today right here in his hometown. benjy starlin in south carolina, thank you. i want to bring in the former chair of the south carolina republican party. good morning. good morning. so you ve got a hometown guy in the race now, any chance you re rethinking your decisions over who to back in the primary? lindsey graham has a strong strong history in south carolina and there s a strong history in south carolina of people running for president. andrew jackson is the run we claim and argue with north carolina on where he was born. john calhoun, the vice president, strong on the campaign, fritz hollings who ended his campaign in new hampshire. with lindsey in concern, he s a close friend. we did a lot in the last primary to make sure lindsey got through. he s a clever, crafty, smart politician, and there are a lot of people running, but at the end of the day, lindsey graham s going to surprise people with
candidate. not clear which one at this point. reporter: often pick republican presidential nominees. and there s also a growing penance in both parties among the hardest of the hard. actually have to hate the other people. i m not going to spend my life doing that. that was msnbc s kasie hunt reporting. benjy starlin joins me again from the senator s hometown of central south carolina. good morning expecting a lot on national security today. reporter: that s right. i mean the speech already would have been very focused on lindsey graham s very hawkish national security views, but it really comes now on the peak of the debate. patriot act sunset some of its provisions thanks to the dispute from libertarian members of congress like rand paul expect that to be a prominent backdrop to the speech. i m guessing you ll see specifics about that specific
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not include the company in her financial disclosures. officials with the campaign and with bill clinton s office say the disclosure is not needed because the company has no assets. and joining me live now, msnbc political reporter benjy starlin. is that explanation enough to make this latest question go away? well, the early read seems to say there s nothing inherently wrong with this you don t have to disclose assets under a certain amount. and there s nothing necessarily fundamentally wrong with using one of these shell companies to manage your income but it s also not something the average person does. this is a sort of unfamiliar financial instrument for a lot of people. you usually don t get your income through this and it points to the way the clintons have gotten their income through multimillion dollar speaking tours and consulting fees, you know things that the average person does not conceive
the country. i ve been traveling around. i m seriously considering the possibility of running and over the next few months i ll make a decision about that. jeb bush is just one of more than a dozen high-profile republicans attending this weekend s summit. the first gathering of its kind in the first of the nation primary state. hillary clinton is due in new hampshire next monday and tuesday for round tables with students educators, and small business leaders. let s go to nashua where the gop summit is getting under way. msnbc political reporter benjy starlin joins us. benjy, what can we expect at the leadership summit? it s an unofficial kickoff to the primaries today. you ll have almost every single major presidential hopeful declared or undeclared here. today includes chris christie jeb bush marco rubio, tomorrow we have scott walker rand paul everyone gets a chance to make their case before an influential