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that hillary clinton does not support the transpacific partnership. that s a recently negotiated trade pact with 11 countries in asia, that the president is trying to get through congress. clinton expressing her concerns today while speaking to pbs at cornell college in mt. vernon iowa. kristin welker, this is probably one of the bigger breaks that hillary clinton has had with the obama administration. reporter: kate, that s absolutely right. it s being viewed as the biggest break with the obama administration, in part because, consider this. when secretary clinton was secretary of state, she pushed for the tpp trade deal. now today, as you point out, she s saying she opposes it. her reason, several. she said it doesn t meet her bar for creating jobs, increasing wages and protecting national security. take a listen to what she told pbs just moments ago. as of today, i am not in favor of what i have learned
waterloo, iowa. rubio is very weak on illegal immigration. bush is very weak. he said they come as an act of love. they re coming over, in the meantime, they re killing people. sure, act of love. act of love. oh, this thinking, we got to get rid of these politicians, folks. speaking with reporters afterward, including our own katy tur, trump reacted to hillary clinton sending him a copy of her memoir hard choices. did you get hillary s care package, her knowledge about and her letter? she did send me her book. what did you think of it? i thought it was very nice. it was a very nice letter. what do you think about the snail mail going on right now? i don t know. but she did send me her book and i thought it was very nice. katy tur and hallie jackson and jordan frazier in iowa with the bush camp. k katy, you got him talking about the book. was it a free-wheeling kind of
secretary clinton needing to walk a fine line, at times embracing obama s policies on guns for example, and in this case, feeling the need to distance herself. kristin welker, with big breaking news in the political and policy world. thanks so much. now to several leading 2016 republican candidates on the trail today. among them, marco rubio, who s holding three separate town halls in new hampshire, and jeb bush, who s at an afternoon stop in iowa. he told voters he wants to win while taking a shot at one of his rivals. i want to win. i m not organized to make a point here. it s not about preying on people s fears or their angst. in order to organize a campaign towards winning, you have to campaign like this, not like this. you can t be the large voice in the room, disparaging people and dividing people and calling people idiots and all the stuff that seems to go on in politics today. pretty clear reference to donald trump who was holding a rally 100 miles north in
about it. and there s one other element i want to make because i think it s important. trade agreements don t happen in a vacuum. and in order for us to have a competitive economy, in the global marketplace, there are things we need to do here at home. reporter: now, a senior administration official tells nbc news, that the clinton campaign did alert the white house before she came out and took this position. but this underscores the fine line that clinton has to walk. at times, she embraces the policies of president obama, of course her former boss. and at times, she distances herself, as in this case. by the way, this is a position that lines up with her democratic rivals, bernie sanders and martin o malley who came out and opposed the tpp months ago. they also cite the fact that they don t think it would protect american jobs. and they have criticized her for not taking a stance on this earlier. this is an issue that progressives care about here in states like iowa and new