de blasio, the groundhog's name was staten island chuck. [ laughter ] de blasio and the zoo tried top the incident, but the truth got out. new york city mayor bill de blasio 100% dropped a groundhog on its head during a photo op. and finally, hillary is pro-choice. de blasio, rest in peace, staten island chuck. [ cheers and applause ] now you know. >> steve: now you know. now you know. >> jimmy: get this. it's being reported that google spent over $5 million on lobbying just during the first quarter of this year. which is crazy, because you'd think google wouldn't really need to lobby politicians. all they'd have to say is "we have your search history. [ laughter and applause ] do what we tell you." this was kind of weird. yesterday, i saw that yesterday, congress received 6,000 free taco bell tacos from lobbyists as a thanks for their support of the fast food industry. 6,000 tacos. it seemed like it was affecting members of congress in the afternoon. take a look. >> i think it deserves our careful oversight and scrutiny. [ fart sounds ] [ laughter ] as we have seen in recent weeks t

mark: he wants her to endorse it, but the de blasio agenda includes hillary from of them.here is furor in her camp that one the most prominent people has not endorsed her yet. it seems to me that he may be playing a more dangerous game than he realizes. john: the only thing to get him to endorse her is the passage of time. every mayor of a big city thought that he was the sharp end of the spear of some progressive revival, he wants his time in the sun, this is the moment for him to get it. it's amazing that he is doing this to his old friend. there is no thing she can say that will satisfy him. the only thing to make him stop this is when of pressure comes on him from others in the democratic party. mark: she largely dances to the tune of the most liberal people in the party. an interesting question arises. will she do a -- in the context of the democratic fight? i get the sense she will not take it. john: it goes against her. the sister moment happen when clinton was triangulating to play in the middle. she thinks the way to win is to mobilize and drive the obama coalitio

. ♪ mark: on the show tonight, bill de blasio says he will not run first, benghazi.e learned that the house investigation might not be released until next year, maybe before election day. that sounds bad for hillary for america. whatever the reason for the delay, this plays out over time is better for republicans. john: no, i don't necessarily think it is better politics for republicans. the clinton he would like this to happen sooner rather than later. we have a letter sent by david kendall, hillary's lawyer saying that she wants to testify in public, and have it happen soon. if there is anything they want to talk to her about, they should get this over with. they think it would be better for her to get it out of the way. if republicans drag this out there is a risk the party will start to think this is a silver bullet on hillary, and they thought benghazi was a silver bullet. republicans could be led into the briar patch for this. mark: the closer he gets to election day, the more clinton folks can say this is politics. the clintons are overestimating the extent to

and anthony weiner is back and he is not happy with new york city mayor bill de blasio. but first, hillary clinton and her scooby convoy are now in iowa. this is "now." >> i'm having a great time. can't look forward to it any more than i am. thank you. >> will going small help hillary clinton win big in iowa? >> she wants to get more up close and personal with voters. >> i'm here in iowa to begin a conversation. >> florida senator marco rubio officially entering the presidential fight. >> yesterday is over. >> generational moment. that's a slap at both hillary clinton and his mentor jeb bush. >> i've come here to talk about the challenges we're facing as a country. >> new hampshire is a state where historically politicians of both countries have gotten second chances. chris christie shouldn't be counted out. >> the road trip is over. hours ago, this was the scene when hillary clinton parked the scooby doo van where team clinton held the first public event of its presidential campaign. we got a firsthand account of hillary clinton's rationale for running for president in

that's what de blasio is saying. the most underappreciated skill for a politician is imagination, putting new things together in new ways, to have creativity. she's shown a lot of great skills over the course of her skill, but not that one. i think they're asking her to show some skills and offer a package. and the instinct from the campaign staff is, you have a monopoly here, let's not put out anything, let's hang out, be grandma, but that is the wrong strategy. i think de blasio is right. >> this goes to caution and her being risk averse. that's her history. she's a very, very cautious person. >> i think she is right to be cautious. but when you see the retread of the republicans' arguments it is frustrating. i say all the things that they say are wrong about hillary clinton doesn't make any of the republican arguments or the candidates any better. i think that the thing that is strong about the democratic party is we have a solid field. we're excited about hillary clinton. we're excited about all of the other peop

i'm joined now by new york city mayor bill de blasio. he served as hillary clinton's campaign manager when she ran successful for the senate in 2000. mayor de blasio welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning. >> let me ask you about what you're hearing about how she's launching her campaign that it's all about copying the blueprint you put together in 2000. smart? >> well it was certainly a team effort in 2000 and it worked. one of the important points was she did go out and listen to what was happening to every day people. i think that's going to be more necessary this year than ever before because people in this country are hurting. the great recession set people back on their heels in a way we've not seen in decades and decades. i think it's important for hillary to hear those stories of the american people and i think it'll make her a stronger candidate. >> you have wanted to talk about pushing her more to a progressive agenda. you're not alone here. there's a lot of democrats on the progressive side of the party that are try

this administration is taking a fundamentally different approach. >> de blasio has vowed to create and preserve 200 thousand affordable units. his plan relies on tax incentives to developers. >> if you're a developer if you set aside 20 percent of those units for low-income folks, the city will give you tax breaks on that property. >> robert robinson is a housing advocate who's formerly homeless. >> i would challenge mayor de blasio and say your plan is no different than bloomberg's plan. eighty percent market rate twenty percent low income. the more you create housing like that you're saturating the market with market-rate housing. developers in this city, they want to profit as much as they can. so their heart is not into building houses for poor people. that's not their goal. their goal is to get market rate rents. >> new york's largest existing stock of affordable housing is the one million aparments that are rent-regulated under state law. but the trend is clear: since the early eighties nearly twenty percent of these have been converted to market rate. shanequa charles has lived

what goes on with mayor bill de blasio of new york.ould think it would be a shoe-in endorsement. he says this. remember, everybody he was hillary's first campaign manager. listen to this. >> you're technically not yet endorsing her? >> not until i see -- i would say this about any candidate. until i see a vision of where she wants to go. i think she's a tremendous public servant and one of the most qualified people to ever run for this office and fully vetted. we need to see the substance. >> he should know the substance, don't you think, donna? >> if al gore decided to run form and someone says to me, donna, you're probably with al gore. i think in politics mayor de blasio is doing what many politicians will do including democrats. they want to hear a message and what she will do differently this time. they also want to hear where she will take the country. i respect mayor de blasio. i know he's a really good friend of the clinton family. he knows secretary clinton very, very well. in fact, just last month secretary clinton was with t

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stuart: comrade de blasio. hillary's policies are. >> this to me is a fascinating fight. the mainstream media talks about the inner fightings in the republican party, the tea partiers versus the moderate wing and a civil war inside the republican party. the bigger civil war is unnoticed by the media. that's the left, which is the grassroots, very powerful. represented by comrade bill de blasio and elizabeth warren and president barack obama against what they perceive are the moderates people like the clintons. they ran a very moderate particularly the last term in office, bill clinton's last term, it was a co presidency remember we were told that back then. stuart: rallying around one -- >> i understand that. as we get there there is an interesting civil war going on. i will point out this it being loose like the hillary people were clearly kissing up to bill de blasio when they had one of the main confidants on wall street, you don't hear about him, tom nides number two guy at morgan stanley. number two under

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i love de blasio. he defeated me. a voted for him at the end of the day.porters in iowa than bill de blasio does. i think frankly all of us want to watch the campaign unfold, and i honor him for wanting to do that, but -- >> let's talk for a moment just about foreign policy. there is a debate to be had. should we have bombed libya in hillary clinton was secretary of state. at the time we know from reporting she was an advocate for that intervention. libya is a mess right now. in the absence of a primary, there is no way to go for a discussion about that. >> first of all, hillary clearly doesn't believe there is going to be absence of a primary. she talks about the primary. her campaign talks about statistics of how difficult it is to win. there's going to be a primary. by the way, she's going to iowa she's going to new hampshire, she's proceeding as if there is. she's only taking campaign money, things like that. i don't begrudge her having a conversation about it i just think on announcement day you don't do this whole thing of i want to see what she has

mayor de blasio: i want to see a vision. that is true on all visions. time to see a clear, bold vision. >> you are not yet endorsing her? mayor de blasio: until i see a vision of where the candidates want to go. emily: the white house says president obama is not endorsing anyone at this time either. the trade group u.s. telecom has filed a new action in federal court to throw out the new net neutrality rules. u.s. telecom members include verizon and at&t. they say the rules are needlessly intrusive and give the fcc too much power. this builds on earlier lawsuit fired by u.s. telecom, which it admits it fired [indiscernible] a sophisticated hacking group has been targeting governments and companies in southeast asia for a decade according to fire right, which is the group increased hacking activity ahead of regional diplomatic meetings. >> we have seen that all the evidence which we have identified points back to china. the evidence includes the vic them groups that were targeted and the information that was sourced. we looked at who would benefit. we al

so why didn't de blasio come out and endorse hillary clinton?le were surprised yesterday when he came out and deferred. he didn't not endorse her but he deferred. i talked to someone very close to him just a few moments ago. they said this is not out of character for the mayor. we shouldn't be surprised by this. the fact of the matter is you have really one time to strike very hard on issues. this is the time for mayor bill de blasio. he's headed to iowa this week. he'll give a speech on income inequality. de blasio held a conference just a few weeks ago to talk about income inequality and asked several times about hillary clinton. he always deferred. he never said anything. >> some people might find that strange. maybe he's waiting for a better candidate to come his way. so he's going to be in iowa at the same time hillary clinton is in iowa, right. >> politics is very very strange. it's not so much that he's for another candidate. i think in many ways bill deblaezdede blasio is for himself. we have elizabeth warren as that leader. i was in iow

. >> bill de blasio has yet to endorse. are they creating distance or calculating? >> i don't think obama can't endorse her. they will not endorse a candidate until they get the nomination. biden can jump in. we don't know. >> can he jump though? >> i think he can. he is spry for an old man. he does all of the sexual harassing things. o'malley says he may run. the sitting president can't endorse anyone right now. >> what do you make of the whole traveling in a van? why not fly? is it a publicity stunt to make her come off more blue collar? >> she loves vans. anyone who has done work around her -- this is the honest truth. she loves vans. >> she is the zodiac killer. >> i know guys who have done her security and she loves that van. she is big on the vans. i want to say this -- not senator, but kerry saying anything about her or worse de blasio giving her any type of recommendation is like officer slager who shot the guy in south carolina telling the seal team this is a great tactic. you should use this. there is no experience for them to say one thing or the other. t

new york city is run by comrade bill de blasio. why he's for free competition when it's for uber and nothing else. liz: a lot of people are making money being uber drivers. >> here's why comrade bill wants uber to succeed? it's run by david plouffe and all these lefties from the obama administration run uber. so the bottom line is where does comrade bill de blasio love competition? when it helps democratic friends. that is not a conspiracy theory. you got to ask why is bill de blasio not taking the union side? liz: okay, check it out and get the answer for us. >> got a call into david plouffe too. liz: okay, charlie gasparino, thank you very much. major headlines this week from congressional speakers and members speaking out against the iran nuclear deal to the 30-count guilty verdict against the boston marathon bomber. here's what's worth repeating this week. >> what we want to do is make certain that iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. it is of concern, they have the 6,000 centrifuges, the lack of transparency to the iaea to do ove

. >> what does it mean for hillary clinton and what's the state of the party if bill de blasio, close to the clintons -- if bill de blasio is practicing brand preservation for progressive populist and not giving hillary clinton the full endorsement, what does that mean for her in the democratic party? >> i think that means this is more dynamic that there's one big candidate. the only way you have leverage over a campaign of one person is wait and ask them to do certain things along the way. i think if there were five or four people in this race, bill de blasio would be with hillary clinton. i think because there's largely one person surfacing in the race t the only way to get something out of the campaign now is get them to be for a certain set of policyies policies. i think this is why he's waiting for that. >> that's a huge risk to him in terms of how they shut people how out. if you were running the clinton campaign, what keeps you up at night? >> i think there's a long road to go. what would keep me worried is you've got to keep energy and excitement for a long period of time pres

one was in open warfare with mayor de blasio.e front page with the headline brass bawls. bawl meaning to shout or call out noisily or unrestrainedly according to the oxford dictionary. the first line of the story, top cop bill bratton has finally reached his breaking point with mayor bill de blasio. then comes the dramatic in the room account of bratten enton reaching his breaking point. he exploded with rage to get funding for 1,000 more cops before storming out of city hall. the post has learned. if i don't get them from you, i'll go to the city council and get them bratton parked at the anthony shoreis. but deblasio's right hand man refused to back down during the discussion over the nypd's budget. you don't work for the city council, you work for the mayor shoreis shot back sources said. none of the sources were named or their occupations hinted at. so us readers weren't given any idea about how the sources were in a position to describe the police commissioner exploding word for word. but hey we're used to that. it was anoth

stephanie: de blasio was clinton's can made -- campaign manager in 2000.ter the presidential race later today. he said he is uniquely qualified to be the republican nominee. the 43-year-old rubio was first elected in 2010, the son of cuban immigrants and in a swipe at hillary clinton, he called her a leader from yesterday. senator marco rubio of florida will hold a rally later this afternoon in miami. erik: marco rubio enters a crowded republican field, the perfect opportunity to bring in john the coanchor of "with all due respect to come in nashville, the man who practically invented economic theory, art laffer. good morning to you. you have met with just about every serious contender for the republican nomination. who get economics art laffer sees it? art: they are all very good and all qualified to be president and that really is the truth. what you see right now is a process going on. as you see it right now, all these candidates are trying to figure out what sells and what does not sell and what will and will not work. i think each one of them is capa

that was about bill de blasio grandstanding for bill de blasio but i think i just have to respond to what steve said for a moment the idea about the excitement around hillary clinton's campaign nationally it's motivated by even a new generation. the college campuses today, young women with young men coming to see her and listen to her and cheer her on. it's a mistake to underestimate the grassroots activism in the party for her. that's why there's not a democratic challenger emerging right now. >> greatly appreciate it thank you, we continue the conversation. thank you, guys. as hillary clinton makes her way to iowa, we're also following developing news out of miami, florida. nbc news has confirmed florida senator marco rubio has told donors he is of course running for president. tonight rubio will make the announcement at miami's historic freedom tower, a symbolic gateway into america for the first generation of cuban immigrants. the freshman senator is also using social media posting a teaser video on twitter just yesterday, but senator rubio chose to take a different approach to t

de blasio is reportedly thinking of jumping who the race as a antibank guy. with his financial baggage glech en yougretchen you said this would hurt hillary clinton. >> it will. it far left does not believe it is being represented. that comes with inequal treeity and occupy wall street they want hillary to be pulled to the left on these issues. neil: the issue is this sort of stuff is like a thousand cut its does hurt her. >> right it is come down to in primary and direction candidates will go to survive in their own party, de blasio is a huge clinton ally, bill clinton score him into his office. neil: this just wreaks phony to me doesn't it. >> yeah, he was up against eliz elizabeth warren trying to the do the same thing, i think he is trying to occupy the warren space. if he does not run he would be a huge ally of hillary clinton he would help bridge in the more progressive democrats that hillary needs to distance herself from wall street. neil: you are going to think i am crazy, but i think that clinton will end up the democrat's nominee. i don't know what

my guess is de blasio will be just fine.ts to prod her a little bit in the progressive direction. >> congressman, the nbc "wall street journal" poll there, one of the questions showed that 86% of democrats say they could see themselves supporting her for president. other prominent democrats, like you mention senator elizabeth warren they share this somewhat luke warm sentiment. you're a long-time hillary supporter. so where do you think the truth lies when it comes to how democratic voters feel about her? >> well look she's strong. she is tough. she's an experienced politician. democrats will embrace her warmly. she's going to be a very strong candidate in the fall. now, that doesn't mean the election is going to be easy. depends on what the republicans do. if the far right wing of the republican pushes their nominee too far to the right, then it'll be a very interesting election and probably good one for her. if the republicans can somehow tell the far right wing to take a hike and nominate someone more moderate, then it wi

and it seems that mayor bill de blasio wants a platform that's farther to the left. >> yeah, well, a very important thing to keep in mind about bill de blasio, he was hillary clinton's campaign manager in 2000. he worked for hillary clinton on her senate campaign. that's notable that he's not willing to come out and endorse her just yet. but perhaps also not surprising, he's become a major champion of the left, of progressives, and he wants to use whatever pressure or influence he has to make sure she embraces those ideas. i think we'll have to wait on that, as hillary clinton said in one of her last public appearances, all in good time. they're going to take this on her own speed. they want to walk this out slowly. campaign officials have told me, there will be no big policy rollouts in the first coming hours and days. it's going to be a focus on meeting with voters. and then all of that will come later. so all of these people who have been waiting two years or more to hear from hillary clinton, they're going to have to wait a little bit more, until they actually roll out what she -

al sharpton made no effort to calm to unite he hurled rhetoric and including this remark to mayor de blasio about his -- mixed race son. >> if dante was not your son he would be a candidate for a chokehold. we've got to deal with that reality. lou: that reality? al sharpton is in baltimore, in that "reality," without a fact in his possession, he is already claiming what happened with freddie gray is important of part of a national problem. >> we're trying to act like these are problems you can handle in isolation there must be a national response to a national issue we can't keep running like hamsters -- >> no one knows what happened with freddie gray, except for the investigators that report by those shirt something odd -- 30ing something odd detectives is now with the state prosecutor. unemployment rate for young black men in baltimore is aastonishing 37 dollars% they need jobs there, not the rhetoric of someone who represents so-called -- progressive policies of the past. policies that have led to high unemployment. led to a disgraceful lack of public safety, and a run away crime rate in

bill de blasio still will not endorse or. -- indoors for. ernie sanders is all over her.artin o'malley is for most formidable challenger. martin: history celebrates profiles of courage. not profiles in convenience. the dignity of every person tells us the right to marry is not a state right, it is a human right. john: she is trying to perform a balance the act with the left and the center. how is that going for her so far? mark: i do not think it is going well. my supposition is that she is so terrified of losing iowa. she is forgetting the fact that there is a general election to come. she is terrified of the left and it is showing on a range of issues. wall street will not hold her accountable to it. it has only just begun. john: the left will never be fully satisfied. she will never be elizabeth warren. i think she -- not enough policy out there yet to -- for her to damage herself. she is not putting anything out on paper that will damage her in the general election. mark: she seems to have moved a little bit to the left on same-sex marriage. from the way she is talkin

you'll hear more as the campaign goes on. >> how do you feel about bill de blasio and what he did on "meet the press" refusing to endorse hillary clinton after all the help bill and hillary have begin him in his career? >> i was watching bill. i worked with bill in 2000. i thought i'm going to be working with him again in this campaign. i think he'd like to come to that endorsement of hillary saying these are the issues i care about and i know she cares about them too. >> okay. ann lewis, thanks so much from the hillary clinton campaign in washington. >>> more from iowa coming up we'll have former governor ed rendon dell and steve schmitt when wre come back. to unlock the possibilities of tomorrow......"lift tab." behold the beauty of balance. crisp flakes of fiber-rich bran. answered by the perfect quantity of sun sweetened raisins. and with the sublime addition of ice-cold milk, the day begins. ♪sun'll come out, tomorrow♪ tomorrow is waiting. own it, with kellogg's® raisin bran see you at breakfast™. and delight in temptingly tart and sweet new kellogg's® raisin bran with cranberri

a similar measure being proposed in washington, d.c. >> how does this help de blasio?% of minorities tend to vote democratic. most recent immigrants to america are minorities. this would lock him in for a second term. >> he's doing so terrible, he might have a run at the primary in a couple of years because he has -- with the white voters in new york city they couldn't be more displeased. >> two to one against him. >> now you have the minority vote. still the illegal minority -- >> these aren't illegal. they have a right to be here, but they're not citizens. i think it takes away the concept of citizenship destroys something that's fundamental to this country. right now it makes -- we already make it easy for people to vote illegally if they wish. there is a study that say that 6% of illegals and people who are here legally and aren't citizens voted in the last election. >> 80% of non-citizens lean democratic. the majority of them in 2013 may recall mayoral race voted for the democrats. there's reason why de blasio is favoring this. >> you change the rules you change t

this is why we shouldn't be taking police out of mosques like mayor de blasio did a few months ago. >> great plan. >> because remember the 1993 bombing of the world trade center was planned in a mosque in union city, new jersey. that went on to plan several other major attacks on new york city. i'm aware of that from my days as u.s. attorney and as mayor. >> sure. but the pc politics is what is hand capping this country and giving the advantage to the terrorists. i want to ask you, people at home might be thinking what makes these people become radicalized in the united states and want to join these terror groups? >> well because the fact is there is an awful lot of information on the internet. there is an awful lot of communication that goes on and then this is by no means an attempt to suggest that every mosque is like this. the vast majority of mosques and i have been in mosques, and i have gone to islamic services. and i know a fair amount about the religion. this is not an indictment of the entire religion. but there are mosques in this country that encourage violence and encoura

i think the mayor de blasio thing is a little bit of a separate issue. much about internal new york politics. but i don't think that has anything to do with the fact that hillary clinton really does believe and as i do, that she has to earn this nomination, that she has to put forth good policy ideas and that the progressive wing of the party cares about these issues. >> ana, republicans have been quick to pounce on mrs. clinton, especially her foreign policy legacy as secretary of state. let's take a listens to this from expected 2016 candidate jeb bush. >> we must do better than the obama/clinton foreign policy that has damaged relationships with our allies and em bold nd our enemies, better than their failed big government policies that grow our debt and stand in the way of real economic growth and prosperity. >> so ana, in your opinion, how much does hillary's time as secretary of state and particularly her role in b bengha benghazi, factor in here. >> her entire tenure as secretary of state i think is going to be under scrutiny. benghazi will be a p

. >> but you see on the other side a reluctance of some progressive leaders, like new york mayor de blasioback from endorsing senator clinton. what does senator clinton have to do to convince a lot of progressives to go all with her, because senator warren keeps saying, i'm not running. >> well i think she needs to talk more about where she stands on the issues, which she plans to do and we want her to join warren in some of the things she's been standing strong on like expanding social security on student debt, on taking on wall street and the bankers really fearlessly there's a lot of different issues where we want to hear where she stands and that's where bill de blasio and others have said it's only a few days into the race so we want to really have that debate and hear what different candidates stand, including clintons and others. >> now you really focused on trying to get senator warren in the race but senator warren's been asked many times if she's going to run for president and her answers have been the same. i want to play this. >> i am not running for president. >> are you going

mayor de blasio has recently launched a sweeping new plan to improve conditions at rikers., for more, we're joined by jennifer gonnerman. she's a staff writer for "the new yorker." welcome back to democracy now! i would like to start by first you telling us, setting the scene for us of this explosive video. how rare it is to have video inside rikers. >> it is unbelievably rare. footage like this never, ever comes out. it is not as if this was shot by camera crew. this is what goes on the nobody is looking. nobody really sees what goes on there except the people who work and live there. having footage like this is invaluable. it never, ever gets out like this. it is highly unusual. amy: so when you narrate because the video is silent, when you narrate the first video of the guard coming to solitary confinement where this teenager is, kalief browder, you see him outside his prison cell, the guard, flexing his muscles. can you start there and narrate as we show it? >> the correction officer has come to kalief browder's cell to take him to a shower which is supposed to be a dai

. >> a comedian meeting with mayor de blasio but had to make a quick pit stop first. i go to the bathroom you have to go real quick. the mayor will be waiting on stage. i run to the bathroom and i'm trying to pee quickly. >> sure. >> i'm sort of pushing to get the pee out. and there's too much pressure and out the back pop, just pop. [ laughter ]. >> not sure we needed to know that. >> not often you can make jimmy fallon speechless. that qualified. >> tmi there, louie c.k. >> i'm dara brown. this is "early today." we hope this is your first stop of the day on nbc. >>> leading the news in "usa today," u.s. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades. current and former u.s. officials say the fed started keeping records of international phone calls made by americans in 1992, nearly ten years before 9/11. the program was halted in 2013 after fallout from nsa leaker edward snowden. >>> in denver thousands of goldfish taking over teller lake. wildlife officials believe someone dumped a handful into the colorado lake. this happened years ago and the fish have multiplied.

. >>> new york city tabloids having a field day after clinton senate campaign manager bill de blasio couldn't quite bring himself to endorse hillary clinton for president. >> are you for her now unequivocally or want to wait to see if she waits to take your advice on moving to a more progressive agenda? >> i want to see a vision. that would be true of candidates on all levels. it's time to see a clear, bold vision for progressive economic change. >> you're not -- you're technically not yet endorsing her. >> not until i see -- i would say this about any candidate, an actual vision of where they want to go. >> former congressman anthony wiener, married to one of her most trusted aides responded "this notion that he is somehow the spokesperson for some wing of the party that hillary needs to audition for, i think this is wrong and not helpful. she was working on a progressive vision of health care when bill de blasio was still smoking pot at nyu or wherever he went." this brings us to "hillary clinton for millennials." hillary care edition. almost two decades before obamacare there was