Mediaboss Marketing

By John King CNN Chief National Correspondent

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Decision time for GOP operatives, another controversial foreign policy choice for President Obama, a ripple effect from the Robert Menendez indictment, and two insights into Hillary Clinton's campaign launch -- those stories filled our Sunday trip around the "Inside Politics" table.

1. First a deal with Iran, now hug a Castro?

Obama's Iran diplomacy already has his conservative critics fired up, and things could get even more interesting in the week ahead.

The President is headed to Panama for a regional summit, and Julie Pace of The Associated Press reports one of the big questions is whether he'll make history and have a face-to-face meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro.

"This would be the first meeting between a U.S. and a Cuban leader in decades," said Pace.

"But Obama's efforts to end this freeze of Cuba have been a lot more difficult than they looked when he announced it last year," Pace said. "And so what the White House is going to be weighing is whether this meeting would be a way to generate more progress or whether it would be a premature reward for the Castros."

2. HRC launch, take one: more biography

Hillary Clinton has leased her headquarters space in Brooklyn and will soon make her presidential campaign official.

And with the launch, Jonathan Martin of The New York Times reports, will come a carefully orchestrated effort to reintroduce Clinton -- with an emphasis on her childhood and her earlier work on children's issues.

Read the original here:
Hillary Clinton launch: giant staff and smaller, intimate events