what will hillary clinton's legacy, what will history look back and say, of hillary clinton time as secretary of state? you are her fans and art critics and our people in between. let me just to you a little bit what i heard. we heard her critics say what has she a cheap? nothing with north korea, nothing with a rant. the relations with pakistan is perhaps better but it's still a mess. what has she achieve. that's a very valid point. that aren't necessarily piece of paper she can hold up and say this is a she signed with this country. you have her fans, or the people who like her approach to diplomacy, who will say, when she really did was change the way the u.s. does business around the world and tried to apply this concept of smart power where you come in her own words, use all the tools in the toolbox of american diplomacy, developer, defense, and -- development, defense and diplomacy, of course. so i think that anyone will be part of her legacy. but it's very much a work in progress and we have to see whether building on that continues. with a new secretary of state, with the second term

i think hillary clinton, secretary clinton, former senator clinton, former first lady dln clinton alwayst her best when she's talking issues. children, education. things like that. i don't think she's especially great at the hammer and tongue of politics. the nasty stuff. >> her husband's better. >> yeah. so maybe what they want to do is shorten the field to one or two opponents. not give her any threat. make sure martin o'malley doesn't run against them, make sure joe biden doesn't run against them. make sure andrew doesn't run against them from new york. run against a couple skinny guys who don't mean anything. but you'll win. is that the plan? if bill's tough, i'm arguing, hillary doesn't have to be so tough. >> he's sending a signal -- >> can you answer that question? is that -- >> bill should be the tough guy. he's doing the right thing. >> look, you have -- >> you know what mickey cohen once said? if you have a dog, you don't have to bark. >> you have the right moniker. he's the advance man. >> thank you, guys. michael steele. >>> up next, we all know we live in a polarized time to

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hillary clinton is in a way back. he wasn't in the policy-making aspect of the white house back in the '90s, but she remembers what the interactions were like. rahm emanuel is back. he was by bill clinton's side not necessarily devising policy on the middle east either, but certainly an adviser. and now he's there with president obama, and it's sort of -- it sort of informs a little bit of the mood of needing to be bullish b and needing to be strong when it comes to dealing with benjamin netanyahu because everybody's been there before. and i had, um, you know, american officials tell me, you know, benjamin netanyahu thinks that he can, you know, wait this out until we leave, but, you know, we're going to be here longer than him. so we can just, you know, try to move the ball forward a little bit here and there until he's edged out of, you know, the political scene pause that's just the nature of politics in israel. but, you know, benjamin netanyahu's just been reelected. so there were a series of miscalculations. but

what will hillary clinton's legacy -- what will history look back and say of hillary clinton's time as secretary of state? >> guest: you know, there are her fans and there are her critics and some people in between. let me tell you what i i've heard. we have had her critics who say what has she ahave toed. no peace in the middle east, nothing we iran. the relationship with pakistan is perhaps a little better but still a mess. what has she achieved? that's a very valid point. there are not necessarily pieces of paper she can hold up and say that is the agreement with this country, this achievement there you have her fans or the people who like her approach to diploma who will say, what she really did was change the way the u.s. does business around the world and try to apply this concept of smart power, where you in her own word, deploy all the tools in the toolbox of american diplomacy. development of defense and diplomacy, of course, so i think the vast -- that in a way will be part of her legacy but it's very much a work in progress and we have to see whether building on that continu

should obama appoint clinton as his budget negotiator? just let clinton do it. obama can't.ast. you know that. he's going to go out on the campaign trail and start trashing john boehner again. should they just appoint bill clinton as negotiator in chief? >> of course. you couldn't bring a better guy out of the bullpen. he'd solve it in a week. but there's a lot of ego involved there and i don't know if he'd let him be the victor there. it wouldn't look good for obama. if he he could teach obama to cut government spending as he did, cut tax, capital gains -- >> welfare reform. maggie haberman, i want you to weigh in. i'm giving you a big scoop here. obama is going to nominate bill clinton for being negotiator in chief for all these complex entitlement reforms, tax sequester, and oh, my gosh -- what do you think of the possibilities of that, maggie? >> i am not feeling it. which is not to say there is not some logic or people don't see some logic in what you're suggesting. but i'm just not seeing that happening. i don't think that president obama wants his second term to turn

clinton tells the president look the french are going ahead with this. we may just as well get in there and shape this to look like something that we can work with. there is no point having just a no-fly zone. if we are going to be doing a no-fly zone for tenure, what's the point? you need to actually have a result and that is where the discussion comes in about including the measures to protect civilians. that is the final resolution that gets voted on at the u.n. as we are flying back from the region, back to the u.s. on that trip that we were discussing. we went to paris, to egypt and then tunis and it's enough course of four days of that decision is made. the conversation was very much you know ,-com,-com ma the french are to go ahead we can let them do whatever they want or we can try to shape this into something that is going to deliver for people. >> host: i think my favorite chapter in the book is the trip to burma perhaps because it might be the most historical and just talk about what made that trip so unique. obviously not many people are trav

and hillary clinton. just the four of them according to politico. the three-hour long dinner was informal. a celebration of hillary's retirement, but big bill offered some second-term advice to president obama sharing his own experience dealing with hostile republicans in congress. we'll be right back. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have something important to say? ♪ if you don't have something important to say? ♪ vo:wiplus wireless speaker,rhead bold is the proud sponsor of singing in the shower. >>> welcome back to "hardball." this may come as a shock to people living in the conservative media bubble, but despite months of hyperbolic warnings, the election and re-election of barack obama did not, in fact, crash the u.s. economy. well, today we found out that the unemployment rate fell to 7.7% for february, the lowes

and hillary clinton.the four of them according to politico. the three-hour long dinner was inform informal. a celebration of hillary's retirement but big offered some second term advice to president obama sharing his own experience dealing with hostile republicans in congress. we'll be right back. experience republicans in congress. we'll be right back. own experie hostile republicans in congress. we'll be right back. a celebration of hillary's >>> welcome back to "hardball." this may come as a shock to people lives in the conservative media bubble, but despite months of hyperbolic warnings, the election and re-election of barack obama did not, in fact, crash the u.s. economy. well, today we found out that the unemployment rate fell to 7.7% for february, the lowest it's been in more than four years as businesses added, and this is really impressive, 236,000 new jobs. well, how did republicans respond to that? with as little enthusiasm as possible. here is the speaker of the house, john boehner. any job cr

former president bill clinton. before president clinton signed doma released a statement saying, quote, i have long opposed government recognition of same-gender marriages and this legislation is consistent with that position. but he says he was never comfortable with the law and earlier this month clinton wrote it was a mistake saying, quote, i know now that even worse than providing excuse for discrimination, the law itself is discriminatory. it should be overturned. joining me now democratic strategist and long time clinton adviser james carville. thanks so much for coming on. >> you bet. got some magic here. all right. democrats in terms of the gay marriage issue and immigration and amongst other things guns, the polling seems that unlike the '90s, they're really winning on these culture wars. in terms of getting married, is it the point now for democrats this is a very much winning issue. you see mark warner, claire mccaskill. you've got to get onboard with this or risk being in trouble in 2016. >> first of al

let's go back in history now and talk about how bill clinton and why bill clinton signed the defensef marriage act. we looked for a picture of that. couldn't find one. >> yeah, couldn't find one. >> and why? >> why? because it was signed after midnight when it was done. it was done under the cover of darkness. it was something that clearly he wasn't proud to do, but politically speaking it was something he needed -- he felt he needed -- >> it was something -- running for re-election. republicans were trying to get at their conservative base. at the same time you had a lot of -- a lot of people out there saying if the federal government doesn't do something to stop this pernicious march of same-sex marriage that was coming out of hawaii, maybe it's time to do a u.s. constitutional amendment to cut it off completely sxwshgs so the political thinking at the time was it was really between a rock and a hard place. let this constitution -- u.s. constitutional movement happen, or put in a defense of marriage act and forestall it and stop that from happening, and as we've seen, there's been

this is so clinton. perfect sense. >> first of all, bill clinton regards kentucky as a sub jurisdiction of political power. he won that state twice, last democrat to do so, he feels very much at home there. when i went to that dinner in kentucky that led to my story about judd, clinton was in charge. jerry lundigrin, father of allison grimes, supported hillary clinton heavily. gave to the clinton library, gives to all of hillary's things. when bill clinton came to that dinner, he privately met with allison and jerry, her father. allison is like the daughter of a mini establishment in the state. the further complicating factor is that, though, the lundigrin people are at war with the current governor -- >> that's too much. >> it's not too much. it's not too much. >> it all comes out in the wash. >> what judd has to hope is there's a fracture in the establishment of the democratic party. bill clinton will have to heal. >> bill clinton, very popular in the country. i think he's a stalking horse for hillary

let's start with hillary clinton.who may have missed this, secretary of state hillary clinton in a video supporting same-sex marriage earlier this week. take a look, take a listen. >> lbgt americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones. and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. that includes marriage. that's why i support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. i support it personally and as a matter of policy and law. >>e >>ester, how significant and why now? >> major. no matter what it said, hillary clinton is positioning herself. if she were to run, she wants to be on the right side of america when it comes to this case. she's seen what's happened with the president, with the president's inauguration speech, he specifically mentioned stonewall. you've seen a major push with the american populous regarding a respect for same-sex marriage, an acceptance of it. the turnout, when it comes to it as a voter issue, all of those things point to its impo

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now, we're seeing hillary clinton make her shift.does end up stoking some type of speculation that this might be all apparent to lay the ground work for a potential 2016 bid. >> from a strategy standpoint, why do you think this was done in connection with the hrc, as opposed to that website. i don't know if it's up yet, with regard to collecting e-mail, but the website that they fired up? >> it just comes after rob portman made his news and support for gay marriage. he's the republican senator. but if hillary clinton does want to become president she would need to support gay marriage. >> mark, thank you. >>> coming up next. a private jet crashes into a residential neighborhood killing at least two people. we bring you the details and the news now. >>> plus, all in the family. wait till you hear how much political candidates are spending to hire their own family members. >>> and ten years later, what the architects of the iraq war are saying now about that war. ♪ looking for a litter with natural ingredients that helps neutralize odo

i watched the clintons and am a student of the clintons. bill clinton wrote a nice piece. now hillary clinton has come forward in a very well-produced video. very well done. and i listened to it all today and it's well done. here's my question. how did it happen? we were talking, the producers and i, when is she going to do it, how is she going to do it? now we know. >> i've known the clintons for a long time. i grew up in arkansas. over the last few years every chance i had when i was around people in leadership positions, i urged them to fully evolve and come out in support of marriage equality. that includes former secretary clinton. sometimes in the last ten days or so, she reached out and actually offered to do this video as part of a series the human rights campaign has. >> who did she call? >> me. >> she personally called you? >> yes. i had the happenstance of getting on the train this went deign, chris, and walking on the amtrak train and former secretary clinton was seated there. she was so excited. >> was this the fast train or slow train? >> this was the fast tr

when hillary clinton made big news this week with her video endorsing same-sex marriage, clinton watchersre put it side by side with another hillary video announcing her official candidacy for president back in 2007. here they are side by side. first from 2007. >> after six years of george bush, it is time to renew the promise of america. our basic bargain that no matter who you are or where you live, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can build a good life for yourself and your family. throughout our history as our nation has become even more dedicated to the protection of liberty and justice for all, more open to the contributions of all of our citizens, it has also become stronger. chris: and to some reporting, if she is running, there is a groove in washington called no limits. it's one organization that has been keeping hillary clinton's millions of supporters in touch building for a potential run. kathleen, here is what you right in the "washington post" this week, "i have asked a half dozen close clinton associates if she is running, they said the same thing, i have no ide

what is in clinton's secret sauce that these guys don't have?i think again it isn't just that florida voters don't like jeb bush or marco rubio. many republicans and many moderates like them. the key to hillary clinton is not only that she's so well-known not only is she coming off a successful run as secretary of state has the credentials but she puts together this odd constituencies. it's democrats that sure as heck like her but also women in great numbers across the board and as i said earlier the republican women. i think the secret in the sauce is that hillary clinton at any state, florida in this case, in any state is going to--the republican women are going to look at her vote for her in 30% to 40% and i think she's nearly unstoppable if she chooses to run for the white house. >> michael: that's really an amazing thing, to think that 30% to 40% of republican women would vote for hillary clinton. if you think back to the mid 90s, not a chance that would have happened. but if republicans have any hope of making up ground in florida a savvy

i heard bill clinton had his own ti time. clinton standard time. e he does.he other hand am compulsively on time. and two other attributes bush immediately noticed, both clinton's energy -- >> you should have seen him going town to town, country to country. he killed me. >> and love of talking. i soon realized as the trip got underway if we got in a bind for things to say or answers to be given to questions, it was reassuring to know that he was da man. >> president clinton is a phenomenal talker. they are a perfect couple because president bush would listen and clinton would talk and be the straight person for the jokes. >> bush could try for a laugh from clinton. writing to him after clinton nodded off at a martin luther king day sermon. i could feel your pain, bush wrote, invoking his catch phrase. identify been there myself, more than once. it physically hurt as i tried to keep my eyes open. two plolitical opposites now sharing the common bond of the presidency and friendship. the bush letters just released this week. >>> coming up, it's the ultimate clif

i would like to express my appreciation to president clinton, chelsea clinton, for bringing to the forefront these important issues, mental health and addiction, which, as dr. satcher said, are so clearly related. there is so much i want you to know today about addiction. i could speak about the facts all day. .ut today i am here as a father i speak to you as a father. if you leave here today knowing just one thing, i would like you to know about my son brian. brian was from the beginning of every loving child who always cared about others carried but he also struggled. he struggled with anxiety and he struggled with add. he was the last to be picked for soccer. but he was the first to crawl under a fence at yankee stadium to give a homeless person a quarter. which he did when he was eight years old. that was brian. as a teenager, as many of our kids do, he tried marijuana. use escalated, his mother and i tried absolutely therapeutic- boarding schools, the best rehabs in the country. his hardest, too. he even made it to college. but unfortunately, addiction is a harsh and unrelenting disease

and then the hillary clinton demarcation zone.the period of time we get to reflect on her time as secretary of state before we go on to treat her as candidate for president. and then later not a bad time to bet a couple of hundred bucks on the cardinals. we'll get you the intrigue on papal politics. it's "the war room," and we'll be right back. save them. woolite everyday cleans your jeans and won't torture your tanks. woolite washed clothes look like new, longer. can become major victories. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. when i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections tuberculosis lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions have occurred. before starting enbrel your doctor should test you for tuberculosis and discuss whether you've been to a region where certain fungal infection

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nasser writes that holbrooke and clinton had a good relationship but holbrooke and sometimes clinton out at the white house. quote, both clinton and holbrooke, two incredibly dedicated people, had to fight to have their voices count on major foreign policy initiatives. holbrooke never succeeded. nasser believes it was mostly due to political bitterness. people closest to president obama, nasr writes, wanted to settle scores for holbrooke's tenacious campaign support of clinton who was herself eyed with suspicious by the obama insiders. at times it appears the white house was more interested in bringing holbrooke down than getting the policy right. we could not get nasr to speak with us on camera. former assistant secretary of state james rubin worked with holbrooke and albright in the clinton administration. he called holbrooke the consummate foreign policy professional. >> clearly some personal grudges, some concerns that richard holbrooke was in the minds of the obama white house, too big for his britches. played out in the making of policy toward afghanistan and pakistan and that'

. >> i'm defending bill clinton over the defense of marriage act. a whole new week of "the cycle" is in your life starting now. >>> grand bargain. budget battle. spending showdown. get ready to hear those terms thrown around a lot this week in washington. senate demes are working on their first budget in four years. yeah. you heard that right. it has been four years since the senate passed a budget. in the house, republican paul ry ryan. where have i heard that name? with are appealing obama care, it is dead on arrival. what is his name? willard mitt romney? and the last time i cheg, romney and ryan are not in the white house. i'm kidding. i didn't have to check. this time president obama is skipping the one-on-one budget negotiations that have failed before. instead, going straight to the members themselves. he is meeting this week with the entire republican and democratic caucuses from both the house and the senate. opening to find a grand bargain on taxes. spending cuts and entitlement reform with the pressure of the full sequester pressing down

bill clinton is getting old.nd he didn't want to get caught on the wrong side of history on this issue. like me, he has many gay friends, gay couples living in a loving relationship. i think it's very difficult to look at your gay friends in the eye and say you deserve less rights than i do. bill clinton's a man who has got no discrimination in his heart. i think this is the right thing to do at the right time. >> van, a similar question, when you look at the polling on this, this is no longer who believes in what. this is about the courts and what the courts decide and that's what bill clinton is saying in this op-ed. >> it's very markable. it's unbelievable to have, has it ever have a sitting president signs something into law and tells the supreme court i am wrong, what i did was unconstitutional, strike down a part myself legacy. that is a remarkable moment i think in american history. i am personally excited because the supreme court has an opportunity to do something that really conservatives should go alon

take former president bill clinton. yes, did he sign the defense of marriage act into law back in 1996. yes, that was a bad homophobic law that wrote discrimination into the fabric of our history. as tim gunn might say parts of that fabric are hideous. make it work. clinton was the first president to openly court lgbt americans during his campaign. his inaugural led to the first ever lgbt ball. he put his first term on the line fighting to allow gay and lesbians to serve in the military. it led to don't ask, don't tell and the g.o.p. did it using nonsense terms like threat to unit cohesion to justify a ban on gay soldiers because you wouldn't want gays in the army. that would keep the units from coming together. in the midst of an ugly re-election campaign, bill clinton signed the defense of marriage act but the lgbt community supported bill clinton in spite of doma because they had seen how hard he fought for them. most knew that if clinton had done the right thing and vetoed doma in a much more prejudiced society, the

he's a nothing compared to clinton. clinton -- i remember interviewing -- there was one meeting whereabout six or seven people were in the meeting with clinton and i asked them each what happened. there was one woman who didn't say anything. i said what did you think of the meeting? she said i know he agrees with me. [laughter] wow. ymedz if you can goad them anyway. >> my question is a little bit simple. it seems to me where we're at right now is almost at the end of the current monetary system. how much talk has there been in your circle about ending the current monetary issue. going to be a united federal reserve note? that's a technical economic issue. you can't bail out on the $16 trillion and iou we have. you just can't. it -- it would be the disaster in the calamity. i don't think you can do this with a magic wand. i don't think -- i think the if you go back to the 1980s, what reagan and tip o'neal to save social security. they worked a deal where payroll tax went up the most progressive tax in the country, they

that includes former secretary clinton sometime clint clinton.etimes in the last ten days or so she reached out to do this video as part of a series the human rights campaign has. >> who did she call? >> me. >> she personally called you? >> yes. i had the happenstance of walking on the amtrak train and former secretary clinton was seated there. she was so excited. >> was this the fast train or slow train? >> this was the fast train. we were able to talk about how excited she was to do this. and she actually did it over the weekend on saturday. and then we released it, as you know, to our 1.35 million members today. >> it had to be. >> incredible. >> let me go back to joan. what i'm fascinated by is the doppelganger. laura bush a week or so ago was featured in a big ad, a group you support for marriage equali equality, she was listed as one of the four -- in the upper right side -- a major figure along with colin powell, an e dorser of marriage equality. later that afternoon around 5:00 eastern, she withdrew her name from it and said you can't use

then president clinton was opposed to same-sex marriage.y as you point out in the "washington post" that he signed the defense of marriage act because he was afraid that if it wouldn't be signed, the momentum leading for a formal constitutional amendment banning sa same-sex marriage would have set back the movement for a long time. and you have to keep the issue of clinton and gay rights in perspective. i started covering him during the transition after he was elected in 1992 before he took office january 20th, 1993, i was at little rock, he was then the governor of arkansas, president elect, and that's when during the campaign, he had basically said gays should be allowed to serve in the military but he quickly retracted that after the uproar after he was elected president. there was a lot of opposition from within the military, branches of the u.s. military, the chairman of the joint chiefs general colin powell at the time opposed allowing gays to serve in the military. and only then months later 1993 did they come up with a "don't ask, d

andy sits next to president clinton.ournament and president clinton rattled team after team going deep into their rosters and if you have big athletic guys can outrun them you can take them out like indiana. the man knows a little something about everything. >> he was great. very impressive. >> he loves college basketball. loves college basketball. >> we had that a couple of years ago. alabama was playing arkansas the next week. i thought alabama would win. he is like, well, you look. you look with 3d the wide receiver. >> three hours later. >> he is going down the depth chart. >> i swear he goes down the depth chart of both teams. you go with alabama, the linebacker squad. i'm sitting there going -- >> you think you're just breaking the ice with a little small talk. >> next thing you know -- >> i coached that guy there. >> talk about your third string quarterback or cornerback. >> it's amazing. >>> a good buzzer beater yesterday at the big ten tournament. university of illinois taking on minnesota. tied in the final sec

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clinton signed doma into law with no joy. it is recalled, there are no pictures of this occasion, no pens that were saved. of course, doma had a more negative impact on gay families than anticipated. by playing defense he kept us from getting worse on gay rights and preserved his place in the white house so we could have other accomplishments like a hate crime statute that included gays in an executive order. if american history has been a slow march toward expanding history, that march has not always been straight. obama wouldn't have been in position to repeal don't ask, don't tell. i suspect clinton did the best he could though he lost some battles, he still helped the gay rights movement to reach this movement when they appear close to winning the war. as any sports fan knows, defense wins championship. for a man who never plays defense, just plows straight ahead every day. >> that's it. >> martin bashir. >> thank you. good afternoon, it's monday the 11th day of march. don't tell paul ryan that. he still thinks it's monda

thanks for with the clinton foundation is doing. it is always a treat to see you. >> on the next "washington journal," will talk about the prospects of the house and senate coming up with a 2013 budget agreement. and a group of bipartisan senators toward the arizona- mexico border last week as they work on an immigration bill. we will discuss what should be in the immigration bill and what challenges any immigration legislation may face with a former chief of staff to arizona senator john mccain and the bipartisan policy center's immigration director. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. and thefotainment coverage of political news, with the executive director of tmx, a former network news anchor, and .n "l.a. times" writer this is an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> thanks so much for being here. thank you to my colleagues. this is a terrific panel of three incredible journalists with incredibly different backgrounds. let's get into it. i must confess this is the first time i was told i would be moderating th

clinton signed the bill. the white house said the president long opposed recognition of homosexual marriages, but hopes the bill won't be used as an excuse to discriminate. >> earlier this month, the former president wrote an op ed call thing doma inc. patable with our constitution and saying it should be overturned. it pits the obama administration against house republicans who are the ones left defending the law. >> in our system of government, the administration doesn't get to decide what's constitutional. the supreme court does. our financing the lawsuit was to make sure that the proper forum was used to make sure that we know what's constitutional and what isn't. >> nbc's senior editor mark murray is here with today's first read. i think we are fascinated with clinton's shift and how it speaks to the change in the democratic party. i want to put up the quote that claims clinton advocated for a marriage ban. ter kerry, clinton ventured should consider defying democratic interest groups by endorsing the bu

maybe they will look back in history as bill clinton, as bill clinton has done. not a natural -- >> i think infallible self-belief that cheney and that period of the republican party adopted and embraced that with poisonous discourse. adopted and embraced that with poiso[ male announcer ] with citibank it's easy for jay to deposit checks from anywhere. [ wind howling ] easier than actually going to the bank. mobile check deposit. easier banking. standard at citibank. chris: welcome back. tell me something don't know. >> talk about iran is all about negotiations but the u.s. navy is juggling. its order of ships so makes sure it has two aircraft carriers in the persian gulf this summer when this can turn into more of a confrontation. >> do you think we're going to war in iran this year? >> no. but i think that preparations are being made for the possibility we might. chris: i'm getting that thing i get. sense thing. >>ly tell you, you're right. planning is being done. >> i will tell you, saw this week the right and the left get together on the issue of drones and i

but if you have a bill clinton and hillary clinton, you'd never have that problem.me of the country tolerated? i don't know. i can imagine there would be some criticism. on the other hand, it's hard to say someone who won the presidency twice isn't entitled to have a strong voice in what happens. [inaudible] >> i would be the heart part. he wouldn't want to go back. thank you very much. [applause] >> i think of as the madonna first lady. she loved publicity. that could pose as a model at a time when that was frowned upon and she was professionally known as the rows of long island. by all accounts, was bewitching. certainly bewitched 57-year-old john tyler who married her and she loved being first lady. she had the job less than a year, but he was julia tyler who ordered the marine had to play out to the chief. it was julia tyler who greeted her guests sitting on a throne on a raised platform with purple plumes in her hair, almost as if she receded to that were quaintly roll that martha washington had deliberately reject good. >> coming up next on the tv, military hi

bill clinton remains a rock star.n some ways more like europe in that way, although when you think about people like arnold schwarzenegger and john edwards, you think, maybe not. >> there are limits. >> yeah. as you look at all these, all of these men, mostly -- >> oh, yeah. >> david vitter, nude, bill clinton, mark sanford and you try to figure out who did it right and who did it wrong. we talk about mark sanford and maybe marrying the mistress helped in that situation. i don't think anybody would advocate that bill clinton handled this right. he lied under oath. he was hypocrite, a coward in many cases. and still emerged absolutely to be someone that most people really admire. as i was thinking about this, though, i'm wondering -- i rarely hear that someone like john edwards can come back. we have seen eliot spitzer rebrand. i would argue that maybe even anthony weiner could come back. i think petraeus could definitely come back. i don't think people feel that way about john edwards. i'm not sure why. maybe all of t

that's the one with the first lady and the clintons. there in the private dining room in the white house, right? >> yeah, that's what we've heard. look, they are an important power couple. whether or not you're thinking about 2016 and what the democratic legacy is going to be. around whether or not president obama wants to figure out in his second term how he can deploy the clintons. he's brought bill clinton into the briefing room to help him a little bit. maybe he can figure out what exactly hillary clinton wants to do now. we know that she's going to be doing the speaking tour. we know that she's going to be take something time off. thinking about whether or not she's going to make a run in 2016. but i think we'll see whether or not president obama can somehow deploy the clintons in pr effort to help push back against some of the attacks. >> well, you know, i know the dinner with the clintons was billed as a private farewell, thank you, for the administration. you've got to think, bill clinton, three-hour dinner, you know he was disp

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clinton was unwilling to risk his reelection by vetoes it. earlier this morning, he acknowledged the blemish, saying that doma was a relic from an earlier era while its time has passed. today's d opt ma arguments

bill clinton had a choice.h reelection fight against senator robert dole in 1996 the mom he signed this legislation, if the supreme court rules in our favor, he ran radio ads all over the south, bracking that he had signed this legislation, so, i mean, he's done a lot of good things for the community, but i'm one of those that believe that we learn from history and we grow from history, and that we welcome change. i am certainly welcoming and excited about his endorsement for the repeat of doma. >> as you bring up watching change and 120 republicans have signed this legal brief, calling for the supreme court to overturn prop 8, dealing with california, polls by predom of marriage, the 51% of republicans under 30. >> how long do you think it will be this. >> i think the key is that john roberts will be very concerned about his legacy. this is his court, this is be the signature. the question is whether he'll go the direction of the dred scott decision, or percy verse ferguson, or if he's going to see the inevita

is lance armstrong bill clinton?only a matter of time before the public forgives him, just like the public forgave bill clinton for the monica lewinsky affair. he says in an interview that people will forgive and forget and remember the good stuff he did. clinton did it. he loves to work, he loves people, he loves to hustle. he's a hero of mine. he's a tough guy, he's smart. surround himself with good people and ten years later he's president of the world. yes. but can it be done for lance? all right, stephanie, let me start with you. the americans want to believe in redemption. you've got michael vick of the dog thing playing in the nfl. hugh grant still acting in movies. we all remember that. i'm not going to talk about it. robert downey jr., charlie sheen. the list seems never ending. why can't we believe in lance? >> don't start with me on michael vick. i'm too big a dog lover, erin. but i think the key difference between bill clinton is i think 70% of the american people agreed with me that he shouldn't be impea

we know hillary clinton made her statement last week as well. how do you measure time when something is moving so rapidly here? >> right. and of course you had bill clinton who signed the defense of marriage act coming out against it in the last few days. you're right. this issue has been moving very, very fast. it hasn't even been ten years since massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriages. the momentum has been building in a lot of quarters and i think everyone is waiting to see whether justice kennedy in particular, whether he wants to make his mark and go down as being in support of same-sex marriage or whether or not there is just not support for going their right now in the court. >> absolutely. we're also looking at what was described as a political wedge issue that may have all but disappeared. i want to play what nicole wallace, republican strategist said this morning on morning joe. >> there were a lot of alarming things that happened at cpac. the one happy thing was that they went around trying to find young co

hillary clinton got 50 percent support.or marco r oxo rubio were one-on-one and not surprisingly the republican politician did better than any republican but hillary clinton beat chris christie by eight points to chris kristi's 37. when the poll matched joe biden he did not do as well. biden beats paul ryan 35-42. he came in three points behind kristi. joining me now is msnbc's joy read. and maggie habermann. it looks good when you look at those numbers at a distant spot. even this far out. the republicans had a lot of the same problem that they had before. it is scott walker who doesn't have enough awareness. you know it is marcu rubio who named rappers. it is not a great field. you have chris kristi who poles the best. the base doesn't want chris kristi. you have marc uxu rubio hillarys name recognition and she goes in as a huge favorite. >> he said it is worth noting that hillary has good poll numbers in 2006 looking toward the 2008 election before she faced relative unknown barack obama. there is something to that. ther