Report: Clinton Staff Kept Tight Reins on E-mail; Senator Warren Wants Clinton to "Be Clearer" on Trade
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Wow. I think so too. Those are some moves.</s>MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Respect?</s>CAMEROTA: Yes, do you do those? Do you jump up on the bench?</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: I respect everything she's doing trying to get people to move more and be into fitness. The country needs it badly.</s>CAMEROTA: What about the moves?</s>CUOMO: She's obviously very strong and works out.</s>CAMEROTA: Do you do those moves?</s>CUOMO: I don't do most of those moves. I'm big in resistance, I believe in weights, but as long as you're doing anything you're good and she looks strong and fit. And that's a good image to have. All right, so "Inside Politics," speaking of strong and fit, not John King, Gloria Borger will lead the way.</s>GLORIA BORGER, CNN GUEST ANCHOR: I don't get people to move. I get people to talk. OK. That's all I get people to do. We got a lot to talk about today, Chris, largely involving Hillary Clinton who finally spoke herself. She's been on the campaign trail for 28 days. She finally spoke to reporters. We've got two reporters with us today, two of the best, Jonathan Martin of "New York Times" and Jackie Kucinich of "The Daily Beast." Let's talk about Hillary Clinton State Department e-mails first. We learned from the State Department yesterday that it was going to take a year to release them, January 2016 to be exact. Then a judge ruled very, very quickly, the State Department needs to start releasing them on a rolling basis. For her part Hillary Clinton says I want them all out there as soon as possible, take a listen.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have said publicly, I'm repeating it here in front of all of you today. I want them out as soon as they can get out.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But will you demand it?</s>CLINTON: Well, they're not mine. They belong to the State Department.</s>BORGER: Well, what does it do for her? If these things get released in batches, is that just a drip, drip, drip of targets?</s>JONATHAN MARTIN, "THE NEW YORK TIMES": Yes. It's better for her to get them out all in one fell swoop and the sooner the better. You know, it's going to be a story perhaps a couple of stories, but the idea of these things being put out as you put it, Gloria, on a rolling basis for the next however many months is a political prospect that is not too appetizing for Clinton --</s>JACKIE KUCINICH, "THE DAILY BEAST": But it's not great to have them released all at once in January in 2016 right before the caucuses so -- better earlier definitely, but the drip, drip isn't going to help either.</s>BORGER: Well, but I just have a basic question which is does the public care about this e-mail story at all? Hillary Clinton remains usually popular in the Democratic Party. Her favorability has dropped a little bit, but you would expect out of somebody who goes from secretary of state to being a political candidate. So the public seems to be shrugging its shoulders at this.</s>MARTIN: I think there's a certain amount of baked in, if you will, assumptions about politicians generally and about the Clintons. And I think that that works in their favor. I will say though that if you've got a sort of succession of stories about the e-mails, about the content that's in there and questions about impropriety or at least about appearances, that's the kind of thing that eventually could take its toll further on her approval rating. And that's the danger here. What is so striking is Republicans have focused almost entirely on character here. You know, their campaign against her in the first couple months is almost wholly focused on character and ethics.</s>KUCINICH: Well, the trust question is important. It's something voters cast their vote upon if they can trust this person if they're going to execute the office in a way they think is all right.</s>BORGER: Transparency is also an issue. "The Wall Street Journal" has a story today questioning the transparency at the State Department making the case effectively that at the very top levels of the State Department including Hillary Clinton's chief of staff were slow walking a lot of these requests that were made for documents. Does this story tell us anything, Jackie, about the way the Clinton world operates?</s>KUCINICH: I think it just re-emphasizes how the Clinton world operates. There is this thought that they are very enclosed, they operate outside of what the normal person would have to operate in. And this just re -- it's that narrative again.</s>BORGER: Let me play devil's advocate here. Staffers always protect their bosses, particularly in government, but also everywhere else. Aren't these just careful staffers protecting the secretary of state?</s>MARTIN: Sure. And I think on its face one story in the May 2015 "The Wall Street Journal" about a chief of staff sort of picking what to release and whatnot to release is hardly fatal politically. But it's the accumulation of those stories over a period of the next 15 months that could be challenging to her, which is why back to our point it's better to get the stuff out now at least sooner than later.</s>BORGER: Right, and she also answered some questions yesterday about Sidney Blumenthal, another former staffer who worked at the White House back in the day who was communicating with her about Libya.</s>MARTIN: Right.</s>BORGER: He had some business interests in Libya and she said, I thought it was kind of interesting what she said. Let's listen to that.</s>CLINTON: I have many, many old friends and I always think that it's important when you get into politics to have friends you had before you were in politics. And to understand what's on their minds and he's been a friend of mine for a long time. He's sent me unsolicited e-mails which I passed on in some instances. And I see that's just part of the give and take. When you're in the public eye and when you're in an official position, I think you do have to work to make sure you're not caught in a bubble and you only hear from a certain small group of people. And I'm going to keep talking to my old friends whoever they are.</s>MARTIN: So, rich --</s>BORGER: Where to start? Where to start?</s>KUCINICH: The pope mobile, they are in the bubble. That's the whole issue with the Clintons.</s>MARTIN: Right.</s>BORGER: Well, unsolicited e-mails, which means I didn't ask --</s>MARTIN: Passed on in some instances.</s>BORGER: But she passed along to top staffers.</s>MARTIN: She did. And my colleagues had a great story got some of those e-mails where she's passing along to some high level diplomats to say take a look at this. I joked yesterday, Clinton-thelogists, those who have been fascinated by this family for decades are going to take that response and examine it meticulously.</s>BORGER: And she knows it.</s>MARTIN: Sid Blumenthal she says is a friend from before politics, as though he's some kind of high school chum. You know, Gloria, somebody --</s>BORGER: Partisan.</s>MARTIN: Right, who has been linked to the Clintons because of their political rise and it's a fascinating --</s>KUCINICH: Also hear the old friend quote coming back over and over again. If something happens with -- old friends.</s>BORGER: Everybody's been an old friend when you're in politics for 30 years, right, OK, very quickly I've got to get to an issue on trade because Hillary Clinton again was asked about trade yesterday. She said I've been very clear on this and then went onto sort of parse it. And Elizabeth Warren came out and said, you know what, she needs to come down somewhere on this trade issue. Either you're with the president or you're with Elizabeth Warren. What do you think?</s>MARTIN: I think she is not going to go on a limb for a bill that may not even get out of the house. Why would she spend any kind of capital, Gloria, when that bill is having a hard time moving from the Senate? Forget the House, the Senate on free trade. So buy some time if the House does move it, you got to find a stance. But wait until the House actually passes it.</s>BORGER: Maybe that's exactly what she's doing. That's exactly what she's doing because Hillary Clinton is not new to politics in Washington. Back to you, Alisyn.</s>CAMEROTA: No, that is a true statement, Gloria. You're so right. She has been around the block in Washington certainly. All right, great to see you. Thanks so much.</s>BORGER: Thanks.</s>CAMEROTA: Here's a story you should see. A Texas hunter bids $350,000 to kill an endangered black rhino in Africa, but he insists he's trying to help them survive. 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