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victoria defrancesco soto and jared bernstein join me now. thanks to you both. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> so jared, i want to start on this issue with rand paul. this attack on the clintons, it strikes me as kind of a two-for. he's able to go after bill clinton and try to make him a liability. obviously, he's always been a hot ticket in democratic fundraising. he's sort of showing he will stand up to the clintons. that's obviously clearly important on the gop side. but also, he's attacking allison grimes, the woman beating mitch mcconnell in the kentucky senate race right now. >> i think it's pretty simple. the republicans face a well-known gender gap. bill clinton is really one of the spokespersons for the democratic party. he happens to be married to the front runner for 2016, as you pointed out earlier. that's pretty obvious but worth reminding everyone. and so the calculus, i guess, in paul's mind is you go after bill clinton like this, you're going after that gender gap. i can't imagine it has much traction at all. in large part because

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