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Hillary clinton with a dominant lead over the field, she's at 56%, her nearest challenge isn't the vice president, of course it's elizabeth warren. this story is interesting, what it says to me is how hard have you fought to get hillary, and who do you talk to to get reaction? who do you try to get to with these questions? >> we tried to get hard to her spokespeople spokespeople. >> who is that? >> a guy name nick merrill. they didn't want to engage us that much. i don't think they totally either appreciated the story -- >> who is the "they" in the clinton circle? who's in the room with her? >...

Exchange is a remarkable thing. >> ben forwarded me that e-mail exchange, before it went public, but as it was happening. i was thinking, it is amazing that philippe and in general the clinton circle feel when they're under siege in a moment like this, where they clearly -- there are serious allegations being brought and they know this is serious -- that thir reaction is, let's start a huge brawl with tons of different reporters, and just like blow up the blogosphere and twittersphere with this. it's savvy, right? if you turn everything into a huge fight, people have to pick sides, right? >> t...

But in the substance, it's the idea of the shear kind of like brawling bravado of this exchange is a remarkable thing. >> ben forwarded me that e-mail exchange, before it went public, but as it was happening. i was thinking, it is amazing that philippe and in general the clinton circle feel when they're under siege in a moment like this, where they clearly -- there are serious allegations being brought and they know this is serious -- that their reaction is, let's start a huge brawl with tons of different reporters, and just like blow up the blogosphere and twittersphere with this. it's savvy,...

So what we're really dealing with is a bunch of conservative activists using the courts because they couldn't achieve their will in the congress they're using the courts to attack a bill. then they're saying to the obama administration, fix our mess. and it can't be fixed. we've looked at it. but that's what's really happening here. there's a very easy solution. they could read the arguments, look at the statute, look at context of the statute, but just look at its effect how it's working today, and do what conservatives have wanted to do in the past which is defer to the congressional branch ...

Opponents of hers are already starting to frame her time as secretary of state. >> jon, the way "the washington post" frames this citing unnamed sources in the clinton circle is that this is going to be sped up a bit, this book, in an effort to kind of frame what could be a presidential run. one source in this article says, quote, it's almost becoming a kind of conventional wisdom that there were minimal accomplishments of her time as secretary of state. quote, the concern about this talking point taking hold has lent more urgency to getting the book done. a lot of this has to do with the beng...