stephanie sy we're back next hour with chris christy's presidential announcement live from new jersey. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the news hour live from al jazeera's headquarters in doha. coming up in the program, more than a hundred people are killed after a military plane crashes in indonesia. egypt's president promises a major crackdown one day after the chief prosecutor is assassinated. and a meeting to discuss a last-minute greek debt proposal.

and turning a new page on cartoons. now it's all about the swipe and it's big business. ♪ all 113 people on board a military cargo plane have been killed after the jet crashed on the indonesia island. at least three others died when the jet hit the ground shortly after takeover. so far, 70 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage. stephanie decker reports. >> reporter: it's a grim task. finding the dead among the pieces of this shattered military aircraft. the plane was carrying soldiers and their families in what should have been a routine trip. it had been in the air for just a few minutes before it crashed. >> translator: it was about 12:00 pm though flight appeared to have lost its power and

started to descend, when it hit the residential area i was at home at the time and saw the shaky flight crash. >> reporter: we're told shortly after takeover think pilot radioed in asking permission to return to the airport, but they never made it. a large crowd gathered to watch the recovery operation. it's indonesia's third-largest city. the plane crashed on empty buildings otherwise a death toll would have been higher. by sunset, the air force announced it will not longer fly the plane until they know why the crash happened. the military has opened an investigation to try to figure out what went wrong. it's not the first time a mill trar aircraft crashed into a civil an area near and that has prompted calls from politicians questioning why the military is operating planes that are too

old. the investigation could take a couple of months. egypt's president is renaming a prosecutor after the recently assassinated prosecutor general. at least 800 muslim brotherhoods supporters were killed after the announcement. this followed the assassination of the prosecutor on monday. he also promised speeding up trials of those suspected in terrorism. >> translator: the hands of justice are changed by laws. we will not wait. we will change laws to implement law and justice as soon as possible. within days new laws should be presented. we face terrorism, and we need the right laws to deal with it and try the killers. they make orders from behind bars their orders get implemented immediately, but we

wait to implement the law. >> this comes on the same day that antonio mora -- amnesty international accuses the government of human rights violations. there has been a sharp rise in the number of people going missing. >> reporter: this was this woman before revolution. she was hit by a bullet and became paralyzed. it has been a month now, and the 23-year-old activist has not come home. >> translator: on june 1st she hung out with her friends. she left around 5:00 pm and her female friend was in touch with her until 9:00 p.m. >> translator: what kind of hearts do these people have? she is only 23 years old. she is still a kid. i want them to tell me the whereabouts of my daughter.

>> reporter: she is among the 163 young people reported missing in egypt. some liberals some anti-coactivists. all are critics of the government. amnesty international says 41,000 have been detained or are facing military charges since the military deposed president morsi in 2013. promises by the international community to support freedom and justice have been subdued by lucrative trade and arms deals. >> we have seen egypt's partners make ready to sell new arms and equipment to the egyptian authorities, ignoring gross human rights violations like torture and forced disappearances. >> reporter: some students have

been found, but not alive. this is a mother who has seen her son's body. she says it is broken in many places. the engineering student was kidnapped in front of his class. they say there, security cameras at the university at the time and want to know why they can't be used to find the killers. >> translator: victims of forced disappearance do not end up usually in prison. we have two stories of people who have showed up dead. it has been years since tens of thousands of people marched in the streets against the morsi government. since then many of the same activists have found themselves a target of the new government's crackdown on its opponents. many have been arrested others have just gone missing. >> we are joined by the leader of an egyptian opposition party,

and joins me live from beirut he will be speaking arabic followed by an english translation. thank you for being with us. let's start off with the renaming of the square. what do you make of this? what message is president sisi sending out here? >> translator: we in egypt are heading to more conflict, head-on collision. we are not learned from the lessons of the past. we are not even endeavoring to bridge the gaps following the revolution. i am totally for naming any square after the name of the late prosecutor. yet, the choice of this particular square is nothing but

more escalation. >> now president sisi says that he will strengthen anti-terrorism measures. what do you know of the sort of measures that will be adopted? >> translator: in an interview today with al jazeera arabic a bulletin at 3:00 pm as breaking news and i said that tomorrow at noon the cabinet of ministers will discuss a package of legislations which have been annulled. this will lead to nothing but a katesfy. it will undermine and shake the foundation of justice in egypt, and undermine the judiciary system in egypt. it will be introduced by the

justice minister. it is giving rise to many doubt. the assassination of yesterday, and until i was informed by one of my informant sources, that this package will be introduced tomorrow. was this package drafted and prepared only yesterday? if so they will be cooked in a hurry, and they will be no doubt invalid, and baseless, and if not, we have many options open that this scene is nothing but a justification to these unconstitutional laws simply for the reason that they have in violation of ethics se international charters, human rights and the foundations of justice. >> right. so thank you very much for your incite. we very much appreciate you being on the show us.

the leader of an egyptian opposition party speaking to us from beirut. now greece has submitted a last-minute debt restructuring proposal to its debtors. european union finance ministers say they will be discussing the plan in the next hour. the aid will come to an end by midnight on tuesday, and the greek finance minister has confirmed the government will not be paying 1.6 billion euros owed to the international monster fund. let's go live to athens where john psaropoulos is standing by. what can you tell us about this new greek proposal on the table? >> reporter: we have heard in the last hour that the greek side is suggesting that the european stability mechanism, an enormous fund set up with government money by the 19 members of the european union,

as a back-stop fund that organization should pay off greece's debt as it matures in the next two years. now this is a -- let's say a -- a variation on an older greek proposal that the esm, simply buys out the debt that is in the european central bank and the international monetary fund. this is so that greece would have only one person to talk to across the table, the esm, which is directly under the control of the european commission. the greeks would much rather talk to him than the others who belong to financial institutions that work according to strictly financial criteria they do not have political criteria, the greeks have made it clear they

want political agreements with their european union partners. so this is a renewal of that older proposal. the two-year period would give the greeks a sort of moratorium on debt payments so they would fire up their economy. that's the latest thing they have asked for, and possibly it's something that will be discussed at the euro group that you alluded to later tonight. but mrs. merkel has said there will be no deal for the greeks until after a referendum using the referendum against the greeks even as they have sought to use it as leverage against her and the other creditors. and that is something that greece is still determined to carry on with. >> reporter: as he arrived for work on tuesday, the finance minister was as assertive as ever. >> translator: the most important thing at this time is to secure with sobriety and harmony the right of the greek

people to express themselves on sunday in the referendum. it's a right that the euro group fights by closing the banks, and securing it as mandated by the greek state. that's our goal to allow the greek people to express their view on the proposal. on monday we'll start the plan for a viable economy. >> reporter: this could lead banks to be cut off from funding and go bankrupt. but the prime minister is rumored to be considering a renewed overture from the european commissioner. >> this would require a move from the greek government which the president asked to see before midnight last night. as we speak, this move has not yet been received registered

and time is now narrowing. >> reporter: german chancellor angela merkel also says there is no sign of such a deal yet. >> translator: this evening at exactly midnight central european time the program expires, and i'm not aware of any real indications of anything else. beyond this, it's clear we'll not close the channels of communication after midnight tonight, otherwise we would not be the european union, that means the door remains open to talks, but i cannot say more than this. >> reporter: tsipras is unlikely to accept unchanged the very plan he has put forward to the greek people to vote upon. on monday night he signaled he was still open to last-minute deal but he sees it after a no-vote on the creditors plan not instead of the vote. he has to intend with an increasingly rested home front. it's not just the media who have turned against him.

public opinion is divided between a no vote and a yes vote. all may not be lost and a last-minute deal could still happen. if it doesn't, the euro dilemma threatens to tear greek society apart. okay, well since that deal was presented to the greeks last thursday, it has slightly improved. creditors have given the greeks the rate that they wanted. the greeks may now suggest a couple of more improvements, but there is one sa narrow we could be inching towards, this time to vote yes, and that is the point that perhaps we'll reach today in the good greek sen arrow. >> we will be watching. john thank you. dominic kane sent us this

update from frankfort. >> reporter: this is frankfort's [ inaudible ] at the heart of the business and banking district. in this part of the city -- ♪ this is al jazeera america live from new york city i'm stephanie sy. we're interrupting our colleagues in doha to give you to livingston new jersey where new jersey governor chris christie is about to announce his president. he is speaking at his livingston high school. he decided to make his formal presidential announcement there. let's listen. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. thank you, new jersey. thank you. and thank you -- thank you to livingston. [ cheers and applause ] >> lots of people have asked me over the course of the last week, why here? why here?

because everything started here for me. everything started here for me. the confidence. the education. the friends. the family. and the love that i have always felt for and from this community-. when i decided to make this announcement, there wasn't any choice, i had to come home and livingston is home for me. [ cheers and applause ] and i want to thank sheila a dear friend of my mom's and a wonderful representative of this town for welcoming us here today. and i want to thank my friend lynn. now, listen this is very much -- some of you may be confused. you know, it may be that you thought she was being booed. [ laughter ] >> by our high school classmates. she was not for reasons that i will not explain.

[ laughter ] >> lynn's nickname in high school was the juice. [ shouting juice. ] >> hence it's not a boo, it's the juice. and lynn thank you for being here. i'm also here because this is where my family raised me. you'll hear a lot and have heard a lot from me about my mother and father. all of us know that for good and for bad, where we come from is from our parents, and so you heard sheila and lynn both talk about my mom today. i'm here in livingston, because all of those years ago, my mother and father became the first of either of their families to leave the city in newark and come here and make this home for us. my mom isn't with us today, but i feel her. and my dad is with me here today, and i'm really privileged to have limb. [ cheers and applause ]

cleaver >> they raised my brother and i, brought us here to livingston when we were four and two years old, and then our sister dawn joined us a few year's later. this is where we grew up. these are the fields we played on. these are the play grounds we played on. this is the school we built our friends with and came and learned with and up until i left to share a room with mary pat, i shared a room with todd the entire time it was a smooth transition. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and my sister dawn and todd are as big a part of today as anybody else and they are both here, and i love them both. thank you. [ cheers and applause ]

>> everyone thinks i'm the politician in the family. we did a coin flip when we got married. i called tails. so i'm the guy who ran. but the politician just as good as me in the family is the woman i met ten years ago from a family of ten people i side you should see the family i married into. my wife has been an indispensable part of everything that i have done with my life over the last 30 years, and she is largely responsible for the four amazing people that you see standing with her. [ cheers and applause ] >> and ever since i have been governor, i have been happy to use the veto at home too, and so

far so good i have not been overridden there either so i'm glad they are here today, and for andrew and sarah and patrick and bridget, i couldn't be prouder of four children than i am of them. [ cheers and applause ] >> i told you my parents moved to livingston and they moved to livingston to make this part of their fulfillment of their dream, of their version of the american dream. they both lost their fathers at a young age and were raised by extraordinarily strong women under really difficult circumstances. my dad one of the best students in his high school class, admitted to columbia university because his father passed away he couldn't go. they didn't have the money.

he went to work and he got drafted into the army and came home, and went to work at the breyer's ice cream plant in newark new jersey and then decided after he met my mom that it was time for him to make more with his life and he went to school at night at rutgers, for six years, while working at those jobs during the day to get his degree in accounting, and my mother one of the proudest pictures that she ever had one the one she called our first family picture. my mom and dad on the day he graduated from rutgers in june of 1962 the first person in either of their families ever to get a college degree and it was the first family picture, because she was six months pregnant with me. [ laughter ] >> and the smiles on both of their faces that day were indicative of what -- not what they had accomplished, but what they saw coming ahead of them.

their smiles were about the fact that they thought that nothing was out of reach for them now. they had each other, they were building a family they worked together, and then with the help of both of those strong women, they gave them $5,000 each probably all of the money they had in the world, to put a down payment on a house in this town to give their children a chance to take the dream they had started to build, and to make it even bigger and better. so i not only think about my mom and dad today, i think about my two grandmothers women who raised children largely on their own, women who knew how to work hard avenue -- and knew that that would deliver for their children. i'm thinking about both of them today. [ cheers and applause ]

>> one of the things my mother always used to say all the time was christopher, if you work hard enough you can be anything. she said god has given you so many gifts, if you just work hard enough you can be anything. and that story is proof. it's proof parents who came from nearly nothing except for that hard work. parents who brought little to their marriage except for their love for each other, and that hard work. and that hard work not only produced a great life for me and my brother and my sister but think about how amazing this country is that one generation removed from the guy who was working on the floor of the plant of the breyer's ice cream plant, his son is the two-term governor of the state where he was born and raised. [ cheers and applause ]

>> see -- see that's not only what my parents have done for me, but that is what new jersey has done for us. see this place, this place that represents the most ethnically diverse state in the country, the most densely populated state in the country, we're all different and we're all on top of each other, like you are on top of each other in this gym -- [ laughter ] >> -- and what has come from that -- what has come sfr that is the absolute belief that not only can all of us achieve whatever dream we want to achieve because of the place we live and the opportunities it gives us is we not only can do it together but we have to do it together we have no choice but to work together, this country needs to work together once again, not against each

other. [ cheers and applause ] >> when i became governor six years ago, we had a state that was in economic calamity an $11 billion deficit on a $29 billion budget a state that has taxed and fees raised on it 115 times in the eight years before i became governor a state who no longer believed that any one person could make a difference in the lives of the people of this state, and so we rolled up our sleeves and balanced six budgets in a row, and we refused to raise taxes on the people of this state for six years. [ cheers and applause ] >> we made the hard decisions that had to be made to improve our education system we reformed tenure for the first time in 105 years. [ cheers and applause ] >> we made the difficult

decisions to reform pensions and health benefits and continue that fight today. we have stood together against each and every person every cynic who said why are you wasting your time? this state is not governable the last six years we have prove you can govern this state and lead it to a better day, and that's what we have done together. [ cheers and applause ] >> and now -- and now we face a country -- we face a country that's not angry when i hear the media say that our country is angry, i know they are wrong. last year i went to 37 different states across this country in one year i met people in every corner of america, and they are not angry. americans are filled with anxiety. they are filled with anxiety because they look to washington, d.c. and they see a government that not only doesn't work anymore, it doesn't even talk to each other anymore.

it doesn't even pretent to work anymore. we have a president that ignores the congress, and a congress that ignores the president. we need a government in washington, d.c. that remembers you went there to work for us not the other way around. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting christie ] >> and both parties -- both parties have failed our country. both parties have stood in the corner and held their breath and waited to get their own way, both parties have lead us to believe that in america, a country that was built on compromise, that somehow now compromise is a dirty word in washington and jefferson and adams believed compromise was a dirty word we would still be under the crown of england. [ cheers and applause ] >> and this -- this dysfunction,

this lack of leadership has lead to an economy that is weak and hasn't recovered the way it should. it has lead to an educational system that has us 27th in math and 24th in this science in the industrialized world. our friends no longer trust us and our adversaries no longer fear us. this weakness in the oafal office has sent a wave of anxiety through our country. but anxiety can be swept away by strong leadership and decisiveness to lead america again. [ cheers and applause ] >> we just need -- we just need to have the courage to choose do stand up and say enough. we need to have the courage to course a new path for america.

america knows that new path it must start with this. we must tell each other the truth about the problems we have and the difficulty of the solutions, but if we tell each other the truth, everybody, we recognize that truth and hard decisions today will lead to growth and opportunity tomorrow for every american in this country. [ cheers and applause ] >> what -- what are those truths? what are those truths? those truths are that we have to acknowledge that our government isn't working anymore for us. we have to acknowledge that and say it out loud and it's the fault of our bickering leaders in washington, d.c. who longer listen to us and no longer know that they are supposed to be serving us. we need to acknowledge that all of that anxiety and failures are not the end, they are the beginning, the beginning of what

we can do together. what we need to decide is that we can take a difference; that we can stand up and make a difference in this country. [ cheers and applause ] >> you see that's why i love -- that's why i love the job i have. that's why i love my job as governor, because kids ask me all the time the fourth graders who come to the state house every week the two questions that are always asked, one, what is your favorite color? [ laughter ] >> always. second, they always ask me what is your best part of your job? and i always tell them that i wake up every morning knowing i have the opportunity to do something great. i do don't something great every day, i'm human, but every morning i wake up can an opportunity to do something great. that's why this job is a great job, and that's why the president of the united states is an even greater job for a greater number of people. [ cheers and applause ]

>> i have spent the last 13 years of my life as u.s. attorney and governor of this state, fighting for fairness and justice, and opportunity for the people of the state of new jersey. that fight has not made me more weary, it has made me stronger and i am now ready to fight for the people of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] >> america is tired of hand wringing, and indecisiveness, and weakness in the oval office. we need to have strength and decision making and authority back in the oval office and that is why today i am proud to announce my candidacy for the republican nomination for president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ]

and now -- and now as livingston and new jersey turns its gaze to the rest of america today, what do we see? and what do we have to confront? we need a campaign of big ideas, hard truths and real opportunity for the american people. we need to fix an entitlement system that has broken our country. we have candidates that say we can't touch this. the horse is out of the barn we have to get it back in and can only do it by force. [ cheers and applause ]

>> we need to get our economy growing again at 4% or greater, and the reason we do is because we have to make this once again, the country my mother and father told me it was; that as hard as you work that's as hard and high as you'll rise. that's not the case anymore. we can't honestly look at our children and say that to them. because we have an economy that is weak and doesn't present them with the same opportunities that we were presented when we graduated from college. when we graduated we can't worry about getting a job, we worried about picking which job was thu best for us. we knew if we worked hard we were going to be successful. this country and its leadership owes the same thing to my children and yours, and i'm ready to give it to you. [ cheers and applause ]

>> we need a tax system -- we need a tax system that is simplified and won't put cpa's out of business. we need to encourage businesses to invest in america again, not overseas invest in our country, and our people. [ cheers and applause ] >> and in a world that is as dangerous as dangerous and frightening as any time i have seen it in my lifetime there is only one indispensable force for good in the world, and it is a strong unequivocal, america, that will lead the world and not be afraid to tell our friends we'll be with you no matter what and to tell our

adversaries there are limits to your conduct, and america will enforce the limits to that conduct. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting tell it like it can ] >> well here it comes after seven years after seven years i heard the president of the united states say the other day that the world respects america more because of his leadership. this -- this convinces me -- [ booing ] >> this convinces me it is the final confirmation that president obama lives in his own world, not in our world. [ cheers and applause ] >> and the fact is this: after seven years of a weak and feckless foreign policy run by barack obama we butter not turn it over to his second mate, hillary clinton. [ cheers and applause ]

>> in the end, in the end, everybody, leadership matters. it matters for our country, and american leadership matters for the world, but if we're going to lead, we have to stop worrying about being loved, and start caring about being respected again. both at home and around the world. [ cheers and applause ] i am not running for president of the united states as a surrogate for being elected prom king of america. [ laughter ] >> i am not looking to be the most popular guy who looks in your eyes every day and tries to figure out what you want to hear, say it and then turn and and do something else. when i stand up on a stage like this in front of all of you, there is one thing you will note for sure i mean what i say, and i say what i mean and that's

what america needs right now. [ cheers and applause ] >> and unlike -- and unlike some people who will offer themselves for the presidency in 2016 you are not going to have to wonder whether i can do it or not. in new jersey as governor i have stood up against economic calamity and unprecedented natural disaster we have brought ourselves together pushed back the economic calamity, and recovering from that natural disaster and that's because we have lead and worked together to do it. [ cheers and applause ] >> as governor i have proven that you can stand up and fight the most powerful special interests this state has to have, and standing up and stop them but at the same time reach

across the aisle to our friends in the democratic party and say if you have a good idea i'm willing to work with you, because that's what our country needs. [ cheers and applause ] >> and as governor, i have never waivered from telling you the truth as i see it and then acting to make sure that you know that is the truth as i believe it in my heart. you know, as a candidate for president, i want to promise you just a few things. first a campaign without spin or without pandering, or focus-group tested answers. you are going to get what i think whether you like it or not, or whether it makes you cringe every once in a while or not [ cheers and applause ] >> a campaign when i'm asked a question, i'm going to give the answer to the question that is asked, not the answer that my political consultants told me to

give backstage. [ cheers and applause ] >> a campaign that every day will not worry about what is popular, but what is right, because what is right is what will fix america, not what is popular. [ cheers and applause ] >> a campaign that believes that believes in an america that is as great as the hopes and dreams that we want everyone of our children to have not a campaign that tears people down but a campaign that rebuilds america to the place where you and i grew up and where we want our children to grow up in again, and where we want free people around the world to grow up in, in their countries as well that's what america has always stood for, and that's what this campaign will stand for. [ cheers and applause ]

>> and all of the signs -- all of the signs say telling it like it is but there's a reason for that. we are going to tell it like it is today so that we can create greater opportunity for every american tomorrow. the truth will set us free, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] >> all the years, all 52 years that i have spent in this state with our people have prepared me for this moment. we have no idea where and how this journey will end, but we know that it's only in this country, only in america, where someone like me could have the opportunity to seek the highest office the world has to offer.

only in america, could all of you believe that your voices and your efforts can make a difference to change a country as big and vast and powerful as this one. only in america, only in america, have we seen time after time after time the truth of the words that one person can make a difference. you see the reason that's true is because it's the only thing that has ever made a difference in the history of the world. one person reaching out to another to change their circumstance, and improve the lot of their children and grandchildren. i don't seek the presidency for any other reason than because i believe in my heart that i am ready to work with you, to restore america to its rightful

place in the world, and to restore the american dream to each one of our children whether they live in livingston or mendan newark or camden patterson or jersey city no matter where they live across this country, we need to make sure that every one of those children believes that they have a president who not only speaks to them but who hears them who hears them and understands that their voices that their voices is what makes any american president great. if you give me the privilege to be your president, i will wake up every day, not only with my heart strong and my mind sharp, but with my ears open and my arms open to welcome the american people no matter what party, race creed, or color, to make sure that you know that

this is your country too, we are going to go and win this election and i love each and every one of you! thank you very much! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> governor chris christie of new jersey officially announcing his campaign for president. his slogan telling it like it is. let's go to michael shure now in washington. michael i would say this was a roller coaster of sentiment, starting out by telling these sentimental stories of his father who worked at the breyer ice cream factory, giving credit to his mother and grandmother for his success, saying we need to work together again, not against each other, but then directly attacking president obama's foreign policy. what was your take away. >> reporter: my take away was

where was this in 2012? i feel there has to be a great deal of regret on the part of chris christie. he comes in as the 14th or 15th republicans, and it seems his opportunity may be past. he is saying we have an uphill battle. we'll starting the battle today. and that tell it like is slogan is part of what he is going to do in america. he started with his family. then he went in specifically to what he would do as president. he talked about barack obama and mentioned only hillary clinton by name which is telling, so he is going to use that as his foil as he goes into new hampshire. he has ten events scheduled in new hampshire over the next few days, and many will be townhall. >> the early polls show that christie is trailing other

republican candidates even places like new hampshire where his brand of conservatism might be popular. does he have a chance? >> well everybody has a chance stephanie right now. he is oddly probably the one candidate who is least helped by donald trump entering the race in the way they approach politics. of course christy is a governor. so he is going to go into new hampshire with a lot of people against him. which is again why 2012 must have seemed so tempting and then looking back and saying why didn't i do it then? and his poll numbers in new jersey are really what is going to be dogging him on this campaign. at last report he had a 56% negativity rating in his home state, very very difficult to run on that. >> back in may in that same time frame, 66% of voters in new

jersey said they think christie doesn't have the proper disposition for the presidency michael. who are his main donors at this point? and does he have that fund-raising machine that could compete with say a jeb bush donor machine? >> chris christie made his mark in new jersey as a campaigner. he was a bundler for george w. bush, people who were able to raise privately over 1 thoundz for the -- $100,000 for the campaign. that isn't a problem for him. neither is the fact that he is close with the koch brothers. so that is probably the easiest part of chris christie.

the most difficult part is to address his style, the kind of disposition you need to have as president. but that's what presidents have had all along. it is going to be very difficult for him to get out of this big primary because of that. >> michael stay put there, i want to take a piece of sound from governor christie's speech. he talked a lot about the anxiety that americans are feeling. let's listen. >> americans are not angry, americans are filled with anxiety because they look to washington, d.c. and they see a government that not only doesn't work anymore. it doesn't even talk to each other anymore. it doesn't even pretend to try to work anymore. we have a president who ignores the congress, and a congress that ignores the president. >> -- together again.

i think a real roller coaster of sentiments that we heard. is he a bipartisan deal maker. he talked about the dysfunction in washington. is he that guy? >> it is so striking. i was thinking if he had made this case before bridgegate, before his embrace of president obama -- >> during hurricane sandy. >> during hurricane sandy, before the economy in new jersey has all but collapsed, how much this may have resinated. if you look back he was reelected overwhelmingly in a blue state. >> two terms. >> two terms. latinos. women who is a big percentage of the vote that he needs to get. and now so much of what he says about bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle, so much of that raises questions, because bridge gate was all about the fact that democrats were being punished for not

supporting his governor bid. i think this goes back to michael's earlier point, not even because of the state of the republican party today, and the number of new faces running, and the sheer number of people but because he is such a great politician out on the stump, he is gifted. he knows that but now he has to run on a record and so much of the shine that he had previously has come off. and that is going to make it very, very tough for him. he has he highest numbers negatively of republican runners as donald trump. >> michael this seems to be an economic platform. would you find that surprising given what jeanie just said? against unemployment and other

bellwethers? >> yeah, jeanie is absolutely right. if you are a candidate running, you are essentially running on your record and his record right now is not as strong as it was previously. in fact it in some areas is a disaster. but he is saying that he is able to bring tax reform on the backs of teachers and unions. he brought tax reform to that state, and he wants to bring that to the country. he does have an economic message that can resinate but all the while, new jersey's credit rating has been downgraded nine times. it's very difficult to imagine he is running on anything other than his personality when you look at that. >> let's listen to another piece of sound about the dysfunction in our nation's capitol. >> both parties have failed our country. both parties have stood in the corner and held their breath. both parties have lead us to

believe that in america, that somehow now compromise is a dirty word if washington, jefferson and adams believed compromise was a dirty word we would still be under the crown of england. >> this sounded like a general election speech. >> absolutely. it has been republicans who have been fighting to stop president obama from acting. they haven't wanted to compromise, and you can look at democrats and say the same thing. there hasn't been a lot of focus on compromise so for him to make this case it's not going to be a big seller in the republican primary and caucus. but i think his team is betting that he can go to blue states like new hampshire, this message is going to resinate this kind of plain-talking, no nonsense may sell and people may take a second look at him, and he has

this what i think of as a very narrow path to the presidency. but i think it's always dangerous to have a candidate running in the general when they have to get through the caucus first. and that is going to be very tough for chris christie. he is a moderate republican. >> michael do you want to weigh in on this notion of chris christie being sort of a bridge -- excuse the pun -- but a bridge builder between the parties. >> that was quite a pun, stephanie. an excellent point you made though about compromise. that's a dirty word in primaries always has been. and what people failed to realize is that republican voters think even though democrats cannot believe it think that they have compromised too much. they look at the court rulings, at some of the things and he

has to appeal to those voters first. >> jeanie how worried should the democrats be if chris christie becomes the republican candidate. >> i don't think he is their biggest worry at this point. there are some concerns. we heard him hit hillary clinton straight on and certainly president obama, but i think their concern is marco rubio at this point who may actually be able to really make it difficult for hillary clinton. chris christie is difficult for someone like hillary clinton, because he is taking on their message about straight talk and people don't feel like hillary clinton is engaged necessarily in straight talk. so i think those kinds of things will make it difficult, but i think democrats feel okay at this point, because they have a long way to go before you see chris christie who is in about

the third tier right now -- >> the third tier for this but he was president of his all ma mauder. so i want to go back to something he said. he was a three-term class president there. >> we have to stop worryings about being loved. and start caring about being respected again, both at home and around the world. [ cheers and applause ] >> i am not running for president of the united states as a surrogate for being elected prom king of america. [ laughter ] >> i am not looking to be the most popular guy who looks in your eyes every day and tries to figure out what you want to hear say it and then turn around and do something else. when i stand up on a stage like this in front of all of you, there is one thing you will know for sure i mean what i say, and i say what i mean and that's what america needs right now. >> michael shure, jeanie and i were trying to figure out what

governor christive tried to figure out by prom king but this goes back to what you were saying that the force of his personality is a strong point. >> yeah i think that's, you know, part of what he is trying to market but it's both his greatest asset and sometimes his biggest deficit. these townhalls are risky for a lot of politicians, and he has gotten into a lot of trouble within the context of his governorship at townhalls such as this. but he is saying he is not just going to be sweet like the other candidates and tell you what the voters want to hear. but sometimes joy to tell the voters want to hear and his record is not what republican voters want to hear across the board. certainly in iowa. he may have a better time with it in new hampshire. >> let me bring jeanie in on this. does he speak to anyone in the

republican's right-wing to that idealogical case. he can't refer to the cultural social issues that you might hear from a more right-wing republican candidate. >> i think he does resinate to a certain extent on being a hawk on foreign policy, in terms of his attacks on the president and attacks on democrats, but there is a huge divide in the republican party between a northeastern governor who has been working across the ailes or for so many years versus someone like a ted cruz. >> jeanie and michael, thanks to both of you for your incites. i'm stephanie sy, we're also awaiting a joint news conference right now with president obama and his brazilian counterpart. we'll bring you that live when it happens. for now the news continues next live from doha. have a great day. ♪

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