good at her job with hillary clinton for 17 years is the ability to filter everything out that doesn t matter and only focus on what really matters and make sure that hillary knows what really matters. and in a weird way, that s actually the skill that saved her marriage, that she somehow was able to filter out all of the noise and the chaos. you re a good guy. you are a good guy. that s what harry hopkins was called. root of the matter by churchill. he would get to the root of the matter and let everything else go away. very insightful. and actually very generous. you both are. very generous for this guy. new york has always liked a good show. maybe this guy s the answer. jonathan van meter from the new york times. margie omera. mitch mcconnell trying to spin his way out of the embarrassing campaign strategy tape trying to make himself the victim. this is scary how a guy who s really on the wrong side of everything can make himself look like he s the victim. scary to see the pre
life. she s telling her story in the upcoming issue of vogue magazine, complete with a photo spread. that issue hits national newsstands august 21st. jonathan van meter is contributing editor of vogue and spent three months following chelsea clinton around, extraordinary access. michael feldman, democratic strategist, who spent eight years in the clinton white house. we welcome both. jonathan, it s a beautiful story. you learn a lot about the private, the academic, the fun-loving chelsea, but you also got her to open up about the possibility of joining the family business. talk about that. yeah. well, you know, her chief of staff told me that was the most candid she had ever been when asked that question. i don t think it s a given by any means that she s going to run for office. one has to keep in mind that she spent the last ten years of her life kind of clawing back her privacy that she was denied as a kid. i m not so sure that she s ready to give all that up yet. i think mayb
put it in jonathan s piece. i think that s a very self-aware thing to say and i think it s a really generous thing for her to do when she could easily just live her life in private and not devote so much time as she is doing to the causes that she s most interested in. i think it s to her credit. it s actually admirable. michael, do you see, you have worked with politicians and al gore. do you see her in a political role? we have watched her campaigning at least in 2008 for her mom, and she was very good, solo and tandem. i think she s capable of anything. i think what you saw in this piece is obviously what we re paying most attention to, was an honest answer to a question. i don t blame her for not ruling it out. but that s a far cry from making a decision to seek public office. but she s young and capable of a lot of things, and i think at some point as she put it herself, if she feels that calling and thinks that s the best way to leverage the gifts that she has, i don t think
the tender age of 32. jonathan, finally, she s very aware of the legacy as an only child of such extraordinary parents. she would have to be aware of what she can contribute in carrying it on. you know, it s interesting, one of the things that people around her say is that they could very easily see her also running the clinton foundation because that s the work i think that she does with her father that is in some ways most like it s the one thing that isn t running for office that also gets allows her to accomplish some of the things she really cares about. you know, i could actually really see her stepping into her father s shoes in that way. she often says that she s most proud of the work that he does, that he s done post-presidency. it s all very extraordinary. it s a wonderful piece. thank you. thank you very much. mike feldman, good to see you. thanks for joining the conversation. what political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? that s next. my cut
give her credit for that. she could easily decide to go off and do something privately but she recognizes the fact that she s been given this gift and she s leveraging that gift to the greater good. i think that s an extraordinary thing. jonathan, one of the things you noted in traveling with her and being with her in public and private is the way she interacts with people. talk about that. because something i have noticed as well about her. she s so good at it. she s so gracious and graceful, to every single person that approached her. she found a way to sort of hear what they were saying and sometimes would spend like 45 minutes talking to somebody and sometimes the stories that they would share were harrowing or touching or just funny and she had this ability to sort of switch from one subject to the next. with such ease. of course, it just makes you reminds you of both of her parents, the empathy and the genuine curiosity about other people. of course, growing up in the whi