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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 officially her run for the white house via video on
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social media. the video aimed squarely at the middle class. >> i'm running for president. americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. 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. >> meanwhile, republican attack ads are coming in fast, rand paul, jeb bush, carly foreign a the former ceo of hp who you see there taking aim at clinton and her track record. let's discuss it all, cnn political commentator van jones is with me and cnn political
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commentator buck sexton. thank you both for being here. let me start with you, van, what do you think of the way hillary made this announcement and how it has come off and resonated? >> so far so good. i thought the video was very, very good. everybody knows usually you've got to introduce the candidate and you have to give a bunch of back story, and, and how to spell a person's name. and they feature ordinary americans in this and she was able to highlight ordinary people and she comes at the end with energy and enthusiasm and says i want to be your champion, and i think that part has gone very, very well. some are saying they felt like this came off a bit corporate. >> it's very stage managed. it comes in with a whimper instead of a bang and that's as a result of what happened in 2008 and they're trying to fight against the inevitability and the entitlement that hillary clinton feels when it comes to this issue and this is an exercise in rebranding and the
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hillary that ran against barack obama was the sharp-eyed executive who can get it done and has the background and has the record and now we have hillary, america's grandmother who wants to take care of everybody, sit around the kitchen table and fix their problems. americans have seen the first hillary. i'm not so sure that they'll be easily led to bah into the second hillary and she's a grandmother now and she wasn't before. >> interesting, paul begala pointing out, van, earlier that in 2008 they were trying to hide the fact that she was a woman and now it's all about, and not all about and very much and that is being played because she's saying this is who i am. i am a wife. i am a politician. i am a grandmother now. do you think that is resonating so far in the early going? >> look, i think i am the grandma-in-chief line approach will work very, very well. listen, different people have different views about her, but you have to remember that there are a lot of young people in this country that weren't paying attention and they were watching
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sesame street during the 1909s and they'll look at hillary clinton and give her a fair shot. i'm watching other parts of the party and how they're responding and how they're reacting and you're seeing people like bill de blasio and he's not going to endorse yet and he's holding out for a populist, economic view and you have people that black lives matter and the people protesting about police brutality and where is she on criminal justice and you have parts of the party, and we're not going to leave her at the altar. people just want a good prenup. >> most of it was the things that you would expect. >> those were other people's words and she actually said a few things towards the end that she's running for president and one part of that was tilted toward the people at the top and you've got that sense that she's obviously going to go toward economic populism and the kitchen table economic issues and also she's going to be doing the class warfare thing and it was hinting toward that and i think it will be difficult for hillary clinton to pull off and it was successful for president
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obama particularly in reelection and i don't think hillary who is worth over $100 million will have an easy time convincing people that she's not an elitist and that's a huge stumbling block for this rebranding of america's grandma. >> dana bash, my colleague sat down with rand paul and another candidate and fascinating interview and she asked him about hillary a foreign policy. let's listen to this. i think the issue in ben gassy is an enormous issue because it's whether or not as commander in chief will be there during the 3:00 a.m. phone call. i think benghazi was the 3:00 a.m. phone call that she didn't pick up. she didn't provide the security not just for that day, for nine months. >> van, is that going to be a problem for her? >> listen, they're going to try to chip away and chip away at her foreign approximately see record, and i think that benghazi is overplayed and people have made up their mind about that. a challenge she will have is that the world is -- feels like
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it's on fire right now. you have americans getting their heads chopped off on television and the sense of isis is spreading around the world and there will be more of a discomfort with where are we in the world in a year and a half, and she's got to be able to thread that needle. i think benghazi is something that is red meat for republicans, but i do think how she handles the foreign policy question will be more important than perhaps she thought it might be. >> she's more vulnerable than benghazi, there are more vulnerabilities she didn't have an accomplishment as secretary of state and this is something that the media caught on to and they would ask people, what did she do than fly around the world on taxpayer-funded jets. >> and with benghazi, i would have to say that the buck does stop with her. she is the one that is responsible for the head of the state department for what happened there. it was a failure of security and it was a failure of handling those hours and to this day the one person that was quick to hold couldable to this was
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someone who made the video. >> there are real reasons why people point to that and say, this is someone who can't be trusted and it doesn't seem that she was paying close attention to one of the highest posts in the world. >> slate writing, clinton's camp let slip we know on friday its aim to raise $2.5 billion. maybe that's not the best way to say hello to a struggling middle class. van, to you first on that. >> let me say something about that as well as the other point that she'll be seen as a pollute o plutokrat. if someone else slips past and that person positions himself as a more recent member of the middle class, maybe that becomes an issue that becomes a problem, but the reality is both parties will have to raise a tremendous amount of money and if you want to criticize her for saying she'll raise 2 billion and both sides will raise 2 billion and
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there will be another two to three billion of expenditures and this is a problem not just for hillary clinton. >> i don't think that will be the best dynamic going into all of this and you get a marco rubio and the first latino president, and geographically speaking and florida being a play for him and for bush, as well and the story that marco rubio comes with him. >> a big announcement coming from marco rubio. i think he lines up well against hillary. thank you, gentlemen, both. >> hillary clinton in the social media movement. we will take a closer look at how she's looking social media to try to show voters a different, softer, more personal side of the hillary we all think we know.
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call it hillary clinton 2.0, if you want or call it whatever you want, but today is a big day in the hillary clinton campaign. the former secretary of state rolling out her second bid for the white house on social media in a video. she actually used a video to announce in 2008, as well, but this one was very different this time instead of the inevitable hillary with big rallies, it is hillary up close and personal. cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter is with me and cnn media director, thank you for being here. let me start with you, samantha. what do you make of this video
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and the rollout so far? >>. >> i think it's great success and it's very different to what happened in 2008 to put in context the social media landscape is completely different. at the time twitter had just started and facebook was in its infancy and we hadn't seen an iphone being sold in the stores and it's got to be different. at the time they went for youtube centric and they went across three platforms and they launched the opportunity on facebook and they did youtube and twitter and they traveled fast not just here in the u.s. and it's the trend at the moment with hillary clinton. the video itself on facebook as we've seen a million times natively within the platform. we're talking about three, four hours. >> exactly. on twitter in one hour alone, 3 million people looked at the announcement tweets so it spread and using the multisocial platform campaign. >> that's what we're showing. this is a so-called heat map of how many people and you can see a lot of it on the coasts and the peak of that was 3:28 where
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there were 7,000 tweets in a minute. you're not seeing as much in middle america and iowa where, by the way, ryan she's getting on a plane to go to iowa. how does she resonate in iowa in a way she didn't. >> through offline as well as through online campaigning and this is the announcement everyone expected for months and she was able to control it entirely by having it come out in this video and it was to your point about the iphone. it's a very iphone friendly video or cell phone friendly video and it's an intimate relationship when watching something on the small screen. most people see the announcement on tv and when you share it, it creates that intimacy that this campaign wants. >> i don't know if my team in the control room has this, and carly fiorina coming out like an hour after hillary clinton posting her own video on facebook. by the way, it looked like it was shot with an iphone, very cas
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casual. look at that. they were going for the same video style and jeb bush the same way and it was overnight so she was coming out ahead of hillary clinton and all of this was supposed to be shareable so you can pick your tribe and stick with it. >> people that are pro-hillary say she needs to be authentic. it is very clear on twitter if you're being authentic or if you're having a million people vet what you put out. >> social media audiences are cynical. they're cynical if you're using it as a megaphone and cynical for self-promotion and they have to get the voice right on each platform and you saw her dipping her toe in the snap chat water. she did an off topic snap chat for the clinton foundation and i think her and her team understand you need to be really authentic because you want to use social media for three things. they want to convert people to be donors and voters.
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you can see that already and they have a tweet going out and for five dollars you can be a campaign from the start and her team also would likely be digging into the data that they can get from this and the data and the analytics and the insightis that can get from social media now -- >> priceless. >> it would really drive where they go and what voice is resonating and what language is working and i delved into the facebook data for the last week of what the topics were this people were discussing about hillary clinton and it was in the last week and i would be interested what they would be for next week. >> isn't it, brian, priceless what information you can get from all of the analytics and all of the data. you can retarget advertisement and even if i go to cnn.com i might still see a hillary ad once you've engaged in one of her networking sites and it is just the beginning for them and what i hope you'll see is a two-way engagement and i saw
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rand paul right after his engagement get online and do an online chat and even if it only applies to a fraction, and they're using the sites to be social and not just talk at us. >> you don't have any direct challenge to her right now in her own party and some people have said there's fear of her getting, no, she's been painted as inevitable and you couldn't get hillary fatigue and what's the best way, samantha, for her to manage her social media presence and how out front she'll be. >> she's taken a step back today and there was a tweet that went out again in the last 90 minutes where it said it's the campaign staff that will be tweeting from this account from now on, if you see hate at the end of the tweet and that's from hillary herself and there needs to be, as we said, she needs to be authentic on these sites and if you dig into the facebook page there's work that's gone behind it and they've timelined it back to where she was born and they put personal photos out there and
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they're creating that social presence. >> of course, there is a celebrity quotient that isn't there. rand paul when he announced earlier in the week and you mentioned on twitter and he'll get retweets for his comments and hillary 80,000 on the initial i'm running for president tweet and that celebrity power and no other democrat, republican has. >> she was also better known last time around and that's not always what makes it happen. by the way, big announcement tomorrow coming from marco rubio being overshadowed by this and we'll continue to talk about that. >> their folks said to me earlier, literally, hillary will be yesterday's news by the time he speaks at 6:00 p.m. monday. >> great to have you on. we'll continue to follow this, the turkish government accusing pope francis of stirring up hate after he spoke out this morning about the armenian massacre. what does this mean for the relationship with the vatican? our experts weigh in. woman: it's been a journey to get where i am. and i didn't get here alone. there were people who listened along the way.
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pope francis used the word genocide today during mass to describe the killing of armenians more than a century ago. officials in turkey are furious. >> reporter: in the past century our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies. the first which is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th century struck your own armenian people. >> that service was commemorating 100 years since the armenian massacres under the ottoman empire. turkey has always denied it was genocide blaming the war, world war i specifically for deaths on both sides. almost immediately turkey's foreign minister took to twitter accusing him of inciting hatred and they summoned the ambassador back to turkey for consultation. the former ambassador says that does not mean the diplomatic ties between the two are over.
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earlier i spoke with senior vatican analyst john allen and he says the pope does not want to harm relations with turkey at all. >> this is a very important relationship with the vatican. one of pope francis's big picture, social and political objectives is to try to encourage moderates in the islamic world to stand up and be counted in the struggle against violent extremism and sees turkey as a potential partner in that effort and when he visited turkey last november that the vatican emphasized how important the outrage to the country and was how important a potential partnership was between pope francis and heir to one might be. heir to one offered the pope a deal saying if you fight islamophobia in the west i will fight anti-christian persecution in the middle east and the vatican wants to pursue that. >> that said, i think everyone on the vatican side knew that if the pope used the g-word, that is if he invoked genocide today
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there would be blow back from the turks, and i think he felt that on this occasion when you had the leadership of both the catholic and orthodox churches from armenia in attendance in the ceremony in the vatican, 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, frankly, the pope felt he simply couldn't blink. i expect he's going to find ways to try to make it clear to turkey that he sees them as a friend and not an enemy. >> john allen there for us. thank you, john. appreciate it. coming up next, another deadly police shooting intensifying calls for all police officers to wear body cameras and we'll take a look at the bennett ands and challenges and the big boon it would bring to businesses pep that's next.
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miracle-gro. life starts here. a sheriff's deputy's mistake as he grabs with his taser ends
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with a man dead. >> on your stomach now! >> oh, i'm sorry. [ bleep ]. >> this video of an officer-involved shooting earlier this month. authorities were recording a sting operation when a felon who -- on a felon when a reserve deputy shouted that he had a taser, but instead of firing his taser, investigators say the deputy mistakenly pulled the trigger on his gun. >> you can train someone as much as you can, and you train in every area that you can, but in times of crisis, sometimes training is not going to take you through the scenario. >> the reserve deputy involved in the shooting robert bates has been placed on administrative leave while this case is investigated. >> prosecutors will be piecing together their case this week against michael slager, the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man one week ago.
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[ shots fired ] >> that was a total of eight shots fired at 50-year-old walter scott, five of them hit him. the officer, michael slager had pulled scott over for a broken taillight. scott fled the car, the vehicle, he was shot and initially slager said he used a taser and that scott grabbed that taser. it's reigniting some calls among many for law enforcement to be mandated to wear body cameras at all times while they're on duty. what do we know about the companies that manufacture these body cameras. here's cnn money correspondent christi christinale christinalesy. >> hi, poppy. the video was caught on a cell phone, but if the witness wasn't there or didn't hit record the headlines could have been drastically different. now those facts have renewed
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calls for police body cameras. the mayor of north charleston says the city is ordering an additional 150 body cameras on top of the hundred the city already ordered. now we've seen this move before following ferguson, rialto and right here in new york city. here are some numbers for you. about 20% of the 18,000 police departments in the u.s. now have or will have the cameras. that is a boon for companies that make these high-quality devices. namely, taser and digital ally, shares of taser jumped 7% on thursday and the stock is up more than 50% over the last 12 months. now here's the thing, investors aren't just looking at current orders for body cameras, but they're seeing the number of controversial shootings on the rise so that's what's stoking the view that police departments are going to have to go down this road. now, digital ally also got a big boost from the news. its shares rose 10% and it's up a whopping 170% over the past
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year. this is a very difficult decision for city officials to make. there are a lot of considerations such as privacy and costs and most importantly, what will the response from the police unions be? remember, the models require officers to turn on the camera in order to record what's actually happening, and as for the price, tasers model go from $400 to $600 each and digital allies go for about 800. storage plans for the devices are also expensive and they can cost up to $100, per officer, per month and there are cheaper models out there and this may be the case that you get what you pay for and that's why we're seeing such a big rise in the company's stock prices. some police departments are getting state and federal funding to help with that cost, but regardless it's still taxpayer money and with the social conversation growing louder, some departments are convinced the money is well spent and the companies that make these cameras are ready to supply them. poppy?
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>> christina, thanks so much for that. let's talk about it with casey jordan and she's here with me in new york, criminologist and an attorney and tom fuentes is in washington. casey, to you first. people increasingly are pointing at these body cameras saying this makes sense. why not mandate them? it's not as sifmple as that. is it practical? >> it's the liability to the taxpayers who end up paying millions of dollars to people who are shot and there are no witnesses and they end up winning these lawsuits for millions and millions of dollars and we're going to see these continue to go on. i think if you're talking about an $800 investment even if it's $1,000 to store the data, i think officers will buy into it because it protects them from liability, as well. >> do you, tom fuentes, believe that they change behavior? >> i think they probably do and some of the departments have
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reported that they see, you know, a decrease in violence involving police in many situations. i, you know, this could work both ways, though because the individuals on camera as well, and i think that once these things are really out there and deployed on a larger basis, i think it will be a backlash from the people right now who are asking for them, wait a minute, you're violating my privacy. people are going to see that police run into individuals that behave so badly that in many cases people aren't going to like what they see. >> but there are dash cameras, there are dash cameras. >> that's exactly right and the dash cameras have showed several instances of officers being gunned down the second they step out of their squad car when they make a traffic stop or a passenger or driver simultaneously jumping out and opening fire and you're right. the dash cams have shown some terrible things that people have done and the body cams will even show worse. >> ultimately, casey, it's up to
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the officer and there have been incidents where things have happened and officers have turned them off and turned them back on and it's up to them to turn them on and there's the question should they have to wear them for the entire eight, 10, 12-hour shift while they're from the patrol car having conversations with their partner. >> just like we've adapted to the idea that all police cars have dash cams or should have dash cams and the key is what you point out. they are subject to technical problems and human operation and human error. they're not a magic bullet and they'll be fuzzy videos and videos that are out of focus or pointed in the wrong direction and it doesn't solve the problem, but the idea for both the officer and the person that he or she is dealing with and they know that it's being recorded and i think you will gain respect on both ends of the spectrum and that your law enforcement process, just knowing that you could be being recorded could actually dissuade disrespect for officers and aggression and increased
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violence on behalf of officers. >> tom fuentes, to you, if you're in the camp that wants these, should these be federally mandated and should this be state by state, a county by county, city decision? >> there are so many police departments across the country and larger cities that are having tremendous budget problems and if you go with this tulsa incident with the reserve officer in the arrest of a vienlt, gun-running criminal and they have a reservist out there 73 years old that tells me they don't have as many police officers that they need and to spend more money on this, you're right. it will be an initial, huge investment, but i agree that in the long run it's going to save on claims against the police and pay for itself. >> guys, appreciate the discussion and it's an important one to have. we'll keep having it here. absolutely. thank you both. appreciate it. >> coming up next, a new development for the race to the white house in 2016. yes, hillary clinton has made it official and she's running and
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we're here to make healthier happen. optum. healthier is here. new developments in hillary clinton's newly announced white house bid. we just learned that she resigned from the clinton foundation board of directors. that foundation, as you know, has come under scrutiny recently for some of the done eggs it has received from foreign countries. right now the main focus for clinton's camp is getting voters to know hillary the person. here's cnn's gloria borger. >> poppy, for the past month i've been talking to some of the people who know hillary clinton best, and i've asked them what she's like off stage away from the cameras and why after three decades in the public eye she's choosing to run the presidential gauntlet for a second time. here's what they told me. ♪ ♪ unless you've been living on
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another planet for the last few decade, there's one political star that's been unavoidably present. >> not too many people with the one name, hillary, a few others, madonna and a few others, but everybody knows hillary. >> maybe not as well as close friend virginia governor terry mccallive, but well enough to be on a first-name basis as in hillary, the young watergate committee lawyer. hillary, first lady of arkansas and first lady of the united states. hillary, senator from new york, and presidential candidate, hillary, secretary of state and presidential candidate. >> i'm running for president. >> it was a decision that surprised absolutely no one. least of all, old family friend and adviser paul begala. >> it's not just i have to do this, i have to make history and i have to be the big shot and
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they have to play "hail to the chief" when i walk in the room. >> she doesn't need it. she wants it and she's put a life time into herself in preparation for it. >> it was clear, even back at yale law school in the '70s when she fed this fellow. i tried to talk hillary into leaving me when we were in law school. it's the god's truth. you have more talent in public service than anybody in my generation that i have met and i should not stand in your way and she laugh looked at me and said bill, i'll never run for office. >> she was the ott original good wife, writing her own role. >> this security card will represent the right of every citizen and public defender in chief. >> is the vast right-wing conspiracy. >> despite a brutal personal struggle. >> what did you learn about hillary clinton when you went through some of the tougher times? >> it was tough. this was about their family and she wanted to keep it about
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their family. you know, when tough times come, she's able to deal with it and deal with it herself and is able to continue to move on. >> an essential skill, says democrat bill daly who has managed both the presidential candidate and a white house. >> i don't know what they could say about her that hasn't been said about her in the past, in a negative sense, so, you know, she's got a pretty stroung shield around her. >> it's a shield that can keep the voters at arm's elect. so that after all these years in the public eye there's still something elusive about hillary clinton. >> people who have never met either of them, very clear sense of who bill clinton is. they call him bill. do you think he'd like to have a barbecue with us? >> with hillary, there is a distance. >> the plan is to have the voters meet the real hillary, the warm one.
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>> virtually one-on-one. >> nobody -- nobody i've ever seen better at that. so they can finally see the woman her friends describe. >> a lot of fun. tremendous amount of fun and she's got a great belly laugh. she and i will sit out on vacation and talking policy. might have a cocktail or two, you know? she's a load of fun to be with. >> i think she's a very complete person, but i think the most important thing is that what her experience has given her, you know? we have men who come here for one or two years and get a few puff pieces and they go out and run for president. >> that's a far cry from hillary clinton's long and sometimes controversial story. >> i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies and had tea. >> she comes with baggage and there are negative perceptions about the clintons as paranoid, too protected and even arrogant that came up during the whole email controversy. >> will that matter? >> i think the misconceptions,
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there are certain people that are -- that are fixing those, with those beliefs and they've been for 25 years. you're not going to change them. what you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to do with the country. >> thank you! >> in 2008, clinton ran on her resume. >> i will bring a lifetime of experience. >> and the campaign let the woman thing take a backseat. >> i do think the last time she ran they tried very hard to keep it a secret, but she is a girl. >> she's a woman. >> she is a woman. do you think the tug of history is very strong? >> i think she knows she carries the cause, and if a very qualified woman can hold that job and perform well, that's a big thing. >> do you think it will be harder for a woman to run for president even in 2016? >> oh, i think it is harder, and i think she knows it's harder, and women are tested in ways that men are not, and that's
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another discussion. >> it certainly is, and i'm sure we'll be having that discussion at elect as hillary clinton hits the campaign trail, poppy? >> fascinating piece, gloria. thank you so much for that. coming up next, i am pleased to be joined by legendary journalist carl bernstein who talked to hundreds of hillary clinton friends and colleagues for his book, "a woman in charge," he joins me next. warren buffett, he told me he's a huge hillary fan and even though he can afford to write a big check for her campaign he's not going to do it. next how buffett said he would help her raise plenty of money, though. ♪ the beautiful sound of customers making the most of their united flight.
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an editor at "new york" magazine once described hillary clinton as a building without a door. no matter how many times you walk around it there seems no
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way to know what exactly is inside. legendary journalist carl bernstein is with me and he accepted that challenge when he wrote "a woman in charge." thank you for being here. a pleasure to have you on. when you think of hillary clinton from back then and think about hillary clinton now, obviously her camp is putting forward a very different image of her. has the candidate changed? has the woman changed? >> i don't think they're putting another image. she's very warm, very funny, warm, personable, fun to be with and she can get mad as hell and she's got a serious politics. she's not wrong about the nature of her enemies. she's not been particularly wise in terms of how she has engaged and dealt with her enemies, perhaps. she's not wrong about the press altogether. the press will probably be her real opponent in this campaign. they're going to give her more trouble, perhaps, than the
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republicans are and she's also really knows the issues in this country and she was part of a co-presidency and if there is going to be another clinton white house it will be a co-precedence tsidency to some d we've never had anything quite like this. >> hillary rodham clinton has always had a difficult relationship with the truth. she's often chosen to obfuscate, omit and avoid. it is an understatement by now that she's been known to apprehend truths about herself that others do not exactly share. how does she move beyond that? how does she convince the electorate that she is an open book. she is transparent? >> i don't think she is going to convince the electorate. >> doesn't she need to? >> i don't know of any politicians really who are open books and transparent, but she does have this problem and she does have this baggage. look, hillary clinton is generous, she's the most famous woman in the world.
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she's been around now for 35 years in our public consciousness. she's looked at as a she's looked at as a superstar on the level of madonna, on the level of nobody else in the world, really. and she's judged differently. she's going to go after the republicans. she's going to make the republicans the real issue in this campaign and how she can relate better to the american people, to people who need help. those in the middle class. those in the working class. and she's got a real record to run on on this. the question is how will people take to her with some of this baggage? how will she explain some of this baggage? if you read "a woman in charge," you begin to understand the whole arc of her life, having a father who was abusive to her mother. a misenthrope. it's a great tale.
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and if she opens herself up to telling the tale as it really happened, if she says, yeah, that's the story of my life, i think she's going to be able to move on a lot better than if she continues trying to conceal, fight, et cetera. but the real question is how are the republicans going to deal with her? and right now they're already over the top, it sounds like, in many of the things we've heard today. and that could backfire. >> let me ask you this. you're about as good a political journalist as you get. so we know hillary clinton hasn't agreed to do any interviews right now. but carl, if you were to sit down with her today, tonight, what you ask her? what would be the number one question? >> tell me the most important things in your life. i'd sit there and listen. i'd like to know how she's respond, how quick she'd respond. i'm a great believer in letting people tell their stories and then we hear what it is they really want to say. that would be my questioning. and what she emphasizes.
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>> does she like to campaign? >> no. she's never liked campaigning. one of the things about today's announcement, you know, the real job today is like the medical profession. do no harm. she did it. she did no harm. she got out there. and she did it in a very interesting way. i was kind of surprised. >> they didn't show the video till the very end. >> it was very skillful. and again, it set the chattering classes off. it made the republicans a little crazy already today. but, look. it's one day. we've got 19 months to go in this. and we're going to get to know her, or she's not going to let us. and that has been a real problem up till now is that she hasn't let us know her in full. >> you i -- it sounds like you think that is her number one challenge, even more than foreign policy issues, benghazi, et cetera. >> look, i don't think benghazi is going to be a problem with independent voters. i think so far we know what happened at benghazi. there has been great reporting
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on it. we've seen the reports. i don't think that's going to be -- that's not going to appeal to most voters. >> so it's hillary, here's my story. >> i think it's hillary, here's my story. here's what i want to do as president of the united states. here's why i can do a better job than the republicans. and that's where she can go to town. you know, she voted for the war in iraq. >> yep. >> and that's not helpful. and at the same time, she has some explanations for it. that might sound good. i'm not sure how good they are. the most disastrous war in our history. but look at what -- you know, she was a terrific secretary of state in many, many ways. a great ambassador for the country. she was also shut out by president obama from real policy-making. so there's a lot to learn. and we're going to get to see who she is, and the republicans going to to try and convince us that she's somebody of their picture. >> well, we have 575 more days
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to figure out more about who she is. >> is that how many it is? >> it is. "a woman in charge." if you haven't read it yet, you'll want to read it. thank you for coming on. in modern politics, the name of the game in many ways is who can raise the most cash. texas republican ted cruz announced his candidacy just a few weeks ago. "the new york times" reports he has already raked in at least $31 million in his super pac. who could match that? warren buffett, for one. i asked him about money in politics and clinton. you've been a staunch supporter of hillary clinton. >> i still am. >> you still are. you've told me multiple times you want her to be the next president. >> i hope so. >> of the united states. she's faced headwinds recently, particularly over her e-mails while at the state department. has it changed your view at all? >> no, no. i'd like to see her e-mails, too, probably. there's a curiosity factor. but no. what i care about is what she
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believes in and her ability to get what she believes and turned it into law. >> do you think she's going to be the next president? >> i think so. >> last year you donated $25,000 to a group supporting hillary clinton. is that right? >> right. >> and you have told me before that you really don't like super pacs. >> yeah. yeah. i -- that's -- it's a good one because i did not know it was a super pac. i asked -- they had a maximum. which was $25,000. i didn't -- you know, i think of super pacs as these things with hundreds or thousands or millions. i did not know it was a super pac. i am not for super pacs, but it's absolutely true that i contributed $25,000, which i later found out was a super pac. that is not yet into the millions of dollars that i associate it with. >> but, i mean, it's an indication of how much you are a supporter of hers. >> i support her. but i would not -- i would not write a huge check. >> you wouldn't. >> i would go out and raise money for her. i mean, i'd be delighted to do that. and i would hope to do it. i did some of that in 2008.
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but i just don't believe that the election should be decided by the super rich. >> by the super rich like you. >> yeah. >> what does money and politics do to this democracy, the super rich? what does it do if everyone in your income bracket did write checks as big as they wanted? a lot of them do. >> you'd have a lot of people in congress who would be listening to them, that's for sure. no, you can't blame anybody. if you pour your heart and soul into running for election and your opponent's outspending you, obviously it's very tempting to take a very big check for somebody who has a special interest. but i think it is counter to our ideas of democracy to allow unlimited campaign contributions. >> that is warren buffett's take. finally tonight, big news from the masters. 21-year-old jordan spieth becomes the second youngest player to ever don the elusive green jacket. listen to the crowd erupt. he is just a few months older
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than tiger woods when he won it the first time around. spieth also finished 18 under par, tying tiger woods for the lowest score ever at augusta national. woods was, by the way, finished 17th this time all around. coming up tonight on cnn, "finding jesus: mary magdalene." that is next. and don't miss back-to-back episodes of the fascinating series "bill weir's the wonder list." thanks so much for being with me. i'm poppy harlow in new york. have a great night and a good week. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com.
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