Is helping to raise her granddaughters in the white house. Her point was about moving forward to a better future. And that is the point. Yes, there are many challenges ahead. Yes, their disappointment, but think about how we got this far. By not accepting the disappointment and keep moving ahead. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton, hardball starts right now. Hillarys obstacle course. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Let me start tonight with this big focus on Hillary Clinton. Is there any real reason she shouldnt run for president . Or is this just a smart way to build up suspense and keep the
wolves from the door . Or is there Something Real in this health issue . Meaning is there a real danger from the accident that led to that concussion she suffered in 2012 . Or is this just trouble staring by Reince Priebus and his band of merry elves . And why are Vice President joe biden, Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley and the others out there putting out Smoke Signals that they are ready to run for president. If nobody on the planet believes any of them can beat hillary, does that mean at least some of them are betting she wont be there to run against . Tonig tonight, i would like to get to the bomb of this big will she or wont she . Find out what the motives are for people who are acting like shes not. And why are republicans talking up a the health issue uh now . Why are democrats running as if shes not running . Whats the skinny on the strongest president ial wannabe since dwight eisenhower. We have the cochair of the super pac supporting hillary
clinton in 2016. I just want to say, like both of you, i think we can all agree last week we saw a very Strong Performance by team clinton, both bill and Hillary Clinton out there battling the comments made by karl rove, sensing the signal, it seems to me certainly theyre ready to run for president. Bill clinton said this is just the beginning of the attacks on her. According to the Washington Post who kept tabs on this, Hillary Clintons name was mentioned 98 times on the sunday talk shows. On fox sunday, karl rove doubled down on his previous comments about her socalled health situation. Lets watch. Any regrets . No. Look, my point is this, shes a human being. Shes you would not be human and not have a serious brain injury like this was and take it into consideration if youre thinking about going and doing what she might do. So this was concern for her . Yeah, look, i [ laughing ] yes, im concerned as one human being for another, but im more concerned about people say this is a done deal. Im not so certain. Well, on meet the press Republican NationalCommittee Chair reinci priebus made this hypothesis about hillarys calculations for 2016. My view, though, david, is that given the months she just had, i actually doubt where she will run for president in 2016. Is she the candidate you as the head of the Republican Party most fear . I think hillary is a known product. Sometimes its worse running against a blank slate. Hillary has decades of history for us to explore. Why are the republicans led by their foxiest guy there maybe thats a misuse of term
karl rove. Maybe not up to date on how the term is used. Sometimes clever at times in character, why does he stir the pot on this . Why this at this point, you know, a year before shes even probably going announce, why this . They cannot help themselves. When Reince Priebus say she iss not running you just have to put a big not in front of it. Of course theyre afraid of it. They want to try to knock her out of the box. How does talk like this on fox or even on meet the press accomplish that goal . It doesnt. Hillary knows shes healthy or not healthy. She knows all the facts. How does it change history when they do the blabber on sunday . In fact, it does the reverse. If anybody read Hillary Clintons biography, when she talks about when she was young and her she came home crying as a child because she was beaten up by a girl in school,
her mom, dorothy, sent her out the door and said do not come back until you beat that girl right back up. This is a resilient woman. She was raised to be resilient and all this talk will only serve to strengthen this backbone of steel. Two questions to you, chris. One analytical. Whats their motive . If they only entice her to run, they must know what shes up to. Do they really think they can talk her out of running . Do they really think they can influence her negatively . I think theres a difference in enflunsing the conversation about Hillary Clinton and convincing her not to run. The answer to the second question is no, i dont think either of them think Hillary Clinton is going to take their advice. Or if they say well, shes had a rough month thats. Going to impact her decision. They can impact the conversation around her. Look, i dont know what karl did this on purpose or not, but by
raising it now, he has injected it into the conversation. Whafgs the nature. Is there anything we dont know about the fall or her health . She would be matching ronlds reagan as the oldest person ever elected at 69 if she did win in 2016. So that might have been a narrative anyway, but its definitely going to be a narrative Going Forward from now until when she announces and probably frankly during the campaign. Lets take a look at governor, first, i want you to react what chris wrote in his speech. Heres what you wrote in todays Washington Post. Quote, what could keep her from running . For all the drama caused by karl rove, a blood clot on her brain is a serious thing. Bill clinton insisted this week his wife is in better shape than he is and her aides say shes absolutely a clean bill of health. But clinton would be 69 years old on election day. Her age with that scare, could believed her age with that scare in late 2012 and its hard to imagine clinton not taking a full accounting of her health before deciding to run. Do you think thats something that had a chance to sort of do a gut check and say, you know, i had this thing happen. Is this part of my thinking . Well, no, i have not talked with her about that, but i can tell you that, raising this issue, its going to be raised anyway. As it would be with any candidate. You always have to release your health care records. This is not anything new. Whoever the republican is, theyll have release theirs, too. But putting this out this early to me, its going to backfire. Because it is suggesting all of the lines of attack, only on her, only make her seem more resilient. It makes people it reminds people what a fighter she is. Of what shes had to endure. So let me ask you, if you were on the other side of it, you had a republican coming at
you that looked unbeatable and you knew they had a concussion in the last two years you wouldnt raise the issue of health on the other side. Maybe i would . Then the republicans are doing what politicians usually do. Go for the weakness. I completely agree with you on that. All im saying is its not going to feed into their strength. It is going to backfire on them. You see all of these people rising up, even some republicans saying he went too far too soon. Okay. Well, i just think a lot of people on the democratic side are making moves like they think it seems to me might not run. The sunday talk shows were dominant about Hillary Clintons health or socalled health. Lets watch him in action. I think that health and age is fair game. It was fair game for Ronald Reagan, fair game for john mccain. Do you think shes suffered some sort of brain injury that raises legitimate questions about whether shes healthy to serve as commanderinchief . Im not a doctor. What i do know is the issue is
going to come up as it does for any person running for president. I think any president ial candidate or Vice President ial candidate is going to have to answer questions about their health. I wouldnt want to prejudge mrs. Clintons health. Im not questioning her health. What im questioning is is whether or not its a done deal that shes running. She would not be human if she did not take this into consideration. Shell be 69 at the time of the 2016 election. If she gets elected and serves two terms shell be 77. She is going to have to cough up these medical records. The center for Disease Control says a concussion is a type of draw mattic brain injury. Its serious. Anyway, Ronald Reagan was about a year older than her, by the way. Just to get that sort of clear. Chris, why are so Many Democrats like joe biden out there suggesting to everybody that they want to run, these are qualified heavyweights. These are really smart president ial types. Sternly kir 12e7b gillenbrand. Martin omalley. You hear it from schweitzer out there in montana. They want to run and they could be president in certain situations. But this one, why are they running in this situation knowing that hillary is going into this race . Because, chris, i actually think, you know, the whole, shes going to have to cough up her medical records. Put that piece aside, but i actually think karl rove is right in that no one, and i dont think governor would say this, no one has evidence that Hillary Clinton has said privately to anyone im definitely running. It certainly looks like shes running. Members of congress are endorsing her, the governor is involved. Theres a lot of motivation there. But its not a done deal. Why are those sorts of people well, there is a chance she doesnt run. She is not an announced candidate in this race. Until she is, the bidens, the omalleys of the world want to make sure donors, major donors
especially and the activist communities know if she isnt in, particularly in bidens case, he is. Dont sign up with Somebody Just yet. If shes not in, i am the next day. I dont think biden ultimately runs against her, but shes not announc announced. Shes not in the race. We think shes going to run, but politics is strange. I thought mark warner was going to runl f for president in 2008d he didnt. Shes running. I hope shes healthy to run. I hope she runs. Thank you. Too bad you cant run. This canadian thing, what a drag. Its a good thing. Thank you. Coming up, the biggest day in this years primary season comes tomorrow. It offers the most hope for democrats. They have a shot at picking up senate seats in ku ki and
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could push her to victory in the house seat being vacated by Allison Schwartz whos running for governor. Those are the big matchup. All the analysis and victory speeches. I love them. Especially the concession speeches, theyre always the best. Tomorrow night first on hardball at 7 00 eastern live, and then our special coverage live at 10 00 all on msnbc. David corn is an expert on everything. Hes a Washington Bureau chief for mother jones. And ken voe gel is with politico. Ken, youre a philly guy. I want to start with Mitch Mcconnell. Believe it or not, Mitch Mcconnell represents center right, as much as democrats dont like him, liberals mistrust him, they think hes been around too long. Hes up against a guy named matt bevin out there. He was a great tea hope and so far it appears as if hes going to be a Great Tea Party disappointment. Theres really no question that Mitch Mcconnell is going to hold him off and win. The question is the margin. And the bigger question for me
is what happens to matt bevins supporters when Mitch Mcconnell is the republican nominee. Are they discouraged . And this is a broader question we could ask of a lot of race where is the Tea Party Candidate has lost to a more establishment republican. Are the tea partiers going to sit home . Are they going to stop giving money to Tea Party Groups and candidates . I even saw some polling that suggested that some of matt bevins supporters might support grimes, the democrat, in the general election. So this is a bigger question. Can we fly from talk to reality here. Who is such a republican puma, if you will, to use an old term, that would go from matt bevin, hard right, in fact, hard right of Mitch Mcconnell to go all the way over to the democratic side and vote for the democrat. Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is in a neck and neck battle in the fall. According to a new Kentucky Blue grass poll, the Approval Ratingis at a mere 34 . Hes been around forever. And only 39 who support matt bevin support mcconnell in november. They would rather Cross Party Lines and vote against mc mcconnell. You know what is that . You know what it measures . It measures how much the tea partiers in kentucky despise Mitch Mcconnell. Excuse me, im center left on most things. Why do they hate mcconnell when hes pretty much a stalwart republican . If you have been to washington and paid attention, you would see him as basically the number one foe to obama, yet the tea party argument is that he didnt vote for shutting down the government. You know, he hasnt figured out a way to stop obamacare. He supported the Bank Bailouts which matt bevin supported, too. Its the very far right
ideological somewhat even more than that, david, hes actually come out and said that the tea party needs to be crushed. Its more than hes seen as the establishment. Hes po