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*​**Correct The Record Tuesday February 10, 2015 Afternoon Roundup:*

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*Headlines:*

*NPR: “In Likely Democratic Primary, Who's Joining Hillary Clinton?”
<http://www.npr.org/2015/02/10/384952071/in-likely-democratic-primary-whos-joining-hillary-clinton>*

“One-time presidential candidate Bill Richardson has a theory about why.
‘The reason there's no bench is because she's the cleanup hitter that is so
dominant nobody wants to challenge her. That's why there's no bench,’ he
says.”

*People: “Angelina Jolie Launches Center for Women, Peace and Security in
London”
<http://www.people.com/article/angelina-jolie-announces-center-women-peace-security-london>*

“The new center will support the goals of the Preventing Sexual Violence
Initiative (PSVI), which Jolie and Hague co-founded in 2012. Next year, the
newly announced center will begin offering post-graduate degrees. The
center is also supported by former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary
Clinton and John Kerry.”

*Salon: “The selling of Elizabeth Warren: What’s behind progressives’
debilitating fantasy”
<http://www.salon.com/2015/02/09/the_selling_of_elizabeth_warren_whats_behind_progressives_debilitating_fantasy/>*

“It’s also past time to observe that in addition to saying she isn’t
running, Warren hasn’t done anything to build an organization in any of the
early primary or caucus states.”

*Bloomberg: “How Long Can the Left Put Up With A ‘Draft Warren’ Movement?”
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-10/how-long-can-the-left-put-up-with-a-draft-warren-movement->*

“Thirteen people showed up to the house party that Costa covered.”

*Wall Street Journal blog; Washington Wire: “Boris Johnson Plans Meeting
With Hillary Clinton”
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/02/10/boris-johnson-plans-meeting-with-hillary-clinton/>*

“During Tuesday’s visit to New York he is due to meet his counterpart Mayor
Bill de Blasio, then on Wednesday he meets Mrs. Clinton and the city’s
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.”

*Real Clear Politics: “RNC Video: Obama Pushing Hillary for 'Third Term'”
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/10/rnc_video_implies_obama_pushes_hillary_for_third_term_125556.html>*

“The RNC released a Web video Tuesday casting Clinton as the heir to
President Obama’s third term.”

*Articles:*

*NPR: “In Likely Democratic Primary, Who's Joining Hillary Clinton?”
<http://www.npr.org/2015/02/10/384952071/in-likely-democratic-primary-whos-joining-hillary-clinton>*

By Tamara Keith

February 10, 2015, 4:03 a.m. EST

There may not be any officially declared candidates for president yet, but
prominent Republicans from Jeb Bush to Rand Paul and Marco Rubio are making
big speeches and jostling for consultants and donors. On the Democratic
side, Hillary Clinton may not formally announce whether she is running for
months. But any number of polls would indicate, without even declaring, she
has a lock on the Democratic nomination.

Which got me thinking — who are the other potential Democratic candidates?

This may not be an obvious place to start, but I figured why not ask the
opposition? America Rising PAC is a Republican group that exists to dig up
dirt on Democrats. And it's on the lookout for presidential candidates to
target.

"It really is tough," says Tim Miller, the PAC's executive director. He
says each quarter the staff have a meeting where they sit down and
basically ask themselves, "Who other than Hillary Clinton should we be
researching?"

"And that list of strong candidates after Hillary is so small as to be
potentially nobody."

To test the theory, I went to downtown Chicago — hotbed of Democratic
politics — to ask people whom they expect to run for president. Here are
some of the responses I got:

April Williams, sighing: "The only one I can think of is Hillary Clinton.
That's about it."

Martha O'Connor: "Honestly, to be honest with you, Hillary is kind of the
only person that pops into my mind."

David Johnston: "Joe Biden, you know, vice president. They usually go for
it afterwards."

Adrienne Wonzer: "Hillary Clinton, first of all, and then Liz. Oh, my gosh.
I can't think of her name. ... Liz Warren, No. 2. And I can't think of a
third possibility."

Elizabeth Warren is a name that came up again and again. Hector Ortiz, who
considers himself an independent voter, said he'd like to see her run. But,
he said, "I don't know if she will."

As for Warren herself, she told us back in December, "I am not running for
president. Do you want me to put an exclamation point at the end?"

So, who does that leave? Biden, who says the field is wide open but has
made no obvious moves toward running. And there are three names that didn't
come up once among the many people I stopped on the street in Chicago:
former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and
current independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

All this is making for a lonely time for New Hampshire Democrats who are
accustomed to being heavily wooed at this point in the election cycle.

"You're seeing that fairly significantly on the Republican side, but on the
Democratic side, not so much," says Kathy Sullivan, a prominent Democratic
activist in the state.

On the Republican side, there are so many household names considering a run
it's hard to keep track of them all. On the Democratic side, there's just
Clinton.

One-time presidential candidate Bill Richardson has a theory about why.
"The reason there's no bench is because she's the cleanup hitter that is so
dominant nobody wants to challenge her. That's why there's no bench," he
says.

Richardson is the former Democratic governor of New Mexico who ran in 2008
and ultimately endorsed President Obama — meaning he's not what you'd call
a Clinton ally these days. The Democratic Party is in the midst of eight
years of holding the White House, and pretty much the whole time, Clinton
has been seen as the next in line. But Richardson isn't so sure her
dominance is good for her.

"The public may perceive that it's a coronation, that she's not hungry
enough. And sometimes combat, primary combat makes you tougher, makes you
stronger, makes you a better general election candidate," he says.

Whether this ends up being a problem for Clinton, assuming she decides to
run, depends on how the Republican primary plays out.

Will the nominee be sharpened by the experience with a finely tuned stump
speech, or bruised, staking out positions unpopular with a broader public?
For Democrats, the current situation represents a high-risk, high-reward
proposition, but it may well be the only option they have.

*People: “Angelina Jolie Launches Center for Women, Peace and Security in
London”
<http://www.people.com/article/angelina-jolie-announces-center-women-peace-security-london>*

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd

February 10, 2015, 11:20 a.m. EST

Angelina Jolie expanded on her humanitarian efforts Tuesday in London,
announcing the creation of the Centre on Women, Peace and Security at the
London School of Economics.

Jolie, 39, a special envoy of the United Nations High Commission for
Refugees, attended the event alongside William Hague, Britain's First
Secretary of State and leader of the House of Commons, PEOPLE confirms.

The new center will aim to educate students about the participation of
women in "conflict-related processes" and "on enhancing accountability and
ending impunity for rape and sexual violence in war," according to a press
release from the renowned London School of Economics.

"I am excited at the thought of all the students in years to come who will
study in this new Centre," Jolie said in a statement. "There is no stable
future for a world in which crimes committed against women go unpunished.
We need the next generation of educated youth with inquisitive minds and
fresh energy, who are willing not only to sit in the classroom but to go
out into the field and the courtrooms and to make a decisive difference."

The new center will support the goals of the Preventing Sexual Violence
Initiative (PSVI), which Jolie and Hague co-founded in 2012. Next year, the
newly announced center will begin offering post-graduate degrees. The
center is also supported by former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary
Clinton and John Kerry.

Tuesday's announcement comes just two weeks after Jolie published an op-ed
in The New York Times regarding her recent visits to camps for Syrian and
Iraqi refugees.

"I have visited Iraq five times since 2007, and I have seen nothing like
the suffering I'm witnessing now," wrote the mother of six. "Nothing
prepares you for the reality of so much individual human misery: for the
stories of suffering and death, and the gaze of hungry, traumatized
children."

*Salon: “The selling of Elizabeth Warren: What’s behind progressives’
debilitating fantasy”
<http://www.salon.com/2015/02/09/the_selling_of_elizabeth_warren_whats_behind_progressives_debilitating_fantasy/>*

By Joan Walsh

February 9, 2015, 2:08 p.m. EST

[Subtitle:] As my inbox fills with emails from groups “drafting” Warren, I
find myself wondering who’s helping whom here

I’m a huge admirer of Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She’s the best new leader to
emerge in the Democratic Party in decades. If she wants to run for
president, I hope she does so.

But I don’t think she wants to run for president. She’s told us that in
many different ways and places. I was particularly struck by her
no-nonsense answer when asked by colleague Sheila Bair, but she’s basically
given no-nonsense negative answers since the effort to “draft” her began.

So I’m coming to find the “draft Warren” juggernaut a little bit
perplexing. I know the participants have wonderful motives and genuinely
would welcome a Warren candidacy. But with every email I receive, I get a
tiny bit more cynical. It doesn’t feel so much like groups are using their
organizational strength to help Warren, but enlisting Warren to help build
their organizational strength.

Don’t get me wrong, I think MoveOn and Democracy for America have done
important infrastructure and leadership building on the left of the
Democratic Party. But I’m not really sure that the “Draft Warren “effort
does much more for progressives than encourage a cult of personality – and
risk member disillusionment when Warren all but certainly declines to make
the race.

I confess my misgivings about all this crystallized Sunday night, when I
heard the news that the Working Families Party had joined the “Draft
Warren” movement. I admire WFP; I think they’re doing exactly what
progressives should be doing: Working within the Democratic Party and
pulling it to the left, not standing outside the party and declaring it no
better than the GOP.

But it was hard not to contrast their “Draft Warren” move, which looks
symbolic at best, and contains an implicit challenge to Hillary Clinton,
with their cave-in to Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year — which was not merely
symbolic but had real ramifications. At that time, they had a terrific
progressive female candidate, Zephyr Teachout, ready to challenge Cuomo –
and they backed Cuomo. So to recap: With a willing progressive woman
challenging a politically centrist Democratic man – the progressive didn’t
get the WFP endorsement. But now, with a centrist but more liberal (than
Cuomo) Democratic woman, Hillary Clinton, (probably) running for president,
WFP is courting a challenger — who (probably) isn’t running anyway.

Predictably, other “Draft Warren” groups hailed the WFP news. Move On
emailed to invite me to share a graphic on Twitter and Facebook that thanks
WFP for joining the movement. “It’s important that we show them this
morning that the number of people who think they absolutely made the right
decision far outweighs the nay-sayers” – that would be me, I guess.

In addition to advancing the assumption that the Clinton campaign won’t be
progressive enough, before she’s even declared her candidacy, the hype
about Warren serves to obscure the depth and breadth of the new populist
movement afoot among Democrats in Congress. Why not draft Sen. Bernie
Sanders, who says he’ll run if he believes he has organizational backing?
Or other progressive senators like Sherrod Brown or Al Franken or Kirsten
Gillibrand? Elizabeth Warren is a star in her own right; she doesn’t
particularly need this kind of help.

It’s also past time to observe that in addition to saying she isn’t
running, Warren hasn’t done anything to build an organization in any of the
early primary or caucus states. Now, presumably “Draft Warren” could help
with that in the unlikely event she changes her mind – but Warren’s failure
to make any of the moves associated with building a campaign is just one
more reason to believe she won’t run.

I’d love to see a campaign that popularizes Warren’s “eight point plan to
build the middle class” and encourages all Democratic candidates –
including Clinton — to back it. Building a movement around a single
political leader rather than around issues seems like a recipe for
disappointment, especially when that leader has made it so clear she’s not
looking to run for president.

*Bloomberg: “How Long Can the Left Put Up With A ‘Draft Warren’ Movement?”
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-10/how-long-can-the-left-put-up-with-a-draft-warren-movement->*

By David Weigel

February 10, 2015, 10:51 a.m. EST

In December, I stopped by the MoveOn/Democracy for America/Ready for Warren
draft campaign launch in Des Moines, and saw around 100 progressives
brainstorm ways to get Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to run for
president. On Super Bowl Sunday, I sat in on a next-stage meeting, one of
209 happening around the country, in Washington. Twenty progressives showed
up. This past weekend, The Washington Post's Robert Costa walked into a
house party for Warrenphilia in Ames, Iowa, one of the state's largest
college towns -- a place where 250 progressives had gathered to watch
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders give a December speech. Covering that
speech, I'd noticed MoveOn one-sheets on a table, advertising the Draft
Warren cause.

Thirteen people showed up to the house party that Costa covered. The
headline, "Democrats suffering from Clinton fatigue say they’re ready for
Warren," could be written from any room. It sounds a lot like what I've
covered -- skewing old, lots of praise for Warren, bitterness about Clinton
tamped down by people who worry that the energy will curdle if it's
negative. Not much has changed since six months ago, when Ready for Warren
emerged at Netroots Nation in Detroit, and reporters wrote basically the
same stories. The October Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll of
Iowa, for example, found Clinton up 43 points on Warren in a hypothetical
2016 caucus. January's edition of the poll found a flurry of Warren
activity closing the gap to... 40 points.

The willingness of reporters to cover a fresh angle on the Clinton
restoration -- an escape from the I, Claudius infighting of Clintonworld
itself -- does not indicate that Draft Warren is working. In Salon, Joan
Walsh has opened herself up to friendly progressive fire by asking what the
Warrenphiles are even doing. Making news, obviously. The Working Families
Party had told the New York Times that it was joining the Draft Warren
effort. That made national news; a search for coverage of the Draft
campaign finds it to be the most-covered WFP story since last summer.

What happened last summer? The WFP narrowly denied a nomination to 2014
Andrew Cuomo challenger Zephyr Teachout. It stiffed a candidate who was
running; it was all-in for a candidate who wasn't.

"I’d love to see a campaign that popularizes Warren’s “eight point plan to
build the middle class” and encourages all Democratic candidates –
including Clinton — to back it," wrote Walsh. "Building a movement around a
single political leader rather than around issues seems like a recipe for
disappointment, especially when that leader has made it so clear she’s not
looking to run for president."

Less clear: Whether Warren can be the challenger the whole left wants. On
foreign policy, she has hewed closely to the Democratic Party mainstream.
In a column from last year, after constituents finally got Warren to talk
about the Gaza-Israel conflict, Glenn Greenwald surmised that she "sounds
like [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu." Warren, whose first
foreign trip as a senator took her to Israel last year, has stayed far away
of the debate on Netanyahu's speech to Congress. The surreal result is that
the only national politician trekking through Iowa taking on Hillary
Clinton's foreign policy from "the left" is Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.

"I think the issue with Warren, to me, is somewhat different," said
Jonathan Tasini, an activist and writer who challenged Clinton from the
left in her 2006 re-election to the U.S. Senate. "It's distracting from
building campaigns on issues and a better progressive movement. It actually
has a bit of the 2007 love with Obama—people willing to not ask questions
about what someone believes in and, then, surprise, they get a president
who they are 'disappointed' with. I'm not sure what Warren's world view is
on foreign policy—on Israel/Middle East, for example—that is that different
than a pretty conventional wisdom position."

The Bernie Sanders network, which spends a lot of time answering questions
about Warren, is sanguine about the draft movement. "If they’re going to
hold a lot of people in place for a while in free parking," said Sanders
adviser Tad Devine to MSNBC, "and then Bernie can go collect the rent
later, that’s fine with me."

There's plenty of precedent for that. In 1968, when Senator Robert F.
Kennedy dithered about challenging President Lyndon Johnson, Eugene
McCarthy rushed into the gap. In 2004, when progressives lacked an obvious
champion, Vermont Governor Howard Dean transformed from a Cato
Institute-approved fiscal hawk to an anti-war icon. Dean's campaign spawned
countless progressive organizations, activists, and writers, from Zephyr
Teachout to Democracy in America.

But Dean did not have to put up with the dashed expectations that, say,
Bernie Sanders would. If Warren has not been constantly lying to supporters
and reporters -- a safe bet --the Draft campaign will end without a
candidate. Sanders et al will enter the race as also-rans. The Draft Warren
campaign is not wrong at all about presidential politics; there is no
replacement for the energy of an insurgent bid. All it lacks right now is a
candidate, and an insurgency.

*Wall Street Journal blog; Washington Wire: “Boris Johnson Plans Meeting
With Hillary Clinton”
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/02/10/boris-johnson-plans-meeting-with-hillary-clinton/>*

By Nicholas Winning

February 10, 2015, 12:07 p.m. EST

Could this be what the “special relationship” between Britain and the U.S.
looks like a few years from now?

London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, a possible future contender for British
prime minister, is due to hold one of his most high-profile overseas
meetings on Wednesday when he sits down with potential U.S. presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton during a six-day trade mission to the U.S.

Mr. Johnson, who was born in the U.S. and is a joint American/British
citizen, has made a string of overseas trips to China and India in recent
years. Officially, he is drumming up business for London, but observers
suspect he is also on a mission to build his international profile and
connections in preparation for a bigger job down the line.

Mr. Johnson recently announced he is standing as a parliamentary candidate
in the U.K.’s general election in May, which has fueled speculation about
his prime ministerial ambitions. Prime Minister David Cameron‘s
Conservatives currently are neck and neck with the main opposition Labour
Party in opinion polls. If the Conservatives put in a poor showing, that
could trigger a party leadership contest.

Mr. Johnson was previously a member of Parliament but stepped down in 2008
to run for mayor. Known for his mop of blond hair and propensity for jokes
that push the envelope, he is one of the Conservative Party’s top electoral
performers: He won more than one million votes in securing his second term
as mayor in 2012. His profile grew with the successful Olympic Games in
London that year.

In Boston on Monday, Mr. Johnson delivered a speech on technology. During
Tuesday’s visit to New York he is due to meet his counterpart Mayor Bill de
Blasio, then on Wednesday he meets Mrs. Clinton and the city’s Police
Commissioner Bill Bratton. Mr. Johnson is then on to Washington, D.C.,
before ending his trip back in New York with a visit to the 9/11 memorial
among other things.

During his visit the London mayor is looking to focus on collaboration
between London and the U.S. on life sciences, business, technology,
policing and culture, according to his office. London exports to the U.S.
stand at about £4 billion (about $6.1 billion) a year, and there are now
over 9,000 U.S.-owned companies in the British capital, according to the
mayor’s office.

While in the U.S., we can expect Mr. Johnson, whose full name is Alexander
Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to show his knack for publicity. In January, on a
visit to the Kurdish prime minister, he posed for photographs taking aim
with an AK47 and gave an interview in which he said men who joined
extremist groups like Islamic State were losers who were unsuccessful with
women.

*Real Clear Politics: “RNC Video: Obama Pushing Hillary for 'Third Term'”
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/10/rnc_video_implies_obama_pushes_hillary_for_third_term_125556.html>*

By Caitlin Huey-Burns

February 10, 2015

[VIDEO]

Republicans are wasting no time waiting for Hillary Clinton.

While several potential candidates jockey for spots in the GOP presidential
primary field, the Republican National Committee is taking the fight
straight to its presumed general election opponent, who has been notably
absent from public view this year.

The RNC released a Web video Tuesday casting Clinton as the heir to
President Obama’s third term. The spot, first shared with
RealClearPolitics, pieces together heavily edited video clips taken from
White House and campaign video, news interviews, and a White House
correspondents’ dinner spoof, to make it look like the White House is
calling upon Clinton to run and take up Obama’s mantle.

The video opens with the president calling Clinton on his phone, which
features “Hillary Home,” “Hillary Jet,” and “Hillary Jet 2” on speed-dial.
“I want to know if you’re on board … because I’m counting on you,” he says
in one clip, set to cheesy slow-jam music. “Of course, I will do anything
to help,” Clinton says in a spliced-in separate clip.

The spot then cuts to Obama calling upon Vice President Biden, whose
response implies he is declining to run for the Oval Office. “No, I’m not
going, I’ve been there once,” Biden says. “OK, good,” the president
responds.

The footage concludes with the text, “Hillary already signed up for Obama’s
third term.”

This week, the RNC launched a “Hillary’s Hiding” campaign to highlight the
presumed candidate’s absence from the national stage this year after a
series of high-paid speeches around the country and elsewhere. A committee
memo highlights the days passed since Clinton visited Iowa (103) and New
Hampshire (100), urging her to “face the American people” she wants to
lead.

With a crowded Republican field and little substantial opposition to her on
the Democratic side, Clinton can afford to lie low and concentrate on
building her campaign while the GOP opponents duke it out amongst
themselves. Some reports say Clinton won’t officially announce her campaign
until July.

For now, the former secretary of state has taken to weighing in on issues
of the day through the condensed form of Twitter. During the recent vaccine
debate that put some GOP contenders on the hot seat, Clinton waited out the
storm until tweeting that the “science is clear.” She used the hashtag,
“#GrandmotherKnowsBest.”