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saying the same thing. he wouldn t eke it out. he obviously was able to. i think we draw the same conclusions from his ability to pull it out that we draw from thad cochran s ability to pull it out which is they know their communities. candidates matter. they know where to call on favors. you saw that from each of these these candidates. steve kornacki, i have not forgotten about you. we want to turn to the clintons now. hillary clinton got criticism as she said she and president clinton were dead broke when they left the white house. president clinton defended those comments to david gregory at cgi yesterday. take a listen. i ll get your reaction on the other side. you have to live in the moment, not with memory. it is factually true that we were several million dollars in debt. everybody now assumes that what happened in the intervening years was automatic. i m shocked it s happened. i m shocked that people still want me to come give talks. i m grateful. when you say you pa
create one national primary date, disclose all political contributions, which i think a lot of people would agree with. five-day work weeks for house and members of the senate. very basic. very basic. two-thirds vote needed for senate rule change. monthly meetings between the president and congressional leaders. these seem like very common-sense suggestions. what type of response are you getting? actually it s been very positive. i know in speak across the country, people embracing a number of these initiatives, and some of them i had proposed as well. so we worked as 29 members of the commission to come up with the recommendations based on the town meetings we had across the country, four of which engaged the public. they embrace them. so now it s working on cap hole hill and beyond the public to put pressure on members of congress to enact some of these procedures internally. let s talk about that. i just read a pretty long list.
taxes. secretary clinton said unlike other people who are really well off who pay taxtion maybe just off capital gains, can you understand as a political matter that could strike people as being out of touch? yes, but she s not out of touch. in a followup interview hillary clinton said my husband was very sweet today. i don t need anyone to defend my record. i think my record speaks for itself. didn t clinton help or hurt hillary clinton there? one way of looking at it, if she wants to be bill clinton s barack obama s political heir having bill clinton explain things for her puts her in that company. the flip side as you see from that statement, she doesn t want to make it look like she needs somebody else fighting her fights for her. to me this is just sort of the book tour itself was sort of a transition moment in terms of hillary clinton sort of she s not going to actually say it for a while, but hillary clinton rolling out as a presidential candidate. now we re sort o
is what political life is going to be like for the next two years assuming she goes ahead and runs, where everything is going to be parsed like this. we ve never seen we said in 2008 we had never seen a front-runner like hillary clinton today. really we ve never seen a front-runner like hillary clinton for 2016. she was running 48%, 50% against barack obama in 2008, now near 70%. that s unprecedented. chris, pick up on that point. she certainly is ahead. yet does former president clinton, do they need to find a new way to answer this question? you bet. this is now what day i ve lost count. we re roughly a week, ten days into her not really talking all that well about the fact that she, in fact she and her husband are significantly more wealthy than the fast majority of america. that is not in and of itself