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Hoping robert mueller and his team would hand them a smoking gun against donald trump in their collusion case but instead it is falling short. charges against paul manfort and richard gates have anything to do with the trump administration? joining us to discuss is tammy bruce. thank you for joining us. we were just talking about it. it doesn't mention donald trump anywhere in the indictment. >> this is a very -- regarding manafort pre-donald trump, pre-campaign, this goes back to 2006-2012, he hired the podesta group which is a democrat firm, tony podesta, the most powerful brother of john po...

Her husband. >> maggie haverman was a local newspaper reporter covering the senate campaign. >> she saw an open seat and the field was basically clear for her. >> i'm starting a listening tour of new york. >> the senate race had been a mini presidential race in terms of stress from day one. >> the idea that the circus was coming to town was really pretty dramatic. we chronicled literally every single movement of the pre-campaign and then the eventual campaign. it was literally seen as the greatest show on earth. >> the press even followed along as hillary clinton house hunted for the first tim...

Cnn politics.com and joining us from jupiter, florida. chris, hillary clinton didn't say anything about this e-mail controversy in miami last night. surprise you at all? >> reporter: it didn't surprise me because we have been reporting she is not necessarily going to talk about this, that the -- excuse me. the precampaign, if you will, is going to be taking a bunker mentality on this. now, that doesn't mean it wasn't audacious. she has a lot of questions to answer and they are going to keep piling up, both on the question of foreign donations and the use of her private e-mail. >> realistically...

That's what matters most. >> i will give you another poll. 55% of democrats saying they want another democrat to challenge hillary clinton. and 13% of democrats say they don't want hillary clinton to run. that means -- >> that has nothing to do with whether or not she is good with the middle class. >> she is not anointed. >> that is not what that poll is saying. >> let me finish. no way to positively spin the precampaign, campaign tour in terms of her setting the right tone. she doesn't do a good job. it does not help that her husband has to come to her defense. that doesn't look good either. ...