Andrea Mitchell escorted out of room where SoS Tillerson was having a meeting.

[karynnj]

39. I followed the coverage of Obama foreign policy pretty closely

Mitchell's reports in the 2013 time frame were incredibly positive on what Clinton/Obama had been able to accomplish. As someone for whom DU JK was the first place I looked on DU for over a decade, I think that Mitchell was fair to Kerry. I say this realizing that I was part of a group that never even pretended to be unbiased with regards to Kerry.

Now, I do think that she, Martha Radditz, and Margaret Brennan ALL asked serious, difficult questions. Yet, I think BOTH Kerry and Clinton actually were better in interviews where tough complicated questions were asked on policy. This was perhaps truer of Kerry whose passion and purpose was often best shown when speaking of goals, and reasons why he was working on many intractable problems. To their credit, both seemed more comfortable in that setting than with puff interviews.

I realize that you are speaking of the political comments made by Cilliza, Marcus and Mitchell -- as talking heads. I think the three of them all were coming from somewhat different places. Cilliza is someone who sees everything as politics and a game. I have never liked him or been impressed with him -- maybe for the same reason that I dislike most political operatives, who I see as more involved with the game than with causes or issues. I saw Mitchell and Marcos as two women who had followed Clinton since the 1990s, were themselves feminist pioneers in their fields and who were harder on Clinton when they were disappointed in her - because they wanted her to succeed.