visit philipslifeline.com/caregiver today or call this number for your free brochure and ask about free activation. mark: with all due respect to president obama, we may not agree on everything but we definitely agree on where to get the best burgers. president obama: i want to give a shout out to five guys. ♪ mark: tonight, a trump meeting of financial disclosures and the cosby show. but first, the president's press conference on iran. he took questions this afternoon and was so disappointed, the press corps did not ask the questions he was prepared for at one point he asked himself some questions. hyper awareness of what critics of the deal are saying.

president obama: i'm hearing a lot of talking points being repeated about this is a bad deal. this is a historically bad deal. for all of the objections of prime minister netanyahu, the suggestion among critics saying i challenge those who are objecting. if the alternative is we should ring around to heal through military force, then those critics should say something. mark: he engaged not just with reporters but criticisms. did he help himself today? john: he did. he got out ahead and defined the terms that will roil washington and the rest of the country as congress fights out whether or not they will support the deal and whether or not opponents can gets enough -- enough support. mark: the best thing is to not have both chambers vote on a resolution of disapproval. or if they do that it fails. i think the white house thinks

there's not that great a chance, but it is a possibility. it's clear he is so engaged, he knows the criticism and he knows the individual criticisms can be trumped by the main thing -- a historic deal better than any alternative. john: one of the important things he raised, critics have to come through with a viable alternatives. that puts republicans on the defensive. it will be harder to make the case. mark: no one is as big a megaphone. the one thing he said was will embolden the opposition is he said there are two choices. this deal or war. he did not say sanctions. that is the main talking point of critics of the deal. john: i was slightly misleading, there is a contingent of democrats who wanted more sanctions by framing it the way he did, he has put the onus on his opponents. mark: he came off pretty strong. john: every reporter focused on iran and suffer one. april asked the president

whether bill cosby's presidential medal of freedom should be taken away after cosby admitted to drugging women. obama says he knows of no meccas and national innocent to do that but then he brought down the hammer. president obama: as you know i tend to make it policy not to comment on the specifics of cases where there might still be if not criminal, then civil issues involved. i will say this. if you give a woman or a man for that matter, without his or her knowledge, a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, that is rape. and i think this country anything civilized country should have no tolerance for rape.

john: did the president supercharge what was already a growing national debate about sexual assault? mark: he did and not just about that but those caused me himself. this is the first time he spoke in public about it. it is clear how passionate he is . he has two daughters and a lot of influential female advisors. the outrage he showed, he is going to elevate the topic. i think this is for cosby, very tough moment. john: for me what was stunning was not the specific thing, but the fact that he said it he preface this by saying i don't usually talk about these cases. but what is remarkable, we have seen a cash buyer on -- catch fire on college campuses. here is president obama hitting on the hottest hot button issue within the rape sexual

assault here and making this part of the national dialogue even bigger than it was. mark: if you had asked him during the boston marathon bombing trial, how do you feel about the defendant, he would have said i will not comment. must be not been charged but he left no doubt in the minds of people that this is something he takes seriously. very strong. john: he spoke to valerie jarrett and got background. mark: keith at the same, zero tolerance. he wanted to send that message and he did loud and clear. today is the deadline for all presidential campaigns and committees to file. how much they have raised, what they spent the money on. here are facts and figures from the latest rundown. martin o'malley democrat, micah to republican, raised about 2 million. rick perry, $1.1 million. although he's better in the super pac. bobby jindal raise $600,000. chris christie's super pac raised a decent chunk at $11

million. senator sanders is that $50 million. and very hyper vet -- percentage from donors who gave less than $200. when we added up the money by all the campaigns, it is about $376 million. hillary clinton and jeb bush and their supporters have raised almost exactly half of the money so far. that tells you about the power of those two. another financial deadline donald trump filed personal financial disclosures. he says he is worth $10 billion, makes it easily to riches person ever to run for president. with all these fundraising numbers, what catches your eye? john: is that he is really rich. there was a conspiracy. the -- conspiracy theory among

cynical reporters that he wouldn't release this information. but we found out today, he is really rich. he makes mitt romney look like a popper. mark: everyone talks about this being the cycle of the super pac. there's no doubt it is easier to raise, but the hard campaign dollars matter a lot. it is still what moves the campaign around. a lot of the functions can only be performed by the campaign. with the exception of hillary clinton, bernie sanders, jeb bush, a few others raising hard dollars is hard. john: imagine if donald trump decides he wants to self fund. mark: i keep saying people underestimated whether he would run, his wealth, and he's taking great pleasure in telling how great she is. some republicans are skeptical and say maybe he engaged in an exaggeration which would be problematic. but he clearly is the richest person to run. john: speaking of, he had a

meeting scheduled with senator ted cruz. mark: that is one way of handling the donald. the other is to push them aside like what jeb bush did in i want to stay. -- in iowa on tuesday. >> on our side, there are people who prey on people's fears and angst. i think it is wrong. i think we need to unify our country. we need to stop separating ourselves by race and ethnicity and income. we need to focus on the things that tie us together. whether it is ronald, or barack obama, their rhetoric of divisiveness is wrong. mark: jeb bush is now distancing himself. ted cruz is embracing it. john: there is no question that the jeb bush heisman maneuver is

better. trump is toxic to what the republicans need to do. it is unfavorable numbers has risen among latinos. the group the republican party believes it needs to make inroads with to win. mark: what do you think is behind ted cruz is warm embrace? what is behind the notion of the two of them getting together? john: i don't know. i think maybe he's expects -- he suspects tromp will flame out. he wants to be a beneficiary and he wants the surge of support we have seen donald trump get from republicans. mark: if you look at ross perot in 92, the clinton bush campaign had the same posture. suck up to him. he invited emissaries in dallas. they also tried to dump opposition research on him. and also tried to steal his ideas. i think ted cruz has at least two of those. coming up, after this break

clinton advisor jennifer paul mary, right here. ♪

mark: our guest is longtime confidant of bill and hillary clinton jennifer. thank you for coming. iran is the lead story. president obama made it clear he is going to work hard to convince congress to not block the deal. secretary clinton spoke out does she plan to lobby congress to urge congress publicly and privately to let this deal goes through? jennifer: she talked yesterday about it. she did six caucuses, the deal had just broken. she spoke in favor of it. mark: will she keep it up? jennifer: i imagine, i think it will continue to be in the public debate and she will continue to talk about it. keeping fit is something she started working on and she thinks it is really important.

josh: good chance she will be the next president. will she be willing to go to democrats who are on the fence and say, you can trust me to enforce this? jennifer: she spoke yesterday about enforcement and how important that is and if she were elected president the priority she would make on enforcing it. i could see an argument for mixing the presidential campaign with the congressional debate may not be in the best interest of the legislation, but she spoke about it yesterday and i think it is important -- she thinks it is important they profit. mark: the other big news was bill cosby. will hillary clinton join in calling for the president to revoke the medal of honor and asking bill cosby to return it? jennifer: i don't know. i just saw the president's comments about it.

it is really disturbing stuff. mark: have you ever heard her comment on it? jennifer: i haven't. mark: the foundation has gotten money from bill cosby in the past year he has campaigned for her in the past. do you know if they will give the money back? jennifer: i don't. the foundation, there have been a lot of donors that have given money. wealthy people give money to help poor people, then we think that is positive. mark: so regardless of what a donor might do they will not give it back? jennifer: i think the foundation can also speak to this. but this is wealthy people giving -- a good overall point wealthy people giving money to do good work for poor people. mark: scott walker was asked

about the boy scout rule to allow gay leaders. he said i have had a lifelong commitment to the scouts and support the previous policy because it protected children and advanced scout values. that cost controversy. he was asked about the comment in south carolina. here is what he said. >> i thought they should be protected from the political and media there's nothing wrong with that. -- mark: he seems to be saying something different today that scouts needed to be protected from discussions of the gay leaders in scouting. the human rights campaign called what he said originally offensive, outrageous and unacceptable and playing gay

adults represented a threat to the safety and well-being of young people. what do you think? jennifer: it is hard to discern where he was going today, but i think the idea that gay adults cannot be scout leaders is wrong. mark: what about the human rights campaign thing, saying that he was right -- saying gay people represented a threat? jennifer: i think if you are saying that gay adults cannot be scout leaders, because they can be trusted, that is really offensive. mark: josh: jeb bush and affiliates have raised 100 $14 million. you and yours, $65 million. is it your view that jeb bush will out raise you? jennifer: yes. that without a doubt. it is a great concern. mark: anything you can do to catch up? jennifer: the super pac are going to out raise us.

traditionally the ones on our site have not done as well as the republican side. that is because they have businesses self-interest in republicans being elected. what was your question? josh: is there lethargy alone -- among liberal donors? jennifer: i think they need to be worried. people need to be very worried about republican super pac. it is hundreds of millions of dollars, it is undisclosed, i see all sorts of creative ways different ways people can spend the money uncharted territory. i am concerned that democrats are not taking it seriously enough and they should be really worried. we are really worried about this. we are going to be outspent. we still think she can win but this is a threat. mark: we have some more

questions for you, different category, different topics. coming up, after this. ♪

mark: we are back with clinton advisor jennifer paulmieri. hillary clinton answered a lot of questions. we want to have you answer those. >> can you tell me the story of how you decided to delete 33,000 e-mails and how that deletion was executed? hillary clinton: let's start from the beginning. mark: she gave an answer but did not address it. want to focus on the second part. what was the process? jennifer: i'm not sure that was actually the full question. mark: it was. she said how did you decide and how is it done? how was the process? jennifer: the lawyers looked

through all of the e-mails. at the time, it was in fall 2014. mark: i'm not talking about the story, one we get down to it, she said i'm turning this 30,000 over. what happened physically? jennifer: that, i don't know. i don't really understand -- mark: you don't know who did the deletion? jennifer: no, i know they went through the e-mails and the lighted it up -- divided it up. mark: now we will talk about two things you know a lot about. relationships and hillary clinton. we are going to ask you, something we call 2016 book. what is the status of her relationship with senator sanders? jennifer: i think they like each

other. mark: things are good between them? jennifer: i thought they served together in the senate, by land they did not. mark: we heard yesterday, pretty warm interaction at the caucus. jennifer: yes, i heard that is what it was. josh: from friend and me to former boss, what is her relationship to president obama? jennifer: that is a fascinating thing to watch. there is real affection, a lot of respect, they are protective of each other. she thinks he has accomplished an extraordinary amount. she watched with her husband went through, how hard it is to do that, and the circumstances under which president obama achieved success with even more so in terms of republicans willingness to work with him.

she has a tremendous amount of respect for him, and thinks people don't give her -- him enough president. -- respect. mark: what is up with her and mr. trump? jennifer: what she said in public was the same as in private. mark: i bet she was mark under -- colorful. she has been to his wedding. jennifer: it's not really what we talk about. i really don't know. mark: what about jeb bush? jennifer: they probably know each other, he was in office for one year -- she is very concerned about how much money he is raising. we are all concerned about that. she doesn't really talk about him much. mark: let's focus on her husband. obviously, that is a good relationship.

some people are surprised, it seems like he helped to work on the announcement speech, but he is obviously not campaigning yet. what role does he play now? does he ever call you? jennifer: he does. these are questions between us. mark: you can characterize them broadly. jennifer: i ask him for advice. he is one of if not the greatest strategic minds in the country. mark: he's your former boss. you just call him up? jennifer: i'm not going to get into it, but -- you won't let me speak. speeches, themes, policy ideas what do you think voters are thinking about, i love it when he's in the room. i'm always fascinated to see

hear what he has to say. he comes to some strategy meetings. not to headquarters. mark: when he comes, does he act like just one of the people in the group, or a little different? jennifer: it is a little different. he is really is -- he is who he is. but he is also the candidate's spouse. it is her campaign but he is this extraordinary resource. he will do campaigning. mark: when? jennifer: we don't have a timetable. mark: your friend, he said something that got picked up and your colleague put out a statement that said, john admits to inking at times the price can be a bit psychotic. what does john podesta mean by that? jennifer: i think he means that the press --there are different

phenomenons. the creation of storylines, you are called up and -- an example, an old example. tension between hillary clinton campaign and the white house. completely false, but you have to address it in a story anyway. it is psychotic john throws that word around. it is crazy to come to us with a fabricated story line and leave it to us to have to defuse it. that is an example. mark: thank you. we hope you will come back regularly. we will be right back. ♪

mark: thank you to jennifer, who always is very cooperated. and understand in politics and political journalism, sometimes a little humor goes a long way. remember, we are on twice a day at 5:00 and 8:00.

thank you for watching. until then, thank you for watching and sayonara. ♪

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