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welcome back to the hardball. presidential candidate rand paul took a shot at democratic front-runner hillary clinton in my interview with the senator from kentucky earlier today warning that she s more likely to take to us war than most democrats or republicans. let s watch. hillary clinton is much more hawkish and much more likely to get us involved in another war than most of america, republican or democrat. you see this little boomlet for other people out there it is. yeah. on the democrat side there are people who aren t so eager to believe that hillary clinton was right taking us to war in libya, and so i think you ll find that as it gets out to the regular voters outside of washington there s a much more mixed and nuanced feeling about war. on a scale of 1 to 10 dove being 0, hawk being 10, where s hillary? you know, i m not sure exactly. is she a 7? yeah. i think what she is i think she s been indiscriminate in the use of force and i think not thinking. joinin
senator paul is president obama s former chief strategist david axelrod and former white house political director under george w. bush matt schlapp. what did you make that have call briggs, wouldn t give me a number between 1 and 10 when i suggested 7 on hillary clinton on her hawkishness but tough on placing her it seemed to his right when it came to his hawkish side, when it came to starting wars? look when you look at your interview and his answer to that question and what he s doing on the patriot act, it seems like rand paul sees this lane and this lane you is look at the poll numbers you threw up on the screen earlier, you know. rand paul sees a lane that he can appeal to independents. he can appeal to young voters. he can basically appeal to voters who are war weary, and i think your interview with him showed that. what do you think david? i think he s working the only game in town. in other words, he s making himself among 18 candidates. right. for the republican nomina
coached. and a battle important to me, the fight to beat alzheimer s. let me finish with rand paul s unique attraction to republican voters, and this is hardball, the place for politics.
party and many of its candidates is we re not doing a very good job of kind of being respectful in this conversation with the big donors. it s done in such a gaudy and public way, but we also have our our big donors on the right who are more libertarian so i m not sure it s all coming from the one side. why are they all hawks? i don t think that s right. there s plenty of libertarian. name knee a dove? peter dove the koch brothers. the koch brothers are doves, i didn t hear that before. my party is a party that is trying to find its way back on these sets of issues. ronald reagan said peace through strength and they are looking at what they got in the latter years of the bush administration, and they are rethinking, so i think your interview with rand paul really shows that this is a conversation the republican party is currently having. do you think ronald reagan would have taken us into iraq? are you asking me that? yes, matt. yeah, i don t. i actually don t.