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first to you, ann gearan. sanders is clearly going to go after her with the paid speech that comes out from her own campaign or her own financial disclosures, same day that she's been walking the picket line with the verizon picketers. >> it's perfect for him. right? it hits union issues that ground level support he has. i was interested to see the war of words and clinton herself has stayed out of but i'm sure it will be brought up tonight. >> what about the rest of the clinton strategy tonight? >> reporter: this official made the point she's siding with the verizon workers and pointed out to go and walk with them and pointed out they made the argument on other issues like accepting money from wall street and that she has taken on wall street and then i am told she's going to draw using the interview he gave to the editorial and signaling and how she's going to do that and trying to make the broader point of this entire campaign which is that she has specific policy proposals and achieve them and senator sand

in brooklyn, anne gearan, a correspondent for "the new york post." having back-and-forth that what we expected from the debate. conflict galore. mark thinks a fizzle. what do you think? anne: this has become a grudge match. it has not worked. they have tried to take a step back. within the same news cycle, either they or someone siding with them starts at over. they are destined to butthead's tonight. heads tongiht. there will be a lot of friction. john: struggling to give an answer about her big payday from verizon. does the campaign seemed to be worried about the verizon speech , or in general about the paid speeches? anne: they think it is water under the bridge. it is not for bernie sanders' supporters. it is something that i expect sanders to bring up. she took a lot of money from this company that is now the subject of a strike in the middle of manhattan. they both went to the picket line yesterday. much for his corporate message for that not to be the subject tonight. we asked question starting in october when sanders started to turn, when wou

and it's time now for our sunday group, syndicated columnist george will, ann gearan of "the washington" gop strategist karl rove and bob woodward also from "the washington post." karl, i want to start with the president's comments about hillary clinton. i was surprised that he even got into this given the investigation. but he wanted to basically to defend her again against the allegation that she somehow jeopardized national security with her private e-mail server. at the same time, he said this investigation by the fbi, the position by the justice department will be made on legal grounds, not political. do you see a contradiction there? >> yeah, i do. he should have stepped away from this and not commented on it. but he did. he was offering the first defense of hillary clinton. it was unintentional and it really wasn't important information. as you know, there is classified and then will is classified. it was really inappropriate for the chief executive of the united states to comment on an on going fbi investigation. secondly, i don't feel comforted by his followup which is of cours

joining me now for daily fix, usa today, susan page and "washington post" political correspondent ann gearannd new york times, peters. her problem is, he won't go away. he's not going away. maybe the odds are against him mathematically, but you know better than any of us, you're there every day. >> i mean, they are in a grudge match right now. each of them has gotten under the other's skin and i think we saw that more than the specifics of who said what about qualifications this week. what we saw was just visceral anger, dislike, annoyance, frustration, all of those things playing out between the candidates, between their staffs, in person, and on twitter. >> one of the things that annoyed him so much, angered him so much, susan, was jeff zealany's reporting that tactically, they'll go at him and try to show that he's not competent based on the daily news interview and we all had that and they circulated the transcript that night. >> what a new york value? tough campaigning. tough, bitter campaigning is a fundamental new york value and in a way, it's a compliment because they think can't jus

first to you, ann gearan. speech that comes out from her own campaign or her own financial disclosures, same day that she's been walking the picket line with the verizon picketers. >> it's perfect for him. right? it hits u

. >> joining us now political correspondent of the "washington post," anne gearan.is preparing for the onslaught of trump's insults, which trump said yesterday haven't even begun. take a listen. >> i could be presidential. if i was presidential, only about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell. i will say. let me be unpresidential for a little while longer. and maybe i'll be a little bit unpresidential as i beat hillary, because, oh -- don't forget, i haven't started on hillary yet. i haven't focused on hillary. >> my gosh, what does that mean, anne? what does he mean? >> he's obviously making a threat and a joke at the same time, right? >> what's the threat? >> that he has not only insults but presumably a whole line of attack to go against her in the general election. which he hasn't had to roll out yet. i did notice yesterday he also said that he has a nickname for her that he would wait until the general election to reveal. so let the betting pools start now what that is. >> yes. >> i mean, he clearly is already trying to use the same tacti