. >> vince what does john podesta bring to the the job? >> he is the washington insider and the definition of democratic establishment and what hillary decided to do is obama's third term and bring in an obama insider and he is a long- time ntdzer in the democratic party. going back to bill clinton. and you are bringing in john podestan and this is the type of campaign to run and bringing him in this early is hoping to quell what is grumbling that is happening on the left. the democratic left is concerned that hillary clinton is classified as the inevitable nominee. they hope john podesta can get rid of that grumbling before the primary process. >> she had stumbles last time around in the 2007 era shera. does this mean by bring nothing a grown up to run the campaign does she hopes to it put aside those problems that bedevilled her before. >> again, it is going to be key to her success is the kind of people she brings in. and the first decision is when does she announce her campaign, right? she doesn't want to get in to early because that l

you can't help and notice john podesta is sitting in the white house. in a couple of weeks he'll be working for clinton. >> what's interesting on the clinton front, she obviously understands that things have changed since bill clinton's presidency. bill clinton, he reduced capital gains tax as part of the '97 budget deal. he contributed and had a wall street friendly administration. it will be kind of interesting to watch as these markers are laid down by democrats nationally how far away she moves from bill and how she talks about that. >> yeah. >> what republicans have to do. you have mitt romney talking about income inequality, what are they going to do in terms of real plans. >> with economic growth up, there will be more tax money in washington. the question is enough pressure to give the presidents one or two things. give them that. this is a job that everybody seems to want until they do it. marco rubio, have a drink of water, it's a hard job, i'm not trying to pick too much fun there. jonie ernst, you might remember her. she's going to deliver t

when hillary hired john podesta, strikes me she's hiring somebody a tough guy.et through the and go after the opposition. i think she has hired him to go after elizabeth warren, what say you? >> i'm not so sure that it was elizabeth warren was the thinking here. as you said john podesta goes back to being chief of staff during the first clinton era. i think that what's more important for me is that it's an indication that hillary clinton's presidency would really represent barack obama's third term. that's important to keep in mind as much as she might try to distance herself from obama as the campaign heats up if popularity isn't there i think that ultimately her policies are going to be very similar to his. stuart: i've got this from the "washington post." the post is quoting someone close to elizabeth warren saying some kind of nasty things about the withdrawal of treasury undersecretary. here's the quote, shows we have the power to bring someone down. elizabeth is a bigger bogeyman in these rooms. every time we attack them, they bleed. this is a former banke

if she's not gearing up for a political campaign i'm not sure why you would have somebody like john podestacurrent position and get on her side and be on her team. look, he's one of the -- when you talk about a democratic heavyweight, he's definitely that. and i definitely think that people are ready for hillary clinton. you know, she will -- i think one of the big things that she's going to have to worry about is being able to answer questions that she hasn't really specifically answered in the past. number one being monica lewinsky and what happened during that time. monica lewinsky recently came out and joined twitter and that reignited that whole conversation about what was that whole time in the clinton administration like? so i think once hillary clinton is able to get past questions like that, then she can -- you know she's getting this team together and i think she's going to be a real contender. i think we might be ready for another clinton in the white house. >> shira, shawn raised it because the chair of the gop reince priebus said everything is on the table. they are going to br

john podesta is going to make sure that doesn't happen again. host: peter joining us from florida, good morning. democrat, republican or independent? where do you put yourself peter? caller: a little of each. i am a retired veteran in crystal river, florida. i will turn my t.v. off right now. host: okay. caller: i would like to say... host host: are you with us? caller: they talk about the republicans being for the upper part of people with the bids and& the lower ones being for the working man, the party. how can you go to work if you are in the lower group of business people or the upper business people to put you to work? a poorman can't put to you work. that's all i've got to say. host: thank you for the xhoecht. guest: there is no question that businesses and actually, it's not big businesses usually. it's small businesses in this country create the overwhelming number of jobs. in many cases, they aren't wall street titans making 9, 10, $15 million a year as big companies. they are running mall businesses. a lot are family-owned businesses.

how much significance is it she hired president obama's pollster, he hired his ad man and john podestaing to work for her. >> ifill: she was relying on the bill clinton group to give her advice, she needed to get outside that bubble and she's doing that by hiring the obama team. hillary's biggest problem is not in the primary. there's no empirical evidence there's a hunger for a fresh face on the democratic side like the republican side that i've seen. at the same time, history is not kind to a candidate trying to be a third term. for democrats, if you don't count f.d.r., which i do not, you have to go back to the 1830s, it is a tough, tough thing. >> ifill: i hate sports analogies but spring training seems to apply. >> yes. >> ifill: amy walter, nia malika henderson, thank you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: the issue of sexual assaults in the military has been front and center in recent years and has sparked a heated political debate. tonight, we take a look what happens when some sexual offenders are released from the armed services. correspondent mark greenblatt of the scripps new

there are reports john podesta will be her campaign chairman. obama admin jim margolis will be her media honcho. if these reports are true, what can we deduce about her campaign and what lessons did she learn from 2008? jump in us the come a long time clinton person. she's reaching out and jill bennison worked for bill clinton. she is reaching outside and has heard the criticism. she needs to step outside of clinton world. if she needs to hire, these are big signals she is sending. >> if you are a clinton person you have to be wildly enthusiastic. these are adults from the no drama obama school. they will speak up not just to her, but president clinton. if she picks this team and surrounds them with similar people, it's a good sign she learned her lessons from last time. >> the key person is podesta because he's the ultimate adult and he is the guy who has straddled both worlds. he's been very close and has been close for a long time. he is the bob strauss figure and could manage wherever actions arise and she really needs that. but she needs to

john podesta is probably the most important hire because he has the stature, the experience and personallationship with the clintons to make sure that if there's a war or an argument in the campaign, a there will be that, that once a decision is made, it gets implemented and you move on to the next decision. >> no more sniping? >> no more sniping. >> let me go on to david axelrod. you had a strategy, as i just said, win in iowa, win in the caucus states and win on the numbers and become the democratic nominee for president, which is the big challenge. next time for hillary the challenge is not so much the primaries, i don't think, i think it's fair to say, as building a general after all of the debates and everything she has a reason to be president. is she doing that yet? is she starting that case? >> no, i don't think she has started that case yet. but part of what makes this team so appealing and robert and i know them well, is that they are very good message people and i think they will help her develop and deliver that message as she moves forward because, as you say, that's the cri

>> it matters a ton, but john podesta who was going to help pick her communications director, is goingo pick a better relations officer, and i predict she is going to have to have off the record sessions with leading political reporters the way mitt romney did last time and some of the others have done. just say she's one of the most famous people in the world but she will sit and talk with him, and when she does that, she is pretty good. >> you will still get a call threatening your children when you write about her, but the jennifer pulmonary will call you and apologize. i think her biggest challenge right now is the enthusiasm issue, the energy issue. look at what we are talking about more than anything else -- the republican primary. there are a lot of people running. it's a lot more interesting. she does not appear to have a challenger who really matters at this stage of the game. for her, when you are starting off with the enthusiasm deficit you could have a situation more to obama coming out of 2008 where whoever the republican nominee is because he has gotten so much attention.

more former obama campaign advisers are joining the clinton team they'll join current obama aide john podesta who joins next month. >>> pope francis is celebrating a mass in sri lanka to canonize the country's first saint. tens of thousands turned out to see the pope includeing many who spent the night in order to get a good spot. he arrived well before the mass and got out to kiss the sick and disabled and travels to the philippines next. >>> here at home residents in eastern connecticut are wondering when the next earthquake is going to be felt. in the town of plainfield they're pointing out cracks on streets and inside hopes after six small quakes in the last two days. the largest of them registered 3.3 on monday morning. experts say such a series of quakes is not unusual because of geological pressure. >>> turn to some weather now. areas of snow in the southwest are ending this morning. it'll most likely be clear from l.a. to seattle. rain showers along the texas and louisiana gulf coast with icy mix over the carolinas, finally moving out of there. >>> mild temperatures along the west coa

we would say in your old neighborhood, steve, that john podesta is wicked smack.s a really bright accomplished guy, he knows politics policy he has worked on the hill and has good relations with the senate. in my experience with him, he cares about the environment, about climate change deeply. so you have john podesta with hillary clinton in '08, and you have jim margolis who did the media for barack obama in '08. you have robby mook who could be a campaign manager, he was with hillary in '08, and then beninson who was the pollster for obama in '08. this is some of the best of the democratic party and the message sent is if there's a campaign, it will be smart, well run and inclusive of the party. >> in terms of hillary clinton and where that campaign ended in 2008, i think if you had gone back in time and said this is where things would end up after two terms of barack obama and the 2016 campaign heating up she would be in the position she's in now. when in the last eight years exactly did this happen? when do you think she realized i might get another chance at

. >>> in the "wall street journal," top white house adviser john podesta will be stepping down from hisnth and reportedly will take on a senior role in hillary clinton's potential campaign for the white house. >>> senator rand paul announced that he's hired gop strategist chip englander as an adviser. the "washington post" reports englander would likely be paul's campaign manager if he decides to make a bid for the white house. >>> former arkansas governor and fox news host mike huckabee takes on hip-hop power couple jay z and beyonce once again in his book and now he is roping in the obama family. huckabee tells "people" magazine that he doesn't understand how the obamas can encourage their daughters being fans of beyonce. he says mr. and mrs. obama are excellent parents, adding "and yet, they don't see anything that might not be suitable for either a preteen or a teen in some of the lyrical content and choreography of beyonce?" >>> republican senator john mccain will have another cameo on the nbc sitcom "parks and rec" this season. he made a brief appearance on an episode in season fi

the "wall street journal" reports top white house adviser john podesta will leave the white house administration in february to begin working for the clinton camp. >>> switching gears to talk business news for you. the u.s. government says insurance giant metlife is just too big to fail. we've heard this phrase before but the company says it will go to court to prove otherwise. it's the first financial institution to fight that designation, which would mean more government oversight. so, the company's ceo is saying that regulators got this one wrong. for the day's other business headlines, we turn to cnbc's steve sedgwick live for us in london. steve, let's start with oil prices, because we see this six-year low yesterday. and again, this talk about oil prices just continuing to drop. >> there is, yeah. i didn't hear too many of these people talking when we were $110 a barrel for three years, got to be honest but now it appears everyone thinks we'll continue to go down partly because there is so much supply in the market. we spoke back in november about how opec's not taking any off the table, a

john podesta, the former bill clinton chief of staff, now president obama's climate change adviser.next month, to be there, the question is if hillary clinton runs for president. but you don't leave a senior job at the white house unless you have a little private information that she's going to run for president, right? >> i mean this has been the plan for a while. john podesta came to the white house, said he would stay a year an then until after the state of the union. i think what's most interesting is the plan is in action now. you still talk to people and hear them say, well i'm going to work for hillary, if there's a campaign. if she decides to run for president. at the same time people could not start coalescing around a person like hillary clinton unless they know that this campaign is going to move forward. it's a matter of when she makes this officially official. >> officially official. but john podesta leaving, jonathan martin tells me he has a better understanding of the calendar when she will make it official than we do. >> and there's this drawn-out bit of sort of thea

i think hillary clinton quietly had a very good week bringing in people like john podesta people like who will be different actors in a presidential campaign and have the potential to change the outcome because the infighting will be less, because the characters will be different. >> and it is all obama. >> third term. >> any president -- anybody that runs on the democratic side and hillary clinton will almost certainly be the nominee will agree some with the president and disagree some with the president as it has to be. this is not going to be the third obama term and the pressure will be on her quite frankly not to be the third obama term or the third bill clinton term. >> exactly. all right. we'll pause it there. i wonder if mitt romney has gone out too far because pulling back now might be a pride issue. when we come back president obama's new plan to raise taxes on the healthy to pay for some tax cuts and new benefits for the middle class. dan pf @@@ >> you know my photographer kristen and i, we were driving around here and a lot of drivers, they are pulling up to us rolling dow

our own nbc's first read said today when you add the fact that john podesta is leaving the obama white to serve as a liaison between the clinton campaign and the white house. it is looking like she will be more connected to him than ever. last night on "hardball." the two guys that helped obama beat hillary clinton reacted to the energy campaign team she is assembling. >> campaigns have to be about something, they have to be about a story. these guys know how to construct that kind of strategy and he will benefit greatly from having them. >> if the people on the campaign head quarters are playing for the name on the front instead of the name on the back, do something bigger than themselves, i think that will define success in this campaign. >> back to the round table now. this campaign that hillary is putting together, i'm impressed by podesta. someone that is not an emmy of barack obama. someone that is close to him and close to bill clinton. could it be that the democratic party will not be in disarray in 2016? they will be together in the dualing monarchy of obama, clinton, and bill

selection of john podesta as to be aide to hillary clinton tells me they're going to stay close together with obama. this is going to be a team effort, so far. since the midterm losses, obama has been president audacity, what i call him. days after the midterms he announced a historic climate deal with china. days after that he announced executive actions to effectively legalize millions of undocumented immigrants to this country. in mid-december he moved to normalize relations with cuba, a big deal historically. then came his current populist push. he announced the proposal to make two years of community college free. mandate six weeks of paid leave for mothers or fathers after the birth or adoption of a child. over the weekend, the white house unveiled a plan to raise taxes on the top 1% that would pay for a series of middle class tax breaks including a new childcare tax credit. more income tax credits and, of course, more student loan tax breaks. so he's into action. i think this calls for a little bit of interpretation here, what we do here. i think ever since he lost that 2014 elect

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john podesta is going to make sure that doesn't happen again. host: peter joining us from florida, good morning. democrat, republican or independent? where do you put yourself peter? caller: a little of each. i am a retired veteran in crystal river, florida. i will turn my t.v. off right now. host: okay. caller: i would like to say... host host: are you with us? caller: they talk about the republicans being for the upper part of people with the bids and& the lower ones being for the working man, the party. how can you go to work if you are in the lower group of business people or the upper business people to put you to work? a poorman can't put to you work. that's all i've got to say. host: thank you for the xhoecht. guest: there is no question that businesses and actually, it's not big businesses usually. it's small businesses in this country create the overwhelming number of jobs. in many cases, they aren't wall street titans making 9, 10, $15 million a year as big companies. they are running mall businesses. a lot are family-owned businesses.

we heard that john podesta will likely lead the white house in the coming months and join clinton's team in a senior role if she decides to run. >> nancy, thanks. >> this morning we're seeing new images from the wreckage of airasia flight 8501. these perfects show parts of the fuselage and wing. crews hope to bring the wreckage to the surface. they expect to find more bodies of 162 victims. >> crude oil now sits below $46 a barrel. that comes close to a six-year low. the knack ak ar if gas they could see prices fall below $2 a gallon by next week. >> it's been a long time we've seen prices that low. >>> you won't need gas for some cars making headlines at the international auto show. tesla is one showing off the cars but the company's stock dipped as much as 18% yesterday after announcing poor sales in china. dean reynolds is in detroit where tesla's founder is sparking the conversation. >> ladies and gentlemen, introducing the chevy bolt easy concept. >> reporter: the all-electric chevy bolt is only a concept car but general motors also promises to send it out. but at a time when the pr

white house meetings were often with president obama's counselor and chief environmental advisor john podesta. we remember him from the clinton administration. he's been a lobbyist now for quite some time and he is actively involved in this issue. and the reports have also surfaced that steyer and podesta have met with billionaire liberal activist george sawus days after he the. that affected the election but they still lost. if i'm guessing right on the races he was involved in there's not one that won. republicans, you know, took over ten seats and that's -- that was quite a good year. so maybe he wasted a lot of several million dollars there. when we look at it and you think that what he has done to fossil fuels and that's been his war every time -- and i've heard on the floor twice today already people say well, look at the success the oil industry has had under the obama administration. well i have to suggest it's been in spite of the obama administration and the proof is very easy. of the -- the revolution that's going on right now in the oil industry is one that has been very very succ

it reflects the influence of john podesta. some early reaction coming in from facebook. joyce writes. we are looking for your calls on the move to ban drilling at an wwar. there are a lot of papers following up on this story. this is the "los angeles times workout --." republicans call it an attack on alaska. we have a little bit of video. we want to show you from a 60 minutes segment last night with john boehner and senator mcconnell. they talked about relationships with the president. they talked about the potential for the president to be vetoing bills. we know keystone is one of those bills. >> the president has vetoed two bills in six years. the reason was the senate never sent them anything that caused him any discomfort. it's going to happen occasionally. presidents veto bills. there are differences of opinions. that's not unheard of. >> his job approval rating is 46%. the job approval rating for the congress is 15%. what do you say to the 85% of the people who think you're doing a lousy job? >> i would say they are right. from a senate perspective, i can tell you

you're in the clinton camp you want to see the approval ratings at 50%, we've got people like john podestaillary clinton at some point. has been orchestrating what the president's approach to politics and policy has been for the last year. so i think hillary clinton, she stays out until july. the president keeps doing this keeps putting republicans in a box. republicans have had a rough go of it. think about what happened with the abortion debate in the house. think about how they caved in with the scalise debate. you had republicans like mcconnell saying we're going to turn the page and it's really obama who has been able to reset his presidency in the last six weeks. >> if he president can keep the approval ratings numbers up. we'll be cutting the deals in august and september. so the issue is who has the political leverage in august or september. that's what all of this is about for the president, trying to keep his numbers up to build strength for negotiations. >> to build strength for negotiations and he knows the magic number for republicans is 67. he's got the power of the veto and

white house meetings were often with president obama's counselor and chief environmental advisor john podesta. we've known his background for a long time. i personally have known him also. he has lobbied for the out of -- for steyer to be the united states secretary of energy. saying "i think he would a fabulous choice for energy secretary and i've let my friends in the administration know that. " so the reports also show that mr. steyer and podesta have met with george so rovment soros. i think it is necessary to remind the american people because it has been probably six months since anyone has even talked about some of the things that we can look forward to in terms of obstacles that are in the way of getting this thing done that needs to be done. the president tries to down play the job numbers. we talk about the 42,000 jobs. he went on to say just a couple days ago well, wait a minute, those are just temporary jobs. well temporary jobs? all jobs are temporary. but these jobs will be there for a number of years and would lead to others and the president tries to down play the numbers by u

highlights the current white house advisor, john pedesta taking a roll should hillary clinton decide to run for president. the journal story saying mr. mr. podestaerved as chief of staff until bill clintonts searched term and has held a top role in the family's charitable association. he sat in andccording to people familiar with the matter. that's in the "wall street journal." a couple of highlights of this politics presidential politics in "the new york times" as well. chris christie coming up in the news. the headlines says he is likely to be forming a leadership packet soon saying it could be as early as this month. >> packet would help pay for travel and provide fundraising vehicles for would-be donors and supporters involved in the issue. mr. christie a republican is unlikely to make a formal announcement of his campaign before the end of spring timing that would allow his team to evaluate any further follow-up federal investigation into his administration. his advisors and supporters said he is under little froesh hurry. three spoke okay anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss his plan. also in "the new york times" this morn

there is a slight change in the last 48 hours, john podesta announcing he's taking a leave of absenceite house and joining her. wendy clark taking a leave of absence from coke, chief marketing officer. >> we are getting it going. >> something must have happened. but i do not know. >> what did you learn and what did secretary clinton learned last time that they can apply immediately? >> they did not take president obama seriously enough and understand his grassroots campaign that he mobilized which was based on social and viral networking. i think that they certainly understand it now. and they will have the right people. i am not at all worried about that being the problem. everybody has it now. it is not going to be a differential. >> i do not know what mario draghi is not going to do. i do know as a fact that hillary clinton is going to run for president. why wait to declare question my >> if i were advising her, the longer you wait, the better. her visibility is not going to go down. she has a chance to build up and learn. learning what are the issues that are the hot button. not j