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Elected office. but not without some bumps in the road. >> now, i know its not always going to be an easy campaign. but hey, this is new york. >> and joining us now is the first opponent that hillary clinton ever faced as a candidate, rick lazio, who now runs the internet publication "ignite" along with our panel, republican strategist joe watkins back with us, lynn sweet with "the chicago sun-times," bill scher with the campaign for americas future. you have the perspective that almost nobody e...

>> bill. hello, bill. >> hillary would make a great president. >> thank you. >> and i would make an even greater first dude. >> thank you bill. thats nice. >> hillary, isnt it crazy that phones can take videos now? i mean if they could have done that in the 90s, id be in jail. >> great, bill. i love jokes about that. >> "saturday night live" last night making some headlines this morning. back with todays panel. this is our catching-up segment. so thats the other aspect of presidential campaign s...

Be very very careful in terms of how they engage secretary clinton in the campaign. >> republicans seem to like to call out the playing of the gender card and the playing of the race card. they love to say i dont want to play by your politically correct rules all the time. does that work or does that just come across as being defensive and whiney and not actually dealing with the issues that are being put in front of them? >> but the name of the game is 50 plus one. its persuasion. youve got to ...

Shes learning from mistakes she made. i hope she ditches her entourage. it sounds like she will in the campaign. shes going to peoples living rooms. thats the way to go because she -- her biggest opponents, steve, are one the inevitability that shes going to win. and secondly the press. you guys want a contest. so shes got to defeat those. that will be her two biggest opponents. >> no idea what youre talking about there. a mystery to me. former governor and ambassador bill richardson appreciate ...

Is somehow less trustworthy in the interpretation of whats in a political agreement than the supreme leader of iran thats an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries. >> now, the white house doesnt want congress to be taking any action until after june 30th. thats the deadline they have set for reaching a final deal with iran. still ahead, hillary clintons big announcement due any time now, really. so how do you run a campaign against her? a candidate who once ...

Hillary will be trying to stress, too, in these coming days. i want to close with one more question, though. just looking back if you can think back to the start of your campaign against hillary clinton and the end of it, is there anything that you look back and said boy, that surprised me about her? i didnt expect she was going to be good at this or vulnerable on that? was there a big surprise about her? >> no, she had started about a year earlier than me. so she had started her listening tour ...

For an excellent candidate. hes not saying that about any of the other democrats. but one of the worries she has, headed in for a general election she kind of somehow overlearned some of the lessons from 2008. and you know you ended up mentioning that memo that was just sent out and leaked to the press about how the clinton campaign, were all going to be one family. were not going to have internal disputes. this is all about hillary clinton clinton. were supposed to represent her. 2008, it was c...

"the chicago sun-times," with the progressive campaign for americas future and joe watkins, republican strategist who was a white house aide to president george h.w. bush. mark, in washington here it is. so much talk really i dont know, back since 2012 about the hillary campaign in 2016. we have finally reached the day when she gets in this race. so it seems clear her campaign is taking pains to make it -- this will be a small-scale, humility taking nothing for granted. are you buying that thats...