equal pay. let s take a look. do you think when you re president you ll be paid as much as if it were a male? this is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. but there are so many examples where that doesn t happen. i m going to do everything i can david, in 2008 the clinton campaign was reluctant to highlight her as a woman candidate. they seemed to be really going in the exact opposite direction this time. without question. i think the historic nature of her candidacy is front and center. you heard it in her speech at the iowa jj dinner on saturday night and they are not being subtle about it at all. this is a charming commercial. i mean the thing about this commercial that i like is that it is not a staged commercial, it is a it is a documentary style commercial. i think she s at her best in
couldn t win. he was unelectable. you remember that guy? what s his name? oh, it s president obama. well, iowa, i think we are going to prove the pundits wrong again. i believe we re going to make history one more time. and there for all of that excitement last night was nbc s kelly o connell, who joins me now from des moines. now, look, bernie is not wrong there. the 2007 jj dinner was a big breakout moment for then-senator obama. was there a big breakout for somebody last night? well, melissa, i think it was different. for president obama, it really was a turn of the page from that moment on, he was on his way to the nomination. the feeling was different last night, although still very instructive about where democrats are. this is a pinnacle event. so the test is really how well did the campaigns organize. and for hillary clinton, it was
questions about it. took it seriously and then the democratic debate happened, right? it starts there. you started it this week. i go back basically tn days and if she is the nominee, in july, and if she s president of the united states in january of 2017, we are going to look back and say these ten days in october from october 13th to we ll see what happens tomorrow at the jj dinner in iowa, that is the opportunity to put an exclamation point on the ten days. chuck we ll say these are the ten days that she won it. listen to the sound bite we played from that event that wrapped in virginia. mentioning president obama s bill clinton. it seems as if she s acknowledging that she s gotten her swagger back. no. there s definitely you can see the confidence in her. she is two great strengths in her public life that have always sort of endured for her. right? number one is preparation. and i use the word endure. the other one is just sort of an endurance about her.
that barack obama marched in with a fired-up crowd and seized the spotlight from clinton back in 2007. arguably it s where he turned his campaign around the first time. so can hillary clinton stop a similar sensation for bernie sanders this year? i m joined now by the communications director for the clinton campaign. welcome. it s my first time on, just wish i was in d.c. we do too. is tomorrow going to be a show of force by the clinton campaign? i think we ve been doing well in iowa. we ve built a good organization over the course of the last six months. so i think people in iowa feel like we ve done she s put a lot of work into not just spending a lot of time with caucus goers, but building an organization. the iowa jj, it s the kind of speech, i was talking to the press about it today, and sometimes the press will expect what kind of news are you going
president obama has approached republicans and how she would be different. i think liberals and republicans are going to be very interested to hear it and i think it s really new ground. so i think people should tune in for that. there you go. don t you like writing your own teases? that s what i want to do sometimes. i m too verbose to properly tease stuff, i basically just go, watch, you ll like it. thanks, rachel. you can see the entire interview at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. speaking of the clinton campaign, they have a chance to cap off what is the strongest ten-day stretch they ve had so far tomorrow night at the famous jefferson jackson day dinner in iowa. might be the last time it s called the jefferson jackson day dinner. we ll talk about that later. but it s not just any dinner. it s known as a primary setting at this point in the cycle for big moments and for proof of life about your iowa campaign. it was at the jj dinner in 2007