but mitt romney, he's a fun loving guy.ether these 300 people, he could crack a joke. that isn't the romney you see on tv. they get so handled by a bunch of 26-year-olds and media people that they turn into a different creature. we have all seen it. >> it's one of the most stunning things. you see him after the campaign and talking about a a lot of different candidates. bob dole is one of them on our side. he is cracking jokes on "the tonight show" and you go, where was that guy during the campaign. a lot of people talking about you, governor, running against hillary clinton. tell us about hillary clinton's week last week. why was it so tough for him to sell a book on what should have been a goodwill tour? >> i didn't mention hillary clinton in any of my comments. mark halpern was there. there were some questions afterwards. one of the questions was something to do with have you driven a car in the last 20 years? because hillary says she hasn't. i said, i don't know. i had a truck in front after trailer with a bulldozer pul

oh, get in, mitt! >> this is a party without a dominant leader either on the white house or the hill. romney was the last contender for the white house. this is a way of holding together the thing that he built. the campaign structure, the money, the donor and have the structure somehow have some influence going forward in the party and in the 2016 primaries. >> is mitt romney sort -- has he emerged as the defake factor leader in the gop? >> i wouldn't say that. he built the most successful fundraising machine in republican presidential history. in the early part of the campaign, what you have is pieces of the machine looking for a candidate to get behind, whichever of the 2016 contenders can seize what he built will have a huge advantage in those primaries in the year and a half. >> who else was out there? and what else happened? >> we had chris christie out there, we had mike huckabee. christie gave a speech. he didn't talk about the bridge scandal. he said it's over and done with when asked about it

mitt romney is right, all politics is local.hat's how eric cantor, having run a bad campaign, sort of absentee campaign lost, and lindsey graham, who was attentive, won. >> hillary clinton, harold, a week of rollout on her book, the dead broke comments. is she in a better position or worse position now that she's getting more of the rough and tumble -- >> they have to go back and regroup. she has to have some tighter, easier to connect and understandable answers around her wealth, which i don't think is really an issue. most people running for office who have been out have found ways to make a living. i don't think voters punish. they won't vote for someone they have issues with but they won't vote for someone who they don't believe likes them and doesn't respect them. she fought her whole life for those things. she had a tough week. they have to figure out how you get back to answering questions. her husband was the best at stepping back, looking at the moment, understanding that people want answers to their own problems in the

they're very good at it. >> it's clear as day when president obama debated mitt romney and mitt romneyof forces agreement, mitt romney said no. he said it would have tied us down and wouldn't help us in the mideast. >> that clip needs to go everywhere. what you really did is you iraqi government. >> that clip needs to go everywhere.to one what you really did is you showed that it's a convenient, kind of statement and argument to make with one reporter but then at another time it's not se convenient. presi and when you put them together, you see that the president and his people are not being honest with us. >> the magic of videotape.d you i've got just a short time. what did you think about the bergdahl thing? obviously you know the platoon.s >> i think there's no reason she should be defending bowe bergdahl's kind of situation at this point.r word we don't know what he's going to say. it would be easy for her to say they were there, we take them at their word.oker. he >> there was no reason to diminish them in trying to protect him. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much?

joe biden, rick perry, mitt romney and sarah palin.than biden, perry and mitt romney but by this standard, sarah palin. one question i had in all these interviews, as she sees president obama going down in the polls, how much does she have to worry about that or does she let that take the place over here an worry about 2016 over here? >> i think she can't afford to do that. i think you've seen some of her answers reflect the fact that she's cognizant of president obama's declining standing with the american public. she's picked her response where to create separation with president obama. she did not have to put it in this book that the obama folks wanted her to go after sarah palin in 2008 and she pointedly said no. the fact that she put that in there i think is very telling. you add on some of the sort of foreign policy differences, most notably syria, she wanted to arm the rebels. she is creating some space. not in a way that will tick off some obama folks. >> always hard for the president to maintain that party's power. she's obvio

way back then it was mitt romney pushing vouchers. i don't know, maybe to blame him. and then i got an unusual amount of e-mails on this and what was a big environmental push back there. global warming, global freezing. and so we are all going to find ourselves in another ice age. and a 1978 leonard nimoy documentary that spelled it all out. and spot going nuts about global cooling, balance and told you it was bogus. on the other hand, that would've scared me. and nancy pelosi during yesterday's press conference, still enjoying a photo of you with your parents. >> sui, one of my favorite pictures. and you are right to be skeptical. that came right after and suddenly the whole world was turning into a big skating rink. good for you and your parents. and it was absolutely brilliant. using that high school graduation photo to seal the deal, not so brilliant. and ianni says do you think your parents had any idea that you would grow up to become a right-wing clueless person that you are today. now, do you think your parents named you that

you pointed out mitt romney's problem. at that point in time we were saying i wish he would just own the fact that he worked for this and that he's a successful person and we want hillary clinton to own who she is. we're sitting here watching her stumble over her words and she's so guarded and she's watching what she says. people just want honesty. they're sick of this. >> and my recollection is she grew up under relatively modest circumstances and when her husband was governor of arkansas, they remember making dirt back then. >> but that's been several decades ago now. >> sure. she should just admit that you're rich now but that you woshed your butt off to get there. they started as -- i think she was a staffer during watergate on capitol hill making nothing, you know? she woshs hard. >> if you compare hillary clnt on to a sarah palin, people feel like she's a regular person. she struggled, she's not a washingtonian. she's just one of them. i don't know if it's about the money with hillary clinton. i think she has this im

they're pining for mitt. they want mitt to run again.s not in the cards, so they're looking for someone else. so if you're rand paul, if you're mike huckabee, chris christie planning to run, an incredibly valuable audience. >> is it clear ann romney has changed her mind a bit and says she would like to see her husband take another run at this? >> you know, it's so tempting to all the people around mitt romney. someone very close to them said to me what would change next time? you're just going up against another very strong candidate. but mitt romney has to be having the same thought that jeb bush is having. i don't think that jeb bush was headed toward iran, but all of them have to be looking in the mirror saying it's got to be someone. >> so this is a leadership conference. i want to make sure i have my options down. mountain biking with -- what was the list again? >> don't forget shotgun shooting with paul ryan. golfing with rand paul. >> who? huh? >> mountain biking with senator rob portman. or you can go hiking and you can do your h

but mitt romney the of binders full of women and the old guy stuff? neil: but that had nothing to do with his wealth. >> but what about the jobs? the same thing is going on and with pat quinn. day avila five who has created tons of jobs because that is where the votes will go. go back to the guy who'd picked himself up by the bootstraps. she tries to pull this out to say way it did not have the ton of money we started to charge a couple of thousand dollars per speech now we're just like to be pick ourselves up so we would get your vote. neil: to lawrence point they were herded with they left office from legal fees in chelsea off to stanford to. >> and with bill's a discretions. neil: you went there but they did have a lot of bills so they had big book deals her last book she died 8 million and he got 50 million so they would claw their way back. no surprise. leave it there? >> yes. don't make a big deal of them honestly. it is not a big deal but the way she phrased everything could be her firss campaign gaffe but she has been fast tracked. neil: maybe

you don't get to run an effective campaign against the ghost of mitt romney. >> also if you're being you're a democratic candidate who is being compared to mitt romney, that automatically right there is terrible, as a huge mitt romney credit -- >> stephanie, if you had been running hillary clinton's non-campaign, her book tour, and you heard her go "we were dead broke when we left the white house" you'd be back on the phone, oh my god, you'd never believe what she just said, correct in. >> it was a fact they were dead broke leaving the white house. >> you needed clarification. >> however. >> however. >> i would say spend more time talking about everything that you have fought for in your entire life including your first job out of school working at the children's center. >> that's exactly what she said and i think this is a great opportunity for her as she did this week to talk about not only her life experience, she left law school and went to the children's defense fund and went door to door working on issues of ensuring every poor child in connecticut was actually going to school.

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mitt romney taking on hillary clinton. they all seem to see vulnerabilities in her and they are seizing on the sort of rocky book tour. >> yes, and it was very interesting. one thing that he left out was he didn't mention the other "b" word besides bergdahl which is benghazi, for one. and then i think i'm not sure about whether her comments on bergdahl are a vulnerability, but one thing that will be an interesting set of discussions, something that she touches on very, very lightly in "hard choices," she is -- iraq and her role in the maliki government, the decision to -- the failure to negotiate a status of forces agreement and how that situation was allowed to deteriorate. if you look in the index of the book, one mention of maliki. she fesses up to having got ten wrong on iraq and then she doesn't say very much more about it. >> the vote to go in was 2002 so that does not involve her tenure as secretary of state. chris cillizza, we just saw some pictures of what happens when you go to the pentagon city costco on saturda

they have mitt romney to thank for it.re there for a retreat organized by the former gop presidential nominee. lots of 2016 presidential hopefuls were in attendance, including new jersey governor chris christie, kentucky senator rand paul, wisconsin congressman paul ryan. he was the 2012 vp nominee with romney, of course. you may be surprised to hear that this man was there too. former montana governor brian schweitzer. he's a democrat. there's plenty of buzz that he may be thinking of running for the democratic presidential domination. according to "the new york times" he joked that, quote, there's not a single vote for me in the building. "times" claims romney took a shot at the media saying schweitzer would find some votes in the pressroom. looks like romney also invited hillary clinton. she's of course in the middle of her book tour and couldn't make it to utah this weekend. at the retreat romney didn't have kind words about clinton's tenure as secretary of state. he said the obama, biden, hillary clinton foreign polic

chris christie, jeb or mitt? and with hillary, people want the impression of candor from her and politically correct answers. isn't that what politics is -- getting them both right? finally the break-up of iraq. isn't this what we did to the place? this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> another low for congress. a new gallup poll finds 16% of americans approve of the job congress is doing. that's the lowest number for a midterm election year since gallup began asking the question 40 years ago. it's in line with a poll from last month showing just 1 in 5 americans say most members of congress should be re-elected, the lowest number ever. we'll be right back. at shell, we believe the world needs a broader mix of energies, which is why we are supplying natural gas, to generate cleaner electricity, that has around 50% fewer co2 emissions than coal. and why with our partner in brazil, we are producing a biofuel made from renewable sugarcane to fuel cars. let's broaden the world's energy mix, let's go. >>> wel

she's no mitt romney. >> mitt romney had more dynamism. you look at the answer in the recent clip we saw, there's not a dynamic fresh face candidate who is going to transform the american economy. >> she was at least in the open. >> first of all, don't you think to a certain extent she's had a couple bad weeks out of a 30-year career. most americans have a lot more to say about the world cup than any of this stuff. don't you think we're getting too excited? now we have her in a box. >> first of all, i think the fact so many people are ta paying attention about hillary clinton says a lot about president obama. the big problem she has is exactly what you said. this is not a fresh face on the scene that's going to bring new energy. she's been on the scene for 25 years. she hasn't driven a car since 1996. nothing but secret service protection. >> we get all excited about her saying a little thing. if you're the average person, you think hillary clinton, you know who she is. you don't think she doesn't care about anybody. >> it's been three wee

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mitt romney is right, all politics is local.hat's how eric cantor having run a bad campaign, sort of absentee campaign lost, and lindsey graham who was attentive won. >> hillary clinton, a week of rollout on her book, the dead broke comments. is she in a better position or worse position now that she's -- >> they have to go back and regroup. she has to have some tighter, easier to connect and understandable answers around her wealth, which i don't think is really an issue. most people running for office who have been out have found ways to make a living. i don't think voters punish. they won't vote for someone they have issues with but they won't vote for someone who they don't believe likes them and doesn't respect them. she fought her whole life for those things. she had a tough week. they have the figure out how to get back at answering questions. her husband was the best at stepping back, looking at the moment, understanding that people want answers to their own problems in their homes and communities, how you create jobs. h

i've begun asking myself an uncomfortable question, is hillary clinton our mitt romney? smart?, absolutely. inkred resume, without a doubt but kind of tone deaf and unrelatable. be honest, did her dead broke comment make you think just for a second about mitt saying ann drives a couple of cadillacs or he likes firing people. like mitt after decades in public service we still can only speculate on what hillary clinton is all about, a secret liberal, a dlc wall street dem? what will she run on? what sort of president would she actually be? there's no clues in the bland safety of her state department record and certainly not in hard choices. we can only guess through the baubls that accidental deviations from the script and things that didn't come from the briefing book. there's clearly more enthusiasm among democrats for hillary than there was among republicans for romney because of her trail blazer status and she's effectively boxed down other potential kocontenders. already sky high approval ratings are starting to add and people are remembering the real hillary. the real hilla

family nor mitt romney remembers.running that everyday on the cover of the "washington post." this is when hillary clinton was an adult, a practicing lawyer and fits in with what i would say not only about the clintons but the democratic party generally this nonsense, i never want to hear about the republican war on women anymore. in addition to this, just this week new york taxpayers spending $40 million to pay off five savage rapists from central park i've written about a lot including my book "demonic" no proof these five are guilty. the powerful putting one over on innocent victims of rapists. >> you have sold multiple number one best selling books. 84,000 for 14 or $15 million advance, hillary claiming she was broke the year she got an $8 million book deal. seriously. then she says today that, well, bill and i aren't well off. meanwhile, chelsea clinton says i tried real hard to care about money. she got a $600,000 salary for almost a no show job in television. >> yes. what did they calculate it was per minute, $

chris christie, jeb or mitt? and with hillary, people want the impression of candor from her and politically correct answers. isn't that what politics is -- getting them both right? finally the break-up of iraq. isn't this what we did to the place? this is "hardball," the place for politics. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. >>> another low for congress. a new gallup poll finds 16% of americans approve of the job congress is doing. that's the lowest number for a midterm election year since gallup began asking the question 40 years ago. it's in line with

fox has traded boxing gloves for mitt mittens. carol said, i think it was soft, it made her look good. >> let's put on the boxing gloves. >> i had a big advantage here, howie. >> many arthritics thought it was soft. >> i think there are a lot of hillary haters out there who wouldn't be happy unless she was waterboarded by interviewers. >> some headlines said brett hammered hillary clinton on benghazi. is that a fair characterization? well, look, the fact of the matter is hillary didn't answer the questions. what is brett supposed to do? he's trying to get answers. we have a woman who looks at the camera and absolutely just says whatever she wants. it's not based on fact other reality. she skirts all the issues. >> you don't think she answered any of those benghazi questions? >> no. there are so many questions lingering. and she does a very good job because she was a 20-plus year politician. if you like politicians, you love hillary clinton. she is washington, d.c. in car nate. >> the decision to focus a good bit of time on benghaz

horseback ride with mitt and ann romney.ered a campaign-style speech at the summit, he zinged hillary clinton, for instance, the buzz was whether he'd maybe make a third go at the white house. the two-time presidential candidate tried to put some of those rumors to rest on "meet the press" yesterday. >> will you be a candidate in 2016 if you were drafted if the conditions were right? would you consider another run? >> david, i'm not running for president. i said that so many times. as you know, we just had this conference here in park city, utah. i brought a number of the 2016 contenders here to meet with my fund-raisers. had i been running, i wouldn't be doing that. >> well, that's sad. romney went on to say he wants to find the best candidate for 2016 and help shape the future of his party. but if it's not going to be romney is there anyone who can take on the hillary clinton juggernaut? joining us to discuss, democratic strategist bob shrum and robert schrader. thank you both for being here. gentlemen, first off, what do

mitt romney.here a 5% chance he might look at the field and say mitt romney once again. >> there has to be an establishment candidate. if there's no jeb bush or chris christie or paul ryan and no other governor or former governor, i think not only should he look at it from the party's point of view but i think he will because on paper he's very strong. he would be an open seat and i just get the sense he does all these public interviews he's very concerned about the future of the party and just i think if hillary clinton doesn't run al gore or john kerry will run i think mitt romney will run if there's no other substantive candidate. >> rose: if hillary clinton clinton doesn't run -- >> i think kerry or gore will run. people will say they had chance they're done. the thing about mitt romney in double down he didn't really want to run. the main thing that drove him to the race besides his wife urging him to do it he said i looked at the field and i didn't say anybody else who could win. if there's

now, clearly, there's a double standard at work and mitt romney and john mccain, because they are rich or have money in their family and the mccain's case, you know, were treated by democrats as if that made them ill suited to be president. but for hillary clinton to try to make such a pretense. yes, she and her husband were in debt when they came out of the white house, but they were clearly members of the nation's very most elite and both of them with enormous earning potential which they have gone on to display to the tune of what some people say as much as $200 million. >> she already had a book deal before she left. >> she did. terry mccallive standing there to help her on any mortgages. there was never any doubt about their financial prospects. if they weren't rich on paper, they were about to be rich and everybody knew it and i don't think -- and i don't think it's a problem. i don't know why she's worried. maybe it's because bret she wants to make income inequality an issue and she doesn't want to be on the wrong side of that issue. >> what do you make the overall roll out, a c

and his name is willard mitt romney. >> hey, i get to be up here. who's got your camera, though? dogs out? who, who? thanks, guys. >> there is, i kid you not, a gra ground well of elite support for mitt romney to throw his hat in the race. at a summit hosted by romney, himself, last week the "washington post" reported there was a notable longing for romney to run against which romney spoked with a campaign-style speech deeming the quote, obama/biden hillary clinton foreign policy a monumental bust. romney staunchly denies he's going to run a third time, but with republicans particularly the republican donor class struggling to settle on a viable candidate, there's increasing sense that romney may be the best they've got. poll released yesterday showing romney as the leading gop presidential candidate in new hampshire and on fox business a few weeks ago, neil cavuto had a message for the skeptics. >> now, before you dismiss what i said then, what i'm telling you tonight, do remember this, ronald reagan tried three times and succeeded on his third venture. >> fair point. joining me

it gave mitt romney 206 electrical college votes.for windows 24 years the whites lost more than half of their electoral college. that is because, reflects a country, the census says it will happen in 200043, 30 years from now. there transition generation, much more mixed race public to read and every year. as more millennials agent to the electorate and more age out, nice way to move on the greater rewards, that a like to read, mitt romney won the light vote by 20 percentage points, he got 17% of the non white vote. and the ascendant to vote in the country. the reason the republican party is involved in an interparty civil war, if they look at these numbers and they say somebody described the republican party as the pale, male and sale party. if you get 70% and we're on have to become a majority non-white countries they have big challenges, it will not be smooth sailing for the democrats. it is possible their own coalition will be fissures within them. it seems complicated, politics changes, but both -- the republicans thought they w

listen, if we could pray here just to tick you off, let it not be mitt romney. don't want mitt romney. >> would you be more interested if it was marco rubio? >> i don't think rubio has a chance based on division in the party. jeb bush is your best candidate. >> no, he's not. >> someone else you're not interested in. >> america doesn't want another bush. we need somebody fresh. invigorating. marco rubio. >> looking forward to seeing that name or learning who that person is in the next couple months. nice to have you both here. thank you very much. >>> off roading in the middle of a car race. a 21-year-old man in the u.k. is facing charges for driving his girlfriend's volkswagen on the track while she screams for him to stop. >> oh my god. >> yeah! >> do you think they're still together at this point? just curious. race cars narrowly avoided them. they made it all of the way around the track once before pulling over to pit lane. the man is apologizing saying he's getting death threats and its fair share of criticism for the obvious security lapse. shepard smith is

. >> in that he mentions mitt romney thrown around. why don't you give it a third try.ith him and jeb bush and mike huckabee they haven't been in elected politics and not indicated they want to run. older guys who have been around for a while. dismiss them out of hand unless they actively say i am interested in the issues that are coming up in the late obama term. >> generally two races is enough for most candidates. you think mitt romney has a third race in him. >> he hasn't indicated and there are younger and newer folks in the republican who are viable. and you can so a comprehensive list. governors and i didn't see rick perry on the list and he may run again and you have rand paul and paul ryan and rubio. rubio is making the best of the most affirmative steps for running for president. >> you say though, that it might be early to pick candidates. the party has a bigger job. >> instead of shopping for candidates, the party has to figure out what thi are going to represent to 2016 and what are their ideas and, and i think marco rubio talking about not tax cuts which y

your guest is mitt romney. he is of course is weighing in on eric cantor's stunning loss in the primaries this week. what does that loss mean for the future of the gop? >> well it means a lot of questions about what the dominant strain is within the party that can make it a national party again. there's popularism coursing through the left and right. that's for sure. eric cantor got caught up in that. others are likely to as well before november. charting the course for the republican party to unify around is something that seems to be elusive. mitt romney is the standard around the party. his views are listened to as to where the party is headed. >> david gregory, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> you can watch "meet the press" and david's exclusive interview with mitt romney at 10:30 here on nbc 10. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ mom, we need another refrigerator! come to hhgregg... and fill your home with happy. >>> last night the philadelphia opportunities industrialization centers oic marked the 50th anniversary.

to christie are mitt romney donors.ising for his governor race. he got a lot of money. this time around i think it's going to be much harder. there's a thing called the bridge scandal. >> do you think that's going to be effect his ability to raise money. >> yeah. absolutely. look, are you going sink money into a start-up company that is trying to roll out the radio at this point? that is basically what it is. it's a bad bet. i think for christie, this is also a great way for him to meet potential funders of his legal defense fund. i think he's got a lot of -- >> you're on a roll. >> hillary clinton she has, you know, she's out on this book tour, perhaps you've heard. she wrote a book called "hard choices." michele bachmann apparently not that impressed. this is what michele bachmann said at the faith and freedom conference. >> i'm sure the last couple of weeks you've been following hillary clinton's book tour. it's been a tour deforce as the media has been telling us. she's made so many unforced errors in the last two w

. >>> coming up on "meet the press" in 20 minutes, an exclusive interview with mitt romney and turmoil and how the u.s. should respond. coming up at 10:30 on nbc 10. >>> a day in mourning in ukraine after pro russian forces shot down a military plane killing 49 troops and crew on board. the military transport plane carrying equipment and provisions was about to land when it was shot out of the sky. ukrainian officials accused the russians of supplying weapons that downed the plane. russia denies that. the newly elected president poroshenko promises to track down and punish who's responsible for shooting down the plane. >>> people are dead after a bomb blast in afghanistan. among the dead are four members of the country's election committee. the explosion came after taliban leaders warned people not to vote in the runoff election. in a separate incident, taliban members cut off 11 people's fingers as punishment. the results from this election are expected in july. >>> today marks 100 days since the disappearance of malaysian flight 370. family members gathered in beijing saying all they

host: mitt, 2016? guest: i just think that is a fantasy. it is fun to say, it looks like he is thinking more about running than before, but i think this is about legacy. if you watch the mitt documentary, it got under their skin. they felt like they were made to be a joke. he feels like his family -- he is a guy who is really successful in business, turned around a lot of companies, and feels like he is a real thought leader. i think that's what he wants to be. host: this is from jan. eric cantor's loss should be a warning -- a wake-up call to all politicians. don't get comfortable, work for every vote. guest: true. all,u are in politics at whatever you want to do in washington, whatever committee you want to chair, whatever leadership position you aspire to hold, it all depends on coming back. if you are not here, you cannot win. host: a lot of speculation on the quickness of the vote for house republican leader. [video clip] >> i do think the members are going to make this decision. we are going to do it next week. i'm sure some will argu

treasury official and supported by mitt romney and others.d he is trying to appeal to moderates and put a lot of the money in the race and appeal to cross over democrats. he is facing off against a republican. tea party backed republican tim donly and it is a virtual dead heat as they fight for the the second spot. donly is a gun's right advocate and on proviation for carrying a pistol on a flight. and another race watched nationally is the 52nd congressional district down in san diego. a popular candidate that is an openly gay republican and going at both sides of the party. he is challenging democrat scott peters and a close race there and people are watching that one throughout the year. scott ports taking on. and remember women's right advocate. sanda fluke thought about running for congress here as henry waxman is retiring. she changed her mind. she is running for the state district up against eight candidates. seven democrats and one who decided not to commit. that case is watched as she runs for that seat. money, as you imagine is a bi