the clintons are so fake and this is that it get. they gent overboard thinking barack obama would save them at the end of the day, like bill clinton did for him at the dnc when he made that ridiculous speech and this is what he got for dealing with the devil. thank you. >> guest: well, that's an interesting question. you know, it's interesting that bill clinton has been taking some soundings in various states across the united states with democratic party chairmen, building a support team for hillary in 2016. and he has told his friends and associates that when he speaks to these party chairmen, these democrats, he learned that the obama administration -- the political people in the obama administration have been there as well, and that they are looking for what bill clinton calls a mini-me, a clone of obama, someone who will come out of nowhere and challenge hilary for the 2016 democratic nomination. so in bill clinton's eyes, there's no greater obstacle to hillary getting the nomination than barack obama. >> host: next, tampa, florida, john, independent line. >> caller: ye

the clintons are so fake, and ad this is what they get.ve him they went overboard thinking barack obama save them atn the end of the day like bill clinton did for him w at the dn. when he made that ridiculous speech, and this is what he got. for dealing with the devil. thank you. >> well, that's an interesting question. you know, it'sÎwñb?3r interest bill clinton has been taking h some soundings in various stateg across the united states with democratic party chairmen, building a support team for e se hillary in 2016, and he has told his friends and associates+++a< obama administration have been there as well and that they are looking for what bill clinton called a mini me, a clone of obama, somewhat who will come out of nowhere and challenge hillary for the 2016 democratic nomination. so in bill clinton's eyes, there's no greater obstacle to hillary getting the nomination than barack obama. approving china being a most favorite nation status 20 years ago, then signed off on the repeal of the glass deegal act, which caused a great recession and nasa set the stage for china and other co

obama in my view. has caused many of his own problems. hillary clinton urged barack nd obama to get involved in syria early in that war, not with ground troops, but with the support of the opposition to the assad regime. if obama had listened to hillary, i don't think we would be seeing the spread of radical islam through syria into iraq that we're seeing today. and of course that was the resea with russia in which the obama administration tried to make good relations with vladimir pat putin. so again and again blaming the u past is no excuse for notncti functioning well in the presenty i think that the clintons feel very strongly, as bill clinton i once put itt, -- and i used thi as a title of my last book -- that barack obama is an amateur. >>> that is the title of his last book. y edward kleinor is our guest froo new york, the title of the current work "blood feud."eud." maze from alabama, good morning. >> caller: hello, can you hear a me? >> el yes, go ahead. >> i can hear you very well. >> caller: i hope you understand what i'm going to say. is your

both clinton and obama will attend. a clinton spokesman said she looks forward to hugging it out with the president. intense focus and words as hillary clinton begins to reestablish her political branch, secretary of state, reminding us that everything clinton does is seen through the prism of likely 2016 run. even late night comics are in on the political moves. >> experts say hillary clinton is trying to distance herself from president obama as she gears up for 2016. you know, i think she's been trying to distance herself from obama for a while. check out this interview. >> her discipline, her stamina, her thoughtfulness and her ability to project, i think has made her an extraordinary talent. she was also -- [ laughter ] >> joining me now is steve clemens and susan page. if you want prove that clinton/obama rift is big news, look at the headlines this week. the one that started it all. sharpest criticism with this headline. the obama/clinton discord was clear. the clinton falls obama on policy. new york post, clinton

with or against obama's record on working women's issues? clintonas been critical of president obama's foreign policies. other democratic senate and house candidates are running away from him, too. so betsey welcome to the show, should hillary assuming she is running be running away from the president on working women's issues or with him? >> she should run on her own record. that what she has. she does not need to rely on another president for her record. >> i believe that it will be difficult for her to erase the incumbency. she was part of that administration and she is going to have to answer to the things that happened during it. >> well, i think she needs to contrast herself to him. she has to be her own candidate. i think that the issue for her is going to be how to navigate in a way she is her own person and take the best of president obama and the best of hillary clinton. >> our country has had a tendency to rotate the parties between the parties. and hillary is going to have the shadow cast over her campaign no matter what. >> she has been

is in a political drama with her former boss president obama. >> clinton promises to hug t out when the two get together this evening. chris janicing reports from martha's vineyard. >> it seemed so friç%]dj9ñ but suddenly this week the obama clinton relationship h all the tension of 2008. >> hilla i'm looking forward to you advising me as well. >> started in a magazine interview where clnten took a shot. they need organizing principles, don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle. fired back on twitter. just do clarify don't do stupid stuff means stuffbaghdad in the. >> she's going to have to find some way to have some separation with his foreign policy. >> the intensity escalating until late tuesday, clinton picked up the phone and then put out a statement. the secretary called president obama to make sure he knows nothing she said was attempt to attack him his policies or leadership. and the white h on its deputy national security advisers a policy guy to calm rocky political waters. >> she reached outecse they have the type of relationship wher

they want what obama promised to be. clintonay be aiming for that sweet spot between bush's bell lidge rens and obama's neglect, i could think of safer more calculated of going about it than stiff arming the democratic base. in her memoir "hard choices," clinton apologized for her support of the iraq war but made no secret of her interventionist streak, she wanted more troops in afghanistan than obama, for example and was not swept up in the drama of the arab spring like other younger white house aides. call me naive, but maybe clinton is simply being honest. after all that's really what americans want in a leader. >> willie or john, i've always said she's more of a neocon than 50%, 60% of the republican party. >> john mccain and lindsey graham may talk more loudly and be on every single show every week, but they're in the distinct mine now. >> she's always been morale lined with john mccain than her own party. if this is all calculated, it's calculated around a premise and the premise is she's going to go unchallenged effective

in an interview with cnn clinton complained that the united states and the obama administration wasn't communicating effectively. so the hill paper with six ways hilary clinton has breck n with obama. and we are getting your thoughts on the latest talk against the president. anna, arizona, democratic caller. >> caller: good morning. i think hillary is the only choice. i don't see anyone with anymore experience than she does and i am a die hard democrat. but even if i were a republican or independent i don't see anyone out there with anymore experience. i want to reference a comment made about what someone -- a previous caller said about the benghazi situation and the comment that what does it matter now. i don't think she meant that the loss of life in benghazi did not matter. it was just, you know, this happened and we have to find out exactly what did happen. i don't think she was taking it lightly. i don't think she is criticizing president obama personally. i just think she has different opinions. for me, hilary clinton is the only choice for president in 2016. >> host: do you agre

clinton before the big event. >> reporter: the timing for this encounter between hillary clinton and president obama here at a mutual friend's party on martha's vineyard is a little bit awkward. it comes just after secretary clinton offered some of her most pointed criticism yet of president obama's foreign policy. she tried to smooth things over shortly before the party at a book signing here on martha's vineyard but take a look what happened when i tried to ask her about the specifics. did you think he was handling the situation in iraq right now -- i mean would you be doing it differently? >> i'm excited about signing books. >> reporter: mrs. clinton promised to hug it out with president obama, but make no mistake, if she decides to run for president, this will not be the last time that thee finds herself at odds with president obama. jonathan karl, abc news, edgerton, martha's vineyard. >> the white house said overnight a, quote, good time was had by all. the couples dining on surf and turf and dancing the night away but no word on that obama/clinton hug. >>> the pope arrived in south korea over

clinton. i don't have any -- my comment is totally different. there was some concern about obama clinton at a fundraiser or something in martha's vineyard on vacation. someone said that they were concerned that this may be an awkward moment for the two of them. they have been in politics all their lives. they can hate each other across the room and smile. i don't think there will be anything awkward about their meeting. host: back to the atlantic interview with jeffrey goldberg. this is from the piece online. he writes -- what do you make of hillary clinton's criticism of president obama's foreign-policy? tony from south carolina. democratic all. caller: i am shocked. for her to criticize the president -- she is joining the republican chorus of treason. i'm really shocked. but, between her and any republican, any of the people they have brought forth, i will vote for her and support her 100% rather than any of the people they have brought forth. host: you think she has the base no matter what? caller: she does. she has the young people. people really look up to her and admire her

then i think the battle that is between clinton and obama here is sort of between the 40-yard lines. tainly, hillary clinton has been more hawkish and i think she was staking out ground here. what it indicates is that she's feeling very confident about her primary prospects and getting a challenge of not getting a serious challenge, and is looking ahead to the general election. i think that's why you see karl rove trying to drive that wedge. because she's reacting with confidence, here. >> now jamaal, let's get real. a lot of people feel this was calculated. a lot of people feel she was measuring how far she could distance herself from the president and run back and hug. was this calculated? is this the old alleged clinton kind of having it both ways, moving, whether it be true or not? that was the reputation that was built up in some circles about the clintons? >> i think the only people who know that are the people in the room. i don't feel like this was really something that calculated. i think she was trying to get a perspective out in the atlantic. i think among a lot of foreign

clinton. but i don't have any -- my comment is totally different. there were some concern about obama and clinton at a fundraiser or something in martha's vineyard on vacation, and someone said that they were concerned that this may be an awkward moment for the two of them. i don't think so. i mean, they've been in politics all their lyes, and -- lives, and they can hate each other across the room is and smile. i don't think there will be anything be awkward about their meeting. >> host: okay. all right, vincent. back to the atlantic interview with jeffrey goldberg, this is from the piece online. jeffrey goldberg writes: she responded by arguing that there is a happy medium between bellicose posturing of the sort she associated with george w. bush and its opposite, a focus on withdrawal. quote: you know when you're down on yourself and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, college rently putting yourself forward. one issue is we don't even tell our own story very well these days. i responded by sayi

obama. hillary clinton a big name. she says. organizes principles and don't do good stuff. ct dig at president obama who once adescribed part of his foreign policy as don't do stuff stupid stuff. joining us from austin, texas, karl rove. the far left outfit move on, despicable group, immediately attacked hillary clinton after she took the dig at barack obama. how do you see it? >> well, look, this is an exercise that is fraught with difficulty. hillary clinton wants to diverse herself -- divorce herself from barack obama. is he at all time record low. she is getting ready to run for president. she has got to do two things and both of them are dangerous. she wants to celebrate herself from the failures of the obama administration which causes some people on the left of her party to come out against her and after her. and on the other hand, she needs to somehow convince people that while she was there for four years she should not be held responsible for the actions of the administration on foreign affairs. she was, however, the secretary of state and how to juggle these thing

probably the obama clinton campaign to put the primary behind them but here huddled in craig's officefice were the bookcases were empty the truth poured out. the two sides didn't understand each other. they didn't like each other and they didn't trust each other. the president's aides didn't have another candidate in mind when messina asked his colleagues to cast their votes but they were certain that they did not want to marshall. one by one each aid extended a fist with a thumb pointing down. then messina a strawberry blonde montanans whose soft voice takes the edge off his often profane vocabulary delivered some bad news to the team. i agree he said that this is very clearly an "hrc" pic and it needs to be raised with the president. typically skirmishes over lower-level aides were resolved when cheryl mills hillary cheryl mills hillary clinton's chief of staff for obama states back down rather than taking the decision of the command chain. obama's team tried to draw a line in the sand on marshall or proxy for hillary. as one of the rare occasions when a personal fight in that obama

hopefully obama and clinton could take a primary behind them.onal effect was robert kennedy poster on the wall. the two sides didn't understand each other. they didn't trust each other, the president's aides didn't have another candidate in mind to cast their votes. they are certain they did not want marshall. the thumb pointing down. a strawberry blonde in montana takes the edge off of his often profane vocabulary delivered bad news to the team. they are clearly and h r c pick and needs to be raised with the president. typically skirmishs hr lower-level aides were resolved with cheryl mills, hillary clinton's chief of staff for obama's aides backed down rather than kicking the command jane. obama's team tried to draw a line in the scene, one of the rare occasions a personal fight ended up in obama's store. this is a, quote, test case and, quote, watershed moment in a brittle monthlong fight between the white house and state over hillary's power to pick her team. marshall had a secret weapon in valerie jarrett, who had worked as a special assist

hillary clinton can't and shouldn't be a carbon copy of barack obama. in 2000 when al gore was vice president, he openly disagreed with president clinton when the president decided to end elyam gonzalez back to cuba. in 1988, george h.w. bush sent a powerful signal he wasn't going to do what ronald reagan had done when he said in his acceptance speech, read my lips, no new taxes. hillary clinton is not going to repudiate obama but is going to offer her own vision. >> there's a critical difference here, right? had hillary clinton not voted for the war in iraq, some of the problems that obama has inherited from george bush might not have existed. she has a direct relationship to the policies she's now, if you will, throwing in on. the question is to what agree is she ready to take responsibility, some would argue on her behalf to say i created the mess in the first place that the president had to respond to. it seems a bit more balance in that regard. >> she has said that the vote on iraq that she cast was a mistake. if she had said it sooner in 2008, i th

. >>> just hours ago, president obama and hillary clinton, they came face to face for the first time since a public flap over foreign policy messaging and the debate over whether to arm syrian rebels. and officials say the obamas and clintons sat at the same table last night at a private birthday party on martha's vineyard. earlier in the day, former secretary clinton said she was looking forward to making amends. >> are you going to hug it out with the president? >> absolutely! yeah! we're looking forward to it. going to be there tonight. >> is it a hard choice to call? >> no. read in the book. we agree, we are committed to the values and the interests and the security of our country together. we have disagreements, as any partners and friends as we are, might very well have, but i'm proud that i served with him and for him and i'm looking forward to seeing him tonight. >> again it was a private party, so obviously, closed to the press. not clear if there was a hug involved. however, officials say the obamas and the clintons both had a great time, danced almost every song. despite th

clinton says she is going to hug president obama at the party. lking points will not comment on speculate on what could happen during that hug. it is clear that if hillary clinton wants to be the next president, she cannot embrace, pardon the pun, president obama's foreign policy it's in a shambles and americans know it mrs. clinton will either have to say nothing or distance herself from the president that will present problems for her because if president obama gets teed off he could hurt president clinton'sens thats. already the far left wing of the democratic party has repudiated hillary clinton. they think she is too conservative however, the obama administration does not want to fight with hillary. that was made quite clear yesterday. >> president obama spoke to secretary clinton today. they reiterated that they are in broad agreement on so many of the issues that we're confronted with around the world and she has been a great partner. >> sure. and so the democratic party finds itself in a very awkward position. but for every day americans,

apparently president obama and hillary clinton were glad to see each other or at least it looked that way after the former secretary of state had to walk back harsh criticism of president obama's foreign policy. that led to concerns about what would happen when the two crossed paths at a private birthday party at martha's vineyard last night. his press secretary joked saying the two would hug it out lead to go a question about a book signing on the island. >> are you going to hug the president? >> absolutely. looking forward to it. going to be there tonight. >> critics say both hillary and the president are playing ridiculous games. >> this is such a blatant display of clinton inauthenticity. she finally said something she believes and then retracted it. do you ever know if they are saying anything sincere. >> why is the president of the united states so thick skinned let the secretary of state can't let her say maybe we should have arm -- shouldn't have armed the syrian rebels. he had a sick dog on her. this is supposed to be a man that is above all of that. >>> we want to keep talki

the democratic party, the people who vote in primary, where are they on this, with barack obama or hillary clinton? >> they're probably with obama. they tend to be more liberal. even obama is getting more hawkish. >> this could open up a challenge for hillary clinton from the left. >> it could. and what hillary is also going to get is the press. because she's essentially clear the field until she decides whether to run, the press to second-guess everything obama does. it will be very interesting too see how she handles that. >> bret, how does this go with hill accredit sizing the brez. does this give them a chance to find their voice? >> this gives them a real opening when the presumptive democratic mom knee is already criticizing or at least mildly criticizing the president to reassert their republican conservative international bona fides to point out what a disaster this administration has been with relationships all over the world and to make a case for a muscular international united states that doesn't tip over into the utopian one might accuse the bush administration of. >> rand paul may ha

in january of 2013 when president obama and out going secretary of state hillary clinton shared that interview, president obama's ratings on foreign policy was 49%. this handling of foreign affairs was one of the pillars of his presidency. fast forward to this summer as isis overran iraqi forces. president obama's foreign policy approval was dropped. 58% disapproving of mr. obama's foreign policy. his former secretary of state appears to have joined the critics. in an interview with the atlantic magazine, hillary clinton placed the blame for the rise of isis on obama. namely, his refusal to equip and train rebels. quote clinton, the failure to help build up the protesters. there were islamists, secularists, there was everything in the middle. the failure to do that left a big vacuum which the jihadists have filled. she rejected one of mr. obama's trademark mantras. don't do stupid stuff. why does the maddame secretary knock that? "great nations need organizationing principals and don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principal." question, why is hillary clinton no longer wanting

reference to a failure to build a moderate opposition is what drove the headlines about clinton attacking obama'she should have used a word like inability instead of failure. clinton's appeal for the rebels here doesn't go very far today, doesn't totally make sense. even people who wanted to help the rebels more didn't see isis coming back in 2011. that includes hillary clinton. "hard choices," clinton's book about running the state department talks about al qaeda, a little bit a syrian army and doesn't mention isis once. it's a reminder of why jihadist uprisings keeps happening no matter what the u.s. does. he writes the sunnis constituted more than 70% of the population. one of the top challenges for the u.s., she writes, was helping the opposition unite across the country's many religious geographic and ideological lines. was that a top challenge or is it a trap? the lesson of iraq isn't simply to be a less hawkish. it's also to be wary of alternatives to regime change. with four presidents consumed by iraq, we should remember the restraint of one. most effective, george h.w. bush. he argued h

. >> in an interview with the atlantic magazine, hillary clinton criticized president obama's policy on syria and said -- so this has become a big brouhaha. another clinton the president obama will be meeting tonight at the house of burning jordan, a big party for ann jordan. the clintons people have put out they will hug it out. david axelrod has treated about the issue of stupid moves hillary clinton was talking about, not making stupid moves is not a policy. president obama, apparently, had talked about not making stupid moves. david axelrod said, don't do stupid stuff means stuff like occupying iraq and the first place, which was a tragically bad decision. alluding to hillary clinton attemptor the original on iraq in 2003. can you talk about this difference, particularly significant the cash is possibly running for president? >> true. i am pretty contemptuous of it to be honest, because it is opportunism by heather clinton. it is nonsense. the idea, which is very widespread that there was a moment with a few more guns and ammunition that a moderate syrian opposition could have tak

i'm not sure there's a lot of new news here, per se, other than hillary clinton is more hawkish than barack obamaown that since 2008. >> yeah. but the word failure is a pretty strong word >>well, you're right, it is. by the way, i happen to agree with hillary clinton on the issue. i think we should have done more when it came to arming with regard to syria. because in large part, we can say by not doing what we could have done, then that did give isis the ability under the cover of darkness become who they are in southern syria. that is just a fact. and we can't change that. all we do now is fight against isis in syria and iraq and try it alleviate the problem. >> so jimmy says that hillary clinton was to the right of barack obama in 2008. that's why she didn't get the nomination among other reasons. is this important coming now she may be running for a second time? >> well, this is obvious that she is probably going to launch, you know, her campaign soon. and i think that the fact that they're hugging it out. to look at the bigger picture. they're clearly divided obama and hillary clinton are cl

will have their first face-to-face meeting since clinton slammed obama's foreign policy in anlantic. hillary clinton says obama's action or inaction in syria was quote, a failure that opened the door to an isis takeover of the region, and then the president's former top diplomat went on to say the white house's self-described strategy of don't do stupid stuff abroad season a strategy at all. that is not sitting well with obama's supporters, including former top aide david axelrod who seemed to take a swipe at her and her vote to authorize the iraq war when he tweeted this, just to clarify, don't do stupid stuff means stuff like occupying iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision. to let's talk about all this. welcome to both of you. >> great to be here, carol. >> great to have you here. so paul, president obama and hillary clinton are going to be at this birthday party and supposedly they are going to hug it out. what might that look like? >> well, first, maybe a few jello shots or something. party a little bit. there was an honest disagreement. what i like

. >> in january of 2013 when president obama and hillary clinton shared that interview, president obama's approval rating was 49%. his handling of foreign affairs was a pillar of his presidency. and now fast forward this this summer, ' sis is running over. president obama's foreign policy approval rating was routed by that, dropping to 36%, with 58% disapproval of president obama ice foreign policy. hiss former secretary of state appears to have joined the critics. >> because ofay sis, on obama. >> family history fueled to train syria's rebels, pro- clinton. the failure to help build up a critical fighting new orleans of the people, there was islamist, there was everything in the middle. a e failure to do that left big cuum. and in that same interview, he rejected a trade mark materia, do not do stupid stuff. why does she knock that saying from obama? quote, patients need organizing police pals and do not do stupid stuff is not on organizing principle. >> and why is hillary clinton no longer 'er to share the limelight with president obama as she did? it is a matter of principle? >> i thin

you saw progressives saying remember back in 2008 hillary clinton voted for the iraq war. that was the reason barack obamadon't think we won't forget about that. you saw strong statements from organizations. republicans were able both to tie the president and hillary clinton together and also highlight the split in the party. it's just not going to be a very healthy thing for the party going forward if every time clinton and obama have a difference on policy. they have a family feud. especially before a contested midterm election and heading to 20163. >> people get obsessed about the personal relationship between the two. do you know what the relationship is like between them? >> well, i think that during her tenure as secretary of state from all the reporting obama and clinton had a warm relationship. they were viewing each other as peers. remember back to the contested primary contest in 2007 and 2008 how nasty that race was. you're seeing some of those same moves being reopened. i think it's less of a personal dispute between the two. as much as a policy difference. it's a policy difference we've seen

story down and move on. >> lynn, there's been a long-time sort of distance between barack obama and hillary clinton way back to really even before the primary. one of the things that they have shared are advisers who hillary wanted for her campaign but who went into the obama camp. david axelrod being one of the important ones. axelrod put out a tweet after the clinton interview with jeffrey goldberg was released and he said just to clarify, "don't do stupid stuff" means stuff like occupying iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision. of course, lynn, a decision that hillary clinton as senator voted for. >> right. and so david is very clever and he got a lot done in that one tweet. you know, susan rice was somebody who bill and hillary clinton would stay in the hillary clinton camp back in '07 when she was one of the first advisers to go for obama because it was under the clinton administration that she rose and set the stage for her to be -- to be a u.n. ambassador under obama and a top foreign policy adviser in the white house now. nonetheless, this episode is an amplification o

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obama and clinton on again off again relationship. ming president obama foreign policy joe trippi joins us. do you want to be that fly on the wall, too? >> let's hug. come on. let's do it. like huggology. >> how about bad is this? >> you if he, i don't think it's bad. >> axelrod doesn't like it but in 2008 hillary lost the election by being to the right of barack obama. she lost the primary fight to him because she was for the iraqi war when he had opposed it. and so it's kind of interesting, it's sort of, you ask the question like does she really understand how big the shift in the democratic primary electorate is since george bush that she is now, again, stating wanted -- standing to the right of him and i understand how it positions her in a general election, but this could invite an elizabeth warren or a sanders from vermont. >> or maly. >> that's what i mean, plenty of people. so i think it's positioning for a general election and separating from the president. but in the same way, making the mistake that happened in 2008. joe, if

there's no way she made a mistake and no way president obama believes she d did. >> that sounded so corny. it is so clumsy by hillary clintone didn't need to say this, she didn't need another gasp. first that comment self-inflicted, now this. she didn't need to say this. nobody is asking your opinion about the obama doctrine. the walk back is so clumsy, everybody knows, she is a woman trying to overcompensate by acting like a hawk. she is a female running to be the commander-in-chief, trying to be very hawkish. >> that is why she wanted to dennis and its armed service committee because women running for office risk looking weak as a woman so she does do that. >> i think she has to start the clock ticking between where she stands o her where she says she stands now. starting the clock early to say i am distancing myself from the president. the biggest job right now making those comments because every time opening the mouth coming back behind her setting up hug it out mode. >> anytime president obama classic clinton. visited genius? >> what voters is she trying to attract? people don't support that. they will not like the res

clinton. she may be running for something. she called president obamarday to make sure he knows that nothing she said was an attempt to attack him but how can you view her calling approach to syria a failure without getting the feeling that the clinton obama rivalry may be back? >> if it's not a rivalry, it's at least politics being played by her you got to appear from distancing yourself from an increasingly unpopular president while at the same time not entirely throwing him under the bus because of course he still has strong support really among the loyal democratic voters she's going to need in 2016 especially in the event of a primary challenge from somebody else. she's trying to have it both ways here. clearly, this interview over the weekend, an incredible interview if people haven't read through it, there is a lot in there, this of course being probably the highlight of it, it's a great demonstration that she's clearly thinking -- and she's trying to find subtle ways to distance herself. i think what we saw yesterday was a slight attempt at dama

clinton's call. >> president obama and his former secretary of state. >> the party in martha's vineyard. >> the chancehack out their foreign policy differences. >> going to be hugging it out. >> the president and hillary clinton have had many hugs over the year. >> clinton using the word failure to describe the president's syria strategy. >> i reviewed her memoir and one theme is that she got foreign policy issues right earlier than the president. >> i could not be more grateful to hillary. >> people forget how much hatred, animosity, rage there was between these two families. >> i think we'll probably see some notification there they've in fact hugged it out. >> the bitterness runs deep. >> he appreciates her friendship and is looking forward to seeing her this evening. >> barack obama and hillary may be many things. friends, i would not put that on the list. >> i could not be more grateful to hillary. >> in just a few hours, the clinton/obama drama of the last week comes to a head when the former secretary of state joins president obama in martha's vineyard. at this very hour clinton is signing copi

is this island big enough for clinton and obama? the island? martha's vineyard. xcitement factor. when i heard hillary was going to be here, a 17-year-old girl told the paper, i literally started crying. the back story? hillary clinton's much touted plan to hug the president after she made some critical remarks about his foreign policy in an interview with the atlantic. that has prompted a potpourri of punditry. was she just rusty or was this a poke in the eye? >> hillary clinton wants to divorce herself from barack obama whose popularity on foreign affairs is too far. >> is this really such a political earthquake? it's hardly unusual for a potential white house contender to distance herself from a president she worked for. and clinton also praised obama in that same interview. she did take a swipe at the obama slogan, don't do stupid stuff. clinton said without naming names, that the failure to build a credible fighting force against a syrian regime left a vacuum. an argument she makes in her book. then on the vineyard, came this. >> are you going to hug it out w

it was barack obama secretary of state hillary clinton who negotiated a cease fire between hamas and vaem two years ago convincing israel to take down a blockade so that hamas would build schools and hospitals for palestinians. a half a million tons of cement later were then used by hamas to build steel reinforced tunnels the most sophisticated in the world from which terrorists using counterfeit israeli uniforms could kidnap slaughter jews. the administration we are operating under is if you give a terrorist organization what it wants and try to understand their grief vances the conflict will be over. it is like saying, if we just sat down with the boston bombers they wouldn't have killed so many of us. hamas is not a political party. they are not soldiers. they are terrorists. most arab states agree as evidenced by the silence and lack of support by hamas by egypt, saudi arabia, jordan and the united arab emirates. hamas' chance from river to sea is a reminder of their intent to eliminate israel. ♪ chanting) >> the rivers to sea creating a palestinian state is one thing. an altoget

obama. he is and won over by clinton. instead he looks at the poll numbers and realizes hillary isn't going to win and barack obama did this if you would rather throw them in with the winner and the loser. calculations like that are made in politics. richardson makes one himself and, you know, he's dead to the clintons. they are not happy with it and they go after him in public and they -- it is a remarkable story. >> host: what we have here if you are part of a conservative concern about hillary as a powerful force coming for 2016 and you read the book you would say okay now i have these pieces potentially of the perspective about that past. but as i said this comes in the summer when people are saying there are all these books and everyone is trying to attack hillary. the most famous now is this ed klein book about obama and clinton. what is your take as the author of the book about that? >> i don't want to comment about books i have not read. i've seen some press reports but i don't know anything about it other than wha

>> you had former secretary of state hillary clinton saying something similar, maybe focusing blame on president obama. >> hillary clinton is among his critics. obama has a response for his critics. you can really about it in "the daily beast," an exclusive article focusing on private meetings where he fumed at lawmakers who suggested he should have done more and armed syrian rebels. i will not quote his words were is, but you can see it is quite insulting. other papers are blaming his predecessor, george w. bush, and the two previous iraq wars. in "china daily," you can see the hand of uncle sam lacing a missile shaped seed that has turned into isis, biting the hand of uncle sam. >> turning to something much lighter, a lot of french papers are looking at french president francois hollande's birthday. >> it is his 60th birthday today . . they are being particularly harsh on his birthday, talking about the trial of solitude. they asked the question, what in the world is the president thinking about today? what is on the mind of a man when everything seems to be slipping around him, when none of his pol

the other question is what's going on between the white house and hillary clinton or president obama llary clinton in reaction to this, which is really the biggest, i guess, act we've seen of her distancing herself from president obama publicly. they are not jumping on her we know that when her book was coming out, there was a lot of messaging coming from the white house. they were stressing that they wanted there to not be this daylight between president obama and secretary clinton. well, here it is, and it's glaring. >> yes, it is. let's talk about this. cnn political commentator and new york times op hed charles blow here and carrie is here with me. my first to you, why is hillary clinton criticizing president obama in the middle of u.s. air strike in iraq? >> i personally think it takes place in the context of an interview. people kind of ask it particularly if it's happening right then and she is gearing up to, you know, we suspect, run for president in 2016. she's going to have to make spaces between herself and the president, particularly if there are real differences. within t

clinton would say to jeff goldberg. how do you say that syria arming the opposition was fantasy of barack obama when hillary clinton laysut a different and i think going to be an escalating differentiation between her and barack obama. >> here is the big criticism, rich lowry. this was a reaction to president bush and president obama said we are not going to be in war against terrorism . now he faces something quite vast. >> obviously he wouldn't be president of the united states if it weren't for his opposition to the iraq war, but here it is iraq where his view of how the world should work is being discredited by the day. he thought iraq wasn't important, he thought we should have less influence and involvement in the middle east generally. he thought there were all these alternatives to military force. these were all exaggerated or wrong and that's why you have isis on the march. >> and you have a politically vulnerable president on vacation in martha's vineyard with people saying you're checked out here while the world is going up in flames. look at our poll, chuck todd, you detailed this week, not just the presiden

book features the couple bill and hillary clinton and michelle and barack obama. talk about how they worked toge together as a couple, tical political y in the sense. >> how each of the couples worki together? >> yeah. >> well, that would take us a y, long time, but basically i would say that as quickly as i can sat this that the s clintons have as marriage that is somewhat similar to the marriage of franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. hav it's essentially a working relationship. they have gone do their separa ways in many ways. they don't live together often.s but they are colleagues and collaborators on policy, as eleanor and franklin were. on the other side -- we have a first lady in michelle obama wht is best friends with valerie jarrett and who is a behind-the-scenes advisor to her husband in a way that's quite different because in many respects, michelle behaves s toward her husband as though she knows better. he has set in public that she's the boss. he often sounds like a henpecked guy, i must say. i know that's very radical to say that. but i think

we have seen people from the clinton camp. president obama with the question to sort of trap him. have heard the chattering class, start to criticize the president. this is the shot over the bow from hillary clinton's camp directly. it's going to be really fun to watch. it's brilliant strategy by the clintons. they do this it better than anybody else. i think the obamas don't trust them. she's out of the administration, she's going to start to launch attacks at them and put disstance. she has to do that. she's going to take heat from the progressives on this, the far left. the more she goes after, the more she'll take. but the strategy is, forget them. they have nowhere else to go. i'm going to be the anointed one. good luck finding somebody else. >>. hang in there, i have a nice sound byte to tee you up. >> what this does, it makes it harder for republican candidates to tie hillary to president obama as a dangerous lefty who puts nus harm's way. she's now essentially john mccain in a pantsuit and getting heat from progressives helps her with undecided and independents who are wor