right there not so beautiful, about but a reason to watch. bill weir always good to do you. thanks so much. the season finale a double episode of "the wonder list" tonight at 9:00 eastern. thanks so much for joining me. much more in the "newsroom" straight ahead with poppy harlow harlow. 5:00 this sunday evening, i'm poppy harlow joining you from new york. you know what that music means. we're talking politics. it is official. hillary clinton is running for president. the former first lady u.s. senator, and secretary of state has just announced her 2016 plans in this video released on social media.

>> i'm running for president. americans have fought their way back but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. everyday americans need a champion. i want to be that champion so you can do more than just get by. you can get ahead and stay ahead, because when families are strong, america is strong. so i'm hitting the road to earn your vote. because it's your time and i hope you'll join me on this journey. >> that is part of about a two-minute video just released a few hours ago. even though she is the first democrat to officially announce hillary clinton joins a lengthy list of possible 2016 contenders. here is who has already officially in the race. republicans ted chris and rand paul have announced their running, eight other republicans are vying. senator marco rubio planning what he calls a big announcement in florida tomorrow and a handful of democrats are also waiting in the wings.

the question is who will be the first to challenge hillary clinton. we turn to our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. you will not get much sleep for the next more than a year it's interesting that it's all about very main street americans. >> poppy, of course that was by design. it was to sent a message that look this is about you, it's not about me. it's not about my political ambitions, my aspirations. it's about your dreams your hopes, so this video is very much by design to send what her campaign hopes is a tone for this campaign that it's different from her first bid for the white house, that it's not about this long-held wish for her, it's about lifting up the middle class. it is a tapestry of american

diversity there, and that of course at the end she finally comes up but this is the easy part poppy. what comes now is the harder point, where she goes to way this week in new hampshire, starts taking questions from voters and answering a different question -- why do you want to be president? >> one thing it doesn't talk about, not one mention of foreign policy or her record as secretary of state. why is that? >> this is very much an introductory phase. it's supposed to be an uplifting video, but you're right, foreign policy will be at the center of this 2016 campaign. it already is and certainly will be at the center of her record. pretty seven different from her first bid for the white house. she was trying to project an aura of strength that she's

strong enough to be the commander in chief. most of her divorces believe -- people know she's strong enough. it's what would she do for you? this is just the first of many things like this. we'll see. >> take a look at this poll coming to us from bloom better politics. democrats and independence voters overwhelmingly say it would be good if she faces serious competition, a serious contender in the primary. do you agree? is that better for her in the long run? >> sure. in the long run, i think it would be better for her. it would probably make her a better presidential candidate in her own right, but it would also be easier to run against some specific person with a specific record rather than the idea of someone else the idea of a pop you list a liberal. elizabeth warren is much harder to run against than some concrete person. warren has said again and again she's not running, but a lot of advisers wince they were running

against someone, because then she could go head to head but first of all she's running against herself, and there would be a few democrats in the race no question. he said he is still looking at this aggressively. >> jeff thanks so much. appreciate it. we'll be talking more about this. >> let's turn to david gergen also an adviser to four presidents. just off the bat, you saw the video, what do you make of it? inch certainly unorthodox. i can garchlt tee it was heavily poll tested. i do think it appealed to the groups that are so important to the obama campaign. i think she'll do well with those groups as a result of this where i think it probably does not appeal in fact i think the more cynical, somewhat older

people are going to see this highly scripted she's almost -- it's almost like a ceo of a corporation more than a candidate. and i think she's got to avoid the idea that this is sort of hillary clinton inc. she has to be authentic. i think that's one of the dangers. but a soft very soft landing for the opening. i don't think we've seen anything like this before. i think it eases her into the race in a way with her constituencies the ones she's after, probably helper. >> what about a fellow democrat that would enter? people think it would be good for her to have that challenge. david rem nick wrote in "the new york erbil" it would be to easy to get into power without the cost to exercise it.

when you talk about serious competitors in her party, who are they? >> if vice president biden with were to run, that would give her some competition, though omailie is coming on stronger but after that there are not many and the pressures are enormous against joe biden trying to take it away from the party's favorite. so i think she's not going to have much opposition at this point unless she stumbles badly. i think an opponent would be good for her. the second thing is she's going to have a hard time staying fresh without an opponent. how do you maintain -- already there's talk a lot of chattering classes about clinton fatigue fatigue. how do you stay fresh out there? >> i think that's a great point.

>> i want your response. bill clinton wrote in this article, a presidential candidate gets two or three chances to make scherr hers. that hillary passed on hers is unsettling. does he have a point there? >> i'm of an age where i would have preferred a more substantive announcement what she has promised in about three weeks or so she'll have a big rally. i assume that's where we'll start getting substance. what we do know is she's plenty substantive. the issues revolve around her authenticity her style, how she wears with people but she knows the issues pretty well. what i do think is lacking is a rationale for the candidacy that didn't come through today, about why is this different? everybody is for the middle class, everybody wants to be a champion for the people. what's new and different about this?

what is going to distinguish this from other campaigns of the past? and how do you walk that line without criticizing president obama? >> you've got that. >> david gergen stay with me. a quick break. on the other side we'll talk about had been had been a name that everyone knows. that's both a blessing and a curse. we'll talk about the challenges of reintroducing her to a nation where everyone knows her simply as hillary. why do we do it? why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people? why are we so committed to keeping you connected? why combine performance with a conscience? why innovate for a future without accidents? why do any of it? why do all of it? because if it matters to you it's everything to us.

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funt "saturday night live" took that premise and ran with it. >> now, since we're announcing your candidates via social media, we thought it would be fun if you actually filmed the video yourself on your own phone. it seems more personal intimate -- >> uh-huh personal and intimate yes, i better take off this jacket, then. >> that's much better. want to do some vocal warmups? >> oh, okay love to. hillary is a grand with a twinkle in her eye, first female president. maine me, maine me. me, me, me, me. >> just look natural. >> okay. maybe unfortunate to soften a little. okay. a little more. okay. maybe a lot more. great.

great, and action. >> citizens you will elect me. i will be your later. >> that was pretty fantastic. let's brick ban presidential adviser david gergen. when you look at seriously reintroducing her. she wrote a new introduction to her memoir in terms of how being a grandmother has changed her, how do you effectively reintroduce her to people who think they already know her? it was possibly 50 years ago, and that somehow seemed to work. voters don't put up with that much they want to know tell me who you are, cut out the b.s. and let's sit and have a

conversation. conversation. i think that's what she's going to need now. at the same time they're saying this is a new authentic hillary clinton. has a story about how calculating the campaign has been. how far away they could be not because that's what she believes that's how it would play with the voters. that would introduce a theme of inauthenticity that it's scripted core i don'tgraphy. she's got to deal with that. >> if you get readily afraid with your candidate, it doesn't

perform well. >> good point. let to this bit of sound from terry mcauliffe. >> a lot of fun. she has a great belly laugh. we'll sit out on vacation and she's a lot of fun to be with. i've seen that. i worked in the clinton white house for about a year. i did see that. she can throw back a drink, we all know that from john mccain and lindsey graham. she can. the warmth goth lost in all this e-mail controversy. there is that there, but you can't have it forced. it has to come out naturally. the moment in the new hampshire campaign last time around when she showed her vulnerable she

teared up it wasn't scripted. it was something that she -- she was challenged how hard is this and she said it's tough. >> what about voting for the iraq war back in 2002? how is that going to impact you? especially given what we've seen happen in iraq. >> i don't think she's being blamed for that. she's going to have more trouble about talking about what she really accomplished. those will be the kinds of questions. eliz beth warren challenging her on that and we've heard a bit from a couple people off on the side but i don't think that will be central. >> david gergen always great to have you on. thank you very much. >> good to talk with you, poppy. how will she approach the economy? this election is largely going to be about the u.s. economy.

let's face it. she's not a typical american with a typical bank account. will she resonate with the middle class? we'll address it when we come back. first here's this weekend's "ones to watch." for over 20 yore the french photographer has been constructing a portrayed of the earth with his aerial photographs. his book "earth from above" sold over 4 million copies.

health care conservation women's rights. we pretty much know where hillary clinton stands on a lot of these issues as she jumps into the race for the white

house, but one big question is how she will position herself on the economy. clinton is a strong advocate for the middle class. she says you saw it in the video release, but she says as she trying to connect, she has pretty big ties to wall street and executives including these two heavy hitters. >> you've been a staunch supporter of hillary clinton. >> i still am. >> you told me multiple times you want her to be the next president. >> i hope so. what i care about is her ability. >> you think she's going to be the next president? >> i think so. i have supported her in all her other ventures. >> are you a creature of habit? >> i find i don't foolishly follow precedent, but i don't foolishly deviate without cause. >> america's economy was tumbling during her presidential run, she heavily criticized president bush for the decline

that would sent the unemployment race almost up to 10%. it's 5.5% now, but not all is well with the economy. wage growth is stagnant the income gap has widened significantly since 2008 both happening on president obama's watch. let's talk about it with m.j. lee. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> this is really important. this election will largely be about the economy. this entire video was about middle-class main street america. how does hillary clinton convince main street she's going to make a difference when it comes to things like wage grout and like income inequality. >> because she's not been a candidate since 2008 there are a lot of policy areas where we don't actually know and haven't really heard from secretary clinton on where she stands. that includes areas of the economy, right? what is her proposal for make sure that wage growth continues,

that the middle class and lower middle class are not left behind. i think the video really spoke to that the fact she had everyday americans featured in the video, i think she said americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. the message is so very clear. she's saying to voters and american people i know that the recovery has been uneven. >> but this is someone who, when you compare her to an elizabeth warren she is didn't go after the big banks and ensure consumer protection nearly if the ferocity in the way that elizabeth warren did. when you talk about a liberal base how does she get them on board, also by the way, getting the big donors to stick with her as well because a lot on wall street a lot of these executives do like her. how do you walk that line? >> in the last couple weeks, i've spoken to a lot of donors in the finance world. remember she was a senator in

new york for many years, she enjoys a lot of enthusiasm. they very excited for her to -- now that she has launched this campaign to hold fund-raisers make sure her campaign is well funded. will that be a problem for her? absolutely. it is an issue she will have to address. it's an optics thing, right? we do have someone like elizabeth warren being very vocal, and hillary clinton has not spoken about those issues in the past. will she do that to such a degree? i don't know but the fact she's gone on the and talked -- is an attempt to address that. >> she pointed to push and said to "usa today" the money class hayes reaped eight benefits. she's now the money class. >> absolutely. >> she's a multi, multimillionaire. how does she say to the average folks, yes, i have all this money, but i understand what it's like to struggle the way you're struggling. >> i think we saw that with the video today, right?

we know her strategists are hoping she can talk about her mid western roots and the fact she herself grew up in a middle-class family. we know the hillary clinton of the last several years. her family is wealthy now, but that's not exactly the path she is comes from. she wants to communicate that to voters in one-on-one meetings and smaller gatherings. >> we saw an astounding number from the super pak for ted cruz right out of the gate. how do you think hillary clinton and her pacs will contend with that? >> now very wealthy donors can give unlimited amounts the money to these super-pacs that's why we saw in part ted chris raise that much in i think about a week. they'll be pouring in millions and that will be very, very beneficial. >> next week we'll talk about

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well for hillary clinton it's the scandal that will not go away. more than 15 years after her husband eight mitted to an affair a tell-all book pulls back the curtains. from the shouting matches to hillary clinton's private escapes, trying to be by the pool by herself. one incident in particular left the former president in snead of stitching. brianna keilar has more on the stories emerging as hillary clinton jumps into the race for the white house. >> as bill and hillary clinton prepared to fight their way back into the white house, a new book

reveals details about the explosive arguments they had inside its has. >> there was blood all over the president and first lady's bed. the blood was bill clinton's. what did they think had happened? >> everyone on the staff said they were convinced she clocked him with a book. >> in as abc interview, clinton dismissed similar rumors she had thrown a lamp at the president. >> i have a pretty good arm. if i had thrown a lamp at somebody i think you would have known about it. >> but one summer day hillary clinton enlisted an usher to help her to get to the swimming pool unspotted and without a secret service detail. >> he escorted her, made sure she wouldn't have to see anybody on the tour no staffers she didn't want to see anyone. she specifically said that. so he was so proud he was able to make this happen. >> just a few of the juicy tidbits in a new largely on the record account of life behind

the scenes in the white house. indicate andersen brower interviewed dozens of former maids, florists and doormen who worked at the white house for "the residence" inside the private world of the white house. tha that is accounts seemingly ripped from the script "countdownton abies" former employees described bill and hillary as the most private couple they have worked for. >> i had staffers saying they were the most paranoid family they had to work with and did not ever fully trust the staff. it took them a whole year to carry on a conversation while the staff was in the room. >> and they had the system rewired so they could make their own calls instead of going through an operator. >> they were worried about people listening in on their phone calls.

>> breeanna keilar reporting me to talk about the author of "the residence." kate andersen brower. thanks for joining med. congrats on the book. >> a lot of fascinating, not all of them flattering but i wonder if you think this helps humanize her, stories like this? >> i think it does. the storeroom manager, bill hamilton told me hillary clinton knew this happened with lewinsky and he knew everyone was staring at her. they all felt badly for her. she was short-tempered at the time and understandably so. there's a scene where she asks for -- she would call down in the late asps on very hard days and call the pastry chef and the pastry chef topped me he always knew when to expect that phone call. she would ask for a slice of her favorite mocha cake. i think that does humanize her. she also had the president sleeping on the sofa in the

sitting room attached to their bedroom and the maid were cheering her on thought that he deserved it. >> stalking about how private they were how guarded. this goes into the narrative that some hold about the clintons they're incredibly secretive, look you talked about them switching the phone system inside the white house. what was the overall sense from the people you talked to about whether they just didn't trust certain people or if this was an overrunning theme. >> it was a theme during their entire eight years. again a lot of thursday -- most of them were on the record. he told me that when you're someone's domestic you know what's going on. he heard a loud fight they had in the west sitting hall and heavy objects landing after hillary clinton shouted at the president. this was during -- they were really under siege. this was on the heels of trooper-gate and travel-gate, whitewater. it was a tumultuous time.

during the lewinsky travel another staffer told me hillary clinton was tough to track down when they were trying to talk about the typical first lady's jobs to discuss floral arrangements things like that. i know that hillary clinton told laura bush that she regretted having an office in the west wing and so i think it's really interesting to look back on that time and see how it's going to play out in the future. >> so this book is not just all the about the clinton white house, it's about a number of different white houses. obviously the clinton portion getting a lot of attention right now, but a few other ones? jfk's pool parties? >> that's right. when jackie kennedy would go out of town president kennedy would swim nude with some of the secretaries in the pool the resident staffers always knew not to go to the second and third floors when mrs. kennedy was out of town. there are also stories about president nixon bowling with one of staffers late into the

evening. then another story when i think is interesting, the temptations and james brown when they would visit the white house, they would hang out with the african-american butlers in the pantry connected to the state dining room before state dinners. they would all hang out together so there's a bit of entertainment in there, too. >> lbj, and meetings in the bathroom? >> yeah. well he was obsessed with the shower and he wanted it to be a fire hose strength intensity. he drove the plumbing crew so crazy that one of them even had a nervous breakdown trying to make the showers forceful. he want it to go from hot to cold immediately, and did call the plumber in to thank him for all the work he did. and the plumber, it meant the world that the president was finally happy with it but when president nixon came in he took one look at the elaborate shower set upand said rip it all out. >> the poor plumbers. thank you so much kate.

congrats on the book. >> thank you. coming up next another big name making a big announcement tomorrow expected. marco rube rho expected to announce his run for the white house tomorrow. a recent poll shows that a number of voters don't know him well at all. we'll discuss that next. (rain fades to music) (rain stops) ♪ there we go. ♪ anncr: lease an mkz for $299 a month plus competitive owners and lessees get $500 bonus cash, only at your lincoln dealer.

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grows by one. marco rubio is expected to throw his hate officially into the ring during a really tomorrow. or good that the world has ever known. >> so now i know -- the recent cnn will/orcp poll said -- host of "the ben ferguson show" and montel professor. what kind of uphill battle

do you think his faces here? >> i think this is not a big deal at all. if he makes it to the general election hillary clinton has every reason to be concerned. he is a -- the identity politics are significant. he can win florida, obviously and attract latino voters. i think the challenge will be getting through a republican primary, and the advance he has is he can speak to the tea party folks. the fact he's a fresh face will place to his advantage. i have no worried about -- and plenty of people know who ted cruz is and i'm not sure that is a good thing. >> i can't believe i actually agree this early on with mark, and i do.

jeb bush thought he would have a corner on the marketplace. and ted cruz in texas, so him not being so well known. int don't think is a bad thing. i think being underexposed and having a big announcement can work to his advantage. look at joe biden. his's overexposed. look where he would be in the polls. it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a good campaign just because a bunch of people know you. look at donald trump. everyone knows who he is but how many hate him? a lot. >> i want you to respond to this. this literally was just posted online a response to hillary clinton's candidacy from formcarly fiorina. >> i think our nation is at a

pivotal time so anyone who wants to be president or commander in chief needs a track record of leadership and accomplishment and trust worthiness. hillary clinton's of highly intelligent work hardworking, but unfortunately she does not have a track report of accomplishment or transpareny. russia is now a more powerful adversary than when she was secretary of state. our relationship with israel has deteriorated the middle east is in flames and of course she's not been transparent. she told us for weeks after the purposeful terrorist and tan in benghazi this was the rut -- and now we've shernd she's used a private e-mail server and system for the most sensitive of communication while secretary of state. she doesn't have a track record of leadership or trust

worthiness. she's not the woman for the white house. mark, your response? >> shame on ms. fiorina. i remember was it 2002 or even 2008 when she was defending sarah palin is a ig she's qualified to be vice president. >> this is part of a republican narrative that's been prefigured prior to hillary clinton only announcing she is washington -- to pit. i'm nous a hillary clinton fan, but it would be dishonest. as a senator, we could -- >> ben? >> on -- send public and

private. you see a woman saying hey, i'm going to run. the last thing she's said she's not the woman for the white house. implying i am the woman for the white house. i think she's got to be on anyone's short list of vice presidential candidates. i think she realizes she can -- and not worry about the sex card being changed. >> i'm playing that card right now, ben. >> i think this will be a fun one. >> gentlemen, stay with me. we're going to talk about more about this in the next hour. i got to get in other news. thanks. much more from mark and ben at 6:00 eastern. coming up next the turkish government accusing pope francis of stirring up hate after he spoke today about the armenian massacre. first, this. time for this week's "cnn hero."

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pope francis today used the word genocide during mass to describe the killings of armenians more than a century ago and officials in turkey are furious. the service marked 100 years since the armenian massacres under the ottoman empire turkey has denied it was genocide blaming world war i for the deaths on both sides.

it took to twitter and the country has pulled its ambassador from the vatican. father beck joins me now to discuss it. what's your initial reaction to this father? >> my initial reaction is that pope francis didn't say anything that previous popes including john paul ii didn't say, 22 countries have classified this terrible brutal time as a genocide. here in the united states the house of representatives ishas considered a resolution to call it a genocide. that part is not new. the blowback is expected and really it was a genocide. >> pope john paul used the word genocide you're right, and he used it in a joint, written statement and it wasn't explicitly said and then discussed at length as it was in the mass this morning. do you think that makes a difference in terms of how weir seeing turkey react so quickly? >> well perhaps, but the mass was a mass for st. gregory to name him a doctor. he's from armenia.

there are only 35 doctors of the church so it was a big deal. supposedly pope francis said i just don't want to talk about st. gregory, though. we're marking the 100th anniversary of this genocide. i want to call attention to the fact that christians are still being persecuted some hundred years later and so he brought this into the conversation because it's important to armenians to acknowledge it and it was important in the context of this service about an armenian saint. >> let me ask you this when you look at what is happening in the region in the middle east right now, how do you think that this will impact the vatican's future relations with moderate muslim states and the importance? >> i think moderate muslims get it. remember pope francis visited turkey in november and he was very well received by the turkish people. he had meetings and he met with muslim leaders. he said we're going to pray for the muslim community and all of

the turkish people. he was very well received. something like this i think, stirs the flame again and moderate muslims have to acknowledge what the historical facts are. >> father good to have you on the program. thank you, sir. >> coming up at 6:00 eastern we will talk about the gop already in full force fighting against hillary, tweets videos you name it. that's next.

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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com 6:00 eastern this sunday evening and you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm poppy harlow joining you from new york. it is official, hillary clinton is running for president. former senator and secretary of state has announced her 2016 plans in a video released on social media. >> everyday americans need a champion and i want to be that champion so you can do more than just get by. you can get ahead and stay ahead because when families are strong, america is strong. ♪ ♪ >> so i'm hitting the road to earn your vote because it's your time and i hope you'll join me on this journey. >> but even b