>> the only hilton that matters is in washington. on the show tonight case it gets a shot and boehner calls the shot. but first we will be at the hilton hotel here in washington along with president obama and thousands of our closest friends for the annual white house correspondents association dinner. you think about running for president in 2016 chances are you won't be there. white house wannabes will be

busy doing their own thing. there is the iowa faith and freedom summit for 10 or so presidential candidates are speaking. and jeb bush is holding a donor retreat in miami. what is the cosmic significance of these three big events? john: religious right still matter in iowa. money still matters. and jeb bush cares more about his donors than the national press corps. john: it is the first time -- mark: it is the first time rand did a iowa cattle call. he will show a video and then give his stump speech. that will be interesting to me. las vegas, george w. bush is opening for his brother. and finally jeb bush, i agree with you, the donors are really important to him. this group has a buzz that --

maybe not being as forthcoming with the donors. there was a call for some of the big donors where very little information was provided. it was a big opportunity for them to get donors and cage, like the obama and romney donors. done bang hearing about that kind of thing, there is arrogance and too much aggressiveness. they are flying people down to florida to try to pry money out of their pockets. and that the stores about the fact he was fund-raising by slowing. the massive show of financial forces, the court key element of what jeb bush is doing to try to make his claim. you have to keep that on track. mark: mrs. bush is appearing at one of the events. some of the donors are there -- that is a big deal because jeb bush is going to need his wife by his side to get this done. beyond abelson -- beyond adelson

is this notion this question of winning the pro-israel primary. i think you will see a fair amount of auditioning. john: that is in -- that is a leading indicator. what the republican presidential field needs is a man who says what is on his mind, a man like governor john kasich who spoke at the new america conference. just part of his plan to get in front of people who don't live in ohio. john kasich was typically unplugged. john kasich: you think about cows, agriculture, steel. the only risk to the bonds is if people stopped drinking. in good times they drink and in bad times they drink more. i made a lot of different things.

-- i am a lot of different things. it's killing me i'm not going to see linkin park in the next couple of weeks. mark: there's more. listen to governor unfiltered taking a fairly easy target at gordon of gotham city. john kasich: i think wall street is overwhelmingly too greedy. john: a very basic-like performance. -- very kasich-like performance. can he be republican nominee? mark: it worked a lot, very well for john mccain in 2000. some people say in the digital age you cannot do is like that. i think we have rotated to a

different place. he will handle it in a way that will make you more popular. john: i have three reasons why this is going to work to his advantage, authenticity, authenticity, authenticity. he is genuine. i think it will work for him. mark: he said a lot today that no one else would ever consider saying. that's funny because it comes after hillary clinton on her very first presidential campaign event, criticized the for-profit for hire industry. republicans cried hypocrisy. the clinton said his resignation had nothing to do with his wife's campaign. does this resignation suggest that the clintons understand they need to clean up their act and they are moving to do so you come john: it is a first step to

get the optical problems out of the way -- do so? john: it is a first step to getting the optical problems out of the way. i think this is throwing a bone to their critics rather than the beginning of a wholesale cleaning up. i don't see that coming down the road. the glaring miss of the hypocrisy here at the contradiction is something they had to deal with. mark: it will be interesting to know if they are pulling teeth or whether he knows everything. if you look at the history of clinton controversies, often what causes the problems is the staff doesn't know every fact. and the clintons want to move slowly. this suggests they are doing something. there was a lot of buzz that jet which had issues -- that jeb bush had issues. john: very close to them but not like the way the old clinton

people are. we are taking a break from covering the next president so that we can hang out with the current president. because we like to do things a little differently around here, we bring in nba legend walt frazier with us. he will join us for red carpet coverage. in case you are unfamiliar who this great man is, i took some time to compile a greek -- compile a brief bile for the man called clyde -- brief bio for the man called clyde. >> a left, ain't that could kill your -- left-hand, ain't that peculiar. >> walt glazier -- walt frazier an all-time athlete since he was a boy. in 1967, already a top college

basketball player, led southern illinois university to win the nic at a revered sports arena he would come to call home. drafted by the next he earned the nickname clyde for wearing a hat. fraser dropped more than 14,000 points for the makes -- for the neicks -- for the knicks. he is a fashionable dream and unrivaled master. and no matter what his disguise is, he is still always full of surprises. mark: he is awesome. john: coming one of our on special guest -- one of our

special guests will be here. we will ask him which parties he didn't get invited to. after that part two of our interview with house speaker john boehner.

john: you were sitting here on the break of an important evening. who are you looking for to meeting and why do you like this event as much as you assume you do? >> usually my wife comes with me that's fun. we get a babysitter. i like to talk -- i like talking to folks in the media. i don't know who will be there this year. every year it seems like i meet a green bay packer at the white house correspondents dinner. i'm waiting to see who will be

there this year. maybe aaron rodgers will show up. john: that will be an exciting moment. rice bank one person who will not be there is hillary clinton. -- bryce rice -- reince: i asked him for a law and he didn't name one. -- mark: i asked him for a law and he said she didn't break one. do you think she broke the law? reince: i think when you have requests for documents that are clearly out of their and someone deletes over 30,000 e-mails, those are the types of things that have the potential to be criminal. clearly -- mark: there is an clearly --

there isn't currently a statute. reince: i'm not judge or jury to decide if someone is a criminal or not. i think she has taken actions that have the potential to be criminal both from the e-mail standpoint and potentially with these donors that haven't been disclosed and all these fees that are going around. i think there is common ground among both conservatives liberals and everyone in between. she needs to provide a full audit of where these donations came from, the e-mails and all the actions and payments received. common cause has been saying this, i have been saying it were a couple of weeks. -- saying it for a couple of weeks.

josh earnest has actually spoken more about hillary clinton's e-mails and the clinton foundation that hillary clinton has. john: your friend john kasich gave a wide-ranging talk. he said "wall street is overwhelmingly too greedy. do you agree with him? reince: i don't know. i didn't hear the comments. i would not blanket lee make it a comment that not blanket lee -- i would not make a blanket comment like that. i would never make a judgment on an entire community in business. i wasn't a part of these comments.

so i am just listening to you and reacting. i don't know what the context was or what was said. i'm sorry, but i'm doing my best to respond. john: we were talking earlier about the white house correspondents dinner being here tomorrow. there are a lot of republican presidential candidates that will not be here because they are down in florida. people see out in las vegas the faith and freedom conference. a lot of them are out in other places. can you talk about the importance of those events, which one strike you as being particularly consequential? reince: most of them were out at the republican jewish coalition meeting last year. i was there last night took the redeye back today.

i am still and asked them for you today. obviously jeb and his team have to get their donors together and have a confab down there. i think the iowa event is very important and being the first in the country caucus and having all those potential delegates in the room are important to all the candidates. we are almost in full campaign mode right now. luckily we shaved the actual calendar from six months to 90 days, which is good. i am hopeful for a quicker process once the green flag goes down. john: any hope your box will come back against the greens? reince: i hope so. it is tough to come back from

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mark: is to the idea that congress is finally getting something done. >> there is grass -- there is less gridlock. a new attorney general pass today with bipartisan votes. what are the factors, the dynamics that are causing there to the not to some breaking gridlock talks of other topics as well. >> the fact we have a change of

leadership in the senate certainly has made a difference. while a good relationship with a former majority leader -- the fact is not much came to the floor and their members were not engaged on the floor with each other doing votes to win amendments. the fact that the senate is actually working is helping us. on the house side we are able to move bills. now we are seeing bills moving not nearly as quickly. but there is action. and it has fostered a lot conversations on cyber security on trade, electing foreign intelligence elementary and secondary education reform. there are a whole host of things . the member don't care about it. >> what challenges do you face? >> i think dealing with the

appropriation process is dealing -- i expect a budget yield agreement sometime soon. and the appropriation process is going to start earlier. we are going to have some challenges because we have a bigger defense edge it. the president is threatening to veto these spending bills because we think we need to put more money in defense and he would rather spend more money on nondefense items. it will be a big challenge. >> you met with a lot of world leaders in the middle east. what do you think president obama is doing or not doing that is making america less safe? >> the message i heard from all of our allies from israel to saudi arabia to iraq and jordan and others is wondering where america is.

when is america going to lead? while we are doing the work to's -- to fight iso-and our allies are doing other things as well. the problems of isil and iran spreading terrorism throughout the region's growing faster than what we and our allies are able to get our arms around. what is missing here is an overarching strategy that will be developed with our allies to deal with all of these problems. mark: is it dangerous to the united states, current policy? speaker boehner: it is a danger. their social media efforts at recruiting are really pretty incredible. there is not nearly enough being done to deal with it. mark: we had a poll question about americans and foreign policy. we ask them given all the

conflict between president obama and prime and esther netanyahu, we asked if they are more some pathetic to netanyahu or president obama. how would you answer that question? speaker boehner: good try. good effort. the president wants peace in the middle east. mark: an overwhelming number of republicans in the poll said they were more some pathetic to the positions of prime mr. netanyahu. speaker boehner: the president wants peace between israel and the palestinians. so do i. for that matter so do the israelis. but you cannot force a peace agreement on people who cannot come to an agreement. as long as hamas is in a powerful position as they are, this is a terrorist organization supported by iran, who made it clear they think israel should be wiped from the face of the earth. how'd you develop a peace

agreement with people of that attitude? i think the administration has overplayed their hand, over pressured the israelis, and the prime minister of israel gave a fabulous address to the congress about the real threats that america and the rest of the world face. mark bank we asked the national pastime, baseball or football. what say john boehner? speaker boehner: i say football. i'm a long time reds fan. i root for the bangles, iwatch pro football. i watched the super bowl. college football is pretty exciting. i have seen my share in the fall. mark: you seem to be enjoying the last 100 days.

you have a democratic president who i think it is fair to say you have been a little frustrated with creative what will life be like for you in january 2017 if you keep the majority connell -- mitch mcconnell will be the majority leader you will be president? speaker boehner: it will be an exciting time to take an agenda and get it enacted. you can't come into a situation like that with 100 ideas that are all going to happen overnight. if i were helping to guide this process, i would focus it on one of five things. a five things that are important for the american people to get accomplished. focus in on how you can get them done and how you can get them done. mark: get rid of the affordable care act? speaker boehner: get rid of the obamacare, fix the broken tax system. the regulatory nightmare that is out there.

i would strengthen our national defense. i would find out a way to educate more of america's kids. we educate half of our kids. they get it up they can't read. when you look at -- get eight they can't read. there's a fact that all the remedial education may have to do. we have to do a better job of educating more of america's kids. mark: thank you. i appreciate it. we will be right back with a full-screen promo for our activities tomorrow.

john: when i say clyde you say fraser. tomorrow at the white house

correspondents dinner with our global special magnificent correspondent walt clyde frazier . mark: that is to my own night on bloomberg politics and bloomberg tv. for now we say sayonara. ♪

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