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governor. but it's really not about what i will do in the future. it's what i have done in the past and why he thinks he'll be the best candidate. that's what i gathered from the excerpts i received so far. >> thank you for spending time with us. "now with alex wagner" starts right now. any moment now, former florida governor jeb bush will officially announce his campaign for the republican nomination for president. joining us now from miami is kasie hunt. kasie, i know it's going to happen any minute now, the crowd seems decidedly boisterous. tell us about who's been speaking thus far? i think george p. bush just took the mike did he not? >> we just heard from george p. bush, yes, which tells you a little bit about which side of the bush family they want to showcase. george h.w bush george w. bush both missing. barbara bush is in attendance but jeb bush's family he married a woman from mexico. it's something he talks about a lot on the campaign trail.
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hikids grew up speaking spanish, and the state senator behind me is a family friend of the bush family, and he said this is a family that represents the purple state, the new america, and describing jeb bush as somebody who can win in ways other republicans cannot. it's telling who they selected to be here. >> i feel like the governor is coming out any second. i may have to cut you off. we know there's a fiesta plans for after the event. some word that the governor may say some lines in spanish. it seems very important to the campaign they burnish their credentials among the hispanic community in america. that seems to be a big play for today. >> that's the bottom the root of all of the staging here of this event. this is a cluj that has a large hispanic population. there is apparently a fiesta plans afterwards. it's possible the governor is going to serve up cuban food or paella.
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we'll have to see what that is but that's overwhelmingly what they're trying to say, jub bush is the kind of candidate the republican party has been looking for in large part because he can appeal to americans who in recent elections have been abandoned the gop. >> have you seen barbara bush? you said she might be in the audience. the other bushes will not be aside from his immediate family. >> right. no, yes, we did see barbara bush in the crowd, cheered wildly when she came in. she had to wave them to sit down. had a seat marked off in front right next to her son. it does sound like even though we're on miami time as the campaign described it to me really late, we're about to get governor bush out here onstage. here's his announcement. >> okay kasie, we're going to listen in. i think the former governor bush is about to make his official campaign announcement with all the enthusiasm that that exclamation point would seem to connote. let's take a listen as he puts his hat in the ring to be a republican nominee.
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>> thank you, all. thank you, all. wow. thank you so much. thank you.
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mom, can you ask them to sit down, please? thank you all very much. you know i always feel welcome as miami-dade college. this is a place that welcomes everyone with their heart set on the future. a place where hope leads to achievement and striving leads to success. for all of us it is just the place to be in the campaign that begins today. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. thank you.
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we're 17 months from the time for choosing. the stakes for america's future are about as great as they come. our prosperity and our security are in the balance. so is opportunity in this nation where every life matters, and everyone has the right to rise. already, the choice is taking shape. the party now in the white house is planning a no-suspense primary for a no-change election. to hold on to power, to slog on with the same agenda under another name. that's our opponent's call to action this time around. that's all they've got left. and you and i know that america
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deserves better. they've offered a progressive agenda that includes everything but progress. they're responsible for the slowest economic recovery ever. the biggest debt increases ever. a massive tax increase on the middle class. the relentless build-up of the regulatory state and the swift, mindless draw down of a military that was generations in the making. i, for one, am not eager to see what another four years would look like under that kind of leadership. the presidency should not be passed on from one liberal to the next. so here's what it comes down to.
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our country's on a very bad course, and the question is what are we going to do about it? the question for me -- the question for me is what am i going to do about it? and i've decided, i'm a candidate for president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ]
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>> we will take command of our future once again in this country. we will lift our sights again. make opportunity common again. get events in the world moving our way again. we will take washington the static capital of this dynamic country, and turn it out of the business of causing problems and we'll get it back on the right side of free enterprise and freedom for all americans. i know we can fix this. because i've done it. [ cheers and applause ] here in this great and diverse state that looks so much like america, so many challenges could be overcome if we could
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just get this economy growing at full strength. there's not a reason in the world while we cannot grow at a rate of 4% a year. that will be my goal as president. 4% growth and the 19 million new jobs that comes with it. economic growth that makes a difference for hard working men and women who don't need a reminding that the economy's more than the stock market. growth that lifts up the middle class, all the families who haven't had a raise in 15 years. growth that makes a difference for everyone. it's possible. it can be done.
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we made florida number one in job creation and number one in small business creation. 1.3 million new jobs 4.4% growth higher family income eight balanced budgets, and tax cuts eight years in a row that saved our people and businesses $19 billion. all this plus a bond upgrade to aaa aaa, compared to the sorry downgrade of america's credit in these years. that was the commitment, and that is the record that turned this state around. i also used my veto power to protect our taxpayers from needless spending and if i'm elected president, i'll show congress how that's done. [ cheers and applause ]
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[ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. leaders have to think big, and we've got a tax code filled with small-time thinking and self-interested politics. what swarms of lobbyists have done we can undo with a vastly simpler system.
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clearing out special favors for the few, reducing rates for all. what the irs, epa, and entire bureaucracy have done with overregulation we can undo by act of congress and order of the president. federal regulation has gone far past the consent of the government. it's time to start making rules for the rulemakers. when we get serious about limited government we can pursue the great and worthy goals that america has gone too long without. we can build our future on solvency instead of borrowed money. we can honor our commitments on the strength of fiscal integrity, with north american resources and american
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ingenuity, we can finally achieve energy security for this nation and with presidential leadership, we can make it happen within five years. [ cheers and applause ] if we do all of this if we do it relentlessly and if we do it right, we will make the united states of america an economic superpower like no other. we will also challenge the culture that has made lobbying
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the premiere growth industry in our nation's capital. look, the rest of the country struggles under big government while comfortable complacent interest groups in washington have been thriving on it. a self-serving attitude can take hold in any capital just as it once did in tallahassee. i was a governor who refused to accept that as the normal or right way of conducting the people's business. i will not accept it as the standard in washington either. we don't need another president who merely holds the top spot among the pampered elites of washington. we need a president willing to challenge and disrupt the whole culture in our nation's capital. and i will be that president.
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[ cheers and applause ] because i was a reforming governor, not just another member of the club. there's no passing off responsibility when you're a governor. no blending into the legislative crowd or filing an amendment and calling that success. as our whole nation has learned since 2008 executive experience is another term for preparation, and there is no substitute for that. we're not going to clean up the mess in washington by electing the people who either helped create it or have proven incapable of fixing it.
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in government, if we get a few big things right, we can make life better for millions of people, especially for kids in public schools. think of what we all watched not long ago in baltimore, where so many young adults are walking around with no vision of a life beyond the life they know. it's a tragedy. played out over and over and over again. after we reformed education in florida, low-income student achievement improved here more than any other state. we stopped processing kids along as if we didn't care because we do care. and you don't show that by counting out anyone's child. you give them all a chance. here's what i believe. when a school is just another dead end, every parent should
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have the right to send their child to a better school. public, private, or charter. every school should have high standards, and the federal government should have nothing to do with setting them. nationwide, if i'm president, we will take the power of choice away from the unions and bureaucrats and give it back to parents. [ cheers and applause ]
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we made sure of something else in florida. that children with developmental challenges got schooling and caring attention, just like every other girl and boy. we didn't leave them last in line. we put them first in line because they're not a problem. they're a priority. that is always our first and best instinct in this nation filled with charitable hearts. yet, these have been rough years for religious charities and their right of conscience and the leading democratic candidate recently hinted or mof trouble to come. secretary clinton insists that when the progressive agenda encounters religious beliefs to the contrary those beliefs, quote, have to be changed. that's what she said.
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that's what she said. and i guess we should at least thank her for the warning. the most galling example is the shabby treatment of the little sisters of the poor. a christian charity that dared to voice objections of conscious to obamacare. the next president needs to make, if clear that great charities like the little sisters of the poor need no federal instruction in doing the right thing. it comes down to a choice between the little sisters and big brother, and i'm going with the sisters. [ cheers and applause ]
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[ cheers and applause ] >> it's still a mystery to me why in these violent times the president a few months ago thought it relevant at a prayer breakfast to bring up the crusades. americans don't need lectures on the middle ages when we're dealing abroad with modern horrors committed by fanatics. from the beginning, our president and his foreign policy team have been so eager to be the history makers that they have failed to be the peace makers. with their phone it in foreign policy the obama/clinton/kerry
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team is leaving a legacy of crises uncontained. violence unopposed. enemies unnamed. friends undefended. and alliances unraveling. this supposedly risk averse administration is also running a straight in the direction of the greatest risk of all, military inferiority. it will go on automatically until a president steps in to rebuild our armed forces and take care of our troops and our veterans. and they have my word i will do it. [ cheers and applause ]
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we keep dependable friends in this world by being dependable ourselves. i will rebuild our vital friendships, and that starts by standing with the brave democratic state of israel. >> american-led alliances need rebuilding, too, and better judgment is called for in relations far and near. 90 miles to our south, there's a talk of a state visit by our outgoing president. but we don't need a glorified tourist to go to havana in support of a failed cuba.
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>> we need -- we need an american president to go to havana in solidarity with a free cuban people and i'm ready to be that president. >> great things like that can really happen. and in this country of ours the most improbable things can happen as well. take that from a guy who met his first president on the day he was born and his second on the day he was brought home from the hospital.
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the person who handled both introductions is here today. she's watching what i say, and frankly, with all these reporters around i'm watching what she says, too. please say hello to my mom, barbara bush. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ]
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>> by the way -- [ cheers and applause ] >> by the way, just so that our friends know the next president of the united states will pass meaningful immigration reform so that that will be solved. not by executive order.
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[ cheers and applause ] >> back to my family just for a second. [ cheers and applause ] >> look i think -- i think i was talking about my mom. i kind of lost my train of thought here. long before the world knew my parents' names, i knew i was blessed to by their son. and they didn't mind it at all when i found my own path. it led from texas to miami by way of mexico. in 1971 eight years before then
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candidate ronald reagan said we should stop thinking of our neighbors as foreigners, i was ahead of my time in cross border outreach. across the plaza, i saw a girl. she spoke only a little english. my spanish was okay but really not that good. with some intensive study, we got that barrier out ofhurry. in the short version, it's been a gracious walk through the years with columba. whatever else whatever else i might or might not have going
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for me i've got the quiet joy of a man who can say that the most wonderful friend he has in the whole world is his own wife. i love you. and together we've had the not so quiet joy of raising three children who have brought us nothing but happiness and pride, george noelle, and jeb. the boys have also brought us more bushes. their wives mandy and sandra, and our grandchildren, vivian georgia, prescott, and jack. campaigns aren't easy and they're not supposed to be. and i know that there are a lot of good people running for president. quite a few, in fact. and not one of us deserves the job by right of resmy, party,
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seniority, family or family narrative. it's nobody's turn. it's everybody's test. and it's wide open. exactly as a contest for president should be. the outcome is entirely up to you, the voters. it's entirely up to me to earn the nomination of my party, and to take our case all across this great and diverse nation. as a candidate, i intend to let everyone hear my message, including the many who can express their love of country in a different language. [ speaking spanish ]
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[ speaking spanish ] [ cheers and applause ] >> in any language in any language, my message will be an optimistic one because i am certain that we can make the decades just ahead the greatest time ever to be alive in this world. that chance that hope requires
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the best that is in us. i will give it my all. i will campaign as i would serve, going everywhere speaking to everyone keeping my word facing the issues without flinching, and staying true to what i believe. i will take nothing and no one for granted. i will run with heart and i will run to win. >> it begins here and now, and i'm asking for your vote. thank you, and god bless you all. love you.
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>> that was former florida governor jeb bush officially announcing his campaign for the republican nomination for president. joining me now, chairman of the slate group, jacob, rebecca traycer, and joy reid. all right, guys. fresh from the mike what did you think, jake? >> i thought it was a fairly limp speech. i think jeb is a fairly substantive person. he's interested in policy. i take him seriously as a manager, as someone in government. >> as an executive. >> as an executive, but he doesn't have much talent for politics, i don't think he takes much pleasure in politics. i think his vibe through that is, is this going to be over soon. >> can i make it through this? >> again, hillary clinton isn't very talented. doesn't take a lot of pleasure in politics. >> a retail order, if you will.
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>> they're well matched. it doesn't make for a very exciting campaign but -- >> we're going to gin up some enthusiasm. i will say i mean i agree that there are points in that speech where you saw jeb bush visibly kind of breathing out, kind of like raising his eyebrows like i'm almost there, like a marathoner, but the crowd, joy, and you mentioned this. the crowd was incredibly fired up for him. >> as a staffing matter the campaign couldn't have picked a better place than to do this in miami. people in miami love jeb bush. and you saw a lot of cuban americans in the audience. i remember speaking with a senior operative on the republican side who is cuban american and said we like marco, we love jeb. jeb is almost considered an honorary cuban american. he has the right audience and him speaking spanish, and i think that's authentic. will an iowa audience respond to him that way?
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the answer is probably no. this is probably the high point for him in terms of adulation from the crowd. but you have to remember, jeb bush's whole political history has been being the fortunate son from a fortunate family. he came into office at the crest of the clinton great economy. his brother was already governor in texas. bush having lost the governorship in '94 for answering a question flippantly for what he would do for black people. he's known as sort of a sneering grumbling character in florida, not a natural politician like his brother. he doesn't have a lot of personal assets to be a great politician. >> he struggled and has been struggling with how to speak about his family. and it was interesting, rebecca, that at the outset of the speech, he uttered a line that will be parsed a lot in the coming hours about whether the presidency should be passed from one group to the next. let's listen in. >> the presidency should not be
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passed on from one liberal to the next. so here's what it comes down to. our country's on a very bad course, and the question is what are we going to do about it? the question for me -- the question for me is what am i going to do about it? and i've decided, i'm a candidate for president of the united states of america. >> no mention there, rebecca, of whether the presidency should be passed from one bush to the next. >> interrupted by a successful president. >> right. >> interestingly, i have been thinking a lot about the dynamics of bush versus clinton, and generally before watching the speech i thought it's bad for hillary because having those two familiar names depresses the vote makes everyone tired and sad, no one wants to vote. but when he returns back to the subject at the end of the speech and announces it's the most improbable thing in the world.
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>> do we have that? >> the first day of his life he met the first president, and also some of the other comments about obama being a glorified tourist to cuba. >> in his country of ours the most improbable things can happen. take that from a guy who met his first president on the day he was born and his second on the day he was brought home from the hospital. >> and the reaction that i had to that and several other lines in the speech actually made me rethink the dynamic between jeb and hillary. i felt so intensely when he said that that i thought, you know this is going to be the key to ginning up enthusiasm for hillary, who is also not a natural speaker, not a natural or or orate orator, but reacting to him is part of what hillary may count on if she faces him. >> the most improbable thing in the world is to get to come into the office in a crest of an economic boom supplied by the clintons and to get out of dodge before your brother tanked the
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country. >> it's not so improbable that one of the most privileged families in america -- it would have been improbable if it hadn't been a family like bush's. in the way it's a battle of two restorations. in a way, that's dispiriting and also rather interesting. which would you rather have back? i don't thirk bush wants to campaign on bringing back either bush presidency versus the clinton precedency. the clinton presidency was a successful presidency. >> let me go i want to go to kasie hunt who is still on the ground at the venue in miami. kasie, we know the president -- the president, wow, getting ahead of myself. the former governor was interrupted by some protesters. he gave an impromptu line about immigration reform. can you tell us about what happened in the moment? >> absolutely. there was a group of protesters to my left who stood up in neon t-shirts that spelled out
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collectively, legal status is not enough. that's of course is a reference to bush's frankly changed position on immigration. he wrote a book about immigration reform in which he seemed to support a path to citizenship for some of the undocumented immigrants in the country. he has since walked that back and said he supports a legal path to legal status for many of those people. that's different from the dreamers or young people. he supports different legal status for them but he responded very strongly in the moment. used it as kind of an opportunity to take it head on and say the next president will pass immigration reform. and in the room the protesters were overtaken by chants of "u "usa, usa" and led out, but it came across at least in the room as a strong moment for governor bush, who frankly gave one of the better speeches i have heard him give. this is as some of the panelists were eluding today, not his
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favorite format. he doesn't like standing behind a podium reading off a teleprompter. it was clear he practiced the speech over and over and it showed. >> we have the sound when the former governor was getting interrupted. let's play that. >> just so that our friends know the next president of the united states will pass meaningful immigration reform so that that will be solved. not by executive order. >> i mean joy, huge applause for that line. which is going to be really interesting as he continues his path to get the nomination in what looks to be a brutal primary process for any republican. >> absolutely. it represents really some of the core conundrum for jeb bush. he was supposed to be the guy who could come along and solve this rubik's cube of getting hispanic americans to like the republican party. he brought rubio to be for immigration reform and now neither of them can afford to be for it because their base hates it. >> he seems like he's trying to
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be. >> his platform has been he'll be the grownup who can do this. how does he wind through iowa where the message is far to the right? how does he take it to south carolina? it was the biggest barrier, but it was supposed to be his and rubio's biggest strength. >> is he going to keep saying this with as much force in iowa and other parts of the country where it may not play as well. >> jub bush with the nomination is far more immigration than without the nomination. the question is how far he has to reach away from legitimately where his heart is very pro immigration, to get past the primaries. that's the game he has to play. once he gets to the nomination he can move back to the center and revert to what i thnk he believes. >> i will say, i feel like there's been obviously healthy criticism on the panel, rebecca. his spanish is impressive. >> he looks more comfortable speaking in spanish and more
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relaxed and in himself than at any other point in the speech. >> that audience is heavily cuban american. cuban americans are for immigration reform. >> there were loud cheers in the audience. kasie hunt always good to see you, joy reid always good to see you. after the break, hillary clinton gave her first campaign press conference this afternoon, facing a barrage of questions including whether her own personal wealth is a problem. more on that coming up next. before earning enough cash back from bank of america to buy a new gym bag. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time and 2% back at the grocery store. even before he got 3% back on gas. kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to join the wednesday night league. because he loves to play hoops. not jump through them. that's the excitement of rewarding connections.
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fresh off her official campaign launch today in new hampshire, hillary clinton gave her first formal press conference as a candidate, where she kind of sort of weighed in on the hot button of the moment a source of in-fighting, president obama's trade deal. >> i think now there's an opportunity for the president and his team to reach out and meet with the people who have sat on the floor like nancy pelosi did, that we need a better deal. i think this is a chance to use this leverage so that the deal does become one that more americans and more members of congress can vote for. i will wait and see what the deal is and then i will tell you what i think about it. >> joining us now is political reporter of the "new york times," nick and from the
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huffington post sam stein. sam, to you first on this. was that an answer? what was that? >> i'm trying to make an answer out of it. i couldn't tell. it was an answercommentary i think. i'm not entirely sure if she supports the deal. i don't think she does because she hasn't seen it. i'm motsure if she supports granting the president authority to negotiate the deal. >> she said that's the process part that she doesn't want to weigh in. that's the question for right now, what congress is voting on. >> yeah, and i think she's avoiding it strategically and we'll probably have to live with these answers because she doesn't seem like she wants to give anything more substabtntive than that. >> this is why i think it's a problem. there's a process question but it's also a question of where you sit in the democratic party, which has been split by this. between president obama and republicans and some democrats. and more liberal democrats,
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including the majority of house democrats, and by the way, nancy pelosi, who are against the deal. and the question that has dogged clinton is what kind of democrat is she? this is an area where there would really be some insight into this. >> it shows the breakdown, in the first speech of the second official launch or whatever it was, on saturday you could say here are some policy areas in which she's staking a clear place or position and yet it all comes down to the details. you know do you tax more heavily on the wealthy or what have you? here, we have our first chance to drill down and say, so you know are you taking a position we think you are or not? and nobody knows. it's not clear. >> the hillary of a year ago was for the trade deal. the hillary of the announcement is against the trade deal. we'll have to see what hillary she is when it comes up for the next vote. it's political positioning. >> it's which hillary are you talking about.
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we have a great piece, meet the old hillary. hillary was asked by andrea mitchell at the same press conference about her wealth and whether it was a complicating factor in her goals towards balancing out the income scales. tackling income inequality. her response was basically, our wealth isn't an issue. i have been saying the same things since i was a college student, and i'm waging a campaign about what i think is best for the country. your thoughts on that. >> there's a lot wrapped up in that. she was saying lots of things as a college student and not just as a college student, as a young professional, for many years as a young lawyer a young advocate. she was saying certain things. she has not been saying them since college. there was about a 25-year detour away from those things and now she's returned to a lot of them. it's interesting, there are lots of structural reasons for the detour, the person she was as a college student, liberal, civil rights obsessed did not go over
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well with the american public or with arkansas. she had to do everything from give up her name so there were reasons she took the detour in order to become more palatable and more politically plausible, so it's not without reason but she has not been consistently saying anything for 30 years. you can simultaneously point out what she's saying now and the more liberal positions she's taking have legitimate roots in her professional early commitments, but it's also true there has to be an acknowledgment there wasn't a straight line. >> there's policies she's going to have to impugn that were her husband's policies. it's unclear to me how comfortable she's going to be doing that. bill clinton is forthcoming on criminal justice and what he did to do to grow the prison state, but there are tough, tough lessons that have been learned in the wake of bill clinton's
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decisionmaking. >> she'll have to delicately handle that, decide what part of her husband's legacy she wants to embrace and which ones she wants to impugn if that's the right word. >> it is. >> well thank you thank you for the word. one is that you don't -- being wealthy doesn't mean you can't be a populist. some of the great populist presidents of our country's history were incredibly wealthy. and so i don't think this precludes her, the fact she's made a lot of money in her post-government career. and two is people don't recall this even though it was not too long ago, but during the 2008 campaign on domestic policy not on foreign policy but domestic policy hillary clinton was often to the left of barack obama. on a whole host of issues. so there are some elements of her domestic agenda where she can say i have been consistent on this this and this. now, that doesn't mean on everything she's drawn a straight line, but there are a number of areas where she can say i am a populist.
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i have fought for the issues you care about. i'm not a phony, i'm not late to the game. i think it's a bit of a myxed bag. >> i would say just to clarify the question she was asked by andrea, it was you guys clintons, have very close relationships with donors, with wall street with ceos. a lucrative fund-raising base for the clinton foundation. can you maintain those ties and take on income inequality. you're based in new york. you know this is an issue. >> i think the bigger problem is not being personally rich. fdr was very wealthy, had his own train line to his own summer house and was a great progressive president. for all politicians, especially today, when you live in a bubble of privilege, surrounded by and marinating in the world view of business elites rich donors can you connect with the policy concerns of people outside of the bubble? it's a challenge for her, for bush, for everyone in congress where everyone's net worth is getting higher and higher every
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year. >> i want to point this out, jake because i thoughtautought ezra klein made an important fight, hillary is defining herself as a fighter. but does that necessarily mean that you win? ezra writes why should voters disillusions by the grim politics of obama's second turn believe a clinton presidency will be different? it's not how they'll fight. its's how they'll win. >> bill clinton ran a great campaign in 2002 because they thought they agreed with him, and that wasn't possible but he left enough doubt, and when he would speak to them he would be persuasive. that's his genius. that's much harder for hillary to do but she has to bring all those parts of the party along even though she has the nomination wrapped up going in. >> that's why that trade answer was as convoluted and complicated as it was. thank you guys all for your time. we'll have more after the break.
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million, millionaires second only to the u.s. that's all for now. "the ed show" is up next. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. tonight, afraid of commitment. >> why can't she say whether or not she's for or against it? >> secretary clinton, we need her to speak out right now. >> i will judge what's in the final agreement. >> plus now it's official. >> jeb bush goes after the office once held by his father and brother. >> i'm a candidate for president of the united states of america. >> later, stepping down. >> are you african-american? >> i don't understand the question. >> rachel dolezal has resigned from her position. >> and shark attacks. >> they happened just miles away from each other in a stretch of beach in