a prisoner trade to free the only american held captive in afghanistan during the war sets off a debate over talking to the taliban. the obama administration says the deal was worth it but top politicians say it could put the u.s. at risk. and an effort by hillary clinton s effort to beat back criticism of her role over the handling of the benghazi attack in 2012. plus just one day left until the mississippi mud fight produce as primary winner in the tea party s torch fare is getting last-minute high profile help from national names. good morning from new york. it s monday, june 2, 2014. this is the daily rundown. i m lukes russert in for chuck todd. after walking off his post in 2009, bergdahl because the only hostage taken in that country. he was freed by special force. you were from a strong tribe. you are even stronger now. five years is a seemingly endless long time but you ve made it. the ethos is true. bowe, you were not left behind. i told you you wouldn t b
president that her opposition to the 2007 surge in iraq had been political, because she was facing him in the iowa primary. let s bring in former hillary clinton adviser and democratic strategist kiki mcclain and republican strategist, john brabender. good to see both of you. good morning. kiki, i have to start with you. we know what the record is, what the president s position is and she served as secretary of state to a president who opposed the war in iraq. at the end of the day, the president s position was clear. we know a national security team, including the president, secretary clinton, and secretary gates resulted in a safer united states, and that s what really matters here. i think that going forward what you recognize is that there are people who want to assign different thoughts, ideas, to other people in political situations and it s not just there, but what i do know about hillary clinton is she doesn t
going to work. thank you, commander hindsight. listen, bill, i told them it wasn t going to work. then i also called a guy and said a lone ranger movie in 2013? the website, if it gets up and running, millions of people are insured as a result of this and the glitches get forgotten, are the republicans the big losers in all of this? i think that they would also forget the government shutdown. the glitches in the health care system are serious. people need people who need health insurance are going on there. it s not sport like let me show how stupid and incompetent the government is. one thing i m getting concerned about, chris, when you go in to enroll on the website, you start to enter private confidential information and then if you can t actually complete the transaction, where is that going? i think people will get properly nervous about sharing confidential information. kiki is shaking her head. i m shaking my head because there are private sector companies who deal w
35-year-olds need to get into the system so those are the same people watching and trusting jon stewart and latching on to his suspicion of govlt. technology is their native tongue so they re scratching their heads wondering i m unemployed, can i give a couple of pro bono hours to get the glitches cleared. this is a president, kiki snows, her party dominates among silicon valley and the tech community. ask some of those billionaires out in palo alto to help you with the glitches. and you wonder why somebody wasn t brought in sooner, kiki, but how do you move this forward? how does he take this and frankly, i think jon stewart is appropriately sort of a centerpiece of all this because they are the big consumers here. it s interesting, because jon stewart does have a great conversation going on with young americans on a variety of topics. certainly the glitches that the administration has had with this rollout and the website that they re working on that will be fixed, one of the b
care. the whole point of websites is to design them so that it is nearly impossible to not sign up for something. every time i go on amazon, there s a 40% chance i ll mistakenly overnight myself six seasons of night court. it s just the way it s designed. i haven t thought of night court for a while. let s bring in kelly ann conway, president and ceo of the polling company and gingrich 2012 senior adviser, also kiki mcclain, former clinton 08 adviser. good morning to both of you. good morning. of course in his way chris put out all the charts and after the colbert report, stewart has the largest share of 18 to 29-year-old viewers. kiki, has jon stewart become the republicans secret weapon here? i don t know that he s a secret weapon, but any time there s an error in anything, late-night tv has a great time with it. i think that that channel for a conversation with young americans is a great one and