Hillary clinton meets the press, defends herself from mitt romney and explains why America Needs a woman president. Plus why politicians in rick scotts florida are paying just 8 a month for health care while denying medicaid for the poor. And as she steps down from her role in the naacp, another odd turn in the story of rachel dolzel. There was to addressing to the issue of being hisdishonest of her ethnicity. Good evening from new york. After months dancing around his ambitions and avoiding certain rules jeb bush becoming the 11th republican candidate to announce he is running for president addressing a fired up crowd. Bush touted his economic record as governor of florida way back in the boom years before the housing bubble popped. I know we can fix this because i have done it. We made florida number one in job creation and number one in Small Business creation, 1. 3 million new jobs. 4. 4 growth. Higher family income, eight balanced budgets and tax cuts eight years in a row. The speech included plenty of conservative red meat calculated to please the base. That at times has viewed bush with suspicion. When a school is just another dead end every parent should have the right to send their child to a better school, public, private or charter. If i am president we will take the power of choice away from unions and give it back to parents. Secretary clinton insists that when the Progressive Agenda encounters religious beliefs to the contrary, those beliefs, quote, have to be changed. With their phone it in Foreign Policy, the Obama Clinton kerry team is leading a legacy of crisis, violence unopposed, enemies unnamed, friends undefended and alliances unraveling. Bush tried to ease concerns that he feels entitled to the white house by virtue of his last name. I know there are a lot of good people running for president , quite a few, in fact. And not one of us deserves the job by right of resume, party, seniority, family or family narrative. It is nobodys turn. It is everybodys test and its wide open exactly as a contest for president should be. But the hash tag no more bushes was trending nationally on twitter throughout the speech and this line about his family probably didnt help. In this country of ours the most improbable can happen. Take that from a guy who met his first president on the day he was born and his second on the day he was brought home from the hospital. Bush talked at length about his wife from mexico and delivered a couple of lines in spanish his prepared remarks included zero mention of Immigration Reform. The issue forced interrupting the speech with the message legal status is not enough a reference to his past position. And they did that during bushs tribute to his mother. She is watching what i say and frankly with all these reporters around i am watching what she says, too. Our friends know the next president of the United States will pass meaningful Immigration Reform so that that will be solved not by executive order. Joining me now Michael Steele and mckay coppin, senior political writer. That to me was most interesting moment in the speech for this reason. The first thing a lot of people did when the remarks were emailed was look through and were surprised to find not a mention of immigration. They interrupt the speech and they get a mention of immigration out of him in response to that. They do. And its not surprising in the sense that he responded to it. It is a little bit curious that he didnt at least include some reference either in the biographical part where he is talking about his wife and his family even when he was speaking spanish. I think there may be more tactic involved than just trying to avoid the issue. I think he wanted to send a different kind of message at the beginning, not based around a substantive policy issue like immigration but thematically talk about the differences that he wants to move into in this campaign but not specifically with respect to policy. I think thats true. He largely avoided policy. It was particularly in contrast to Hillary Clintons speech which we will talk about which was very policy intensive. I thought i got to say i understand it is a little hard if you are the speech writer for this campaign to figure out how to deal with the fact that your brother and father are both president s. But the line, in this country of ours the most improbable things can happen like only in america can a man born to a president and the brother of a president be a president. What was that . That was a bad and strange note in an otherwise i think pretty good speech and performance. This issue about his the kind of dynasty question will be something that follows him throughout the campaign. He knows that. He is going to address it and answer questions. He knows he will have to keep answering questions about his father and brother. I was out with him in europe for the past week where he talked extensively about his father who is fairly popular in the countries that he visited and studiously avoided mentioning his brother at all costs. But to mention the third bush in a row could be president. The third bush in the family. That was a strange moment. I didnt take that away from it. I thought it was a pretty good line when you think about it. I think if he hadnt made some reference to his father and brother then the narrative would have been, look, bush is avoiding talking about his father and his brother. You are absolutely right. He is going to have to address it. I think he found a cute way to do it and it was nonoffensive and didnt amount to much more than a laugh in the speech and he moves on. You wrote a piece about jeb bush embarks on least Joyful Campaign ever. The joyless slog that has been the Bush Campaign thus far. Its a weird stylistic thing to note, but as a viewer it feels always when im watching him like this isnt someone enjoying this which the whole thing seems unenjoyable. I would be miserable if i were running for president. The reason i pointed it out is when he first started flirting with the president ial run the main question he had to answer for himself was can i do it joyfully. Ever since he said that if you observe him out on the campaign trail in europe, wherever he is there is a general joylessness that wafts off of him. And it goes to the fundamental i think rationale of his campaign which is that he believes he is a grown up in a field of unprepared, unserious candidates and in that way his candidacy is oppositional in nature. He wants to save his party, the Republican Party from people who he thinks are less serious. Thats come through in conversations i have had with people who know him for a long time, his aides. I think running a Campaign Like that is not by its very nature going to be a joyful, exciting, positive upbeat experience. The one place where he seemed to be most animated i thought was surprising and a window into the strategy of the jeb campaign in this primary is when he talked about the Little Sisters of the poor and this lawsuit that has to do with a conscious exemption in the Affordable Care act. It occurred that one smart thing they come up with is they find a sliver of venn diagram where they can lean into giving the religious right particularly red meat and leaned into that and was an indicator we see a lot more of that in this campaign. That is true to a certain degree. I dont know if it was just a play to the religious right. I think there is a lot of concern out there that every day folks religious or not has about the role have about the role the government plays with these types of organizations, charities and the like. I think there is still a lot of Unanswered Questions in that regard. I think he put down a marker saying i will be the guy very much like hillary wants to be the champion for certain things. He wants to be the guy to be a champion for protecting those rights against an intrusive government. Thank you both. Both jeb bush and Hillary Clinton made an interesting choice leaving out their famous last name, kind of just regular folks, hillary and jeb. In an interview this morning mitt romney of all people argued that Hillary Clinton is just too elite and too wealthy to connect with most american voters. Somehow when you see her on the stage or when she comes to a room full of people she is smiling with her mouth but her eyes are saying where is my latte. Latte. How can she sell a populist message when she makes in one hour a multiple of what the average american will make in a year . Asked about those comments clinton made her strongest case yet. I want everybody to have the same opportunities that i had and that my husband had. I dont think americans are against success. I think americans are against people who get on the top of the ladder and start pulling it up so nobody else has the same chance that they had. That fits in with the message she rolled out in new york city on saturday embracing the broad theme of combatting economic inequality. While many of you are working multiple jobs to make ends meet you see the top 25 Hedge Fund Managers making more than all of americas kindergarten teachers combined and often paying a lower tax rate. And that speech clinton embraced something she stayed very far away from in 2008, her gender. I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but i will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States. Joining me now Rebecca Traister whose daughter if i can editorialize, extremely adorable and awesome is in that shot in her little striped shirt. You were there with her. I thought that moment, that sound bite symbolized so much the ways in which the campaign seems to be constructed as a repudiation of 2008. Absolutely. She is running a different kind of campaign. Leading with pop you lichl. She is comparing herself to franklin roosevelt. That is a big move. After several decades of sucking up to Ronald Reagan and good things about reagan. Hillary has done things like that certainly talked about and lived compromised. And she is really sort of taking off in what feels like a very new direction compared to her recent political life by saying actually i am only going to work with willing partners. That was pretty direct. I thought so too. That was a very interesting line. This was not about the great reaching across the aisle. You come to me. Thats a big move to make. I thought the embracing of the historic candidacy the hardest question to answer is why do you want to be president . The truthful answer is im a deranged person because this is absolutely insane undertaking. I want to be the first woman president is a pretty darn good answer. Very progressive answer. The inverse of that which is lets have another guy. Thats not just symbolism. That has meaning. 230 years of male uninterrupted power. Its a progressive thing, in hillarys case a feminist arguably liberal president. You make this point in the piece you wrote which is basically Hillary Clinton was sort of introduced to america and the kind of tweet length version was meet this woman who is like a liberal feminist smarty pants. And then spent basically particularly starting in 2000 when she having to be elected herself as doing everything in her power to this is a 360. I dont want to make an argument that she is her authentic hillary self. She is a calculating politician. It is useless. It is all performance. When you watch campaigns you are watching theater. I am happy if the players are listening. Hillarys shift seems to indicate that she has noticed a change in mood and change in need and she seems to be trying to move towards it. I think that is a good thing. It does reflect a lot of work she did early in her career as a law student and young lawyer in arkansas. She was engaged in criminal defense, legal services. She was a public defender in arkansas, set up a legal aid clinic. Her investment in criminal Justice Reform has roots in her early career. That is something we forget when we take her to task for the role her husband played in terms of building a prison complex. Very good point. Thank you. Thank you so much. An unusual moment on the campaign trail as Hillary Clinton met the press. Plus, activists detained as they try to stop a drilling head. And the president of the naacp joins me after resignation of spokane naacp president. And tomorrow night, Rachel Dolezal speaks. 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow night. You do not want to miss that. You will not beat. Meeeeee greg. What should i do with your fish . Gary. Just put it in the cooler. If youre a fisherman, you tell tales. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. Put the fish in the cooler audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping the nissan rogue with safety shield technologies. 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In the wake of mounting criticism from the press corps covering Hillary Clinton did something that she rarely does answered questions from reporters, some of them anyway. Journalists frustrated over what they believe is inadequate access to cover the Democratic Front runner. Far less willing to take questions than her rivals. If the access is unprecedented so is the media scrum. Clinton is being covered like a sitting president with overwhelming Media Tracking every move. This weekend more than 500 reporters showed up to cover her Campaign Kickoff speech which was aired live. Thats 500 reporters and that is crazy. One truism on political insiders is American People do not care whether or not the press corps is happy with how much access they are getting. And very few people blame Hillary Clinton for being wary of the media. It is not without consequences for the candidate and for the party she hopes to lead. Joining me now eric boehlert. I thought this was basically these fights are immaterial. Barack obama proved no one cares if the press whines about access. Yes. Right. The 500 reporters is probably more than covered obama four years ago. It is so over the top. Need for content. 16, 18 months out it is kind of ridiculous but they have to produce it. Lets write about ourselves and how unhappy we are and have a debate about access. So here is where i think it is important. It appears to be happening over the Trans Pacific partnership. Hillary clinton is running to get the nominee of the democratic party. This is possibly the most controversial issue i have seen in the time i have covered barack obama. He has got handed this. It seems important to get her views on this. This was her today answering a question on trade. Take a listen. The issue for me is what is in the deal . And i think now there is an opportunity for the president and his team to reach out and meet with the people who have sat on the floor like pelosi did that we need a better deal, not im against it no matter what is in it or im for it no matter what is in it. That was a masterful bit of not answering the question. It does seem important that the reason that access seems important to me is i would like to get a clear position from Hillary Clinton if you are in the senate how do you vote on trade Promotion Authority . She is running for president. If you are in the senate you are going to have to have a vote record. It seems like a basic standard to say where would you vote on this . She went to iowa and talked about it. Now the press is like we dont like that answer. We want a different answer. You can keep asking. They should keep asking her. I want a position. I am a democratic primary voter i want to know where she is on this issue and it seems that one of the sort of insidious aspects is it is easier to avoid that. Today showed you can take questions and not come down clearly. She is saying there is still a process. She is opposed to trade agreements in the past and supported trade agreements in the past. She is saying she wants to protect jobs and the environment. Lets have a convers