goodnight. >> big sendoff. so he's leaving because he's going to take over for jimmy fallon. then fallon is going to replace jay leno. >> we are so glad that you are with us in the mornings. >> next hour of your "new day" starts right now. all right. happy sunday! that was quick, wasn't it? we said we'll be right back, we are right back. i hope this sunday is being good to you so far. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. this is "new day sunday." today, super bowl xlviii, denver broncos versus the seattle seahawks. here's a look at metlife stadium in east rutherford, new jersey. >> peyton manning, quarterback for denver, and russell wilson for seahawks. we were just talking about bruno mars and red hot chili peppers

performing at halftime but i want to give a little love to my co-anchor because the baltimore ravens are still, people, for the next 10 1/2 hours or so, world champs. >> yeah. they are the nfl world champs. tonight get it twisted. that vince lombardi trophy as christi informed us earlier, made by tiffany & company. >> more than 100 million people expected to be watching on television. >> the thing is when we talk about new jersey, the super bowl is taking place in governor chris christie's home state. think about this. this was supposed to be a big celebration. but now this morning he's fighting back, defending himself against new claims regarding that scandal over lane closures of the george washington bridge and he's facing new backlash. in fact, last night listen to

how he was booed. and this was at a super bowl event. >> good afternoon, everybody. you've already heard enough speeches. enough speeches. i want to tell everybody out there to thank you very much to all of our partners, the nfl, the team owners, look forward to ha having it over in arizona. >> cnn's erin pike is live in washington with more. you could really hear the boos there, too. they weren't quiet about it. >> christi, you sure can. this goes back to friday with the claims we are talking about. those claims are coming from former port authority official david wilestein. he designed in december saying the story had become a distraction and last month he refused to in front of the new jersey legislative committee investigating it. he created another headache.

just this past friday for team christie by asserting through a lawyer that. he laid out a statement saying he didn't know the motive behind the bridge closures until he read them in press accounts an by saturday afternoon they went on offense and aggressively attacking wilestein. cnn has the e-mail which points out wildstein is looking for the port authority to pay his legal bills, that he wants immunity and that he's already been had held in contempt by the new jersey legislature for refusing to testify about this. it also remind that it hasn't produced this purported evidence that he says exists. this e-mail is an attempt to discredit wildstein. also, tomorrow, the documents that the investigatory committee subpoenaed are due so the story is not going away for christie

any time soon. maybe some more boos. who knows. >> ann m erin mcpike, thank you. as chris christie faces the avalanche of allegations surrounding the bridge gate scandal, some observers are saying he can kiss his white house hopes good-bye. host of the show ""inside politics,"" starting today, john king, good to have you. >> great to see you, victor and crie christi. he's always innocent until proven guilty and is he fighting back. but to the point you make about his future aspirations, more and more republicans are beginning to say whoa. now an poiappointee he made to port authority is turning on had him. it this will go on for weeks, maybe months. have you lawyers, a federal investigation, a state legislative investigation. even though it is only february 2014, some republicans are starting to see is that christie brand, he's supposed to be

different, above the fray, he's supposed to be tough but now are people saying he is a bully. there is a fine line in politics so you are beginning to sense from national republicans that maybe this guy will come out of this as damaged goods, even if -- even if -- he is telling the truth. now it is early. but again, the buzz in washington especially in the last 24 to 48 hours has changed a bit and that's not good for chris christie. >> talk about christie's letter attacking wildstein. does it make him, when you read it, seem less presidential? it's not as though people aren't looking at this saying i don't know who's telling the truth because wildstein could have some ulterior motives here. >> wildstein could have ulterior motives. he wants his legal bills paid. chris christie has said i don't really know this guy. he says he's my high school buddy but i don't really know him. he wants his bills paid and he wants immunity, chris christie made the conscious decision, the

initial response on friday was pretty lawyerly, pretty calm. then the e-mail to supporters punches back hard. two questions here. one, he's trying to fight to save his job and his ability to govern in new jersey. number two, national democrats are after chris christie. they see a chance to knock him down. this was a message from the chris christie people saying i'll fight back. they play hard politics. if he's going to run for president he needs to learn how to take punches and throw punches. >> we'll learn more about it, john king. thank you. john king's new show inside politics up next, 8:30 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. following john king is "state of the union with candy crowley." had her guest today -- louisiana governor bobby jindal. that's at 9:00 a.m. eastern. to an explosive story that begins with an open letter from

an alleged sexual assault victim. i want to warn you, because i know it is the morning time. you got maybe your kids around but the details of this story are really graphic. they are not appropriate if children are in the room. just wanted to give you that heads up. but for the first time we're hearing from dylan farrow, the adopted daughter of woody allen about allegations that the filmmaker sexually assaulted her as a child. these allegations first came to life when farrow split from allen. after describing the alleged abuse which allen has consist t consistently denied, farrow challenges readers to answer that same question one more time. dylan farrow, the adopted daughter of woody allen and mia farrow, speaking out for the first time and giving new details of alleged sengs xual assaults by the famed writer and director. in an open letter published by a

"new york times" blog she recounts an incident she says happened in 1992. when i was 7 years old, woody allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. he toll me to lay on my stomach an play with my brother's electric train set. then he sexually assaulted me. he talked to me while he did it. whispering that i was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we'd go to and i'd be a star in had his movies. the letter publish just weeks after mia farrow re-ignited a long-standing feud with her ex by bringing the personal family history back into the public eye. all of this played out as the 78-year-old allen was being honored by his peers at the golden globe awards and his latest film celebrated with three academy award nominations. mia farrow, displaying her contempt on social media, tweeting a woman has publicly detailed woody allen's

molestation of her at age 7. the golden globe tribute showed contempt for her and all survivors. another -- missed the woody allen tribute. did they include the part where he molested a 7-year-old before or after annie hall? the couple separated after 12 years when mia farrow discovered that allen was having an affair with her adopted daughter who is now allen's wife, the same year dylan told her mother that allen had touched her inappropriately. allen denied the charges and according to the "new york times," a team of medical investigators found no evidence of abuse. allen was never charged but the allegationed have tainted his image for two decades. but dylan finally breaking her silence and admonishing some of hollywood's most celebrated, by name, for, in her words, turning a blind eye by continuing to

work with allen. that he got away with what he did to me. it haunted me as i grew up. i was stricken with guilt that i had had allowed him to be near other little girls. >> cnn did reach out to woody allen's representative for comment. we have not heard back yet. we've also reached out, we should say, to some of the stars that dylan farrow challenged by name in her letter and we have yet to hear their responses as well. still to come on "new day," police are tightening up security ahead of today's super bowl. we are also learning about a threatening letter sent to new york's new mayor. plus, the rise of edward snowden. how he went from being disgusted by anonymous leakers to becoming the world's most famous whistle-blower. tylenol® provides strong pain relief while being gentle on your stomach. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®.

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other letters in the new york area this week. >> that just happened on friday. cnn's andy shoals is live outside metlife stadium right now with the latest on the super bowl preps. is this right? the price of tickets is going up? >> reporter: that is right, christi. we talked are for months how it was going to be an awful weather, super bowl was going to be so cold. turns out today is the best day of the week to hold the super bowl. weather will be in the mid 40s around kickoff. ticket prices actually went up yesterday. the cheapest ticket to get in the super bowl is now about $2,000, compared to $1,300 earlier this week. of course the excitement for the game is pretty big. on one side the best offense on the league in the denver bron s broncos, on the other side, the best defense in the league in the seattle seahawks. two teams, two very different philosophies. the seahawks' biggest task in this one is trying to slow down

peyton manning but they won't be able to win this game without quarterback russell wilson making some plays. wilson stands just 5'11". he is the shortest quarterback to ever start in a super bowl and he's trying to buck the trend and prove that the little guy can win the big one. >> god made me 5'11" for a reason. for all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it or the kids that will be told no. that's one of the reasons why i left playing baseball, to be honest. i had this urge to play football because so many -- not so many, but a handful of people told me i wouldn't do it. >> wilson's counterpart, peyton manning, as expected, named the mvp and offensive player of the year last night. this is peyton's record. fifth mvp award. no other player has won more than three. he's also the only player to win an mvp with two different teams. he'll look to cap off this

amazing super with his second super bowl ring. broncos are the two-point favorites according to las vegas. peyton manning, kind of the sentimental favorite. everyone would like to see him win a super bowl at age 37. >> andy sholes, we'll be watching. be sure to catch chris, kate and michaela. a new book coming out on the man who's becoming the nationing most famous leaker. edward snowden like you have not heard him before -- next. ♪

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welcome back. a new book will be released in the u.s. this week and it chronicles the life and career of edward snowden. >> reporter: taking the nsa leaker from teen able computer enthusiast to the world's most infamous whistle lower or traitor depending on where you stand politically and international fugitive. joining me to talk about it this morning, luke harding, author of the new book, "the snowden files -- the inside story of the world's most wanted man." luke, first start with the president and what he said at the state of the union. let's listen. >> that's why working with this congress i will reform our surveillance programs because the vital work of our intelligence community depends on public confidence, here and abroad. the privacy of ordinary people

is not being violated. >> is this specifically, luke, what snowden is looking for? are these just overtures too vague for him? >> well, i think he's actual ly when he was sitting in hawaii planning this leak in late 2012, there's been this huge debate in the u.s. there's been a review ordered by the president. we had a major speech last month in which he unveiled all sorts of reforms, including saying that the nsa would no longer automatically collect americans' phone data. and so there's an enormous conversation. i suspect that snowden would actually like the president to go a lot further than he has done but there's no doubt that he's changed history by what he's done. >> he's had ha major change, to, maybe a 180. there was a time when he was very critical of anonymous

leakers. you have comments cited in your book, on a comment board he writes -- qtf, "new york times." . are they trying to start a war? another oh, we hope our citizens don't find out it's because this -- expletive -- won't work if iran knows what we're doing. how did he make the transition? >> one of the things i try and trace in my book is this curve of disillusionment. he's a young guy on his first foreign posting to europe, in geneva, switzerland working for the cia, on basically a u.s. mission there. initially the idea of leak something horrible to him. but what he told us that got him, he got hardened. in other words, the more information he saw about what he viewed as -- what he regarded as mass surveillance, the more he -- disillusioned he became. he says quite explicitly he

thought obama would roll back some of these programs when he came into the white house and when this at any time happen, essentially snowden decided he would take things into his own hands and become a whistle-blower. >> in 2008-2009, what i've read thus far, it is a really tranformative period because he was no fan of then-senator obama, but once he was inaugurated he just loathed the president. how did that happen? >> you have to look at where snowden comes from politically. he's very much a republican. he's libertarian. he is someone who was really kind of you almost say fanatical about the constitution and preserving it. essentially when this security status can kind of snowden's story continued. his job as a systems administer

had access to classified information. he decided he'd gather this together an reach out to journalists to make this public. i think the final straw for him was when james clapper, director of national intelligence, in march 2013 told congress that the nsa did not wittingly collect data on ordinary americans. snowden knew this to be untrue. and that really was when the fuse was lit. >> one question that i think people inside and outside the business of reporting have asked is why "the guardian." you detail this testing of one another between glen greenwald who did the orange reporting and snowden himself, sort of proving their story and their commitment to one another. tell me about that. >> snowden like "the new york times" felt like they sat on the story of the bush wiretapping. then in late 2012 he penned an e-mail to glen greenwald.

glen is a very busy guy. he's always overworked and has chat windows up and he didn't respond. there were several false starts before snowden finally got through to glen greenwald and he and a filmmaker and a colleague flew out to hong kong to meet him not really knowing who he was, if he was kind of a fake or the real deal. and of course he was the real deal. >> luke harding, it is a fascinating read what i've read so far. "the snowden files -- the inside story of the world's most wanted man." talks about him as a teenager and how he became who he is today. luke, thank you so much. thanks, victor. next, a cheerleader -- you've got to see this -- sinks an unbelievable half-court basketball shot. we'll show it to you. the quiet. [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief.

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make some great memories today. >> "inside politics" starts now. a key player in new jersey's bridge gate scandal says he can prove governor chris christie isn't telling the truth. >> i had had no knowledge of this, of the planning, of the execution. >> the governor says time will prove the facts are on his side. some nervous republican insiders are already looking for a new 2016 horse. >> the decision will be based on, can i do it joyfully. and it is no secret immigration divides republicans but did president obama set the stage for a democratic civil war on the issue when he said this -- >> would you veto that?

>> well, i'm not going to prejudge what gets to my desk. >> ""inside politics." "the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters -- now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. good morning and thanks for sharing your sunday morning with you. if true, it is an allegation that will end chris christie's presidential hopes and perhaps lead to his impeachment as governor. but the "if" bears repeating, over and over and over again. one-time friend who says governor christie lied about what he knew and when he knew it, that friend is trying to win immunity from prosecution and trying to force the government, his former employer, to pay his mounting legal fees. what now for a governor just weeks ago you viewed as the republican party's best hope in 2016. jonathan, wow. governor christie, after first issuing a very legalistic

response saying david wildstein's not telling the truth but nothing in here hurts me, then comes out over the weekend -- boom. they slam him, sort of the old bill clinton playbook. if you get accused of something, attack your accuser, try to make the issue him. are they nervous? >> of course. because this is an issue that's, at the very least, a distraction for governor christie. look, even though there's more smoke than there is fire -- we won't know if there's fire until we actually see the evidence that wildstein is talking about that he says exists. the problem with all the smoke is that chris christie is the chairman of the raga. he is go to go on some trips on behalf of the gop governors across the country. will he be able to take questions from the press, either in jersey, made the point about governors across america but he knows he can't do that. this is major distraction for

him. this he said/he said with wildstein adds one more layer to that. >> it is kind of juvenile. it was bizarre to me they would go after wildstein again in this e-mail blast yesterday. it seems like it is just all the politics of high school instead of christie moving on to what he should be doing. think about what hillary clinton is doing right now, going around the country, talking to donors in very low-key settings and making her case that she'll be the nominee without actually saying that. christie doesn't have time for that. he's got distractions at the rga and he's just in a tailspin right now. >> secretary clinton though has the luxury of being a former. he's a sitting governor. so i'll use bill clinton, not hillary clinton, as the analogy. a lot of people attack bill clinton when he was the governor of arkansas. for those of you who think chris christie's done, i've been to a lot of bill clinton wakes. this is what bill clinton did -- if you attack him, he attacked you bigger. at the root of the issue, david

wildstein says the governor was lying when they shut down the bridge, that he knew as it was shut down, not reading from press reports. governor christie says that's not true. we'll go through months and months of investigations but i talked to four or five people in washington, republicans around the country call to get their gut sense, donors call, do i support this guy. one guy told me -- for the first time i'm worried he may have to resign if this keeps spiraling out of control. i said resign from the republican governor's association or as governor? >> he said definitely the rga if this keeps going and maybe governor. >> this touches on -- i was shocked and the biggest problem for christie to me i think in the short term -- until we know more evidence -- is the reaction to the story in the media, in our twitter news cycle, compared to really functionally how little this letter advanced the story. we knew wildstein was sort of gaming to save himself, gaming to flip.

he did say christie knew about the lane closures. but the reaction in the media was so big so when christie travels around the country for the rga, the problem is when governors like nick scott and nicky haley make the assessment that we do not want you to come here. we do not want our state house reporters in our states asking us these questions about your race and your job in new jersey when we're trying to win re-election. that's when the rga stuff comes in to the fore. then also what can he get done actually in new jersey legislatively. >> think about what a shift that is. he was the republican brand. he won the landslide victory. he became the brand, this guy who's different, he won sam african-american votes, latino votes. now, julie pace, some republicans are nerve ugs and they are beginning to look around. there's this guy named jeb busher, the former governor of florida -- the former part does help you sometimes. he's been asked many times le run in 2016. this week he said this.

>> i'm deferring the decision to the right time which is later this year and the decision will be based on, can i do it joyfully, because i think we need to have candidates lift our spirits. >> something switched in jeb in the sense that instead of the push-away, he's talking, a, about a timetable. he's actually thinking about thematics. >> donors in particular are looking for someone who's not chris christie. jeb bush has a lot of support in the section of the gop, the country club republicans who's always been uncomfortable with the tea party element of the party. they'd love to see jeb bush run. i think the great thing about jeb bush, i just keep thinking about barbara bush and her comments, there must be other families out there. the reason i just think that comment so interesting is because that's how a lot of the public feels, too.

they look at clintons and the bushes and say really? is that it? >> hold on. his mother's comment about not wanting jeb to run i don't think is quite prohibitive. i think it actually lets jeb bush say, ha-ha, i even have to convince my mom. second of all and more subtly, it underscores the fact this is not some sort of inside family deal to restore the bushes to power but there are in fact folks in the family who don't want this to happen. >> i've heard also over the last week that as this christie scandal has unfolded, that people on jeb's team have been quietly reaching out to donors, having these conversations that christie really isn't having right now. he's not doing as much as he should be perhaps to reach out and feel what's going on. >> the problem for jeb bush is that he of all people knows that actually running for president is not joyful. also think about this. we covered jeb bush recently when he's given speeches. he's kind of hot and cold. there's a lot of republicans who

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welcome back to "inside politics." house speaker john boehner pushing his caucus now to pass a series of immigration reforms that would include legal status but not a fast track to citizenship for most of the estimated 11 million immigrants here in the united states. some conservatives look at the map this year and they argue acting now could actually hurt the party in the mid-term election year because turning out the conservative base is critical. the more red you see the higher the latino population in these states. now watch this. see the blue lines? those are 11 states senate seats, now held by democrats, that the republicans are targeting. republicans need a net of six, plus six to take the senate majority. look at states where the democrats are. see any red? hardly. a very tiny latino population in these states so the republicans

who say don't act now don't want to anger conservatives in those states. in fact, west virginia, one of the targets, only 1% of the population is latino. north carolina has the highest of those 11 target states with 9%. the conservative argument to the speaker is not this year. we need to turn out our base. he we can worry about latinos later. democrats benefited enormously from the republicans' civil war. but will this put the democrats in a mess of their own? >> it is possible that you might be able to get an immigration reform bill on your desk that has legal status for the millions of undocumented workers in this country but not citizenship. would you veto that? >> i'm not going to prejudge what gets to my desk. >> julie pace, you cover the president every day. is he trying to cause a revolt in his own party or just trying to back off and let the republicans go as far as they can? >> this is a pretty subtle shift from the shift who all last year

said a bill has to have a pathway to citizenship for people here in this country illeg illegally. now he's saying it would mean you could give these people legal status but not a special pathway to citizenship. democrats on the left say we want citizenship. republicans on the right have said we don't want anything at all. president is creating a bit of an opening here. does it clear the way for immigration to move forward on the hill? slightly but i don't think we're there. >> it gives a big "if" to john boehner. luis gutierrez, liberal from chicago, big advocate for immigration reform. on this issue said friday in a conference call that's basically okay with doing legalization. the combination of that and this president saying this gives husband democrats coverage before whatever boehner brings to the floor. this gives boehner space to get a bill passed. president obama has never been a fan of what robert gibbs once

called the professional left. he doesn't care about these advocacy groups. this is a legacy issue for him. he wants to get a big piece of legislation on his desk this term. even if it is sort of half a loaf on immigration, he'll sign it. >> does a policy victory for the the president and legacy victory for the president -- what's the political impact. organized labor doesn't matter as much as it used to but in a mid-term election year it is all for the base. he's going to say the president just took fool's gold? >> it is also the president's staffers. i was at a breakfast this week with an advisor who said we need a pathway to citizenship. jay carney said the same thing but the president is out there. >> president himself has said it in the past. he's actually splitting with himself. >> as a policy matter, you could say this bill creates a legal framework for these people to get some kind of status, green card, but it doesn't actually

prevent them from eventually -- >> both sides would get what they want. >> the president could be backing off because he wants the republicans to keep going. if the president says i'll veto it, then the house conservatives might say forget about it. >> why not fan the flames of an internal fight in the republican party in an election year when they really should be talking about obamacare which is what they wanted to do all this year. instead you'll have all these fractious fights within these primary races with tea party challengers coming up against establishment candidates. i just don't think the president had anything to lose by letting them fight it out. i'm skeptical that anything real will get done this year. >> even if the house passed status, then you have harry reid from nevada on the senate side saying i want citizenship. what did we learn about the president this week? he gives -- this past week? he gives the big state of the union address. he travels the country. it is supposed to be a time when he helps had his agenda and he

helps his party but he goes to wisconsin. the candidate for governor doesn't show up. on the night of the speech, a vulnerable democrat from alaska says sure, mr. president, come see me. not to campaign with me, i want to tell you how wrong you are. mark udall, a gentleman senator from the state of colorado says i don't know if i had's campaign with the president. is he toxic in his own party? is barack obama 2014 george w. bush 2006? >> poll numbers certainly line up with bush at this point in his presidency. i don't think obama is toxic to his party at this point but it will be really interesting to see what his role becomes in 2014. do these candidates want him out there at rallies. do they want him facing voters or does he become the guy had who just goes out and raises money for the party. if that happens then he's increasingly irrelevant in his own party. >> i think what we saw this week is a chastened president who basically admitted in had his state of the union speech that he's not as powerful as he was.

but also i think in 2010, what was said might have explode at the white house. today, they kind of get it. his poll numbers aren't as low as bushes were just now in 2006? but if he's at 43% come november, and democrats are voting 43% of the vote in all of these senate races, it could be a really bad -- >> if you look at the senate map that you showed on the screen, there's not a lot of places this president can go and campaign for his party. he'll do finance events in new york, chicago, d.c., the west coast and guess who's going to be called out of the bull pen to go campaign for democrats around the country? bill and hillary clinton. >> 2010 in ohio, bill clinton and joe biden would be the ones going into youngstown. it wasn't president obama. >> the party has moved on. the activists have looked on. they are looking ahead to

hillary clinton in 2016. end of conversation. >> but in a base election if people are showing disrespect to the african-american president -- >> that's the challenge. >> does the african-american vote? >> that's what we always talk about mid-term. that's going to be the challenge. one key race that democrats think they have a shot to pick up a seat is georgia. there's no path for michelle nunn to win that seat unless she has a sizable turnout in atlanta for african-americans. >> keystone pipeline is something that progressives care deeply about. we saw this week that that might advance trade as an issue that flared a little bit this week. >> he's having to step back what his goals were. what does that mean with latinos? >> he lost 2013. if you read his 2013 state of the union address and all the things he asked for, he got nothing. he's 0 for 2013 for big items. it could be his last legislative year in his party even though it is a big mid-term election.

>> when you talk about the white house, they want democrats to win but they are -- >> sort of. >> -- sort of. they are never really going to put their apibi ambitions aside the party. you have the president saying i want a legacy victory here. they're always going to go with the white house president legacy on this. >> the republican presidential race starts november of this year after the election. so democrats would like this issue -- >> this is the pre-game show? >> the pre-game show's well under way. kind of like the super bowl pre-game show. it lasts hours. >> what's his role then? >> the president? >> yeah. >> well, i think he can raise money for his party. you will see him out there pushing issues like minimum wage, like some of these issues related to women and politics. voting rights.

the so-called affinity issues. in terms of actually going to stump for a bagich in alaska, i'm just skeptical he's going to get those invitations. i think this president has to choose between a democratic majority for his last two years in the senate versus getting some stuff done this year like immigration. >> in this past week the mood among democrats suddenly changed. they always thought they're not going to get the house back. >> you feel it. >> at least the week after the government shutdown. but the senate this past week all of a sudden democrats are saying we're going to lose the senate. >> i think what he was trying to do with women in the state of the union is really important. because if this year he can continue to push those issues that solidify democrats among independent women, they won by huge margins in 2012, then that will be a gift to had his party

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our goal here at inside politics -- keep you ahead of the curve on the big washington and campaign stories so let's take a peek into our reporter's notebook. >> i'm going to go to my favorite state of south carolina, as you guys know. lindsey graham has a problem on the right but he has four challengers in his republican primary this year. none of whom are considered top

tier. i hear he is about to get a fifth, a preacher from colombia, and possibly a sixth. at the same time lindsey and the seven dwarfs in this race. >> that's good news for him. isn't it? >> no. it increases the chance of a run-off and having to run one-on-one. he is vulnerable but no one has the money or juice to beat him yet. >> that's only one of the republican races with the interesting twist. >> president meets with democrats this week. a big part of the meet something planning a strategy for minimum wage unlike the immigration debate. he'll hit the road pretty soon going to states that have taken action raising the minimum wage on their own. >> mitt romney is going to be with the jets owner at the big

game. mitt romney wants to be back in the game. he misses public life. >> how far back in the game, may i ask? >> this is the issue. so he said to our partner at "the new york times," no, no, no, when he was asked about running for a third time for president but i keep hearing from his friends that he is thinking about this and he does not want to totally close the door. >> no way. i don't believe that. >> how much of that though is his friends who want him to run again and how much of that actually is him? there's no question that he's bored and misses it. but does he actually take the plunge for a third time? >> i'm going to say no to that. so this morning, today in new hampshire scott sbroun doibrown the penguin plunge at hampton beach. he's back in new hampshire and internal polling is showing just a few points apart. i think it will be fun to watch

how shaheen starts to distance herself from the president. >> to the point about the georgia senate race, the way the governor is handling the snow has republicans nervous. thanks for sharing your sunday morning with you. watch cnn's exclusive interview with president obama next. "state of the union with candy crowley" starts now. on super bowl sunday, there is no "i" in team. but there is in politics. today, game on. >> wherever i can take steps to expand opportunity to help working families, that's what i'm going to do, with or without congress. >> presidents do not write laws. that's what congress does. >> as house republicans plotted legislative strategy, the president took his one-man show on the road and sat down with cnn's jake tapper for an