Clinton To People: "I Have A Decision To Make"
COSTELLO: The countdown to Hillary Clinton's new book, "Hard Choices" is on and Hillary is in campaign style to promote her book. High profile appearances and video discussing the book and now a cover story in "People" magazine. Will Clinton dish on whether or not she's made a decision to run for president. No one could answer that question right now. Joining me from Washington, CNN senior political correspondent, Brianna Keilar. I would guess she wants to keep people guessing.</s>KEILAR: No. She definitely does. That does add to intrigue of this carefully calculated book rollout, Carol. You're certainly right about this, but you know, this "People" magazine interview is interesting. It deals with a lot of light topics as well as very serious ones. She talks about her plans for 2016 and the kind of grandmother she wants to be. She says she wants to be emotionally supportive, but she also wants to set expectations and she wants to baby sit a lot.</s>KEILAR (voice-over): Hillary Clinton sitting down for an exclusive interview with "People" magazine at her Washington home as her newest book "Hard Choices" hits shelves next week. On her presidential aspirations, Clinton tells "People," I know I have a decision to make. She says we need to break down that highest hardest glass ceiling in American politics. To have a woman president is something I would love to see happen, but I'll just have to make my own decision about what I think is right for me. Her book rollout is certainly starting to look like a campaign. A busy schedule of appearances.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Let me shake a few more hands.</s>KEILAR: Interviews and calculated releases of parts of her memoir about her time at the State Department. Just Monday she dropped this hint at a speech in Denver talking about the grueling nature of a presidential race. She assured the crowd she has --</s>CLINTON: A lot of resilience and stamina.</s>KEILAR: She also talks about her husband's health saying he's had that tremor for years. It's nothing serious just some sort of nerve pinch. People say that he's too thin. He doesn't think so and he has an enormous amount of energy and Monica Lewinsky to resurfaced with an essay in "Vanity Fair." Clinton tells "People" she hasn't read it saying, I've moved on. I think everybody need to look to the future. Clinton also reveals her indulgences since taking time off. "Dancing With The Stars."</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's all about location, location, location.</s>KEILAR: And "House of Cards," which she and Bill, quote, "binged watched." She was asked if she has a hair strategy for 2016. I'm at an age I can pretty do what I want. Here I am whether you like my hair or not.</s>KEILAR: So there she is, Carol, joking about her hair, but didn't joke about her head. She addressed the question head-on if there are lingering effects from the concussion that she sustained and the blood clot as well in 2012. She says, no, there aren't. This was an interesting point in this interview. She points out that Paul Ryan has had three concussions, one of which was serious.</s>COSTELLO: Playing that game.</s>KEILAR: Exactly.</s>COSTELLO: Brianna Keilar, thanks so much. Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state will no doubt be under scrutiny in a presidential bid especially in light of the controversy surrounding Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. We're now learning Clinton was skeptical of the idea of swap of Taliban prisoners for Bergdahl's release. CNN foreign affairs reporter, Elise Labott, joins me now to tell us more about that. Good morning.</s>ELISE LABOTT, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS REPORTER: Good morning, Carol. Well, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's State Department really started those negotiations with the Taliban in 2010 about a possible swap for Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for some of these prisoners, but Secretary Clinton wanted that deal to be part of a larger peace process with the Taliban and she wasn't really sure that any kind of trade would lead to those wider reconciliations with Afghanistan. She didn't trust the Haqqani network believed to be holding Bowe Bergdahl in Pakistan and she also had some pretty serious reservations about the conditions about where these five detainees from Guantanamo would be held. She wanted much tougher restrictions on these detainees that seems to be in the deal that President Obama struck with the Qataris leading to Bowe Bergdahl's release this week. She wanted those prisoners released in phases. She wanted much tougher conditions on their detention in Qatar, some kind of quasi house arrest and it does seem though that the president went another way. Secretary Clinton gave a very measured defense of that deal, Carol, in Denver on Monday saying this is one of the hard choices, title of her book, you have to make in government, but that she feels that it's important that they brought Bowe Bergdahl home.</s>COSTELLO: All right, Elise Labott, reporting live for us. Thanks so much. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, a creepy ghoulish internet figure and the focus of a horrific stabbing in Wisconsin. We'll talk about the blurring line between fantasy and reality when it comes to your kids. That's next.