these? reporter: they are to some extent, thomas. an aide saying they don t like to read too much in any given poll. this poll is an indication that secretary clinton starting to turn the page, the tide on the controversy and as you know dogged her campaign in recent weeks and part of the strategy to try to turn the page, thomas, has really been threefold. going after republicans more aggressively. two, granting more high-profile interviews. this weekend she gave a first sunday interview since 2011 and the third part of this strategy is to try to go back on offense on the key policy issues and that s what she is focused on today talking about health care, drawing sharp distinctions with republicans over the issue in louisiana, slamming governor jindal there also a candidate for president. for opposing the president s health care law and failing to expand medicaid there and creating a distinction with him because here the governor in
as an ally. the president has praised the pope extensively and the white house has tried to take the pope s message about softening the excesses of capitalism and point to that as support for a lot of the president s policies. so we have already had one republican member of congress said he will boycott the pope s speech because he doesn t agree with him on climate change but the pope is very popular among liberals and conservatives alike. so it will be interesting to see how he fits in. he isn t a part of our political system but inevitably there are attempts to shoehorn him into the liberal conservative divide here in america. as we talk about that, look at the amount of republicans who are currently running for president that are catholic. jeb bush, chris christie, bobby jindal, george pataki, mark santorum, democrat martin o malley. republicans will question the remarks of this pope, especially when he talks about climate change. so are republicans having to walk a fine line with
climate change, criminal just is the reform, even the iran deal. republicans, however, think they have an ally in the pope because of abortion. in fact, the senate has this procedural vote on a bill that would ban abortions at 20 weeks. how are the parties handling his arrival, especially the speech that he s about to make before congress on thursday? it s kind of anybody s guess as to how he will use that moment. that s right. the pope has proved to be an extremely skilled politician, very skilled communicator, really effective at getting a message across. as you say, even though he still has those conservative stances on social issues which republicans have traditionally used to embrace previous popes, he s really emphasized much more the teachings about social justice and inequality and the environment, so you have now a real reversal from previous popes where it s democrats who are tying to amplify the pope s message and almost ride his coattails to really enlist him
overlap with trump? thomas, i think what we are seeing here is some interesting carly fiorina from the anti-trump crowd. people who are, you know, maybe previously establishment republicans but not necessarily one particular core base. what you have seen from her is a nice steady ascent from being nowhere in the polling to winning that first undercard debate and then doing very well in the second debate with a lot of people saying she came out the winner 0 of that debate. if you re carly fiorina you re getting a chance now and what donald trump is trying to do is shine a spotlight on her. give her scrutiny, the business career. she is a real threat to him right now. the higher you rise, the higher you fall and leaving as ceo of hp and the record that people bring up, where s the truth? is donald trump right or carly fiorina right in the information she gave all of us at the debate about her record as her tenure there? the truth is that carly fiorina becoming a ceo of a
she never got another job offer. she didn t vote i think she voted in eight of 16 elections or worse than that. but she s very good with words and i think when people see her deeds and see her mean-spiritedness, she won t be on the top anymore. she s had an impressive bounce since the debate. oh, she s bouncing for sure. but you know she s bouncing because she really is very articulate. but when you examine her record and the fact that she shipped 30,000 jobs overseas and forced those beautiful employees to even train their foreign replacements, when these people come out to tell the story of carly fiorina like they did in my senate race, i won that race in a landslide. i think the republicans would have a very rough time if she was on the ticket. california senator barbara boxer, thanks for being here. appreciate your time. grammy winning music producer has enlisted superstar friends to battle republicans