into 1997, 1998, we get into the lewinski scandal and also start to see brighter sides of the clinton white house>> i remember those days covering the white house, a lot of officials didn't want to write anything down because of white water investigations. >> lots. >> lots of stuff going on. we know she was the first lady of arkansas, but at the same time, a high-powered lawyer in little rock at the rose law firm, went on to become first lady of the united states, united states senator from new york, secretary of state. so what's all this information about that she really wanted to be a kindergarten teacher? >> that was really intriguing. in the same period, in june 1994, again, really a low point. she told diane blair, when this is all over, i want to go be a kindergarten teacher. you know, she's had a long-time commitment to women and girls. that's pretty interesting. but as you mentioned, she went on to, you know, a really illustrious career. it would be hard to imagine her just going back to wherever she wanted to and just quietly teachi teaching kindergarten. >> an important issue throughout

tens of thousands of documents released detailing the inner workings of the clinton white house. >>> and rising waters force police to close roads, but it's a welcome sight to ease the drought. inside supreme court arguments posted online. >> ominous development developme ukraine. heavily armed men described as russian soldiers took up positions at airports and at a cost guard base in the crimea region. ukraine accusing russia as invading its territory. jennifer glass is live for us in the crimea capitol. jennifer, who are these armed men at the airport? who are they taking their orders from? >> reporter: they won't talk about who they are. tonight we have a new development. the air space in crimea is closed. no flights going in or out for the next 24 hours. we're not sure who these men are. there are no insignia on their uniforms. there are no license tags on their trucks. no identifying marks, paperwork, passes. if you ask them they won't say who they are. but we understand that they are russian troops. ththere is reports that as manys 2,000 russian troops may have come in the regi

documents how bill clinton ran his administration and shedding light on the role first lady had on decisions. revelations that could impact her own run for the white house. my guest today, this stuff is coming out in drips right now, coming out in realtime. some of the other revelation, other than she doesn't like media, she's rentsching health care. the clinton white house transparent about using veterans as political pawns to pass health care reforms. we hear health care and there's a lot of eyes on this. >> that particular thing i haven't finished reading through the particular health care section, 182 documents in that section, that goes to a criticism she's faced in the past before as clintons known as being political operatives. that's something she's run into as a challenge in the past where people said every decision she makes is a political one, what came out of robert gates book. people brought that up to say a political operative. it would go to that as well. >> another document says she needs to be more conversational when she's asking questions in public, if they sounds like she was giving a speech -- a lot of stuff you would expect from an

. >> the clinton library going to release 5,000 pages of the clinton white house today and advice give ton the president and the communications, the then first lady hillary clinton and posted online. we have been foming following all of the developments in washington. what do we hope to learn from the documents? >> the major focus in washington what it is going the reveal about the deliberations with hillary clinton. there are other sensitive issues disclosed, a document surrounding the issues, genocide in are you wanda and appoints to the cabinet and deliberations anning the aides. it is interesting, del, when you look into the records, most of the presidential records are released immediately at the conclusion of the presidency and many of the documents that are deemed private and taking 12 year process and at the end of the the process they decide what to release. today is the first of some 28,000 documents following into that category and much has to do with the first lady's office and the deliberations on children's issues and women's rights and the deliberations with the speech w

she also worked in the clinton white house. she's an entrepreneur now.i'm in bed with small business in america every night and she knew the time was right to try and take the ideas and solutions i've been working on to be a fresh voice in the political arena and not just do it from the sidelines as a commentator or radio host or a pundit. so she's with me in this. you know, abby, exactly how difficult this can be for a family, but we're in this to win. >> yeah. matt, i saw in your "the washington post" op-ed about this, you mentioned carrying on henry waxman's legacy. he didn't have a comment on you or any candidate at this point, which is understandable. i want to ask you specifically about carrying on his legacy of overseeing the government and particularly the national security context. as you may know he was one of the democrats who broke with his party to support the amendment that would limit the nsa's authority under the patriot act to support bulk collection, an issue know well that's been debate ad lot. how would you vote on something like that

he says if she decides to run for president in 2016, she doesn't need to worry about bill clinton's white housege. listen to what the former presidential candidate said on "meet the press" the. >> i don't think bill clinton is as relevant as hillary clinton if she decides to run for president. in her case, i think people will look at her record as the secretary of state. during that period of time, did our relations with nations around the world elevate america and elevate or interests or were they receding? i think her record is what will be judged upon, not the record of her husband. >> mitt romney is the only prominent republican who says the party shouldn't be focusing on the clinton's political past. >> karl rove, the top political adviser said revisiting the clinton white house years probably is not the best way for the republicans to win in 2016. doesn't that seem like something we should discussion. let's bring in will and ellis, social commentator. good to have you both. their second visit at this hour. >> i guess so. let's talk about this. it is interesting. are we seeing a new strate

jones worked on international trade policy in the clinton white house, and chris christopher director of global and u.s. consumer markets for i.h.s. global insight, a global information company, and chris christopher when we look at housing spending up, spending on tuitions and cars up, and home equity credit borrowing down, isn't that a good picture? there are good signs we have to remember in all of this, that the household medium income -- and is still about 7% where it was. so what we saw in 2013, was relatively okay consumer spending numbers but real dismostble income. 0.6, to 0.7%. >> so dr. mall slow, what do we make out of the numbers. >> the number that concerns me most -- former college president, and i saw how many folks simply could not afford tuition. the change in the loan, put a lot of people, especially people in color, at the prierry. you look at what is going on, but the average income is about 31,000. and that's gone down a bit while the right number -- 51,000 has gone up. by a tiny tiny -- so the race gap in income has grown. but that means the african-american you

today, a couple who knows them so well, knows what they want kept secret in clinton's time in the white house. james rosen joins me with that story. >> good evening. under mounting pressure, the clinton presidential library today released the first batch of some 33,000 pages that had been withheld from public access for longer than the law allows. the material uploaded today contained no smoking guns or knockout blows, they did offer insights into how the clintons operated in the '90s and lessons for today's white house as well. when then first-lady hillary clinton tackled health care reform, she privately told house republicans that most people in america, quote, don't understand their own health insurance. another memo exchanges between clinton white house aides on the eve of the state of the union urged that the administration not promise people they can keep their doctor or health care plan. quote, can we get away with it, asked one aide. isn't the 31st of the health care plan to steer them to cheaper, hmo-style providers. i'm worried about getting skewers or promising on something we kno

white house. this is going to have overshadowing for a hillary clinton candidacy for president. that's probably why the interest has peeked so much in these documents released beginning today and coming over the next two weeks. in about two hours we'll see the first of them. >> hillary clinton thought to be running for president in 2016, although just like everybody else, she has yet to claire. do you expect interest to be rather high in these documents? >> absolutely. i think that's probably the number one reason why people are interested in this. there are going to be a lot of other issues, the genocide in rwanda would be one example. much of the document is a we expect today comes from the first lady's staff, her press secretary for a while we're told specifically that there will be documents dealing with that as well as advice given to her on children's issues and women's rights, as well as eventually the health care law that she was so instrumental in trying to develop or at least the proposal. >> thank you very much. >> the guardian newspaper is reporting the u.k. has been

some of these things have a long lead time. >> you worked in the clinton white house. >> yes. >> tell house how the culture is different in the clinton white house and the obama white house, eight or 10 years later. >> i'm not only in the white house again but i'm in the exact same office i had, the ventilator still rattles the same way it did 15 years ago. the one word i would use to describe it, the obama white house is a lot less volatile. when i first got to the obama white house that was the word in my head almost immediately. i would say that the decision making progress -- process in the clinton white house was dynamic, i think is a good way to put it, so this is -- so that is a difference and you don't -- how do you spend your time is different as a result of that. >> so no drama obama is true? >> it's true. of course there's drama in the course of any day when you're working in the white house but it is -- it's like -- it's different. all the dynamics of the -- are the same, the flow of the year, the interactions with congress, the interactions with the press, the media has c

will an old friend's candid notes of their conversations help or haunt a 2016 clinton white house runtrip down memory lane. 1992, a diner in chicago. the first lady of arkansas in those days answering questions about her law work. why was she a high-powered corporate lawyer when her governor was the governor of arkansas? >> i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. >> 16 years later, a united states senator, democratic candidate for president, bowing out of the race. barack obama wins but hillary clinton suggests women win, too. >> although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it's got about 18 million cracks in it. >> more recently neither end of her tenure as secretary of state, defending herself and her department, after the deaths of four americans in benghazi. >> was it because of a protest, or because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they would go kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make? >> many looks, many roles for hillary clinton over the year so perhaps no surprise

. >> back in little rock, about 33,000 pages of documents from bill clinton's white house years are supposed to be available for the public to see. for whatever reason, they are still under wraps. the documents are at the clinton presidential library. they include communications offer all kinds including between bill and hillary clinton during his eight years in the white house. this is obviously a huge deal for a ton of reasons. there is a new poll out that speaks about just how badly democrats would like to see hillary clinton run. 82% say, yes, get in the game. >>> the white house reporter for politico. good to see you. thanks for joining us. the documents were supposed to be made available more than a year ago. what's the holdup here? >> it is not entirely clear. there is a three-stage review for the documents. it starts out with the national archives. from there, it is supposed to go to representatives of former president clinton and also to the white house to president obama's lawyers for review. it is not clear precisely where this got stuck in the process but we were told here at pol

learning hillary clinton was, you know, a real power player that she played a huge role in the clinton white houseobviously had tremendous disdain for monica give us new insight not character of milk? bottom line, no. what i think we do get to know insight in to she backed a single payer plan. that is something she is public disvowed more than once. and i think that is the one thing out of the drove of documents that may come back to haunt her should we see her run for president like we will in 2016. >> do you think that -- first, to what ileana said about single-payer plan. that's sported in one fashion or another by phones on both sides of the i'm. i still remember the health security act of 1993 when i had to read the whole thing. it was a pretty impressive body of work. >> it was. i think it was more thought through than the present law of the land. lou: talk about -- >> i think the key thing that mrs. clinton has to understand, and her critics will be out there being a front run are for four years is not a good place to be. and my sense is she has a great record she's established herself over

learning hillary clinton was, you know, a real power player that she played a huge role in the clinton white housee obviously had tremendous disdain for monica give us new insight not character of milk? bottom line, no. what i think we do get to know insight in to she backed a single payer plan. that is something she is public disvowed more than once. and i think that is the one thing out of the drove of documents that may come back to haunt her should we see her run for president like we will in 2016. >> do you think that -- first, to what ileana said about single-payer plan. that's sported in one fashion or another by phones on both sides of the i'm. i still remember the health security act of 1993 when i had to read the whole thing. it was a pretty impressive body of work. >> it was. i think it was more thought through than the present law of the land. lou: talk about -- >> i think the key thing that mrs. clinton has to understand, and her critics will be out there being a front run are for four years is not a good place to be. and my sense is she has agreat record she's established herself ove

he worked as an economic staffer in the clinton white house the democrats cannot accuse him of spikeing the numbers. >> remember he was very, very important for the white house in terms of putting out estimates of how positive the obama care bill would be. the cbo said maybe we were wrong about those numbers. but this is a man who is an ally of the obama white house. >> and republicans took the cbo report as vindication of their claims that it would cost jobs. it would be a devastating blow for the people who need help in this economy. what does obama do ignore the cbo or go on. >> the democrats are shouting down the cbo and saying their numbers are wrong. and this is not bibliical, right. the cbo is not the last arbiter of this. but the republicans need to talk about how to create jobs and raise gamings and tax cuts and derugulation and stim lating the energy. they have to create jobs and not destroy. >> steve moore, thank it you very joining us. >> guess what is back? warning u.s. airlines of the threat we heard and experienced before. shoe box. and so what has officials worried about

clinton decides to run for the presidency. a lot of these are going to be memos from white house aides or administration officials to then-president of the kind of memos you often have in the white house, so people will be seeing what is actually in there. it wasn't too long ago, there was another document dive regarding papers that diane blair, a very close confidant of hillary clinton's who had passed away, people were kind of going in what that said about 2016, as well. >> also today, a key clinton leaning interest group, american bridges, they are releasing a web ad that hits back at senator rand paul for reviving the attacks against the clintons. that's an interesting move, mark. >> another example of how the clinton machine is revving up. we saw the video from a democratic group, has very close ties to the clintons. we saw former president clinton on the campaign trail in kentucky, hillary clinton giving a speech in miami where she talked about the health care law, and then the rules and bylaws committee, something very wonky, but regarding all the delegates and super delegates come 2016. there was a close aide to the clinto

. >>> thousands of secret documents about the inner workings of the clint on white house were made public today -- clinton house were made public today. among them? documents about hillary clinton and her healthcare task force. papers also show the clinton administration's response to early attacks by al-qaeda. friends and critics of the former first lady are exedpect to pour erov the documents as she considers a run at the presidency. >>> it has been called a major breach upof s remet cour security. a protest group posted this video from inside the high court during oral arguments. the high court nsba electronic devices and has never allowed cameras. that shaky youtube video shows a protester denouncing the court's decision in a campaign finance case, no reaction from the justices and no toward if anything will happen as a result of this video. you can believe they'll be looking for the person who posted that. >>> man declared dead woke up inside a body bag at a funeral home. >> this is one of the most bizarre and amazing stories. we'll share it with you all night. this started wednesday night in lexingt

interview that mitt romney gave on "meet the press" yesterday, about the ability of the clintons returning to the white house2014. >> i think hillary clinton, if she becomes the nominee, will have plenty to discuss about her own record. i don't imagine that bill clinton is going to be a big part of it. that being said, the times when he was president were by and large positive economic times for the country. on the other hand, he embarrassed the nation, he breached his responsibility, i think, as an adult and as a leader in his relationship, and i think that's very unfortunate, but i don't think that's hillary clinton's to explain. >> so, you know, jamelle, you heard the beginning of the answer, mitt romney said this is what the race should be about, about hillary's record, then the back end, we heard him sort of echo some of what we've been hearing from rand paul off and on over the past few weeks, as well. which is it going to be, hillary running on her own record, or is it going to be the sort of hillary running on her own record and, wink, wink, nod, nod, remember what bill did? >> well, i hope it's hill

. ♪ >>> in today's office politics former clinton white house press secretary dee dee myers. e demand would go years she spent it is a voice of the clinton white house to the media. first, i asked dee dee to give me a viable gop candidate to oppose hillary clinton in 2016 if secretary clinton decides to run. >> it is not immediately obvious. i think that a lot of my republican friends think jeb bush is a potentially strong candidate. even if his mommy doesn't want him to run for reasons i think are understandable. yet, zbheeg to make his own decision. he is a bona fide conservative who has been able to work with people across the aisle. that makes him -- obviously a big important swing state. he has -- >> big family. >> big family with plusses and minuses. it decreases when you run against clinton. not having dine ynasties is neu on both sides. he has a fire in his belly raised it himself. is his heart in it? can he go out and do this with joy in his heart i think is what he said. you really have to want it. >> with that description, does hillary clinton have the fire in her b

clinton's time in the white house. a diary that remained secret for years. among the revelations, new insight into what then-first lady was thinking and days after bill clinton admitted having an affair with the white house intern monica lewinsky. >> indeed i did have a relationship with ms. lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> reporter: it was a lapse, blair writes, but she says, to his credit, he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone. but it was beyond control. according to blair, mrs. clinton put some of the blame for the affair on the pressures of the white house and herself. "she thinks she was not smart enough, not sensitive enough to realize the price he was paying." the papers previously under seal were first reported today. by the conservative washington free beacon. the diary portrays mrs. clinton as a hard-nosed political operative. who is, quote, that nobody in the white house is tough and mean enough. she's especially frustrated with criticism of her own assertiveness. i'm a proud woman, the di

kind of a lightning round with quick answers. >> 17, 20, 21%. >> which white house is like the left-wing -- west wing of the clinton white house or why lex [laughter] >> i foretold you one thing -- >> 30 seconds. >> when we are going through the absolute craziness of the first six months in a financial crisis, i was with the president at one point and he said is it always like this? and i said to him i said people used to ask me when i was a consultant was that like the real white house and i said well kind of accept in real life things have been in nine months and they convince it to an hour. during this financial crisis, that's what it feels like, too. >> when there would be the gene sperling three in the white house. would you serve under the hilary clinton administration? >> you know, right now i am more focused on my flight to la after i leave and what's going to happen in the next few years obviously i would always be loyal and supportive of president clinton and hillary clinton, but that is a long way off. >> just a couple of quick questions before we go you have a patent reform debate where you're going to

thousands of documents were declassified today giving an inside look at the clinton white house. the william jay clinton library covering everything from hillary clinton's healthcare task force to administration response. all documents have been made available to the public online. >>> many expecting to see ten inches of rain. mandatory evacuation orders were issued for some towns in fear of landslide. let's take you back a bit. in 1969 91 people were killed in landslides in that area. >> meteorologist: tony, a very impressive storm. you can hardly not see this storm right here. how big it is. of course we're concerned with what is happening here across parts of california. take a look at the most current radar summary. you can see we've had showers to the north. the heavier showers yesterday were to the north. now we're seeing the heaviest showers across the l.a. area and across that is causing major problems. san francisco, if you're traveling in and out of the airport, they're experiencing four-hour delays right now. these are rain totals that we've seen in the area. we've see

more than 30,000 pages of clinton white house documents are still being kept out of public sight despiteaw that should have been released last year as historical records. some but not all of those documents could soon see the light of day and potentially cause more trouble for the former secretary of state if she decides to run for president. our senior political correspondent brianna keilar is in florida where hillary clinton is speaking this afternoon. briana, what kind of documents are we specifically talking about here and what's the hole-up? >> reporter: well, jake, some of these documents would relate to federal appointments. but more interestingly, some of these documents have been held because they are confidential communications to and from the president or between advisers so you can imagine that may involve hillary clinton. of course she spearheaded president clinton's effort pass health care reform during his administration. it's unclear, is the bottom line, why these have been withheld. they should have come to light about a year ago in january of 2013, a 12-year hold by law

clinton's time in the white house, a diary that remained secret for years. ong the revelations, new insight into what the then first lady was thinking in the days after bill clinton admitted having an affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. >> indeed, i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky. >> reporter: "it was a lapse," blair writes, but she says "to his credit he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic looney toon, but it was beyond control." blair says hillary insisted "it was grossly inappropriate behavior, but it was consensual." according to blair, mrs. clinton put some of the blame for the affair on the pressures of the white house and herself. she thinks she was not smart enough, not sensitive enough, not free enough of her own concerns and struggles to realize the price he was paying. clinton supporters don't see anything particularly damaging in these papers, and her spokesperson simply declined to comment on them. jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >>> actress julia roberts i

and what does it say about former secretary hillary clinton and the white house in 2016? abc's jeff zeleny spent the day watching the man a lot of people have called the big dog, back in action. >> reporter: bill clinton is back. >> look, i love kentucky. you've been good to me. >> reporter: plunging into one of the biggest political battles of the year. the effort to knock off the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. dloin clinton says he's turned gridlock into an art form. >> when there's a problem, do everything you can to make sure the problem is never fixed. it may work in an election, get people all torn up, upset, everybody mad all the time. but it's a dumb way to run a country. >> reporter: in kentucky today, clinton was helping mcconnell's opponent, secretary of state alison lundergan grimes. she was a teenager when he was president. here she is, only 14, presenting roses to the clintons at their inauguration in 1993. surrounded by senators in washington, mcconnell brushed off clinton's visit. >> every time he's come, it's been really good for me. >> rep

hillary clinton have a hit list and will she use it in a possible two thousand and sixteen white house bid inside the revealing new book about the former secretary of state and first lady with the authors jonathan allen and amy pond's plus new a hillary clinton journos unveiled coming up next on politicking with larry king. live politicking on larry king it's a pleasure to welcome from washington the authors of the new book h r c state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton bloomberg white house reporter jonathan allen and amy parnes the white house correspondent for the hill newspaper john how did this book come about well larry we thought voters were going to be interested heading into two thousand and sixteen and what hillary clinton had been doing for the last four or five years as secretary of state of course she got some attention but not in real depth and we thought going back and looking at that record starting at the end of the two thousand and eight campaign and following that rise back to political problems we give them an idea of how she makes decisions who she puts aro

revelations on hillary clinton's plans from this extraordinary book her plans and she's going to run what do they think after this don't go. first. about donovan alan white house reporter for bloomberg and amy pond white house correspondent for the hill both of the co-authors of h.r. steel a just the state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton just published by crown the. reason interest in the book and the documents and everything circulate around will she run so the obvious before we get into other areas. amy will see run yes will run i'm ninety nine point nine percent sure if she runs you know she has everything everything is built around her there in the research groups ready for hillary if she would still be them both prepared candidates i think to hop into our presidential campaign i think in history you share that view john i do in fact the way that we really look at this isn't the question of whether she starts running but whether she stops running you know that one big theme in this book is the way that the clintons both hillary and bill clinton continued to build the political operation while hillary clinton was at the state department we basica

clinton. a decade ago as she was positioning for her own white house campaign, then-senator clinton made a sweeping the records of the clubton presidency: >> that's one of things the library really stands for. i mean, it physically stands for openness with all the glass and the light, but he wants it to be a place where people come and really study, and everything's going to be available. >> reporter: well, not quite everything. fox news has confirmed that all concerned parties, including former president clinton and the incumbent president, barack obama, have approved for release to the public a subset of 20-25,000 pages of these secret 33,000 pages of files. that should occur sometime after march 26th. jon? jon: could be a lot of information in those 33,000 pages. >> reporter: oh, for sure. jon james rosen, thank you. jenna: dramatic new video out of washington state, a man caught beating up a bus driver in olympia. the two got into an argument over the passenger using profanity, and that's when the driver pulled over, and that's when this happened. jenna: certainly hard to watch. police tracked

we're digging into the vault for vintage '90 hits for way back in the clinton white house. ents ago, the first portion of more than 30,000 pages of clinton administration documents went public. earlier this week, josh gerstein broke the news that the documents were being released. cnn has been pouring through these files for relevant information. what stands out among the many documents? >> it's mostly color. but the part of hillary clinton, you're able to see that her aides fully acknowledged that there is a problem with her image. that she has an aversion for the washington national press, as she call it. the couple interesting points we should talk about as well, it's really the rolling up to the re-elect for bill clinton. one of her -- her chief of staff, i should say, talks about using not the internet but internet, saying hillary could speak to young women through internet. most of these are actually -- they are written memos. they are not digital. and then another one suggests that they could have her on an issue of home improve the many. improvement. that's way back

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hillary clinton have a hit list and will she use it in a possible two thousand and sixteen white house bid inside the revealing new book about the former secretary of state and first lady with the authors jonathan allen and amy pond's plus a new hillary clinton journals unveiled coming up next on politicking with larry king. live politicking on larry king it's a pleasure to welcome from washington the authors of the new book h r c state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton bloomberg white house reporter jonathan allen and amy parnes the white house correspondent for the hill newspaper.

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. >> hillary clinton logged many firsts in her role as first lady. as she considers another bid for the white house herself, hillary clinton's story. tonight you we will to you the story of the spouse of our 42nd president, hillary clinton. here to tell us the story for the next 90 minutes are to journalist who know the clintons well by covering them for many years. a biographer of hillary clinton, her book in 2000 was called "hillary's choice." and david, whose home base is the washington post. he wrote in 1995 biography about oakland. welcome to both of you. as we start here, i want to play a bit of video from 1992. it is one of five or six hillary clinton clips that has become emblematic of her. this is where she talked about how she might approach the role of first lady. let's listen. [video clip] >> primarily children but other issues. it is not true and i don't know what else to say. i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies, but i decided to fulfill my profession. >> they really were promoting this idea that she would be a very involved first lady. how did that work out for her? >

clinton time in the white house. diary that remains secret for years. the revelation new insight into what the then first lady was thinking in the days after bill clinton admitted having an affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. >> indeed i did have a relationship with monica that was not appropriate. in fact it was wrong. >>reporter: it was a lapse she writes but says to his credit he tried to break it off. tried to pull away. tried to manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic loony tune but it was beyond control. blair says hilary insisted quote it was grossly inappropriate behavior but it was consensual. according to blair mrs. mrs. clinton put some of the blame for the affair on the pressures of the white house. and herself. she thinks she was not smart enough not sensitive enough not free enough of her own concerns and struggles to realize the price he was paying. the papers previously under seal were first reported today by the conservative washington free beacon. the diary portrays mr mrs. clinton as hard nose political operative who

analysis of obama's speech that i read came from the writer matt miller, who worked for bill clinton in the white house when clinton laid out, miller says, about the same vision that obama did this week. here's what miller wrote, quote, "yet in the years since, on virtually every metric progressives care about, the measures of a good society have gone in the wrong direction." >> wrong direction. >> "wages are stagnant or shrinking. school rankings have sagged. college and health costs have soared. our rates of child poverty lead the developed world. decent jobs remain scarce. the accident of birth weighs more heavily in dictating one's destiny. all the compelling anecdotes or special guests in the chamber don't change that." >> that's right, that's right. and you know, not to critique only the conservative logic and the supply side logic, you know, bill clinton in maneuvering to the center, he signed all those crime bills. he made the american gulag as vast as it is with a lot of his legislation against the drug war. and he made it so that these disposable people could become grist for that horrible mi

clinton has written before about the shocking affair between president clinton and then white house intern monica lewinski, but newly discovered papers now explain how clinton was able to forgive her husband and salvage their relationship. cnn's erin mcpike has been looking into all of this for us, and it's pretty fascinating. tell our viewers what you found. >> well, wolf, according to these papers that were written by clinton's family friend, diane blair, hillary clinton had said that bill clinton's affair was a lapse, essentially, and as you know, he had said he had caused problems in their marriage before. but she said he tried to break it off, and then he tried to manage monica lewinski. but all of this is very interesting, given what republican senator rand paul has been saying in the past few weeks. hillary clinton forgave bill clinton years ago for his affair with monica lewinski, someone she called a narcissistic looney tune, according to old writings first unearthed by the washington free break con. though she called his behavior gross and inappropriate, mrs. clinton confided to

from washington the authors of the new book h r c state secrets and the rebirth of every clinton bloomberg white house reporter jonathan allen and amy parnes the white house correspondent for the hill newspaper john how did this book come about well larry we thought voters were going to be interested heading into two thousand and sixteen and what hillary clinton had been doing for the last four or five years as secretary of state of course she got some attention but not in real depth and we thought going back and looking at that record starting at the end of the two thousand and eight campaign and following that rise back to political problems we give them an idea of how she makes decisions who she puts around her and of course how she might govern if she was present in the united states so we went about reporting that we talked to more the two hundred people for this book and we believe we've got a revealing and intimate portrait of a woman who may well be the next president of the united states great friend come up pictured to amy what do you mean by rebirth well you know this is her comeback story

a hillary clinton considers run for the white house. we are getting a new look on the behind the scenes work that shaves her public image. at this comes from thousands of pages of public documents. scott is here with what we have learned. specific.ges, to be a covers everything from health care to the handling of saddam hussein. is about hillary clinton. she is seen as a front-runner for president. as we get more insight , we look at this. >> hillary expressed a desire to show grace -- showcase her life. says, if hillary is comfortable throwing a big party, we to give a wonderful spread to people magazine, including photos of the honeymoon. it's a just a joint sitdown with barbara walters. it and they talked about having a guest appearance on the old comedy home-improvement. yearere are discussions in that are frank about mrs. clinton's actions and whether they're positive or negative toward the white house. >> some of it had to do with health care reform. the staff lamented, there is great concern that cbo will screw us. >> as stage an

clinton thought in talking to her friends. these memos, thousands of documents coming out after being 12 years withheld are a series of memos from white houseexactly no what they are going to say. we can kind of gleam some behind the scene thinking from the clintons and perhaps get their insights into some of the policy battles that shaped the clinton years, including health care, which continues to be a relevant issue today, carol. >> it is interesting these 33,000 documents are being released now in light of the fact that hillary clinton will probably run for president in 2016. >> this does have nothing to do with politics. this is conveniently timed. they are really interested in record keeping and the national archives and record act. that's what's governing the release of this document. that expired. so now they are coming out. interestingly, both officials from the clinton world and president obama's white house do have some jurisdiction over these documents before they are released to the public to keep certain things perhaps sensitive or classified information or deeply personal information private. these documents do post online at

clinton's time in the white house. a diary that remains secret for years. new insight into what the then first lady was thinking in the days after bill clinton admitted having an affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. >> indeed i did have a relationship with miss lieu win ski that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> reporter: it was a lapse, she writes, but to his credit, he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic loony toon. but it was beyond control. it was grossly inappropriate behavior but it was consensual. mrs. clinton put some of the blame of the affair on the pressures of the white house and herself. she thinks she was not smart enough, not sensitive enough, not free of her concerns and struggles to realize the price he was paying. papers previouslily under seal were first reported by "the conservative washington free beacon." the diary portrays mrs. clinton as a hard-nosed political operative claiming that no one in the white house is tough and mean enough. she is especia

. >> clinton and current president, legal basis withholding what's described as a treasure trove of white house record from the clinton years expires. that happened more than a year ago. 33,000 page of documents still not publicly being disclosed. now the feds control the files. in the past president obama has promised to improve access to presidential records. as hillary clinton considers a white house bid in 2016, will she and bill push to keep these files under wraps? joining me now bret baier, anchor of special report. that's a loaded question for you. all these documents could be released any time. will anybody try to hold this up, the clintons or president obama? >> well, it's really interesting that none of this has come out as of yet. we're told "politico" had the story this morning 20,000 documents, 25,000 documents at the clinton library have been approved by the white house to be released. the national archives oversees all these documents. they are in possession of the federal government. the white house essentially has the say whether they can be released based on a number of crite

from washington the authors of the new book h r c state secrets and the rebirth of every clinton bloomberg white house reporter jonathan allen and amy pines the white house correspondent for the hill newspaper john how did this book come about. well larry we thought voters were going to be interested heading into two thousand and sixteen and what hillary clinton had been doing for the last four or five years as secretary of state of course she got some attention but not in real depth and we thought.

. >> today the clinton library will release its first batch of white house records. ces will be put on-line this afternoon. they'll also be available at the clinton presidential library in little rock. the legalality to seal those records from the public expired last year. around 30,000 more pages on the clinton's time in the white house are expected in the coming weeks. >>> another one bites the dust. congressman ed pastor of arizona announcing his retirement from the house. he will step down after his 12th term in congress. pastor becomes the 21st house member to bow out after this term, and if you are keeping track, that is 11 republicans and ten democrats, which breaks down to 130 terms served among democrats and 99 in the gop, and that is a whole lot of experience. >>> actor and comedian seth rogan may pack them into the movies, but it was contradicts where he testified about alzheimer's disease. he is blasting so many senators for being absent, tweeting out this picture of all the empty seats. he says the absent senators are not prioritizing the disease debilita

the republicans win back the senate, they will win back control of much of the white house in effect, even if hillary clintonrepublican senate will simply not even consider confirming hillary clinton's first, second or third choices for anything. 41 out of 45 republicans in the senate voted against republican chuck hagel, who was once a senator, sitting beside them, to be president obama's defense secretary. imagine how far to the right of chuck hagel hillary clinton's defense secretary nominee would have to be in order to be confirmed by a republican senate. imagine how far to the right of sonia sotomayor and ruth bader ginsberg a supreme court nominee would have to be in order to even get a hearing in a republican controlled senate judiciary committee. such is the enormity of the disaster that the biggest democratic super pac, priorities usa is now working to bring about. all the polls now indicate that priorities usa is probably going to achieve its dream of a hillary clinton presidency. but if priorities usa steps aside this year and allows the koch brothers to have their way in the united states senate,

. >> we're back with two authors on a new book on hillary clinton, senior white house correspondent at the hill and jonathan allen who is now at bloomberg news, white house correspondent for them, co-author of h r c -- "hrc". what story trying to tell about hillary clinton?at story >> a couple storylines. are y one is a come back story. she has been through a lot during the 2008 campaign. how would i come back? i found that fascinating. anyone know matter their party affiliation would find that fascinating. the other thing is how she would govern if she were president and we wanted to look at this, her biggest management job.she weree how does she manages 70,000 job. person bureaucracy, how would ho she govern? what decisions as she made?n all these things are highlightem in the book.nd herse >> if you are trying to figure f out what kind of president would she make she runs in 2016, what did you think you needed to say about her? what ki >> how it is she makes decisions, what she puts an ut w emphasis on, what her priorities are for the people around her, a she has had a lot of experi