Champion of women s rights when she accepts money from a country like brunai when it stones to death people of adultery. the men have the only say in the legal system in brunai. it makes it difficult for her message to appear sincere when she s taking money from these foreign countries. you said you don t get to decide but you do get to choose where you criticize her and where you don t. right. how far back do you think is fair game? i think that her public policy and public life will be fair game. some of your critics on the republican side i don t have any critics, do i? i know shocking. you do have critics on both sides as you know. some of your republican critics argue that you are actually to the left of hillary clinton on foreign policy that she s more hawkish than you are. yeah. here s the interesting thing about this who s aligned with president obama, whose foreign policy is closest to president obama. interestingly, many of the hawks in my party line right up with
Domestic spending. my belief has been national defense is the most important thing we do but we shouldn t borrow to pay for it. there is a division in our party. one of them said i m going to increase defense spending but i m going to borrow the money and make the debt worse. i put up what s called a side by side. i believe in putting up a strong defense but i don t believe in borrowing for it. i don t think you should borrow money from china to do it. i said i will only pay for events by cutting spending elsewhere. that may be true, but you re also somebody who s trying to prove that you are not weak on national security so by proposing an increase in military spending before you announce for president could look like pandering. three or four years ago we did the same thing so we have been proposing increases in military spending but always
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In a few hours she ll make it official her candidacy for president of the united states. it s been going on around her and about her for months. we are covering all angles of this story. we begin with cnn s mark preston who is at the clinton campaign headquarters in new york. mark you re not in a ballroom. this is intentionally low key. explain why. reporter: dana no question about that. in fact when hillary clinton ran for president in 2008 they made a tactical mistake. they were upset with the clintons her candidacy, because there was a sense of entitlement that she should have won that is asset. fast forward to where we stand now, hillary clinton realizes she needs to reconnect with the voters. we ve heard that from her own husband, bill clinton. he said that in a recent interview. we expect the video to be low key. we expect it in the coming week when she heads to iowa. when she heads to new hampshire
Now made a surprise announcement this week that he s launching a presidential exploratory committee. it s lincoln chaffee. thank you for joining me. you have an unusual history when it comes to party affiliation. you were appointed to the senate to replace your father. you lost to a democrat. you are now a democrat considering a run for president. why? first of all, this is senator clinton s big day and i congratulate her on her entrance into the race. voters should have choices in races so it s going to be a great debate i hope in the democratic primaries. as far as my evolution, certainly the republican party changed and i never changed. as i became an independent my values never changed whether it s on fiscal responsibility environment or using the government tools to help the