john: i'm john heilman. emily: i mark halperin. with all the respect to nicky hilton the only hilton that , matters is in washington. on the show tonight case it gets a shot and boehner calls the shot. washington reporters do jell-o shots and body shots. but first we will be at the hilton hotel here in washington along with president obama and several thousand of our closest friends for the annual white house correspondents association dinner. if you are thinking 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 where 10 or so presidential candidates are speaking. the latest days of the sheldon adelson primary is happening in las vegas. and jeb bush is holding a donor retreat in miami. what is the cosmic significance of these three big events? john: the religious right still matter in iowa. money still matters. and jeb bush cares more about his donors than about the national press corps. mark: it is the first time rand did a iowa cattle call. i think he might be the front runner in iowa. it might be interesting to see how good he does in a group that big. the 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 buzz in the political world that some of the people in his donor community think the campaign is arrogant disorganized, 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 is a big opportunity for them to get the donors engaged like , the obama and romney donors. john: they are flying people down to to florida to try to pry money out of their pockets. and the stories about the fact he was fund-raising by slowing. the massive show of financial forces, the core 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. that is a big deal. some of the donors don't know her particularly well. that is a big l -- big deal because jeb bush is going to need his wife by his side to get this done. the other thing about las vegas

and, beyond adelson is this notion, this question of winning the pro-israel primary. it's not just about adelson. i think you will see a fair amount of auditioning. he is the leading indicator. john: 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. it's just part of his plan to get in front of people who don't live in ohio. today he was typically unplugged. john kasich: you think about ohio, you'd think cows agriculture, steel. we have all that. the only risk to the bonds is if people stopped drinking. [laughter] in good times they drink and in bad times they drink more. i am a lot of different things. you can't pin me down on that one. it's killing me i'm not going to see linkin park in the next couple of weeks.

[laughter] it's mark halperin out there he put me through the music got lit. i think i did ok. mark: there's more. listen to governor unfiltered taking a fairly easy target at the gordon geckos of gotham city. john kasich: i think wall street is overwhelmingly too greedy. john: an external performance but a very kasich-like performance. in terms of the unhinged quality , can he be republican nominee? mark: some of his positions will rub people in the party the wrong way. it worked very well for john mccain in 2000. some people say in the digital age you cannot do things like that. i think we have rotated to a different place. i think he will say things that

will be controversial. he will be attacked. i think 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 the guy who is the most genuine. he is himself. i think it any age it really works, and it will work for him. mark: he said a lot today that no one else would ever consider saying. our colleague reported today that bill clinton has ended his role after being in that position for five years. that's funny because it comes after hillary clinton, on her very first presidential campaign event in iowa criticized the for-profit industry for ripping off students and taxpayers. republicans cried hypocrisy. the clintons 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

-- to do so. john: it is a first step to get the optical problems out of the way. they like to do a small thing to avoid doing the big things. i think this is throwing a bone to their critics, rather than the beginning of a wholesale cleaning of house. i don't see that coming down the road, but this is something, the glaring miss of the hypocrisy and the contradiction, is something they had to deal with. 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 about it. jeb bush had some issues with the industry. 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. the white house correspondents dinner. because we like to do things a little differently around here we are bringing 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 brief bio for the man called clyde. >> frazier, number 10. >> left-hand, ain't that peculiar. >> walt frazier, an all-time athlete since he was a boy. he quarterback his high school football team and played catcher in baseball. in 1967, already a top college basketball player, led southern illinois university to win the

nic at madison square gardens revered sports arena he would , come to call home. drafted by the knicks he earned the nickname clyde for wearing a hat. fraser dropped more than 14,000 points for the knicks. he won to nba championships. one of the all-time great hall of famers, he is the leader of a team fashionable dream and unrivaled master of the dope rhyme scheme. and no matter what his disguise is, he is still always full of surprises. >> you have a cell phone, but you don't know how to text. >> true. emily:john: why? mark: he is awesome. john: coming, 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. ♪

>> reince previous, welcome back to the show. 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? reince: usually my wife comes with me, that's fun. we get a babysitter. 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. donald driver, charles woodson and i'm waiting to see who will be there this year. maybe aaron rodgers will show up. john: that will be an exciting

moment. mark: one person who will not be there is hillary clinton. she is having a rough weekend in a lot of ways. john boehner told us that he thinks hillary clinton broke the law in conjunction with the e-mail controversy. he did not name the law. do you think she broke the law and if so, what law? reince: she is taking action similar to those type of people who end up breaking the law. 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. without question. clearly -- mark: there's not currently a statute.

reince: the freedom of information act is pretty clear. 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. we need answers to this. i think one thing is clear. i think there is common ground among both conservatives liberals, and everyone in between. at the very least, she needs to give up the server and conduct -- provide a full audit of where these donations came from, the e-mails and all the actions and payments received. common cause is now saying this. i have been saying it for a couple of weeks. the washington post, the new york times, all of the other outlets. i think we have common ground on this trait she needs to stop -- start talking. josh earnest has actually spoken

more about hillary clinton's e-mails in the memo of understanding, and and the clinton foundation than hillary clinton has. john: your friend john kasich gave a wide-ranging talk. he said one thing i want to get your response to. he said, "wall street is overwhelmingly too greedy." do you agree with him? reince: i don't know. i didn't hear the comments. mark: i know you didn't hear it. that's why i ready to you. reince: i would make -- not make a blanket comment like that. i would never make a judgment on an entire community and business. i wasn't a part of these comments. so i am just listening to you and reacting.

so i don't know what the context , was or what was said. i'm sorry, but i'm doing my best to respond. john: mr. chairman 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 are seeing sheldon adelson 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 of those strike you as being particularly consequential? reince: i think most of them are consequential. most of them were out at the republican jewish coalition meeting last year. i was there last night at our jc in las vegas. i took the redeye back last

night so i could be here for you guys today. obviously jeb and his team have to get their donors together and have a confab down there. it's pretty common that campaigns do that. 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. you know what? we are obviously almost in full campaign mode right now. luckily we shaved the actual calendar from six months to 90 days, which is good. we've got the debates. i am hopeful for a quicker process once the green flag goes down. john: mr. chairman, any hope your milwaukee bucks will come back against the milwaukee -- chicago bulls. reince: i hope so. it is tough to come back from 0-3. that's for sure. john: you are expressing an appropriate level of reserving

-- pessimism there. thank you. after the break -- there. john: does john boehner think baseball or football is america's pastime? ♪

john: yesterday i sat down with john boehner. tonight, the sequel. bipartisanship has broken out. there is less gridlock. there is progress on medicare, a new attorney general. you are 100 days in. what are the factors, the dynamics that are causing there to be some breaking gridlock? speaker boehner: the fact we have a change of leadership in the senate certainly has made a difference.

while i have a good relationship with the 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 -- doing 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 into the senate. they don't move nearly as quickly, but there is action. and it has fostered a lot bipartisan conversations on cyber security, on trade collecting of foreign intelligence, elementary and secondary education reform. there are a whole host of things where there are bipartisan and bicameral conversations. the members who good about it. mark: what challenges do you face? speaker boehner: i think dealing with the budget and appropriation process is dealing

-- is probably the biggest thing. i expect we will get a budget 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 needs. 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. managing our way through that this year will be a big challenge. mark: i want to move on to foreign policy. 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? speaker boehner: the message i heard from all of our allies from israel to saudi arabia to iraq and jordan and others is they are wondering where america is. when is america going to lead?

while we are doing the work to's -- to fight isis, sitting down with the iranians, our allies are doing 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. because what is missing here is an overarching strategy that will be developed with our allies to do with both of these problems. an overarching strategy does not exist today. mark: is it dangerous to the united states and its current policy? speaker boehner: it is a danger. they are recruiting people from every country in the world. their social media efforts at recruiting are really pretty incredible. there is not nearly enough being done to deal with it. mark: we ask a poll question about americans and foreign policy.

we ask them given all the conflict between president obama and prime minister net yahoo!. 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 sympathetic to the positions of prime mr. netanyahu. speaker boehner: the president wants peace between israel and the palestinians. and 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 they are, with regard to the palestinians 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 do you sit down and 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: national pastime. we asked in the same poll. what is the national pastime baseball or football. , what say john boehner? speaker boehner: i say football. i'm a long time reds fan. mark: what makes football the national pastime. speaker boehner: college football. i watched pro football. i watch 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, mitch mcconnell will be the majority leader, and you have a republican 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 and think they are all going to happen overnight. if i were helping to guide this process, i would focus it on one -- on no more than five things. five things that are important for the american people to get accomplished. focus in on how you can get them done, and 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. mark: that's three, you have two

more to go. maybe one on foreign policy. speaker boehner: i would strengthen our national defense. mark: and? speaker boehner: i would find out a way to educate more of america's kids. we educate half of our kids. they can't reach. we have to do as a society a better job of educating more of america's kids. mark: did you get everything off your chest you wanted to say? speaker boehner: sure. 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. you are messing it up. tomorrow at the white house correspondents dinner with our global special magnificent

correspondent walt clyde frazier. mark: that is tomorrow night right here on bloomberg politics and bloomberg tv. for now we say, sayonara. ♪

emily: work, family, life. we all perform a balancing act every day. it is a challenge. had we change that? i sit down with sheryl sandberg author of a book that sparked worldwide debate. and richard branson. we talked about how women and men can take on the challenges together. thank you for being here. i truly leave that this conversation is important and critical to the future of not just women, but men, women, and children in creating a better future. i'm glad to be a part of it. sheryl: