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ann geren from "the washington post," and joining us from washington is i did torrie columnist ruth marcus. ruth ruth, ann and i have been following hillary clinton, with very few opportunities for questions, but she has been drilling down on her issues. no specifics how she would accomplish it but certainly a pour pop you list tone at times sounding more like elizabeth warren than hillary clinton, and she's reaching out in the way caucus-goers like. >> she did drop some news on what she would like to see happen on campaign finance, but it was geared to be a pop you list economic message, and also geared for an iowa audience first, and a national audience second. >> and with ruth marcus one of the criticisms has been that this is so controlled there's no opportunity to question her about the disparity between them dialing for dollars and what's going to be a billion dollar-plus campaign and talking about a constitutional amendment to limit campaign spending. at the same time talking as a pop you list when she was the senator from new york and clearly very close to wall street took money fr

send the tweets to ruth marcus. your reaction to that criticism? >> outlie or two of most of the feedback we got. a couple very -- it's a two-minute video. you can only accomplish so much but intention things that we wanted to communicate. number one, it is about ordinary everyday americans. it's not about hillary. notice he was much later in the video and starting out, though with people talking about the real issues impacting their lives here and now. that's what this campaign is really going to be about. i'd say the other thing is she did talk about this idea of the deck being stacked sort of for those at the top and not for those at the bottom and the idea of people, again, being able to get ahead and stay ahead, and continue to do well. but we have 18 months and you will hear more of her thinking over the course of this campaign in terms of the policies she wants to talk about and what she would do as president. again, this was meant to be a starting point. >> sure. >> and certainly tomorrow i think you'll start to hear more as she has the opp

hillary is getting panned by some of the left like ruth marcus who came out with, oh, man, she did not like the rollout. what did i do with my papers? ruth, she said, it was a vapid video, relentlessly insultingly vapid. talks about it had no substance, about how she came across as entitled and overconfident. this is a democrat. a liberal democrat. what say you? >> i say it can't win. she's going to have a formal announcement where she'll talk about issues and her vision for america. >> that wasn't it? >> this is the introduction where she let americans talk about what they cared about and what hillary clinton has been about since i've known her back in yale law school is about other people. one of the first questions she asked me when we were online to register for classes and i was a senior and asked her if she needed advice, the question she asked is where do i find the nearest legal services clinic? this is a brand new yale law school student who doesn't seem to be worried about getting through the first semester but was already thinking about helping others. that's what you saw in

ruth marcus and jonathan capehart.something that a mother -- it isn't about right and wrong, it's basic survival skills we're talking here. >> it is. moms are -- they're the front line between their children and the rest of the world. and when they feel threatened, when they see the world coming at them in a way that is not consistent with their values and how they're raising their kids you see moments like that and when the kids sort of break the line and want to get out into the world the wrong way, moms are there to stop it. and i think, you know, she really reflect, i think, a lot of mothers, as you spoke with the congresswoman, about the piece she wrote. that is so true. what i would like to hear and see are the fathers. and i don't care what shape they're in i don't care what their condition is. if they have a child, if they have a son, especially their voices are equally important at times like this. >> how do you speak to a son in this, anybody hear speak to a son when you have to tell them look out for the law

ruth marcus, columnist for the "washington post" and cbs news political director john dickerson here getting used to getting up every sunday morning even the sunday morning after the white house correspondents' dinner. the truth of the matter is i may still be at the white house i'm not sure where i am this morning it's an amazing evening. town that generally goes to bed at 9:00 people stay out. ruth, just as you were sitting down here you told me something that i never knew, you went to school with evan wolfson who is heading up the right to marry. >> i did. when -- we went to college and law school together. in law school he wrote his paper on the then fanciful outlandish subject of whether there was constitutional right to same sex marriage. this was viewed as so out there, it was hard to find faculty advisor he told me later. now i think you mentioned how difficult and dangerous it is to predict things how amazing is it that many, many years later i think we're not even that much about what the supreme court will do. seems almost inevitable. >> schieffer: is this -- will this sti

the "washington post" review from ruth marcus said the video was relentlessly insultingly vapid. a commercial without the substance. that's pretty much the harshest review i saw. the bottom line you see her today going on this cross-country trip. she is in chipotle in the thelma and louise sort of situation she is in. is this roll-out going to work? is this hillary clinton who goes to chipotle going to connect with people? >> we don't know yet. it's so unorthodox. it so breaks out of the pattern that we've seen in the past big rally, big announcement. >> right. >> right. >> lofty dreams for the future that i don't think we can test it. i don't think we'll know for a while. i do think they've got a serious issue here. and that is she has a long long road ahead to sustain public interest in what she is doing. >> yes. >> because there is no story. when there is no tension in the story, she is going to waltz to the democratic nomination it appears. and so she's going to look for new ways. and she wants to reintroduce herself. i do think the warm and fuzzy approach was a smart move ou

but i started thinking after reading ruth marcus okay, so since bill clinton left the white house andhad a senator and secretary of state as a wife, they have figured out how to accumulate $150 million. >> and use it for a lot of good. >> no no no i'm talking about their personal money. they personally made $150 million off of being an ex-president and secretary of state. they cashed into the tune of $150 million. >> let me play devil's advocate. >> let me finish my point. imagine -- and this is a question not for republicans and by the way to my democratic fripd friends, it's in my best interests for republicans to win the white house for hillary clinton to win the nomination. if she wins the nomination your party will lose. so you can be an ideideologue. i say this to ropss republicans all the time. put down the whiskey and car keys. i can drive. we always make these horrible decisions every four years. get off my back sglnchs but so i'm talking to my democratic friends now. i think hillary will lose. so me telling you this actually goes against my own -- >> i don't think she'll los

. >> let's talk about this contrast because i want to read a part of what ruth marcus at the "washingtone report on the video. >> understood announcement video isn't moment for detailed policy platform, but it is or should be a venue for at least nodding to specific goals. >> so let's go shakespeare here. if past is prologue did she fail in that area or is this a completely fresh approach to the job she wants to obtain in 2016? >> i think ruth's opinion was in minority about the launch. the fact of the matter that video got now over 4.5 million hits on facebook and youtube. it clearly communicated policies hillary clinton will roll out over 500 days but rather marked for her the start of the campaign. the whole campaign is not litigated in 36 hours. what hillary wanted to communicate was this is a different type of campaign. a campaign grounded in the future and economic fairness. it's grounded on helping americans not just make a living but make a life. i disagree with ruth. i think she struck exactly the right strong. i think you'll see the same today at the community college and small