CNN’s Rosen: ‘Bill Clinton Offers a Neighborhood Bartender Advice on Politics’
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BOLDUAN: “Back to politics. Did Bill Clinton influence Donald Trump's decision to run for president? It was after Hillary Clinton already announced her candidacy. Aides say 2016 was never specifically discussed.”
BERMAN: “Clinton aides say but an unidentified trump ally told "The Washington Post" they did discuss his interest in a 2016 run and that Clinton analyzed the Republican field. The words of a political strategist. Joining us to discuss this, Mitch slap and Hilary Rosen, a democratic strategist. Matt, conspiracy theory, trump is a Clinton plant. Bill Clinton has orchestrated this whole trump phenomenon. Discuss.”
SCHLAPP: “Well, let me tell you, Bill Clinton is somebody who has a good idea of what's going on in politics, but I can't think that even Bill Clinton could have predicted what Donald Trump has done to this race, and they better be careful. If they pushed him to run, they might be sorry they did.”
BOLDUAN: “They might. But Hillary, why would bill Clinton be discussing the -- offering trump, if you will, advice to Donald Trump?”
ROSEN: “Bill Clinton offers the neighborhood bartender advice on politics. It doesn't take a lot to get him to discuss politics. I think Matt is right that probably the first thing Clinton did was analyze the GOP field and what we saw early on in the race was Republicans really weren't that happy with any of their choices. There was nobody who was, you know, people were coalescing around, and trump, you know, understood that. Bill Clinton pointed that out to him, that, you know, that that would be the obvious, but, look, I think Donald Trump's ego is strong enough that he didn't need anyone to tell him how great he was going to do and how important he could be in this presidential race. He felt it all himself I'm sure.
BERMAN: “There are no doubt were a lot of strong egos on that phone call, and as you both say, bill Clinton does love to dispense political advice. We were reminded in 2012 with the Clinton global initiative, Bill Clinton gave Mitt Romney debate advice just before Mitt Romney was due to debate Barack Obama.”
