we're at the clinton global initiative university with the namesake president bill clinton.are things you can accomplish now that you were not able to accomplish when you were president of the united states? does the cgi give you a freedom you didn't have as president? >> well in some ways. that is when you are president you have more power but also subject toll daily events. that is sufficient to respond to what has happened. >> stephen: i know what daily events are. >> when you are out of office, since nobody is going to call you at 3:00 in the morning to deal with an emergency, you can just deal with something you choose and you can get into real debt. if i go, for example, i have these agricultural projects in rwanda and malawi and i can go out on remote country roads and see them, see how they are working, talk to the people who are effected by them. when i was president, i maybe got to do something like that once when i visited uganda and i talked to the president of uganda into going down a long path way to a school and village to seat aid programs. you don't do that

, clinton health access initiative, clinton economic opportunity initiative, climate initiative and more here. aren't you -- [cheers and applause] go ahead. [cheers and applause] why aren't you exhausted? i'm 20 years younger than you are and i'm out of breath from listing what you do. >> well, when you get older you have more time to work. [ laughter ] >> stephen: that sounds like a jedi mind trick. what did you just say? >> you have three kids, right? >> stephen: i have three children, yes. >> when they are all out of college you'll have more time to work. >> stephen: oh, i guess so, yeah. i work pretty hard now though. are you saying you work harder now than you were president of the united states? if so, shouldn't you give us our money back? >> i don't think i work harder now but i work about as hard. >> stephen: mr. president, we have to take a break. can you stick around? >> i'll do it. ephen:tephen:

hillary clinton would be a year younger. both of them have to make that personal decision. >> and andrew cuomo and a lot of others are waiting in the lineup. >> you talk to people around joe biden, he's well aware of the northwestibility factor that would follow hillary clinton if she got in, and people you need to run a national campaign, they're going to be looking at the same pool of donors, of people to run this campaign. they really are the same person. one's just going to be a stronger front runner, but by the way, and this is the thing that sort of i think people underestimate with joe biden. if hillary doesn't run, he will be the front-runner. yes, is he vulnerable? yes, but so was george h.w. bush. >> chris, i was in the audience last flight. if you would have told me going in who would have given the most resonant vigorous speech to that crowd of mostly women and all clinton people, because that's the organization she founded, it was not hillary clinton who gave what you would have expected, a very affectionial and

clinton.r that from a number of people, his supporters and hillary's supporters as well. and he's going to have to make that decision, it's tough to stand in the way of history. we found that out in 2008. >> and haley barbour, one who knows politics very well, is hillary clinton the kind of candidate who would clear the field, should she run? >> well i would have thought that in 2008. and in fact i'm one who said she'll win the 2008 democratic nomination going away. that's not what happened. a different historical strain prevailed i wouldn't bet against ms. clinton. one thing i've learned is it's way too early to be talking about presidential politics in the democratic party or the republican party. we got a lot to do and right now guys like ed and i are trying to work on real legislation that ought to have bipartisan support. that will be good for the country's economy, for economic growth at a time when we need more economic growth and job creation and so i'm glad most democrats are not thin

president clinton was taken. william jefferson clinton was taken. but prezbilly jeff was available. >> just spent amazing time with colbert. is he sane? he is cool. >> stephen: folks, this is one of those moments we will look back on and say, "that altered the course of human history." like man discovering fire, the voyage of columbus or the unknown genius who saw a taco and thought, "what if this was choco?" ( cheers and applause ). and, folks, since that historic first tweet, the number of at prezbilly jeff's tweets has rocketed to still just that one tweet. i mean, come on! what is up? come on, p.b.j., you have to capitalize on the tweet-mentum. if you don't use it, you'll lose it. just like the, you know, you're so full of it. it's gray. it's whatever. head meat. you know what? i'm just going to remind him to tweet by tweeting him on twitter. okay. here we go. at prezbilly jeff. missed you sunday at my game of thrones party. also, why no tweets? hash tag: dragons are real. ( cheers and applause ). now, i'll check back later tonight to see if he'

clinton and president and mrs.ush, i have the honor of introducing a number of global leaders, national leaders and texas state leaders who have come to join us on this momentous occasion. as your name is called, may i ask you to stand, and may i ask the audience to hold your applause so that we can acknowledge our global leaders together. president of the republic of georgia, mikael saakashvili and former president of spain, president agnar, the former president of ghana, the former president of south korea lee myung bak and mrs. kim, former president and mrs. lourdes rodriguez deflores of el salvador, former prime minister silvio berlusconi of italy, former prime minister tony blair and mrs. sharri blair of the united kingdom, former prime minister and mrs. john howard of australia, former prime minister and mrs. ehud olmert of israel, former -- current secretary-general of nato, mr. mr. mr. rasmussen, his royal heiness bandhar al sultan of saudi arabia, abdul al chalifa of bahrain, former ambassador to the unite

you're the clinton campaign right now. somebody who wants to see hillary clinton run.something about this? if you get all of the bright minds that put together the technology behind obama's two presidential runs, can you blunt this impact as a front-runner? >> you can try, but at the end of the day, one of the reasons obama was successful online is that people, when they give obama a hundred bucks, they believed he needed it. that if he was going to deher in '07, he needed people's time and money. your contribution really matter mattered. nobody's going to believe that about hillary clinton. that's not something a front-runner can't pose as an unknown, as a cinderella story. it doesn't happen and the internet loves to be a king maker. >> now one of the things you seem to suggest is that there is a way for her to present herself as an underdog, which is basically don't emphasize the clinton. emphasize the hillary. that there's a bunch of men trying to stop the first woman president, she can capture the mentality. >> not just a bunch of men, but if it's a bunch of relati

clinton and her aides have not yet said. the question hovers over her every move and has frozen if place the very early, but some potential candidates, very important presidential maneuvering on the democratic side." back to you, tina. it seems to me this campaign has begun. >> it's very interesting. last year when she spoke at women in the world, she introduced by meryl streep. lincoln center, 2,500 women just got to their feet and they roared. it felt then as if she announced her candidacy then, she could have just taken that show and captured the white house. when, you know, four years' time, who knows what will happen. there's an enormous ground swell for hillary clinton. whether it can be maintained, don't forget, last time it seemed like it was going to be a shoo-in last time. along came barack obama and captured the exceptionalism hillary had. being the first black president in the end got more traction than being the first woman president. that was in her sense an unlucky thing to happen if she's fit and wants to do

if you like bill clinton you forgive him.f you don't -- if you like somebody, you make that decision after you see him a few times, you know, he's me. in some way he's me and i get it and i'm with him. i think a lot of people made that decision about sanford. i'm with him. i may be wrong. >> well, i'm not sure. >> your views. >> there wasn't a lot of turnout in the -- in the special -- in the primary or in the runoff. i'm not sure if people are that enthusiastic about voting for him. i think a lot of republicans believe he let them down. he kind of abandoned the state while he was governor and he was off, you know, it was his not a family values kind of situation. and she's foreign. you know, she's from argentina. >> he's marrying her. he's getting married. this isn't some roll in the hay if you will to use an old phrase. he's fallen in love. he didn't use the phrase but he's fallen in love. she's his fiancee now. there she is right there off to the right there. i mean, obviously attractive. don't have to be complicated about

bill clinton, brand-new to the scene, sent out this today.re is one of just the first ladies attending. up next, a big decision for president obama. the syrian regime uses chemical weapons. something the president said would be a game-changer. so what is his next move? you're watching "hardball" the place for politics. xç >>> here is what is happening, president obama spoke earlier at a memorial for victims of last week's deadly fertilizer plant blast in west, texas, paying tribute to the many first responder responders who lost their lives. >> together, you answered the call. you dropped your school work, left your families, jumped in fire trucks. rushed to the flames. when you got to the scene you forgot fear and you fought that blaze as hard as you could knowing the danger, buying time so others could escape. and then about 20 minutes after the first alarm, the earth shook and the sky went dark. and west changed forever. >> 14 people were killed in that explosion, more than 200 were wounded. the mother of the boston bombing suspect spoke t

does she think her son could beat hillary clinton if she runs?our libraries in the future at some point. he very straight faced said i don't know about that. then he grabbed his son, george p., turned him around and said, this is the real candidate. >> he's running for land commissioner. >> running for land commissioner in texas, likely to win. >> a legitimate texan? >> yes. he'll win this race unless something weird happens and an odds on favorite for governor in nine years. >> you're embracing the mother i think thoughtfully. do you think she took a roundhouse punch that included the clinton, why should the same four families be running the show. let's face it, who else is she talking about? >> definitely, she was cuffing her cub around, as you said, also fire inging a shot across bow at the clintons, i have dealt with and wayne has, too, i've dealt with barbara bush a lot over the years. if there's a godfather in that family, it's not h.w., or george, it's barbara. she's the keeper of the christmas card list and enemy's list. >> i love it. >>

i worked on the clinton campaign. and i saw some things up front. >> no, no, no, this is back in '92. but for gender roles in this country, and all the thing that is we talk about, if that is ever the first couple, it's going to be fascinating, its effect on us, as a society. forget politically. it's going to be a true seminal moment for how we act in this country. >> let me ask you this, if hillary clinton was the president, what would she do about gun laws? advocacy groups are calling the most comprehensive gun reform. they require background checks, they hired assault weapons to the band list. but my question is, there's been more pro -type gun law -- gun legislation than there has been anti. since newtown. has the nra kind of taking the lead in this? or are they winning? >> there's a reason. i want to puts up the front of an nra magazine and read this. this is what's happening. it says only you can save our guns from king pinocchhio. why american gun owners must stand and fight. the reason, i believe, the passion

cloent if s clinton if she decides to run? will have revisiting of various scandals associated with clinton's presidency and we'll have a kind of critique i think of a number of his program revisions at the time, some of which i think are fair and legitimate and some which will be exaggerated. but what is interesting is that bill clinton's support of the second obama presidency and campaign, particular flin relatn to the debate will hold hillary in good stead. when you combine that with her connection in the white house, it really gives her another level of stature and separates her from wife/senator in training and puts her on a whole other level. so i think there could be quite an interesting bill clinton effect in this regard. >> i'm going to have to leave it there, patricia murphy and tricia rose, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >>> ahead, 45 years ago tonight, martin luther king jr. gave his mountaintop speech. how it's pushing us to climb even higher today. >>> but first, the re

you are seeing sort of a new hair style on hillary clinton. of pushback on talk ing about that, but the reality is hillary clinton has dealt with this kind of thing for years. she has turned it into a joke, number one. number two, her book, they announced a book deal this week. where you see that tour take her i think is going to be very interesti interesting. we saw a lot of presidential candidates this past cycle use book tours as sort of a masquerade for something else. she doesn't have to do that, but this is an easy pay for her to do a rollout and she did that with living history. and then lastly, i think, and there were others, but i think most important in terms of company she keeps, the mark penn fa factor gets talked about a lot. he ran her 2008 campaign. that campaign was very mismanaged by all accounts. i think the question is -- and that falls to her at the end of the day. did she learn from 2008? can she make different choices this time? >> can she get david plouffe to run the campaign? as you step back, strengths and weaknesses,

if bill clinton -- >> if bill clinton said it, everybody would have rolled their eyes.ongue by michelle obama. >> believe me as a busy, single mother, or i shouldn't say single, as a busy mother, sometimes when you have the husband who is president, it can feel a little single, but he's there. >> is that a big deal? i meant she does a lot of single parenting when the guy is on the road? >> that is not a standard i want to be held to because i have slips of the tongue all the time and if we are going to jump on everyone for every little word that they misspeak, we're doomed. >> you know, the media often complain that our politicians are so scripted and everyone is saying off the cuff and then we savidge them. before we go, roger simon, we'll talk about roger ebert in the next segment. you said no to "chicago sun-times" and you got a call from. >> roger ebert. he took me to a newspaper bar and it was like a scene from usa. i said, i got it be a part of this. ebert said, look, nobody turns down newspapers. the best writing in america is being done at newspapers. and you ou

just private citizen hillary clinton.o the spotlight today with the money already lining up. here come the questions about 2016. the world lead. the north korea crisis heating up as in heating up an old nuclear reactor and the u.s. answers with a massive missile destroyer. is the pentagon making all the right moves? the pop lead. i can picture it now. clint eastwood turning to an empty chair and asking, who the heck is lady gaga? details of the rnc's big money plan to get her to perform at the convention and how they got rejected. >>> the world lead. the situation in north korea seems to be careening increasingly out of control by the day. the u.s. military now says that it has a second destroyer in the region after the north announced it is restarting a nuclear reactor and leaving no doubt that it plans to use that reactor to try to make nuclear weapons. the reactor is in yonbyun and north korea shut it down years ago after six-party talks including the u.s. the company made a big show of imploding a cooling tower in 199

bush describes that. >> your brother versus hillary clinton?t would be a fantastic photo. >> is that -- is that how you describe it, karen, a fantastic photo? >> sure, why not. you really have to give it to barbara bush for just being so blunt and so honest. there's something very freeing about being a former first lady. i think it's also something this applies to hillary, and that is if hillary runs, if jeb runs, they both have to try to step away from their last names and be seen as individuals in their own right with their own accomplishments. i mean, both of them obviously have that, but there's something -- it's part of why when hillary ran for senate the first time it was hillary, right. we were trying to very intentionally make it about her and her ideas, and similarly, you know, i had this idea that if jeb ran he'd have to be like sort of just jeb and try to step away from bush. again, just so that people would see him for his own man. >> well, i think that's been written about both of them, hasn't it? john, step away from the bush, ste

like hillary clinton. hillary clinton, that's a fact. >> the vice president, biden and i worked together on so many important issues. >> reporter: their mere presence together, her first since stepping down as secretary of state is fueling questions about whether either may run for president in 2016. >> it's joe biden waiting to see what hillary clinton is going to do. if she gets in, it's going to be difficult for him to make the race. >> reporter: both can draw big cash. clinton has two things biden doesn't, higher favoribility ratings, 67% to 48% and a new political action committee. supporters rallied outside the event. their website went live tuesday. >> american politics is always an open competition. i have no position on any of this. >> reporter: that was january. the woman clinton honored at tuesday's vital voice awards thinks she would make a good candidate. >> i think she can do whatever she sets her mind to doing. >> reporter: side by side now, but perhaps rivals in 2016. if they both decide to

then came hillary clinton.ampaign was truly the first viable campaign by a woman and a prelude to an amazing turning point. we all know how formidable hilary will be if she decides to run in 2016. but there are several women, janet napolitano, amy klobuchar and others who are sending signals they are interested in running. elizabeth warren too. with or without hilary there will be at least one woman on the democratic side in 2016. women are finally making it into the party's presidential pipeline. there's 15 democratic senators today. for the first time ever white men do not make up a majority of the party's caucus in the house. that's the house of course in which the top democrat is a woman. progress has been slower on the gop side where there are four female senators but republicans do have the edge when it comes to female governors. we're not there yet but getting closer to the point when we won't think twice about women, multiple women running for president. that does not however mean there's no glass ceili

clinton and president and mrs.r of introducing a number of global leaders, national leaders and texas state leaders who have come to join us on this momentous occasion. as your name is called, may i ask you to stand and may i ask the audience to hold your applause so we can acknowledge our global leaders together. president of the republic of georgia, former president of spain, president aknar, the former president of ghana, john kufor, the former president of south korea, le man bok, and mrs. kim. former president of el salvador, former prime minister silvio berlusconi of italy. former prime minister tony blair and mrs. sharee blair of the united kingdom. former prime minister and mrs. john howard of australia, former prime minister and mrs. ehud olmert of israel, former secretary general -- current secretary general of nato, mr. fogg rasmussen. his royal highness of saudi arabia, abdul al-khalifa of bahrain, former ambassador to the united states, ambassador sen of india. current ambassador to the united states,

so do you think that secretary clinton is skeptical of that talk?> i think by nature she's a fairly skeptical person and she's been around politics long enough to know that nothing is ever given in this business. things are only earned. so i'm sure all of that is in the back of had her mind somewhere. but i think right now she's starting -- as you can see last night she was enjoying herself. she had a really hard job for four years, really hard job before that, she was running for president. so my guess is that she's going to enjoy herself a little bit. but, sure, i know that she realizes that this is a business in which, you know, much is worked for, very little is given. >> is it fair the scrutiny, james, of her reemerging as she has and going to be speaking publicly, paid to speak. i know she'll be here in new york for the women in the world event where she won't be paid to speak on friday morning, but is the scrutiny fair for people to see her reemerge and then everybody starts to scratch their head and wonder? >> well, fair or not fair, no, it

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clinton or madam president? do you agree with that and how does she overcome that?ink nobody knows hillary clinton is running, but that won't stop everyone from talking about it, including march eveur dowd. the real question is what and where. it's early in the season. i think a lot of people are cab temperatured by this idea of having a leader like hillary clinton. she's one of the greatest secretaries of state we've had. i was telling matt earlier, i have some friends who are raising young kids and their girls asked, when kerry became secretary of state, can a man become secretary of state these days? that is largely because of the incredible work of hillary clinton and secretary rice and madeleine albright that were in a world of thinking there are month bounds for what women can do. >> no limits that young women can do. when you look at today's breaking news, that coming out of the uk and baroness margaret thatcher passing away, what's your thought here, tara? if you watch historic and is look at hillary clinton running and possibly becoming president of the uni

that is not a small challenge to hillary clinton and to bill clinton because that dynamic could stilllay out on a whole range of issues. it could be that we're into another financial crisis. people say how could you have even ever voted some support for banks to get bailed out. remember, voting for iraq when they all did that back in 2003 was not such a stupid thing to do if you were looking at it politically. we don't know what the environment is. there could, there will be a challenge. judging by this, even a challenger as talented as barack obama would face ridiculous odds against them. >> krystal, always this thing of something could happen, i am getting into the race because something can happen to the front runner that's unpredictable. the other option, turns out presidential primaries are good places to run for the vice presidential nomination. >> that's the piece. if you have -- i think someone like biden would probably stay out. but someone younger, one name that comes to mind is rahm emanuel who has national ambitions. somebody like that who wants to get more of a national n

the clintons, as we know exsort of the teflon dons of scandal.ever, in her tenure as secretary of state, she got tremendous criticism, in fact, over her handling or non-handling of benghazi, i this thank you is completely relevant to whether or not she would be an effective or competent commander in chief. but as i say, we know the clintons have been very good at being able to sort of outrun these scan dams that are always seeming to be nipping at their heels and hillary clinton did leave the secretary of state with extraordinarily high approval ratings. she is one of the most popular politicians in america. >> speaking of heels, could benghazi, you think, daniella, be her achilles' heel? >> you know, i don't know. i don't think so i think the fact that you saw this ad where they are pulling you stuff from decades ago and i don't know they talk about benghazi in this ad, just shows that they are really scared of hillary clinton. they are scared of what her campaign can mean for the republican side of the ticket e so you know, remains to be seen w

could her son beat hillary clinton if he runs?e to think that's a factor. >> yeah. >> i talked to jeb bush. it's kind of interesting. i said, are we going to see one of your libraries in the future? and he very straight faced said, i don't know about that. then he grabbed his son, george pete and turned him around and said, this is the real candidate. >> and he's running for land commissioner. >> in texas. very likely will win. >> is he a legitimate texan? >> yes. he will win the race, unless something weird happens. he's an odds on favor for governor in i would say nine years. >> you're embracing the mother here thoughtfully. i wonder, do you think she took a round house punch to the clintons? i mean, really, let's face it. >> of course. of course. definitely she was cuffing her cub around as you said and also firing a shot across the bow at the clintons. i've dealt with barbara bush a lot over the years. if there's a godfather in that family, it's not h.w., it's not george, it's barbara. she's the keeper of the christmas card li

>> hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton.would be that quick to say christie has no shot. >> you think if they want to win they might do it? >> if they want to win. imagine the establishment coalesces behind them. they're all united behind him. they, you know, ran mitt romney through. they might be able to ram chris christie through. and, look, there's going to be some sort of civil war. there's going to be some sort of civil war in the republican party. >> if they lose to hillary, they lose four in a row. thank you, cynthia tucker. have a nice weekend down there. eugene robinson. we're having our first day of spring in d.c. >>> up next, remembering the great roger ebert. how movie reviews were an elite thing in the past. they would bring it to us on television. we'd decide the thumbs up with them. it's a development for the moviegoers like me. this is "hardball." the place for politics. are you flo? yes. is this the thing you gave my husband? well, yeah, yes. the "name your price" tool. you tell us the price you want to pay,

how afraid are the republicans of hillary clinton in 2016?id some of them have already started swift voting her if you will trying to blame her for benghazi. leading the charge right now, house oversight committee chair darrell issa of california. here he describes the report that he says shows clinton, quote, denied, closed quote, security for the benghazi consulate because her signature appears on a cable to that effect. >> secretary of state was just wrong. she said she did not participate in this, and yet only a few months before the attack, she outright denied security in her signature in a cable april 2012. >> well, the charge is outrageous for anybody who knows what they're talking about. the secretary of state's signature, by way, her name appears on all sorts of cables that two out. her nail. to prove it, here's the wording from the state department handbook. "the communications center will place the name of the secretary on all telegrams to posts." in the "washington post" today, the fact checker column beautifully and hilariously i

clinton have to make a dei?urday to you you krachlg i believe that secretary clinton can probably wait until maybe the beginning of next year. you know, she has some time on her hands because, quite frankly, she is one of the rare individuals, currently reminds me of george w. bush back in 2000, where the political establishment will wait for her to make up her mind. in other words, she doesn't need any influencing, they don't need any influencing, they will wait. and when they -- when they make up their mind, obviously, going to go with her f she announces she is not going to runs, obviously, going to run to vice president biden. but she has time on her side and she can dictate her own timeframe r >> karen is that an assessment, a timetable that you agree with? >> i agree with the timetable, though i disagree slightly with the assessment in that i think there will be a lot of energy toward -- the longer it goes, the more donors will actually put some pressure on because, look, if she is not gonna run, a lot of

obviously clinton still has that diplomatic touch.r on the republican side quinnipiac university repieced a poll showing florida senator, marco rubio leading the republican field, followed by congressman paul ryan rand paul, and chris christie found out the top four. we were a bit disappointed, of course not to see mitt romney on that list. joining me now to break down the role 2016 politics is playing in today's debates is christine pelosi, chair of the california democratic party women's caucus. also with us is democratic strategist, tad devine, who joins us tonight from washington, d.c. tad, i want to say that quinnipiac poll shows 59% of republicans would prefer a candidate with experience as governor. what does christie need to do to move up into the short list? >> i think he has got to begin to get republicans to like him. his problem is his own party right now. he has been willing to stand up to republicans. i think he did the right thing, for example, when his state was hit by a hurricane and he welcomed the president there an

clinton was funny, like mentioned, george w. bush was good at the self deprecating humor.truck the bounds between self deply indication and going after his enemies. >> dean, i want to ask you when we come back, who has bombed, blown this, we wake up sunday morning like oh, my god, i can't believe he was so awful. pressure not only on the president but the comedian that follows him. >> guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. we know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." and reality has a well known liberal bias. >> many critics said stephen colbert went too far in that 2006 appearance. one may have gone further. we will talk about that straight ahead as special live coverage of white house correspondents' dinner continues. >> i am andy cohen. would you believe you're watching and i'm at the white house correspondents' dinner live on msnbc? we're all set to bun your home and auto insurance together. i'll just press this, and you'll save on both. [bell dings] ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, llllet's