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CNNW Fareed Zakaria GPS April 12, 2015

Hillary campaign is talking about it right now, one of her great mistakes from her run in 2008 was not doing well here in iowa. She was out organized by thensenator barack obama. So now getting off to a good start means meeting the voters where they live making the campaign about the voters. Connecting with them on their level and weve seen some of that in the Mission Statement in the hillary for america memo that went out in advance of this weekend. So the expectation is theyll try to show a more humble Hillary Clinton willing to fight for every vote. The rollout on social media seen as a soft start. A humble beginning, if you will. And also an opportunity for her to connect with Younger Voters being on social media. What to expect assuming her announcement comes today, democratic strategist tells me they are trying to run an extraordinarily tight and managed campaign with an attempt to avoid some of the infighting and the missteps of the last goround. Were already seeing that from some of the radio silence from her inner circle. Talking with clinton supporters there is also a sense she needs to reintroduce herself in a way we have not seen in more than a decade. Many people know her as the former secretary of state, but supporters want to show the woman who is also a mother, a grandmother, and someone with a quick sense of wit about her, something people may have lost in the years shes had in international politics. Dana. Joe, thank you very much from iowa. Were going to come back here to talk about their insights on the 2016 clinton campaign. Our team covering her. It is cnns washington correspondent jeff zelany and our washington correspondent brianna keilar. Bri, what are you hearing from team clinton about how theyre planning this slow roll rollout. Its been a couple days now. Theyve gotten a lot of attention since weve known for a couple days this is coming. The video has been taped for some time. It is going to come out today. Really any moment now. And then its off for that Campaign Travel both to iowa and to New Hampshire. It really is so key the tone that she strikes and that she does show some humility. If you go back and watch her video that announced her candidacy eight years ago, it does have this sort of sense of entitlement about it im in and im in to win. So she goes to iowa. Her politics are wrong because of where she was on her iraq war vote. The tone was wrong. The tone of her staffers was wrong. There was this sort of sense of im leading the pack and it is going to work out for me and it rubs iowans the wrong way. Even though weve known for some time shes going to run, today is so key and this week is so important. You remember she came in on a hillacopter. The plane that she came in on. But that was to create a bit of excitement about her because at that point barack obama then was already getting some attention. That was at the very end. I think there are a couple things being misremembered about 2007 though. I was there. Along the way she was very popular initially. But the iraq war vote weighed her down in such big ways. And john edwards. He went after her hard if the fall of 07 saying shes too tied to wall street shes too close to this. And barack obama was not a good candidate through a lot of 07. He kind of came up at the very end and around the side of her. I think it is a bit overstated how disastrous her run in iowa was. She was not connected to them necessarily, but barack obama expanded the pool in iowa. More people came out than ever before. Thats why he won, she did not. She still got the traditional caucusgoers here. So she enters it with no sense of humility. She has to show shes fighting for it. There is a balance between too much humility to the point where you dont excite the base. Because thats an issue when you look at all of those Elizabeth Warren supporters out there, begging her, from massachusetts, to run because they just arent jazzed about Hillary Clinton. Right . I think shes the way she does that is by going in and putting in the tile. I think the sense is when you that uk to those close to Hillary Clinton, especially those who worked on the 2008 campaign they were very surprised on caucus night because the turnout was so much more than expected. Then the turnout went so much for thensenator obama. But i think she goes in and she puts the time in. But if you talk to people close to her they were really sort of traumatized. Iowa is this place that i think makes them almost a little nervous thinking about it but i also think theres some eager in es to kind of rewrite that chapter and they see this as really an opportunity to do that. No doubt about it. She was underserved by her Campaign Staff in 07 and 08. There was so much infighting in her arlington va headquarters virginia. Headquarters. They are always a better candidate the second time. I think she will be as well. Brianna . Jeff . Thank you very much. Well rely on your reporting in the next hours and days. One democrat who is very bullish on Hillary Clintons White House Run is california senator snore barbara boxer. I spoke with her a short while ago. I think that Hillary Clinton is going to be the champion for american families. And the fact that shes a woman is a fact. It is a factor. But it isnt the be all and the end all. Because if you know hillary the way i do and a lot of people do, you know shes warm you know shes compassionate. And when she came to the United States senate she proved that she was a really a workhorse and she listened and shes going to start this campaign by listening. But she is going to relate to every day americans. And i think becoming a grandmother, as i did so many years ago, makes you think about tomorrow and i think that shes going to be a candidate to make the changes we need now, and shes going to stand for what we need to do to lift up our children lift up the middle class. And you know all this talk about, oh wouldnt it be great if we had a fierce democratic primary . I just dont buy that. Shes got ten republicans who are going to beat up on her starting today. They actually started yesterday. And its going to hone her skills. You know senator, you bring up the fact that shes already getting hit by republicans. No question about that. But tactically that could pull her more to the right and perhaps depress the liberal base in a way that is not necessarily helpful to her. You know very well that your colleague, senator Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts, is really exciting that base in a way that perhaps Hillary Clinton is not. Why is that . Well i dont buy into any of what you just said. Elizabeth warren signed a letter with all of us women in the United States senate asking hillary to run. Oh yeah i dont mean her. I mean her supporters. Well i think what were going to see now is that we are all united around the fact that the Democratic Party doesnt just fight for a few people at the top. We fight for all of our families especially those in the middle who are so crushed by Student Loan Debt by mortgages and all the rest. And i think hillarys going to be their champion and i think you know, i was thinking back to the primary where barack and hillary ran against each other. The country was so divided. Democrats were divided about the war. We were in this horrible getting out of this great recession. Now were really united. And republican senator Lindsey Graham sees a clinton candidacy a little bit differently. He thinks the former secretary of state enters the president ial race facing some tough questions. Hes also thinking of entering the race himself. We spoke a short while ago as well and i directly asked him would Hillary Clinton make a good president. I think she would continue the policies of this president because she was his secretary of state. Trust me she did not fight effectively for a Foreign Policy thats working. She empowered a failed Foreign Policy and when it comes to obamacare, bill and Hillary Clinton did a better job of selling it than barack obama, so at the end of the day heres her challenge. Heres how im different than barack obama. Heres why my Foreign Policy will be better than his, because the world is literally on fire. From an economic point of view, heres what i would do differently than barack obama. So if she can make a case that shes different than him then shell have a chance. If she cant, game set, match. Well lets just stay there on Foreign Policy. She wasnt the president and she did no but shes secretary of state. Right. But she did advocate exactly what you wanted on syria when it came to arm being the rebels a few years ago. She didnt win but she tried. Sure. No good credit for her trying in syria. At the end of the day where was she at benghazi when on august the 14th i think they wrote a memo from libya to washington saying we cant defend the consulate from a coordinated terrorist attack and al qaeda flags are flying everywhere. At the end of the day, how did she behave as secretary of state when it came to withdrawing troops from iraq . She set the reset button with russia. How well is that working out . So i would argue that she empowered a failed Foreign Policy more than she stood up to it. When she stood up to it she was ineffective. So she owns his Foreign Policy. She owns his domestic policy. And the reason theres 20 republicans running is that all of us think we can beat her. Well lets talk about another one of the republicans who are running. A colleague of yours, rand paul. He said excuse me. You said this week that Hillary Clinton could bet a better iran deal than the president excuse me than rand paul could. Would you vote for Hillary Clinton or rand paul if it was the two of them running for president . Id vote for senator paul because im a republican and i would oppose his Foreign Policy when i had to but rand paul and i agree on the economy. Weve tried to reform Social Security and medicare. At the end of the day, i think senator paul and i have far more in common in terms of the size and scope of gropovernment. On Foreign Policy we dramatically disagree. Leading from behind would be Barack Obamas Foreign Policy. What would Hillary Clintons policy be . To rand pauls credit he is a true libertarian. He bloevzelieves in fortress america. He believes if we leave everybody alone, theyll leave america alone. Where Hillary Clintons at on anything is like jailing jello to the wall. Shell be out there pretty soon. Well i hope yall will ask her some questions. I hope yall are asking her some questions. Dont you worry, we will. Lets talk more about the republican field. Tomorrow senator marco rubio is going to announce his bid for the presidency. You worked with him on an immigration deal that allowed a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. He got so hammered by the Republican Base he backed off of it. Is that leadership . Do you think hes fit to be leader . I think hes got a great view of the world. I think hes a traditional republican on Foreign Policy. Hes got a heck of a personal story to tell. I like him a lot. He did vote for the immigration bill that was passed by the gang of eight. He was part of the gang of eight. But at the end of the day, are we ready to be president will be a discussion youll have about all of us do we have the experience and the judgment. Are we tough enough for this job. Whats your answer on marco rubio based on that experience . I think hes i think hell be a good candidate if he gets the nomination i would gladly support him. But i can tell you this about Lindsey Graham. The hardest thing in politics is not beating on your political opponents, but disagreeing with your own party and your political friends. I have done that when i thought it was best for the country. So i can tell anybody listening to this program, when it comes to being president of the United States i would put the country ahead of the party. I got a record to prove it. And we are keeping an eye on our twitter feed for Hillary Clintons announcement. Can she satisfy the Democratic Base the liberal base . Thats a question well ask next. Tmobile is breaking the rules of wireless. And the Samsung Galaxy s6 edge is breaking the rules of design. Cant get your hands on it because youre locked down by a carrier . Break free tmobile will pay every penny of your switching fees. 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Shes going to be doing this listening tour. Right . Shes going to do a slow roll the video, no big speech. Shes going to talk to small groups. Weve been talking about the fact shes not going to these big rallies. But specifically just on a listening tour hasnt she been doing that for two decades . What does she have to listen for . A lot of listening. Well i was talking to somebody in the campaign who put it to me this way. You dont want to do a shock and wau awe, as he put it when you introduce Hillary Clinton. The question is how do you reintroduce Hillary Clinton to an america that by and large, believes that it knows her because shes been around for a few decades. Youve covered all these events dana so you have rand paul having a rally. You have ted cruz having a rally. Marco rubios going to have a rally on monday. And with Hillary Clinton i think they decided to do the opposite and they will build to it because they dont want to give the sense of inevitability, even though we all know she is the really likely democratic nominee. But inevitability didnt work so well for them last time around so they cant do it again. But there is a balance between not having an air of inevitability and a feeling like anticlimactic. Sort of like new years eve. Right . I shaved my legs for this. So i think in this video, she will be able to be more controlled. Its already been taped. Shes not great at those big rallies and sort of the theater of those big speeches. I think in some ways were also in i think, a postspeech era. These big speeches. You get out there, ted cruz for instance his big speech at liberty. Well see marco rubio tomorrow. We saw rand paul last night. And then you had his whole week and the rollout wasnt so great after that speech. It was sort of like cotton candy, sort of disappears on contact, these big speeches. I think like you said shell obviously build up. Well see some of these speeches but this video, you can pass it around on social media. I think the biggest thing for a president ial candidate is the question understands the problems of people like me. And Hillary Clinton had a book tour which didnt go so well. And theres a question of whether she really does understand the problems of people like me. President obama always had that in his favor. He also had the trust factor in his favor. Shes got some issues on that front as well. So thats where these small groups kind of come in handy because the visuals are sitting around a table and talking to people like me. A bit like iowa New Hampshire its real. Its not just a mirage or optics for us. It is actually meeting these voters. Who really matter who really expect it who really want to be wooed with being wooed, who didnt see that from Hillary Clinton or al gore when he rolled in with the trappings of the vice presidency. Thank you so much. Well be talking a lot more about this. Republicans of course are not waiting for Hillary Clinton. Republicans are allout against her already. Even before her official announcement. Next i will talk with one of them one who actually announced his own candidacy this past week, rand paul. Let me talk to you about retirement. A 401 k is the most sound way to go. Lets talk asset allocation. Sure. You seem knowledgeable professional. Would you trust me as your Financial Advisor . I would. I would indeed. Well, lets be clear here. Im actually a dj. [ dance music plays ] [laughs] no way i have no Financial Experience at all. That really is you . If theyre not a cfp pro you just dont know. Find a certified

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