when you live in a certain part of a city when you have less access to the right kinds of food or a lack of access to information about the kinds of sodium. announcer: tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. in answer: next washington journal, a look at the week ahead in congress, including what is next for trade legislation that was blocked in the house last week area and then a new york times reporter talks about the future of digital currency, known as did coin. we will also take your calls and look for your comments beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. and the 2016 presidential race and yesterday's campaign launched by former secretary of state hillary clinton. host: and now we are joined by two political followers. we will start with josh kraushaar, editor with "national

journal," here in the studio with us. and then up in new york, celeste katz, a political correspondent with "new york daily news." snf, -- and, celeste, i will begin with you. you were at the event on was about island. what was it like? guest: it was very sunny and hot. certainly, there was an enthusiasm. they were trying to of oak a lot of symbolism by holding the event at the four freedoms park, named after fdr. and, getting people excited about the launch. they came out with a campaign video about two months ago. this was the ramp-up. they were trying to give the people the official balloons and streamers kind of presentation there. also, for secretary clinton to lay out her rationale for why she thinks she should be the president. host: do you talk to any the people there? what did they tell you? what was the reaction to what she had to say?

guest: a lot of people were impressed, but some people i spoke to said they felt pleased that she had not rushed. obviously, she has a democratic primary to go through. they were interested in the things she had to say about lgbt issues, and so on. marriage issues. equal pay for women. immigration, that was an important one to people that we spoke to. a lot of people liked the message that they heard. of course, is a will go out to roosevelt island, stand in the sun, and wait for hours to see her, they would generally be the people who would be impressed with what she has to say. i would think. host: and a crowd of nearly 5000 motivated to do so. josh kraushaar, what does this mean for hillary clinton go guest: -- what does this mean

for hillary clinton? guest: this was a relaunch. it was a very popular speech. it was one in which she portrayed herself as a fighter. talking about how she would fight for the economy. it was a very liberal speech one that was playing a lot more to hurt base, and not the middle. she was definitely playing to her base, trying to win over some of the liberal bernie sanders competitors. she certainly believes that going to the base, the more active part of the party, is the path to the presidency. host: what does this mean for her relationship with the media? she has been on a listening tour. a lot of criticism that she has not answered many questions from the media. guest: she will have another

chance to do so. we will see how her strategy dealing with the media, or even questions from voters, will change at all. i thought she did a good job articulating her can see, but she needs to start taking questions from the press. there were a lot of issues that she did not touch, including the trade deal. also, foreign policy. she barely talks about her record as secretary of state hardly addressed at all. there were a lot of controversies during her tenure and there are a lot of questions. host: celeste katz, she talks about, as josh said, very populist things. income inequality, trying to reach out to the republican base there. what was the reaction from those who feel that they represent the liberal base more than she does? the bernie sanders, martin o'malley, and etc., but also bill de blasio, the new york mayor. guest: he has tried to put

himself out there as a thought leader on the liberal side of the spectrum. he has really held out on hillary clinton a while, saying that he wanted to push her on these issues of an income inequality raise. she certainly has a lot of marquee support already. she and the mayor have a professional relationship going back a while, to win he managed her campaign for u.s. senate back in 2000. there is some history there. i think that one of the things that she tried to do, to play to be liberal base, you will get some people who say she does not go far enough. at the same time, she has to think long-term. there is life after the primary. she was trying to lay out a series of planks in her platform

that we be appealing to not only her base, but average americans who might be on the fence, who may be not given the earliest not yet on who they will vote for for president. host: was new york city mayor bill de blasio there? was he at the event? guest: no, he did not attend the event. this is part of -- he has been very supportive of her on other issues. he says that he appreciates what she's has to say on criminal justice reform and massacres rich in. he says that she has some great ideas on that. maybe on some other hot button issues. on the signature issue of his, what he calls income inequality,

he has really been a hold out. you're left to wonder, or the viewers are left to wonder, is that because he is really concerned that she has not detailed what she will do about it? or, is it because he gets a little extra time in the spotlight, being the guy who holds out for hillary clinton. host: let's get the viewers involved. ceilings in north carolina, you are on the air. caller: good morning. how are you on this beautiful morning? host: good morning. caller: please allow me a little bit of time. i have two quick issues that deals with this. the first one is the legend scandal against the clintons. a scandal is defined as shameful acts that brings up race -- brings disgrace. which alleged scandal has been proven against ms. hillary? the second question is that it has been widely publicized in

the polls that hillary is seen as untrustworthy and dishonest because of the alleged scandals. my question is -- has this been asked of the republicans? the numerous men republicans? last of all, for all those who serve and protect this great country of ours, because i met fort bragg, north carolina -- to you and your families, godspeed. guest: there are a lot of controversies swirling out there. reporting on the clinton e-mail server, what happened on the night of the benghazi attacks, and a whole slew of others. taken together, they have certainly heard clinton's trustworthiness. one of the reason that they had is relaunch was that her favorability numbers have gone under number. -- got underwater. it is strictly connected to the swirl of controversies out

there. she will have to have a more compelling answer. we have the select committee that will be investigating benghazi. i think how politically potent these questions will be is how much they cover. if there is a smoking gun or an e-mail that questions what she said in the past, certainly that will be a big political hit. if there's nothing there with much significance, i think she can weather the political storm. host: celeste, what are your thoughts? guest: she is certainly in a very strong position now. i think the issue of whether she is speaking to the press, or addressing some of these questions about her track record goes back to what everyone calls the classic rose garden

strategy. why look for trouble if you don't have to. as josh said, she has been experiencing some wobbles and her poll numbers. that is an issue. i think when she goes out on the trail -- she is in iowa today and in new hampshire tomorrow -- and gets on the ground with people, that will be one way for her to connect and show, yes, i am trustworthy and interested in listening to your concerns, as opposed to just getting to the white house. at the same time, the questions that the average voter might have might be different from the questions that we ask as the press. it will be a very different scenario when she finally stands up in front of that scrum and takes all questions. host: here is some reaction on twitter. one viewer says that she is not perfect, but hillary 2016 will be better than any republican as potus. also, robert says, she bashed the top 1%, the clintons are the

top 1%. and, suki says, really hard to have an opinion, if you are a rational person. and now we will go to our next guest. caller: i expected her to appear as she did, very polished, staying out of trouble, the usual, but her silence on this trade issue was deafening and i was deeply disappointed in that. if any journalists there would like to comment on that, that

would be great. my opinion was i was very disappointed she did not address that. guest: a lot of people are disappointed she has not. i think it goes back to what we talked about before. she is not an elected official at this point who is accountable. she just became a declared candidate a couple of months ago and is not in the same position as someone who is currently in office and has to take those questions. now that she has officially done a relaunch and it's really encouraging people to get involved in her candidacy, she will have to take that question and every day she waits, it will be more difficult for her to justify why she is holding back. host: josh kraushaar, when the obama administration began negotiating the transpacific partnership trade deal, she called it the gold standard.

guest: the fact she does not have a position is downright laughable. she has been on his -- on record as a supporter of free trade and the fact that she is not saying any think about it is almost going to great lengths to avoid commenting on it. that is how divisive the issue is in the democratic party. it is not a new issue. the fact that she is not out there and she has been avoiding the press and not talking about the issue dividing her own party, she may not have a tough fight with bernie sanders and martin o'malley and others in the primary, but a lot of issues are dividing the party. guest: the more she does not talk about it, does that hurt her in the polls when it comes to trust and her favorite abilities? guest: it underscores how divided liberals have become. in the long haul, polls show the support of the free trade agreement among the american

public is a winning general election issue. the fact she is worried about her left plank is a worrisome sign for hillary clinton. host: roger in ohio. democrat. caller: get on tv or c-span or whatever and start talking about, you know, she doesn't get this, she hasn't said that, come on, let's be real now. the whole article, benghazi, something else, publicly cut the funding. come on. let's be troops for. all you people do is get on tv and lie. host: what is the lie?

be more specific. caller: benghazi. you kept that going for 10 months, two years, about what? nothing. all that money got wasted. people need jobs, instead of pouring about benghazi. we lost some people, that was a shame. host: let me remind roger and our viewers who our guests are. heather conley and josh kraushaar. i think roger was referring to put -- to republicans. new york, good morning. caller: i agree with your guests'view of hillary that her lack of trust is due to her lack of transparency.

why won't she turned over her server if she has nothing to hide? there is not a shred of evidence because she probably shredded the evidence. also, i would like to know why the clinton foundation does not reveal how much actually goes to charity and how much goes to administration. all of these things and her lack of answering any questions in detail, i feel disqualifies her to be candidate for president. host: when she starts facing reporters more often on the campaign trail, these are questions reporters will ask. do we know what their strategy is? the clinton camp for managing questions from the media? guest: i do not think it will necessarily be a free-for-all. there are some events we cover where you can just walk up to the candidate and basically ask

any question you want. some candidates are seeking out coverage more than others. in some of these cases, you will get a sort of calibrated approach to the media. you may not get her standing and answering questions from anybody who shows up, which, you know, is not only possibly perilous for her in terms of what we might ask, but then you could get protesters and weirdos and opposition people getting in on that. they will probably do a series of sitdown spare they have to pay attention to local press in iowa. they have to make sure they get access. we help -- we hope we in new york will get action as well. there may be an advisor who says, we may -- we do not need to talk about that today p need

to talk about jobs or women's issues or immigration. host: josh kraushaar, what are your thoughts? guest: i do not want to get questions that might involve a gaffe and get broadcast. on the other hand, trying to protect her from the press has hurt her overall image. it is a catch-22 for them. it makes sense we are over a year before the general election to this at the time, if you're going to make a mistake in the rusty, this is the time to get out there. if she shows from the beginning she is more acceptable than she has been in the past, it will hurt her later on when the heat is on and a lot more is at stake paired i do not think it did her any good politically, this notion that she was hiding from reporters and voters. i think she will be a little more open but do not expect a free-for-all. host: illinois, susan, a democrat there. hik susan.

caller: i think she is trustworthy. i trust her. i like that she is folksy and older. i prefer an older president. it is ok that she is a socialist. i do not agree with one of your last colors. they brought up benghazi. if i hear anymore about benghazi, i think i will explode. that was a fake story they made up on fnc anyway. that guy should not call the president a bully. it looks really bad if you live in america. i believe this medical marijuana helps some people, i think hillary should, you know, you might as well just let people do it because people are doing it anyway. o'riley is wrong. you cannot get addicted to it if you give your child marijuana, i

think that is great. host: a lot of issues there. with -- let's begin with trust issues. she says she trusts her and she likes that she is older. and she said, yeah, i am older. deal with it. guest: and i think the experience part of the equation is the one the clinton folks are betting on the most, especially if republicans nominate someone like scott walker marco rubio. rubio has been playing up that clinton is a candidate of yesterday. clinton turned that around a little bit and talked about how experience matters and talked about her long history. she did not one -- run away from her past. she is not afraid of running on her past and her record. she is more than willing to have her experience against a younger challenger. host: utah, independent. caller: thank you. please to to be on c-span. talking about hillary clinton, i am disappointed over the years the media handling the clintons in general. people can have their opinions

about the clinton white house and rightfully so. i certainly did not like a few things that happened there. i think the media overall, and i have been agreeing with katz much more than the gentleman. it seems like what got to someone is immensely high with the media and if they do not get a story, instead of not going with the story, i think the overall ratings of hillary clinton going down relate directly to the media criticizing her for not feeding them, literally. hand feeding them so they can get their stories. host: let's take that. guest: i think it is a real issue and certainly there have been a lot of media on media

types of stories, about access and what it means for how she will approach this campaign compared to the last one. but at some point, we have to have access to the candidate and i do not just mean hillary clinton. i mean all of the candidates. there are questions that need to be asked and need to be asked again, with follow-ups and press. this is on behalf of people who have to make a decision. not every voter in america can walk up to hillary renton or marco rubio and say, i would personally like to know what you think about issue x, y, and z. you get out there and make your own decision spared if we do not have that access, if it is possible -- constantly going through surrogates, it is very hard for us to explain to people where the candidate really stands so the candidate can hopefully make good decisions based on solid information.

host: more twitter reaction. -- host: i want to take that last tweet. susan also said if i hear anything more about benghazi. did it backfire for republicans or do the hits continue to help them and heard hillary clinton? fact that the e-mails have raised suspicions about whether she is being fully truthful and her comments about benghazi. the fact that benghazi was

losing its potency, it has raised a lot of skepticism, a lot of independent-minded people have questions about why she did not have her e-mail and has a separate homebrew server. that has cost her political trouble. host: patrick, a republican. caller: good morning. thank god for c-span. good morning. thank god for c-span. host: you have got to turn down that tv and talk through your phone. olivia in birmingham, alabama, a democrat. caller: good morning. as a black woman, i am so sick and tired of people calling in

and saying obama got elected because of his race. that we voted for color. i'm finished with that part. as far as hillary is concerned i think she did a great job yesterday. she made a very good point all the republicans talk about -- dogging the president. mitt romney a straight loser. get over it. barack obama has been for two second terms. get over it. let me say this about the media. you are just glossing over it. [indiscernible] you all need to do your job. host: let's talking about the

republican field. tomorrow, the latest republican will jump in. jeb bush will be announcing his road to the white house bid in miami 3:00 p.m. easter time. we will have coverage on c-span3. let's preview the republican field and the jeb bush announcement yesterday. what kind of campaign will he run and does he tailor it against hillary clinton? host:guest: i think all the republicans have largely focused on hillary clinton as public enemy number one. the summit in new hampshire, that is what -- she is the person everybody is talking about. they may take a few dates at people here and there, but i think people like jeb bush will have to lay out his rationale

for his candidacy and his platform. he will have to differentiate himself from his father and his brother without putting them under the bus. they are his family and he has not disavowed them in any way. but he has to be his own man and explain why he is the right guy to get out there and beat hillary clinton. this obviously, to wind up that thought, a lot of people are out there saying, the last thing this country needs is another bush versus another clinton. both of them will have to face this challenge of explaining why they bring something new and needed to the arena. guest: a very important announcement for bush of than clinton's was over the weekend and most of the republican presidential candidates announced. jeb bush has had a tough couple of months since he decided to announce his exploratory committee. his polling has slipped and he

has not given a clear justification for his candidacy. marco rubio and scott walker have gotten momentum as they look to provide sharper and more direct contrast with hillary clinton. jeb bush will really have to make a justification for what he is running on, what are the policy ideas. something to expect from his speech monday. i think he needs to show a little more charisma. he is always better in a one-on-one setting or with an intellectual group of people. he has done that effectively but he has not had that connection, he has never been a terrific campaigner. this is a real test to show he could get that energy and excitement back. host: when he announces tomorrow, what changes for his campaign? guest: most important way, he

cannot coordinate with his super pac. the amount of money you will be able to raise, a lot of it has been through the super pac that has the ability to raise unlimited amount of donations from supporters. once his campaign begins, his campaign cannot coordinate with the super pac. mike murphy will be the head of the super pac and it will be an ahead -- a separate sphere. the super pac will play a big role getting his message out there. mike murphy is close with jeb bush but ultimately, that will hamper activities taking place at this point. host: what are the money totals right now? how much will he announced he has versus hillary clinton? guest: when you add up all the committees you will likely get close to an hundred million dollars. a sizable sum of money, more than hillary clinton at this point in the game. there have been reports that the fundraiser has not come quite as well as their high expectations

previously. the $100 million figure may not solely be within the super pac itself but if you add up the campaign and other associated committees, it is likely he will get close to the $100 million mark. host: you were talking earlier about jeb bush, he has these challenges distancing himself. he has stumbled a little bit on the campaign trail so far. he has not been officially announced candidate here than there is news of him shaking up his campaign at this early start of his bid. guest: there have been a couple there. they had some people that did not work out with the campaign the guy doing the social media for them comes to mind. arguably, it is better if you were retold something, to do it early on rather than switch horses in the middle of the campaign so people like me and

josh jump all over you and say you know, this campaign has lost its bearings, and so on, and they do not know what they are doing. but he will have to explain how he has the experience, why he is different than the other candidates. a lot of people think jeb bush is to moderate to be a good republican president. they have issues with his positions on immigration and common core education standards. he goes around the country and talk to voters and people seem to really get stuck on those issues. i will be a big hurdle for him to overcome just to get past that part of the argument so he can sell people on his ideas about jobs or about foreign policy and security. host: on twitter -- host: al in new york

independent peer you are on the air. caller: you guys sure are long-winded. a couple of quick issues. one is the trust factor. they are politicians. it takes eternal vigilance to trust them. number two i know hillary sucks a lot of window -- out of the room when she walks in. i have nothing against her. i will vote for her, but i want to hear how she will reign in fact that it will cost us $2 billion to elect a president. we should be embarrassed about that. put it back, public funding for these elections. second of all, i just recently retired. i am 65 plus-year-old.

a white male. i do not see any people around here that represent me. my segment of the vote. she is pigeonholing the game lesbian thing, the women thing which is fine. i am open-minded enough american to say, hey, you know, everybody deserves an equal chance. but, i want me to be represented there, too. host: white male vote. guest: no matter who the republicans nominate, it will always gender gap, but you look at early polls, hillary clinton pulls very favorably with women, white included. it is going to be an election where she will play to her base. it is clear she is playing to her coalition. some people think it is polarizing and some people think it is a good strategy.

it is clear she will try to get hispanics and asian-americans in her corner to the same levels obama was able to do in 2012. do not expect that to change. the message yesterday is likely going to continue. host: a lot of newspapers saying she is playing up her gender. unlike 2008. now she is talking about her gender and talking a lot about women's issues. guest: she is going past even just talking about her gender. she talked about her age and says she may not be the youngest candidate in the race but she will be the first female president if she wins. she is talking about dying her hair. she is talking about the mistakes she made in the past. it all fits into this paradigm of her being out there and saying i am ready for my coronation. they're really trying to avoid that. it is a more intimate approach,

a more humble approach. she is talking about her family and her mom and what her mom that there is owned to. -- her own view. it is to make her seem less strident, a word sometimes people use with female politicians, fairly or not. she cannot look to soft. she cannot get too far away from the president without undermining part of her own track record. it is a real tight rope back for her. host: a republican, you're next. caller: good morning, c-span peer if all those out here who think benghazi is a witch hunt, let me remind you september 14, 2012. hillary looked -- dead in the eye while she was standing

beside her son's often, and told her not that she was going to get the terrorists who killed her son, but she was -- after american citizen in those countries, exercising his first amendment rights. we see this from the left, they are trying to silence people in this country. john kerry started this the day after. scott walker's recall election. and the geller -- host: josh kraushaar talk about the benghazi investigation. guest: it is going to be a big political theater. the exact timeline, that is why these e-mails are of such significance. if she says something at the funeral that is against what she knew the time, that is what republicans are trying to dig

into. there is no evidence of that at this moment, but there is also a lot of smoke. that is why republicans are really gung ho about the investigation. like i have been saying, the ultimate political task will be whether any e-mail comes outcome whether there is any hard evidence that portrays clinton as not being fully truthful. we have not seen it at this point. host: arizona, republican, hi there. caller: a lot of this whole discussion is a bunch of nonsense. no one will get within 100 yards of hillary if they want to ask a tough question, including you. this trade agreement is nonsense. you have not read it or you have no idea what it says. they will not let anyone near it. this is like obamacare.

you have to vote for it so you can find that what is in it. they have proven time and time again you cannot get -- let them get away with stuff like that. guest: a lot of members of congress do not read every word of every legislation. that was used against president obama's health care law. the caller talks with a lot of liberal democrats and conservative republicans are talking about. they do not trust members of congress and i do not trust administration and there is a lot of anxiety and skepticism out there and that feeds a lot of this polarization and gridlock they get in capitol hill. host: for viewers who brought up benghazi on twitter and your calls and those of you interested in finding more out about the investigation newsmakers will add -- will air in about an hour and a half. we talked to jason, the oversight committee chair, a republican in utah, and he talked on the benghazi

investigation in that interview. henry in michigan, a democrat. caller: first of all, greta, i would like to bring up a point one interview you did last week with cory gardner. corey was excoriating the president on not having a strategy in the middle east. as the conversation went on, you asked him, what would be your strategy? corey said, i would get a coalition of other countries to go in from saudi arabia and turkey, and he gave the same strategy the president is using right now and you did not say wait a minute, isn't that the president's's strategy right now that they are implying? you did not do that. i want to piggyback off a fairly

-- fellow democrat caller who is talking about the whites is -- white supremacist terrorist that called in from south carolina. i tell you, he was talking about why democrats are so focused on voting for people who are for minorities and women in these different sects. it is easy to vote for people like that. i would not vote for people who are misogynistic, homophobic, i do not want to be associated with it like that. i do not believe republicans represent the future of america a diverse population. i'm not happy as a democrat that hillary clinton is steamrolling her way. i would like to see joe biden

peer it we should not be having a primary and i think the democrats have never really supported our president and been on his team the way they should we should be extolling the virtues of what the obama administration has done. they did not do it in the midterms and that is why we lost the midterms. they never supported the president even on our side and that joe biden would be the perfect candidate, democrats are make a big mistake, i think. we should make joe biden our candidate, stamp of approval, and go ahead and take the country where we need to go. host: all right, henry. celeste katz, what do you think of what you heard there? the vice president? guest: there is a biden movement , whether or not he will get into the race, i mean, it is not on the immediate horizon, i would say. to the point of what the color

was just talking about, there definitely is a segment of the electorate out there that is not happy with the choices they have, whether on the democratic side or on the republican side. a lot of people, i think, just feel frustrated that the people they have to choose from are not really speaking for them and there is a hope maybe at the last minute someone will jump in and present new ideas that really resonate with them. but that is something hillary clinton will have to win people over on the left base of the party without alienating independents and moderates that she will need to win the general election. host: stewart, an independent. you are on the airport we lost him. move on to richard, good morning care where you calling from? caller: i am calling from a

angle in north wales. how are you doing today? host: good, welcome to the conversation. caller: thank you, indeed. two points i would like to ask you relating to hillary clinton and candidacy for the president. from an international perspective, i would like to know more her position on the middle east peace process especially because of the fact there has been no -- her daughter chelsea, is actually married to one of those directly involved in the middle east peace process. whether or not there will be any assurances the table talk will not influence her position in the oval office. host: we will bring that up. it is hillary talking enough about her efforts in the middle east peace process what she was secretary of state? what is she saying?

about the iraq situation as well, as a caller brought up. guest: it is notable had little she is talking about national security and the speech. foreign policy and national security is the republican top issue and democrats, it is a secondary issue. that will define the campaign. i do not think the peace process is on the top of the republican with an obama has taken it on to the back earner. but the notion the republicans are just worried about the growth of isis and the collapse of libya iraq, and syria, and hillary did not mention that at all in her 45 minute speech shows a disconnect between the parties. we'll do not often see foreign policy presidential elections but it could be one of those based on the polling. the clinton administration has said they think this is a secondary issue for their voters. national security is certainly a vulnerability of hers. host: let's talk about the republican field as well and the

strategy overall in the campaign. i have a straw poll that has been canceled. where are republicans going and campaigning right now? what sort of strategy, it used to be put your efforts into iowa first in the new hampshire. guest: right. that was the traditional, go to iowa, that would be the momentum and give you an early sense of popularity and strength with the republican base, then you move on to new hampshire, then you move south to florida. pete in south carolina, people spending time in nevada now. but i think the game is changing a little bit. the fact that the straw poll has been dismantled for lack of interest suggests that people do not want what they consider to be a false test. it may be a commentary or a calculation about iowa's role in setting benchmarks and primary

politics. that may be a consideration. or maybe it is, you know, a bigger picture issue about whether you could go into depend on success in big states like new york, florida, and california, and not worry as much about iowa and new hampshire. always a gamble but some people are looking at that. host: josh kraushaar, are all the candidates doing that strategy, or what do you think? guest: the interesting thing we learned from 2012 is the debates have a bit -- a huge impact internationally. there are fewer opportunities and more candidates for those opportunities that make an impact on the debates. early states are still of critical importance and i think jeb bush, rubio, walker, does not win iowa on hampshire or south carolina and does not too well at least in one of those three early states, it will be problematic for those campaigns.

jeb bush has high expectations. new hampshire is a place where he will put a lot of chips on the table. it is hard for rubio to going to florida, going head to head with jeb bush in the crucial primary in march. and walker, iowa is his base right now. if he does not finish in first i think that could hurt campaign and other states going forward. host: what are you seeing from another potential contender chris christie, the governor of new jersey. guest: he is focusing on new hampshire as the state that could provide his political comeback. he offers echoes of john mccain in 2008. his own version of straight talk express, where it fits his personality and style. a more conservative tone when it comes to entitlement reform national security policy, and educational reform. the problem with him is,

bridgegate is still not over. the bridge lanes. that will be dogging him and it will probably be in the news going into the 2016 presidential election. with a field so deep with a lot of alternative to someone like yours christy, it is hard to get over the back is that scandal provides. host: is he looking at it and seriously considering a bid? will he run? guest: he is seriously looking at a bid. helping his presidential aspirations, a surefire sign he is getting closer to an announcement. host: democrat, max, you're on the air. caller: i hear all these people talking about this and i am a world war ii veteran. the only one i find that i like it all right now is bernie sanders. the main thing i never hear

clinton talk about and one thing i was completely against bill clinton over is signing that free trade. i will never get over him signing the free trade. i believed hillary might do the same thing. i will never vote for her. i love everything bernie sanders says. maybe i'm getting too old or something. i am almost 90. host: ok. the challenge of bernie sanders to hillary clinton? guest: there is a lot of stuff going on in terms of pressure on hillary clinton, pushing her further to the left. elizabeth warren, bill de blasio, bernie sanders however he is describing himself, that really want to say she cannot

forget these liberal policies who have gotten her where she is today. politically. people have given her money or held signs that her campaign. people working on raising the minimum wage and things like that they want her to remember where she came from. the general movement in the campaign will be a little more toward the center in the -- in the general election. people do not want that to come too soon. people want to hear from each candidate for or five times to make sure they are not changing the story and that they are actually committed to doing the things they promised to do in the primary even when they get to the general. host: good morning, republican.

caller: i have a couple of comments. first of all, i need -- i do not trust anything hillary says. she is insincere and full of empty promises, just like obama was. if she really had nothing to hide, why didn't she turn over the server? second of all, everyone saying benghazi was fake, apparently they did not see the interview from this ei on the tv tw to go. born three months before the attack happened, all the way up to a week before the attack. people really need to do their homework and need to make sure they're up-to-date on what is really going on. that is to much my comment. host: we will move on to mike in illinois, an independent.

caller: after watching her on tv yesterday, her one-liners with her hair color, stuff people do not really care about. i also noticed she reads everything. i'm wondering if she had a health problem after her accident, but she reads everything. if c-span past votes for each of the candidates and the same 12 questions and write down the -- right down the answers, it would be a great help for listeners. host: those details are yet known. none of these candidates have laid out specifically what they will do. guest: and you would not expect. you usually would not get the nitty-gritty details. a lot of supporters have been asking for that.

this was mentioned earlier but it was striking how different this launch was compared to 2008. people were trying to put her as a tougher and more centrist candidate and they did not want to play up that she will be the first woman president. they are playing that up now. the 2000 a campaign with many obama advisers that have joined the campaign in 2016. host: talk: a more about who is behind the bid in 2016. guest: you do not have quite the same crew as you did last time. you know, people walking around, people who are familiar, but you have people who will allow, it

is not a softness, but a more accessible candidate, accessible to the public. they are not trying to not deny the fact that she is older, but their china to co-opt some of the criticisms that will be raised against her. as the caller was earlier asking questions about her age and health, they are trying to get out ahead of that sort of thing. they are crafting a different strategy. some people think it is a little too generic. you see the speech described as something any candidate for senate or congress could have given and not a presidential speech. as josh also pointed out, i think a speech like that is not where you will get dollars and cents figures about how much she wants to raise the minimum wage. it is a broad brush. host: to new york, a democrat,

you are our last. go ahead. caller: i am proud of hillary and what she said yesterday's beautiful. i want to tell her to keep on fighting for the democratic party. host: all right. let's hear from both of our reporters on what they're watching next for 2016. guest: the big question is whether jeb bush can get question -- traction. they get a bump in the poll. walker has an announcement, he certainly has momentum from his speeches. can jeb bush get that bounce or is there a fundamental disconnect between a lot of fundamental voters between ideology. the speech will allow him to launch his own candidacy differentiate himself from his brother and his dad. it could be very successful and we could rethink the bush campaign. if he continues to lead behind

expectations, it would be a tough sign for the bush campaign going forward. a real big risk going forward. host: celeste, go ahead. what are you looking for? guest: i will be in new hampshire and hillary clinton and jeb bush as they make their way. big declarations hillary with her event this weekend and jeb bush coming in after his announcement in miami. and will they change the way they interact with the press and the public? will they be able to convince people that they have a fresh rationale for getting to the white house, or whether it is the same old, same old. host: celeste katz

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