Went on the twitter rant posting a series of whitehot burns and this time it was not donald trump billionaire it was Hillary R Clinton millionaire. Clinton slated trump over documents published in the New York Times about a federal lawsuit against Trump University. Heres a sampling hot off the boiler. She called the Business Practices that trump engaged in sleazy and fraudulent. The Trump University khan says a lot about trump. You cant trust him with your personal finances. How can we trust them with our country . These days that counts as a president ial smack down. She continued to attack in the flash at a rally in new jersey with jon bon jovi. This is juston more evidence that donald trump himself as a fraud. He is trying to scam america the way he scammed all those people that Trump University. It is important that we recognize what he has done because thats usually a pretty good indicator of what he will do. John hillary is clearly trying to make Trump University big issue. Is this an issue we will be or can about in the fall clinton makes this an issue that will talk trump all the way . The forprofit University Business is pretty dodgy across the board. Accusations that would be serious for normal candidate. Hes shown an ability to rise above it. If they can humanize it with victims and advertisements. Not just down paper but on video. John this could be a problem , what the and trump narrative is that they are trying to build that donald trump is that he is a con man who does not care about the lives of real people and that he is profited at their expense. This will not be the Silver Bullet that kills trump as part of the larger mosaic it could be crippling to his campaign. In the long run if it is sustained. Mark there are a lot of things that go to trumps volatility about using his name to make money for something that is more barrage substance. I do think donald trump has a history of being able to use lawyers and delaying tactics. Part can make the legal always a portable part will hurt less. Human victims are so important. Think about the swift boat veterans for truth. The things that stuck were real people. Depositions. You need to see the people. One extra happened then . This is dangerous for trump. They also sent at a press release announcing that bill clinton is going to join his wife in california during the five days leading up to the primary here next tuesday. Previouslyself had canceled some scheduled events in new jersey so she could spend more time in california. Ont critical contest here tuesday. This comes as a brandnew nbc holds aws clinton statistically insignificant twopoint lead over Bernie Sanders. Well within the margin of error. The Clinton Campaign is trying to win this state. Its up for grabs. Are the clintons coming in here to try to win this to put it are they more playing defense because they recognize that they are behind . John i think they still think that they can win this state. Internally and privately would say that the state is a tossup. They both know that Bernie Sanders where he spends a lot of time it is on the air the preelection polling tends to underestimate him. The clinton people are clearly nervous. They are deploying to assets. Advertising dollars and to bill clinton. Mark her support is in los angeles and the bay area. They can really try to swell the vote in those two places. Is going to be hard for him to keep up to against one with the clintons. This is one of the places here in los angeles where bill clinton because of his charisma and star power he was so is hollywoods candidate. He will get a lot of airtime here. If theyre willing to put him from the cameras. I think he will get on local news here. Mark the Silver Lining is they will split the delegates no matter what. But a win will be a win. Era when will give her and her surrogates the ability to argue forcefully next wednesday that for the good of the party Bernie Sanders must get out. I think people are underestimating her chances here. This could be a decisive decision to send the big dog to the big state. The story the Clinton Campaign would like to have a go away. Her emails. It is not going away yet. Some testimony from a deposition about the case has been released. Cheryl mills, her former chief of staff at the state department and a member of the clintons inner circle. She said her advisory didnt really think that hard about problems the email server could cause. Said it was not about avoiding public records laws. Clint gave interviews in which she repeated her campaigns defense that she regrets doing what she did and she is moving forward and the voters dont seem to care. Has it now moved around again, we will get the fbi round later. If she still under siege . I do like the fact that they and cooperate with the investigation. They are still being fuzzy about what they are sorry for. They are cavalier about the freedom of information act. It is a matter of pure politics. , they are in pretty good shape. With Trump University, there are a lot of distractions. If the fbi doesnt charge her and i still dont know quite what they would charge her with it would take a lot for republicans to reignite this. Lots of damage has been done as a matter of daily trouble for her i think they may have a chance to get through this. John theres a real lesson here. They were having trouble with this most recent round of this dealing with the inspector theyve beent reluctant to put her in front of cameras. She hasnt been nearly as available as donald trump. The reason it had some success fact that she made herself more available. She came out and get around interviews. Even if youre not change your presencevery much your out there says a lot when you are the presumptive nominee. Mark to paraphrase elton john sorry is now the easiest word. Forget everything you know about david french. That probably didnt take very long. Our french education class after this. Marco 24 hours after we broke the independent candidate the conservative writer david french. Could he raise money . Could he make it into the president ial debate . Could he keep anybody from getting 270 electoral votes . Who isst question is david french . We can expect to hear the same names over and over again. Hillary clinton Bernie Sanders and david french. A man you may have never heard of. If you have no idea who that is dont worry youre not alone. I have no idea who he is. Youve been tweeting like crazy about david french. David french is not exactly a household name. Who exactly is david french . And what about david french . French tweeted last night that he is humble and grateful for the expressions of support. Gears and talkch about the flooding emergency. Mark he tweeted once today. Saying this is been a year of long shots. Lots of reaction on tv mostly people expressing skepticism. Some people of been supportive. About 24 hours after this trial balloon went up in the air kind of altitude is the david french launch have . It is not soaring skyward with the rapid velocity. Mark there is no french mania. John the fact that he is bill kristols guy signals the end of the never trump movement. Guy giving hiss low name identification canal , the odds of him changing the course of the contest are small. Two key elements remain. He has not presented himself in any way. This wouldve been true for anybody who was not a household name. When he stands up and makes an actual speech. Makes a pinterest candidacy. Is he compelling or not . Mark a compelling speech is a big deal. Fundraising is a big deal. Parts to be somebody that of the country could look at and say this guy seems like he could be a better president of the United States than the two unpopular front runners of the two major parties. Given how it ridiculously it was launched, broken by us, he has tweeted twice. That, he is in decent shape. He has a lot of work to do. He has not done much. John Donald Trumps birthday is in two weeks. What you get for the man who has everything . How about a super pac. Even Donald J Trump billionaire might need a super pac. The two of them already exist. Wealthy donors have raised concerns about both of them. A lot of confusion on the trump super pac front. Donald trump is going to need to raise a lot more money. Is the Trump Campaign manager having trouble getting its act together on this front . They sent mixed signals about whether they want a super pac. One of his advisors was quoted saying mr. Trump has a lot of support him he cant really stop people from supporting him. That seems like a wink and a nod. Will wealthy people dont want to go to one essential fund 11 managers decide. They want to hire the consultants. Are we doing advertising . Are we coordinating with the campaign . Without the campaign playing a thisactive role publicly, thing continues to flow in a way that is not helpful to donald trump. In 2012 we had restore our future for romney. They knew the mind of the Romney Campaign pretty well. Even they found effective very difficult to pull off. Largely due to the failure mode a lot of donors to give money the super pacs. If im looking at trumps unpredictability and his next signals i be really wary about this just being a giant sink down which i could pour millions of dollars. Mark there is so much on their to do list. The convention the veep. They need to get this fixed. Advantageicans normal in millionaires and billionaires writing the checks could kick in in a big hurry if they can solve this. The clinton effort is robust it is not overwhelming. We will speak to president Barack Obamas former top wordsmith. Of losriter jon favreau angeles california joins us here on with all due respect. By developingined National Committees chief strategist. Sean, thanks for coming on. We want to you about Hillary Clinton and her emails. The fbi investigation continues. Hope they would do specifically what crime do you think secretary clinton might have committed . Sean im not an attorney. I think its a good question. What weve seen from the Inspector General report was that unequivocally she did great state department rules and they have done things to block the investigation. They knew what they were doing was wrong. More importantly instead of just the crime is the pattern. Ist weve seen with hillary not someone who tells the truth. She has a set of rules for her that is separate from everyone else. Isntgger issue here necessarily the underlying crimes that may come of this. But this continued lack of honesty and forthrightness that the clintons have this propensity to continue. Mark in the report there are a lot of things singled out. One of them is a midlevel official telling a lowerlevel official that basically they should never again raise their concerns about her private server. You have reason to believe anything youve heard or any suspicion you have that that person was acting on orders from above . Or was that just a midlevel person. Sean it is possible it could have been that scenario as well. Its not just one instance. There is a pattern of cheryl mills trying to make sure that the security requirements they were informed of are not met. They knew the risks involved. It was brought to the secretarys attention at the time that the email had problems. They flagged several times her use of the blackberry in the office. On multiple occasions there were warnings that the behavior they not up toed in was the state department standards. Not abiding by the rules. Theyre also made aware they were potential opportunities to they were emails aware of the rules no question about it. Formsp advisers signed saying they knew what they were doing. At some point the buck has to stop at the top. This isnt a small incident. Its a pattern of behavior. Severalo file not only freedom of information act guyests to find out if the said that the server had any emails. The i. T. Guy setting up the server, there is no record of any emails. I dont know how the email guy has no emails. Thats the same guy who was credit deal with the fbi for immunity. There clearly is something here. John there are couple of really tough stories in the paper today about Trump University. Detailing the accusations against Trump University. Some of them coming from former employees. Is there anything in the stories the you find troubling . Sean not this point. Right now you got an ongoing litigation. Im not involved in that. I dont know all the facts. Nothing so far suggests that mr. Trump was personally involved in this. John but former employees of Trump University or disguising describing it as a scam. And defrauding people. When you see those words does that set off alarm bells for you politically . Sean i dont like the stories. No one in politics likes negative stories about candidate thats on their side. The question becomes if they are involved in litigation. Is it a disgruntled former person . I dont think that generally elicits the most positive responses. Ive seen the stories where there have been thousands of students who said they had a great experience at Trump University. They raided a balance. And there is always a balance. John donald trump attack to the media in a pretty thoroughgoing way. Saying some pretty nasty things about individual reporters. A Communications Professional and also a very pleasant man. Using as wise as a matter of politics for donald trump to treat the Fourth Estate that way . Sean thats not necessarily my tactic. When you look at the level of success hes had in politics. Thead 16 candidates against dash cam. He emerged as the victor from those primaries. Largely through earned media and events. For me to give him advice would seem a little foolish at this point. Raises more out than 6 million for veterans and i think he was a little frustrated that instead of there a sense of applauding that individual for the effort on behalf of a good cause, mr. Trump and rightly so was upset at the level of scrutiny not necessarily apply to other things democrats do something that nature. I understand his frustration to be honest with you. Some of these individuals wanted to pick apart what day it check was cashed. This is something all americans should be applauding. Helping the veterans hoover and our respect. Mark thank you for coming on sean. Former obama speechwriter jon favreau coming up next year in los angeles. Next here in los angeles. Mark john joining us now is former chief speechwriter for president obama and the cohost podcast,eping it 1600 jon favreau, not the director of iron man. Up do have a story headlining front page today that talks about president obama postural in the general election. Thats what you think going to be. I know you think its going to be a good thing. Give us the contours of what your argument is. Jon he is out there today in elkhart. I think the one thing hillary has not had kinder is a united party. She has not had obama and everyone else making the case for her. Once the primary is over, she will have the party behind her and obama will be an asset because hes at a 52 , 53 percent approval rating. That usually helps the candidates of the same party. I think the case against trump obama will make is a case he has made even before trumps candidacy. Hes a great campaigner and great candidate, but he did not love being a candidate or campaigner. He likes governing more. Jon with the exception that he likes making the case. He likes being out on the stump and making the case. John you think hes going to be a real asset and enjoy doing this . A bit betweent is his teeth to do this . Jon i think hes itching to do it because it as a cap on his eight years in office. Hes going to give a farewell address at some point but there will already be a transition. This will be his chance to make the case for hillary and his own presidency and the case he has spoken about since hes in on the stage. Mark now is the time when i pour twitter hate. What is Donald Trumps campaign slogan. I think people put way too much in slogans. If the clintons came out with make America Great again, nobody thinks donald trump is where he is because of the slogan. I think all of this stuff is way overrated and what is much more important is the case he is making. Mark theres a debate going on now about whether she should be spending as much time as she started to going after donald trump, whether she should be spending more time building herself up. If she balance the goes down like this today, no positive messages going to get through. I think it is a timing issue. We did the same thing we may be case against romney and we talked about bain capital and all the negatives tough and i think she will do that between now and the convention and the convention will be a time when she starts making a positive case. The democratic view is basically it is decided before the race is. Is the Clinton Campaign geared up to put donald trump away before the convention . Jon i dont think they can put him away but a will certainly unload a bit between now and then. Mark by the time he got to the convention with ms. From with mitt romney, there was not a Single Person who thought you would lose. Do you think the Clinton Campaign could he in that position . It all depends on what happens when the primary is over. If she starts getting the sanders supporters, then yes. John i know you dont think slogans matter but big speeches matter. One andt obama gave people think the Convention Speech or Hillary Clinton will matter a lot. She has a lot of problems to remedy. This is going to be a big moment speech in her life. Help meed you think through how to approach this speech. What would you tel