experience. i don t think she ll make that mistake again. and i don t think there s another barack obama waiting in the weeds. was joe biden in iowa? because he s long-time friends with tom harkin, or was he there for something else? you said earlier, maybe he did it as a favor to harkin. i think he did it as a favor to himself. i think he wants to run for president. and if she doesn t run, i think he will run for sure. and you know, there s this argument about both of them that they re too old, time for a generational shift in the party. i think when folks watch what s happened to barack obama, democrats, they re going to want someone who is a tough and tested fighter. and i think that helps her, and i think it helps joe biden. but there is i mean, the democratic party is divided. tom harkin stands for what he spoke of a few months ago, which is the need for a populist insurgency inside the democratic party. the clinton democratic party was a different one. we saw larry summer
other democrats are. i think the republicans will not let him get away with just a relaxed part of his term. i don t think hillary clinton is the problem as far as his status is concerned. essentially, he s had numerous opposition to his entire time to being president. that will continue. how shocked would you be if she does not run? very. you expect her to? no. but you just asked me a different question. you d be shocked if she doesn t run. i would be shocked. you know something, this is a decision she has to make with her family. i know it is something she s considering and hasn t decided yet what she wants to do. thanks so much, tom. great insight on the next step for the clintons. they re always fascinating. we ll see. 27 minutes after the top of the hour. let s talk about the white house. 41 years later, miami dolphins finally get their special honor at the white house. three players are missing from the picture. why they refused to meet the
decision fairly? not just for herself but, obviously, for the other people who would consider getting in the race. yeah. i mean, the last part of what you said is a fair point, because there are others who are waiting in the wings or who have even start to make moves on the theory that if she doesn t run, clearly they would want to step up. however, for her, she doesn t have to make a decision until very late in the game, after the 2014 elections. she can wait longer than most candidates because she is who she is and she has got such, you know, obviously she is so well renowned. what is interesting to me there is all sorts of movement beneath the scenes without her stamp of approval by ready for hillary and by emily s list. emily s list as you showed they are in iowa and in new hampshire at the end. september. madam president. there is such a seething buzz
formidable front-runner she is, about how to go about this? all right, well, i think that the two strongest candidates, if she doesn t run, would be somebody like andrew cuomo or joe biden. you have to watch and see whether she s going to run. if she runs, an altered the landscape dramatically because she s so strong. would you tell martin o malley if they asked you your advice, is it worth doing it, is it worth trying the uphill battle that it s going to be. you found yourself in that situation, tougher to raise money, tough to get people, because they all jumped on one of the two front-runners in the race that you were involved in. yeah, i would say go for it. i m different than other people. i would say to the o malleys, to joe, cuomo, others contemplating it, out west and montana, my friend brian i think is a viable
prohibited favorite if she decides to run. i don t even know why anyone would even bother to challenge her honestly. but, yeah, she is certainly the one that everybody wants. if she wants it. laura: do you think people like martin o malley of maryland. popular guy young and charismatic not my favorite. if you are a democrat, martin o malley and cuomo. they will hang back and wait. cuomo will definitely wait. he won t run unless she doesn t run. other people may run to set themselves up for a future run, perhaps. a lot of donors are probably going to sit it out because why give money to somebody else when hillary is almost definitely going to get the nomination. laura: reacting to this putin cancellation, the meeting between obama and putin. obama after leno. at least he didn t break it on leno. i guess the white house press corps. no to the meeting. is that a tacet admission know that the hillary started reset really just fizzled out in our relationship with russia. snowden and e