it quicker. the longer it stretches at, a la keystone, the better she ll look. this is the difference between a prime election and presidential candidate. that s right. add in the history of the clintons and trade. in 2008, barack obama tried very, very hard to use nafta against hillary clinton in a state like ohio. so there s a lot that goes into the decision. i m always on the issue of lansing the political boil as soon as possible. make a decision, explain it and start talking about something else. like benghazi. don t think so. clear point. that s a good conversation these days. thank you very much, chris. ruth marcus, thank you. last night bill clinton was on stephen colbert s show and he was asked to explain a few things, including the nature of his relationship with donald trump. there s a rumor out there and
quietly because secretary clinton is answering questions right now, but you re absolutely right. she s trying to remain on up offense today talking about her proposals for gun laws and continued to try to gain traction off of those controversial comments that congressman mccarthy made when he suggested that the benghazi committee was tied to some of her poll numbers which have started to drop. today she e-mailed another kevin mccarthy who has been getting a lot of negative tweets due to that whole incident. and she initially said, this kevin mccarthy is someone who happens to be the same name, agrees that the benghazi committee is a political sham. but this is the political gift that keeps on giving. kevin mccarthy defending himself saying the benghazi committee is legitimate, but today the new york times editorial board saying it should be disbanded. and they expect secretary clinton to gain traction off of
there s no question that president obama s decision to say that we re going to allow waivers or excuses from work requirements in welfare was designed to shore up part of his base that may not be inclined to go out and vote in the same kind of energy and passion as they did four years ago. now, president clinton who signed the welfare act of 96, he took that on as a ridiculous claim. he went right at it last night. listen to president clinton. the claim that president obama weakened welfare reforms work requirement is just not true. but they keep on running ads claiming it. you want to know why? their campaign pollster said we are not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.
after bill clinton s speech that absolutely demolished the republicans. unmasking their phony messages and their mean spirited policies. are we where we want to be today? no. is the president satisfied? of course not. but are we better off than we were when he took office? of course we are. it was an economy that was shedding private sector jobs by the thousands. he stopped that. and then he led us to 29 straight months of job growth. romney/ryan don t want to talk about that. they say that s for a quiet room or something. the romney plan fails the first test of fiscal
what impressed you? bill clinton s speech. it was amazing. why was it amazing? because he said the truth. and because it touched the people. all right. how you doing? how much are you looking forward to the president? what do you want to hear from the president tonight? i just want him to encourage everybody to get out and vote and remind us he can t do this alone. that we have to help him. and get involved and everybody get registered to vote and get out and vote. do i think the president deserves four more years? he asked me do i think the president deserves four more years? of course! why do you think he deserves four more years? i think he has done a fantastic job as our president. and i feel like that he s just got us out of the ditch the republicans put us in. it s going to take at least four more years to put it back on