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Hearing, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, richard luger raised precisely this concern. take a look. >> the clinton foundation exists as a temptation for any foreign entity or government that believes it can curry favor through a donation. it also sets up potential perception problems with any action taken by the secretary of state in relation to foreign givers or their countries. >> theres the chairman and a pretty nonpartisan chairman, richard lugar. >> absolutely. >> giv...

Hearing, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee raised precisely this concern. take a look. >> the clinton foundation exists as a temptation for any foreign entity or government that believes it can curry favor through a donation. it also sets up potential perception problems with any action taken by the secretary of state in relation to foreign givers or their countries. >> theres the chairman and a pretty nonpartisan chairman, richard luger. >> absolutely. >> giving an explanat...

I will be your leader. >> you cant help but laugh, right? the perception problems may be no laughing matter for the clinton campaign. critics democrats and republicans have seized on the negatives of clintons image but old criticisms will not inflict new damages. >> misconceptions. certain people are fixing those with those beliefs and they have been for 25 years. youre not going to change them. what you have to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to do with the country. >> le...

The problem was she was serving as secretaries of defense. there are conflicts of interest and potential conflicts of interest and certainly perception problems that really need to be cleared up so the the public can have faith in a potential president and have faith in the way the current president is running his administration. so the emails. >> pushed out or fired. >> volunteer. >> number two man, the deputy secretary of homeland security. >> when asked about this during his confirmation hear...

In congress are under 20%. so republicans are dealing with their own perception problems as well. i sat down with the house whip. republicans are going this spring and summer to offer some kind of alternative to show they are not just a party of opposition. thats a difficult task. inside theres a lot of tensions and disagreements on how they should move forward. john boehner will have some difficult questions about strategy. >> pell was the speaker when the program passed. shes trying to be spea...

That reality might be getting better. the question of whether the perception problems can be overcome by the reality in time for the midterms. but if that doesnt work out here, that kind of throws a wrench into the entire strategy the right has for the midterms writ large. >> i think this issue is only going to get better for democrats so if republicans cant win on it now, winning on it a few months from now when there are more good stories and statistics are more in our favor and more lies are ...

Time. im glad you brought up the nr -- >> this looks to me someone looking at internal polling thinking things arent going well. >> i predict its going to be a sink victory. when we saw them throwing david jolly under the bus there, that was expectations management. they know they need to hold on to this. if they poured if -- it might be more of a referendum on their strategy vis-a-vis obamacare than obamacare, itself. if they poured in millions of dollars to discredit it and she wins tomorrow, ...

Kind of perception problems can be overcome by the reality in time for the midterms. but if that doesnt work out here, that kind of throws a wrench into the entire strategy the right has for the midterms writ large. >> i think this issue is only going to get better for democrats, so if republicans cant win on it now, winning on it a few months from now when there are more good stories and statistics are more in our favor and more lies are being debunked from the right, i think its going to be mu...

Thinking about this beyond just the website. theres no doubt this is a problem for the administration. theres no doubt that this is going to create some perception problems for the administration about the health care law overall. but fundamentally when you look at where people in this country get their health care and the people who are going to show up to vote in 2014 get their health care, most of them, the great majority already are covered either by their employer or they are covered by med...

Great city it is, but when you just hear the negative, you think twice about coming. you know, if i heard something bad happened in places around the world, i would think twice about going. i would take note and do my research. >> neil: do you worry were one or two bizarre incidents of real perception problems in the world? >> i think we have a perception problem in the world. weve had a for a while. i think that our perception with guns and violence around the world is very negative. i dont thi...