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After covering the upcoming Republican presidential debate on Tuesday, NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer promoted Hillary Clinton preparing to attack her GOP rivals: “Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is planning a preemptive strike against the barrage of criticism that she's expecting from her Republican rivals on that stage tonight. So today she’ll make her case on how she’d take on the ISIS threat.”
In the report that followed, correspondent Kristen Welker declared: “That’s right, Secretary Clinton won't be on that debate stage but she will try to pre-but the Republican candidates.” Welker added that Clinton would “try to paint herself as the adult in the room when it comes to national security.”