i'm dana bash in washington. any time now hillary clinton is expected to officially launch her 2016 bid for the white house. her announcement will come by way of social media. cnn will bring it to you as soon as it's released. hillary clinton's first trip after she announces will be to the first caucus state of iowa. that's where our senior washington correspondent joe johns is. joe, look. we remember back in 2008 this is where hillary clinton did very poorly. not just losing to barack obama but even john edwards. this is do-over time for her there. right? >> reporter: you're supposed to learn from your mistakes. and while no one in the likely

hillary campaign is talking about it right now, one of her great mistakes from her run in 2008 was not doing well here in iowa. she was out organized by then-senator barack obama. so now getting off to a good start means meeting the voters where they live making the campaign about the voters. connecting with them on their level and we've seen some of that in the mission statement in the hillary for america memo that went out in advance of this weekend. so the expectation is they'll try to show a more humble hillary clinton willing to fight for every vote. the rollout on social media seen as a soft start. a humble beginning, if you will. and also an opportunity for her to connect with younger voters being on social media. what to expect assuming her announcement comes today, democratic strategist tells me they are trying to run an extraordinarily tight and managed campaign with an attempt to avoid some of the in-fighting and the missteps of the last

go-round. we're already seeing that from some of the radio silence from her inner circle. talking with clinton supporters there is also a sense she needs to re-introduce herself in a way we have not seen in more than a decade. many people know her as the former secretary of state, but supporters want to show the woman who is also a mother, a grandmother, and someone with a quick sense of wit about her, something people may have lost in the years she's had in international politics. dana. >> joe, thank you very much from iowa. we're going to come back here to talk about their insights on the 2016 clinton campaign. our team covering her. it is cnn's washington correspondent jeff zelany and our washington correspondent brianna keilar. bri, what are you hearing from team clinton about how they're planning this slow roll rollout. >> it's been a couple days now. they've gotten a lot of attention since we've known for a couple days this is coming. the video has been taped for some time.

it is going to come out today. really any moment now. and then it's off for that campaign travel both to iowa and to new hampshire. it really is so key the tone that she strikes and that she does show some humility. if you go back and watch her video that announced her candidacy eight years ago, it does have this sort of sense of entitlement about it i'm in and i'm in to win. so she goes to iowa. her politics are wrong because of where she was on her iraq war vote. the tone was wrong. the tone of her staffers was wrong. there was this sort of sense of i'm leading the pack and it is going to work out for me and it rubs iowans the wrong way. even though we've known for some time she's going to run, today is so key and this week is so important. >> you remember she came in on a hill-acopter. the plane that she came in on. >> but that was to create a bit of excitement about her because at that point barack obama then was already getting some attention. that was at the very end. i think there are a couple

things being misremembered about 2007 though. i was there. along the way she was very popular initially. but the iraq war vote weighed her down in such big ways. and john edwards. he went after her hard if the fall of '07 saying she's too tied to wall street she's too close to this. and barack obama was not a good candidate through a lot of '07. he kind of came up at the very end and around the side of her. i think it is a bit overstated how disastrous her run in iowa was. she was not connected to them necessarily, but barack obama expanded the pool in iowa. more people came out than ever before. that's why he won, she did not. she still got the traditional caucusgoers here. so she enters it with no sense of humility. she has to show she's fighting for it. >> there is a balance between too much humility to the point where you don't excite the base. because that's an issue when you look at all of those elizabeth warren supporters out there, begging her, from massachusetts,

to run because they just aren't jazzed about hillary clinton. right? >> i think she's -- the way she does that is by going in and putting in the tile. i think the sense is when you that uk to those close to hillary clinton, especially those who worked on the 2008 campaign they were very surprised on caucus night because the turnout was so much more than expected. then the turnout went so much for then-senator obama. but i think she goes in and she puts the time in. but if you talk to people close to her they were really sort of traumatized. iowa is this place that i think makes them almost a little nervous thinking about it but i also think there's some eager in es to kind of rewrite that chapter and they see this as really an opportunity to do that. >> no doubt about it. she was underserved by her campaign staff in '07 and '08. there was so much in-fighting in her arlington va headquarters virginia. headquarters. they are always a better candidate the second time.

i think she will be as well. >> brianna? jeff? thank you very much. we'll rely on your reporting in the next hours and days. one democrat who is very bullish on hillary clinton's white house run is california senator snore barbara boxer. i spoke with her a short while ago. >> i think that hillary clinton is going to be the champion for american families. and the fact that she's a woman is a fact. it is a factor. . but it isn't the be all and the end all. because if you know hillary the way i do and a lot of people do, you know she's warm you know she's compassionate. and when she came to the united states senate she proved that she was a really a workhorse and she listened and she's going to start this campaign by listening. but she is going to relate to every day americans. and i think becoming a grandmother, as i did so many years ago, makes you think about tomorrow and i think that she's going to be a candidate to make

the changes we need now, and she's going to stand for what we need to do to lift up our children lift up the middle class. and you know all this talk about, oh wouldn't it be great if we had a fierce democratic primary? i just don't buy that. she's got ten republicans who are going to beat up on her starting today. they actually started yesterday. and it's going to hone her skills. >> you know senator, you bring up the fact that she's already getting hit by republicans. no question about that. but tactically that could pull her more to the right and perhaps depress the liberal base in a way that is not necessarily helpful to her. you know very well that your colleague, senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts, is really exciting that base in a way that perhaps hillary clinton is not. why is that? >> well i don't buy into any of what you just said. elizabeth warren signed a letter with all of us women in the united states senate asking hillary to run. >> oh yeah i don't mean her.

i mean her supporters. >> well i think what we're going to see now is that we are all united around the fact that the democratic party doesn't just fight for a few people at the top. we fight for all of our families especially those in the middle who are so crushed by student loan debt by mortgages and all the rest. and i think hillary's going to be their champion and i think -- you know, i was thinking back to the primary where barack and hillary ran against each other. the country was so divided. democrats were divided about the war. we were in this horrible getting out of this great recession. now we're really united. >> and republican senator lindsey graham sees a clinton candidacy a little bit differently. he thinks the former secretary of state enters the presidential race facing some tough questions. he's also thinking of entering the race himself. we spoke a short while ago as well and i directly asked him

would hillary clinton make a good president. >> i think she would continue the policies of this president because she was his secretary of state. trust me she did not fight effectively for a foreign policy that's working. she empowered a failed foreign policy and when it comes to obamacare, bill and hillary clinton did a better job of selling it than barack obama, so at the end of the day here's her challenge. here's how i'm different than barack obama. here's why my foreign policy will be better than his, because the world is literally on fire. from an economic point of view, here's what i would do differently than barack obama. so if she can make a case that she's different than him then she'll have a chance. if she can't, game set, match. >> well let's just stay there on foreign policy. she wasn't the president and she did -- >> no but she's secretary of state. >> right. but she did advocate exactly what you wanted on syria when it came to arm being the rebels a few years ago. she didn't win but she tried. >> sure.

no good credit for her trying in syria. at the end of the day where was she at benghazi when on august the 14th i think they wrote a memo from libya to washington saying we can't defend the consulate from a coordinated terrorist attack and al qaeda flags are flying everywhere. at the end of the day, how did she behave as secretary of state when it came to withdrawing troops from iraq? she set the reset button with russia. how well is that working out? so i would argue that she empowered a failed foreign policy more than she stood up to it. when she stood up to it she was ineffective. so she owns his foreign policy. she owns his domestic policy. and the reason there's 20 republicans running is that all of us think we can beat her. >> well let's talk about another one of the republicans who are running. a colleague of yours, rand paul. he said -- excuse me. you said this week that hillary clinton could bet a better iran deal than the president -- excuse me than rand paul could. would you vote for hillary

clinton or rand paul if it was the two of them running for president? >> i'd vote for senator paul because i'm a republican and i would oppose his foreign policy when i had to but rand paul and i agree on the economy. we've tried to reform social security and medicare. at the end of the day, i think senator paul and i have far more in common in terms of the size and scope of gropovernment. on foreign policy we dramatically disagree. leading from behind would be barack obama's foreign policy. what would hillary clinton's policy be? to rand paul's credit he is a true libertarian. he bloevzelieves in fortress america. he believes if we leave everybody alone, they'll leave america alone. where hillary clinton's at on anything is like jailing jell-o to the wall. >> she'll be out there pretty soon. >> well i hope y'all will ask her some questions. i hope y'all are asking her some questions. >> don't you worry, we will.

let's talk more about the republican field. tomorrow senator marco rubio is going to announce his bid for the presidency. you worked with him on an immigration deal that allowed a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. he got so hammered by the republican base he backed off of it. is that leadership? do you think he's fit to be leader? >> i think he's got a great view of the world. i think he's a traditional republican on foreign policy. he's got a heck of a personal story to tell. i like him a lot. he did vote for the immigration bill that was passed by the gang of eight. he was part of the gang of eight. but at the end of the day, are we ready to be president will be a discussion you'll have about all of us do we have the experience and the judgment. are we tough enough for this job. >> what's your answer on marco rubio based on that experience? >> i think he's -- i think he'll be a good candidate if he gets the nomination i would gladly support him. but i can tell you this about lindsey graham. the hardest thing in politics is not beating on your political

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we are awaiting hillary clinton's announcement about her presidential run. while we wait we'll talk about it more and get some insight and reporting from our chief political analyst gloria borger. she's going to be doing this listening tour. right? she's going to do a slow roll the video, no big speech. she's going to talk to small groups. we've been talking about the fact she's not going to these big rallies. but specifically just on a listening tour hasn't she been doing that for two decades? what does she have to listen for? a lot of listening. >> well i was talking to somebody in the campaign who put it to me this way.

you don't want to do a shock and wau awe, as he put it when you introduce hillary clinton. the question is how do you re-introduce hillary clinton to an america that by and large, believes that it knows her because she's been around for a few decades. you've covered all these events dana so you have rand paul having a rally. you have ted cruz having a rally. marco rubio's going to have a rally on monday. and with hillary clinton i think they decided to do the opposite and they will build to it because they don't want to give the sense of inevitability, even though we all know she is the really likely democratic nominee. but inevitability didn't work so well for them last time around so they can't do it again. >> but there is a balance between not having an air of inevitability and a feeling like anticlimactic. >> sort of like new year's eve. right? i shaved my legs for this.

so i think in this video, she will be able to be more controlled. it's already been taped. she's not great at those big rallies and sort of the theater of those big speeches. i think in some ways we're also in i think, a post-speech era. these big speeches. you get out there, ted cruz for instance his big speech at liberty. we'll see marco rubio tomorrow. we saw rand paul last night. and then you had his whole week and the rollout wasn't so great after that speech. it was sort of like cotton candy, sort of disappears on contact, these big speeches. i think like you said she'll obviously build up. we'll see some of these speeches but this video, you can pass it around on social media. >> i think the biggest thing for a presidential candidate is the question -- understands the problems of people like me. and hillary clinton had a book tour which didn't go so well. and there's a question of whether she really does understand the problems of people like me. president obama always had that in his favor. he also had the trust factor in

his favor. she's got some issues on that front as well. so that's where these small groups kind of come in handy because the visuals are sitting around a table and talking to people like me. >> a bit like iowa new hampshire -- it's real. it's not just a mirage or optics for us. it is actually meeting these voters. >> who really matter who really expect it who really want to be wooed with being wooed, who didn't see that from hillary clinton or al gore when he rolled in with the trappings of the vice presidency. >> thank you so much. we'll be talking a lot more about this. republicans of course are not waiting for hillary clinton. republicans are all-out against her already. even before her official announcement. next i will talk with one of them one who actually announced his own candidacy this past week, rand paul.

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a new poll has republican senator rand paul with a slight lead over hillary clinton in a hypothetical presidential match-up in two key swing states. the quinnipiac survey finds paul leading clinton 44%-41% in colorado and 43%-42% in iowa. senator paul was touting those polls all week long when he announced his presidential run and i kautd up withcaught up with him on the campaign trial in iowa. >> thanks for sitting down with me. the big news of the week hillary clinton announcing for president. over the past week you've been really critical of her when it comes to the issue of trust. talking about benghazi. talking about the donations to the clinton foundation. how far back do you think it's fair game? do you think monica? do you think white water?

do you think the travel office issues? what should be in the realm of the public debate now? >> you know i'm not sure that i'll get to decide what's in the realm or not but i do think that there is sort of a history of the clintons sort of feeling like they're above the law. they said they weren't going to take donations for the clinton foundation during the period of time she was secretary of state, and there are questions whether they did. since then there are questions of them taking millions of dollars from saudi arabia from the sultan of brunei. countries that have abysmal human rights records. so i think it questions the sincerity of whether or not she would be a champion for women's rights when she accepts money from a country like brunei that stones to death people for adultery and realize that this is men accusing women of adultery not women accusing men because the men have the only say in the legal system in brunei. so it does really make it difficult for her message to appear sincere when she's taken

money from these foreign countries. >> you say that you don't get to decide but you do get to choose where you criticize her and where you don't. how far back do you think is fair game? >> i think that her public policy and public life will be fair game. >> some of your critics on the republican side -- >> i don't have any critics, do i? >> i know. shocking. you do have critics on both sides, as you know. but some of your republican critics argue that you are actually to the left of hillary clinton on foreign policy that she's more hawkish than you are. >> yeah. here's the interesting thing about this who's aligned with president obama, whose foreign policy is closest to president obama. interestingly many of the hawks in my party line right up with president obama. think about the big issues we've had in the last couple years. the war that hillary prominently promoted in libya. many of the hawks in my party were right there with her. their only difference was in degrees. they wanted to go into libya as well they just always want boots on the ground. some of the hawks in my party

you can't find a place on the globe that they don't want boots on the ground. >> that's their point, that you're to the left of all them. >> no my point is they're actually agreeing with hillary clinton and with president obama that the war in libya was a good idea. i'm not agreeing with either one of them. they're over here both for war. i'm over here saying that that war made us less safe. that it made radical islam or allowed radical islam to rise up in libya. there are now large segments of libya that are pledging allegiance to isis. supplying arms to the islamic rebels in the syrian civil war. president obama supported this. hillary clinton supported this. and so did the hawks in my party. only differing only on degrees. i didn't support the arming of the syrian rebels because i felt like it would make al qaeda and isis worse. i didn't support the bombing of assad. president obama supported the bombing of assad. so did the neocons in my party. so really they're together in supporting many of these interventions. i've been the one not supporting these interventions because i

feared if you bomb the saud you would allow isis to grow stronger. there are 2 million christians in syria. did you ask them who they would choose they'd all choose assad over isis. they'd see the barbarity. these are great foreign policy questions. there will be great debates and i look forward to having them. >> is there an area where you think hillary clinton was successful as sect? >> i think really that the issue in benghazi is an enormous issue because it is whether or not as commander in chief she'd be there for the 3:00 a.m. phone call. i think benghazi was a 3:00 a.m. phone call that she never picked up. she didn't provide the security. not just that day, for nine months. dozens and dozens of requests for more security all completely ignored. >> but the question is was there something that she did that was good. >> that's what i was trying to think. i was getting through things i remember that aren't so good and

trying to think of something good. i'm not so certain of that. i think she took her eye off a very important zone. she was also a big believer in putting armscriminately into the syrian civil war. i think that made isis stronger. >> over the past week there's been some criticism of you and about your interaction with female interviewers questioning whether you have an issue with women. you said that you get equally annoyed with men and women. >> that's probably true. >> but perception is reality in politics. if you're on stage with hillary clinton a female opponent you going to have to pull your punches given the perception now? >> i think women have come a long way. women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions like yours because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally. but i can tell you that the interviewers in the last couple days probably got it easier than what i gave to eliot spitzer on your program here probably about a year or so ago because the

thing is that i'm unwilling to let people characterize things unfairly and if someone's going to write an op-ed on me in the question that's fair for them to try to do it but it is also fair for me to try to set the record straight that they're editorializing in the question. >> what about if you are on the stage with hillary clinton? will you be cognizant of the fact that she would be a female opponent? >> i'm always polite and even in all the interviews where i'm accused of maybe being too aggressive i've never yelled or screamed. i don't get out of control. i do try to be polite and i've always treated it that way. i would treat her with the same respect that i would treat a man but i wouldn't lay down and say, i'm not going to respond out of some sort of -- i think that's -- that would be a sexist sort of response to say, oh my goodness she deserves not to be treated as aggressively because she's "only" a woman. i would never say that about anybody. i didn't come into our interview thinking okay it is a woman versus a man type of interview.

i just think she'll ask tough questions, i have to be prepared. >> that's good to hear. on those tough questions, let's talk about defense spending. when you first came to the senate you proposed decreasing defense spending by about $164 billion. and then in the past couple of weeks really you proposed increasing by $190 billion. why the change? >> i proposed several five-year budgets. for me the most important thing of the five-year budgets has been to balance. all of my five-year budgets have balanced. the last one i produced was a couple years ago actually did increase defense spending above the military sequester but i did it by taking money from domestic spending. my belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it. so there really is a division in our party. one of the other potential candidates put forward an amendment and he said i'm going to increase defense spending but i'm going to borrow the money and make the debt worse. so i put up what's called a side

by side. i put up an amendment saying yes, i, too, believe in strong defense but i don't believe in borrowing it. so what spratsz me from the rest of the republican field is i believe in a strong national defense, but i don't think you should borrow money from china to do it. so my amendment distinguished myself from the rest of the republican field because i said i will only pay for defense by cutting spending elsewhere. >> that may be true but you're also somebody who's trying to prove that you are not weak on national security. so by proposing an increase in military spending before you even announce for president could look like pandering. >> well three, four years ago we did the same thing. we have been for quite some time proposing increases in military spending but always -- the point really isn't so much how much or what the increase is that i believe that any increase in spending should be offset by decreases in spending somewhere else. this is a key point. because this differentiates me from the rest of the republican field who many of them are profligate spenders for defense.

many liberals are prove flafligate spenders. they're spending us into oblivion. i am different. i will not increase spending for anything unless it is offset by corresponding decreases in spending elsewhere in the budget. >> talk about the social issue of gay marriage. in new hampshire you said i will fight for your right to be left alone. i realize that you believe gay marriage is a state issue. but why do you believe just as a core principle as a libertarian that people should be left alone but not when it comes to their right to marry somebody they love? >> i do believe ought to be left alone. i don't care who you are, what you do at home or who your friends are, where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to. what you do in your home is your own business. that's always been who i am. i am a leave me alone kind of guy. >> but not when it comes to marriage. >> well no. i mean states will end up making the decisions on these things.

i think that there is a religious connotation to marriage. i believe in the traditional religious connotation to this but i also believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. i see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that if you -- if you want to marry another woman, you can do that and have a contract. but the thing is the religious connotation of marriage that's been going on for thousands of years, i still want to preserve that. you probably could have both. you could have both traditional marriage which i believe in and then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another. >> anything you want to tell me about your first week any highlights lowlights, regrets? >> it's just been kind of a piece of cake. everybody's been so nice to me. i mean everywhere i go. >> meanwhile, back on planet earth -- >> no. actually the people have been. media, not always so much but the people have been very nice to me. we've had extraordinary turnouts. we had a couple thousand people

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i am running because i want to be a voice for women everywhere. >> did someone say women everywhere? hillary would make a great president. and i would make an even greater first dude. >> bill that's nice. >> hillary, isn't it crazy that phones can take videos now? i mean if they could have done

that in the '90s, i'd be in jail. >> great, bill. i love jokes about that. >> this election is about you. i don't want to hog your limelight. i am leaving. look at me go. bye. i'm gone. >> aren't we such a fun approachable dynasty? >> joining me around the table, republican congresswoman marsha blackburn of tennessee, anna navarro, republican strategist and jeb bush supporter, donna brazile, zmt brazile, democratic strategist and hillary rosen, also a democratic strategist. nice of you all to be here again. i want to start with bill clinton because that was just hilariously funny. hillary, i'll start with you. do you think that this whole backstage idea that he put forward in an interview he did

with town and country magazine is really going to last? obviously if you have bill clinton at your disposal to be a political strategist who wouldn't want to use him? the question then is the public role. >> look we have 18 months until election day and i think he was telling us in that interview exactly what his plans are. so he is going to be backstage and i think when push comes to shove, you get into a general election campaign and, there is no better surrogate in the party than bill clinton and there's every reason to hope that he's going to be used. and as an advisor, ongoing? she's going to be blessed with really good advice. >> it is true. i mean who's better as a communicator for democratic principles even republicans admit, than bill clinton. >> even republicans like bill clinton. the truth is he's got such people skills he remembers the name of every human being he's met in his life and their pet and children. he's so folksy he's authentic.

he is a great orator. the problem is when shethey share the stage and they follow each other on stage, following bill clinton is a very tough act and hillary clinton is not as politically gifted. bill clinton, it is hard for him to control his temper. he can go get angry very quickly when they are criticizing his wife when his wife is being criticized. and at some point he's going to have to rein that in. i don't think that's going to be easy. >> let me ask you congresswoman, as a female politician. there are different standards, fair or not. right? >> there are different standards. i think one of the standards that will come into play that people will look at hillary and say did he pave the way for her. and would she have been able to be where she is if not for bill clinton. >> he argued very publicly that she should have been president first. >> i know he does.

and but, the perception with people is he has paved a lot of the way for that just like people feel like hillary has excelled because the media runs interference or team hillary runs interference for her, and so thereby she's been able to get where she is. they wonder if she has the work ethic in and of herself to be tough enough to do this campaign. and i think that's a big question. >> anybody that knows hillary clinton -- >> work ethic is not her issue. >> -- will tell you that her discipline and her focus and work ethic is beyond -- look. i think the reverse question could also be true. has she paved the way or would he have gotten where he is if it weren't for her. the bottom line is when you're a couple you are a couple. >> donna, you know them both. >> first of all, she traveled well over a million miles on beof ha of the country during her tenure as secretary of state. but when she ran for the united states senate back in 2000 she went to all 62 counties by van.

not bus. i don't think it's a question of stamina, nor do i believe it's a question of who's going to be on stage with her. what she's going to do today in that announcement is to make the voters the american people the middle class, those who are struggling and aspiring to be in the middle class, that's going to be the center of her attention. that's what she's going to put on stage. >> donna, i want to ask you about what we've heard from the congresswoman this morning, other republicans, about this being a third obama term. you were the campaign manager for al gore. you remember how angry bill clinton was when you kept him locked in the white house -- >> not me. >> the campaign kept him locked in the white house and not out on the campaign trail for al gore. do you think that barack obama is different and should hillary clinton have him out there? is he an asset? >> yes, he is an asset and so was bill clinton in 2000 an asset for us. but this is different. she is not the sitting vice president of the united states. joe biden is holding that seat.

>> she was secretary of state though. >> she was secretary of state but this is not about barack obama. she's not going to run from barack obama the way that many in the senatorial candidates in 2014 ran from president obama. rather she's going to run on her own ideas. she has enough currency not to need to run behind somebody but to run ahead. i don't think -- it is a different campaign. >> what did she accomplish as secretary of state? >> well, first of all, you forget what state the world was in before -- look think about gaza and how -- >> yeah with be think about benghazi. and boko haram. >> it's got to be dealt with because republicans and democrats on that intelligence committee both agreed that that benghazi report said that there was absolutely nothing more she could have done and there was absolutely nothing she was at fault for. but i think that the congresswoman raised another issue that is going to be

critical for hillary clinton, which is the re-introduction of who she is. this isn't just bill clinton's wife. i mean this is a woman who her entire career has been fighting for children and families and every aspect of her career. and i'm comforted by one stat i recently saw which is that the pew research center did a survey of young people ages 18 to 29 who were not around in the clinton era. right? they believe that not only are they interested in hillary clinton, they all think actually she's in her 50s or maybe even younger. people are anxious to know hillary clinton as she's going to take -- >> unfortunately, we remember her being young. you don't know the difference between 50 and 80 when you're young. but that's a whole different story. >> but it shows that they're looking for who she is and that they do not see her as -- >> are republicans making a mistake by all of them -- all dozen of them -- going so hard against her. are they in a way helping her?

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relationship with media, particularly women? >> i think it will serve all that field of guys that are out there running on this race to just be cognizant, aware and be certain they don't misstep when it comes to dealing with women constituents with female reporters. they just need to be more aware of that and i think you're going to see a woman on the republican ticket this year. >> let's talk about what's going to happen tomorrow. al marco rubio, we're going down to your home to be with marco rubio tonight. i know that no one else can give a speech like marco rubio can. >> i think marco is most definitely the candidate of the

future. i think part of the process of this nomination process and primary process is whether he is the candidate of today, i think that's a question he knows he has to grapple with he knows he's only 43 years old. like every other rookie senator, ted cruz rand paul marco has got to battle with the -- elect a -- i think you are going to see tomorrow the speech of his life in a very historical and significant building i think you're going to see him surrounded by hometown reporters. i think it's going to be a beautiful visual. i was writing about how hillary clinton's announcement today was going to rain on his parade. anybody who thinks that has never seen a hillary clinton video or a marco rubio speech.

because at this point, to tell you the truth, unless she comes out and parachutes from a plane and says i'm in i don't -- >> they can't spend eight years criticizing barack obama's lack of experience and then elect a marco rubio. i think it was an abc news poll that given what happened in washington over the last several years has risen on the level of desirability of candidates. >> there's to question that marco rubio is going to have his day, he's probably going to have a better week than rand paul had last night, he's put out interesting information about tax reform. al he was one of the leaders in the fight in the senate and then

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