mark: dan balz, i'll see you at the next debate site.ch to the democratic side and talk with the south carolina party chair after these words from our sponsors. ♪ >> if you take money from wall street, can you regulate wall street? barack obama took more money from wall street than any candidate who's ever run for president. turned around, passed and signed the dodd frank bill so i think you should be judged on what you've done and i'm more than happy to put my record against bernie sanders. if you look at what caused the great recession, a bill he voted for in 2000 had a greater impact than most of the talk that we're now doing so let's get everybody out on the same field. i don't mind being responsive and answering questions but at some point, i want everybody to have to answer. >> i respect that calm. can you assure the american people that you didn't say anything in those speeches that would undermine your promise to be tough on wall street and big banks? >> absolutely. >> that was a sneak peek at hillary clinton's interview with joe

john: welcome back and joining me now, the chief correspondent to have "washington post," dan balz. or coming by. dan: my pleasure. john: where do you think efforts to halt or slow down donald trump stand in advance of the debate? we saw today rubio and cruz being a little bit more outspoken about it. dan: a little bit more. i think we'll learn more at the debate tonight. i think they still have this question or quamme about whether they really want to get in a one-on-one with donald trump before the other is out and before case sick out and there's no insent five for the three of them to get at it at this point. they're in a bit of a bind. john: the single elimination danger in the coming weeks with ted cruz and kasich. ted and heidi cruz are spending a fair amount of time in texas. is there worry they could lose the state? dan: you would assume that they think they have to make sure they nail it down and can't take any chances. if you talk to them, they express confidence about it and beyond texas, they don't talk as if texas is the only place they think they have a real shot at wi

and we talked to matt dowd, carol lee, al hunt and dan balz. >> the problem for theis, is thd wins the nomination, and hillary clinton clinches the nomination you'll be having people running who are distrusted and not liked by the majority of the country. you pick between the two you really don't like or trust. that opens up the avenue for a third party candidate. >> rose: we continue with scott malcomson talking about the future of the internet. his book is called splinternet. >> there was no other state that could come close to developing it the way the u.s. could. what happened later and what's happening now is that gradually, as the internet became economically and militarily and politically so important and so threatening states, if they could, the largest states reasserted their authority and they are trying to reassert it as much as they can now. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a footnote about one of our frequent guests mike allen who appears weekly on charlie rose the week. mike announced today the he is leaving politico and play book after the end of the election to go

joining me now, dan balz, democratic reporter for "the washington post." dan, you've covered a lot of democratic primaries. i've covered a lot of democratic primaries. it was just, it was striking to hear gore/bradley. it was so different from sanders/clinton, that was only 16 years ago. something's changed. >> well, they were at the end of the clinton, the first clinton administration, there may or may not be another clinton administration, but they were at the end of an administration in which bill clinton had redefined the democratic party in a more centrist view. when you go back to this state when walter mondell was running against gary hart, that was as close as we've got to an old-fashioned liberal versus somebody trying to rest the party in a different direction. bill clinton redefined it in 1992 in a centrist way, new democrats. what we're seeing now is that under barack obama and partly because of him and partly because of the nature of the democratic party at this point, the party has moved left. we've known that this was, in essence, a fight tha

dan balz thank you so much for joining us.ppreciate it. >> thank you, steve. >> live pictures right now from the white house. that's where president obama is going to be speaking from the roosevelt room next hour, he is expected to talk about guantanamo bay. we will have his remarks for you live, but first after the break we're going to talk about the nevada republican caucus turn out problem and how some things -- some here are trying to change things. msnbc's jacob soeb revolver joins me next. abdominal pain. urgent diarrhea. it could be ibs-d new prescription xifaxan is an ibs-d treatment that helps relieve your diarrhea and abdominal pain symptoms. do not use xifaxan if you have a history of sensitivity to rifaximin, rifamycin antibiotic agents, or any components of xifaxan. tell your doctor right away if your diarrhea worsens while taking xifaxan, as this may be a sign of a serious or even fatal condition. tell your doctor if you have liver disease or are taking other medications, because these may increase the amount of