Trump has dismissed Clinton's endorsements from military officials, saying USA brass had been "reduced to rubble" under Obama, and added that the briefings "shocked" him: "Our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts ... said to do".

"That is not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country" but also to President Barack Obama, Clinton told reporters Thursday in NY before leaving for a campaign event.

Trump's campaign released a statement calling her Thursday press conference "desperate".

Donald Trump gave an interview Thursday that aired on a television station funded by the Kremlin, arguing that the Russian government was "probably" not meddling in the American presidential race.

In fact, Donald Trump's increasing camaraderie has also led certain security experts and media organizations to question Trump's credibility and even raise the unlikely possibility of Trump being a Russian agent.

Fresh off the candidate's Vladimir Putin-praising appearance during Wednesday's commander-in-chief forum, Trump called in to chat with King for a segment on RT America.

He said of Putin: "Other than destroying every instrument of democracy in his own country, having opposition people killed, dismembering neighbors through military force, and being the benefactor of the butcher of Damascus, he's a good guy". And that's a very different system and I don't happen to like the system.

During an NBC presidential forum Wednesday evening, Trump went farther in his praise and said that Putin has been a better leader than President Barack Obama: "Certainly, in that system, he's been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader", Trump said.

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"This whole idea of admiring Putin is the biggest misunderstanding of a relationship and a person since Munich", the South Carolina Republican told one group of reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday afternoon.

"If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him", Trump told Lauer.

One of the notable developments in right-wing-watching in recent years has been how enthusiastically many Religious Right leaders have embraced Russia's anti-democratic president, former KGB official Vladimir Putin.

But pressed by Bash on the difference between the two nation's governments - namely that in the U.S. democracy presidents share power with Congress, Pence acknowledged that Trump was not advocating for a dictatorship.

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Clinton's media reset began on Monday, when her campaign allowed the press on her new, larger plane for the first time this election cycle - far later than candidates have welcomed the media in the past. "But we will survive it, and it's not clear who has more to lose with that approach".

Trump's campaign responded to Clinton's broadside with a statement saying that at the forum "she was unable to answer for her awful foreign policy judgment, mishandling of classified information and claims that the VA wait time scandal was overblown".