NYT’s Clinton Reporter on Paid Speeches: Clintons Would Say ‘It’s Expensive To Be a Clinton’

KLEIN: "She needs the challenge. I would like to see it from someone like Elizabeth Warren who really can explain the financial issues."

STEPHANOPOULOS: "But she's made it clear that's not gonna happen."

KLEIN: "Yes, it's not gonna happen and I think it's to Hillary's detriment. But I also think that the Democratic Party's problem it's not what you just said. It's a perception among the public that the Democrats are the party in the government rather than of the middle class."

KRISTOL: "But, look, how can you be party of the government and Wall Street at the same time. This is Hillary Clinton's problem. She for big government and she's for big banks and she's for  Goldman Sachs  and Wall Street. And look Scott Walker and Marco Rubio, those are working-class, middle-class guys. [crosstalk]

NN MALE PERSON: "But who would they love to fight for?"

KRISTOL: "They want to fight for the middle class families, Steve."

NN MALE PERSON: "No, not really." [crosstalk]

STEPHANOPOULOS: "Amy, from what you are saying, how is the campaign planning and getting around this problem. The dead broke issue that came up during the book tour last year that she's sort of been disengaged, more likely for a long time."

CHOZICK: "It is fascinating. She's talked to over 200 policy experts about how to craft this economic message and I think those debates sort of thinking outside the [indecipherable] Rubens School of Economic policy, looking at how to address anger over an inequality which is sort of not the Clintons comfort zone. It's a fundamental challenge right now and that's why she had met with Elizabeth Warren and she has met with all these people trying to come up with polices. I think policy-wise she is trying to distance herself from the dead broke, the paid speeches." [crosstalk]

KRISTOL: "She has a chance to be the president of the United States and she's quite wealthy and she still getting the paid speeches, the Clinton Foundation is still accepting money from foreign governments. Honestly, this is an honest question, isn't that little odd?"

CHOZICK: "I can tell you what they would say. It is expensive to be Clinton. She has taken on more personal [indecipherable] she paying her personal stuff out of her own pocket. I'm just telling you."[crosstalk]