential stump speech lines that could soon
become the cornerstone of her all-but-certain presidential run.”

*New York Times: First Draft: “Hillary Clinton Gives Her Own ‘State of the
Union’”
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/01/21/?entry=8724&smid=tw-share&_r=0>*

“In her first speech of the year, at a luncheon hosted by a bank in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mrs. Clinton took the opportunity to opine on several
topics that could play a part in a 2016 presidential campaign.”

*MSNBC: “Hillary Clinton backs Obama on foreign and domestic fronts”
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-canada-backs-obama-foreign-and-domestic-fronts>*

“In her first public appearance in more than a month, Hillary Clinton
strongly backed President Obama on both domestic and foreign policy, while
saying western democracies like the U.S. and Canada are in an epic
‘contest’ with Islamic extremists and authoritarians.”

*Associated Press: “Hillary Clinton declines to take position on Keystone”
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/05fa31c52b2240028060867379e0ffbb/hillary-clinton-speak-canada-amid-debate-over-keystone>*

“Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday declined again to take a position on
the Keystone XL pipeline, telling an audience in Canada that she would not
express her views because of an ongoing review by the State Department.”

*CBC News: “Hillary Clinton speaks in Saskatoon”
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/hillary-clinton-speaks-in-saskatoon-1.2921014>*

“Clinton focused most of her formal address on the topic of Islamic
extremism -- and how the U.S. and Canada should respond.”

*The Hill blog: Ballot Box: “Hillary: Obama proposals 'an important start'
on income inequality”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/230294-clinton-calls-obama-proposals-an-important-start-on-income-inequality>*

“Hillary Clinton backed President Obama's broad approach on a range of
economic issues while leaving room for some disagreement during an
appearance in Canada on Wednesday.”

*Articles:*

*CNN: “Clinton emerges from hiatus with updated vision for future”
<http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/21/politics/hillary-clinton-canada-future-vision/>*

By Dan Merica

January 21, 2015

Winnipeg, Manitoba (CNN)Hillary Clinton emerged from a month-long speaking
tour hiatus on Wednesday with a host of new potential stump speech lines
that could soon become the cornerstone of her all-but-certain presidential
run.

The former secretary of state and prohibitive favorite for Democrats' 2016
presidential nomination laid out a vision for the future during the
prepared portion of her remarks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, highlighting the
need to combat radicalism, increase stagnating wages and reform the United
States' immigration system.

"For our democracies to meet the tests ahead, all of our people, not just
those of us here, but all of our people, have to believe they too have a
stake in our prosperity and our future, no matter where they are from, what
they look like, who they worship or who they love," Clinton said.

Wednesday's speech in Winnipeg was Clinton's first headline appearance
since Dec. 15. The dearth in events is noticeable considering Clinton's
prevalence last year.

But the former secretary of state has been busy, according to a Democratic
source who told CNN Clinton has been meeting with advisers for the last
month at her Chappaqua, New York, home for strategy sessions about
launching a 2016 presidential run.

The new lines focused heavily on empowering middle-class Americans and used
Clinton's time as secretary of state to convey an understanding of the
issue.

"We have to show the world that free people and free markets, human rights
and human dignity, respect for our fellow men and women, is our core
strength," Clinton said when speaking of the Paris terrorist attacks
earlier this year. "We can't give in to division or distraction."

People, no matter what society they are in all want mostly the same thing,
Clinton said.

"Overwhelmingly they say, 'I want a good job. I want my children to get an
education. I want my family to be safe and feel that they have a good
future.' That is not so different than from what we want in the United
States and Canada," she said.

Referring to the recent Paris terrorist attacks that gripped France and its
allies, Clinton said the incidents "were stark reminders of the threats we
face together," and "sharpened the true contours" of the fight against
radicalism.

"Islam itself is not the adversary and the vast majority of Muslims are
peaceful and tolerant people," Clinton said, before endorsing more controls
on how extremists use the Internet to recruit.

Clinton also offered fresh comments on immigration, another hot-button
issue.

"Canada and the United States, unlike most places in the world, are nations
built by immigrants and energized by our diversity," Clinton said. "It
hasn't always been smooth or easy, but at our best, we kept expanding our
idea of family and community ... to keep making more room at the table."

In the past, Clinton has backed the Obama administration's plan to issue an
executive action to overhaul the nation's immigration system, but not
addressed the issue as core to continuing growth.

Though she has at times distanced herself from Obama -- her former boss and
rival -- on a number of issues, in Canada, Clinton embraced many of the
President's efforts.

"I think the President has been very successful," Clinton said, reflecting
on Obama's sixth State of the Union address on Tuesday. "I think the
President did a really good job in laying out some broad areas."

In unveiling these new lines, Clinton also hugged closely to the vision for
the future that Obama laid out on Tuesday night.

Clinton said, Obama "offered a vision for helping the middle class in the
United States reclaim its seat at the table. And the proposals he offered
are an important start for a critical debate."

"I think we are certainly coming out of the worst of our problems," Clinton
said reflecting on the Obama years. "I don't think the President gets the
credit he and his team deserve for the way they navigated through the
difficult area."

The former New York senator also dissuaded Democrats in the Senate from
pushing new unilateral sanctions on Iran while negotiations with the
country were still ongoing.

"I take the position that I think the President articulated last night,"
Clinton said, arguing that the sanctions would threaten the negotiations
and be a "very serious, strategic error."

Once again, Clinton declined to offer an opinion about the building of the
Keystone XL pipeline, a controversial proposal currently under review by
the State Department and the subject of a power struggle between the Obama
administration and the Republican-led Congress.

Before the event, some of the 2,000 people who paid $300 a ticket to attend
Clinton's speech chatted about the former first lady's likely presidential
run and the fact she was getting paid for Wednesday's appearance. Some even
asked, "Do you think Clinton will declare her candidacy today?"

They were left disappointed, though. Clinton was not asked about her 2016
plans during a moderated discussion with CIBC CEO Victor Dodig and made no
mention of them in her prepared remarks.

Clinton now heads to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, for a similar event on
Wednesday night.

*New York Times: First Draft: “Hillary Clinton Gives Her Own ‘State of the
Union’”
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/01/21/?entry=8724&smid=tw-share&_r=0>*

By Amy Chozick

January 21, 2015, 6:21 p.m. EST

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday denounced the recent attacks by Muslim
extremists in Paris, weighed in on the proposals President Obama outlined
in his State of the Union address and talked about how the United States
could alleviate income inequality. She even impersonated President Vladimir
V. Putin of Russia.

In her first speech of the year, at a luncheon hosted by a bank in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mrs. Clinton took the opportunity to opine on several
topics that could play a part in a 2016 presidential campaign.

But Mrs. Clinton is not a candidate yet, and therefore managed to remain
mum on the one topic many in the audience had hoped to hear her talk about.

“You won’t get me to talk about Keystone, because I have steadily made
clear I’m not going to express an opinion,” Mrs. Clinton said when asked
about the contentious pipeline that would carry crude oil from Canada to
refineries in the United States..

Mrs. Clinton did talk extensively about fighting Muslim extremism after 17
people were killed in terror attacks in Paris this month.

“The slaughter of satire writers and Jews and police officers sharpened the
true contours of this struggle,” Mrs. Clinton said. “There is a distorted
and dangerous strain of extremism within the Muslim world that continues to
spread.”

She talked about growing income inequity in the United States and endorsed
Mr. Obama’s proposal to make community college free. But Mrs. Clinton added
that State of the Union addresses were about laying out an agenda and not
necessarily enacting legislation. “I think there was plenty for people to
work with in the president’s speech last night,” she said.

When asked how would she handle a Republican-led Congress if she were
president, Mrs. Clinton responded that, as a “hypothetical,” she believed
lawmaking was a “business transaction” and that “the art of compromise in
our politics” was lacking.

At one point, Mrs. Clinton was asked what she would do “if she decided” to
be president. She said that there was a process and then imitated Mr. Putin
anointing himself president. “Excellent, excellent idea,” Mrs. Clinton
said, feigning a Russian accent.

*MSNBC: “Hillary Clinton backs Obama on foreign and domestic fronts”
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-canada-backs-obama-foreign-and-domestic-fronts>*

By Alex Seitz-Wald

January 21, 2015, 5:09 p.m. EST

In her first public appearance in more than a month, Hillary Clinton
strongly backed President Obama on both domestic and foreign policy, while
saying western democracies like the U.S. and Canada are in an epic
“contest” with Islamic extremists and authoritarians.

Clinton spoke to more than 2,000 in Winnipeg, Canada, at a lecture series
sponsored by a Canadian bank. She was not asked whether she plans to run
for president in 2016, and dodged questions on the Keystone XL pipeline, a
thorn in the side of U.S.-Canada relations.

“You won’t get me to talk about Keystone because I have steadily made clear
that I will not express an opinion,” she said while being questioned by
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CEO Victor Dodig during the Q&A portion
of her appearance. The former secretary of state has said she will not
weigh in on the controversial pipeline until the Obama administration’s
review of the project is complete.

But the likely presidential candidate had plenty of other things to say on
a range of other topics.

Iran: Clinton gave a full-throated endorsement of President Obama’s
approach to Iran and its nuclear program, rebuffing Republicans and
Democrats in Congress who are trying to impose new sanctions on the
country. She said the new sanctions, pushed by a bipartisan group of
lawmakers friendly to Israel, could lead to “a very serious strategic
error.”

They would give Russia and China “an excuse” to drop out of multilateral
negotiations or push for a weaker deal with Iran, she said. “Why do we want
to be the catalyst for the collapse of negotiations?”

“I feel very strongly about this,” she continued. “If we get to the point
where [the Iranians] cheat … all bets are off. But right now, the status
quo that we’re in is, in my view, in our interests, so I don’t want to do
anything that disrupts that status quo.”

The sanctions are going to be major flashpoint for Obama with his own party
this year, so the backing of the party’s likely future leader could be a
major asset. “This should help stiffen the backbone of Democrats who were
already reluctant to support new sanctions. Hopefully, unified Democratic
opposition to sanctions will convince its sponsors to stop their dangerous
push,” said Stephen Miles, the advocacy director of a group of 40 anti-war
groups called the Win Without War Coalition.

Paris attacks: In her first public remarks on the matter, Clinton said
recent terror attacks in Paris and elsewhere have “sharpened the true
contours of this struggle” between Western democracy and Islamic
extremists. “Islam itself is not the enemy,” she said, but rather a
“vicious few” who promote an “ideology of hate.”

“Like previous ideological struggles, this is a generational challenge and
it must be waged on many fronts,” she said, calling for an attack on
extremist propaganda.

Clinton drew a wide rhetorical circle around democratic countries and
presented them as at war with terrorists and dictators alike. “Extremism,
authoritarianism, Putinism – none of them can compete with democracy at our
best,” she said.

Inequality: Clinton connected the fight against extremism abroad to the
fight for justice at home. “Standing up for our own values in our
communities is just as crucial as promoting them abroad,” she said. That
includes “demagogues who pray on fears of immigrants” as well inequalities
in the economy.

She continued her stepped-up embrace of economic populism, promoted perhaps
most vocally in Democratic politics by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Citing a
recent Oxfam report that warned the top 1% will control half of the world’s
wealth by 2016, Clinton said that kind of inequality is a threat to “the
core” of Democracy and must be dealt with to expand the “circle of
opportunity” to everyone. “Here in Canada, for example, you’ve shown that
the economic inequality that we see in the United States and in many
countries is not inevitable,” Clinton said. “You’ve invested in your middle
class and it’s made a real difference.”

State of the Union: Clinton called President Obama’s State of the Union
address “an important start for a critical debate” on expanding economic
opportunity, and praised his economic record. “The president has been very
successful,” she said. “I think the president doesn’t get the credit he and
his team deserves for the way they navigated” the recession.”

She did add, however, “I would have differences, everyone would have
differences, about what else could be done” in the early days of the
administration.

Ukraine: One place where Clinton was willing to distance herself from the
White House, if slightly, was in calling for great aid, both in training
and equipment, to Ukrainian forces fighting Russian-backed separatists in
the eastern part of the country.

Compromise over ideology: Clinton praised transactional leadership and
called for a return to dealmaking. “That’s what we need to get back to
doing, the art of compromise in our politics, rather than people staking
out ideological positions,” she said.

And no Clinton appearance would be complete without some praise for her new
granddaughter, Charlotte. Clinton said the four-month-old does not yet have
a nickname for her the former secretary of state a likely presidential
candidate, suggesting the name is a point of contention in the family. “The
negotiations are harder than my secretary of state job,” she joked. Clinton
said she’ she’ll let the baby choose a name – but “exercise a veto” if need
be.

*Associated Press: “Hillary Clinton declines to take position on Keystone”
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/05fa31c52b2240028060867379e0ffbb/hillary-clinton-speak-canada-amid-debate-over-keystone>*

By Ken Thomas

January 21, 2015, 11:18 p.m. EST

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday declined
again to take a position on the Keystone XL pipeline, telling an audience
in Canada that she would not express her views because of an ongoing review
by the State Department.

"We have differences and you won't get me to talk about Keystone because I
have steadily made clear that I'm not going to express an opinion," said
Clinton, a potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate. "It is in our
process and that's where it belongs."

Clinton was asked about U.S.-Canadian relations during a wide-ranging
question-and-answer session in Winnipeg as Congress considers approving
construction of the contentious, Canada-backed project. Making her first
public remarks in a month, Clinton also touched upon the deadly terrorist
attacks in Paris, President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and
the debate in Congress over Iran.

Her views on Keystone have been closely watched in Canada. She has said it
would be inappropriate for her to comment on whether the pipeline project
should move ahead, given her past role as Obama's top diplomat and the
State Department's ongoing assessment.

Obama has vowed to veto the congressional legislation as long as the State
Department is still conducting a formal review of the project.

The TransCanada Corp. pipeline would carry more than 800,000 barrels of
crude oil a day from Alberta and the U.S. Bakken oil field across six U.S.
states to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.

The House authorized construction of the pipeline last week, and the Senate
is now considering the legislation. Republican and Democratic supporters
hope to win final approval on the measure and send it to the White House by
the end of the week.

Republicans, the Canadian government and business and labor groups have
pressured the Obama administration to approve the pipeline, arguing it
would create jobs and move North America toward energy independence.
Environmentalists want Obama to reject the pipeline, contending it would
contribute to global warming and make the U.S. more vulnerable to oil
spills.

For a possible Democratic presidential candidate, the politics of Keystone
are tricky. Environmentalists and labor unions have been among the party's
core supporters for years, and picking sides could alienate either group.
One of the leading opponents is billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer,
who has poured millions of dollars into a super PAC that has promoted
environmental causes.

Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski criticized
Clinton's Keystone stance, saying if she "can't take a position on building
a pipeline Americans overwhelmingly support, how can voters expect her to
make the hard choices that come with being commander-in-chief and leader of
the free world?"

Appearing onstage before nearly 2,000 people at an event sponsored by CIBC,
a Canadian bank, Clinton commented on several American and international
developments, including:

— Paris: Clinton said the recent terror attack in Paris showed that Western
democracies are "in a contest of ideas" against extremism within the Muslim
world. She said the "slaughter of satire writers and Jews and police
officers sharpened the true contours of this struggle."

— Obama: Clinton said Obama's proposals in Tuesday's annual address to
Congress could offer a good starting point for negotiations with majority
Republicans and said the U.S. needs to do more for families struggling with
"sagging wages and sinking hopes." Obama and his team have not received the
"credit they deserve" for their stewardship of the economy since the
recession, she said.

— Iran: The former New York senator said she opposed efforts in the Senate
to ramp up sanctions on Iran if a deal preventing the country from
developing nuclear weapons is not reached by early July. Clinton said new
sanctions could give Iran and others an excuse not to continue with the
negotiations. Obama has said he will veto any Iran sanctions bill that
reaches his desk.

Clinton spoke later in the day at a similar event in Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, where she called climate change an urgent challenge. "We're
now at the point where global action is an absolute necessity," she said.

Clinton has largely stayed out of public view since mid-December. Her two
paid speeches came as she is beginning to assemble the makings of a
presidential campaign, though she has yet to announce her intentions.
Clinton is working with close advisers and several former Obama campaign
aides to prepare for the 2016 race and is expected to make a final decision
in the spring.

*CBC News: “Hillary Clinton speaks in Saskatoon”
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/hillary-clinton-speaks-in-saskatoon-1.2921014>*

[No Writer Mentioned]

January 21, 2015, 5:30 a.m. CST

The woman who may yet become the first female president of the United
States spoke in Saskatoon Wednesday night at TCU Place.

The former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton did not quite
pack the house. But close to 2,000 people streamed in to hear the woman who
is widely expected to make a second bid for the U.S. presidency. They paid
in the range of $84 to $315 for the privilege.

Clinton focused most of her formal address on the topic of Islamic
extremism -- and how the U.S. and Canada should respond. Coincidentally, it
was the same evening that the Amadiyya Muslim Students' Association was
holding a video presentation and discussion at the University of
Saskatchewan, on Islamist de-radicalization.

Clinton spoke about the values of "tolerance and openness that define our
democracies".

"Make no mistake," Clinton told her audience, "those were the values under
assault in Paris. The slaughter of cartoonists and satirists, along with
Jews and police officers truly sent a signal about what we are contesting."

She called it a "contest of ideas and values", adding that "Islam itself is
not the adversary".

"But we can't close our eyes to the fact that there is a distorted and
dangerous strain of extremism within the Muslim world that continues to
spread," Clinton continued, calling it "a generational challenge" that must
be "waged on multiple fronts simultaneously". Those include the effort to
stop the spread of ISIS and other violent extremist groups in the Middle
East. She also said there's a need to empower moderates and marginalize
extremists in the wider Muslim world, as well as target extremist
propaganda and recruitment.

"And we still have to do a much better job of contesting on-line space
including websites, and chat rooms, where extremists inspire and recruit
followers," Clinton said.

Having spoken in Winnipeg earlier in the day, Clinton described her visit
to the newly opened Canadian Museum for Human Rights, where she found "so
much information presented dramatically and poignantly about what it means
to be deprived of your human rights".

Clinton also linked the struggle against extremism with "sharing prosperity
more broadly and fairly".

During a question-and-answer session that followed, Clinton advanced the
idea of a "North American energy system".

 "When I was in Winnipeg I talked about how there's a deal between
Manitoba's hydroelectricity and some companies, utilities across the border
that deal with clean energy, solar, wind and how we need to be looking for
ways to connect ourselves up, to thicken the co-operation on energy among
us," Clinton said.

However, there were two questions she would not touch -- her views on the
Keystone XL oil pipeline, and whether she will indeed enter the upcoming
U.S. presidential election.

*The Hill blog: Ballot Box: “Hillary: Obama proposals 'an important start'
on income inequality”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/230294-clinton-calls-obama-proposals-an-important-start-on-income-inequality>*

By Peter Sullivan

January 21, 2015, 3:41 p.m. EST

Hillary Clinton backed President Obama's broad approach on a range of
economic issues while leaving room for some disagreement during an
appearance in Canada on Wednesday.

She called Obama's State of the Union proposals, focused on boosting the
middle class, "an important start for a critical debate."

As she heads towards a presidential run, Obama's bold economic messaging
could shape the debate as she campaigns in 2016. Clinton did not take a
position or bring up the specifics of Obama's proposal to raise taxes on
the wealthy to pay for measures aimed at the middle class.

Clinton did focus on income inequality, an area of division that has led
some liberals to urge Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to run.

She cited an Oxfam report that the world's 80 richest people have the same
wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion people, raising the question of "How can
we share prosperity more broadly and fairly?"

"Here in Canada, for example, you've shown that the economic inequality
that we see in the United States and in many countries is not inevitable,"
she said.

"You've invested in your middle class and it's made a real difference," she
added.

Clinton credited the Obama administration's handling of the 2008 financial
crisis for the economic uptick, but left room to have handled some things
differently.

"I think the president doesn't get the credit he and his team deserve for
the way they navigated through this area," she said. "I would have had
differences everybody would have had differences about what else could be
done."

Her appearance came at an event in Winnipeg in the "Global Perspectives"
series, sponsored by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

On foreign policy, she mostly backed the president but called for more
action to support Ukraine against Russia.

She said the Ukranian army has "proven that they are worthy of some greater
support than we have up to date provided."

She has backed Obama's continued negotiations with Iran in the past, and
continued that support. She disagreed with calls in Congress, including
among some Democrats, for more sanctions.

"I take the position I think the president articulated last night," she
said on Iran.

New sanctions would give China and Russia an excuse to drop out, she said.

"Why do we want to be the catalyst for the collapse of negotiations?" she
said.

On one area, she had no comment, keeping with her past decision not to
discuss the Keystone pipeline, citing her involvement in the approval
process as secretary of State.

 *Calendar:*

*Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official
schedule.*

·  February 24 – Santa Clara, CA: Sec. Clinton to Keynote Address at
Inaugural Watermark Conference for Women (PR Newswire
<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hillary-rodham-clinton-to-deliver-keynote-address-at-inaugural-watermark-conference-for-women-283200361.html>
)

·  March 4 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton to fundraise for the Clinton
Foundation (WSJ
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/01/15/carole-king-hillary-clinton-live-top-tickets-100000/>
)

·  March 19 – Atlantic City, NJ: Sec. Clinton keynotes  American Camp
Association conference (PR Newswire <http://www.sys-con.com/node/3254649>)