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And thoul those stories. you know it's just a lot better than having a lot of news stories about her spending time in new york and hollywood and chicago and san francisco with a bunch of rich people. >> michael, what do you think of the strategy? eventually she will end u7 like the other candidates with those rich people. >> i think it's actually very smart and i think that she and you will probably see a lot of other candidates as well have learned from what barack obama did. you can go and take the $38,000 from, you know a top donor, but when you've got 100,000 people giving you 100 bucks or...

You throw into that tapran the mix of a ted cruz and rand paul and mike huckabee and others this is going to create and add to the tension between the two of them i think. >> absolutely. and, michael let me bring you back in on what we've learned about this fundraising strategy with hillary clinton. according to the associated press advisors have set a modest goal of raising $100 million for the primary campaign and will not initially accept dough nations for the general election. using that small donor energy when she does talk about the support she can use that line that we heard often from ...

We cut obama by 5% which was big. a lot of people lost sight of that. he won, he meet mccain by 10%. he only beat romney by 5%. i think that photo i.d. helped a bit in that. >> and north carolina republican precinct chair john yellton said this to the daily show back in october after his state's new voter suppression laws were in effect. >> the law is going to kick the democrats in the butts. if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks, so be it. >> and it just so happens that a lot of those people vote democrat. >> gee. >> joining the roundtable tonight, michelle bernard, michael tomaski, and sherry l...

Way to grow our economy, that's a message that i think can resonate with all groups. >> michael tomasky, joan walsh, thank you. coming up, patriot or traitor? edward snowden has been in russia. many said it'd be fine if he never came back. we'll have that debate. and "the new york times" reported that al qaeda had nothing at all to do with the benghazi attacks and that, yes, the anti-islamist video did play a role. so how has the right reacted? claiming the story was a whitewash designed to clear hillary clinton of any responsibility. also, brian boitano joins us. he's the figure skater ...

Interesting thing and i thought he hit it. on the question of how hillary clinton might bridge this gap between appealing to people on the left and to the center. if you tie income inequality to growth, not just to fairness, but to growth. and say a more equal society and a more equal economy is a better way to grow our economy, that's a message that i think can resonate with all groups. >> michael tomasky, joan walsh, thank you. coming up, patriot or traitor? edward snowden has been in russia. many said it'd be fine if he never came back. we'll have that debate. and "the new york times" r...