joining us from chicago is democratic strategist and cnn senior political help tate or david axelrod. david, you've been inside these campaigns and you know what it's like take us inside of what happens when you're in campaign and the numbers aren't looking good, which is the situation hillary clinton faces. >> i remember eight years ago almost to the day when everybody was reading last rights over the obama campaign, we were way behind in national polls and what happens is that every donor in america becomes amateur political consultant, very generous with their advice. i remember during that period one of the donors in chicago summoning him to a meeting that he must fire his leadership and replace it with people who are more familiar with washington politics. you know, it's a very uncomfortable place to be. but you have to keep your perspective in the midst of the storm and take the long view, make the adjustments you need to make and not panic. >> dickerson: not run. what does hillary clinton have to do at this moment? >> i think we ought to apply some perspective to this. she's st

david axelrod wrote a tweet.w york times" story on hrc, reads more like the onion, a satirical column. what do you make of that? >> actually whether asked whether her server was wiped clean, she said, you mean like with a cloth? i thought that was pretty funny. i don't think being funny is a problem. the problem is telling a straight story about what went on. this is candidate who democrats assumed would be their nominee years ago. and here they are, they have a nominee really not that good at conducting politics and obviously she is not that good at answering hard questions about her email server. david: rich, based on that tweet by david axelrod which is practically thumbing his knows at hillary clinton, i'm wondering if the democratic party as whole beginning to think throwing their support behind joe biden? he had this big rally in pittsburgh, run, joe, run, the crowd kept chanting. is it inevitable that he runs? >> that is only a question the vice president can answer. david: obviously, rich, but what do you

etsk: david axelrod's twe because multitudes. the elites oversteer problem with voters.he's doing ok there. but the problem is apologizing -- i don't really care about that. is the accountability problem, likability, she should be herself and not talk about it. john: part of the narrative with her is always calculating, overly poll tested, market testing, over scripted. it just screams all those parts of the narrative are true. the: i can only imagine conversations they had between yesterday and today. forary clinton fleshed out -- her finance reform plan. there is online video about the online ruling. all of this as a push that she wants to have changes about big donors disclosed, loopholes closed, constitutional amendment that will overturn citizens united and make changes to help public financing work. among other prepaid -- provisions, is this bundle good policy? john: the policy part first. it is the biggest thing, if it actually happened that you ended secret money in american politics. all disclosure, instant disclosure, the most important thing to happen in campa

veteran democratic strategist david axelrod said her plan read more like the onion. to show that more spontaneous side clinton retweeted an ms nbc clip of her. that may have been off message, especially as you say on a day when we're learning the second review by the intelligence community is saying there was, in fact, classified information in that server. >> are we supposed to believe this "new york times" piece points out she wants to show more humor. >> i don't look at her and think chris rock, larry the cable guy or jimmy kimmel. it sounds manufacturing. i'm not surprised that david axelrod thinks it's silly. >> i think that's what he's trying to get at. you remember george h.w bush saying message i care. you don't come across as authentic. same problem for richard nixon. hillary clinton has a problem connecting with middle class voters, even as she pushes a middle class message. that's why the campaign is worri worried. >> remember, the words that come out of people's mouths that describe her were not very flattering. first word was liar. let me ask you about t

. >>> i want to bring in david axelrod. you've heard katrina peterson, a trump supporter, of course. was that a credible response to the comments last night? >> well, it's a response we've heard in the past when these things have come up. remember, donald trump four years ago really ran on this birther issue when he was briefly running for president before. look, i think the bigger issue here is president races are a series of tests, things you can't count on, spontaneous events that you have to react to and the whole world gets to see how you deal with them. john mccain faced a similar thing back in 2008 and may have been the best time in his campaign because he bravely stood up to the crowd and talked and told the truth about the president. he said, he's a good man, family man, christian and all of that. and he's an american citizen. but he took some heat from the crowd on that. donald trump was tested it yesterday and, she's right, he's not a politician. he's been this figure out there but if you want to be president of

they were start got in and key advisors they presumed worked for him worked for david axelrod. then he wins iowa, a very white state where he just out organize them. by the time they get to new hampshire it was a campaign that was discombobulated and they started to make mistakes. so to take things personal. they were making it factually accurate put a stinging statement that was meant to be a rebuke, a kennedyesque figure and the father this couple particularly since bill clinton saw himself as someone who wanted that. i think it in raise them. they were all made in one day. making ugly statements out of desperation. full-size in the tooling, now have a seminal figure of the civil rights movement in politics owing back off. it did not matter at that point. they were not prepared to run against the black man but the black community. >> host: when obama 1st announced his numbers were very low at some point where it was iowa or four new hampshire the black community embraced him. what do you attribute that to? starting out low-end and the phenomenal embrace. >> at the way you hav

veteran democratic strategist david axelrod said her plan read more like the onion. her detailed plan to show more authenticity and spontaneity. #just do it. to show more spontaneity herself, clinton retweeted an msnbc clip of her. that may have been off message, especially as you say on a day when we're learning the second review by the intelligence community is saying there was, in fact, classified information in that server. >> ed, are we supposed to belief as this "new york times" piece points out that she is supposed to show more humor? 6 >> i don't look at her and think chris rock, larry the cable guy or jimmy kimmel. it sounds kind of manufactured. i'm not surprised that david axelrod thinks it's silly. >> i think that's what he's trying to get at. you remember george h.w bush at one point saying message, i care. taking a poll-tested message from advisers and sort of spitting it out to advisers, you don't come across as authentic. same problem for richard nixon. the wing tips on the beach. hillary clinton has a problem connecting with middle class voters, even

also joining me again is gloria borger, john king and david axelrod.t's a hard message to say you're the outsider with insider experience. >> especially because when you're an outsider because you lost your senate seat. he was an outsider by the insistence of the people of pennsylvania. >> excuse me because president obama ran for a second term kind of as an outsider with insider experience. how do you do that? >> i think we can be too glib about this outsider/insider thing. >> right. >> it is your orientation. do you come at it from the perspective of people out in the country who are very deeply concerned about this economic issue, very disappointed in the politics of washington and are you an agent for change? and i think that's what people want to convey. it's just some are more convincing at it than others. >> rick santorum though is the living, breathing example of throw out the rule book and this is a very different election. there's something in the water we have disruptive forces in our politics. he won 12 states last time. now, again, part of

dana bash, thank you, david axelrod, jeffrey, amanda carpenter. a lot ahead. we're on for two hours tonight. sara murray reported at the top trump critics say he only offers applause lines, steps onto an old battleship tonight. he's expected to lay out his view in greater detail. we'll see if that actually comes to pass. and we'll see if he's actually met by protesters. several have already shown up. >>> later with that new polling that shows ben carson on the move, does a food debate performance or even a bad one move the numbers at this time in the race? some of the answers may not be what you expect so be prb prepa to be surprised ahead. but it is not the device that is mobile, it is you. real madrid have about 450 million fans. we're trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. the microsoft cloud gives us the scalability to communicate exactly the content that people want to see. it will help people connect to their passion of living real madrid. heart health's important... ...so you may... take an omega-3 supplement... ...but it's the ing

"inside politics" john king and our senior political commentator, former obama senior adviser david axelrod. david, you all remember you prepared barack obama as a junior senator for these kinds of debates in 2007, 2008. so what should donald trump's strategy be tonight? >> well, i think it is as sara stated, he needs to maintain that edge that ir reverence that's gotten him to this place but he also has to show the temperment people associate with -- >> gloria, what do you think? >> donald trump is going to do whatever he wants. he has to act more presidential, i would say, and a little less negative. here we are at the reagan library. ronald reagan is known one of the many things he's known for is his optimistic vision for america. i think a little bit of optimism would help donald trump tonight. >> but you know that some of these candidates, john, who are going to be on this stage like senator rand paul for example, they're going to go directly after donald trump. i spoke with rand paul earlier today. and he basically doesn't think donald trump is qualified to be the nation's commander i

someone who has had to campaign against the political force that is bill clinton, david axelrod, our senior political commentator. david, you know better than most people what it's like to go up against bill clinton in a campaign when he's being surrogate. has plusses, also minuses. are you surprised he hasn't been out there more this time around? >> no, i'm really not. because i think the campaign wanted to establish hillary in her own right. you know, i always say that it hard to shine when you're standing next to the sun. bill clinton is one of the singular political talents of our time. he's a luminesce ent kant chara. it's difficult for him to play a supporting cast role in any play in which he's involved. i also should add i did work against him on that one election. he was probably the most valuable supporter president obama had in 2012 in his reelection campaign, did an incredible job for us at the convention, did an incredible job for us on the stump. here's the difference. they're not married. and i think that it's different when you're out there campaigning for someone else

brand-new cnn contributor david axelrod will tell me, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ big day? ah, the usual.ome new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. >>> welcome back to "the lead." about the problems being faced by hillary clinton, the dilemma of joe biden, all the fireworks on the republican side, let's talk about 2016, with newly minted cnn political contributor, president obama's former political guru, david axelrod making his cnn debut right here on "the lead." >>i great to be here. >> great to have you. first of all, this huge dilemma and questions about the democratic side, you know personally joe biden, hillary clinton, you helped run against them both in 2008 when you worked for then senator obama. when we talked about whether or not biden will get in the race, just as a reality check, is th

you will not find a smarter group of people to unpack this david axelrod is here, bob bekaa is here. pulitzer prize win kathryn clark is here. and i've even got the man who carly dismissed as a clintonite. here's the question, is the air coming out of the trump balloon? i think carly won the debate. as i predicted, the intimate reagan library and three-hour format provided more substance that trump could offer. then he failed to reel in a questioner. and then ending the week cancelling citing a business n confli conflict. you recently told "the washington post" you want to be known for your expertise, not as a surrogate for democrats. is this what the beginning of the end looks like for donald trump? >> i think so. you know, look, michael, you've been a student of this for a long time. i think presidential races run in phases. and i wrote a fees for cnn.com today. and i talked about spring is for casual dating. the summer there are often torrid romances that are never going to go anywhere. but in the fall, people start looking for solid, dependable, long-term relationships. and the t

david axelrod, should he be doing anything differently this time? >> i this i the campaign is advancing. if he's serious of being a presidential candidate he can't tamper with what got him there. he has to show moments of substance and so bright that actually he can do the job. which is a problem for him. a lot of people don't think that at this point. >> let's put up dr. ben carson, 2nd placed in the polls. he was mild mannered. in the last debate he joked about how he didn't get enough air time to talk. he has to do more tomorrow? >> you can make the case that he has said less than donald trump has. yet, they are going unin the polls. should he change it? i think he will be pressed to change it. although trump will be more the center of the attention. it will be interesting. the other candidates are more worried about trump because there is a ability to spend his own money or ben carson, since you are using baseball cards, trump and carson never played a ball. never played aa ball being the government or being in the congress. yet, here they are i

join me david axelrod.ton post" that you want to be known for expertise not as a surrogate for democrats. start with the republican presidential race. is this what the beginning of the end looks like for donald trump? >> i think so. you've been a student of this for a long time. i think presidential races run in phases and i wrote a piece for cnn.com today spring is for casual dating. summer torrid romances are never going anywhere. in the fall people look for solid, dependable, reliable long-term relationships and the tests get harder for candidates. i think donald trump failed the test at end of the week when confronted with that questioner about the president's -- who accused the president again of being a closet muslim. i don't think being a muslim should be a slaner in any case. unlike john mccain in 2008 didn't stand up to it, didn't correct. i think that combine with his inability to answer in specific ways more detailed policy questions in the debate, i think, yes, are the beginning the end. i think

and that, david axelrod, was the question.ould donald trump handle more discussion between the candidates? >> yeah. first of all, let me say for a guy who says he's not a politician, he sure reads a lot of polls. he quotes a lot of polls. but in terms of -- i don't think he was particularly specific tonight. but what he did do is bang the drum again on the issues that are driving his base on immigration in particular, on some tax issues that are driving his base. i think he did what he wanted to do. i also think he was a little bit more subdued than he's been in the past. he started the debate inexplicably slapping rand paul gratuitously who wasn't even in the discussion. then he calmed down and it seemed over the course of the three hours that he settled into a rhythm. i actually thought he did what he had to do. >> amanda carpenter, former spokesperson for ted cruz, who how do you think he did? >> i think senator cruz used his time very effectively. if you look at the debates going into the senate in september, particularly,

david axelrod's "believer." chris, did david axelrod come to the nixon library? he should. this is the open kimono. this is a life spent on the left, elegantly and wonderfully written by a form journalist, who served harold washington and president obama and everybody in between. he is the rove of their side, and he wrote a book about how he won two elections, in extraordinary fashion, shouldn't have won the second one. he was behind with three weeks to go. sandy, can day, and orca took us down i was a big mitt romney guy. if you want to understand what questions to ask the republicans you read the democrats' books. there are other books, "collision 2012" on the election of 2012. jonathan alters "the center holds" another book. how do you prepare to ask republicans question? you read the books of everybody who is themselves a journalist, of warriors and especially democrats, and then sit down and begin to ask yourself, what would you ask hillary if you had a chance to ask the former secretary of state a question? from that process came "the queen" now i want to talk about t

i agree with david axelrod about that.l say that i know the folks in the clinton campaign, most of them. many of them helped elect and reelect barack obama. i'm positive they didn't get in a room and say here's a good strategy, let's roll out our plan for spontaneity. sources talked, there was a mistake plemade. i don't think they did this on purpose but they'll have to dig out of it. >> that happened and the next day here's hillary clinton apologizing and telling a heart-felt story about her mom and tearing up on camera. >> so it almost makes everything sound almost calculating there. i talked to folks in the campaign aand apparently that story had been in the works for a while. i think there's some head scratching among democrats about why they did this story. they feel like they're turning the page. they have this debate coming up in october and this testimony on the hill as well. but my goodness, i think if you were to fast forward and sort of look back at this summer, did they waste this summer? did they sort of waste

david axelrod, should he do anything different this time? >> i think the campaign is advancing. if he's serious about being a presidential candidate he can't tamper with what got him there. he has to show some moments of sobriety and substance to signal that, you know, maybe he could actually do the job which is a problem for him. a lot of people don't think that at this point. >> let's put up dr. ben carson. in the polls, second place in the polls. he was pretty mild mannered in the last debate. joked about how he didn't get enough airtime to talk. john king, is that something he needs to do more tomorrow? >> you can make the case that ben carson has said even less about policy prescriptions on big issues than donald trump has, and yet donald trump and ben carson are going up in the polls. should he change it? i think he'll be pressed to change it though trump will be the center of attention. it will be interesting to see how the carson dynamic works out. the other candidates are more worried about trump and his ability to spend his own money. since you're using baseball cards,

then-white house senior advisor david axelrod... house speaker john boehner, he wrote, was an alcoholic and lazy. boehner's office responded in a statement today saying: st5 of the e-mails in this latest batch have been retroactively marked "classified" because the information in them is now considered too sensitive to release to the public. the new e-mails show clinton chafed from time to time at the confines of a classified computer system that could be difficult to access. in one exchange her deputy chief of staff, jake sullivan, said he couldn't send her a statement from former british prime minister tony blair because it's on the classified system. clinton responded, sullivan replied, the state department says none of the newly released e-mails contained information that was considered classified at the time that clinton received it. intelligence officials aren't so sure, scott, and they say regardless, that material should not have been sitting on clinton's home server for years. >> pelley: nancy cordes in our washington newsr

during an interview with former obama adviser and msnbc political analyst david axelrod, sanders said he still hopes to never run a negative ad, but said, quote, we'll see. >>> on the gop side of things, donald trump made his reappearance on fox news last night after saying last week that he would boycott the network. >> so you're back? how does it feel? >> i'm back. >> how does it feel? >> well, it feels good. you've always been fair to me, bill. i've never had a problem with you. you've always treated me with respect and fairly and i've always appreciated that. you know that. >> well, that's going to change tonight. >> and vice president joe biden was at the united nations yesterday. at one point, the danish foreign minister got a few laughs when he incorrectly addressed mr. biden. >> mr. president -- vice president, sorry, i'm -- well, could have been, can be, who knows. >> if you have some news to tell us here, please let us know. >> seems like that was an honest mistake there. although we're all waiting on some news, should it happen. >>> all right so world leaders, they are urge

joining us now, our senior political commentator, david axelrod.t she told abc news a little while ago about her decision to use that private e-mail server. >> that was a mistake, i'm trying to take responsibility and be as transparent as i can. >> yesterday she said there was no need for her to apologize. what's going on here. >> i think they're trying to kill this story as best they can. the imperative is to get to it quickly, and move on. this has been handled in a serial fashion, so that her answers have evolved over time and it's prolonged the story and turned it into a sport among the media and republican opponents. i think she's trying to bring this thing to an end so she can be heard on other subjects. but she needs to have a consistent answer. >> it seems like on a daily basis, the story sort of escalates, now there's an fbi investigation, all the investigations on capitol hill, the u.s. intelligence community is now raising questions that she did in fact receive top secret classified information, she said she never did. it doesn't seem to

let's read a tweet from david axelrod. he said in his powerful moving interview with colbert, you could see the reasons why so many want joe biden to run and why he may not. it was raw and deeply personal. >> and totally not political. that's what the country has been clear in the polling we have seen. they don't want politics as usual. they want real people running for president. >> joe biden said it best. he said you can't have doubt. you have to be 100% in. fascinating. >> frank interview. >>> in the meantime, new poll numbers out. the cnn/orc poll shows hillary clinton dropping. clinton's lead is now ten points over bernie sanders nationwide. in june, her lead was 43 points. this follows polls from the states of iowa and new hampshire where sanders is neck and neck or ahead of clinton. sanders tells wolf blitzer even he is shocked at the speed of his surge. >> yes. i'm stunned. look, we have a message that i believe from day one was going to resonate with the american people. did i think they would resonate as quickly

they were not running him is black and being very careful david axelrod had run harold washington's reelection campaign and understood how to run a black candidate in a non- black majority district and they were really the architects of some of that strategy and were steering this candidate in and direction of was ecumenical on race. barack obama come in 2,004 burst onto the national scene. there was no black and white america. so by the time we get to this racialized man who had never really placed himself as a race fan, including the hillary clinton campaign, not this ecumenical, racial figure, not this uniter. he is this divisive figure. so by the time barack obama gives that he is doing it on defense and tells is a, if you cannot accept my explanation of what happened and my relationship to my pastor, so be it. i'm going to go ahead out there and say what i need to say. they have been a lot of speeches that were important. obviously martin luther king i am very partial to talk about ryan being the voice of the unheard. sometimes the postcard king is the less important than the radical thin

run-up to the second launch of her campaign on roosevelt island, so veteran democratic strategist david axelrod tweeted diminish -- clinton advisers told the times after conduct a focus group in which voters said they wanted to hear moreo, mails, the campaign decided to get more transparent, and the candidate offered a more contrite tone, despite admitting to the poll tested strategy, clinton went offmessage insisting to the associated press the e-mail trouble has not damaged her campaign at all. yet a new monmouth university poll shows clinton's lead nationally continues to shrink. down percentage points in a month while vice president joe biden and democratic socialist senator bernie sanders are in a virtual tie for second. >> text or e-mail? [ laughter ]. >> we ask that first and we're asking. >> you e-mail. [ laughter ] reporter: that clip may have been offmessage since a second review by the intelligence community found two e-mails in clinton's server including one about north korea program did contain highly classified information when she received them. as secretary of state john kerry s

i want to read this david axelrod tweet he wrote.we pull it up, talking about "new york times" story. today's "new york times" story on hrc read more like the onion. about respond natety and just do it. your thoughts on that. >> that is ironic thing about appearing to be authentic you actually have to be authentic. appearing to be genuine. you have to be genuine in order to appear to be genuine. hillary is clearly not. the article talked about hillary, from "the new york times" is wooden and appears overly cautious. that is coming from "the new york times." they said instead, the campaign is planning on greater spontaneity from the candidate. planned spontaneity, that is absurdity of this candidacy. very cynical, how their campaign really looks at democrat primary voters they can convince her she he is genuine. the truth is, she is not. creating a new persona as humerus to get past electorate. bring it around to joe biden. tell you forces at play with draft joe biden campaign. it is coming from within the obama white house for very b

they want her to be more authentic and in response to that story david axelrod longtime barack obamaed a vieszer tweeted this -- today's "the new york times" story on hrc read more like the onion, her detailed plan to show more often thesety, just do it. >> her staff wasn't happy with it. in all honesty, i don't think they knew it was going to go in that direction. but i think to the point of her authenticity the interview she did with david showed an authentic hillary clinton, she talked about her mom and her granddaughter. somethings that's very different from the way she ran in 2008. going back to another issue we have been talking about here, for democratic voters, they have incredible enthusiasm for her, still. and i think they continue to do that. when she's on the trial, she doesn't get questions about her e-mails. >> her rivals -- we're talking about a plan b. when are her rivals going to go negative -- you don't see senator sanders, you don't see goff o'malley, they're not going negative on secretary clinton because they know her strengths. >>> let's move on to the gop. ben ca

dave: most people here have been saying that for a while but monday or tuesday david axelrod that sweett with, he wasn't convinced there was a big new york times washington post piece about how she was going to be more emotion and hit the large stream of most american voters, big democrat helped at obama, he wasn't convinced, he thought it was fakery. if democrats, real establishment democrats are saying that i think she is -- >> you say we will use more heart and three days later she turned on the water works you look and -- >> the question he asked, is your mother's voice in your ear and give me one line you repeat yourself, he knows what that line is, they had that conversation already. >> we ask donald trump the same question. >> i would like to see him try. >> next up, one high school feeling its cheerleaders are going out of bounds in their attempt to rally school spirit. telling the team their uniforms violate the school dress code so should the girls be cut some slack or are other rules black-and-white? did you know that meeting your daily protein needs actually helps to support

. >> paul, david axelrod coming out over the weekend saying, look, just be humble and authentic ratherew campaign kind of retooling. and to that point, there's another clip from that abc interview where hillary clinton gets emotional talking about her late mom. i want to play that. >> as you probably know, my mother had a terrible childhood. she was abandoned by her parents, she was rejected by her grandparents. she was literally working as a housemaid at the age of 14. and she told me every day you've got to get up and fight for what you believe in, no matter how hard it is. and i think about her a lot. i miss her a lot. i wish she were here with me. and i remember that. and i don't want to just fight for me. i mean i can have a perfectly fine life not being president. i'm going to fight for all the people like my mother, who needs somebody in their corner. >> you've known hillary clinton for a long time. showing that kind of emotion, letting her guard down, do you want to see more of that? i think back to 2008 and i remember on the campaign trail there was a moment where she -- her v

. >> shortly after that, david axelrod asked the question, how quickly will kentucky's clerk defianceme-sex marriage back con ten, issue in the gop presidential race. it seems it is an issue as of this moment. what is your reaction to rand paul's contention that i will leave it to the courts to decide when it looks like the courts decided on this one. >> they have decided and it's a settled issue. it is important to point out that kim davis is being asked to administer the law which is her job. not to perform sacrament. she is asked that the people in front of her have a legal right to get married and provide the license. she's not a minister. she thinks she works for god there in the county courthouse when she works for caesar. someone needs to acquaint her of that fact. >> dan, i want to play a little sound from our interview with misters moore and ermold and what they contend about kim davis and her role in all of this. let's take a listen. i will read it. i think what kim davis wants is to be a martyr. i think it makes me feel terrible we would accommodate someone so they could di

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david axelrod is not buying this. he says today's "new york times" story red more like "the onion." her plan to show for authenticity and spontaneity, just do it. the one senior advisor saying, just show it. don't tell the new york times you're going to be more spontaneous. >>> back live awaiting the release of kentucky clerk kim davis from jail. as you all know, five days after being locked up for refusing to issue the marriage licenses. specifically for same-sex couples. then she said she wouldn't issue any marriage licenses. and also, we're going to talk about this. the back yard barbecue with big political stakes. we'll talk to senator scott brown about who got invited to his well-known gathering where no bs is allowed. >>> brings us to our question of the day. which 2016er would you invite over for a no bs backyard barbecue? right back to the rally. staying in rhythm... it's how i try to live... how i stay active. so i need nutrition... that won't weigh me down. for the nutrition you want without the calories you don't... introducing boost 100 calories. each delicious snack siz

i think david axelrod said of trump and his miss universe pageant they are still is at the swimming suitf the competition. when you get to the talent round it is another thing. >> do you feel in your experience in the ways you have been involved in politics, with those having been your values consistently about the whole time of your political life, that's what the book is about, do you feel you have learned anything how to uncoarsen politics? we have been lamenting how politics is, is there a way to uncoarsen it when it is really bad. >> the discussions behind the scenes when you talk to someone and say this is what happened and this is why and having people trust you because you are not going after them publicly when you see them as a potential ally on a bill. it doesn't mean you are not going to talk about what ted cruz did when he brought everyone back, like i did in the book. but the good things so i talked about mccain taking me to vietnam and standing in the cell where he was held five years and what that meant to me or the work i have done with susan collins on prescription drugs

. >> david axelrod, thank you so much. >> good to be with you. >>> is the summer romance with donald trump over? here are two pros, bob beckel is a democratic strategist and contributing columnist for ""usa toda today"" and kathleen parker for ""the washington post" who writes on politics and culture. great to have you. glad you got the purple memo. ax didn't get it. and now the donald is responding, bob, he's saying do i have to come to the fence of the president when a situation like that occurs? should he have confronted that guy? >> no, we talk about mccain that was a general election. donald trump's people who vote for him believe that. now, is he going to stand there and tell his base you don't understand what you're talking about, is he really a muslim? he got away with it once again saying, and going into look into these things investigate all of these camps and things. but the fact is, when people say trump should have done that, should he have done it, was it the right thing to do? of course. was it the politically expedient thing do? i don't think so. >> do you agree with

but david axelrod who helped run president obama's campaign in 2008 said her aides shouldn't be telegraphing that strategy quite so loudly. >> she does have problems and one of the issues is the spontaneity and the way not to deal with it is to say my plan is to become more spontaneous and authentic. >> former governor jeb bush showed his lighter side last night promoting his platform and brand on the "late show" with steven gilbert. >> i've been using jeb since 1994. it connotes excitement. >> while donald trump showed some serious side. >> we should have doubled up the sanctions, negotiating for strength. we don't get anything. we're getting nothing from this deal. >> trump will be here in d.c. today with senator ted cruz and others protesting the iran deal that clinton is praising. he also released a very trump-like op-ed in "usa today" saying that we -- when he is president, he will renegotiate the deal with i rehab, adding, in fact, if i'm elected, i'm sure u.s. prisoners will be released before then. that's confident, norah. >> confidence. thank you very much. ing. >> jeff smisek depar

president obama's former senior adviser david axelrod tweeted this. quote, today's "new york times" story on hrc reads more like "the onion." her detailed plan to show more authenticity and spontaneity, #justdoit. >> some of these clips, will through, look like they're out of the latest season of "veep." they really do. they look like they're out of the latest season of "veep." down to the dancing, everything. you can't -- you can make this up because the producers of "veep" made this up. >> to be clear, the dance she was doing was the whip nae-nae dance, silento. especially when it comes on the same day there was a front page story that said we're going to show more humor and heart, and that day, you see more humor and heart. looks more scripted. obviously, when she's talking about her mother, that's insere. sincere. >> of course it was. >> it looks a little choreographed. >> when does bill clinton become really involved in this campaign? >> very soon. >> tomorrow. >> you think so? >> soon. >> yeah. >> if not already. >> look. >> you know, this whole

david axelrod.m. >> great to be here. >> great to have you. >> i wish it were a more exciting election year, but nevertheless we're here. >> and one that started earlier, if only. >> yes. >> we'll talk about the new numbers that are fresh out of the oven right now. bernie sanders has met hillary clinton in iowa. they are both at 40%, 41% among democrat choices. what is going on? >> in this particular poll, it's very hard to poll the iowa caucuses because of the way the process works. you have to show up, stick around for a couple hours. it's better to poll off lists of people who have attended the caucuses or partially off of that. the des moines register poll shows she had a lead, but bernie was surging in that poll as well. look, the iowa caucuses is a very liberal, very white event. and bernie sanders has a reel appeal there and she's going to have to work to win the iowa caucuses. you talk to people on the ground and what they say is unlike 2008, she has really built an organization there to bri