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Sun Feb 13, 3:56 PM ET Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites), D-N.Y., displays the German Media Prize she was awarded in Baden-Baden, southern Germany, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005. (AP Photo/Winfried Rothermel)

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton personally negotiated some of the fees for a star-studded Aug. 12, 2000 Hollywood fundraiser, the event's producer, Peter Paul, said in an interview aired on Sunday - as the event comes under increasing scrutiny by a Los Angeles grand jury and the Justice Department. And in another sign of potential legal trouble for the top Democrat, a spokesman for the lawfirm championing Paul's case said his client informed Mrs. Clinton that her finance director, David Rosen, had failed to accurately report costs for the event to the Federal Election Commission. "Hillary Clinton personally called the...

Some Hillary supporters say the former first lady may not make a bid for the White House after all. Though initial polls show Sen. Clinton as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2008, U.S. News & World Report says Hillary may not seek the job. Paul Bedard's "Washington Whispers" column in the latest edition of U.S. news reports that ". . . some friends and allies advise against placing bets that the former first lady will be the nation's 44th president." Citing these close friends to Hillary, the magazine says Hillary has made no commitment to running, and some...

When Hillary Clinton runs for president, she may have to face her own version of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth - in the form of her husband's accusers, the women the Clintons have been trying to erase from the national memory of Bill's presidency. Reacting to Sen. Clinton's efforts to use the opening of her husband's presidential library last week as a springboard for her campaign, star impeachment witness Kathleen Willey told NewsMax, "I have some words of advice for the former first lady. Remember the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth." Willey said she was struck by the fact that...

Former President William Jefferson Clinton formerly opens his Presidential Center, which will hold the papers from his two term presidency.Attending the ceremony will be President George W. Bush, former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, along with First Lady Laura Bush ,Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rosalyn Carter and Barbara Bush.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told a crowd of John Kerry supporters that this year's presidential election is crucial, from setting the country's future environmental agenda to deciding several Supreme Court appointments. "If we do not recognize what four more years of the current administration would mean to our country, then shame on us," she said, adding that President Bush had pushed a "radical right-wing agenda" on America. Clinton made the comments Friday during a fund-raiser attended by about 300 Kerry supporters in San Francisco, then delivered a similar speech in Long Beach.

---SNIP--- A new book by Christopher Andersen will hit The New York Times bestseller list this week. It is called American Evita, and it is about Hillary Rodham Clinton. She pushed herself into a prime time, opening night spot at the Democratic convention after the Kerry folk had relegated her to just one in an "all-the-girls" appearance of the party's women senators, with Barbara Mikulski doing the speaking. How Rodham Clinton maneuvered herself out of this is hard to tell. But one clue is that the Democratic National Committee is still run by Clintonians. And, while we're mentioning arch names,...

DESPERATE MEASURESCould it be that desperation is setting in a bit more, well, desperately in the Kerry campaign? Up till now, most political tea leaf readers had Kerry announcing his decision on vice president coming the week of July 11. But recent polling numbers may have Kerry advisers changing those plans. According to a Kerry campaign source, Sen. John Edwards, Rep. Dick Gephardt, Gov. Tom Vilsack, Gen. Wesley Clark, and "a surprise candidate" were each contacted on Wednesday and told to be prepared for an announcement with Kerry as early as July 6. Each short-lister provided the campaign with updated...

In the remake of the movie classic "The Manchurian Candidate," actress Meryl Streep portrays a diabolical, cold, manipulative member of the U.S. Senate. Any thoughts on a real-life middle-aged blonde who might fit the description? Well, the New York Daily News reports that, much to the chagrin of Hollywood execs, Streep's character is frighteningly similar to a certain former first lady. Devoted Dem and Kerry fund-raiser Sherry Lansing, who also happens to run Paramount, green-lighted the movie as a way of damaging President Bush, Premiere magazine has reported. The movie is likely to copy the original in lampooning the character...

NEVER FORGET 'CLINTONS PLANNED TO USE TERRORISM TO REGAIN WHITE HOUSE' ..by Richard Roberts ...An now we have the ..Motive... behind HILLARY's making sure that 3 Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to give us our No. 1 Terrorist Enemy OSAMA bin LADEN on a silver platter before he could order the Attacks of September 11, 2001 on us all becomes plain: .."So back in 1996, CLINTON has nothing to lose by apprehending Bin LADEN, except the wrath of HILLARY, who reasons that left alone, Bin LADEN will grow to be a big problem for the next Administration. She...

Did Dick Morris Imply that Bill Clinton BEAT Hillary???I've been reading Dick Morris's book "Rewriting History" -- it's quite good.  Anyway, I came to a dangling question that Morris leaves the reader with on 210, and I'm curious as to how others would interpret this.Here is a the little snippet I'm referring to -- I assure you, legally, this little blurb qualifies as "fair use."  Trust me -- I spent months in Copyright Law class and did very well :)This starts on p.209, right after Morris, in 1990, alerted Clinton to bad polling numbers in his last race for re-election...

Just announced on WCVB-TV Boston: Kerry to accept nomination at DNC convention.

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she would support pro-life Republican Sen. John McCain if Sen. John Kerry tapped him as his running mate. "I'm a big admirer of John McCain," Clinton told "Fox News Sunday." "I have the greatest respect for him." While saying she accepts McCain's denials that he's not interested in the VP slot, Clinton added that a prospective Kerry decision to tap McCain for VP "is such a personal decision for him that I will support whoever he chooses." "And if he picks John McCain?" asked FNS host Chris Wallace. "Absolutely, I'll be there...

By MARC HUMBERT AP Political Writer ALBANY, N.Y. - Re-electing President Bush will mean a loss of freedoms and "create an America we won't recognize," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is telling potential Democratic donors. In an e-mail appeal distributed by the Democratic National Committee to help Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, the former first lady said "the stakes in this election are incredibly high." "If they get their way, you and I will be living in an America governed not by our hopes, but by our fears," Clinton wrote. "We'll be living in an America where we see our freedoms...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Re-electing President Bush will mean a loss of freedoms and "create an America we won't recognize," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is telling potential Democratic donors. In an e-mail appeal distributed by the Democratic National Committee to help Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, the former first lady said "the stakes in this election are incredibly high." "If they get their way, you and I will be living in an America governed not by our hopes, but by our fears," Clinton wrote. "We'll be living in an America where we see our freedoms diminished when they ought to be...

(Christina McLarty) "Seeking re-election?" (Hillary Clinton) "Yes. I hope my work in the senate and I hope New York will endorse the work that I have done." (Christina McLarty) "Put down rumors running for president or running mate?" Part 1 URL: http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0504/148859.html Part 2 URL: http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0504/148874.html (Hillary Clinton) "Yes. I think our country should have a woman president within a short period of time, I’ve been saying that for many years. I don't know if I’ll be around when it happens." (Christina McLarty) "But how does it make you feel to hear yourself in those lights to hear people want...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was right to say that President Bush "has on his shoulders the death of many more [U.S.] troops" because of his military misjudgments, explaining, "I know a little bit about" being Commander-in-Chief." "Any Commander-in-Chief bears that responsibility," she told "Fox News Sunday." "It's an awesome, unbelievably overwhelming responsibility. I know a little bit about that." Clinton also seconded Pelosi's charge that Bush was incompetent, defending her own comments to NBC last week that the president had demonstrated "a pattern and practice of misjudgments that add up to...

t is very likely that Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to run for Vice-President of the United States in 2004. Inside the Washington, DC Beltway, the "professional Republicans" do not believe she will run; instead, the conventional wisdom is that she will wait until 2008 and run for the Presidency. Guess what? These are the very same people who, back in 1992, never thought then-President George H.W. Bush could possibly lose to a draft-dodging, pot-smoking newcomer named Bill Clinton. So they took Clinton lightly and never even attacked his atrocious record in Arkansas! Then, in 2000, it happened again. When...