Hillary Starts Speaking Tour, Speculation of White House Run
LEMON: Good morning, everyone. Beautiful shot of Manhattan there. It's a high 40 here in the east.</s>ROMANS: When Hillary Clinton speaks, the political world listens. They're hanging on her every word, wondering if she's running for president again. And as Erin McPike tells us, her latest appearance is sure to spark even more speculation.</s>ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Post presidential Clinton world has itself a brand-new headliner, Hillary Clinton.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, (D) FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: It is such a pleasure to be here in Chicago, participating as a private citizen, as a co-host of CGI and as a representative of what we are officially renaming the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.</s>MCPIKE: Mrs. Clinton's debut speech for the Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago showcased a whole new Hillary.</s>HILLARY CLINTON: After visiting 112 nations for four years, I'm still jet lagged.</s>MCPIKE: Fresh off the launch of a brand-new Twitter account, her profile says her future role is TBD. The political world is abuzz over a potential race for the White House in 2016.</s>HILLARY CLINTON: I will be focused on applying lessons learned from around the world and building new partnerships across our entire portfolio, but particularly, in three broad areas that have been close to my heart my entire adult life.</s>MCPIKE: That new focus could bolster her domestic policy credentials ahead of another run for national office. The last member of the family to hold the job seems more than willing to share the spotlight.</s>BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I learned all about NGO work from Hillary. When we were going out, she was already active in many kinds of non-governmental activities, and she was when I was governor of Arkansas both in our state, in America, and around the world.</s>MCPIKE: In some ways, Hillary's coming out is also a passing of the torch from classic bubba.</s>BILL CLINTON: As I move into my dotage, my job will be to find people who really know what they're doing.</s>MCPIKE: For all the celebrities and CEOs here, there was still no doubt Hillary is the draw. And as she settles in a TGI, she told the crowd something big was coming.</s>HILLARY CLINTON: We'll have an exciting announcement.</s>MCPIKE: Erin McPike, CNN, Chicago.</s>LEMON: All right, Erin. Republicans on parade. Senators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio kicking off the Fate in Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference in Washington. Today's featured speakers include former Florida governor, Jeb Bush, Congressman Paul Ryan, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and the Donald, Donald Trump.</s>ROMANS: If you know Boston, then you know parking can be nearly impossible in some areas, but how much would you pay to avoid all those hassles? Two prime parking spaces just went up for auction in Boston's Back Bay. The bidding started at $42,000 and kept going higher and higher.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two prettiest parking spaces I've ever seen. For town (ph) look for 420. Won't be here tomorrow. For town (ph) look for 420 520, looking for 530.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A half million dollars? Like, that's ridiculous, honestly. I don't know. I think if we would have a half million dollars. I don't think we'd spend it on a parking lot.</s>ROMANS: When it was over, the parking spot sold for, wait for it, $560,000.</s>LEMON: What was that for?</s>ROMANS: For two skinny little parking spaces on the concrete in the Back Bay.</s>LEMON: You said -- you heard the guy, he said packing --</s>ROMANS: Packing. That's right.</s>LEMON: Parking spots starting at $40,000.</s>LEMON: It's early. It's my last time anchoring this show. Oh, it's the last show. Coming up, I guess, it's a good problem to have. Wealthy communities are running out of mansions. The housing crunch that's hitting the well-to-do.</s>ROMANS: Oh, that's so bad.