Why it is the way it is. The t. R. U. Is this is a big news moment. In some ways the real start of the election cycle. Did you see snl, Kate Mckennon back as hillary warming up for today. Want to do some vocal warmups and then well get started. Okay. Love to. Hillary is a granny with a twinkle in her eye. Hillary is a granny and she makes an apple pie. First female president , first female president , me me me me me me me. Not the last time well see that character. Hillary for americans, thats what the campaign is being called. It is a Campaign Like no other. Thats because clinton is a candidate like no other in american history. Weve been here before and yet we havent. Her rivals know it. They arent waiting for her to actually announcement this is an Interesting Press strategy. We saw Mike Huckabee and rand paul. This is from jeb bush coming pretty close to saying hes going to run, too. In the coming weeks and months i look forward to an exchange of ideas and substantive proposals. I believe every american deserves a right to rise and the opportunity to achieve the American Dream and abroad america should be respected by our allies and feared by our enemies. Thats why its critical we change the direction our country is heading. We must do better than the Obama ClintonForeign Policy that damaged relationships with our allies and emboldened our enemies. I know we can do better. And together we will. Bush not the only one trying to preempt clinton. Marco rubio reesed friday the launch of his campaign. Marco rubio standing by for an interview. The worlds worst kept secret live in washington. Brianna, youve been on the clinton beat for over a year kind of waiting for this day. Is it anticlimactic for you . Weve been traveling, iowa new hampshire, or other states a lot of times you have people ask, voters interested is she running . Of course shes running. Weve known this for month. Its not anticlimactic in one was kay we dont know how shes going to perform. We looked at her book tour, saw her on the stump campaigning for other candidates in the Midterm Election cycle and you got a sense of her getting back into things politically and really flecking some muscle. Remember the book tour she stumbled on a lot of interviews. Theres a question of how shes going to perform and a lot of pressure on her to do well. If she does stumble at some point, especially coming on the heels of this email controversy, i think that is going to capture a lot of attention. Anti anticlimactic yes, because we knew she was running. But its still very important to see what is her message going to be and how is she going to perform. We heard expectations game under way. Seeing all these rivals weigh in it indicates with they all know what we know she is the frontrunner for the democratic nomination. Thats exactly right. Shes the frontrunner. Youre seeing a different kind of campaign playing out than you have before. Youve got republicans taking aim at Hillary Clinton arguably more than they are taking aim at each other in this very crowded field. Hillary clinton is sort of in it alone. There are some other democrats who are toying with the idea of running, Martin Omalley a lot of folks look at Vice President biden, they are unsure whether he will throw his hat into the ring sanders, chaffee, jim webb. The interesting thing about these democrats they arent taking sharp aim at Hillary Clinton. Thats when something tells you they are in it to take on a frontrunner and we havent seen that yet. We do see with the Clinton Campaign emerging campaign a lot of press aides, a lot of people reporters know well. This is a sign of homefully stropg strong with the press corps and not nastiness in the past. I didnt cover Hillary Clinton in 2008 but when you talk to reporters that did, they are down right traumatized about the relationship they went through, relationship between Clinton Campaign and reporters, you could say, was com bassive. That might be an understatement. There was a feeling on part of the Clinton Campaign there was favoritism with then senator obama. What youre seeing this time is a clear of the to be less combative. Youve got Communications Director a number of Senior Communications aides, the traveling press secretary. These are all people who have more collegial relationships with reporters. Thank you. Weve seen rand paul jeb bushs preannouncement, about to see clintons video. As i mentioned tomorrow marco rubios launch in california. Campaign aides say they like clintons timing. Join me rubios spokesperson. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Lets be honest. You guys have been bigfooted, right . I dont know. I dont think you would have had me on tv if hillary wasnt making her big announce thentment this afternoon. In many ways most americans tuning into the 2016 race thinking who they might support in 2016 and we welcome that attention. My boss marco rubio will be making a big announcement in miami at 6 00 p. M. I think a lot of people will be tuning in to see what he has to say and we welcome that announcement we welcome that attention. An interesting point. Tomorrow might be old news, clintons announcement and onto rubio. Have you had reporter rl israeli v. P. . No. To the contrary we have more interest in the race. Well give Hillary Clinton this afternoon and tomorrow morning. Then tomorrow afternoon were going to turn the page and allow marco rubio to make his big announcement. Were going to talk about the future challenges in america in 21st century, offer new ideas how to make this a new american century. Lets peelle back the curtain a little bit. My sources tell me no decision about emerging campaign about any big first interview but weve seen rand paul and ted cruz give first interviews to sean hannity and to others. Have you a strategy in place, George Stephanopoulos then sean hannity afterwards. Tell me a little about how youre rolling out interviews here. This is assuming marco rubio is running for president. Lets go ahead and assume. Other candidates will have more money but hell have the best message in the race assuming he does announce hes running tomorrow. Hes going to have the best message in the race. Hes going to offer new ideas for new challenges facing us in 2016. Were facing very different challenges than we were. He has new ideas how to solve them. He wants to talk about them with as many people as possible. Were going to be interviews but over the course of the campaign assuming he moves forward tomorrow afternoon. Well do as many interviews as we can. Yeah were talking to George Stephanopoulos for gma interview that will air tuesday morning. Hes talking to sean hannity, talking to npr on tuesday. Were going to talk to as many media as we can over the course of the week and months to come. Why hannity . We see ted cruz and rand paul give first interviews to hannity. What makes him unique especially within fox news . Why . I cant speak to why other candidates might have spoken to him. Marco and sean have had a Good Relationship going back to when marco first ran for senate five years ago. Hes always given us an opportunity to come on and talk about the issues of the day. Hes going to have a prime time special from 10 00 to 11 00 p. M. On fox news tomorrow night. We certainly want to take advantage of that and talk to his audience about the real ideas that marco rubio is going to be proposing. Very valuable real estate. Alex thanks for being here this morning. Thanks for the opportunity. Talk more about the press strategy clinton, rubio and others with two insiders s. E. Cup and chris. The author of vast conspiracy memo. Let me start with you, chris. Fundamentally is hillary treated differently by the press than any other candidate . If so why . Is it deserved . She is different in a sense shes a candidate in full famous and wellknown. In that lies a real competitive advantage, given the amount of press attention she can get, the amount of real estate she can occupy. Her ability to give a big idea gives enormous opportunity to frame the election on her terms. Shes able to exercise ball control by leveraging enormous interest in her candidacy. By the way, when republicans fighting somewhere between extreme right and far right in their primary and she has a clear shot that competitive advantage could make or break the difference in a close election. The ability to define herself, define narrative of the campaign define opposition but really ultimately begin talking to the voters from day one on her terms about what they are interested in. Thats a huge competitive advantage for someone who can get the type of attention she in a primary where a clear shot to the nomination. What the campaign would say shes not been able to put out an affirmative message until today. What do you make of the fact jeb bush released the video today clearly trying to inject himself into the news cycle. I think youre going to be hard pressed to find any member of the media who thinks remote campaigning, whether remote announcement is a good idea. These barriers between the press and the candidate or the public and the candidate might be convenient for the campaign but i dont think they are a good idea for public service. I think the media and public should press these candidates more on making themselves more accessible. I understand it allows them to control the narrative a lot better but i dont think its good for campaigning or good for politics. Do you think she should give an interview right away or a series of interviews . Youre not the only person who said this web strategy does remove her from contact with the reporters or the public. Hillary clinton has had some problems with the press. She has contentious relationship with the press. I understand her reticent manner but she appears to be above questions, above scrutiny above reproach. Shes got to get down on the ground floor of this campaign. That means talking to the press. That means talking to the public. Im not sure this is the best way to kick off a campaign a remote video where no one gets to ask her any questions afterwards. Chris, what do you think . If i could just jump in shes doing exactly that. She is traveling to iowa where shes going to be Holding Events in small venues typical type of events you do in iowa where voters are going to have the ability to take the measure of the candidate looks her in the eye, ask her a question and shes going to hear from them. Thats exactly what she is doing. I think far different than what took place in 2008 i think shes approaching this race with real attitude and understanding she needs to roll up the sleeves and have the conversation. Over the last few days weve seen reports where campaign seeking to engage the press in fundamentally different way. That reflects a real understanding you do have to have a positive constructive relationship. Just had an offtherecord discussion with reporters a couple days ago. As you mentioned brought in the best in the country, real pros who have historically positive relationships. At the end of the day, this video is one step in a series of events there taking place over this rollout. At the center of it shes going to go talk with folks in their living rooms, coffee shops, houses about how shes going to help the middle class. Shes doing exactly what she should be doing, exactly the right way. Quickly before i go one thing people talk about on tv she is very possibly going to be president because shes the frontrunner for the democratic nomination because shes been through it before. Its very possible. Let me ask, s. E. , she will be president if blank happens. Obviously im a republican and i hope a republican ends up in the white house, but weve imploded before. Theres certainly room on the right for mistakes. I think people are ready for a change and i dont think they view Hillary Clinton as a change. I think they view her as an obama third term. Shes going to have to make a real clear distinction, an uncomfortable distinction between herself and the last two terms under barack obama if shes going to end up in the white house. Im not sure shes going to be able to do that effectively. S. E. Chris, thank you both for being here. I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. What chris was alluding to were talking about next. The part of the clinton story you havent heard anywhere else is the part cloaked in secrecy, off the record parties between Campaign Staff and reporters. It happened in the last few days. Im going to tell you which anchors were there and ask whether it affects coverage for better or worse. Exclusive report after this. I care deeply about the gulf. I grew up in louisiana. I went to school here. Ive been with bp ever since. Today, i lead a team that sets our Global Safety standards. After the spill we made two commitments. To help the gulf recover and become a safer company. Weve worked hard to honor both. Bp has spent nearly 28 billion dollars so far to help the gulf economy and environment. And five years of Research Shows that the gulf is coming back faster than predicted. 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Whats interesting, at the moment he broke the news a lot of rivals on hillary beat were at off the record dinner party with clinton staffers in d. C. Off the record means people who attended couldnt talk about it couldnt write about it. All we really know is what was on the menu. Here is what politico reported thursday night chief of staff john podesta held a private campaign with reporters at his Washington Home where he served his signature pasta as well as a pasta with walnut sauce politico has learned. Cash carbo loading with Clinton Campaign. Here on reliable sources we try to peek behind the curtains. Here is what weve learned, big names, diane sawyer, George Stephanopoulos stephanopoulos david muir joe scarborough, politicos mike allen, a bunch of others as well half a dozen reporters from cnn in attendance. The question is do these sorts of events compromise journal ises or make them better at their jobs. Joining me to answer the question is the aforementioned Hunter Walker and glen thrush senior staff writer for politico. Thank you for being here. Glen awkward question for you. You were at the events . Yes. Actually i was at the both events and im now completely in the tank. Youre joking being sarcastic. This gets into the issue, question viewers might have at home about what the appropriateness is. What i think and what a couple of folks at the friday event said to me this makes all sides better because clinton aides get to know reporters and reporters get to have sources that call later. Is that your impression as well . Is that why you believe its appropriate to go . I have strong feelings on this. I think this is kind of a fake story. Let me tell you why. I think its way better to have all of us together way less use to me as a reporter to be in a room with 1,000 people talking. This is not in lieu of us not talking to them this is in lieu of handpicked reporters getting direct access to principles in the absence of everybody else. This is not necessarily about them trying to woo us this is about them first and foremost trying to avoid mistakes of 2008 where it was enormously comfortal conof confrontational than the beginning of its democratic not just four people getting access to the principles. Do i think this era of good feeling is going to last . No. While it is available, i think we would be those of us who covered this day to day would be stupid not to avail ourselves to it. One of the ideas thursday night with b reporters, younger reporters, ones who didnt necessarily live through early 90s and 2000s, friday night more of the a lister types. Hunter you did not go to either of them. You like more of an outsider approach. I would totally rejebt the notion this was not a group of handpicked people meeting with the campaign. It was a group of handpicked people meeting with the campaign. If you were invited, would you have gone . I would go. I do like coming from the outside. Im from brooklyn. I dont report from d. C. I feel like that kind of keeps me away from some of the group think you can get when youre sitting in a group fed talking points and sort of agreeing on them over pasta. Hold on. You think they were agreeing over pasta . I do think in my experience theres a lot of reporters who communicate in packs. People in america wonder why this conventional wisdom seems to be echoed so much. Its true the campaign has messaging that gets out there. Errorers communicate amongst themselves and there does tend to be some agreement and you dont really want to break with that. Im groaning here. First of all, hunter youre not the only reporter from brooklyn. I went to Sheepshead Bay high school. Go sharks. Wow. Youre not the only one on the outside. I covered 2008 for news day, you couldnt get arrested. I wasnt invited to anything. In fact i remember c