Gates, Gates, Cook made Clinton's VP list

Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates and Apple chief exec Tim Cook were among nearly 40 elected officials, military leaders and corporate CEOs that Hillary Clinton’s campaign considered for vice president last spring, according to a list that appears in emails hacked from Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and disclosed by WikiLeaks.

The list emailed from Podesta to Clinton last March included several Democratic senators, among them Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tim Kaine of Virginia, who was eventually picked by Clinton.

Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Clinton’s opponent in the hotly contested Democratic primary, also made the list — at the very bottom.