challenging and exciting. welcome back to hardball, that was secretary of state hillary clinton saying good-bye to the men and women of the state department today. now let the campaign begin. already the world of democratic operatives and donors are is itching for the big drive of 2016. take a look at cover of newsweek, the most powerball woman in u.s. history. with me is former pennsylvania governor, ed rendell and political condominiumist, sin th thea tucker. where would you rank letter with cleopat cleopatra. cleopatra immediately came to mind for me, too. i think hillary clinton still has some history in front of her to make. but she can be declared the most powerful woman in history. we ve settled that. ed marquee, i m thinking of ed
building, although the senate judiciary hearing on tuesday or wednesday, one of the things that happened was that the national rifle association said that is not something that they can get behind. so you know, they re definitely going to be scoring those votes. i think it s going to be a harder sell than maybe folks originally thought when it comes to universal background checks. let s take a look at what s happening in massachusetts. lauren, scott scott brown saying he s not going to run for the senate seat opened up by john kerry. wasn t that the best hope republicans had to get that seat? a poll came out showing he had a slight lead on the democrat s candidate, ed marquee. i think he really was one of the best shots they had. a senate seat has not been held by a democrat in the state of massachusetts before scott brown before 1972. so this definitely has a long history of being a democratic stronghold. the bench is thin when it comes to republicans that you can put up against p
it s time to talk about the other issues as well. they are not addressed in the president s tenure window. everybody should be concerned about that. the devil is in the details. there are clear battle lines being drawn between republicans and democrats. let me play what ed marquee had to say. republicans tilted the sails in favor of big oil at the expense of big bird. they don t want to cut out the $43 billion for the oil industry, but at the same time, they want to cut the budget for children s television programming in our country. so, are you in favor of keeping subsidies for the oil industry and cutting off tv programs little kids love? that is how they are characterizing it. i m fond of big bird like ed
27th, this year, before talks between the two sides stalled. this hour i ll talk with democratic senator ed marquee. he s a member of the foreign relations committee. right now let s go to our chief political analyst, gloria borger. tell us what you re learning about this possible interview that almost happened but didn t. almost, but almost wasn t good enough. president donald trump s lawyers and special counsel robert mueller discussed this potential january 27th interview with the president before talks between the two sides stalled, my sources tell my colleague and i, evan perez. they discussed the logistics of holding it at camp david, which we know is the presidential retreat in maryland.