when she was secretary of state. how stunning is the reversal? well, back then she called this deal the gold standard for trade deals. and now also the washington post pointing out this morning that in her 2014 memoir hard choices, clinton actually wrote, quote, it s safe to say that the tpp won t be perfect. no deal negotiated among a dozen countries ever will be, but its higher standards, if implemented and enforced, should benefit american businesses and workers. now, of course, she is saying something very different from that. nbc s peter alexander is live at the white house. peter, thanks for joining us. politics all over the place on this one. let s start with this. the tpp is not yet a done deal. it s still going to have to face a vote in congress. president obama still going to need some democrats to come on board. with hillary clinton aligning herself against this, has she just complicated that effort for them? reporter: well, i think that s possibly the case. a lot of
this subject. she had previously voiced qualified but pretty clear support for this deal. she said in her book, hard choices in 2014 that is makes sense to reserve final judgment until we can agree on the proposed judgment. but in 2012, she gave it the idea as a gold standard. today that qualified but evidenced support for it in the past, now today she says she is opposed. so are you saying that as of today this is not something you could support? what i know about it today, i am not in favor of what i have learned about it. what i know and again, i don t have the we don t yet have all the details. i don t believe it s going to meet the high bar i have set. now, in practical terms, this is what this does. the white house has congress already gave the white house fast-track authority to get this trade deal done. and this big political shift on it is not likely to change on that.
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she is taking on republican criticism of her record with a humerus touch. she told a crowd she sent all the republican candidates a copy of her book hard choices about her time as secretary of state. there are so many of them they could have a book club and they could, if they want to know how you put together a coalition that imposes international sanctions on a country like iran, they can read about it. that s what i did. bernie sanders is in washington today, set to speak at the presidential candidate forum. the republican front runner donald trump is in iowa today. he will speak about his tack plan at a rally. jeb bush the former florida governor is in iowa as well. he is now taking really, frank little, flat out direct shots at his former political property jay senator marco rubio, instead of being on the campaign trail. we should cut the pay of elected officials that don t show up to work. i don t know about you, but this
are set up in mt. vernon, iowa. she is going sort of town by town trying to win over these democratic activists here. but with all the uncertainty in the democratic race, she is trying to show she is focused on being the strongest democratic candidate to take on the republicans. last night at an event in muscatine, iowa, she told supporters that she has actually sent a copy of her book hard choices, an autographed cope with a letter to each one of these republican presidential candidates. so she is trying to push back on the fact that she say she has no accomplishments. she said, look, i just thought i would send my book to them. even though she s trying to talk about the republicans, they are focusing on the democrats and all this uncertainty on this side of the race. and trump, you know, has got out his victory pom-poms this morning with those new polls showing him in the lead. so athena, let s bring you into the conversation to talk more about what s happening there on the repub