who is this bill clinton? >> having lived through the '90s i remember i read an article when clinton was leaving office and they talked about what a smart guy he was. and i think that aspect of his personality it's the part that made him brilliant strategies. a brilliant politician, a brilliant policy makers. he was the guy who wanted to be kennedy. he wanted to have that shining city on the hill. he wanted to help people's lives. >> all right. duke, to you. you play billy clinton. the not-so-good clinton? >>ee haw! >> who is the not so good or the bad clinton? what is that character? >> he loves people. and he loves a good time. he loves to let his hair down. it gets in trouble. >> is that? you're going leave it like that? >> yeah! this is a very loving roast of the clinton white house. it's not all about bill clinton. it's about the whole time of innocence before we got into the mess of 9/11, the completely divided politics. it's a look back at the more innocent time, i think, in our policy. >> i want to put

it ought not be about president bill clinton. it ought to be about who the democratic nominee is and whoever the republican nominee happens to be. i think they will work hard to get people to the forefront. it ought not be personal, petty and small and about beating up a former president. >> what's politics if not personal, petty and small. this week on fox, vice president cheney accused the president of decimating the pentagon. let's watch. >> it's not just about iraq. it's the fact that now iraq and syria are both potential trouble spots. as we see this proliferation of terrorists we have an administration that didn't want to recognize the problem. they like to say, we got bin laden, problem solved. or we decimated al qaeda. what they have decimated is the u.s. defense department. >> he had similar criticisms in montana this week. >> when i was secretary we had a two-war strategy. we had to maintain sufficient forces to fight two wars at once. he switched that. now we are going to have a one-war strategy. that's all being done

clinton only got a third of the country's vote jie. 42%. >> you are a big lover of bill clinton. do you remember those days in the 90s where everyone had their own dot-com? >> i do. everybody was poor. that's all i remember. >> we made a million dollars and then lost it all. >> that was fun. this says more about our rent -- recent president than bill clinton who we have a nostalgia for because the 90s was nice, but clinton is such a gangster and it is not just the sex and the lying, he allowed al-qaeda to develop. there was all of these shady last-minute pardons for his big political donor. >> we remember that. >> when he left office everybody is like, wow, we are glad to get rid of him. after the last guy and then this guy, it starts to look a little better, but this is more about the last two presidents. i share the george h.w. bush love. >> he jumped out of a plane the other day. >> he is 90! >> everybody loved him. >> longer the time goes by though we think of people in a kinder light. when he left office he was so unpopular that his vice president went down in flames. do you

bill clinton, a different kind of democrat. as governor, arkansas has the second lowest tax burden in the country. you don't have to read his lips, read his record. clinton-gore, for people, for change. >> the democrats had lost the last presidential campaign to tax pandering by george h.w. bush and bill clinton wasn't going to let that happen again this time. so he tax pandered. he echoed pat buchanan, and while he was at it, bill clinton made himself a tax cutter. he offered a middle class tax cut as a center piece of his campaign, so bill clinton won the presidency by attacking the last republican president willing to compromise with democrats on taxes and attacking those republican members of congress who joined that compromise with democrats, and in effect, the democratic nominee for president was attacking the democrats who put that tax bill together. in his ad, you saw him slamming the nickel increase in the gasoline tax saying we couldn't afford that, and denouncing the second biggest tax increase in history. and just a

and that's what they did to bill clinton and that's what they continue to do for bill clinton and for hillary clinton. >> so errol, the former president was speaking to the denver post and had a comment, like i said i'm a bit player. whatever she wants to do is fine with me. he says he's going to be a bit player. to me this feels like the big dog getting in the game. >> exactly. i mean, bill clinton says little old me. i can't imagine anybody would want to pay me to speak. he just come from an eight-year presidency in which he went from expensive household to expensive household. this is not somebody who i think is going to be the man from hope anymore. that's long in his past. he's a former president. he's an elder statesman, a global figure, a very wealthy man. if he can figure out how to campaign like that and still have the clinton cannot common touch, then he'll really help hillary. >> bill clinton is never a bit player anywhere he goes or in anything he does. remember back to the original bill clinton campaign two for price of one, they don't want to say that again, but honestly

. >>> the clinton's money, bill clinton jumps to his wife's defense in an interview with david gregory, with their post white house wealth now suddenly an issue. >>> and without warning. the summer threat that has even some meteorologists worried. tonight separating fact from fiction, where the danger is concerned. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening, you're about to see an up close look at the effort to defend baghdad. isis has been grabbing up a lot of real estate while approaching the capitol city. richard engel embedded with an iraqi military unit. more u.s. military advisers arrive just today and as so much of that nation has already crumbled. richard is back inside baghdad to start us off. richard, good evening. >> good evening, brian. secretary kerry was here today at an emergency mission to try to hold this country together. iraq is increasingly breaking into three distinct pieces. as we saw today, the iraqi armed forces are mostly just trying to hang on to what they still control. >> iraqi troops today retook a village from islamic extremists in western iraq. but captu

clinton. >> that was a different bill clinton. >> regoogle. >> now it's -- well, i mean bill clinton this year and of course when it became much less popular, he stopped defending it, but this is what the left -- it's collective amnesia on the left. >> there was 23 senators in all who voted against the war authorization. hillary clinton was not one of them, harry reid was not one of them. chuck schumer was not one of them. bill clinton was a fairly public defender of the iraq war authorization. so it hurts his credibility to make these arguments. you can still be critical of the execution of the war while supporting authorization. >> i would put myself in that category. i supported -- i, like 70% of americans, i believed -- >> this was the story of the '08 primary that hillary clinton could not get around her initial authorization vote. she was critical of the war execution, but in the end she couldn't get over it because barack obama had made that speech. and i think this is still a problem for her. >> let's be clear, in both cases, not to doubt president clinton's sincerity in eith

on an issue like this, bill clinton cannot defend her. she needs to make her own case in a nondefense you've way about what she meant. now that she is really rich and continues to have a connection with americans who weren't. >> quickly, i want to get to the current president. we talk about the former president. the role that current president, barack obama would play in hillary clinton campaign. the one thing that jumped out at me at this tour is hillary clinton found way to distance herself from the house on syria, on the central american children crossing the boarder. seems to me like hillary is positioning ahead to the general election versus the democratic prima primary. >> and for president obama, this is very much about legacy building. he will be much in the same position that bill clinton was as he was leaving office. to say, what is my legacy for helping other democrats. he has begun to lay the ground work, endorsing the hillary campaign recently at white house correspondents association dinner. it is a different question than w

. >>> plus bill clinton riding to hillary's rescue. but did you just make things a whole lot worse? >>> and world cup soccer player takes a bite, literally, out of the competition. and it's not the first time he's done it. talk about a fetish. let's go "out front." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight the fight to save iraq. american military advisers just arrived in iraq. there are 10,000 militant fighters in the country and across the border in syria. that may not sound like a lot but they're doing a lot of damage. isis continuing a deadly march through iraq taking over towns and cities. these are new pictures posted on a twitter account associated with isis. they allegedly are taken in the northern province of nineveh. we haven't been able to confirm the authenticity. these are the pictures they're posting, with launching rocket, men lined up before they were shot and executed. as you can see from behind and much closer to baghdad, the video that we're going to show you here posted on youtube. again, we haven't been able to independently confirm this

on an issue like this, bill clinton cannot defend her. she needs to make her own case in a nondefense you've way about what she meant. now that she is really rich and continues to have a connection with americans who weren't. >> quickly, i want to get to the current president. we talk about the former president. the role that current president, barack obama would play in hillary clinton campaign. the one thing that jumped out at me at this tour is hillary clinton found way to distance herself from the house on syria, on the central american children crossing the boarder. seems to me like hillary is positioning ahead to the general election versus the democratic primary. >> and for president obama, this is very much about legacy building. he will be much in the same position that bill clinton was as he was leaving office. to say, what is my legacy for helping other democrats. he has begun to lay the ground work, endorsing the hillary campaign recently at white house correspondents association dinner. it is a different question than what yo

you look now and bill clinton is the most popular political figure in the country. he has amazing personal skills. when you look back particularly with the economy the way it is now, the economy was very good during that period. when it became politically necessary he found a way to compromise with newt gingrich, of all people, and get deals done on welfare reform and balancing the budget. he promoted trade, got some trade agreements, which i think helped the economy. so you look back and put aside some issues of veracity and other really important characteristics but still his record as a whole stands up pretty well in many cases. i think that when people see a dysfunctional washington, it makes him look better in retrospect. a lot of young people don't remember the bad. in fact, i saw tweet once about we need to elect the clintons to restore honesty in government. and for anyone over maybe 40 that might seem like an oxymoron. but for the or people they remember the clintons as in the context of his -- as a former president he has been extraordinary. and they mostl

bill clinton versus dick cheney. cheney writing about president obama's approach to iraq saying rarely has a u.s. president been so wrong at the expense of so many and bill clinton was asked about that and responded with this. >> mr. cheney has been incredibly adetroit for the last six years or so, attacking the administration for not doing an adequate job of cleaning up the mess that he made. and i think it's unseemingly. >> and now, dick cheney has responded. here you see him. >> there's somebody who knows something about unseemingly, it's bill clinton. >> well, they're in the sand box. >> sure. >> but that's -- forgive me. that's not funny. it's not funny what dick cheney did. it's an insult to the men and women he put at risk all these years. cheney was criticizing obama for not having the right exit strategy in iraq when it's clear that cheney's exit strategy was not to have one. >> we'll leave it there. thanks to all of you. appreciate it. tens of thousands of central american children are flooding the border i

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. >>> the clinton's money, bill clinton jumps to his wife's defense in an interview with david gregory, with their post white house wealth now suddenly an issue. >>> and without warning. the summer threat that has even some meteorologists worried. tonight separating fact from fiction, where the danger is concerned. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening, you're about to see an up close look at the effort to defend the city of baghdad from heavily armed militants going by the name isis who have been grabbing up a lot of real estate while approaching the capital city. richard engel embedded with an iraqi military unit. part of this effort to tighten down the defenses around baghdad as more u.s. military advisers arrived just today. and as so much of that nation has already crumbled. richard is back inside baghdad to start us off. richard, good evening. >> good evening, brian. secretary kerry was here today at an emergency mission to try to hold this country together. iraq is increasingly breaking into three distinct pieces. as we saw today, the iraqi armed forces are mostly just try

you look now and bill clinton is the most popular political figure in the country. he has amazing personal skills. when you look back particularly with the economy the way it is now, the economy was very good during that period. when it became politically necessary he found a way to compromise with newt gingrich, of all people, and get deals done on welfare reform and balancing the budget. he promoted trade, got some trade agreements, which i think helped the economy. so you look back and put aside some issues of veracity and other really important characteristics but still his record as a whole stands up pretty well in many cases. i think that when people see a dysfunctional washington, it makes them -- it makes him look better in retrospect. a lot of young people don't remember the bad. in fact, i saw tweet once about we need to elect the clintons to restore honesty in government. and for anyone over maybe 40 that might seem like an oxymoron. but for younger people, they remember the clintons as in the context of his -- as a former president he has been extraordin

bill clinton. the future and whether his wife or end up running for the white house. >> good morning, everybody on this wednesday in new york city. it is "market makers." this is a theory. >> you know what, we are connected. this is how it works. i do not know if bill clinton will say his wife is running for president, but i am pretty sure she is. we will see. the one person in america who thinks she will run. >> he is not aware because he is canadian. i am feeling it. >> time for justice, or at the very least time and time for the justices. any minute now the u.s. supreme court will rule on one or more cases with implications for american business. they can hughes is that the supreme court. what are we waiting on today? left to beses decided. big day at the supreme court. you can see the cameras lined up judges to come out. three cases that are critical to the business community. let's run through those. hobby lobby versus a bilious. the affordable care act requiring employers provide contraceptio

we don't care. >> that could be bill clinton's response. i think from the get-go hillary clinton's could have been so different and so groundbreaking. i think she could have say, no, we've done incredibly well. we left the white house in debt but that was easily fixed by the work we were able to do. put aside what bill made, i made a lot of money and i want to be a ground breaker for women and make sure i lift them up and help many more women make a lot of money. would that have hurt people? >> it's the difference between republicans and democrats. we're proud when we work hard and make lots of money. i think some democrats are just guilty. maybe they feel guilty about being rich. >> do you really think -- >> ari is here, very proud to be rich. >> he just took a bath in money. >> why can't we just say i'm rich and proud of it. >> are you suggesting bill clinton is guilt ridden when he goes to bed every night? i'm not picturing that. >> why can't they just say we're wealthy and we're proud of it? >> i think she skrould made -- >> we worked h

it all began when hillary clinton said she and bill came out of the white house dead broke. today business insider ranks bill and hillary clinton as the wealthiest of the living first couples at over $30 million. in an entire with "meet the press" moderator david gregory, mr. clinton said it is true they were several million dollars in debt at that time. >> do you understand as a political matter that that could strike people as being out of touch. >> yeah, but she's not out of touch, and she advocated and worked as a senator for things that were good for ordinary people and before that all her life, i remember, she was working on trying to -- believing in paid leave for pregnant mothers in the 1970s. >> the entire exclusive interview with former president bill clinton airs this sunday on " meet the press." >>> support for u.s. involvement in the iraq crisis continues to wane. the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll finds nearly three quarters of americans surveyed believed the war in iraq was not worth it. 22% believe it was. half believe the u.s. is not obligated to

and bill clinton did it. you know, it's always looking at bill clinton because he knows the way to win. the problem is you have to have something like his skills. >> because it's a high wire act to take on your c party but thefiercity and thes you have to take risks. when chris christie wants to do it, they're not afraid. >> rose: they want to do it. they don't disqualify you from being president -- >> within hillary clinton or whatever will win by acclimation. >> rose: i'm surprised when you say they don't want to do. >>just to go back to bill clint. the way bill clinton took on the institutional african american establishment class. >> rose: one night. >> he took on a series of the institutional parts of the democratic base and in various ways even when there was only one night, they had big huge resonance and the media elevated them and he was able to kind of distance themselves. who among republicans in the last eight years, six years excuse me has done that. and what appetite. i believe what mark says is

and bill clinton did it. you know, it's always looking at bill clinton because he knows the way to win. the problem is you have to have something like his skills. >> because it's a high wire act to take on your c party but thefiercity and thes you have to take risks. when chris christie wants to do it, they not afraid. >> rose: they want to do it. they don't disqualify you from being president -- >> within hillary clinton or whatever will win by acclimation. >> rose: i'm surprised when you say they don't want to do. >>just to go back to bill clint. the way bill clinton took on the institutional african american establishment class. >> rose: one night. >> he took on a series of the institutional parts of the democratic base and in various ways even when there was only one night, they had big huge resonance and the media elevated them and he was able to kind of distance themselves. who among republicans in the last eight years, six years excuse me has done that. and what appetite. i believe what mark says is ri

he drove republicans crazy, because his third party campaign in 1992 allowed bill clinton to take the presidency away from republicans by winning only 43% of the vote. now the tea party, which has been nurtured by the republican party for the last few years, is grumbling about splitting off into a third party after a devastating loss for them last night in mississippi, where the tea party candidate challenged the senior republican senator thad cochran in the gop primary. and no one is more angry about what happened to chris mcdaniel than chris mcdaniel. >> there is something a bit strange. there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary that's decided by liberal democrats. i guess they can take some consolation in the fact that they did something tonight, by once again compromising. by once again reaching across the aisle. by once again abandoning the conservative movement. >> one translation of that is, there is something strange about an american election that's decided by american voters. senator thad cochran won with almost 51% of the vote. cochran's margin of victory

bill clinton. his true business-grade internet comes bill clinton. his with secure wifi for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. >>> i always liked him. you know, i liked him because after he had a very tough fight with president reagan, when he finished second and he was asked to be vice president and he did. >> though they were once strong political opponents, it turns out former president bill clinton was always one of george h.w. bush's admirers. 1983. gov association met up in maine. and he hosted them at his house. so we went there and i had my daughter who was then three years old i walked up to the vice president and i said, mr. vice president i'd like you to meet this man the president of the united states and she said where is the bathroom?

bill clinton did it. it is always instructive to look at bill clinton. he knows the way to win. you have to have something like his skills. it is a high wire act to take on your party with the ferocity of the base of the republican party now and their intolerance for dissent is such that you will have to take risk. when jeb bush wants to do it, when chris christie wants to do it, they can do it. >> do they want to do it? >> then whoever the democratic nominee will win back on nation. >> they have not exhibited the appetite. the way bill clinton one, taking on the establishment class, he took on a series of the institutional parts of the democratic base in various ways. they had big resonance. the media elevated them. he was able to distance himself. who republicans has done that? jeb bush and his heart may want to do that. chris christie has the ability to do that. they haven't shown appetite for doing that recently that i can recall. >> the other thing clinton did well, welfare reform. a fundamental challenge to the orthodoxy of your party. there is nobody like that. he built a

in 1993, maya angelou recited her poem "on the pulse of the morning" at bill clinton's inauguration. she was the first poet to make inaugural cetacean since robert frost at john f. kennedy's inauguration in 1961. resident clinton spoke at saturday's memorial. >> i loved maya. the last time we were together was just a couple of weeks ago at the lbj library in austin. they were having a 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights movement. i gave my little talk and we , and it wasis lunch like a political version of the "antiques roadshow." [laughter] bill russell came up and hug me and reminded me how short i was. i looked over and there was maya. i went over to her and hugged her and said, i cannot believe that you have gotten yourself here. because i am just wheelchair-bound, doesn't mean i don't get around. [laughter] [applause] that is the first thing i want to say, that girl got around. [laughter] let me tell you how this all started. my first encounter with maya angelou was as a young man when i know why the caged bird sings." shortly after he came out, i read it and i w

but we are in the midst of a huge hillary clinton/bill clinton produced production. the likes of which we have never seen anything like this in our history. and we're watching what they want us to watch and they are perfecting this stage craft adds we go through the next year or two, thinking that she is going to run. we got a good preview tonight. she handled a lot of it very well but it's there is this kind of aggressive defensiveness on some questions and yet we see as i learned doing this biography there are genuine aspects of her that came through. and that's what we want to see more of. what we don't see is real introspection and that is the point we want to see and never do. >> what we are seeing is what they want to produce. they are running the show. until there is serious competition out there and she is asked serious questions on the real campaign trail she has started that. but carl mentioned that there is some defensiveness especially about monica lewinsky. i wonder if that is part of her defensiveness. let's listen to what she said, maggie, the first qu

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but the most morniimportant thi remember, we are in the middle of a huge hillary clinton, bill clinton-produced production. >> amen, thank you, carl. >> we have never seen anything like this in our history and we're watching what they want us to watch. and they're perfecting the stage craft as we go through the next year or two, assuming she is going to run. and we have a pretty good preview. she handled it very well. there is this kind of aggressive defensiveness on some questions. and yet we see as i learned doing this biography, there are genuine aspects of her that came through. and that is what we want to see more of, what we don't see is real introspection, and that is what we always want to see and almost never do. >> right on, carl, right now we see what they want us to see, the interview they produced. until there is serious competition and she is asked some really serious questions on the real campaign trail. she has already started that. but carl mentioned there is some defensiveness, especially on the monica lewinsky scale, and first question, maggie, is to you. >> monica lewinsky i

bill clinton made tens of millions within minutes of leaving the white house. she's hardened by those battles. does she need to let that go to be an effective presidential candidate? >> to the ex-thaent a lot of millennials who will be voting don't remember the rawness the democrats had over those fights. they're not going to nod their heads and say, oh, i understand what she's angry about. it doesn't sound like they understand that. >> her husband will never let it go either. he has the capacity to transcend that. the public doesn't know that. >> maybe it's the voice that helps him do it that maggie noted. >>> up next, our reporters get you ahead of the big political news. her vo) when i was pregnant... i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of me and my baby. luckily, unitedhealthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get the right care and guidance-before and after the baby is born. simple is good right now. (anncr vo) innovations that work for you

you have to understand the problem bill clinton has. bill is to politics what fred astair was to dancing. he want to have ginger rogers out there dancing just as fred astaire did. so he spent several days in a row saying, come on honey, can you do it. and she goes, oomph. today he stood up courageously. nice she was in the audience studying him. i hope she learned a little bit about how do this. i think there's a big problem. i don't think has a candidate that she dances very well. >> a couple things going on here. first of all, i this i that hillary clinton politically, what she fought for, the middle class loves and is for and i think if you put what she is up to and what she has been fighting for against any republican, oh, look, she makes mistakes, putting her foot in her mouth, you're just mad because republicans have been doing that for the whole past two years and now you finally got a democrat making mistakes. now what she's got to do, she's just got to get comfortable. say, there's no american anywhere that would turn down $80

president obama knows bill clinton. i think he's observed bill clinton's career. he knows hillary very well, who is likewise the target of the hunting as much as president clinton was. and will be more now as we are seeing with the benghazi hoax, and all the rest. so yeah, it does strike a chord. the thing about the characters in the hunting of the president, and they were characters, is that they were actually funny some of them. they're sort of the detectives from arkansas, and weirdos trying to make money from the so-called scandals, and ken starr who had his own sort of humorous uptight persona. but now, it's just pure -- i think pure viciousness directed at the president. there's nothing funny about it. what i wrote about today in "national memo" we're seeing the wholesale abandonment of basic principles here. libertarians are supposed to believe in the law, and the respect for the military. and in the military code of conduct, that you don't leave a soldier on the field. or in captivity. whatever the gossip, rumor, report on that soldier might be, that's som

bill clinton versus dick cheney over some unseamcomments. this is "way too early." good morning, i'm bill karins, and welcome to "way too early," the show that has perfected losing and feeling so good about it. world cup fever has spread across the country despite losing to germany. team usa, the unlikely underdogs are still moving on for the round of 16, we'll have those highlights and more coming up in sports. topping the news, though, the supreme court has unanimously rebuked president obama over the way he has used some recess appointments. the issue stems from appointments he made to the national labor relations board all the way back in 2012. they were made during brief breaks on the legislative session on capitol hill. while the court agreed to curb the presidential power, the justices are split over how much to limit the appointments. saying they're okay during breaks of ten days or more. the conservatives argued, it should be ended, calling it a throwback to a different era in the senate when it took lawmakers longer to convene by horseback. mitch mcconnell

. >> so has bill clinton. >> she has senator from new york. she has been the secretary of state for four years. >> these are all great things. >> you guys roughed her up pretty badly. >> in fact a number of democrats have discussed recently in a "washington post" article that they are a little nervous about how hillary is coming off. the real question here that i have for this esteemed table is what is joe biden doing? because it feels like a "veep" episode. i feel like he's giving hill oar sort of a tutorial in how to talk about this kind of stuff. >> you'd think he would deliberately sort of punch her? >> oh new york ci, no. >> anybody that's been around the vice president. newt? >> i knew him as a senator. >> what he said today was nothing new for joe biden. he talks about his life story all the time because he -- he counts himself as very fortunate. he comes from a very modest family. >> is he running for president, that's the question. >> i have no idea. >> hold on, guys. >> one more thing like that -- >> hold on, guys. stay here, we want

>> let me tell you what bill clinton thinks and then i'll tell you what i think. bill clinton thinks, and he said this in front of several people, that obama's looking for a mini me, a guy who will come -- a woman who will come out of nowhere the way he did and take the mantle of the left wing of the party which obama represents and beat hillary in the primary campaign. >> wow. >> so there really is a blood feud here. >> oh, there's definitely a blood feud. >> since we had you on your book is selling gangbusters. you're doing tremendously better than hillary clinton's book out there, but i notice that no matter what you do and what you say regardless of your background with "newsweek" magazine, editor and all the years you spent with them that every time you talk about sources and you say you can't reveal them because they are people close to the clintons, people close to the obamas, people say, we, we can't believe you because the sources run named. what -- what is the mainstream, how do they do sourceing? >> that's a good question, sean. you know, i'm reminded o

so should we feel that sorry for hillary clinton? that doesn't sound so good. >> her pants are made of solid gold. by the way, the book, it's just a pant suit. every word in that book is basically written by committee to ensure that there would be -- no one would take offense. it's not a book. it's a scale model anti-inflammatory book. it's -- it's a scale model of a book. if there's no controversy, there's no truth, right? if you have to smooth it out so much, what else is in there? you need to have a couple of things in there that go poof and make you want to read it. >> what do you think of this interview, her comments? >> on that question in particular, i think that what diane sawyer was asking is people on the left are going to ask hillary clinton about, wait a minute, you say you are all for the little guy but you are making $2 hundred, -- $200,000 a speech is actually low for reports that i've heard. some of them have been considerably higher than that and who is paying for those speeches? a lot of them like goldman sachs, cit

bill clinton did it. it is always instructive to look at bill clinton. he knows the way to win. you have to have something like his skills. it is a high wire act to take on your party with the ferocity of the base of the republican party now and their intolerance for dissent is such that you will have to take risk. when jeb bush wants to do it, when chris christie wants to do it, they can do it. >> do they want to do it? then whoever the democratic nominee will win back on nation. they have not exhibited the appetite. way bill clinton one, taking on the establishment class, [indiscernible] took on a series of the institutional parts of the democratic base in various ways. they had big resonance. the media elevated them. to distance himself. who republicans has done that? heart may wants to do that. chris christie has the ability to do that. they haven't shown appetite for doing that recently that i can recall. the other thing clinton did well, welfare reform. a fundamental challenge to the orthodoxy of your party. there is nobody like that. pretty good coalition in the center as

bush or if you look at bill clinton or if you look at ronald reagan sure i mean the answer would be that you could and people should be wary i mean this is this is sort of the case that i'm making is that we've become so comfortable with the executive branch of the government abusing its citizens and violating our rights and violating what they're structured to do under the law that we've just become used to it and if we start treating them as criminals maybe they'll think twice before they act so criminally in the future or would mix it with them it was a possibility of them diving if you remember the right only did impeach but he would have had to be impeached this is the problem under the law then and right because the way that it works is that under american law barack obama could literally strangle somebody on camera today and he would have to be impeached and then he would have to be tried in the senate and convicted and only then could you actually bring a criminal indictment against a president that you can't bring a criminal indictment against sitting president so you appoint of

going back to this bill clinton/barack obama hatred. it's pretty interesting -- when bill clinton said they played the race card on me and they planned to do it from the very beginning, he never got over that, did he? >> never. and to this day he talks about it almost like compulsively. how could they play the race card on me? he keeps on talking about it, he considers himself still the first black president, even though we now have a real black president. >> i have a friend of bill clinton's, i'm not going to say who, who told me he thinks obama is the most incompetent person he's ever seen in politics. is that true? >> that's true. and bill has said that repeatedly in private conversations among his friends and associates that this guy is, as i once called him, an amateur, over his head, he's incompetent, and his by constitutional unable to really manage things. >> you explain in the book there was a deal, that the reason that bill went so heavily for him in 2012 is because -- >> they agreed during a golf game that bill would go all o

going back to this bill clinton/barack obama hatred. it's pretty interesting -- when bill clinton said they played the race card on me and they planned to do it from the very beginning, he never got over that, did he? >> never. and to this day he talks about it almost like compulsively. how could they play the race card on me? he keeps on talking about it, he considers himself still the first black president, even though we now have a real black president. >> i have a friend of bill clinton's, i'm not going to say who, who told me he thinks obama is the most incompetent person he's seen in politics. is that true? >> that's true. and bill has said that repeatedly in private conversations, that's he's incompetent and unable to manage thing. >> you planed there was a deal. that the reason that they went so elf for him is they agreed during a golf game, even though he didn't like him and didn't think he deserved reelection and he said so, if in return obama would promise to back hillary in 2016. that was the deal. >> and there was a big bat

bush or if you look at bill clinton or if you look at ronald reagan sure i mean the answer would be that you could and people should be wary i mean this is this is sort of the case that i'm making is that we've become so comfortable with the executive branch of the government abusing its citizens and violating our rights and violating what they're structured to do under the law that we've just become used to it and if we start treating them as criminals maybe they'll think twice before they act so criminally in the future or would make certain we had tapes and there was a possibility of them diving if you remember the right only did impeach but he would have had to be impeached this is the problem under the law then and right because the way that it works is that under american law barack obama could literally strangle somebody on camera today and he would have to be and be impeached and then he would have to be tried in the senate and convicted and only then could you actually bring a criminal indictment against a president that you can't bring a criminal indictment against sitting pres

clinton boulevard and bill clinton stature and in such a country so these ties are extremely strong and the u.s. needs them for these investments and for their job political really. strong advocate who get off the hook but won't ever speak of a military base outside of the u.s. is last year which is a good bill to buy a chiar which is that how impertinent subsidiary and who is in charge of coburn at that time was george bush's vice president so they're all thinks it's an economic just richard schickel at a military complex working together and reaping the benefits of a war which cost of the lives of thousands the thais i agree are incredibly transparent anybody can go online and put them together connect the dots nicola markov its author and co-founder of solidarity for kosovo thanks so much for being in the navy very much. i. was doing in switzerland has intentionally killed a healthy bear cub that not only killed the cob but handed him over to a taxidermist to be stuffed all because the cubs father was acting aggressively towards him and all the stuffed baby bear will teach childr

i'm happy that bill clinton did well. that's the least of the issues we should discussion. >> you don't think it hurt romney, that perception of wealth in the last election. >> i think unfortunately mitt romney allowed it to become on issue the way he handled it. he was almost ashamed he was perceived as a rich guy. i think americans want successful people running the country. bill clinton worked hard for his money, his wife worked hard, whether giving speech, he sat on board, that's what former presidents do. >> david? >> good luck to anybody who tries to make bill clinton out to not under the issues and problems of ordinary middle class americans. i want that fight. if someone accuses bill clinton of that. he came from nothing, a single mother and worked for what he has and deserves it. god for him. >>> all right. tom doherty, former advisor if gormg pataki and democratic strategist david jones, thank you for joining me, >>> the gaza strip may have to close too many of its beaches. there we go. that's because more than

basically to say that bill clinton's a stoner. joint man never happened, sad to say. political campaigns do regularly do these kind of stunts. before they ran against bob dole in 1996, it was 1992 when bill clinton was up against george h.w. bush, and a guy in a chicken suit was sent to all the campaign stops. president bush did not love this, and he and his campaign ended up getting in a few well publicized fights with the chicken. this is just become a thing that campaigns do to try to get under the skin of the rival candidate, ruffle some feathers. use a great visual of the man in the funny suit on to tv or in the paper. in '08 a man in a squirrel suit. they tried to relate president obama to the group acorn. it made sense to have the squirrel visibly bother the obama campaign, there by getting the acorn issue into the coverage of his events. the squirrel had a blog and a twitter feed, the squirrel seemed to have a good time on the campaign. here's the randomly acorn squirrel richard simmons for no reason. the squirrel claimed to fire up the squirrel community agai

that was about bill clinton, and he beat us. i have no problem saying that. >> just in "the washington post" poll over the weekend, are you honest and trustworthy and 60% of the american people have said -- >> let me ask you this, as an example of hillary's claims, because the book, she claims her greatest achievement in the state department was restoring america's image around the world. now, let's look at what happened during the years she was secretary of state. basically, world approval of u.s. leadership peaked at 49% in 2009, and then declined until by the time she left, it was at 41%. now, wouldn't you normally say that a decline from 49% to 41% is not an achievement? >> well, i think if you actually look at the years before that, which is the context, what were the numbers in 2006, 24%, 23%, so those numbers have moved up. i mean, math is math. >> hillary will run against george w. bush? >> if you're asking about restoring america's leadership -- >> honest about where we're starting, when we took office, it was 34%. >> a

people want to hear bill clinton speak. he worked very hard to build a track record to make him attractive to donors, but this is not like shoveling coal. this is not like building a factory. and so there is that aspect too. it's not like they have acquired their wealth from hard work. >> true. and i know this isn't the popular answer. there's sort of a double standard with presidential candidates. mitt romney was judged for his wealth. she'll be judged for her wealth as well. but the reality is to run for president. you have to have a certain level of comfortability. >> but it's not the wealth that's the issue, it's being in touch. >> it's not even now that you have to have a certain amount of wealth. if millionaires can't run for president, we have about five presidents, right? but i think it's how you talk about it. look, she should say -- same thing, mitt romney's problem i think was not his wealth, it was how uncomfortable he was talking about his wealth. this is the same issue. just say, look, we've been very blessed

. >>> plus, my news making interview with former president, bill clinton. his strong defense of hillary clinton and harsh words for dick cheney about iraq. >>> and what does one of president obama's closest advisers think about the prospect of hillary clinton running for president? unique insights as our cynthia mcfadden gets rare, behind the scenes access of the white house. >>> good sunday morning, we want to begin now with this increasingly bitter divide here in washington. will speaker boehner's planned lawsuit over executive power end any hope of action during the remainder of president obama's term? our congressional correspondent, kelly o'donnell, brings us up to date. >> reporter: a fractureded relationship that once displayed at least fleeting moments of public friendship, from their one-time-only golf outing to warm praise for family roots. >> how the son of a bar keep, the speaker of the house. >> reporter: and soon, chief litigant? a new fissure broke open over the constitutional boundaries of the president's job scrip i will. >> today in americ