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It’s reported that: “President Obama will sit down for his first interview with “Fox News Sunday” since being elected president.   

An “exclusive” interview, by host Chris Wallace, will be the POTUS’s first on Fox News Channel since 2014. Held at the University of Chicago, it will cover a “range of topics including the 2016 election and the president’s legacy.” 

Following the article, reader, 3rivershunter, wrote: “I hope Chris Wallace understands that the American Citizenry wants solid, thought-provoking questions.  We DO NOT want softball, per-agreed to, or long winded questions with even longer winded answers.  We want answers to: The $ 20 trillion dollar debt; the crushing EPA regulations killing our energy sector; why so much of obama's resources are spent propping up illegal aliens instead of wounded veterans.  Why is obama so disdainful of Christianity and why won't he say Islamic Terrorism?

“MR. WALLACE, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE...DON'T LET US DOWN.” 

While the reader certainly poses queries everyone would surely want to be answered by the POTUS, here’s another subject, found this morning @timesofisrael.com, in an article by editor, Stuart Winer that needs some explanation.

According to to Mr. Winer, “Iran intends to produce the powerful explosive Octogen for use in the warheads of its missiles to improve their “destructive and penetration power,” Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said yesterday. 

“Octogen is used as an explosive in penetrating missile warheads and as a solid rocket fuel — but is also employed as part of the detonator in an atomic bomb.” 

A report from the semi-official FARS news agency says: “Concurrently with its efforts to increase the precision-striking power of its weapons systems, the Defense Ministry has also paid attention to boosting the destructive and penetration power of different weapons’ warheads and has put on its agenda the acquisition of the technical know-how to produce Octogen explosive materials and Octogen-based weapons” 

This development is similar to threats made a few days ago, when Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, “accused the United States and Western nations of being untrustworthy, in comments to members of the cabinet and senior parliamentary and judiciary figures in Tehran on Wednesday, FARS reported.” 

At that time Khamenei said: “The Americans cannot be trusted and, in addition to the Americans, certain other Western states are also the same; hence, we should put trust in our own abilities and the US officials’ positions and performance is also a confirmation of the same fact.” 

Naturally: “Iran maintains that because it cannot develop nuclear weapons under the deal, no missile is capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.” 

As far as Wallace is concerned, he needn’t worry about asking hard questions that might be upsetting. Because if it takes two years for the POTUS to return again, the only subjects he’ll be interested in discussing will be his golf swing and travel arrangements.   

On this otherwise boringly slow news day, a story appeared on FoxNews.com, co-written by Fox’s Garrett Tenney and The Associated Press, regarding the upcoming New York state primary on April 19th.

The authors write: “The friendly reception Ted Cruz got in Wisconsin – where he was boosted by the state’s governor and its influential conservative talk show hosts – must seem like ages ago as the Texas senator faces a very different scene in New York.” 

A decidedly more hostile reception was received from shouting protesters Wednesday in the Bronx,  telling him to “get out.” And reportedly, an event at a high school was canceled after students wrote a letter to their principal threatening to walk out if Cruz showed up.   

"Ted Cruz has no business being in the Bronx, this is an immigrant community,” one protester shouted. 

Then: “Fewer than a hundred people showed up for a Cruz meet-and-greet at a local restaurant in the Bronx – and front-runner Donald Trump, who got thumped by Cruz in Wisconsin, was more than happy to play up Cruz’s political problems with New Yorkers.” 

However, that was what happened in the city: “Still, Cruz may have an easier time in more Republican-leaning areas like Long Island or Upstate. The Bronx is tough turf for any Republican, and Cruz was taking his campaign to potentially more friendly territory on Thursday, north of Albany in Scotia, N.Y.” 

At the same time, “even if Trump holds his big lead in New York and snags most of its delegates, well over a dozen states have yet to vote, including delegate-rich California on June 7.” 

“Cruz’s chances of at least holding Trump under the necessary 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination – in turn, triggering an open convention – only grew after his Wisconsin win. 

“But Cruz nevertheless claimed the Wisconsin results showed a “turning point” in the race. His victory came after Trump suffered one of the most difficult stretches of the campaign, including having to walk back a string of varying statements on his abortion position. 

“We've beaten Trump over and over again,” Cruz said Wednesday. 

Thus, while New York is often flaunted as being a major electoral factor, because of its national image, in this years race it looks like its voting results really won’t matter very much. 

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

As reported on FoxNews.com: “The Democratic presidential race is getting uglier — pulling other party leaders into the fray — as Sen. Bernie Sanders lashed out at front-running rival Hillary Clinton as "not qualified" to be president because of "special-interest" contributions to her super PAC. 

"She has been saying lately that she thinks that I am quote-unquote not qualified to be president," Sanders told a crowd of more than 10,000 people Wednesday at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia. "I don't believe that she is qualified if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special-interest funds." 

"I don't think you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC," Sanders continued to cheers from his audience. "I don't think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don't think you are qualified if you have supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement which has cost us millions of decent-paying jobs." 

What’s most intriguing about Sanders finally beginning to peck away at Bill’s wife’s lack of presidential qualifications, is that he’s only scratching the surface of her shortcomings. Which means that this, perhaps, is only a test of the reaction he will get for his switch to a harder stance on her lack of capabilities. 

And if that’s so, he’s still got an arsenal of her major qualification lacks along with her criminality to employ against her. Which means that, with almost eight months still to go he’s got time to bury her altogether, regarding flaws of character and capability. And this is coming from one who should know, because that kind of information’s been posted here every single day for the past two years or more, with almost no repetition of what’s presented. 

It also leads again to the continuing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?     

That’s it for today folks.     

 

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