A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In…
HEROES OF THE WEEK
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. Right? I think they should disarm immediately. Take their guns away. She doesn’t want guns … let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, OK? It’d be very dangerous.”
Donald Trump on Hillary’s threats to the 2nd Amendment
“I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal.”
Hillary Clinton downplayed her recent health scare as a campaign issue Monday during a call-in interview on CNN
“I think the plan should be developed by 6 o’clock this afternoon. She better get well before she gets back out there because if she gets back out there too soon, it might happen again.”
Don Fowler, who helmed the DNC from 1995 to 1997, during Bill Clinton’s presidency, and has backed Hillary Clinton since her 2008 presidential bid. Fowler said he expects Clinton to fully recover from her bout with pneumonia, which forced her to leave a Sept. 11 memorial event early and cancel an early-week fundraising swing. But he said the Democratic Party would be mistaken to proceed without a contingency plan.
“There is absolutely no chance Hillary Clinton will withdraw from running for the presidency. When Hillary Clinton participates in three debates, stands on her feet for 90 minutes in all of those debates … it will dispel any remaining doubts that any Americans have about her physical fitness to serve.”
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell
“You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.”
Hillary Clinton
“Hillary, they are not a basket of anything — they are Americans and they deserve your respect. No one with a record of failure at home and abroad, no one with her avalanche of dishonesty and corruption and no one with that low of an opinion of the American people should ever be elected president of the United States of America.”
Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence
“Just when Hillary Clinton said she was going to start running a positive campaign, she ripped off her mask and revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans.”
Senior Communications Advisor for the Trump campaign Jason Miller
“Speaking of transparency….Are you on the record as Donald Trump should turn over those tax returns?”
NBC Today co-host Savannah Guthrie grilling Fox News host Bill O’Reilly
“No matter what he does, he puts his tax returns out, the press – which wants him to lose….Trump knows whatever he does in that area, he’s going to be destroyed.”
O’Reilly responding to Guthrie
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
Clinton pushed birtherism in 2008
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
Are Trump and Putin buddies?
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
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