talking about hillary clinton female and offering advice to elegant >> romney: it is always something with the clintons. i will be talking to our nominee about the mistakes i made in suggesting things that he or she are to do differently than i do. that is pretty straightforward it is a binder. i don't that guy lost any votes for that. campbell: is it good for the republican party to have mitt romney hovering? mark: he can raise money, give advice to the nominee and rev up the campaigning on his own, but something makes me a little nervous with some of those answers, that he might make the prospective nominee a little murderous -- a little nervous. campbell: he was demonized during his campaign as a gordon gekko type monster. but when he saw the documentary which took him out of the campaign context, he comes off as everyone sort of favorite uncle. mark: if he doesn't like the person heading toward the nominee and he intercedes that could throw the planet's alignment off a little. campbell: although i think there are some members of the electorate with some buyers remorse right now and those -- and his presence reminds people of that. mark: mostly upside but there is a little bit of something there. let's listen to hillary clinton today tell a story in atlantic city about a formative moment from her childhood. clinton: we were all bullied at some point or another. that was part of growing up. i member when i was a really little girl i got into a fight with the girl across the street and when running into the house and my mother literally me at the door -- i was like five years old -- and she said, there is no room for cowards in this house. you don't do your child any favors by trying to sew cushion them from everything that might happen that they don't learn what they themselves are capable of doing. mark: we have got the political equivalent of a solar eclipse. at the exact same moment that hillary clinton was telling the story there, monica lewinsky was talking about cyber bullying at a tent talk. -- at a ted talk. lewinsky: like me at 22, a few as you may have also taken wrong turns and fallen in love with the wrong person, maybe even your boss. unlike me, though, your boss probably wasn't the president of the united states. the question i've asked the most is why. why now? you can read between the lines in those questions and the answer has nothing to do with politics. the top answer was and is because it is time. it is time to stop tiptoeing around my past, time to stop living the life of a program, and time to take back my narrative. mark: monica lewinsky says this has nothing to do with politics but how dangerous is it politically to the clintons. campbell: i don't think she will be hovering over the campaign. i don't understand how she stays relevant except for this moment. given the message she is delivering, let's be nicer to each other on social media, it is totally absurd. angry people now have a distribution channel that they never had before. now they have thousands of followers. mark: you think it plays no role in the campaign? she got a ted talk gig. campbell: i think bigger question is how do the clintons deal with this kind of thing. do they have a sophisticated operation that can respond. mark:. you think that she has details that she is never revealed that could hurt the campaign? campbell: why would she do that? she said she is trying to retake her narrative. mark: she is the least of their worries right now. campbell: we are still trying to figure out where the potential republican candidates stand on the gop budget proposal. we asked the campaigns and we aggravated -- and we aggregated some online responses. jeff calls it an initial effort. rand once last spending. we got a lot of no comments and nonanswers. mark, why are republicans so reluctant to take a firm stance? mark: i think it is one of the worst things going on in politics today. this is one of the major debates of our time and not one of these candidates are actually stepping up and saying, here is what i like, here is what i don't like. it is that for the country and the republican party. campbell: what you be doing the same thing if you are them? what do they have to gain by embracing dysfunction? mark: they all will have to say eventually what they believe in so why not get some points for courage? i understand the downside but i don't like it one bit. campbell: i think they will eventually have to but they are a long way from having to do it, so why take the heat now when they can still sort of give you the nonanswer. mark: after the break, a new hampshire focus group so sexy that they like to show it on hbo. ♪ mark: if there is one thing we know about people from new hampshire, it is that they love links. -- love lankes. we went there for a pair of focus groups and we will show you now the first part, a session that includes republicans and independents like to vote in the gop primary. >> does anybody think a career politician is what we need as the next president? i want to start with jeb bush. >> i don't need to keep voting for a bush or clinton over and over again. need some fresh faces. >> the common core issue -- politicians have no place in the classroom. >> i don't like his stance on immigration. >> who in the room right now considers herself so many who would vote for jeb bush? >> i am just not a fan. i don't think the bushes are generally bad and he was the only choice i would choose him as a those to a democrat. but i don't like him. >> if he had become a candidate before the two of them, yes. but after his father and his brother, i don't think he will have a chance. >> does anybody think he is a good chance? anybody think he is the front runner? who knows who scott walker is? >> i understand he is in a very good job of turning around the economy in wisconsin and loosening up regulations. limiting the power that unions may have in that state. >> when he is done with regard to business is reduced taxes and some of the things. the state has done very well in business has improved. revenue has come in in their budget was put from a negative to a positive. that's where i stand from a business standpoint. >> didn't graduate from college, does that concern you gekko >> -- concern you? >> rand paul. >> i like his fight. >> in the beginning i didn't want to a edit -- to admitt i. --to admit it. i feel he is extreme. >> on some things you need to work together to get things done. >> chris christie. >> he doesn't care what he says, he speaks his mind. he's also a little gruff. >> i can't figure out if he was the one who close the bridge or not. >> i think that he is more appealing to a lot of us appear being that he is a northerner. >> would you see him as more or less there then scott walker. >> i would say less. >> how about compared to jeb bush? >> i think a little bit more maybe. >> marco rubio. i think he is an interesting candidate. he seems to be very passionate and pretty believable, at least at this point in my opinion. i think he can really bring some owners over. >> because he is young, hispanic. >> both. >> she was the ceo of hp. i really like her. she lost her daughter to drug addiction and is a cancer survivor. >> does the fields you that she is a woman candidate? >> absolutely. i would pick her on the sole basis of being a woman, but she has good believes. >> everything i just heard that -- i want to talk about three people we just talked about and you tell me your sense of whether they are an establishment candidate or anti-establishment candidate. >> governor bush. >> establishment. >> i agree. >> governor walker. >> antiestablishment. >> probably an antiestablishment candidate. >> governor christie. >> establishment. >> i would say establishment. >> who thinks hillary clinton is going to be the democratic nominee? >> absolutely. >> you don't think she will be? >> i don't know, this whole thing with her e-mails, and then it makes sense in benghazi is a huge thing resting on her. >> body right who is electable in the general election gekko -- how do you figure out who is electable? >> the problem is that they end up being at the extremes and we really need somebody closer to the middle. not necessarily in the middle. i would certainly look for someone conservative leaning but no -- but not so extreme that they won't elect. >> jeb wow, not what i would have taught. if you did the same focus group with romney, mccain, and dole early would have been different. mark: they talked about how scott walker improve the economy in. campbell: and his battle with the unions. mark: coming up, the democrats tell us whether you're are pretty much hillary or bus. ♪ mark: we're back with more from our focus groups. in this session we spent time with democrats and independents. they are most likely to vote or hillary clinton but that doesn't mean that they have complex feelings about the former secretary of state inversely. mark: do you think that the next president needs to be someone who is someone who is experienced in the ways of washington and can somehow work the system or does it need to be someone who is from out side the system can come in and try to being a sledgehammer and bring real change that way? >> i think obama kind of truth that he didn't know how to work congress. >> based on what happened to obama, the outsider, i would say that we have to go back again and making -- and make it work. >> i would like somebody with fresh ideas that's what obama's menace in his first campaign was in that did not work. someone who has more experience in washington and knows how to play the game that washington is is what is necessary to get things done. i feel if obama does get kind of pushed around. >> i can see the argument that may be someone who is an in diner does know better how to get around and get compromises made. john: what do you like best about hillary? >> she knows the inside. >> is a lot a don't like about her. >> i think she brings experience. >> i think she is smart quick, i think she knows how to work washington. foreign affairs. i'm excited about it. i expect her international connections -- i think internationally she has gained a lot of us back. john: do you like her personality? >> she is not warm. i don't really want a warm resident. -- warm president. >> i think the fact she is a mother is now a grandmother makes a difference. it shows a softer side of her. >> i think it is hard for a woman he people expect you to be a certain way but they want a politician to be certain way. nobody is telling men that we can take you serious enough. i think it is much harder for a woman. nobody says, you are wearing the wrong thing esther obama. -- wrong thing president obama. but they are constantly making what if hillary clinton's close. >> i think the country is ready for her now. john: what do you like least? >> the e-mail thing. transparency issues. >> i think that plays into your ability to make decisions in a big office. >> you have to be aware of how things appear to the public. who went through her e-mails? >> i think it would have been smarter to use a third arty to sort through. >> seems like a lack of judgment do that. you be the one deciding what e-mails you are going to delete or not. if anything, she should have released everything. john how many people in the room do you think that would have been a good idea? >> unhappily there. -- i'm halfway there. john: that's still a pretty large number. a lot democrats bring up her ties to wall street and big finance. there are populist democrats who find that troubling. does anyone find that problem? >> i don't like it, but i don't think we will get another viable that is actually electable. >> that's the problem, where they get their money? it does bother me. >> the people in the room would be open to voting for a democrat other than hillary clinton? open to it. so everyone in the room would be open to another candidate? >> i like to see a range of voices and issues will raise -- issues raised. if you get elizabeth warren or ernie sanders raising issues that other people don't have the courage to do and that is important and it helps pull the discussion -- why didn't anyone --widen it. >> i think elizabeth warren is too liberal even though i like a lot of things he supports. >> i think it is hillary. >> she is never going to win. she is way too liberal. >> she is the only candidate who will say anything about loan debt, campaign-finance reform, actual issues that are not priorities for 70% of the voters. >> what about joe biden? >> he's all right, i don't know if i would for him. >> i don't the guy would vote for. -- i don't think i would for him. john: what do we think about bernie sanders? >> proud liberalism in moral to keynes about how we treat our citizen. >> i don't think he would ever win. i definitely would like to see him run. john: does everyone know who martin o'malley is? does anyone? he is the former governor of ireland -- of d-maryland. does everyone think hillary clinton can win the presidency? do you feel like you know where she stands? >> i don't. i was a big supporter of hillary in 2008 and i was kind of trying to refresh myself because we all know that she is pretty much the only viable democratic candidate at this point. i was trying to think of what she is trying to accomplish and i don't know. mark: what you think? campbell: they are really tough on her, especially the e-mail. this is what happens. any mistake you make it amplified. mark: up next, some twitter secrets revealed. ♪ campbell: the white house just announced that president obama finally called bib.i. mark: back to march madness. pimm: hello. i am pimm fox. here is what i'm taking stock of. european union leaders are meeting in brussels and urging greek prime minister to help unlock financial aid. ahead of the meeting, the eurogroup president met with reporters and said time for compromise is now. >> it's very clear what we have to do. we have to work hard. package that has to be implemented in the coming remote -- coming three months time is ticking away. we don't have a lot of time. pimm: profits are ticking away at nike. the sporting goods company reported third-quarter profit that topped analysts estimates.

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