carl bernstein wrote a book about hillary clinton called "a woman in charge: the life of hillary rodham clinton." i took note of staff her chief of staff, john podesta invited journalists into his home cooked them a meal on thursday night. is that part of a typical roll out or does she have a problem? >> of course she has a problem. look she's going to be running against the press and the press is going to be running against her. the press is probably her biggest impediment. >> why do you say that? >> if she wins the nomination she will have defeated those candidates. the press is still going to be there. the press is very cantankerous with her they can be thoughtless. occasionally they can be very thoughtful. there's been a lot of bad reporting on hillary clinton and there's been a lot of good reporting on hillary clinton. she has little respect for most of the, quote, mainstream media. and with some reason. >> conservatives right now are falling off their sofas saying wait a minute carl bernstein is saying they as they would put it lame-stream media is going to go rough on her? she's

the carl bernstein book.past, they would hold a copy early and then use the washington post or wall street journal to undermine the book before it appears. it seems like they didn't know this was coming. guy: it reveals the different way that this clinton operation is run. today they communicated the a media adopting a love the new technologies and ways to communicate directly with people and getting to the bottom of the facts which i think is revealing about, not only this particular case, but about the ways this clinton campaign is different from previous ones. mark: independent of this whole thing, what are the two things that you think have been strongest about clinton's best launch and the two that have been weakest. guy: in terms of what is strongest, over the course of the first 2-3 days of the campaign it, list three things. they said a stone for the campaign being about everyday americans and telling the stories of real people who are living their lives in sterling to make ends meet. second, i think

carl bernstein's book, they would get a copy early and use than you are times in washington post, walleet journal to undermine the book before it appeared. they seem flat-footed here. they see mike they did not know this was coming. how could it not be? guy: it reveals the way this clinton operation is communicating. brian fallon communicated today adopting new technologies to communicate directly with people and getting to the bottom of the facts, which is revealing about not only this particular case, but the ways this clinton campaign is different from previous campaigns. mark: independent of this whole situation, one of the two things that have been strongest about clinton since she became an official candidate, and the weakest? guy: first of all, over the course of the two or three days of the campaign, they cover three things. first, they set a tone for the campaign being about everyday americans and telling the stories of real people who are planning their lives, struggling to make ends meet, and identifying her with solving those problems. second, in terms of the culture of the

all that with cnn political commentator and democratic strategist donna brazile and commentator carl bernstein who wrote "a woman in charge the life of hillary rodham clinton." thank you both for being here. donna, we know when hillary clinton is going to announce but we still don't really know what her message is going to be. there has to be a reason why she should be president. what do you think it will be? >> there is no question if she announces over the weekend that she will seek the presidency. she's going to talk about the future. she's going to talk about the issues that most americans care about, the economy. she's going to talk about how do we grow this economy. she is going to address the difficult issues that we often do not talk about in washington, d.c. because we cannot forge a compromise. she is a woman of substance, a woman of ideas. she's a compassionate woman. i'm sure that there's a lot of excitement about her potential candidacy this weekend. >> carl tied to this announcement secretary clinton has released a new epilogue for her memoir "hard choices" talking about how the

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legendary journalist carl bernstein is with me and he accepted that challenge when he wrote "a womanhank you for being here. a pleasure to have you on. when you think of hillary clinton from back then and think about hillary clinton now, obviously her camp is putting forward a very different image of her. has the candidate changed? has the woman changed? >> i don't think they're putting another image. she's very warm, very funny, warm, personable, fun to be with and she can get mad as hell and she's got a serious politics. she's not wrong about the nature of her enemies. she's not been particularly wise in terms of how she has engaged and dealt with her enemies, perhaps. she's not wrong about the press altogether. the press will probably be her real opponent in this campaign. they're going to give her more trouble, perhaps, than the republicans are and she's also really knows the issues in this country and she was part of a co-presidency and if there is going to be another clinton white house it will be a co-precedence tsidency to some d we've never had anything quite like this. >> h

embarrassing footnote to my life a week or two after watergate started, and asked me twice, replace carl bernstein on this team. bernstein was in disrepute, abusing his expense account. for example a month later the post would get a bill for this metal card left in some garage somewhere. i really wanted to push him aside and i didn't want to do it. i love to do original investigative reporting. i was very involved in two c reese of poker worse. she was also >> from "the first family detail: secret service agents reveal the hidden lives of the presidents" the barack and michel obama tree the with respect. >> this is an important clue to character. people like obama even if they don't like his policies as opposed to hillary she is not a very likable person. obama said you are not likable enough, hillary. this is an example of the fact the my books are apolitical they tell it like it is. my behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire and the presidents they protect" presents flattering and unflattering anecdotes of presidents of both political parties and as the credibility of the books. >> hos

carl bernstein.in the world. what sense do you make of that? >> somebody wrote some copy to be kind of fancy. i think what it relates to is the fact that we're looking at a woman who is huge in our culture in the way no one has been in the last 20 25 years and yet we don't know what makes her tick. we don't know her internally. we know the persona that is projected. we know the huge argument around her. and i started thinking this morning, we've never seen political spectacle on a scale such as this one. imagine this we've spent now three days maybe a couple more on the hillary clinton rollout. it's like a huge political soap opera the clintons that's been going on and on and on. so we have to judge it in a different way. culturally. than we have otherwise. she's taken the oxygen out of the other candidates. out of the republican race and we're all focused, as we will be to a large extent for 19 months on hillary clinton, every move we're going to analyze. >> look, if many one knows her it's you. any

how much did carl bernstein's parents' communist background contribute to his anti-nixon animus? >> you know, i don't believe that bernstein or woodward had an animus like that. they were just on to a very good story, and they loved it, and they put up with tremendous threats and abuse. they were in fear a lot of times that they were being followed. the attorney general, mitchell threatened katherine graham that her tape would wind up somewhere. and in addition to that, i don't think we all mirror our parents' political views so i don't think the family is relevant. those two reporters were up until midnight night after night knocking on or -- knocking on doors. now there's sort of a counternarrative you see in some right-wing circles that they really didn't uncover watergate, that they were just political people going after nixon. that's, you know, i was there. i was there every single day. i was there every night when they were doing their work and i admire what they did because really richard nixon, i think, might well have disbanded our entire system, our constitution if he ha

how much did carl bernstein's parents' communist background contribute to his anti-nixon animus? >> you know, i don't believe that bernstein or woodward had an animus like that. they were just on to a very good story, and they loved it, and they put up with tremendous threats and abuse. they were in fear a lot of times that they were being followed. the attorney general, mitchell threatened katherine graham that her tape would wind up somewhere. and in addition to that, i don't think we all mirror our parents' political views so i don't think the family is relevant. those two reporters were up until midnight night after night knocking on or -- knocking on doors. now there's sort of a counternarrative you see in some right-wing circles that they really didn't uncover watergate, that they were just political people going after nixon. that's, you know, i was there. i was there every single day. i was there every night when they were doing their work and i admire what they did because really richard nixon, i think, might well have disbanded our entire system, our constitution if he h

. >> host: we have a tweet from an individual who says how much did carl bernstein's parents contributeto his anti-nixon stance? >> guest: i don't believe that bernstein did this it was just they were onto a good story and they loved it and they put of with tremendous threat and abuse. a lot of times they were following katharine graham and in addition to that i don't think we have a lot of political views. so those two reporters were up night after night knocking on doors sort of a counter narrative they were just political and there were people going after nixon. i was there every single day ,-com,-com ma i was there every single night and i know what they did. because billy richard nixon might well have disbanded the constitution if he pursued what he wanted to do. and it was a horrible time in our history. >> host: judith roberts says why don't women work for the secret service? >> guest: that is not true about 10 to 15% of the agents are women and they certainly tried to recruit women minorities so that is one that i would not attribute to the secret service. >> host: what would a