Page 17 - Class Problem News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The idea of tonight is not just about how bernie and hillary and jim webb and martin o'malley and even lincoln chafee go at it with each other, that they have their own bar for success. what does hillary clinton need to do tonight regardless of how she deals with what comes at her from the other men on the podium? >> she has to connect up the ideas that are animating her campaign with the voters she needs. this is why she's running. she is, at heart, kind of a nerd. she has impressive position papers, northern of which anybody knows anything about. she's got to connect them up. there have been...

>> what does hillary need to do to brand who she is and unbrand who she is and what she stands f for. i will start with you, hillary. >> well, sum super tough to the unbrand, and her best bet is doubling down. i like to think of it as hillary has the smartest girl in the class problem. and everybody knows she is capable, and can do the job as president, but what the democrats want is to fall in love all over again and she is technically and by the polls the most popular democrat in the race. and so she has to remind people of that, and why is that, and she has to rise above on the big picture,...

Early. >> let's talk more about hillary clinton's campaign and what it could look like. paula gala and bud sexton national security editor at "to the blaze." good to see both of you gentlemen. hillary clinton has a connection to two presidents she can't distance herself from president obama because she was his secretary of state and her husband is still one of these most popular figures, how is it important that she use those relationships to her advantagesome. >> it's a high class problem, if good lord willing president reagan were still alive and healthy, would republicans use him? of course...

Opposing party, blue collar whites, feel oppressed themselves. for good reason in many cases. and obama what's to transcend race and deal with the class problem. >> -- as bad, if not worse, right now as a dividing line. >> i think last week he came to a realization, heck, what's a second term for if you can't say what you really feel. >> i want to get to this political pressure that i think african-american leaders thrust into leadership positions. you were top member of the house democratic leadership. a lot of people thought at one time, had democrats kept the house, you might have ended up ...

Thrown around. part of this is a story about waste. they are justin mckee not paying attention to how taxpayer money has been used. lass problem of what i call cronie capitalism. a lot of contractors paid a lot of money to build the projects and at the end of the day nobody involved in the transaction, governor, really cares whether the thing has any use or not and that is what i think happened in this particular case. >> you in your book really outhind just how extensive this hand holding is between government and contractors. there are a lot of people getting just disgustingly rich with gove...