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and frank bruni, a columnist for "the new york times." welcome, everybody. >> thank you. >> i thought we would start and just do two rounds. and we'll start with frank. frank, okay, let's go. what is the most important thing that hillary has to do in the debate? >> i think she needs to seem genuine. voters have said time and again they worry about her honesty, her trust worthiness. i think they also see her as someone who has been in political life for so long. they see her in some ways as just this vessel of ambition and fulfilling a kind of destination charter for herself long ago. i think she needs to convince the american voters that she has a genuine desire to make their lives better. that she is doing this for them and not for her. >> okay. i'm coming back to that. because i think she has stroaf to be genuine. and it's-- how do you go out there to try to be genuine. >> i'm real. what do you think? >> if i were speaking instrumentally, i would say you wouldn't to keep in your mind the benghazi committee hearsfroo give her a hard time

bush's press secretary and has just weeklyd a new political show on fox news, and frank bruni, a columnistor the new york times. welcome, everybody. i thought we would do two rounds. we will start with frank. what is the most important thing that hillary has to do in the debate? frank: i think she needs to seem genuine. voters have said time and again they are worried about her honesty and trustworthiness. based her a someone who has been in political life for so long, they see her as a vessel of ambition, fulfilling a destiny she charted for herself long ago. i think she needs to convince american voters she has a genuine desire to make their lives better and that she is doing this for them, not for her. >> i am coming back to that because i think she has striven to be genuine. how do you go out there and try to be genuine? but, what do you think? >> i with think she would want to keep the benghazi hearings in mind. she very confidently and firmly, onenot meanly, batted back after another and showed she knows the subject. you name a topic, she will have given six speeches on it over the l

"new york times" columnist frank bruni and former executive director of the wmd commission dr.ou all onboard. >> thanks, mika. >> we did a little poll here and brett was like, i want to talk about putin. all the ignorant statements coming out of donald trump's mouth. let brett begin. and tell us why this isn't resonating more deeply with the american people because the polls are showing trump gaining. >> yeah, look, that's the mystery to me. i never thought i'd live to see the day where the republican candidate is soft on russia and soft on the former kgb agent who runs it. but this sort of man crush that donald trump has with putin, i think, has reached a point where it's somewhere between stupid and scary. stupid in the sense that contrary to what trump said, putin does not have control kind of complete control of russia that he claims there are these separate verticals of power and shows ignorance about how power works in russia. but what's scary is you have a man who is running for the leadership of the world's leading democracy constantly expressing admiration for strong m