joining me now for our daily fix for the washington post, ruth marcus, welcome both.ctive hillary clinton on the campaign trail. >> she's being funny and doing a little trump's impersonation and the crowd appeared to like it. what she is saying is look, i have laid out in great details, everything you are going to do and you can look at my record and know what i am going to do and that's what i will say in the debate and according to her trump has not laid out those kinds of facts and is not likely to. >> she and her campaign see that as one of her chief strengths that she can -- as you know at a moment's notice can sum in facts and policies and so forth. that could be a great strength in a debate and could also make her look fine. >> especially if he goes after her and dismissive -- a fine line there, we know that. >> absolutely. >> watching her in 2000s. ruth marcus, of the whole question of donald trump and new york times story and his past, i don't know if it is surprising to people. most people sort of support him at least accepts the trump's persona. megan kelly

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ruth marcus of in the six columns in the last two weeks.n a two-week period of two months. five out of six. >> by the way, she as a progressive columnist writing about a republican nominee because the readership wants to know what's going on. so did we miss it? we missed you. if you support mr. trump as my brother was a radiologist in maine and would do all across college, just kind of irregular nice, sweet guy, thinks donald trump is great, you delve into the mind and they say they're frustrated we have a lot everybody to think that america needs be great again. and i promise i'm going to finish the. i didn't know america wasn't great. [applause] >> so, peter, from her perspective as a campaign strategist and tim wuliger from ruth, talk about the role of the media. ruth wrote that donald trump has been the most constantly available candidate to press and has managed to still evade the question. but, peter, as a campaign person, how have you seen the change in the roles of media and its impact on campaigns parts which candidates are elevate

joining us in addition to jeffrey goldberg, ruth marcus a local umist now editorial page of the "washingtonost," congratulations, ruth. on your new role. mark leibovich is the chief national correspondent for the "new york times." peggy noon none for the "wall street journal." and ron brownstein senior editor at the lat continue particular. youth, we'll start with e-mails, very tough inspector general report for hillary clinton she went around the rules when her staffers were asked about already private server they were told do not ask. what did you make of her and her campaign's response to that report? >> less than helpful. let's move along it is less than devastating. but it is also less than helpful. it's both reminder to people of the doubts that already have about hillary clinton she's not trustworthy. she doesn't think that the rules apply to her and new information about the degree to which she never checked with anybody about what this was, if she had bothered to check she would have been told no. >> that's the most troubling in this report. the arrogance, not just specifics of the

working on a campaign, as many of you in this room know, you're doing everything you can to get ruth marcus to write about you. hopefully favorably, right? or to get on a television program. or to get mentioned on a sunday show. everything you can. most of what you're having to do is get your message out through grassroots, door to door, knocking -- the old-fashioned way of doing things. because to get that much media exposure is way too expensive. when you have a phenomenon, and there's been celebrity in presidential politics before, but there hasn't been the availability of the outlet. of the outlets that are now available to candidates. the one thing about media that's different than how we would have handled a candidate before. i think john mccain was very different on the campaign. he invited press on the bus. occasionally got him into a little bit of trouble. because there was too much straight talk, but he was very comfortable with the media and had been. but donald trump doesn't have anybody handling him. we can come back to the editorial board. a meeting, what ruth and i talked abo

we're back with ruth marcus and amy walter of the cook political report and jonathan martin of "the new york times." will we have unity by the end of the week? >> i think trump is making it harder for ryan. the most telling point this week was donald trump reacting to paul ryan. he said he wanted to hear more about trump's convictions and instead of responding he responded way paper response and least so far to make the pivot that some folks were talking about and if ryan does this it will be for purely partisan reasons. trump has made clear he's not going to change his mind. he told us he is not going to change his agenda to satisfy paul ryan because the people want his agenda not paul ryan's and their agenda's are totally different. on tone, certainly ryan and trump differ. so what's the rationale? >> trump has the most recent validation from the voters. >> what jonathan says is right on trade and entitlements and down the line. paul ryan is on the opposite end of issues from donald trump. >> the troubling aspect is if trump has a path to the presidency and i believe he does it requir

just three choice words from ruth marcus at the post. you can feel the loathing. is hillary clinton, and she's not doing that well. the fox poll shows trump running slightly ahead of her and beating her by 12 points on handling of the economy and on terror. sound the alarms. they're not just bashing trump, they're going after bernie too. they want him out of the race. he's hurting hillary, so this morning eugene robinson in the post says: bernie's scorched earth campaign is a gift to trump. so drop out of the campaign. it's very clear the media's preferred candidate is not bernie, and it certainly isn't donald trump. it is hillary clinton. they are determined to get her over the finish line even if they have to carry her across. and, yes, we will close as we so often do, we haven't even mentioned an indictment. what will they do if and when the indictment comes? [laughter] can you say joe biden? >>> okay. i just chucked it in at the end. now, we have a headline from "the new york times." the it is a poll. 80% of republicans say party leaders should support donald