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Host hugh hewitt. Talk host , nbcs Andrea Mitchell, former adviser to president Obama Stephanie cutter, and historian and journalist evan thomas. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, this the meet the press with chuck todd. Good morning. It is dynasty weekend. They come from the two most powerful political families in american politics today. But neither jeb bush nor Hillary Clinton wants to be defined by their last names, and this morning both campaigns are hard at work, jeb bush back from europe is in miami preparing for his announcement tomorrow. And his campaign has released a little teaser today. Its a video that also happens to unveil the name of the campaign and logo, and look whats missing, one key word, bush. Hillary clinton woke up in iowa this morning. And for those who wondered if shes going to start taking questions from the media, well, weve learned that she will. It will be local tv interviews all this week throughout the early states. Yesterday though in her big speech in new york she made clear that she wants to tell the story of her life and achievements rather than be defined by her previous campaigns or by her husbands legacy. America cant succeed unless you succeed. That is why i am running for president of the United States on new yorks Roosevelt Island Hillary Clinton attempted to answer a question that she never effectively addressed in her last campaign for the white house. Why does she want to be president . For everyone who has ever been knocked down but refused to be knocked out. Shes intent to persuade voters shes a progressive champion more rodham than clinton. But her campaign has been dogged by reminders of socalled clinton baggage and the perception that her new progressive positions are ones of convenience, not conviction. In her announcement clinton delivered a state of the union style laundry list of policy proposals, managing to namecheck every Interest Group within the Democratic Party. Immigrants, young people, Lbgt Community, union leaders, silicon valley, poor people, people with disabilities and people of color. Clinton also decided to take on the issue of age headon. Well, i may not be the youngest candidate in this race but i will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States. Another famous last name who has had a rocky rollout will finally make his Campaign Official on monday at miamidade college. Hes selling himself as more jeb than bush, but he is borrowing one thing from his brother, compassionate conservatism. My core beliefs start with the premise that the most vulnerable in our society should be at the front of the line and not the back. And as a governor i had a chance to act on that core belief. Back in december when bush first hinted he might run his campaign was expected to be a juggernaut, generating shock and awe, vacuuming up money, pushing out candidates left and right. Instead, hes barely clinging to frontrunner status with 15 republicans battling him to lead the party. Bush is also struggling with conservatives, thanks in mart to two big issues common core and immigration. Then there is his brothers legacy. Some republicans believe he has to find a way to distance himself. This is going to be a change election, and at the end of the day Republican Voters want somebody who can prosecute a case without being wrapped up in these debates from the past. Well, lets talk about the Hillary Clinton rollout. Im joined by john podesta, chair of the Hillary Clinton president ial campaign. Of course, he was most recently president obamas Senior Adviser in the white house and president bill clintons last chief of staff so you really encompass everything about the last two administrations. Welcome to to democratic admissions. Welcome back to meet the press, mr. Podesta. Good morning, chuck. There was an exhaustive list of issues that Hillary Clinton rolled out ideas, proposals, but there was one issue she ducked almost completely, veiled reference to the issue of trade. She has not wanted to step into this fight between House Democrats and president obama. Why . Why was there no mention of the riff inside the party, and why did she not take a position on what is the foremost debate inside the Democratic Party right now . Chuck, shes been very clear on where she stands on trade. Shes laid out a twoprong test on how to look at trade agreements. First, to grow jobs, grow wages and protect American Workers, and second does it protect our National Security. Thats her position. She said that she wants to wait to see what the final deal is with the Transpacific Partnership which is the substance of the trade agreement. What weve seen the last couple of days is skirmishes around the process for considering that agreement, but the agreement is not final, so when it is final, she will render a judgment about that, and she stated her concerns, but she has a clear standard that its got to be good for American Workers or she thinks the United States should walk away from it. Well, let me stop you there. Theres no tougher negotiator with both our trading partners or with republicans in congress than Hillary Clinton if shes elected to office. Can we credibly assume she would walk away from tpp something that she called in 2010 an exciting opportunity. In 2011 a benchmark for future agreements. And in 2012 a Gold Standard for trade agreement, and in 2013 really enhance our relationship with asia. This does not sound like somebody who is against this deal, yet youre implying she might be. Sounds like youre trying to please labor here. Chuck, shes also stayed that she has problems with the provisions that wait give special privileges to corporations and not similar treatment to workers and their representatives. She stated her concerns about strong environmental standards, worker protections. The deal is not done. The deal has some good things. It has some concerns, but when the deal is done, she will render she will render her final judgment. I think what shes saying is that this is one issue amongst and its an important issue amongst a lot of issues about how were going to build rebuild our economy, bring it back, make sure it works for working people and see wages rising again, and thats what she laid out in an ambitious agenda along with her vision for what we need to do to stop the deck from being stacked for those at the top and, of course, the values that have motivated her her entire career and her entire life since she left law school. I want to ask you about some of those. Because the trade issue actually fits in with a whole bunch of changes. Over the last decade she shifted her position on samesex marriage, on immigration, on nafta, on the iraq war, on cuba policy, on criminal justice reform, just a few that shes done recently. These and they are all to the left, all to the Progressive Side of things. How should progressives believe that these are changes of conviction and not simply changes of convenience because the democratic electorate has changed . Chuck, i dont think theres anybody who has been more consistent in their entire career from the day she left law school, went to work for the childrens defense fund, from her work in arkansas, to first lady of the United States. Shes fought for children, for families. Shes made her priorities clear, her values clear. You know, times change. A decade ago i think a lot of people had a different view on marriage equality. Today the country has shifted. Shes at the forefront of saying that that is a right that every american should have. Shes gone further and said we need to protect the Lbgt Community in the workplace, so i think circumstances change. This isnt 1992. Its not 2008. Its 2015. Right. And she will take positions that are consistent with a longterm longtime set of values that have made her a progressive in the best sense of the word fighting for working families, fighting for children, fighting for women across this country and across the world. You know, its interesting. Both progressive columnists and conservative columnists came to the same conclusion watching that speech yesterday which is she seems to be embracing the obama economic agenda that was outlined by the president frankly in his last two state of the unions, something you were very much a part of. Republicans are deriding it as the obama third term, progressives are embracing it as Hillary Clinton is signing on to the obama economic agenda. Is that a fair description that she is sort of hugging the president here on his economic agenda . Look, i think she thinks that the president brought the country back from what could have been a depression, from certainly a great recession, and has created a lot of private sector jobs, but we still havent seen enough wage growth in this country, and so she wants this is not 2008. This is 2015. The election will be in 2016. Shes projecting into the future what the country needs, whether thats paid leave, child care, the kinds of policies that will both strengthen families, improve the economy. Right. And and really when American Workers succeed, as she said yesterday, america will succeed. Its a very different economic philosophy than the republicans so shes going to build on that work and take the country forward. Very quickly on the clinton foundation. When is the Campaign Going to officially outline exactly a president Hillary Clintons relationship would be with the clinton foundation. Do you feel like youre going to actually formally have to put that out, now how it would work during the campaign, but how it would work if she were elected president . Well, look, i think that she has got off the Foundation Board and severed her relationship with the foundation because shes focused on running for president and getting elected president of the United States. If she is successful and we get the nomination, which were fighting for every vote for and shes elected president , then well put in place appropriate separation. But after shes elected this. Wouldnt be something you would do before to assuage any concerns . I think if there are concerns wed be happy to address those at an appropriate time but right now shes separated from the foundation, and i think that as she did as secretary of state she will put in place anything thats appropriate to make sure that the work of the foundation, which has been excellent across the country and across the world can continue but without any question about undue influence. John podesta, i know you go from here straight to iowa, busy week on the early states. Well be watching. Thanks for coming on meet the press. Thanks, chuck. Let me bring in the panel, hugh hewitt radio talk show host. I think youve interviewed more in the republican field than any other person in raiddio or television. And youve got a new book out, the queen, epic ambition of hillary and the Second Coming of the clinton era, Andrea Mitchell been chief lshg Foreign Affairs correspondent but also chief Hillary Clinton correspondent. Stephanie cutter. Served as Deputy Campaign manager for president obamas 2012 reelection campaign, knows allotted about these things and evan thomas, former Washington Bureau chief of newsweek with a new book coming out on nixon and an interesting nixonhillary comparison. You were there, andrea. You were there yesterday. Theres been an interesting debate among democratic operatives about whether it felt like a good event but it didnt ever feel like an obama event. Hillary clinton is never going to be barack obama. Youre not going to see the kind of speech. In his springfield launch in 07 which was so tremendous. She had a big crowd. Bigger than it seemed on the ground when you looked at the high shots, the television shots. Not a soaring speaker but she is projecting the fighter which is the name of the new video. Thats what they want to show. Thats the strategy. She will fight for you, and thats their answer to the progressive criticism that shes not, you know, out there on economic issues. They are trying to say that she will be, you know, your champion. Thats the language they are use. She used that language over and over again and i think that there is something to the gender issue, as we all recall back in 07 and 08. She was the commander in chief. She hit from she almost thought it was a liability. Right. Now they have checked that box, and, boy, you know, not talking about Foreign Policy, thats for sure, but is she talking about the women, her connection, the first woman president. I may not be the youngest but ill be the young estest first woman president. And i picked that up from the people in the crowd. Men, fathers, children, the the historymaking thing is a big deal. Stephanie, im curious, dan balz who writes the great dayafter analyses, subtle differences she wanted to project with president obama in style. If the obama who defeated her eight years ago, the candidate of soaring rhetoric, of hope and inspiration, clinton is running as a dogged determined fighter at a time when many voters are looking for an achievable result. The implication being president obama doesnt finish the job. Shes the task master. Shell finish the job. Fair . I think thats fair. As andrea said, she is not barack obama in terms of how she can deliver speeches. Very few people are. I think what we saw yesterday is very true to who hillary, is and she you know, she achieved what she wanted to achieve, that shes a fighter and will restore that basic economic bargain and laid out a series of economic proposals that she will fight for so she achieved what she needed to achieve. I think, you know, looking for that soaring rhetoric and grandiose high lifting remarks, i dont think well see that throughout the course of this campaign. Thats not who she is and not where the republican field is either. Hugh, lets get a conservative point of view here. Phil klein in the Washington Examiner wrote something fascinating. He said Hillary Clinton displayed her tremendous weaknesses as a candidate. All she has going for her is hope that pushing the right buttons on identity politics and promise willing new government benefits that americans will overlook what they dont like, but in 2016 republicans have the ability to nominate a formidable candidate to put up against democrats with lots of baggage. If they below it it may be their time to throw in the tunnel. Do you buy it if they cant beat the Hillary Clinton presented yesterday, the Republican Party should just change course big time . Well, she is a predicted favorite but i noted in your conversation with mr. Podesta her catastrophic tenure at state did not come up, did not come up yesterday in her speech, libya, egypt, the reset button, the failure to reorient towards the pacific, so that was all missing from her otherwise state of the union sort of thing and when she brought up age i thought andrea made an interesting point. She met it head on. But her one cultural reference in the speech which to the beatles song yesterday which was recorded 50 years ago today which is not exactly hitting all the buttons of the culture. Well, i was waiting for yesterdays gone, dont stop thinking about tomorrow. Evan, funny you point that out. Let me show marco rubio was quick to pounce on this. Take a look. They believe in yesterday. Yesterday is over. Evan, i dont know, theres a lot of people who think some of that beginning part of her speech about the republicans meant marco rubio is in her head. What do you think . Marco rubio is new. She is old. Hes a new story. Shes an old story, and shes got to cast herself in a new way. A lot of people remember the old hillary, and you can you can rebrand yourself in politics. It can be done. Just written about a guy who did it 17,000 times. The new nixon. The new new nixon. This is the new new hillary. Every politician does this, but you cant entirely escape the past. I mean, nixon couldnt. Nixon ran as a moderate but people remember the old nixon, and the old nixon had a way of coming back. Hillary is not nixon, thats not not the case, but hillary has some nixon tendencies. She has a sense of aggrievement. She thinks that the press is out to get her. Shes not wrong about that. But that over the long run, that sense of aggrievement and that sort of petulance can get you into trouble. Yeah. It also seems to sometimes power her interestingly enough. Powered nixon, too. All right. Were going to pause her. When we come back, well turn to the republican side of the race. A lot of them lined up this weekend to win over the financial donors to this man, the 2012 nominee mitt romney. Well, governor romney joins me next. Audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping the nissan rogue with safety shield technologies. The only thing left to fear is you imagination. Nissan. Innovation that excites. Youve heard of a winwin, right . What about a winwinwin . Pick up the limited edition metallic droid turbo by motorola. Waterrepellent. Up to 48hour battery life and ballistic nylon back. Thats your first win. Plus, its only on verizon. The 1 network. Theres your next win. Now for final win. Get 250 when you trade in any smartphone. And get 10 gigs of data for 80 a month and 15 per line. The winwinwin. A new way to save without settling. Only on verizon. Bring us your aching. And sleep deprived. Bring us those who want to feel well rested and ready to enjoy the morning ahead. Aleve pm. The first to combine a sleep aid. Plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. For pain relief that can last until the am. So you. You. And you can be a morning person again. Aleve pm for a better am. Now available with an easy open cap. Welcome back. This time four years ago our next guest was running for the republican president ial nomination. Mitt romney run that race but then lost the general election to president obama. Now he may be playing a kingmaker of sorts. This weekend, a dozen hopefuls gathered with mitt romney. They aimed for the hearts and minds and deep pockets of some big money donors who supported mr. Romney last time. Governor romney, welcome back to meet the press. Thanks, chuck, good to be with you. Let me start with something that i saw that you did i believe two days ago. Your main power point to the donors and, frankly, to the candidates and their aides that were there, you spent i think it was 20 30 40 minutes all about Foreign Policy and National Security. Yesterday we heard secretary clinton do a speech that was 97 about domestic policy. Your campaign four years ago was about the economy first. Do you believe that the republican nominee in 2016 needs to make this about National Security first, that this is a National Security election . Well thats certainly an important issue and of course the fact that secretary clinton was the secretary of state during a period of time where americas interests around the world have been badly damaged, thats an issue. But i think the heart of the campaign in 2016 is going to be about who has the policies most able to lift people out of poverty and to help people in the middle class have rising incomes again. Because over the last seven years, weve seen policies that have led to record numbers of people that are poor. Wage stagnation. Greater income\s. It has not worked. So when secretary clinton is out giving a speech saying shes basically going to do the same thing that president obama promised, that didnt work. Weve had a test of that. Thats going to be i think the heart of the campaign in 2016. Still very much more domestic first than National Security as far as you are concerned. Let move on to a couple of interesting nuggets attributed to you. There have been some reports you and sheldon alledson the big casino mogul, want to avoid a repeat of the primary chaos you went through in 2012 . What does that mean . What was the chaos of 2012 that you dont want to see repeated for the republican field in 2016 . I think thats a comment ill make very broadly which is i think it is harmful in a process if you have republicans attacking republicans. So i think it is very effective if instead we can talk about the differences between our views to help people in the middle class and help the poor versus the views of our opposition. As opposed to going after one another. Im not saying i was perfect in that regard either but going back to Ronald Reagans 11th commandment, that probably makes a lot of sense for our party. A lot of people are trying to read your mind and have this assumption that somehow youre a marco rubio guy. I know youve been denying this left and right, that youre fiercely neutral in all this. But do you believe that his time as a senator is a liability that actually you still because before you used to advocate the next nominee has to be a governor. Do you still believe that . Well i think its very helpful to have someone who has had experience in leadership. If you look at the people who are running on the republican side, almost every single one of them has had the opportunity to lead to manage to help direct something. Marco rubio, for instance, was speaker of the house in his state. So that counts as executive experience to you. Well people have different types of experience. Jeb bush of course was a superb governor. Did a great job. Was the education governor that people across the country looked to. Hes a very strong contender in this of course. Scott walker has taken on tough issues in wisconsin, has proven his leadership chops. And of course john kasich governor of ohio you see extraordinary job growth there. Weve got a field of very strong people. I think the thing that surprised most folks who came to this conference that we were holding out here in utah was how many strong contenders there are in our party. It is a real blessing i think for the American People to get a good look at such capable people. A lot of the backseat drivers in the republican race look at governor jeb bushs candidacy that gets launched tomorrow and say he has a similar problem with problems that you had in your two campaigns. You had to convince conservatives you were one of them. Whats your advice to governor bush . Well governor bush i think is a person of real integ glitrity who is well known. His record on issue is what will be defining for him and he has a strong record. People understand he cut taxes time and time again in florida. He fought very hard to improve schools, to get more school choice, to grade schools that werent successful in such a way that students were able to go to other schools of their choice if their school was failing. He has a very strong record. He doesnt have to speak his way into conservatism. He has lived conservatism. And i think that will hold him in good stead. Why hasnt he been the jugger is juggernaut people thought he would be . People were saying you were maybe classifying your status as frontrunner, but you were that guy. Jeb bush is not considered that guy. Whats happened . Well actually as you go back to 2012 i remember it well rick perry led me. Herman cane led in the polls. Newt gingrich led in the polls. I wouldnt say i was the prohibitive frontrunner. What jeb bush has been doing before launching his campaign which apparently comes tomorrow what hes been doing is doing what is really critical at this precampaign stage which is lining up supporters building your team in the early states raising money, getting people who will be with you. I think hes done that extraordinarily well. I think youre going to find when all the reports come out hes been doing what has to be done to launch a very effective campaign. Let me just ask you the question i know youve been asked before but im curious your answer which is simply what mistakes do you feel like you made that you would tell a jeb bush marco rubio, scott walker, if they are the nominee, to avoid . Well they each have their own kind of mistakes. But in my case i think the biggest mistake i made was not focusing very early on on minority voters. Hispanic americans. Africanamericans. Asian asianamericans. Our policies as a conservative group of people and our policies are designed to help people get out of poverty and to see rising incomes. And the policies of the Opposition Party are to talk about that but they dont help people get out of poverty. We have seen that. They dont create jobs. Hillary clinton said famously that businesses dont create jobs. How in the world can you be so out of touch as not to realize that if we want to have better jobs for people we want Small Businesses to grow and thrive thats what well do. Each of our candidates needs to communicate that to minority voters and if we do i think youre going to see a lot more minority voters say i hear the rhetoric but i also see the record and i want to work for the people who are going to get me a better josh and rising incomes. Our friends over at vice think you should be the next head of fifa. Will you be the next head of fifa and fix soccer for the world . Im frankly more concerned about getting this country going in the right direction so we can help the people who need it most. No soccer for mitt romney. Thanks very much. Coming up has president obama lost control of his own party. But first, do we have the wrong strategy to fight isis . Do we have any strategy thats going to work . Well be right back. Announcer meet the press is brought to you by morgan stanley, where capita get fastacting, longlasting relief from heartburn with it neutralizes stomach acid and is the only product that forms a protective barrier that helps keep stomach acid in the stomach where it belongs. For fastacting, longlasting relief. Try gaviscon®. Seriously . Youre not at all concerned . About what now . Oh, i dont know. The apocalypse . Were fine. I bundled renters with my Car Insurance through progressive for just six bucks more a month. Word. Theres looters running wild out there. Covered for theft. Okay. Thats a tidal wave of fire. Covered for fire. 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Where it needs to begin is it needs to begin at the white house. Could i put 150,000 soldiers on the ground and defeat isis . Yes. But then what . I am very concerned about Mission Creep. There is a real fear about Mission Creep here. Id be much more comfortable in supporting that mission if i knew what the limits were. Weve got enough questions about this. Enough is enough. This is how we got started in vietnam. Im joined by ambassador brett mcguirk, the president s didntic eyes on the ground in iraq. Deputy special president ial enjoy on the global nish nifinitiative to counter isis. Thanks for being here. Pleasure to be here. Obviously the president s plan depends on a functioning iraqi military. What are 450 advisors going to do that 20 billion in training of the iraqi army hasnt done. Were nine months into what is going to be a longterm campaign. What the announcement that the president made this week is designed weve looked at what really works. And we have a Training Mission which is longer term. We also have an advise and assist mission. Weve found that every time we have advised and assisted iraqi forces, tribal fighters, the kurds, theyve been very effective against isis. The airbase is centrally located between ramadi and fallujah. After ramadi fell about three weeks ago we saw iraqi forces consolidate. A year ago when mosele fell five iraqi divisions completely disintegrated. Ramadi was a little different. They reset their headquarters at the airbase and the Prime Minister asked us to come to help him to train, plan to recruit sunni fighters to take back territory. Based on success weve had in other areas of aell Anbar Province and the 1st iraq Armor Division is out there fighting, theyve had real success. The advice and assist mission has been very effective. We think we can really make some gains there. It seems as if whether you want to go back to the surge or go to this plan that you just described which is taking what works, the common denominator is this. As long as the United States is there, iraq can be cobbled together. The minute you try to withdraw the american presence, iraq falls apart. Its been that way now for 14 years. How is that ever going to change . Let me say two things. We have to keep in mind what the enemy isis is. We made an assessment last summer and it still holds. It is better in every respect than its predecessor, al qaeda, in iraq. Remember what it took for u. S. Forces to defeat that enemy. It is also a real threat to the United States. The number of fighters, the number of jihadist fighters coming into syria now are about 24,000. It is about twice as many that went into afghanistan over ten years to fight the soviet union in the 1980s. We know what that led to. Thats why we built a global coalition. But in iraq were not trying to make iraq into a perfect place, a serve sonnian ianjeffersonian democracy. It is called a functioning federalism, it is consistent with their constitution. Weve been working with partition with a little bit of a free umbrella. It is their constitutional federalist framework. Why talked with a governor of Anbar Province local tribal leaders. I just got off the phone with some of our commanders in the field. Now that were working with the Tribal Committee in anbar well see over the next week some new tribal fighters coming in to get into the fight. I want to ask you about former president george bush said this week . An interview with an israeli media out let a fair number of people in our country were saying that it was impossible to defeat al qaeda in iraq, which is isis as far as im concerned. They said i must get out of iraq. But i chose the opposite. I sent 30,000 more troops as opposed to 30,000 fewer. I chose the path of boots on the ground. We will see whether or not our government adjusts to realities on the ground. First time weve heard him directly i think criticize the strategy. He thinks there has to be boots on the ground. Why is he wrong . Ive worked closely with two president s and i think the strategy we have now, it is a different time. When we were in iraq before we were there and had Real Authority to do whatever we warranted. We are there now at the invitation of the Iraqi Government so we have to work very closely with them. Were there to advise and assist to get sunni tribal fighters into the fight to work with iraqis to recon sol dateconsolidate. In Northern Syria as we speak the kurds with Arab Free Syrian Army fighters and some christian organized units are taking giving a beating to isis. They are close to cutting off the main supply route that isis has into its capital. There is a lot going on cluck. Watch the euphrates valley over the next six months. Those six months success or failure depends on that. Specifically in Anbar Province. Ambassador mcgurk thanks for coming on. A huge loss for president obama on trade. Hes never had the Congressional Republicans on his side on many issues. Now why is he losing democrats, too . Also something new coming up. Meet the next. In this case the next big idea. What youll be asked to debate. Well be right back. Announcer meet the press is brought to you by morgan when youre living with diabetes steady is exciting. Only glucerna has carbsteady clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes. So you stay steady ahead. Ive smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. Now i use this. The nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release Technology Helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. I want this time to be my last time. Thats why i choose nicoderm cq. 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He also walked the hallways of congress the next morning with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi before she took to the floor to pull the rug out from under him and ended up explaining why she would not be supporting a key part of his trade plan. While the trade deal isnt dead this past weeks vote shows cracks in obamas relationship with his own party on capitol hill and possibly now his legacy. Joining me now, someone who knows a lot about president obamas deals with congress and trade deals, his former chief of staff bill daily. You were president clintons point man on nafta. I want to start with this amazing set of numbers. House democratic support for trait agreements over the last 20plus years. In 1993 you did nafta, you got 102 House Democrats to support it. In 1998 that number on trade agreement support was down to 29. I believe that was for a couple Central American trade agreements. By 2015 yesterday we saw 28 democrats do it. What has happened here . Democratic party almost now unanimously antitrade agreement. I think obviously the influence of labor who have been consistent forever that trade deals are bad and they think they are at the root of all the loss of jobs that may have occurred over the last 30 40 years. I feel strongly that both from a policy sense and a political sense, it is very wrong for the democrats to undercut the president at this stage. This deal though can still get done in the next couple of days. Its interesting, he wasnt successful at lobbying congress. You were brought in to try to help him fix this. It never was able to get fixed. At the heart of discontent is the belief by members of the house and senate that the president is unmindful of the most basic rule of executive congressional relationships. Dont wait to call members until you need them. So when the president tried that late flurry of activity it looked both panicky and ineffective. Putting trade aside, i think theres been a consistent message by some people that the president isnt engaged. I spent a year with him. The truth is at this stage after 6 1 2 years, this president has met with spoken to democrats especially over and over and over again. Now was he one of them 7 1 2 years ago when he ran for president . No. But i think to pass this vote off in some way because he wasnt nice to people or didnt go and have a beer with them or go to the baseball game enough with them is kind of silly especially when you consider the seriousness of this issue. In my opinion both the democrats, as Republican House members in late president bushs term turned on him and weakened him, it hurt them in the general election in 2008. If the democrats continue to do this sort of thing and especially on this issue and undercut the president , theyre only shooting themselves in the foot because it is only going to weaken the party and whoever the nominee is of the party next year. So in that case Hillary Clinton. Let me get the panel a couple of questions. Andrea andrea. Bill, you could say it is silly he has schmoozed enough with members, but the day after this devastating vote, instead of taking people golfing hes off with his friends on the golf course again. He has not done anything to show members of congress that he cares about them that he wants them until it is almost too late. And big business also. I talked to a house member yesterday out at Roosevelt Island who said not a Single Person of the chamber of commerce had tried to offset labors big push. The chamber and other business interests obviously are very much in favor of the trade deal. They have been out there. Theres advertising on tv pro trade, pro tpp. Thats all coming from business not from they havent been there hasnt been any real armtwisting by business to offset the power business doesnt have a lot of power to armtwist democrats. With republicans, this deal can get done. All the speaker has to do is put it back together. The t p. A. Aa and tpa. I think john podesta said theres something smart about Hillary Clintons position. Theres no trade deal yet. The first president since other than Richard Nixon since Franklin Roosevelt who wouldnt have the authority. Bill daley, you were the president s right arm during the time secretary of state clinton was in the state department. How surprised were you to learn she had a private server and had you known about that at the time, would you have required that it be removed from her home . I dont know i would have required her to be removed from the home. Thats more than just her server. Obviously it was something that i did not know and others didnt but she followed the rules of the state department and were beyond that. So you had no idea at all that there was a server over at the clintons residence . No. How would i know that . I thought the chief of staff might they know a lot but they dont know everything. Bill let me wrap it on this front. If he doesnt get this trade agreement, this trade authority, how much does this damage him on the world stage . I think it is a serious blow to the country. Youve got the iranian negotiations being finished. He then has to bring that back to it still has to be voted upon. If all of a sudden people around the world are saying he has a less of a chance getting something in congress i think thats a serious blow. He cant get a trade deal. This trade authority that it is sending a message to the iranians i think it is sending a whole bunch of things. I think thats where democrats, again, are making a serious political mistake in weakenings a president when theyre going into an election. Hes not on the ballot but he is their leader. This is the fellow whos going to be out there making the case along with the nominee for the democrats to get elected. If they weaken him, it is a politically stupid thing to do. Lot more partisan redistricting now than when you were dealing with democrats circa 1993. Thats also an issue. It is definitely. And a lot fewer. This is the smallest number of House Democrats in i dont know how long. Theyre more afraid because of a primary vote. If you want to grow your numbers, you dont go into a crouch. You have to be aggressive. You have to bill clinton said and i think president obamas saying regarding this trade deal the party that is looks frightened and wants to go back is not a party thats going to be victorious. Youve got to go forward and youve got to be out there fighting the fight in trade and around the world. Bill daley, thanks for sharing your views and experience. Well see if the cubs might actually make your hometown of chicago proud. Im a white sox fan. So you dont care do you . You south sider you. But im a blackhawk fan. We know you lead busy lives and sometimes you cant be in front of the tv to see meet the press live. 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Senator Bernie Sanders running a as democrat devoted 45 of his speech to the issue of the economy. Republican senator Lindsey Graham running as a republican dedicated 42 of his speech to Foreign Affairs and National Security. Candidates also spent time on other issues of particular importance to them. For instance senator rand paul spent a noticeable chunk of time on his issue on government surveillance. Rick santorum was a mix of domestic issues social issues like abortion and veterans affairs. Thats how candidates can make themselves stand out in a crowd. Find little smaller issues that make them different. Lets look at Hillary Clintons speech yesterday. Kind of an interesting pie chart. She actually spent 27 of her time on calls for action. 17 of her speech was on the economy. And just 3 was on Foreign Policy. Pretty interesting. Former secretary of state, announces for president and spends just 3 on Foreign Policy. Here is the line that i think best sums up what issue she would like to have her presidency defined by. Im running to make our economy work for you and for every american. For the successful and the struggling. For the innovators and inventors. For everyone whos ever been knocked down but refused to be knocked out. Her why as we were pointing out. As you can see, the two parties have two different views of what the 2016 election is going to be about. Is it about the economy . Is it about National Security . Mitt romney waffled on that. He spent all of this time with donors on National Security then he went no whoa its still about the economy. I think both parties know that each issue the economy and Foreign Policy is something that doesnt have much legs. I dont think voters really think that were going to do much about the economy. Theyd like to lessen the gap between rich and poor but they dont have much faith that we will. On Foreign Policy they sure dont like isis but they dont want to get into a war with isis so i think both parties kind of know that and they know that in the end it is going to be personality and character that drives us more than the issues. You buy that . I think personality and character are extremely important in president ial races but i dont buy that the American People believe that nothings going to get done on both topics. I think Foreign Policy is a republicanbased issue which is why you see republicans coming out of the gate talking about it. This is an extra base issue. I said a republican establishment issue and it always has been. I think the problem is that what theyre uk talktalking about is the all critique of the president , theres no policies out there. Their problem is the policies their establishment wants is commitment of troops and thats a lose are forethe the American People. The economy, mitt romney said it the best and had he had this belief in 2012 he might have been a better candidate, that it is the economy, it is the sense that everybodys going to get a fair chance and everybodys going to be lifted up. That is what you saw in Hillary Clintons speech yesterday, that the basic economic bargain. You work hard you do your part then you can partake in the success of this country. Lets turn to tomorrow and jeb bush. I watched that whole video. The little teaser. As i noted, he really is running on compassion and conservatism but dont call it compassion and conservatism. Hes not going to be one of these republicans that leads with National Security first. Andrea pointed out mike murphy, his Campaign Consultant is already tweeted out that he hasnt been rebranded, hes been saying the same thing for many years. Jeb bush is going to run on everything because he has the best resume of anyone in the race. Hell run on his vast experience as governor of flordzida but i do think the National Economy will dominate. Isis makes 100 million social Media Contacts a day. It takes only a very small percentage of that to radicalize significant numbers. We are living in a perilous time so thats going to matter. Is jeb bush conservative enough for todays Republican Party . He is very very conservative. Yes. Common core is an issue. You pointed it out at the beginning of the show. He needs to address that with the base. You really do. Absolutely. Maybe flip . And distance himself from that which does common core and what it is today. Distance another word for flip. All right. Before we go before we go yesterday marked seven years since this program and our Washington Bureau lost its leader, tim russert. I didnt feel as if we should let this weekend go by without mentioning it. I cant believe its been that long. Andrea, seven years feels like seven minutes, seven days. Thats for sure, doesnt it . Hes in my head every day, every interview wwtd. What would tim do. With every challenge, internal and external. The loss is so profound for his family our viewers, for us here. Guess what. His presence is felt obviously anywhere when we are thinking about this but his presence and legacy lives on in one very particular moment that you hear all the time. It is probably his most enduring legacy here at meet the press. Its the catchphrase that he came up with. He came up with it at the last minute on a saturday night before the first show he ever did. And it goes like this. Request its sunday, its meet the press. There are some things we mere mortals cant explain. I swear to god. From mysterious lights in the sky it looked triangular in shape, and at each corner it had what looked like a red l. E. D. Light. To a creepy night at the museum. The statue was actually moving. I thought someone was playing a trick on me. Mythical beasts. What is that . Oh, man. And monsters at sea. What in the heck is that . Those things are big youve got to be kidding. What is this . Im convinced theres something in that lake. If its real and true, i think a portion of the population would freak out