one of the things you say in the film is, when people lose a presidential election, when someone loses, branded a loser for life. do you really feel that way? >> well -- >> mitt romney talking about a brand new documentary about his run for president. why couldn't his campaign capture the personal side of mitt? now, this gop in-fighting, is this the worse you've ever seen it? >> no, well, maybe it is. probably. yeah. >> john boehner talks tea party and tanning on "the tonight show." and the cover everyone is talking about, "planet hillary." have the stars aligned for her in 2016? good morning, i'm chris jansing. right now, former governor bob mcdonnell is in front of a federal judge, his first court appearance since taking thousands in gifts and luxury

vacations from a wealthy businessman. his wife will be in court after him next hour. now "the washington post" is reporting mcdonnell turned down a plea deal to face one felony count and spare his wife of any charges, avoid trial. i want to bridge in our company, ari melber, host of msnbc's "the cycle." beth fewy, and bob. good to see both of you. >> good morning. >> here's what's interesting to me. if they take the plea deal, all the secret details, the gifts, the shopping spree would have been kept secret. we wouldn't have even been talking about this. we wouldn't know about the $10,000 oscar de la renta gowns and where they drove the ferrari. so, bob, does this signal to you he really thinks he's going to get off? >> that may be the case. what was not clear to me from the article is what the penalty

would have been in the deal that they were contemplating, but, you know, this is really like a tacky case. the gifts that they were taking and that sort of thing, but i think it's not a slam dunk for the justice department in terms of getting a conviction here, because, one, the laws in virginia are lax on this kind of stuff anyway, so they've charged them under federal statutes, but it's not clear to me what the quid pro quo was. >> that's the issue. >> how did they help out? >> when you read the documents, ari, you don't see there were promises made. i'm sure the strategy could be blame the wife, maureen was the one who wanted the fancy clothes and wanted the accessories. wanted to buy her husband a rolex. does that seem to be a legitimate strategy here? >> it can definitely be legitimate. most of the counts in this indictment are basically saying you gave a general benefit, right, you used the office to

vaguely benefit or provide publicity or honor to this person, and, obviously, you got all these other gifts in return. some of the counts we should mention include an obstruction charge, doesn't always have to be only the original thing they were looking into. as you mention, i interviewed attorney general eric holder about it yesterday. he didn't speak a lot in detail about the case, but he pushed back vigorously on somehow back scratching or favors is routine politics. >> here he's talking about the idea politicians trade their office for personal gain. >> people who are in these positions have the public trust. they have great benefits that go with them in these positions and should be held, i think, to the highest standard. >> there's obviously a legal question we'll continue to talk about, beth, but you wonder is this part of the reason a lot of folks look in this country at government and just assume, frankly, there's corruption going on or quid pro quo going

on? >> certainly. there's not a lot of trust in government right now, but let's face it, politicians do do a lot of favors for benefactors. that's not surprising and most of the time it's not illegal. i think what holder said there is something that americans generally believe and want politicians to uphold. if you have a friend who clearly has a business who wants some favors in front of the government, you don't allow your wife to allow that guy to buy you dresses. it may be that she is the one who wanted the high life and she drove all of this, but he was still the governor. he was the one that had to set the standard for how his family interacted with somebody who wanted business done before the state of virginia. >> this isn't the only thing you talked to eric holder about. also possible clemency for edward snowden, and i want to play that. >> he's a person who is charged, will be charged, with a variety of crimes when he has legal representation and if those lawyers want to talk about a resolution of the case, we

would, obviously, engage in those conversations. >> but that means you haven't ruled it out. >> the notes of clemency, a simple, you know, no harm, no foul, i think that would be going too far, but in the resolution of this matter with an acceptance of responsibility, you know, we would always, you know, engage in those kinds of conversations. >> i find this fascinating, ari. anymore sense of where holder thinks this is going? >> what was striking there is there have been calls from a the lo of sources for amnesty. he was basically saying, no, we are not looking at that at all, and he also said when i questioned him, this debate about whether snowden is a whistle-blower to him is irrelevant. we look at him as a defendant, and emphasized that is the term in the eyes of the justice department. the other piece, though, is when i asked him, well, what about these accusations or questions raised if he was working with a

foreign government. he said, again, he's not going to comment on that off the record or background. so what we see to your question is, edward snowden is not going to get any kind of easy deal or help from the united states, but they are looking for some way, if possible, to get him into a plea and they say they would do that with a lot of things. >> he did this online chat yesterday, edward snowden did, and he also said he acted alone, but he said, it's unfortunately not possible, talking about coming back to the u.s., in the face of current whistle-blower protection laws, but he said not all spying was bad. his problem was with the government seizing billions of what he calls innocent communications, but what's the future for him, he just hangs out in russia the next 20 years? >> it's very much in the interest of the u.s. government to get snowden back here. i am very much pro snowden, but he did violate the law.

i mean, i can't imagine amnesty happening. i don't think that's in the cards, so i think it comes down to a question of penalty, what kind of penalty are you talking about? why would he come back for a long prison term? my best guess, looking far into the future, is that they figure out some kind of way that he acknowledges he violated the law and then he does some time, but not an extensive amount of time. >> one more thing, ari, you talked to holder about is the president's comments of pot being as dangerous as alcohol and the move away from prosecuting private users of marijuana. i want to play that. >> i think the positions that we're taking in terms of setting up those eight priorities that would warrant federal intervention are consistent with what the president said. small time, small amount of marijuana cases are not the kinds of things that deserve to be in the federal system. >> we're seeing this movement,

beth, for example in colorado they are talking about setting up banking systems so that they can legitimately do their business and not be carrying around thousands of dollars in cash, which is something we've been hearing about. the president's comments, now eric holder's comments. is what we're seeing kind of a fundamental shift in the way this country's going to deal with marijuana? >> i think so, particularly on this issue of banking. if the administration is going to give tacit approval for banks to allow money to be regulated through our banking system, that is a step toward legalization. it must just be acknowledged. that is taking the commerce of our country, the official regulations, and allowing it to be applied to what was once an illegal substance, but to remember in the same interview where president obama said he thought that marijuana was no more dangerous than alcohol, he did say there was a slippery slope he was concerned about. do you get to the point you start saying, well, you know, cocaine in this amount or crack, they've got a problem here. they can take it so far as with marijuana as eric holder just

said, but at what point does this give way to other controlled substances? >> chris, we were having this conversation with the attorney general at a veterans' drug court in roanoke, the second such court in the country, and there was some moving testimony there yesterday that the attorney general wanted to highlight of veterans that struggled with substance abuse and his point is these veterans who serve and come back, if they have a personal problem, a social problem, we should first try to treat it that way and use incarceration as a last resort. and he likened that to the approach to marijuana, if it falls outside of some of those more dangerous priorities that he mentioned. really what he was saying is this president is opened arms to reflect what they are already trying to do on the ground enforcement. >> it's always great to have all of you here. thank you. of course, you can catch ari's full interview with eric holder today, 3:00, on "the cycle" here on msnbc. this morning there are new terror threats against the olympic games in sochi, russia,

that appear to be coming from a known branch of al qaeda. a chilling video has surfaced online with another threat to the winter games, now just two weeks away. it features an iz lammic militant that refers to the games as the devil olympics and mocks russia's response to recent bombings. mitt romney says there has never been an olympics where there has been so many targeted, specific threats. >> in order to protect an area as large at sochi, you need to have extraordinarily intel work and that's what happened to our games that gave me confidence they'd be safe. now and then we'll hear reports of an individual they are looking for, that suggests they have pretty good intelligence. all in all, it seems to be a very effective security program, but again, no 100% guarantee. >> romney said he would, however, have no concerns over taking his family to sochi. checking the news feed this morning, three explosions rocked cairo this morning, all

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at the meeting where republicans were planning to chart a new course to win over women voters, instead, a controversy democrats are already using to raise money.

mike huckabee sparked a passionate debate thursday while giving the keynote at the rnc's winter meeting. >> that the democrats want to insult the women of america by making them believe they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or reproductive system without the help of the government, so be it. >> the associated press says the comments are, "gift for dems." it didn't take long to send out fundraising e-mails. reaction has been intense. >> sensitivity training on how to talk to women has been an issue they have to work on. when you say it's about a women's libido, you might as well call them a slut. >> i guess i'm stunned, but at the same time it's so bizarre. >> what's more important, lawrence, is not what he said, but what he believes, that is that women don't deserve access to birth control. >> they are going to do everything in their power to just beat the drum of

repression. i don't know what else to say. >> let me bring in democratic congresswoman gwen moore. good morning, congresswoman. >> good morning. >> i don't know if you saw, we just saw, but there was a response tweeted out by reince priebus to what mike huckabee said. "i don't know what he was talking about, sort of a goofy way of using some phrases. not the way i would have phrased it." and other republicans are distancing themselves. i want to play some new reaction from the heads of the tennessee and mississippi republican parties. >> i wasn't offended, but my point is, it's distracting. >> i would not have talked about that. i'd talk about the economy. >> your reaction? >> well, let me say, chris, it doesn't matter, reince priebus saying he wouldn't have said it that way. the point is, is that as i serve in congress, we are dealing with trying to preserve a women's

reproductive freedom every single day. i mean, just the last year in 22 states, there were over 17 antireproductive choice bills in states, and certainly, as we go back to congress, next week we're going to be dealing with bills that, you know, forbid women to get abortions, even if they use their own money under the affordable care act. just let me say, it's really disappointing. i mean, you expect shock jocks like rush limbaugh to say stuff like this, but reverend, governor, former presidential candidate, it is very alarming and it's very threatening. and these ad homanym to women, they are a threat to women all over this country. >> well, you mention the attacks, i want to bring up a

few other things that have been said just very recently. gop congressman pierce made headlines, he said the wife is to voluntarily submit to her husband. richard black has dropped out of the congressional race in virginia, but not without questioning whether marital rape should be a crime. to be fair, in all of these cases, including yesterday, there are republicans who have seriously questioned and even pushed back against these statements, so i guess the question has to be asked, are they really representative of the republican party as a whole? >> well, you know, if they are not representative of the republican party as a whole, i'd like to see that reflected, you know, in their platform, in the kind of legislation that they put forward, and comments like i wouldn't have said it quite like that means that you sort of agree with it, but you'd have thought of a different way to

say it. you know, women are capable of becoming pregnant for 30, 40 years of their lives. and birth control was -- is listed as one of the top ten public health miracles of the 20th century. and to suggest that women are lewd and lascivious and can't control their libidos because they are being responsible in their reproductive choices, again, is extremely threatening, chris. >> is it also in some ways, look, obviously, there are people who share these opinions. i was looking at cecile richards, who came out in defense of mike huckabee. she's head of concerned women for america. and she said, "the president and others have profited politically from the false narrative that women are weak and need big government to be our savior."

if you want to look at this in another light, is it good to get the debate out there, because i think a lot of folks figured, yes, the abortion question was still out there, but birth control kind of still wasn't on the table, and it does seem to be and maybe the debate needs to be out there, people need to understand what the questions are. >> well, you know, we had gotten to a point where even if you've disagreed with a woman's right to choose an abortion, i mean, 99% of women of reproductive age have used birth control. it's the responsible thing and the healthy thing for women to do, not only for their own bodies, but for their families. and i wasn't quite sure, chris, about that quote about cecile richards. >> i'm sorry, it was penny nance. let me just correct that. >> i was going to say, doesn't sound like the cecile richards i know. >> penny nance. >> i think, you would think that

the narrative that republicans have forwarded since ronald reagan that you have these welfare queens that have 80 different addresses and so on and so forth, you would think they would want to err on the side of women being responsible and not 40 years of the span of her welfare capability. and i think, again, shock jock rush limbaugh calling someone a slut is one thing. when you have reverend huckabee, it's a little bit more concerning to me and to many women out there. it is very exhausting to day in, day out, to fight these battles, and it just goes to show that there is this sort of caveman perspective on women's role in

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much-talked about has fire power circling her orbit and potential 2016 bid. the obama political operation that helped end her 2008 ambitions, priorities usa action, the nation's largest democratic super pac, now backing clinton. you heard it here first yesterday. and as "the new york times" puts it today, that gives her enormous early advantages in money, expertise, and voter targeting techniques. let's bring in tracy sefl, we're also joined by republican strategist danny vargas. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> tracy, your group caught attention when you announced you raised $4 million last year. now you've got priorities usa action joining the party essentially. how's it going to work? >> well, it's exciting, for starters. ready for hillary has reinvented the super pac with its focus on

grassroots organizing and capping donations on what some circles think is a low dollar amount, so what priorities usa will do is a division of labor. ready for hillary will focus on grassroots organizing. and together, there's a lot of energy, there's a lot of concerted strategy, and it's not too soon, because we know everything's changed for this campaign. there will be new tools, new efforts, so as many people as we can get involved, the better. >> danny, is she right, it's not too soon, and what does that mean for the republicans? >> i tell you what, one thing i have learned over the years is there is no thing as a sure thing in politics, but this is as close to a coordination as i've seen. coming out this early without being an incumbent is astonishing and priorities usa has got not just the money capability, but also the nano targeting expertise.

it's going to make hillary a formidable candidate, so it's not necessarily a baa-da-bing moment, but as close as we can get to it. for republicans, it's important to know we've got to get a candidate as soon as possible. if i were reince priebus, i'd be focusing like a laser on having a primary process as early, as condensed, as short as we can make it so we can have our nominee out in front collecting money. my prediction is this will be a $3 billion campaign. if 2012 was a $2 billion campaign, 2016 will be a $3 billion campaign. >> "the new york times" raised an important question, whenever there's a positive, there can also be a negative, and this is what "the new york times said." "how can clinton, which is 66, think about anything but her frougt personal and political pass? how can she present herself as someone willing to serve rather

than someone entitled to office?" >> i want to point out something very directly that many people are saying and saying probably even as this program is airing, and that's what do we know about what a candidate clinton would be about? what about the issues? what would it be? and i raise that question, because all of the organizing that's happening on the super pac side can be solely focused on the organizing side, and what that means is a potential candidate, hillary clinton, is free to figure all of that out on her own and on her own time table. i think it's, again, a lovely division of labor. >> and if we're looking at what you suggest might be a $3 billion campaign, and i've heard suggestions it might be even above that, the rnc put out a fundraising appeal asking for contributions of $16 to help fight what it called the clinton machine in 2016. that's a lot of $16 dollars to

get to $3 billion. >> that's right, that's right. that's a lot of money that's got to get raised, and there's a lot of time to do it. i think the fact that we've got a couple of years to be able to work towards what might be an inevitable hillary clinton as the nominee for the democratic party gives us time to raise the money, make sure the messaging is accurate and we can identify all the things we know about hillary in terms of things we're going to be targeting to make sure our candidate, our nominee, has all of the arrows in his or her kit to be able to use them. it's going to be a phenomenal race in 2016. whoever the republican nominee is going to have a lot of potential to take on hillary, especially since she's going to be getting attacked from the left, as well. >> danny vargas, tracy sefl, thanks to both of you. breaking news we got out of federal court in richmond, virginia. former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife were released on their own recognizance. the couple now headed to an

arraignment at 11:00 a.m. on 14 corruption charges. the former governor was reportedly calm and smiling in court. he held his wife's hand, got a thumbs up from his daughters, and thanked the media before the hearing began. six years of extraordinary access to mitt romney is giving us an unprecedented inside look at a failed campaign for president, as well as an intimate look at his life and family like never before. "mitt" is raising the question of how an hour and a half documentary can show a man that a billion dollar campaign maybe didn't. here's what mr. romney said about it this morning on "today." >> there were some scenes i wish he wouldn't have included. there are a couple of scenes where we're praying, for instance, and i knew he was in the room, but i didn't think he was actually filming during our prayer, but he just captured everything and then put it together. it's kind of an unusual -- i don't think anyone in the world of politics before had cameras follow them around, and so they put together a film that's not

political, it's more personal and family oriented. >> nbc's peter alexander joins me now. you, of course, covered the mitt romney campaign. from your perspective is this more personal or a historical record of a campaign? >> the family was welcome to the experience. this goes back to 2006 they started shooting. the access is unheard of, and i think what really strikes you when you watch this documentary, chris, is it really is a contrast to that sort of robotic caricature, the cardboard caricature in some ways, stiff as he was described, stilted mitt romney. you literally are with him in some of his toughest, most painful moments when they find out they have lost, you're in that room. >> let me ask you about that, because it is one of the most talked about moments, election night. can we play that? >> well, if you go back and look at people who have run and don't go back to the senate or haven't

been a vice president in the past, but just run and lose, they pretty much go off the stage and that's probably as it ought to be, but i'm not worried about that. i have plenty of time with my kids. >> i just can't believe you're going to lose. >> yeah, yeah. >> so what do you think to say in a concession speech? >> it's like a 15-second clip and it's so painful. i remember from election night, peter, coming to find you. >> we were together. >> and the reason was, i just talked to romney folks and they told me i was going to win. i said, peter, do they think they are going to win, and you said to me, chris, they honestly believe they are going to win. this was, like, that afternoon. >> no, it was intoxicating, those final days of the campaign, we, and i was traveling with them, was showing up in locations governor romney had never been before to massive crowds. they got caught up in this and really believed they were going

to win that night, and the documentary literally hours before you see him trying to come up with a concession speech, he's preparing and practicing his remarks anticipating that he would have won. chris, by the way, they thought about releasing this documentary, greg whitely, who got the unprecedented access, who by the way is also mormon, in 2010 after the first campaign. he had a rough cut ready. the family thought it's not so bad, booed we'd be open to it, but one of the advisers didn't want it. >> because of the mormon position? >> too much from the issues of faith and politics. >> fun to see you again, peter, off the campaign trail, and it is called "mitt." peter alexander, thank you. 30 years ago today steve jobs revolutionized the tech world. >> at apple computer's annual meeting, apple founder and chairman steven jobs unpacked mcintosh.

mcintosh is apple's latest bid to take a bite out of ibm's lead in personal computers. a field pioneered by apple. >> wow, what a flashback and what a ride it's been for apple. >> i know. i noticed he called him steven jobs. you're right, 30 years ago today the first mac was introduced to the world and it was revolutionary. many of the devices we use today like the iphone drew inspiration from the original mac, and i think what was really revolutionary here, chris, it allowed you to navigate with an interface as opposed to physically type in commands and you had the options arranged in menus, we started to click on icons that resembled things in our real life like the trash can. the mac didn't invent all of these things, but there must be credit to companies like xerox, but sort of put it into the mainstream. as for the price, the mac was

$2,495 in 1984. in today's dollars, chris, that is $7,053. that's a lot of money. >> there are a lot of people out there so addicted to mac they'd pay it anyway. >> the apple lisa, that was about $10,000. by contrast, it was considered quite low. >> cnbc's mandy drury, thank you so much. next week, seven new domains will join dot com. the first of hundreds to become available over the next few years, get ready,.bike ready,.bike, .guru, .clothing, . holdings, .plumbing, .ventures. a link to more is up on msnbc..com.

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phone, and that's all i need, because with a pen -- [ applause ] -- with a pen, i can take executive actions, with a phone i can rally folks from around the country to help grow the economy and restore opportunity. >> expect to hear more talk like that and one of the things he's talking about is the minimum wage. from the president in the state of the union speech next week, we are expecting a lot on that. look at the numbers since july 2009, the minimum wage has been $7.50 an hour, even as more and more workers are trying to support themselves and families on the minimum wage. most of those workers are centered in the south and already 23 states have a minimum wage higher than the federal government's. the highest is $9.32 an hour in washington state and now the mayor of seattle wants to boost that to $15 an hour in his city. ed murray is the newly elected mayor of seattle who sat in on those remarks from the president last night.

good morning, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> well, let me ask the obvious question, $15 an hour, it seems high to some people. what would that mean for the people of seattle? >> well, i've convened a group of business and labor leaders who are looking at this issue so we can understand how we can raise the minimum wage in a way that won't hurt business, but actually help business. you know, if people have a higher wage, they spend money on microwave or a toaster, and that stimulates an economy, so we think this is a net plus for business. >> well, i want to play what a couple of business owners in seattle have said about your proposed minimum wage. >> goes without saying that i would have to raise my prices. >> $15, wow, that just seems really high. is it going to help people shop, is it going to help, you know, people with more money in their pockets, or will it bring unemployment up? >> look, i know you've had these conversations, so what do you say to those business owners? >> seattle is a successful city,

its economy is doing great, and one of the by-products of that is becoming less and less affordable, so that people who work hard in seattle can't live there often or can't afford to live there, so if we don't address issues of wages and housing, we'll simply become a city of the very rich, and i don't think that's good for the business environment at all. i think we can do this in a way that will help business, not hurt business. i think we need to be sensitive particularly to small businesses, but i do think that we have to be a city that is economically diverse. >> well, look, i think it is also fair to say that not all minimum wage jobs are in the private sector. your proposal would raise wages for about 600 city employees and the numbers i've seen is it would cost seattle about $700,000 a year. so how have you worked out that cost-benefit analysis? >> so, we are going to proceed, and we have counsel support for those employees, 600 out of

about 11,000 who make less than $15 to increase it to $15. we can do that under our current budget, and we plan to proceed in the next few months to do that. >> i know a lot of other cities will be looking closely at seattle to see how this goes there, and you may be leading the way on that. did you get a lot of questions yesterday at the meeting with all those other mayors? >> sure, i'm not the only city or mayor looking at this issue. we've discussed it, the president brought up the issue when we met with the president around the minimum wage, around stimulating our economy. so there's a lot of interest in this issue. >> and i have to ask you on a completely different topic about the picture on your twitter feed, you and the mayor of denver last night at the white house, you both look just so fierce there. obviously, psyched up for the super bowl, so did you guys make a bet? >> we have not made a bet yet, so stay tuned. >> what are you thinking about, what does seattle have that you might offer? in the unlikely chance that you

should wllose? >> we bet donuts from top donuts in seattle, molly moon ice cream, we bet chocolate from theo's chocolate in seattle, so i'm not sure what's next. we're talking about it. >> no pot bet being made? that's the running joke, mayor. >> no, it's not going to be pot. >> okay. mayor ed murray of seattle, good luck next sunday and thank you so much for coming on. >> thanks. to politics now where speaker john boehner appeared on the tonight show with jay leno. he said gop in-fighting was the worst it's ever been. he also said no way, no how, he'd run for president. >> listen, i like to play golf, i like to cut my own grass, you know, i do drink red wine, i smoke cigarettes, and i'm not giving that up to be president of the united states. and such. works for me. turn to the camera.

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we're keeping an eye on the rnc meeting. reince priebus making topics on 2014, income equality, obamacare, fundraising for the party and rallying the troops for the next election. we'll have more on the convention throughout the day. relief appears to be in sight for hundreds of students who attend a new jersey high school, but is literally crumbling in the shadows of the state capitol. a spokesman for governor chris christie says he now supports a plan to build a brand new school in trenton after students and teachers complained their current 80-year-old building is rotting, unhealthy, and unsafe. i want to get the details from nbc's ron allen. you were there, you saw all of this, and it's two miles away from the capitol. >> exactly, we've been looking at this school for the better part of two months and i think it's fair to say there's few parents in america who would want their kids to go to a school like this. it is the main high school for the capital city in the state of

new jersey, in the shadow of the capitol building, just two miles away. >> a 80-year-old building with a once grand facade. inside, some 1,800 students and teachers work in shocking conditions. they call the stairwell the water fall. during heavy rain, it pours. a secretary protects herself from the stench and grime in this file room. near a cooking class, caution signs, the ceiling in this adjoining room collapsed. bridget's art class is beneat a restroom. >> whenever the boy's bathroom floods or leaks, i start to hear the pitter patter and know to brace myself. >> and there's the storage area. >> i can smell the dead mice in the wall. >> you can smell dead mice in the wall? >> yeah. >> recent health and safety citations charge serious repeat violations, leaks, falling plaster, exposed electrical outlets and fixtures. over 100 violations in recent years, according to a court

complaint. repairs have been made, but teachers like annie coleman insist the mold problem in her classroom keeps coming back. she took these pictures in september. >> it was really bad, caused me headaches. the kids in the classroom, they had headaches. >> trenton school officials have sued, claiming health and safety hazards threaten students and staff on a daily basis and demand immediate repairs. >> we stand before you begging for help. >> the community accuses lawmakers at the capitol less than two miles away of turning a blind eye. they say governor christie has been publicly asked to visit. he has not. >> i don't ever want students to get comfortable and think this is okay and think this is normal and think this is acceptable. >> it's embarrassing to go into another school and it's like, you guys have this, you have this, you have this? >> now, perhaps a breakthrough, as christie spoke at another embattled school, confirmation he will support a plan to build a new high school in trenton.

>> this is one of a few times a television camera has been allowed inside the school during a school day. i went there a couple times, i was really overwhelmed. >> why now? did this exposing of it -- >> i don't want to be that self indulgent, but a lot of people in trenton thought our asking questioned helped. the christie administration has a lot of other problems, perhaps this is something they can do, and ultimately, there was a change of leadership in the state agency responsible for this school and people at the school said when he came to visit, he was just a different person, he was a father, just had a different vibe about him and maybe he just felt it. >> yeah, i don't know how you can look at that and not feel like that's not how kids should go to school. ron allen, some great reporting. thank you. that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing and co." alex witt is up next. [ sneezes ]

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