Today. Lots of unanswered questions. Where is this story going next . John i think it is rapidly going towards the place where we know everything that actually occurred. We know something about the timing from the indictment. It is important to not that what he is accused of took place after he left office. He was not engaging in the hush money activities during speaker of the house. The activity goes back years before that and we will find out what we wanted to know and didnt want to know about this. Mark a lot of people are talking about the human tragedy involving hastert and this other person. It is what did people know and when did they know it will get a lot of attention regarding his time in the speakership. John there is no doubt about it. We will get another look back at the clinton impeachment drama and the personal scandals that enveloped newt gingrich, Bob Livingston and Dennis Hastert who the republicans turned to to the be speaker because they thought he was clean. It turns out he was not so clean. We will see the history through a revised lens. Mark when there is an indictment like this, people say they are shocked in politics. Your hearing a lot of that today. We will see once more facts become known. John the president ial candidates should probably form a band. Mike huckabee on the bass and Martin Omalley on the acoustic guitar. The exmaryland governor is announcing tomorrow morning in baltimore. This is how we let everybody know john i give that performance a b for style and an a for substance. Does Martin Omalley have a chance of supplanting Bernie Sanders as the predominant clinton alternative . Mark i think he does. He is still not very well known. The problem he has is that sanders has outflanked him. He has turned out to be the hip and cool candidate and the one most aggressively going after Hillary Clinton. He has turned out to be the liberal inheriting the Elizabeth Warren mantle. Omalley has his work cut out for him. John we will have our joint scouting report coming out tomorrow. We both agree on this. Omalley is a guy that has positioned himself a little to the left of Hillary Clinton, but not far enough to the left to capture the heart of the far left of the party. He needs an economic platform this is more distinct from Hillary Clinton and as distinctive as Bernie Sanders platform or else he will not have enough of a chance to pick up insurgent votes on the far left. Mark heres the thing about Martin Omalley he is super talented. There have been almost no days this year where he has shown how talented he is. There is a reason why bill clinton singled him out years ago as somebody that can be president someday. He has to show that on a regular basis to overtake sanders. John we have heard a little anecdotal evidence of people being excited in iowa. He is probably a better fit for iowa than Bernie Sanders. If he can catch fire there, he could have a chance. Mark speaking of Bernie Sanders, when he was 30 years old, he wrote an essay called man and woman which opened with graphic references to male and female sexually fantasies, including rape and sexual assault. If you want the details, google it. John, many people on the right and some on the left are not really happy with his essay or explanations about what he wrote. Are his words are problem and should they be . John i have read the essay four or five times and i have a tough time making heads or tails of it. His office says it is satire, it is possible it is, but that does not mean it is not a real story. There is no statute of limitations on president ial politics. I think it is a legitimate story. He should talk about it Bernie Sanders, not his office he needs to express this and explain what he was thinking when he wrote this. Mark this is something that if he is going to play in the big leagues he will have to deal with. I suspect if he shows strength there will stories from stuff of his past. In this essay has generated a lot of conversation in our office today. In politics sometimes you have to just answer questions. He needs to address this himself and say what he was thinking and what he thinks about the things he wrote in the essay. John i know we both agree about this which is if a republican, any republican candidate wrote an essay like this whether they were 16 years old and high on dope or whether it was two weeks ago, it would be a huge scandal. We need to hold Bernie Sanders to the same standard. He needs to address it. It is a confusing essay there might be some plausible explanation for what he was trying to do, but he has to make that argument himself. In mark what if bill clinton had written that essay . Segue to the next topic. John the great gray lady reports the Clinton Foundation sent an invoice for 500,000 to a charity that had given bill clinton a Lifetime Achievement award at a fundraiser. Today, the big dog is playing defense and wrote his supporters saying as you all know, it is the political season in america so the impact of the efforts your support makes possible has been largely ignored in the recent coverage of the foundation. And then laid out the amazing work the foundation has done. Which prominent democrat will stand up for the clintons . How about nancy pelosi . Nancy pelosi the clintons will have to answer for the foundation. I would imagine president clintons participation in that event increased the take and the money spent at the foundation was a very good cause as well. Everyone benefited from it. No question, it raises questions they have to answer. John ouch. With friends like that who needs enemies . Which of these three developments are the most ominous for hillary and bill clinton . Mark in 2008, nancy pelosi was often not the most supportive of democrats for Hillary Clinton. I think it is a tie. In both cases, you have people speaking out and being critical of the clintons and not helping them in a way that is ominous because if people are not afraid to say what they think and what they know about the clintons past practices, they will have a tough time emerging as a general Election Campaign in a strong position. John i think it is unequivocally the third story. Everybody looks at the Clinton Foundation the thing with the charity is sort of shocking. The fact of nancy pelosi not being more robust in the defense of the clintons. She is a canary in the coal mine. If other democrats do not defend them, they have a real problem. Mark their foundations supporters said more. All right, coming up this weekend, tomorrow night at 6 p. M. , our new iowa poll. You will see who is leading the leaderboard on the republican side and who has the biggest potent challenge to Hillary Clinton in the hawkeye state. That is 6 p. M. Tomorrow night. Check it out on bloombergpolitics. Com. Coming up, Ed Gillespies triumphant return to the Public Square right after this. Mark our guest tonight once the upon a time was chairman the Republican National committee and a longtime advisor to many leading republicans, including george bush, mitt romney and john kasich. Last year, he was a candidate for the United States senate from virginia. Ed gillespie joins us now from the washington bureau. America is used to seeing a lot of you on television. Where have you been . Ed gillespie i have been making up for a little bit of lost time with kathy and our children. I have been trying to get a business up and running. Im actually been working on a book. That is why i have been a little scarce and frankly did not have a lot to say. I have been laying low. Mark we will give you a chance to say a bunch of stuff, including about the very large republican president ial field. What is good about having a big field as far as you are concerned with winning back the white house . Ed it reflects the fact it is a nomination worth having. The republican nominee will have a very good chance of becoming the next president. Obviously, i believe that is important. It is good to have fresh faces new voices in the party. There was a good backandforth over ideas and policies. The party is being pressed to think fresh and i think that is a good thing for us. As far as i am concerned, the more the merrier. Mark we know you are mr. Positive so we will as he does say some positive things about the member of this big field starting with marco rubio. Tell is one thing he has done in the last four months that has been positive in his chances of being the next president and what he should do to improve his chances. Ed i think he had a very, very strong announcement and rollout. I hate that term but that is the term that is mostly used. It reflects the fact that marco rubio is somebody who is an incredible messenger in our party, has a great story to tell and has a grasp on the essence of america. Im firstgeneration american like marco is. I think he intuitively grasps the notion of upward mobility and opportunity as a very strong appeal to younger voters. Mark what is something he could do in the next four months to improve his position even more . Ed flesh out policy positions. Mark governor bush . Ed i think his speech at liberty was really thoughtful, very good. Other speeches as well. I think he has been giving substantive addresses. Mark what is something he could go forward to improve more . Ed i think he is someone that people need to get to know him a little better. John i will ask you about two guys that have hot hands. One is scott walker by some measures, the republican frontrunner. What has he done that is smart to get where he is and what can he do next . Ed i think he has done a very good job of adding to his executive credentials and his state record is representing a grasp of policies. Yet they continue to build organization and build out on the ground in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, but he is a toptier candidate. John the next guy on the list would be ben carson. What has he done right and what can he do next . Ed i think ben carsons story is so compelling. He has an ability to tap into a lot of the concerns that so Many Americans have about the direction of our country. He comes at it from a very different perspective, from someone who has been a governor or senator and has run for office before. I think that is appealing. Going forward, he will have to lay out policies, specific policies. Mark guys with distinctive messages one is governor huckabee. Ed to me, he is someone that the elites and experts underestimate, always have. I think for governor huckabee, it is important for him to make clear he is an allaround candidate. Social issues, Economic Issues and national security. Mark rand paul, what has he done and what can you do . Ed i think he has done a great job of pushing the party to thing fresh on a number of issues. Going forward, the is made a strong stand on national security. He is a little crosswise with many in the party. He will do well to also layout his positive agenda which i know he has when it comes to Economic Growth and energy policy, health care and other issues as well. John i have two more. One from inside the senate and that would be senator ted cruz from texas. What has he done right and what will he do next . Ed he has incredible grassroots support. He demonstrated his intellect and his understanding of the issues. We know his story as well. Firstgeneration american also. I do think that the more people know about ted the person, the better that will be for him. John lets go way outside the senate to carly fiorina. What has she done right so far and what does she have to do next . Ed she really has a lot of buzz and generates a lot of enthusiasm. People ask me i hear her name a lot and people say do you know carly . I do know her. She has a very strong message on the corrosiveness of big government. She suffers a bit from the size of the field because she has to make sure that more people understand she is a viable candidate which i believe she is. Mark your friend, the governor of ohio, john kasich. Ed the first thing he has to do is decide to run. He has a great track record obviously. He does have experience to bring to bear here. For him, it is a matter of izzy in or not . Mark if he does get in, what does he need to do . Ed at that point, you need to have a big announcement. He needs to have his rationale for candidacy which i think i know what it will be. He has one chance to make a First Impression. It is a First Impression for a lot of the country and republicans. He needs to get that right. John back in 2012 and before that, you have been a big advocate for the notion of the Republican Party broadening its appeal hispanics and others the party itself seemed to grasp that at the end of 2012. Im curious whether you think the party has done enough or if it is done anything at all to improve its image with those kind of groups over the course of the year since governor romney lost. Ed parties do not really do that. They have ideas and theories and have data. Candidates do it. I see candidates doing that all across we have elections in the commonwealth of virginia this year and across the country. I see republican candidates who look more like America Today and more closely reflect our growing diversity in our society. More women candidates running which is a good thing for us. I see candidates taking our message to places that too often republicans have ignored and democrats have taken for granted. Mark the man we call mr. Chairman. Welcome back. Glad to see you back in public. Ed thanks for having me on. Mark when we come back, John Heilemann goes all rock n roll at the hall of fame. Hello, Cleveland JohnMartin Omalley released a video today where he picked out a familiar tune on the guitar. It is charming, but van halen he is not. We took a trip to cleveland, home of the rock n roll hall of fame, and watched as they put together their annual induction ceremony which debuts tomorrow at 8 00 p. M. On hbo. A lot of incredible artists on that stage and some of the musical artifacts that makes the hall of fame a temple of wonder. Satellite of love satellite of love john everybody in the business wants to get into the hall. When you think about what qualifies to be in the hall, there is no objective, right . John legend make great music and you need to make an impact. You cannot be great to a small number of fans. It has to impact the world in some way. John we have them watching these rehearsals for the past few days and it has been amazing. Most of the rehearsals is just the band on stage. Stevie wonder exited the stage after doing an incredible version of bill withers song aint no sunshine when shes gone. Fabulous. This moment unfolding behind me is a different kind of moment. The stage is filled with people. Two beatles Paul Mccartney and ringo starr getting ready to do their rehearsal. The whole atmosphere around the musicians and crew has been electric. The presence of two beatles on this stage and they had not even played a note yet. Rock n roll is the art form of our generation. We support the museum here in cleveland. We produce the ceremony. We run the whole nomination process. We raise money and help in everything they do. John the work they have done the scale of it is titanic and it is amazing the stuff that is there. John what is amazing about this place it is a little overwhelming. I feel like i can spend three days here and see only about a third. Green day, the youngest band of this set of inductees. Billy joel armstrong, the voice of a generation political. Everybody hears the propaganda and sing along to the age of paranoia john American Idiot is a full frontal assault of the bush administration. An explicitly political record. And later became a broadway show. That is what happens in american capitalism. Music turns into mass commerce for a broadway audience. Joan jett and the blackhearts thank god that woman is in. She has been iconic for a long time. The notion a woman that can play as mean an axe and bring it like a any male was something that will was not fully appreciated until she came along. She showed she could hang with any guy. The highlight for this years show for me, lou reed finally being inducted. Listening to his music has open peoples minds. Im most obsessed with this outfit. I had no idea this would be here. It hard to believe anyone would ever put this on. Ringo starr wore it and looked like a million bucks. [cheering] we are here on the red carpet. It is finally showtime. It is about to start in a few minutes. Green day is passing behind me. Finally, it is time for the show. John you can catch the entire incredible thing tomorrow night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on hbo. Tune in for the whole 2015 induction ceremony. Thank you to everybody at hbo that helped us put together that preview. We will be right back. Mark a lot of milestones politically this weekend. Bob schieffers final episode of face the nation. We had fun with bob on the show and off the air. He has been an incredible legend and colleague. Tomorrow, you can head to bloombergpolitics. 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