one involves former vi vice-presidential candidate sarah palin. she said after she endorsed senator obama, she was asked to take part on attacks on palin. >> in beginning the process of working with then senator obama after i ended my campaign, we had as i describe in the book an awkward but necessary meeting to clear the air on a couple of issues, and one of them was sexism that unfortunately was present in that '08 campaign. >> were you asked to be critical of her? >> yes. that very first day, the obama campaign said, we want you to go out and criticize her. i said for what? for being a woman? let's wait until we know where she stands. i don't know anything about her. do you know anything about her? and nobody, of course, did. >> the former alaskan governor tweeted this. look who fired the first shot in the real war on women. hint, at any time the gop. see this excerpt from hillary's book. the fact that she's making a deliberate effort to show that she's a friend to other women. didn't you take that from this deliberate mention in the book? >> ye

and does sarah palin have a point? >> sarah palin is anything a comedien comedienne. >> that is it?surprised that the obama administration that sarah palin gets nominated and they want hillary clinton the go out to speak against her? >> well, put sarah palin aside and what hillary clinton goes on the speak quite revealingly about is the pervasivis ee sexif the 2008 campaign, and whether ms. palin is part of that conversation or not is not the issue, but i think it is fantastic that she is taking on the topic, and i look forward to what she is going to say. >> well, a huge crowd at union square and a great crowd and a get ready for hillary bus. >> and by the way, you can see more of cynthia mcfadden's interview tonight. and the tweet of the day comes from hillary fallon, hillary clinton wants to put off presidential plans, but when asked where she wants to go, she said, iowa, new hampshire, florida. ♪fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow♪ ♪fame, puts you there where things are hollow♪ the evolution of luxury continues. the next generation 2015 escalade. ♪fame the porter was so incred

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>> harold is on the side of sarah palin. don't think that carried the day. >> no, it did not. >> we're not being sarcastic. >> we're not being sarcastic when we suggest it's time for ted cruz and sarah palin to pile back into the clown car and drive off to some other state -- >> did he just say that? >> i think your take on sarah palin is far different than harold ford's this morning. >> harold begs to differ. >> there's a cruz curse. >> what is that? >> look at what he's doing in the leadership race. look at the leadership races, the people he's endorsing in these primaries. way more often than not he's losing. he's been losing since he forced the party into a government shutdown. the ted cruz wing of the party is a distinct minority of the party. there's lots of people who are very conservative who do not share his world view and share his hard edge. his hard edge is not for bail. >> what was interesting about that, there was that period after 2008 heading into 2010 where sarah palin had the opposite effect. she was helpin

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and i don't hate sarah palin and you know it but let's get to brass tacks here first of all the government is not giving these individuals a minimum income this is taxpayer dollars and dollars that the government is just printing is actually oil industry law in texas in alaska it's from the oil industry secondly secondly i think the motivation behind there is bigoted and biased you know these phony progressives i suspect they are closeted racists because they genuinely don't believe in their heart of hearts that many of these people on the dole are capable of making it on their own so what they do tom is they would hand out a little bit of money keep them at distance levels petrol poverty an exchange to buy their votes but what do they really doing they are depriving these able bodied men and women of the dignity of work and the right to succeed and it's not right tom we have seen that there are now white people who are on the dole. yeah there most certainly are but i'm talking about a particular group. the not real progressives like yourself the pseudo progressives who take agree just adv

about sarah palin. >> the obama staff, the campaign wanted you to attack sarah palin, and you say, youn't do that. >> the day she was nominated and so it is the day after the convention that nominated president obama and vice president biden and the day she was nominated the obama campaign did contact me and asked me to attack her, and i said, attack her for what? being a woman? attack her for being on a ticket that is drawing attention? i said, there is going to be plenty of time to do what you should do in politics which is to draw distinctions. >> and mark, fascinating comments there, and i hear her walking a fine line in part with the relationship with the current president and what do you make of those comments? >> well, i think that is one of the little distinctions that you could end up drawing between the president and his campaign team and hillary clinton and the overwhelming part of her book is very supportive of the president, and very supportive of all of the people in the white house, and her book was not a dishing dirt-type book when it comes to the president and the peop

clinton said she disagreed with the obama campaign reaching out to her asking her to attack sarah palinthe war on women, she tweeted, quote, look who fired the first shot on the war of women. hint, it wasn't the gop. >> i would expect sarah palin to talk about that. a book without that many surprises when it comes to daylight between obama and clinton world, that line definitely stood out and i thought it stood out in the broader book of when she's presenting herself as a global feminist. there is a lot of ra-ra, i am woman. and in 2008 she was talking about commander in chief. she talked about her honeymoon and that's when sarah palin talked about the female factor. >> whenever the rnc, dnc attacks the female politician, it is almost always a female that is at center of it. it's weird. >> she said great things about hillary clinton. she wanted those dissatisfied clinton voters. >> it turned out mythical. >> amy and ben, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >>> coming up, the city so decimated that not even bugs can survive. bashar al assad offers a deal to those fighting against

joe biden, rick perry, mitt romney and sarah palin.than biden, perry and mitt romney but by this standard, sarah palin. one question i had in all these interviews, as she sees president obama going down in the polls, how much does she have to worry about that or does she let that take the place over here an worry about 2016 over here? >> i think she can't afford to do that. i think you've seen some of her answers reflect the fact that she's cognizant of president obama's declining standing with the american public. she's picked her response where to create separation with president obama. she did not have to put it in this book that the obama folks wanted her to go after sarah palin in 2008 and she pointedly said no. the fact that she put that in there i think is very telling. you add on some of the sort of foreign policy differences, most notably syria, she wanted to arm the rebels. she is creating some space. not in a way that will tick off some obama folks. >> always hard for the president to maintain that party's power. she's obvio

how much trash does she talk about sarah palin? you might be surprised. and also in world news -- >> these letters and my mother's love is the reason why i think i feel like i know them. >> stephen colbert sharing us the story of his uncle eddie who fought on d-day, on this, the 70th anniversary of the invasion that saved the world. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." we begin with the world lead. on this day 70 years ago, 1944, allied forces led an assault against nazis on the beaches of normandy. today is a day for remembering the more than 4400 allied service members who died in the d-day invasion as well as the veterans who survived the war that turned the tide of world war ii. how the world has changed since then. today the only known prisoner in the afghan war is recovering at a u.s. hospital in germany. a u.s. hospital in germany. that's a sentence which 1944 would earn more than a few puzzled looks. officials say that bergdahl has recovered to the point where he may speak to his family but he hasn't yet. the pentagon says there's no h

doesn't let it rip at all. >> she does say in answer to cynthia mcfadden about her comments about sarah palinter the candidacy was announced her advice about not going after palin as a woman. let's watch this. >> the day she was nominated, the obama campaign did contact me and ask me if i would attack her. attack her for what? for being a woman? attack her for being on a ticket trying to draw attention? there will be plenty of time to do what i think you should do in politics, which is draw distinctions. >> and sarah palin has tweeted back about this saying, look who fired the first shot in the real war on women, hint, it wasn't the gop? see this excerpt from hillary's book. a politically fun tweet from sarah palin back. chris cillizza, you've been reading the book and watching the politics of all of this. it's very clear from her response, for instance, on benghazi which she was asked by abc about benghazi, would that be a reason not to run. she said that would be more of a reason to run. >> i would say look at the response you play at the start of the segment with her trying to clarify the

sarah palin? it was sarah palin? talking about the need for a third-party.ther people talking about cheaters. others using the phrase uncle tom for african-americans who voted for thad cochran. it was really quite a display, to say the least. it's actually, speaking of the law, called the law in mississippi. and is actually the law. i don't quite understand the over the top hyperbolic reaction but, i don't know. >> the shock waves of yesterday's republican senate primaries have left some members feeling like they hardly recognized their own party. maybe another way to put it. the mississippi tea party conservative chris mcdaniel lost in large part because supporters of incumbent thad cochran turned out african-american votes. mcdaniel say has splintered the party. >> can you imagine how corrupt the republican establishment was when the kind of race baiting and nasty tactics that were used against you? did you expect that? >> no, no, not in a million years. these are people that always talk about party unity and party cohesion and talk about how we are suppos

we did not want her to go out -- we did want her to go out there and speak, but not about sarah palinis would be bad for the women that voted for hillary. she did 10, 12 hours of interviews. she did pretty well. the big focus is the comment about being dead broke. she cleaned that up the next day. i agree with senator sununu, this is not even spring training, this is very very early. it's as good practice, actually. it is a reminder of how hard it is. you are walking the high wire. and it is easy to fall off. >> i am taking it to the bank. thank you for being with us. when we come back, we will take a close look at iraq. then we will debate renaming the redskins with megan mcardle and margaret carlson. ♪ >> welcome back. megan mcardle and margaret carlson in a moment. but first, a foreign-policy reporter is with us with lots of news. let's take up iraq. the president sending in 300 advisors but says we will not send any ground troops. we will leave open whether we will take any other military action. are we getting dragged back into a rack -- into a rock? >> i don't think so. what he

>> the her is sarah palin. that's what they are talking about. >> this is an uncomfortable moment at the briefing today and it wasn't really a great answer from josh -- >> and look the white house does not want to get involved in the details of hillary clinton rollout, however, that one she knew what she was doing, and she's not going to criticize another woman, and she certainly didn't, you know, open herself to any kind of criticism there, and that was a bitter campaign. there were charges of racism against bill clinton and sexism against barack obama. >> she's talking about the meeting that she had with him after the campaign and that that meeting was awkward because it was talking about sexism that was present in 2008. but look, hillary has a long way to go. she's got to get herself up to snuff. she's got to decide is she ready for the campaign. i think all indications are that she wants to run. this book is not so much to get her good press. it's to lay down a predicate so she can talk about her secretary

joanie ernest endorsed by sarah palin and mitt romney. that tells you all you need to know about the backing she's managed to assemble. someone like ben sachs in nebraska, tom tillis in north carolina, even though he had a couple of opponents, clearly had the support of a lot of conservatives. think we might see that in georgia if jack kingston makes it out of the runoff as well. you do see a party increasingly consolidated under a conservative bat banner, but also the establishment managing to bring these unruly forces into the tent in the name of party unity, in the name of trying to win a national election again base that's what they're going to need. >> part of that is spending money in primaries. the tea party forces have been effective in past election cycles because a lot of the establishment types weren't spending money. the chamber of commerce wasn't going in and propping up their candidates the way they did in idaho with mike simpson, the way they did with jack kingston in georgia. this time they are spending money to prop up th

words "the obama camp immediately issued a dismissive statement, this is after john mccain picked sarah paline says "they reached out to me, obama's campaign, in hopes i would follow suit but i wouldn't. i was not going to attack palin for being a woman, appealing if support from other women. i didn't think it made political sense and didn't feel right, so i said no." you see a difference there where she's watching obviously this other campaign, the obama campaign, which it left her pretty battered at that point. and really not signing on or sort of doing what they wanted her to do. >> you know, remember the context of this. at the time, sarah palin was talking about how much she admired hillary clinton. and was kind of trying to sort of peel off some of those women, those clinton supporters who she thought, and didn't turn out that way, might have actually moved over in her camp. and so i think this is a way of hillary clinton sort of distancing herself a little bit and also, you know, we're calling that, you know, wait a minute, sarah palin was actually talking, being a fan of hillary. >> i

. >> the obama staff, the campaign wanted you to attack sarah palin, and you say you wouldn't do that. >> the day she was nominated, so it was after the convention that nominated president obama, vice president biden. the day she was nominated, the obama campaign did contact me and asked me if i would attack her. i said attack her for what, for being a woman? attack her for being on a ticket that's trying to draw attention? there will be plenty of time to do what i think you should do in politics, which is draw distinctions. >> she said to attack palin simply because she was a woman would have been inappropriate. mrs. clinton also said the 2012 attack in benghazi would be her one do-over from her tenure as secretary of state. >>> a judge's decision in california could soon impact teachers across the country. the judge ruled that laws on teacher tenure and seniority were unconstitutional. the judge says the policies, including a last in-first out rule jeopardized the chance for students to succeed. the court also funds that many of the students impacted most by the policies were l

at one point you write that the obama campaign after john mccain selected sarah palin, that they called wanted you to issue something that was dismissive of her and you said no. >> that's right, i did. and i write about it in the book because i want to make clear, number one, that, you know, i don't think attacking women for being women or for trying to get the votes of other women makes a lot of sense. i don't think it's right or smart. the campaign also agreed with it because i do believe that sexism is still a problem. it's not just in politics. it's in journalism and business and all kinds of human endeavors in our country. and we have to call it out wherever we find it even with our friends we have to say you know what? that's a line you shouldn't cross. >> is that done though. i think there were terrible sexist things said but. i have no doubt about it perhaps the one i put in the compartment all its own is that governor sarah palin, there was a media article that and many people ran with it in which it said that she was not the mother of her special needs child. and i thought the

you were the one to point out the sarah palin cap in trade and we played that sound from the debate and you make a really fair point. where we were in 2008 in this sort of major reform that would have been proposed back then compared for now, it's a pretty dramatic shift and has a lot to do with republicans and just how far they have gone on this issue. >> it's actually shocking if you go back. people forget that in '08, mccain and palin ran on a platform that had a big cap in trade bill in it. and that bill or that bill alone, or proposal, i guess it wasn't a bill, was much more ambitious than what the president did today. in '08 john boehner supported a ticket that proposed to cap carbon emissions not just in power plants like we're seeing today but a deeper cap in power plants but also in industrial manufacturing, in the transportation sector, in commercial businesses. it would have been vastly more far reaching and honestly a better proposal. now, obama had in '08 a more ambitious proposal than that but that was back then the fight. you had republicans who wanted to do a bit less th

former alaska governor sarah palin has campaigned for mcdaniel. photo of his sick wife and posted it, some say it's gone too far. >> you don't go to a nursing home and take a picture of somebody that's sick. that's terrible. >> reporter: despite all the celebrity attention, michael says he's undecided. he'll still love mississippi and the king no matter who republicans nominate. for "meet the press," kevin tibbles. >> thank you, kevin and david brook. this is a mississippi story, a story with legs in the political world. >> energy on the mcdaniel side it seems part of the populist, anti-government move and the republican party. >> i hate to turn away from politics but the nation is going to have its attention on big world cup game on united states against portugal. can they make it to round 16? they have to win today to do it. what do you say? >> they will do it. i predict 2-0. >> 2-0. >> who thought england and spain would be out and we'd still be in? winning creates fans. i think it's amazing what's happened. >> the dupont circle where they will

i was actually watching "hannity" last night listening to sarah palin.ere's some of what she had to say. >> if republicans are going to act like democrats, then what's the use in getting all gung-ho about getting more republicans in there? we need people who understand the beauty of the value of allowing the free market to thrive. otherwise, our country is going to continue to be overregulated, driving industry away, driving jobs away. we're going to be a brupts, fundamentally transformed country unless those who know what they're doing and aren't going along just to get along with those in power, being today the democrats, that does no good. so yeah, if republicans aren't going to stand strong on the planks in our platform, then it does no good to get all enthused about them anymore. >> we've heard this before from sarah palin, this idea that they're going to break off and form a third party. you know, hindsight is 20/20. i would say maybe that's what the tea party should have done from day one, start a third party. i say, you know what, if you're that

although alaska and governor sarah palin has supported him along with rick santorum how significant will those be? >> there is the understandable reason you receive them again fault for mcdaniel. they see him as the future the guys who will challenge of a status quo but cochrane has been a guy for the most part takes care of business in mississippi are troubled school bring home the bacon and that is not important to many. just slaughter the big and forget about the bacon all together so it is the ideological challenge also one of the ugliest campaigns i think in american history and just the issue of people pulling into the nursing home to take pictures of his wife in a nursing home bet? it does not get any worse than that. >> i am surprised the voters on that basis alone did not return him to the senate but i have been wrong many times with political races. the iowa senate race i love her commercials. [laughter] she seems to have created some excitement and now she will win but what is your take? >> i think she is the presumptive favorite and need to get 35 percent to avoid going to a

also lest we forget american radio comedians also target sarah palin back in two thousand and eight when she was running for vice president alongside john mccain he said you know mrs good. for you funny and you. know what are you. so good to hear you i was convinced she was speaking to the french fries in a conversation going on for six minutes to sense something was up when the impostor mentioned his love for killing animals on his wife's preferences in the bedroom. king philippe the six has been sworn in spain's head of state hell to greet the new leader who drove around. the new king later appeared before his subjects with his commoner wife on the balcony of the royal palace the crowning ceremony was ok so as not to anger spaniards dealing with the start to. the schedule to take place in the capital later today the spied upon the. banks well definitely people in spain in spain care and that's why thousands of people took on the streets to the streets recently i mean people actually want a referendum they really wanted to decide whether they wanted a king stealing the. house is going t

mccain picks sarah palin as his running meat. they reached out to me. i wouldn't. nk it made political sense and it didn't feel right so i said no. >> well, i mean obviously that was smart politically certainly. and it also gets to what she's trying to do here which is to broaden her appeal to, you know, beyond democrats and to independent women. she's talked a lot about her experiences being in the spotlight in politics. how there's a double standard. so being a little bit protective of palin makes her look warmer and more charming. >> kinder and gentler. >> and i look forward to the sarah palin endorsement. >> you might be waiting a while on that one. thanks for coming in. back to you guys in new york, i want to show you the front page of the drudge report this morning. i believe to be not true, but a great talker. suggesting that no illinois democratic candidate could be as good for an upcoming senate race than obama. i think not, but there you go. >> the president has said that and she has said that more ways than one. not going to happen. >> aren't they talking

. >> at one point you write the obama campaign after john mccain selected sarah palin, that they called you to issue something that was dismissive of her and you said no. >> that's right. i did. i do believe sexism is still a problem. it's not just in politics, it's in journalism and business and all kinds of human endeavors in our country. >> but brett's decision to spend a good chunk of his time drew flack from some anchors at msnbc. >> the first, count them, eight questions, eight questions were about benghazi. >> brett asked 15 total, 12 directly were about benghazi. if the fox professionals who picked up this can't lay a glove on glinton, how does is that going to be? >> joining us now, lauren ashburn, a fox news contributor and former usa today executive who hosts social buzz on the woikt. rick gronell and craig crawford, founder of the trail mix blog and a former columnist for cq. so it seems like brett and greta and fox are getting it from both sides, too hard or too soft is in the interview. >> and the is most surprising was negative discussion from conservatives going after bo

here to tell us is sarah palin with us. governor, welcome back. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> okay. your reaction to this. why do you think this happened? i think a lot of people analyzing this have totally gotten it wrong. i want to hear your take. >> yeah, i think people are over thinking this and those who are absolutely shocked this could ever happen must not have their thumb on the pulse of what many americans think of, that's status quo has got to go. those who have been kind of part of the problem with these failed policies and failed agenda that is really driving america's economy into the ditch, well, there is an opportunity at the ballot box to make a change. that's what we saw and dave brat ran a great campaign because it was very simple. it was very in touch with the people whom he'll represent. i believe in getting through the general mix and dave brat, he talked a lot about free enterprise and free markets and just the foundation principle about what makes an economy invigorated and vibrant. dave spoke to the people abou

shannon though had support from sarah palin, ted cruz, he's avoided a runoff. if neither had had 50% of the vote there would have been a runoff. the other ramification of tom coburn's retirement in the united states senate is now that jim lankford is the republican nominee for tom coburn's senate seat, james lankford's congressional seat in the fifth district in oklahoma is open, and i mean wide open, there's a gang of candidates seeking the james lankford congressional seat. six candidates on the republican side alone tonight. in that race, again because a candidate has to get 50% of the vote to be declared the winner. in that one with six different people running, we can only put four of them on the screen at once. it's very likely we'll see a runoff in the fifth district, very likely as in i feel very comfortable saying that's what's going to happen. runoff for the james lankford seat august 26th. the republican running to replace tom coburn in the senate will be james lankford. that might have been a very different outcome had all of the national attention

at one point you write that the obama campaign after john mccain selected sarah palin, that they called you and wanted you to issue something that was dismissive of her and you said no. >> that's right, i did. and i write about it in the book because i want to make clear, number one, that, you know, i don't think attacking women for being women or for trying to get the votes of other women makes a lot of sense. i don't think it's right or smart. the campaign also agreed with it because i do believe that sexism is still a problem. it's not just in politics. it's in journalism and business and all kinds of human endeavors in our country. and we have to call it out wherever we find it even with our friends we have to say you know what? that's a line you shouldn't cross. >> is that done though. i think there were terrible sexist things said but. i have no doubt about it perhaps the one i put in the compartment all its own is that governor sarah palin, there was a media article that and many people ran with it in which it said that she was not the mother of her special needs child. and i tho

the associated press had not even declared mcdaniel a loser before sarah palin said this last night. >> you had considered moving third party. explain. >> well, if republicans are going to act like democrats, then what's the use in getting all gung ho about getting more republicans in there? we need people who understand the beauty of the value of allowing the free market to thrive. so yeah, if republicans aren't going to stand strong on the points of their platform, it does no good to get enthused about them. >> tea party activists are the rhinos of republican party campaigning on making the senate conservative, use liberal democrats to preserve and incumbent mrepublican and defea a conservative. and rush limbaugh, who encouraged republicans to cross over and vote in democratic primaries in the presidential primaries of 2008 had this to say. >> they make a play at party unity. but it's as you say, it's a one-way street. and it's -- they will not in any way, shape, manner or form support a tea party idea or candidate. but they want the tea party to think so. this is the great trick t

the sarah palin took to facebook to attack the president saying he, quote, blew it. others accused him of helping terrorists. >> the president may have very well committed a federal crime by giving material assistance to a terrorist organization. >> the president said he wouldn't negotiate during the shutdown. but yet obviously negotiating here. so he won't negotiate with you guys but he negotiated with the taliban. >> the only reason why this thing is announced, the only reason why this happened is because the president is trying to get the va off the front page of the newspapers. >> andy mccarthy, a friend of this program has a new book out. he says the president should be impeached for this. that's what he does say. it's crimes and misdemeanors. >> in my view, it's a very, very valid argument that people are going to start talking about. >> release an american soldier from captivity and get impeached? some democrats have raised concern that members of congress should have been notified about the deal earlier. but this stuff, accusing the president of helping terro

. >> you write that the obama administration or obama campaign after john mccain selected sarah palin, they called you and wanted you to and you something that would dismiss her. >> yes. i believe sexism is a problem not only in politics but downism and business and all kinds of human endeavours in our country. >> the decision to spend a good part of the time on benghazi threw flak from some. >> the first eight questions, eight questions were about benghazi. >> bret baier asked 15 questions, 12 about benghazi. if the fox professional whose cook up this obsession cannot lay a glove on clinton, how good is the committee going to be? >> was fox fair? we now have fox news contributor and former usa executive who hopes associate buzz. >> and a fox news contributor and former spokesman in the bush administration. and craig crawford founder of the trail mix blog and former columnist. it seems like they are get sitting, fox, from both side, too soft or too hard. >> and the conservatives are going after this, after bret and greta. people wrote into facebook page and said the interviews were hi

sarah palin calling it questionable. and calling for an investigation.ush limbaugh suggesting their slogan should have been uncle toms for thad. >> insider republicans in the senate bought 9 percentage point be, 8 or 9 percentage points, from the black uncle tom voters in mississippi. well, isn't that what they call clarence thomas? condoleezza rice? call them uncle toms? they are republican hes. these guys voted for him. uncle toms for thad. >> oh, steve, steve. >> what is your reaction to that. >> gene, take it away. >> here is my reaction. let him keep saying that. you want to see black voters come out in the fall election. let him keep saying that. play that loop over and over again. make chris mcdaniel want to take that up. i would love to hear him talk about uncle tom voters. >> and somebody was pointing out earlier, this is the same rush limbaugh who in 2008, in the democratic primary between hill roy and obama was urging operation chaos, republicans flood the democratic primary. but there is a question, david, about the bigger picture implication

there's an interesting sound bite about sarah palin.call from the end of the 2008 primary is that there was a good number of call being themselves pumas, women for hillary who decided they were voting for mccain and maybe couldn't there have been a little bit of hillary clinton at the time that didn't want to anger her supporters who had switched sides? >> no, i have to tell you, i was actually in denver at the convention that morning, i think karen was, too. >> yeah. >> it was just one of those moments where as secretary clinton said herself in what you just heard in the tape that she showed, which was really she had a thought about how to communicate about the issue there and that she wasn't going to attack a woman for being a woman. i think that's pretty straight forward. >> what else seems pretty straight forward, karen, is that unlike in 2008, if i may say, it appears that hillary is embracing sort of the core run as a woman. it did seem that in 2008 she was trying to do other things, like get her national security creds out there,

. >> governor sarah palin -- >> reporter: describing a request from his campaign to knock sarah palinhen republican candidate john mccain picked her as his running mate. i was not going to attack pail just for being a woman, appealing for support from other women. i didn't think it made political sense and it didn't feel right, so i said no. perhaps an appeal to women voters who will be extremely important to clinton, should she run for president. >> brianna joining us now, along with our chief political analyst gloria borger. it was clear in some of these excerpts that ap, associated press, now has an excerpt as well, on cuba, where there was another disagreement apparently on easing u.s. relations with cuba. the expert obtained by a.p., hillary writes, the embargo, that's been in place for decade, quote, wasn't achieving its goals and it was holding back our broader agenda across latin america. i thought we should shift the onus on to the castros to explain why they remained undemocratic and abusive. there's another example here of slight difference between the president and the the