enthusiasm among trump followers who thought it was lost anyhow and might have been tempted to stay home, thab mmaybe they ll out. i struggle to see how it makes a major change in the basic situation of the race but we ll see. comey may well have to come out and say something. i think you raised the key question, chris, that is how trump handles it because annie is right, at some point comey, the pressure on him will be overwhelming and while he can t give us a lot of information, we ve seen from the leaks that they can take things off the table so if trump is out there saying where are the handcuffs, put her in jail and some of this stuff comes out like whoops, actually these are duplicative e-mails. or we haven t read them yet that seems incredible. pence handled it soberly i thought. i thought that was the right way to handle it because i think
hillary clinton s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. we must not let her take her criminal scheme into the oval offi office. welcome back to hardball. anyway, today s announcement couldn t come better for donald trump. the five most recent national polls had clinton ahead of trump anywhere from three points to 14 points. love that range. this may shift the enthusiasm toward his campaign. for more, i m joined by our round table, the boston globe s annie linsky. washington post columnist eugene robinson, an msnbc political analyst and senior political reporter heidi. let s start here, annie and gina. political impact statement, please. if all we get is this, all we get is the squeezy little statement from the fbi director? if that s it and i don t
are still open to an alternative. and i think annie did really hit on something. it is a joyless campaign right now. it s sort of a slog. and i think that people do want to see somebody run who s got some kind of spirit, you know. and i think that there is, even in the donor class, a hunger for, is there someone else. they assume it s going to be hillary, but they say, you know, is there someone else. my problem is, i think only hillary clinton can turn on that first global generation. they want change. bernie sanders is turning out these big crowds of exactly who you re talking about. he is, but i actually think he s somewhat limited in that he has to run against the first woman president. one of the reasons i supported hillary very, very early is she was the only candidate at the time who turned on the younger generation. it was all about the first woman president. and you can t take that away. i see joe biden as a good guy, a
absolutely they should not fund planned parenthood. planned parenthood has a horrific disregard for basic human life. and i think they should be defunded. we had to be here to vote to defund planned parenthood and i hope very much that we see republican leadership actually lead the fight to get it done and we stop funding planned parenthood. that was the easiest question for the candidates forum in new hampshire tonight. joining us now is annie linsky, a the reporter for the boston globe. annie, that forum was very peculiar. the audience certainly seeped to be enjoying parts of it, but from the listeners at home it was awkward. particularly the these candidates are getting up,
cultural warrior in the way many of his counterparts are. this struck me that lindsey graham believes that hillary can clinton should bear the burden of every credibility moment or every credibility stress that bill clinton has ever gone through. here s the thing that i think would be interesting, it would be great to hear what she has to say about it. new hampshire is a state that voted for bill clinton twice for president of the united states. new hampshire is a state that s pro choice. and i understand that these guys are catering to the far right of the republican party, but these guys need new hampshire. it s a really important swing state in the fall. and i d love to know what annie thinks about those kinds can of answers. i don t think i d make those kinds of answers in new hampshire if i thought i wanted to win new hampshire in the fall. annie? i think that s a great point, but it gets to a different dynamic that s going on this year.