maggie haberman?e gillespie running for senate in virginia he was outraised by scott brown, running in new hampshire. this caught the eye of a couple of republican operatives who i heard of, and donors i heard of. democrats were expecting him to have a better quarter. he has good cash on hand but the fact that he got 1.9 and scott brown got 2.34, 2.35 million was not lost on some folks. >> peter? >> i want to plug a story this week on cnn.com about the u.s. chamber of commerce which has put itself on the front lines of smashing tea party insurgents across the country in house and senate races could spend up to $60 million, $70 million this cycle. that might not be new but the chamber of commerce moved away from being just a lobbying organization in d.c. to being one of the most political players in campaigns rivaling american crossroads. >> we'll keep an eye on that one. former bob dole campaign manager scott reed behind a lot of the decisions. jonathan? >> virginia is next door to washington, d.c., a

cnn political analyst maggie haberman is here. potential after listening to those remarks. i said, he's in 2016? >> an unsubtle move. look, in keeping to some extent, anyway, where the rest of congress has been. overwhelming support -- >> pretty resolute. >> yes. overwhelming support from congress. from the house, unanimous resolution. the senate, almost entirely strongly supported but rubio went further, you know. went from saying not just a false equivalence, media reports and the focus on the human tragedy going on in gaza. children being killed. regardless who is to blame, those images are upsetting for people. he went to what is a common refrain from some republicans over the last several years, that obama is partly at fault, because he has not been strong enough. i think you will hear more of that as we go along. >> i read an analysis talking about a metamorphosis, rand paul went through? >> he's been clear in terms of a shift. right? walking a line for a while of trying to seem less like he is boxed in a certain ideological

cnn political analyst maggie haberman is here.ening to those remarks. i said, he's in in 2016? >> an unsubtle move. look, in keeping to some extent, anyway, where the rest of congress has been. overwhelm sag port -- >> pretty resolute. >> yes. overwhelming support from congress. from the house, unanimous resolution. the senate, almost entirely strongly supported but rubio went further, you know. went from saying not just a false equivalence, media reports and the focus on the human tragedy going on in gaza. children being killed. regardless who is to blame, those images are yun setting for people. he went to what is a common refrain from some republicans over the last several years, that obama is partly at fault, because he has not been strong enough. i think you will hear more of that as we go along. >> i read an analysis talking about aamorphosmetamorphosis, rl went through? >> he's been clear in terms of a shift. right? walking a line for a while of trying to seem less like he is boxed in a certain ideological corner. on the se

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. >> final concluding question for maggie haberman.d this isn't your personal opinion,yo but if you, i would like to get your take, if you polled the press corps covering the presidential campaign in 2016, who would they want the two nominees to be from purely, purely journalistic point oft view, justof for the fun and story? >> for the journalistic point of view or the fun? iac think for the fun point of view, i think that they would want an elizabeth warren versus chris christie. i think that for the -- >> no joe biden? >> sorry, that's right. that is actually true, yes, that would be joe biden versus chris christie or and or rand paul.ch it would have to be, probably edge woulded go to rand because one of the things of people who cover him in the senate will often say he is very, very, very, undisciplined in terms of like what he says walking around the halls. and so, i don't mean that is something, he often talks to reporters. his aids would rather he doesn't and he becomes sort of hard to control. for reporters that kind of thing

two of my colleagues here star star reporters alex burns and maggie haberman political reporters for politico. john della volpe director of polling at the harvard institute of politics and dr. larry sabato director of the university of virginia center for politics and editor-in-chief of sabato's crystal ball and a columnist for politico magazine. before we get started, how many of you are addicted to politico? how many for you is that your first read in the morning? raise your hand. be honest here. this isn't like -- and how many is it your last read at night? and how many of you are politico pro readers? that's great, and you are happy with it. yeah. good, good, good. i can't tell you how thrilled we have been with the response and the interest at starting something from nothing to something that has really become a must-read for a lot of people. thank you for your support. now, today is an important day for all of us here because today is the day of the release of our second political pull that we did with john's firm and its gotten huge pickup around the country and i'm really exc

ben white and maggie haberman reporting the story people who knew bill clinton was a great asset to herlong is realizing as she puts together a platform, she is going to have to account for the fact that since the clintons were last in power the party has moved a lot to the left and a lot more concern about inequality now. bill and hillary clinton now was highlighted again and again on her book tour are part of the .001%. in the '90s democrats were trying to prove they were business friendly. now democrats need to prove they are willing to hold wall street accountable. so a couple of the policies that she could use to do this would be expanding trade. some places to start. she has to do something more creative than that and that is what the clinton minds are working right now. >> we have heard the criticism she is a senator from goldman sachs and wall street. is it important for her to shake that? if she runs for president, is it going to affect her in a primary, if there even is one at this point and where does that hurt her exactly? >> well, she is -- they recognize the ghost of eliza

molly ball of "the atlantic" and maggie haberman of "politico."eld down on the border to talk about what should be done, especially about the influx of children in recent weeks and months being sent up from central american countries. rick perry says the president should come visit. >> if the president of the united states is real serious about securing the border we can show him how to do that but i haven't even had a phone call from this president. if he doesn't go to the border it's a real reflection of his lack of concern of what's really going throne. >> you have some serious policy decisions that have to be made about what to do with the children, how to get more resources down there to make sure they are getting the right health care and being processed and the president says most are going home. we'll find a relative and send them home. the politics like that get in the way of rational policy here? >> there's a very strong chance of that. the white house seems very uncertain about exactly what to do about this. it's a massive, massive prob