-- 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 before clinton's

announcement today, republicans were on the attack. here senator rand paul. >> what path will america take? will it be a path to the past? a road to yesterday to a place we've been to before? hillary clinton represents the worst of the washington machine, the arrogance of power, corruption and cover-up conflicts of interest and failed leadership with tragic consequences. >> that is from a website liberty, not hillary that rand paul set up and it just went live this morning. jeb bush also not wasting any time. >> it's critical we change the direction our country is heading. we must do better than the obama-clinton foreign policy that has damaged with relationships with our allies and emboldened our enemies. better than their failed big government policies that grow our debt and stand in the way of real economic growth and prosperity. >> and just moments ago, likely republican candidate carly

fiorina former ceo of hp attacked clinton's quote, record of accomplishment saying hillary clinton is not a woman for the white house, posting a one-minute video on facebook. a lot to discuss. ben ferguson and mark lamont hill and cnn senior media correspondent and host of reliable sources and cnn political commentator and sally cohn and republican strategist lisa booth. let's begin with you, brian. the hillary video and the response videos that we've seen. it's all about social media. >> we've seen prebut theals and rebuttals and this was launched on facebook and twitter and it's been reaching a wide number of people online and of course lots more we'll see on television but what's beautiful about facebook is it's shareable. we saw 50,000 re-tweets on twitter and this speaks to the celebrity quotient poppy, rand paul's announcement on twitter,

and it just goes to speak to the level of interest around hillary clinton and it's wrapped up half a million facebook friends because she's signing more people off her email list and she'll be able to reach out to them for the 20 months to come. do you know how many days it is? 571 days. i'm counting down already. >> of course. former senator lincoln chafee launching this extraordinary committee and saying clinton is too bushlike when it comes to foreign policy. your response to that? >> it's no secret to folks who know me that i tend to agree with that. i think hillary clinton has historically been too hawkish on foreign policy and too cosezy on wall street and is she a populist fed up with war and fed up with economic policies that only benefit the rich moment we're in in america? look has she been historically?

no. may she be going forward? i have to be honest as a skeptic i think she struck the right tone in the i haved j and it was about the middle class and about the voters of the country and not just about her. that's the challenge. can she be different from her establishment past? >> and lisa to that i love your take on this video, because she doesn't appear until the end and it's all about other people and she announced her campaign in the video back in 2008. what's your take early on here? >> right. i think hillary clinton is being forced to announce early, right? not only are republicans attacking her because she's this inevitable candidate right now, but she's got a lot of self-inflicted wounds and as a result she's trying to build a campaign infrastructure to try to protect her from some of those attacks and if you look at the polling in key states like pennsylvania and florida and iowa and colorado you know she's losing to one or more of the gop candidates and

additionally voters don't trust her. they view her as dishonest and i think her launching today is a product to protect herself from the continued attacks that she's going to see. >> there's one thing telling about this announcement and that's her vulnerability and her campaign realizes that her foreign approximately see is a huge vulnerability and she just stopped being the secretary of state and not at one moment in the video did she ever mention about her foreign accomplishment and she was in charge of the video and her campaign was and they could have easily put something in there and they see this as a vulnerability for her and they said we'll stick with solely with middle class and we'll feel your pain 2.0 and take from her husband instead of looking at what she just did

which was all foreign policy and not one mention of it in the video. >> the country cares more about economic security. >> brian stelter, quick. >> we may be in an isolationist period in terms of the american public's interest and economic security might be a stronger argument and there are some implicit critiques of the obama administration in her messages. >> i want to get mark in here. >> it was foreign policy. >> on hold on for a second don't you at least give it three seconds in a video? >> what does she accomplish as secretary of state? what are her accomplishments to point to? >> plenty! >> her accomplishments as secretary of state are, one, opening up myanmar. >> russia reset? >> russia reset. the tightest sanctions on iran we've seen and you're laugh, but maybe you remember this israel-hamas cease-fire last summer? >> what the heck have -- have bush or cruz accomplished on

foreignpolicy? >> i think it's e rattic to blame hillary clinton for the rise of isis. that's absurd. when was the middle east not am miss? >> i think it's problematic. >> clinton doesn't just solve problems on national security issues and she also has problems with the middle class. middle class families have been left behind under president obama and hillary clinton is an extension of that administration. >> so sally, i think it was an interesting point. let me get to sally here with that question. sally, it's an interesting point that lisa brings up because you've got -- she has to walk this line by not pointing at president obama and saying look wage growth has been stagnant under you and the income equality has worsened since 2008 and how does she resonate with the middle-class voters and main street america? ? first of all, she's embraced a number of things that president obama has done including obamacare and including some of

his environmental actions and economic policies and she stands with raising the minimum wage and all of these things and let's be clear. the country is in an economic tough time. it has been in an economic tough time and it was before president obama took office. there have been 53, 54 private sector job growth and the question here is this will fundamentally be a democrat versus republican election and voters don't exactly trust republicans to do any better about this they're the ones who put us in this problem in the first place. >> i find it for a candidate who has $72 to a man's dollar. as a senator, i have a hard time believing that she'll convince americans that she's for the middle class when they've been left behind under president obama. >> mark you mentioned earlier -- >> hillary fan in the world, her in vitt ability is her strongest asset and the fact that everyone is trying to put a target on her back just goes to show what a strong candidate she

already is. >> you make a better argument -- >> hold on a second. [ indiscernible ] >> sally, you made a better case for hillary clinton than she did in her own video, and that is also i think, a big problem because you seem to be proud of obamacare each though a lot of americans don't like it. hillary clinton didn't mention it. she could have talked about bringing health care to everybody and it's not popular right now. >> i think it's amazing that suddenly we're dissecting hillary's video for what she didn't say in a minute and a half video. >> she's running for president, mark. >> ted cruz is also running for president. marco rubio was also running for president and when you look at their videos they also don't look point by point. >> on the big issues they're talking about foreign policy. >> the out of touch elitest

convincing middle-class americans that she understands them despite saying that -- [ indiscernible ] >> right. so it goes to the bushes. >> i want to ask you this because you mentioned earlier -- mark you mentioned earlier in the program in the last hour that you think that if hillary was a man attackeds about her record of the accomplishment it wouldn't be happening. why is that? >> we have the idea that women are less qualified and it's the same reason why we have the wage gap. what we see is a set of attacks that are unfair. when hillary clinton and when sarah palin -- we saw a -- let me finish. what attack specifically about hillary clinton was unfair. >> the point that she doesn't have a record of accomplishment. when you look at her record as a

senator and first lady and secretary of state. let's look as a first lady she pushed for creation of adoption of safe families act. s-chip was going down the list. as secretary of state she sponsored 54 bills including pediatric drug testing and like no child left behind and i'm not even an nclb fan and highly trained teacher recruitment. she was on that bill. when you talk about secretary of state, she helped tighten sanctions on iran and she helped negotiate a cease-fire between israel and hamas. you may disagree with everything hillary clinton has ever done and it's inaccurate to say she hasn't done anything. >> all right, guys we have to get a break in here. guys i'm going to jump in in here and brian stelter will have the first word when we come back when we have the first word of this in just a minute. with the new angie's list app you can you can get projects done in a snap. take a photo of your project or just tell us what you need done... ...and angie's list will find a top-rated

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thing very clear. she values her privacy. some white house staff of the clinton era describe her and the former president as paranoid to the point that they rewired the phones in the white house and the recent flap over her private email account has this question top of mind. is the issue of transparency going to be a big headache for her in this campaign. let's bring back in my panel, fiery panel we have on the show this evening. brian, i'm going to s.t.a.r.t.tart with you. her relationship with the news media. >> the post cover says oh e hill no no no no no. that's the new york post and it's a murdoch paper and you expect that on launch day and it's been this concentrated attempt to have a restart between the press and this campaign and they released secret off-the-record meetings between campaign aides and reporters from anchors, some from cnn and other outlets and an attempt to have a restart. we're not going to see her do

big interviews. there's no plan yet for a first big sitdown interview with hillary the campaigner. it's very different from marco rubio. marco rubio will do fox, nbc, cbs, abc from the next few days and i wonder how long she'll go without doing interviews. >> a new poll found 53% of voters believe that she purposely withheld emails from her time as secretary of state or was not truthful about them and juxtaposed it with this the cbs poll finding 65% of voters said that email scandal didn't change their opinion of clinton. what does that mean? did they expect it? do they not care about it? which is it? to you, ben on that what's your assessment of that? >> i think there are a lot of people that expect this is how the clintons act. this is what they've expected from them. they're not very transparent and hillary clinton is not going to be transparent, and i think her campaign is smart to keep her off this big interview. there's too many questions that will come up in a big interview

if she did one tomorrow that are going to be negative because of all of the issues she's had recently with lack of transparency. you can't do an interview without talking about her emails. that will be the big sound bite. >> or the foundation. >> right. and the foundation of foreign funds coming in from foreign country and was she double dips while she was secretary of state? those are issues that i think her campaign is being incredibly smart on. keep her out of that situation because it's not going to help the campaign. it's going to get them off message and so if you can put out a video and just smile and raise money right now when you don't really have another candidate going up against you in the democratic party, that's the best decision you can make for her because the liable sit too big. >> let's listen to what rand paul told cnn about that issue that you bring up in? >> i believe and have been told that there's going to be information about donations to the clinton foundation that may or may not have had or could

possibly have had influence over who gets to do business in various countries around the world. some of these countries are very sensitive to our national security. the question here is are they skirting election law and are they taking money and potentially getting influence bought by foreign countries through a foundation. >> lisa to you on that. he talked about it this morning with this interview with dana bash with the human rights issues and women's rights issues and saying the clinton foundation run by her and her husband and the whole family is taking this money from these foreign countries and it is just not right. my question to you is do you think that that resonates with the average voter? >> absolutely. we know it does. look at the quinnipiac university polls recently that shows that these scandals have actually hit voters in critical key states like iowa and like colorado and virginia. so it's absolutely having an impact. it's reached beyond the

washington d.c. political bubble and it's hit voters at home and that will be problematic for hillary clinton and why it's problematic for her is not only is she a flawed candidate, but this further perpetuates this notion that hillary clinton is entitled and that she's above the law and that she's above the rules and above the regulation. this is someone who in 2008 had said she is one of the most transparent public figures, but we're finding out that she's anything, but, and every time she goes to iowa and every time she goes to new hampshire she'll get questions about her private server and she'll get questions about the foundation and she'll get questions about benghazi. >> she's going to iowa this week on tuesday and to you, iowa was the beginning of the end for you in 2008 and came in third there. what does she need to do this time around to prevent what lisa just pointed to? >> look. i think it seems to me she's doing the right things or the things she needs to do which is when voters are asked, look

she's overwhelmingly the leading candidate and very strong favorables and you can tell by the slings and arrows republicans are desperately trying to dig up. what she needs to do is reshape her image to directly -- to directly connect with voters and i think it's great that she started online and i think it's great that she'll do these smaller conversations and not do big, vents and she'll try and present herself more as this direct person to person -- because to be honest the actual biggest thing that hurts her right now is the sense that her candidacy is inevitable and everyone inside the campaign knows that. they're trying to be very -- they're saying a lot of caution that that is not the case and that they don't want to act that way because the more that they act that way the more the right is mobilize against her and the harder it is to mobilize her own base because you want an enthusiastic base of supporters. >> so mark to you. an interesting column by maureen dowd in "the new york times,"

she talks about being a grandmother. quote, this was designed to rebutt critics who say she's too close to wall street and too grabby with speech money and foundation donations from arab autocrats to wage a sincere fight against income inequality. how does she -- how does she do that effectively? well i think being -- >> first of all, those critiques will come inand because hillary is the favorite in the democratic pool i don't think that's that big a deal as most people think, what she has to wrestle with is the foundation question and there is no elizabeth warren figure and it is not going to be the benghazi question. hillary has attempted over the last few months and last year to transform herself. she wanted to show herself as someone who is a person of the people. she wanted to show herself as

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>> thank you. everyone we're out of time. appreciate it. i promise you, we have 575 more days to talk about her. >> is that all? >> thank you all very much. i appreciate it. quick break on the other side we'll talk about what the pope said at the vatican this morning that has turkey furious. it's happening. today, more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about long-acting levemir® an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. and levemir® helps lower your a1c. levemir® comes in flextouch® the only prefilled insulin pen with no push-button extension. levemir® lasts 42 days without refrigeration. that's 50% longer than lantus® which lasts 28 days. today i'm asking about levemir® flextouch®.

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genocide during mass this morning to describe the killings of armenians more than a century ago. officials in turkey are furious. the service was commemorating 100 years since the armenian massacre under the on the man empire. turkey has always denied it was genocide blaming world war i for deaths on both sides. almost immediately, turkey's foreign minister took to twitter accusing the pope of inciting hatred and they've hummoned their ambassador back for consultation to turk pep that does not mean diplomatic ties are over. let's talk about it with cnn senior vatican analyst john allen joining me now. what do you make of this between the relationship between turkey and the vatican? >> poppy, this is a very important relationship with the vatican vatican. one of pope francis's big picture in social and political objectives is to encourage moderates in the islamic world to stand up and be counted in the struggle against violent

extremism and he sees turkey as a potential partner in that effort and when he visited turkey last november the vatican emphasized how important the outrage to that country was and how important a potential partnership might be and he offered the pope a deal saying if you fight islamophobia in the west i will fight christian persecution in the middle east and the vatican wants to pursue that. i think everyone on the vatican side knew that if he used the g-word if he used the word genocide there would be blowback from the turks and i think he felt that on this occasion when you have the leadership of the catholic and orthodox churches of armenia in attendance and when you have the country's entire political class there and at a time when anti-christian persecution is a source of growing concern around the world and let's not forget the vast

majority of armenians who died a century ago were christians and on this occasion the pope felt he simply couldn't blink. >> do you think knowing what we know about this pope being an unconvectional pope in all ways do you think he will stand by his comments and after this backlash what we've seen that he might step back a little bit? >> well poppy, this pope's pattern seems to be that when he says something that irritates a particular constituency he never backs away from that comment and he looks creative leigh for other ways to reach out to them. we've seen that inside the church for example. last october when the vatican held a high-profile summit on the family and there were things the pope did and said that there was concern that the church had a conservative wing and he didn't back away from those initial move but he did find ways to reach out to those folks, and i expect he's going to find ways in the coming days to make clear that he sees them

as a friend and not an enemy. let's remember that recalling an ambassador is a fairly common way for one country to say to another you've done something that irritates us and it doesn't mean a complete breakdown in relations and turkey recalled its ambassador in 2001 when john paul ii referred to the armenian genocide -- >> in that statement and the vatican were no longer talking to each other and it's important to keep this relationship green. >> john allen, thanks so much. appreciate it. >> coming up next we'll switch gears and talk about this story that's getting attention and a russian fighter jet buzzing and putting the u.s. crews at risk says the u.s. we'll tell you what this country plans to do about it next opinion

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it happened on tuesday in international airspace over the baltic sea. russia claims the american military claim was intercepted because it was approaching the russian border with its transponder turned off meaning you can't detect it. the united states says that's just not true. cnn military analyst retired lieutenant joins me now from eugene oregon. also with us in new york a former u.s. navy s.e.a.l. and a former fbi agent. you've flown in this very model of aircraft hundreds of times on missions and the united states says look it's not upset that the plane was intercepted but the reckless manner they're describing the russian pilot interacting with the jet, flying by it and circling it to get the tail number. what are the rules here? >> the rules are that you don't interfere with safety of flight and it appears that's what this russian pilot did. this is want uncommon to be intercepted. in fact when we used to fly these missions and i've done this about 400 times and there

are times when you're intercept intercepted and most of the times you're not and most of the time it's airmen dealing with air mern and they stand off at a respectable distance and you know you're being photographed and they take down the information the aircraft and then they go back to their base. it's always done. we do it to them we do it to us. it's when they get too close and they start interfering with your own flight that it becomes dangerous. you will recall what happened when we had the same thing happen between a chinese pilot and the u.s. navy reconnaissance aircraft was forced to land because of damage sustained in a mid-air collision. this is very dangerous when they get too close, but what will happen about this? probably very little. we'll make a diplomatic protest and it will probably die down for a while. >> do you agree that this is rhetoric and diplomatic protest and then nothing comes of it? >> i do. i think the colonel is absolutely right. this is something that's ongoing and it happens off our coast where the russian bombers will come by our coast and will send

up aircraft to fly close to them but in a way that the colonel was just describing and what bothers me about this is that everything that putin does it seems lately is increasingly more aggressive and these flights, they've had four more or four times greater number of these intercepts and they become more and more aggressive. that to me is putin flexing his muscle and in the fbi we've shown that when you give criminals and i'm not calling putin a criminal but his behavior at times is suspect, and when you give people the room to flex their muscles they will and they'll start doing it in a predictable manner and i think we're starting to see that prediction happen over and over again. >> just to be here colonel francona we're talking about a u.s. spyplane. >> we prefer the term reconnaissance but i take your point. yes. these aircraft operate every day along the coast of many nations, not just the russians and we do this all over the world as one

of our primary sources of electronic intelligence and as jonathan said he's absolutely right. they do this to us. all of these russian bombers and many are outfitted with electronic intercept equipment and they're doing the same thing and so it's a long time-honored way to collect intelligence. we've been doing it for decades and they've been doing it for decades and so far, we've had very few incidents and there have been shootdowns when there's misunderstandings and this is not completely safe but it's something we feel we have to do to gather the information we need to develop the information about the soviet or the russian air defenses. >> to you, jonathan. >> i'm dating myself there. >> final word here. how should you know if you take the u.s. account at hand how should the russians responded to this? >> there is a predictable manner that pilots go through.

it's pilot versus pilot and not aggressive in nature and it's more a show of force. we know that you're here. >> do they talk to one another? >> i don't know. the colonel would have to answer that question. >> colonel, can they talk to one another? >> no. there's the language barrier and we're not going to acknowledge that they're there. the pilots will do hand signals simply to say i see you, i understand and there re international ways for the pilots to communicate non-verbally and you primarily don't want that because normally what the pilot will do is to follow me and that you don't want to happen. >> jonathan and rick stick around and we'll talk about this story. panic, breaking out among university studenteds in kenya and this is after the massacre by al shabaab and students fearing for their lives trying to run to safety. we'll tell you what happened next.

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a big scare at a university in kenya. ten people ten days rather after 147 people were slaughtered by al shabaab terrorists who attacked a university in garissa, an explosion rocked the university in nairobi earlier today. students were so scared some of them jumped out of the window and others were caught in a stampede as some were trying to escape the halls. one person was trampled to death. more than 100 people were injured. the blast caused by a faulty electrical cable, but here's the

thing, many people thought they were under attack again. their reaction just highlights the fear gripping the region. let's talk about it with jonathan gilliam and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. you're a former navy s.e.a.l. when you look at this how scared they were because they just saw 147 people die at another university attacked by al shabaab, what does that tell you about what seems to be the lack of ability to get a handle on al shabaab especially in kenya right now? >> i don't know about the lack of ability to get a hold of them. i do think we should be in this area tactically a little bit more. our troops should be there assisting, i know that they're there, but they should be assisting at a greater level because this is the place where the actual group of al shabaab i think could be managed in this area and pushed back. i think, though, what you're seeing now as terrorists change their tactics and look at soft target you see the people reacting to this and i'd really like to know how the authorities reacted to this. i think that's just as important

of the fact that people are realizing sheltering in place and kenya may not be a good idea. >> tom fuentes, when you look at how you handle this situation from the government level and the kenyan government and how they get a hold of this increasing risk from al shabaab, what is the answer to make people feel safe at their universities at the shopping malls, et cetera sort of unless you make everyone go through metal detectors and you make these universities into compounds? >> i think, poppy, the best way to make the people feel safe is to show competence when you deal with a major crisis. the response at the westgate mall attack almost two years ago, and the response that the garissa university attack recently has been pit ifl andiful and it's dangerous enough to begin with for any government because they have a large land border that's completely porous and a continuous beach front on the indian ocean so terrorists can come by boat like we've seen

with the somali pier theas. so they're completely vulnerable but the authorities in kenya have shown very little competence in responding to these to preventing them and dealing with them when they happen. >> when you look at the mastermind of the garissa university attack where 147 people died tom, a bouncy a very big bounty has been put on his head there and they vrpt had success yet. what's lacking? >>. >> i think a lot of things are looking and one of it is is they can't control their border and there are safe houses within kenya where al shabaab members have been down and the so-called mastermind as jonathan will tell you it doesn't take much of a mastermind to hand machine guns to four people and a couple of grenades and tearing them loose and jonathan and i can train a handful of people to do ten times that much damage in four hours. we overcredit these guys with being geniuses at terrorism when it's just a couple of people

turned loose. >> so jonathan the government of kenya launched these air strikes on al shabaab targets following the day after. do you think that air strikes are not effective enough right now in kenya? >> air strikes are another tactic that we use to battle insurgents but i just don't think it's going to be you know really reliable here and in a way that mr. fuentes was just talking here it wouldn't take a whole lot that can build up forces that can push back and repel al shabaab and you have to look at these different soft targets from an attacker's perspective and the authorities can forward think where it's probably going to happen and set up better defenses and i totally agree with mr. fuentes and they just dropped the ball when it comes to not just reacting, but pre-thinking these things. >> so people feel safer at their universities. >> thank you very much. >> tom fuentes, thank you, as well. still ahead, new concerns about a pesticide used at a

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right now u.s. officials are trying to track down tourists who have been to the virgin islands recently because they concerned that some may have

been exposed to a deadly pesticide used illegally. it is the same pesticide that put an entire delaware family in the hospital. here's sarah gannon. two teenagers are still in a coma after they were exposed to a deadly pesticide while on spring break with their family. now cnn has learned the same chemical was likely illegally used multiple times according to government officials. governor ken map told us that even his own condominium complex was fumigated with methyl bromide without his knowledge in 2013. >> what these companies did or appear to have been doing is clearly a violation of the law and they'll be held accountable for it. >> the epa investigation has found that term nix illegally used methyl bromide four times including the day before thanksgiving on a vacation villa on st. croix and the saranusaville as on st. john last fall. authorities are tracking down the residents who stayed at theville as but term nix didn't

want to talk about it. >> i spoke to a government official who said you guys had used this substance inside this resort before this incident. >> i don't understand what part you didn't understand what i said before. >> what part? >> the part they can't talk to you. >> i'm giving you guys the chance to respond. i can't, i'm afraid not. >> all right. yeah. >> term nix issued a statement saying that it is quote, complited to performing all work in a manner that is safe and is looking into this matter internally and cooperating with authorities. pest control companies are supposed to document use of ethyl bromide and if, in account fa they were falsifying records. >> that's a clear and malice violation of the law. >> but federal documents and public records show on the islands there were serious management problems. the epa oversees the local department of planning and natural resources and last year

designated it a, quote high risk saying it does not meet management standards. that came after a top official with the dpnr was convicted of using the agency to run drugs. the second high profile scandal involving the agency. the epa says the inspector general is also investigating the dpnr but the governor who just took office in january says the agency's issues have nothing to do with what happened to the esmond family. he blames the pest control companies. >> it occurred because someone was cutting corners and thought they could enhance their profit margin and that they could get away with it and apparently even in my own residence someone had been getting away with it for quite some time. >> federal authorities are seizing canisters of ethyl bromide across the u.s. virgin islands and shipping them off island. sarah ganim, cnnthomas.

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this is cnn breaking news. breaking news from augusta georgia and the masters. let's go straight to don riddle who joins me there. so, did he pull it off? >> he certainly did, poppy, we have witnessed the future of american golf. jordan spieth has won the masters. the young man, 21-year-old from dallas texas, has broken record after record over the last few days and he has wrapped it up beating justin rose by four strokes and the winning score, 18 under par and that ties the winning record that tiger woods managed back in 1997. he also has scored more birdies than anyone else over the four days in the history of this tournament and remember, he'd already shot a record score over 36 holes and over 54 holes as well. in the end, he looked relieved rather than ecstatic to have

actually won this so much pressure on a young man having built up such a huge lead going into the final day and he was in this position this time last year and that in itself is incredible that at the age of 21 he has been in both masters tournaments in which he has played. upon this is his first major win. his fifth professional career victory, but earlier in the week tiger woods referred to the fact that jordan spieth was in tigers when tiger won his first major here in 1997. that young man has grown up now and many are expecting a very very bright future ahead for him. poppy. >> he certainly has. i know some very emotional embraces with his family members there at augusta, georgia. very quickly, what is it about this guy and many people didn't know his name until just recently. just a meteoric rise. >> oh absolutely. he had a phenomenal amateur and

junior career second only to tiger woods, to be honest, before he turned professional, but everybody that's met him, myself included is just blown away by how mature and calm and composed and thoughtful he is and that certainly translates to his golf game. a lot of that is a credit to himself, of course but also to his mom and dad and his family situation at home. he's the future of american golf in so many ways is in good hands. >> congratulations to him, jordan speed, the future of golf in this country. appreciate it. 7 closhgs eastern and you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm poppy harlow in new york with you this sunday evening and if you haven't heard yet, hillary clinton is run for example president, the former first lady u.s. senator and former secretary of state has ended all of the speculation announcing