visit philipslifeline.com/caregiver today or call this number for your free brochure and ask about free activation. mark: i'm mark halperin. john: what all do respect to donald trump, you just found your secretary of state. ♪ dennis rodman endorsement for donald trump. first, the cash of the day. the new york times broke the story that two inspector general's requested a review whether e-mails from hillary clinton's personal cap was mishandled and one of the ig's

asserted that she either received or sent e-mails that should have been classified. there has been less than meets the eye and hillary addressed the public today. mrs. clinton: i want to say a word about what is in the news today and uh, it is because there have been a lot of inaccuracies as congressman cummings made clear this morning. maybe the heat is getting to everybody. we all have a responsibility to get this right. i have released 55,000 pages of e-mails. i have said repeatedly that i will answer questions before the house committee. we are all accountable to the american people to get the facts right and i will do my part. john: do we all love

responsibility to get this right? on a scale from one to godzilla how do you view with this? mark: it looks like a three but it is a potential to go back up to a six or seven or higher. if there is a criminal investigation -- it is a disaster for her campaign. there is no doubt the new york times initial report is not 100% correct. john: the new york times started by alleging -- the initial story said there was a criminal investigation. now it is not necessarily the case of the moment. mark: there is clarity -- the relationship with the new york times and the clinton campaign will not be any better today than it was last week. the bigger issue is that she mishandled the situation. we all know that. it is becoming clear her imprecise language, even today

she has been using imprecise language which will only come back to haunt her. some people and the government have questions about whether information was mismanaged. john: they have done a spot check. 30 e-mails and they have come back with -- it should have been more classified. there are thousands more e-mails to be considered. she had a private server and that would have been vulnerable to hackers. it is not just about imprecise leg which which i agree with you but very substantive risk to those who say it is ridiculous in the first place whoever set up the private server. mark: there are facts we know that would be bad for hillary clinton if they ever came out today. hillary clinton won the to date to be about her new economic proposal of which there were five main ones she had today at nyu.

issue number one -- overhaul the way capital gains are taxed. number two, shareholder activists. number three, change taxes on executive compensation. number four, empower workers and raising the minimum wage. issue number 5 -- john heilemann, end brinkmanship. or -- mrs. clinton: real value comes from long-term growth, not short-term. profit it comes from building companies, not stripping them. creating good jobs, not eliminating them. from singing workers as assets not costs to be cut. american business needs to break free from the tyranny of today's earnings report to do what they can do best -- innovate, invest and build

tomorrow's prosperity. mark: is this bundle of proposals good policy and politics? john: she is trying to find something that is not too far left. the capital gains proposal will complicate the tax code but she has people in wall street who like this proposal. she might have found it in the democratic context. what you will get hammered on the end is the executive compensation thing. when the obama administration tried to mess around with it, there was bipartisan outrage with the government getting involved with that. mark: i think it is good politics for sure. on a macro level, she is talking about the economy. on a micro level every one of these things she is proposing is positive. the danger is she is going through politically.

big government -- almost everything is not a third way between democrat and republican. big new government programs and regulations. she is leaving yourself very vulnerable. john: at this moment, these are serious and substantive proposals. they are mostly not just talking points. if you have a minute today check out bloombergpolitics.com. check out the chris christie campaign second tv ad -- protect america. the subject iran. the imagery scary. mr. christie: president obama gave away to the iranians. he has negotiated so badly, you don't want this president to buy a car for you. the number one priority is to protect the united states of america. i'm chris christie and i approve this message.

john: it is crazy. what does this ad say about himself, the views of his rivals and the electorate? mark: i cannot believe that he is saying he has at least some experience. who would have thought chris christie would run an ad on national security? i get that, but every republican is finding these are big themes. i cannot believe this is what chris christie thinks he is going to run and win given the fact he does not have that much experience. john: he is referring to his time as u.s. attorney. there are four u.s. senators who would stand up and have their heads explode when they think chris christie is claiming he has more for policy experience. the scowl on his face -- that is not strength, that is sort of scary. mark: there is no doubt because he really clinton has -- hillary

clinton as that experience republican voters care about it. coming up next, we go behind the scenes -- big secret is revealed with our campaign reporter after this word from our sponsors. ♪

mark: our guest tonight, bloomberg politics colleagues who cover the campaign in new york today. we want to talk about the candidates. we will start with our colleague who covers capitol hill. you wrote some reporting on republican senators are thinking, or what they will pay you, about trump. >> they are not feeling really good about it. the answers i gave ran from thinking he will go away to thinking that is not good for the republican party. not a single endorsement. even jeff sessions who was in line with them on immigration, policy wise, said he does not

know if trump is good for the republican party. >> candidates do not want to jump on him either. scott walker was lucky to have his campaign announcement last week so he did not get blown under it will continue to be a problem. collects the democrats love it. hillary clinton just kind of cheered him on. martin o'malley called him a racist. this is not what democrats want to see because they are singing donald trump is the standardbearer for their party. it will appeal to a lot of voters in the middle. >> republicans know they cannot go after him because they will he will tear them apart. mark: is there just hoping for the best? john: you were just talking about scott walker. talk about what it has been like lately.

how is he doing? >> he is doing ok. he had several unscripted moments last week where things happened and reacted fairly well on his feet. i get better access to them than you probably do for hillary clinton. john: a little bit. >> every campaign ago 2 -- anything else on the republican side, they joke about hillary clinton. >> especially the o'malley camp. mark: some of the governors have troopers but you can walk up to him. >> i had a nice little off the record conversation about his favorite beers and that we should have a sampling. you actually have access to these people. >> some of these people. john: does he like pbr? >> he leaves it to the hipsters. john: old-style should be his

beer. >> i'm surprised about the issue of access. the shame day -- marco rubio and chris christie were working a parade of 40 yards apart and every reporter was going back and forth. >> he is ok if she does not. >> in new hampshire a couple of weeks ago, it had to do with secret service and advanced work less about the media and the press team trying to control it. it was other people part of the equation because she is somebody with secret service protection and a candidate with summary reporters on her trail all the time. >> she is in the unique position. anything she says or does will get massive media coverage. mark: except maybe trump. scott walker, your candidate, he

has been both criticized and praised for being remarkably on message. you have unstructured time with him. he is pretty good in those unstructured cases right? >> he was in davenport and a homeless vietnam war veteran approached him. he was wearing harley davidson gear and the man said he wanted to pray with him. this is probably a good moment for scott walker, but he put his arms around the man and he prayed with him. you don't know how that will turn out as all the cameras are on you. it turned out ok with him. that is the kind of thing that happens to me all the time, by the way. mark: talk about jeb bush as a candidate. how has he been?

>> he is not as adept. the one time i was with him in las vegas, he had been behaving as though he had all the time in the world. pretty much connecting pretty well with voters. he walks away from the voters into the space with reporters, it is like personality changed immediately. now he is yelling at -- expressing, you know, unhappiness with an aide who admittedly was going to walk them through a space where there were protesters. that is not where you want to have that. mark: he somehow knew that. >> he might have handled it a little better with the aide. john: he is yelling at an aide in front of the press. >> jeb bush is the only candidate who has not held elected office since facebook or twitter existed.

it has been a long time since he has done this. >> he says again in from of the press corps and i want to go home now. mark: you knew you could hear? collects absoljohn: you spend some time with trump in baltimore. it was very un-politician like. >> trump is the anti-politician on a lot of levels, right? you bring a baby up to trump and his reaction is kind of like -- a baby? anyone who wants to have a picture with him -- ok, make it snappy, instead of making that moment to connect. >> what about chris christie with babies? >> i think he does pretty good. his image is i am a dad. i'm comfortable with families.

i think he does pretty good on that. >> he does. mark: there is another metric besides hugging which is fundraising. he just announced his finance committee. i think once upon a time he think he would be. how were the feeling about where he stands? >> the big news was one of his cochairs. i think the feeling within the campaign is that was really a good get for them. she is someone who was vital in the business world, incredibly wealthy and powerful. i think they were pretty happy with that. >> and with carly fiorina. mark: with jeb bush. we talked about earlier in the show, where is the week ending with the females? >> this is totally not how they wanted to end it. they were not happy with the initial new york times story.

the subsequent reporting has suggested there's people around her it is not going to be a criminal case. that all of that makes it better, but to reinject e-mail into it when she is trying to focus on the economy and grassroots organizing is not the dynamic. mark: thanks to the five colleagues joining us. up next, the iran deal through elizabeth drew after this word from our sponsors. ♪

john: elizabeth drew chronicled the white house just released a book about the iran nuclear deal. she talks about the playacting surrounded the deal beginning with seeming democrats. elizabeth: most of them act that

it is terrific. they have to look like they have given praise and consideration. john: on the republican side almost everybody has come out and announced the deal. they have made slightly full's of themselves -- fools of themselves. you say that they are undermining the position. do you mean politically or substantially? elizabeth: both. they are just automatically against it. the person to watch his bob corker of tennessee. he has not denounced it. he has raised questions about it. if he comes out for or a resolution that modifies it he can probably bring about five or so republican senators.

john: the key democratic character is chuck schumer someone who is saying he has not read the deal so he will not say anything. obviously, not a very strong -- a strong supporter of israel. tell me about the calculations you think are going on inside that calculating head? elizabeth: a lot of people are pro-israel that like the deal and think it is good for israel. he is pro-israeli government -- that is the difference between aipac. right. there are many that say you can do very little for israel without supporting the government of the day is saying. john: give us a sense -- han dicapping things now. give us the sense of handicap ping how likely it is president obama gets the numbers he needs.

elizabeth: in the senate, you have 34 votes to have an override of a veto. they would pass a resolution of disapproval and that is what the president would veto. we will get there. john: what is your sense of how the president thinks about this deal? elizabeth: one of the criticisms not to be made about barack obama is he is dumb. he is a very smart man. he is going to be around in 10 years when the deal runs out, or 15 years. he does not want to walk around as the guy like that. not having this deal means of they get a bomb sooner. john: i want to talk about this book of yours. the paperback version called washington journal -- it is reporting richard nixon's downfall. is it time to celebrate or commemorate richard nixon -- the

40th anniversary of richard nixon's resignation. in the book, you have a new afterword basically about what has changed and what has stayed the same in the 40 years since richard nixon left office. what has changed and what has changed -- stay the same? elizabeth: my afterword is how richard nixon came from ruins and he brought himself back up by the establishment. five presidents went to his funeral -- the greatest victory of all. we are more alert. could there be another watergate? there cannot. you cannot go into richard nixon's head and his psyche. are we more alert? we had more mechanisms for stopping transgressions. i don't think you will see --

well you will not see the kinds of things that went on and we can stop it sooner. john: the blurbs for the book -- many people praised it when it first came out. in the paperback, people revising their praise. one was tony lewis talking about the time. the constitution came alive in our own albert reinhold -- a reminder that american politicians can rise and respond to crises. those are heartening reflections on those times. watergate was a great mess. was ait a great triumph? elizabeth: it was a constitutional struggle. was the president going to be held accountable to any branch of the government? get a response of the courts the congress and the public,

obviously. it was not forrgone that the president would be impeached. he would have been impeached in the house and probably convicted in the senate because enough evidence came out at the last minute. the upside was the house judiciary committee -- a lot of them quite ordinary and they rose to it. there was james madison -- very serious and thoughtful about it. against the odds, they came up with article -- three articles of impeachment that were accepted widely by and they did it in the senate and a bipartisan way. try that again. john: congratulations. nice to see you. our thanks to elizabeth drew and get the new paperback version of washington journal. up next, our most creative you viewer.

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