that's where we are now. >> bill thompson why is that significant? >> could derail the farm bill. if they can't come to agreement you may not have a farm bill. the dairy producers the corn producers, the soy bane producers are all looking for reforms and -- soybean producers are all looking for reforms. we all had a drought last year, this could derail. this could have to extend further the old way of doing things. and a lot of people don't like where that would be going. >> why -- go ahead allison. >> i was going to say, one thing people don't realize speaking of strange bed fellows, is corporate interest and snap are intertwined. who does that ultimately benefit? it is really a tax subsidy a large tax subsidy for the large retailers like walmart and kroger, as well as even j.p. morgan chase who administrators snam -- administers snap k the abt program. food and farm issues being inter29ed, the majority of us don't realize how much snap is really benefiting corporate agriculture. >> bill thompson if no agriculture bill gets passed this month, what happens to the program? >> it wi

this time, bill thompson came in far behind bill de blasio. could have possibly forced a run-off if he challenged the vote count that had de blasio a hair above 40%. instead, bill thompson said this. >> bill de blasio and i want to move our city forward in the same direction. we share the fundamental same views and values. this is bigger than either one of us. and the best way to guarantee that we improve our schools, save our hospitals, create good jobs, protect our people, and their rights. is to come together. the path to getting there -- begins with bill de blasio walking through the doors as the next mayor of the city of new york. >> a classy last hooray. the rewrite is next! but going back to school is hard... because you work. now, capella university offers a revolutionary new way to get your degree. it's called flexpath and it's the most direct path, leveraging what you've learned on the job and focusing on what you need to know so you can get a degree at your pace. and graduate at the speed of you. flexpath from capella university lea

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bill thompson was second, and christine quinn is also battling to force a runoff. us from new york to discuss this issue is sarah, and still with us in washington, paul singer of usa today. sarah, bill de blasio pulled ahead, how much of a surprise is this? >> we knew from the beginning there was going to be christine quinn, and antichri antichrist -- anti-christine quinn. after anthony weiner became sort of a joke, that has fallen on bill dee -- belaws you. >> how is he appealing to the progressives in new york city? >> the public advocate is a weird office in new york, they call it the city ombudsman, so we had a big fight, you probably heard something about this, about the police department's stop and frisk policy, that really came to a head recently with a big vote in the city council to overturn bloomberg's veto on a couple of bills that they are calling the community safety act that will be changing the way the police can't brits. debladio has come out hard for those bills. he has been talk about inquestion tallty, public housing, poverty, he was asked if the

i'm with bill thompson who i think will be the next mayor. >> bill de blasio is bringing attention tos brought attention to stop and frisk. i think, in fact, if bill thompson was elected mayor four years ago, we wouldn't be talking about it today because thompson as mayor would have stopped it and will stop it. and make sure that it's utilized appropriately and not inappropriately. it's something being reported on largely right now. this is something bill thompson has been focused on for a long period of time. he knows he's lived it every day. if you've been an african-american male in any city, you know about stop and frisk. >> why do you think de blasio is ahead of thompson in the polls when thompson barely lost to bloomberg last time? >> i think there will be a runoff this time. and people will focus on the issues that are important. i think there were a lot of distractions in this campaign. when you talk about the candidates on both -- on a number of graces. so i think those distractions took new yorkers away from issues. and on the runoff we'll be focused on two candidates and is

i find it interesting that bill thompson, who almost defeated mayor bloomberg, you know, does not havey. why did bill de blasio do so well? >> i think that bill de blasio brilliantly showed us his family and who he is. dante was a giant factor. and i have to tell you, living in minnesota and being a giant paul wellstone person, when i was in the room last night at the victory party, i haven't felt the paul wellstone energy with any candidate until i did with bill de blasio last night. >> well, and having a young son who, by -- to the -- is african-american, makes the stop and frisk thing is very, very personal. and bill thompson, while he said he was going to change and adjust stop and frisk, came out against those two bills the city council passed. you can't be -- against stop and frisk but then against these bills that the city council passed to do something about it. the mayor vetoed the council then overrode the veto. that was deadly. >> could he win on stop and frisk alone? a big part of his campaign on that and get it done? >> yes. that for me was one of the big issues. and i thi

>> if bill thompson gets in the run off i believe he can beat him.eil: not going to happen. >> i am not saying, that a lot of people thought spitzer would win, i would say joe lhota is a republican candidate, a capable man, his best chance of beating any of these folks would be bill deblasio but his real name is wilwilwert wilhelm. neil: when we come back. >> i know that god told me, we are our brother's keeper, we are our sister's keeper, the labor movement is your brother's keeper, the labor movement is your sister's keeper, as we work together we will build a better america. [ male announcer ] these days, a small business can save by sharing. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ male announcer ] ...office space. yes, we're loving this communal seating. it's great. [ male announcer ] the best thing to share? a data plan. at&t mobile share for business. one bucket of data for everyone on the plan, unlimited talk and text on smart phones. now, everyone's in the spirit of sharing. hey, can i borro

(cheers and applause) now weiner's response was echoed by fellow candidates christine queen, bill thompson and sal albany who said what are we nut, of course i would have stopped. we can't just go running over kittens. (laughter) can't, sal, or won't? because there's one politician out there with the courage to grease our tracks with cat babies. republican joe lhota whose campaign when asked about the kittens responded that lhota does not think it's appropriate to shut down an entire train line for an extended period for this purpose. folks this is a shrewd political move. think about it, lhota is the only pro dead kitten candidate in this race. or any race. and i say he should run with this. what better way to grab attention than with yard signs that say joe lhota dead kittens. (laughter) i mean all these other candidates are just going to split prot kitten voters leaving joe to sweep up in the key anti-kitten demographic of sociopath, rats large enough to vote and alf. and these, these two troublemakers named august and arthur had it coming. they call this a major transportation delay in

>> if bill thompson gets in the run off i believe he can beat him.l: not going to happen. >> i am not saying, that a lot of people thought spitzer would win, i would say joe lhota is a republican candidate, a capable man, his best chance of beating any of these folks would be bill deblasio but his real name is wilwilwert wilhelm. neil: when we come back. >> i know that god told me, we are our brother's keeper, we are our sister's keeper, the labor movement is your brother's keeper, the labor movement is your sister's keeper, as we work your sister's keeper, as we work gether w with fidelity's options platform, we've completely integrated every step of the process, making it easier to try filters and strategies... to get a list of equity options... evaluate them with our p&l calculator... and execute faster with our more intuitive trade ticket. i'm greg stevens, and i helped create fidelity's options platform. it's one more innovative reason seris investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. like carpools... polly

very close to 40% he would need to avoid a run off with kristine quinn, and bill thompson, anthonyeinerssentially took himself out of it, revelation came further sexting he admitted to. >> eliot spitzer does not look like he will be city controller tonight. trailing scott stringer, right now, stringer benefitting from big union support getting a boost from female voters, manhattan borough president on his way for the nod. in this city, if you are a democrat have you a big edge, but not all of the time. bloomberg, a depend now. but after 12 years of running city as moderate to a liberal shows how tough it is for a republican to win here, but rudy giuliani did it. that means republican race too close to call, frontrunner would appear to be bill deblasio as very liberal guy to beat, he called for clamping down on investment banks and hiking taxes on the rich, a familiar left prescription that left wall street community shaking in its boots, one tonic that their favorite nemesis, eliot spitzer does not look bound for city controller office. >> back to syria and your tweets, no money. >> sti

very close to 40% he would need to avoid a run off with kristine quinn, and bill thompson, anthony weinerssentially took himself out of it, revelation came further sexting he admitted to. >> eliot spitzer does not look like he will be city controller tonight. trailing scott stringer, right now, stringer benefitting from big union support getting a boost from female voters, manhattan borough president on his way for the nod. in this city, if you are a democrat have you a big edge, but not all of the time. bloomberg, a depend now. but after 12 years of running city as moderate to a liberal shows how tough it is for a republican to win here, but rudy giuliani did it. that means republican race too close to call, frontrunner would appear to be bill deblasio as very liberal guy to beat, he called for clamping down on investment banks and hiking taxes on the rich, a familiar left prescription that left wall street community shaking in its boots, one tonic that their favorite nemesis, eliot spitzer does not look bound for city controller office. >> back to syria and your tweets, no money. >> sti

bill thompson conceded the democratic primary to bill blaz i don't. he now faces joe lhota. the daly family dynasty is coming to an end in illinois. at least for now. former white house chief of staff bill daley is ending his campaign for governor. he says he didn't get a sense of the enormity of running for office up he got in it. >>> senator mike enzi is hitting hard at liz cheney. he says cheney's opposition to a military strike in syria is a flip-flop. he says i try to stay a bit who are consistent than that. >>> former secretary of homeland security john aetna poeith jane soon be living large. california has leased a home for her, its price nearly $10,000 a month. that's about $3,000 less than the current leader. >>> well, he has spoken. on monday pope francis encouraged the faithful to be politically active. his holiness says good citizens could not be uninterested in politics. >>> and starting today, you can get your hands on a dozen luxury items once owned by jesse jackson jr.. among other things, the marshall service is auctioning off fur coats and caping as well as

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bill thompson, 32 per vote and interestingly enough last but not least the winner bill de blasio, $20er vote. >>> it appears george zimmerman may have dodged another legal bullet as prosecutors struggle to build a domestic abuse case against him in the attack against his wife and father allegedly. they were banking on obtaining from an ipad at the scene. that may not happen according to authorities. >> at this point we do not have the tools available to effectively look at the video on the ipad. as it stands right now there will not be any charges any time soon without that ipad and that could be again week, months away. >> now, according to shellie zimmerman's divorce to end with a whimper, not a bang. >>> they made a stunning confession online he killed a man in a drink driving accident. >> my name is matthew cordle. and on june 22nd, 2013 i hit and killed vincent canzani. this video will act as my confession. when i get charged, i will plead guilty and take full responsibility for everything i've done to vincent and his family. >> ironically despite that promise matthew cordle plea

he might have more than the 40% of the vote that would avoid a runoff against bill thompson. thompson, though, has not conceded. in his victory speech promised a sharp turn away from mayor michael bloomberg's policy sdmrgs tonight, before so many friends, i say this, what we have achieved here tonight and what we'll do in the next round of this campaign won't just change the view of how things look inside city hall, but will change the policies that have left behind so many of our fellow new yorkers outside of city hall. [ applause ] >> on the republican side, joe lhota won his primary. meanwhile, former governor eliot spitzer, he got thumbs down from voters for this race for the city comptroller. scott stringer scoring the victory there. >>> a major victory for gun right supporters to tell you about in a battle that pitted michael bloomberg against the national rifle association. two colorado democrats were kicked out of office in a recall election. the two state senators provided crucial support for a tough, new gun control law. the nra said the election sends a clear messa

quinn's fall moved former city comptroller bill thompson in to seconds place, he was the democratic nomineeo but lost to bloomberg. this year he has worked to win votes in the city's black and his tan i can communities and plays up his strong ties to unions. >> it's time to stop blaming and start changing. >> reporter: trailing badly are current city comp troller john lu who had two campaign workers convicted in an illegal fundraising scheme and former congressman anthony weiner who left capitol hill after a sexting scandal. each could play the role the spoiler. wean's captain has been about punctuated by fights with the public not. >> i don't take my judgment to you jo judge you. >> you are a bad example. >> reporter: joe who used to run the city's buzz and subway system boasts of his backing from former mayor rudolph june i ajulianne a. giuliani. >> fifteen dollars to cross a bridge? what was joe thinking? >> reporter: the most open and most competitive race new york has seen in years. and during bloomberg's three terms in offers at city hall, new york has changed. >> new york has become

moving bill thompson into second place. he was a democratic nominee fou% years ago but lost to bloomberg. this year he has work invoke the black and hispanic communities. >> it's time to stop blaming and start changing. >> trailing bad loi is john lou, who had two campaign workers convicted and former congressman anthony weiner, who left capitol hill after a session -- sexting scandal. on the republican side, joe loda takes his backing from former mayor giuliani. they have tried to turn that against him. >> $16 to cross a bridge? what was joe thinking? >> reporter: it is the most open competitive race new york has seen in years, and during bloomberg's three terms in office, new york has changed. >> new york has become increasingly diverse since the last several mayor alecions we have seen. now we are seeing issues that we haven't seen maintain as much voting power in the past. >> reporter: all of this seems to have failed to energize voters. turnout is expected to be light. of the city's 8 million voters only half are regis

not a surprise that the so-called bill de blasio surged to lead over christine quinn and bill thompsonanken and farai. >> i'm the only mayor at the table. >> you're seeking higher office, seeking to be governor. in both cases, being a mayor of a diverse state, how do you governor for all the people? >> i think it's a very good question. you know, allentown i think is pretty much a melting pot like a lot of other cities are. 50% minority population, 40% latino, 12% african-american, large syrian population, turkish, indian population, caucasian population. and i am definitely the minority in my city. yet i've been elected two terms. i'm running for my third term, hope to be elected there. when you look at the issues affecting urban areas, have you to look at that people just want to see some change. they don't want gridlock, republican way, democratic way, they want to make sure whoever is in charge actually cares about them. they want good sales, safe streets. it doesn't matter what race you are as long as you're being able to give them solutions to those problems affecting them on a d

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he has 40.33% of the vote and bill thompson at 20%.e on thompson who said he won't decide until official results are tallied. it is unlikely to happen until next week at the earliest, but as thompson's vow to press on as campaign chair told the times that blazio won a victory and said i don't think there is much appetite to have a fight here. the biggest story of the mayor's race is not the fight and not even sleazy come, sleazy go. i love that post wording on that one. the dismal failure of both of those guys to stage their come backs, but the guy who made the anti-bloomberg candidate is the who won decisively. >> i want to tell you a little bit about bill deglassio. he is the only democrat with the guts to break from the bloomberg years. >> now that he is close to avoiding a run off, ploom berg inserted himself into the rice in a way that fuelled the momentum with his bizarre comments about a racist campaign. it's clear that bloomberg fatigue was one of the driving forces and arguably the collapse of christine quinn perceived as clos

>> well, i assusupported bill thompson last time against mike bloomberg as well as this time. , also. worked with us in gracie, in city hall. and his wife was one of my speech writers and worked in the press office. she made me sound intelligent. so i'm delighted. and i think he'll be a fine mayor. >> and one of the issues that a lot of the democratic candidates for mayor in new york talked about during the primary season was the fact that new york city is now slowly becoming a city exclusively for the ultra rich. it's an issue of helping the middle class survive and that's really an issue we're seeing nation we'd. what are your thoughts on that, in helping the middle class to be able to make wages that they can live on so they can survive in this city and across the country? >> i think it's imperative that we do. we can't long survive as a nation if we don't care about the least among us. this is an observation dr. king made a long timinge ago. so it is important. and it can be done. moreover, the failure to take care of people who are poor, who need our help, really costs us

bill thompson and yet here is the white guy in the field who is benefiting the most. a point that michael bloomberg made poorly and may have been the final nail in the coffin for anyone to catch. >> there was no doubt about that. the typography is not like that. among african-americans, ready of anthony wiener among jewish voters. he is getting the opponents and then again, that's why new york is new york. we have big things happened in new york. >> one of the things, bloomberg is more unpopular and how much being associated as the anti-bloomberg candidate. >> that's very helpful to him and hurtful to christine quinn. she had the counsel and she the incumbent with bloomberg to try to distance herself. bill deblasio is ahead. even among most voters. >> that's for sure. does he cross the 40% mark? that's what you do. >> he's the front-runner. >>>. >> the mayoral hopeful. the current city with christine quinn will be thomas roberts. coming up next, a deep dive into another mayor. a dozen candidates are fighting to replace boston. the 50th anniversary of the president of

degree the democratic primary to run for mayor of new york city after the second-place challenger bill thompson conceded the race and endorsed a monday. bill de blasio ran on a progressive platform to replace outgoing mayor muckle bloomberg, criticizing his support for the police tactic of stop and frisk them down to take on growing inequality between the rich and poor. bill de blasio will face republican candidate joe lhota. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. 13 people died when a former navy reservist opened fire on a naval base and washington, d.c. on monday, killing 12 people and wounding several others before dying in a shootout with police. the gunman had been identified as aaron alexis, 34-year-old who have been arrested at least twice in the past for shooting related incidents. he got security grants danger the washington navy yard. he was discharged from the navy reserve in 2011, following what offic

over christine quinn and bill thompson. >> combination of policing and issues, race, equality.o cared most about housing, went for de blasio. we have a fairly large black electorate in the city. 28% of democrats who voted to define themselves. they split 42-42. that was not the case down ballot. spitzer did much better among african-american voters who remember his tenure, springer won. hou he is a billionaire. we don't hoeld it against them. comfortable with capitalism. he acted too much, like a billionaire. he want nude rulhe wanted new r. he went along with his orchestration to get an extra term. it is how rich people want special rules. and it hurt her. >> the idea of inequality. progressives often talk about. two cities or two americas, at a national level. that was huge for deblasio. some people outside new york may forget. a minority/majority city. more black, brown, asian people here than white people. >> then there is jewish people too. >> absolutely. >> actually this is a national, analogy that you can't just win national elections just apae appealing to white people.

bill thompson?go or christine quinn who started this year as front runner and now in a battle for political survival. also, will anthony weiner get into a loud argument with anyone during his concession speech? joining us to talk about everything happening on tuesday, we have josh benson, co-editor of capitalnewyork.com and we have maggie with us from politico and josh, i should point out was once my editor in a former life and saved me from making a bigger fool of myself on numerous occasions. i appreciate you joining us today. let's talk about bill. this has been the story of the last month. if you took a poll, he might have been in high single digits. now we're talking about this guy could win the democratic nomination for mayor on the spot on tuesday. what has been behind this? they say it's a national progressive revival. is that the story or is there more to it than that? >> there are a couple of local dynamics that are key to this. one was very visible and one was less so. the very visible wa

bill thompson dropped out. only one democrat left. bill deblasio is left, he's going to win. with south korea on fighter jets, boeing. turns out al gore dead wrong on melting arctic ice. new at 10:00 we'll tell you how long he was. a hint, if there was a nobel prize for being wrong he'd win handsdown. plus the odds maker says that janet yellen is a shoo-in for fed chair. we have paddy power himself, the man who sets the odds. here is my take on our recovery from the panic of '08. i don't think we have recovered. i'm not talking about jobs or the state of the economy, i'm talking about the way we feel about america. i don't think we've yet recovered our optimism. let me explain. from 1982 to 2007 we had an almost unbroken run of rising prosperity. in those 25 years there were just two very small, almost insignificant recessions and one brief stock market swoon. the whole country got used to strong growth, low unemployment, and a rising standard of living. that was the norm. things were good and they would get better. that optimism lasted for a quarter of a century, let the goo

if bill de blasio does find himself in a runoff with bill thompson. he'll have a big advantage. him with a wide lead over thompson in hypothetical match-ups and doesn't give thompson a lot of time to make up the gap. it will be interesting to see if we have a runoff or not in the next few days. >> the other headline from new york yesterday, is that i guess scandals get you on front page and headlines but doesn't get you a victory. not just anthony weiner but eliot spitzer. i do believe some people were surprised with eliot spitzer going down. >> he had a lead in some polls but his opponent scott stringer had been taking the advantage and was seen as a slight front-runner going into last night's activity. tamron, this year we have had three scandal plagued expoliticians who tried to get back to them and ended up losing, as mentioned anthony weiner and ellioyol spitzer. a lot to cover there but interesting insight. thanks, mark. >>> a tough day for the world's most valuable company, apple stock taking a tumble a day after the company unveil d its new line of iphones which seems to

. >> let me ask you, you endorsed bill thompson for mayor this year. >> i did, indeed. sed him against mike bloomberg last time. >> you did. he's conceded. are you going to support bill de blasio? >> absolutely. i talked to bill de blasio awhile ago today, and as you probably know, he and his wife both worked in our administration. >> yes. >> his wife was one of my speech writers. made me sound intelligent. >> a a lot of people around the country see new york as a great liberal city. we have not had a democrat elected since you were elected in 1989. why do you think that is? >> i don't know. i think that we should have prevailed in '93. >> right. you lost to rudy giuliani. quoting you here that he was the kind of man who went for the jugular. and the campaign became exceedingly vicious. his underlying message was clear for all to see. the city is in terrible financial straits. do you really want a black man presiding over it at this time of trouble? and i remember it, as you know i was in that campaign. that was his blatant message. >> that's true. and rudy was a tough c

new polling shows bill de blass oholding a double digit lead ahead of bill thompson and christine quinnor bloomberg is not going quietly. he describes campaign tactics as class warfare and racist. the mayor was referring to political ads that feature members of mr. de blassio's family, including his african-american wife and 16-year-old son. when asked to further explain his comments, bloomberg added, well, no, no, i mean, he's making an appeal using his family to gain support. i think it's pretty obvious to anyone watching what he's been doing. i do not think he himself is racist. it's comparable to me pointing out i'm jewish in attracting the jewish vote. mr. de blasio, your thoughts. >> i hope the mayor will reconsider what he said. i hope he'll realize it was inappropriate. >> joining us now is "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor, jonathan cape hart. john, you worked with mr. bloomberg when he first ran for mayor. is there an element of hypocrisy in his accusations against mr. de blasio who has used his own family as part of his complain artillery? >> i think what the

bill thompson really hoping to turn out his supporters in black and latino communities.y are just fighting for their lives to try to get into the runoff. >> kate, anthony weiner today on the "today" show says he's not giving up. he has about 7% in the polls. he says he still thinks he has a shot. is that realistic based on what you're hearing on the ground there? >> i think anthony weiner is probably the only person who thinks that. anthony weiner is ending this mayoral race pretty much irrelevant to the debate. the one important role that he played, his entry into the race was what showed people for the first time that christine quinn's front-runner status was really a very weak position. she had weak support and there were a lot of people who didn't like her or didn't like just a continuation of bloomberg and wanted something different. so anthony weiner offered that for a moment and you saw him surge to the front of the polls. when it was revealed he continued his sexting after he resigned from congress, bill de blasio was poised to pick up those voters and surge to h

but as we look among women voters, de blasio has 34%, you have 21%, bill thompson has 19%.uch do you think that gender, race and even sexuality has played a part in the campaigns for all of the candidates? >> look, these public polls, one thing you know, i knew about them from day one was that they were going to close and the early numbers i had were not reflective, they were about name recognition. i knew at the end things would move dramatically. i've been in every position in the polls. just about every person in the top three has been every position in the poll. well, the first poll that matters is tomorrow and three weeks later there will be a runoff between the top two candidates. what i can tell you, tom, is i'm out there every day, been out there all day today already talking to voters. the response i'm getting from women, from older new yorkers, from parents, i was just at some public schools, is really terrific. and what they are telling me is that they have now in the final hours, which is when we knew people would make up their mind, decided to vote for me becau

the front-runner bill deblaiseio can avoid a runoff on his heels, the former city controller, bill thompson the other main challengers are city council speaker christine quinn an open lesbian who would be new york's first female mayor. former congressman anthony weiner has been getting a lot of publicity. he was an early front-runner, now a distant fourth after admitting to sending lewd online messages. so that will go on this evening and we'll see how the vote turns out. >> mean highway, all eyes on washington, of course. the president making his moves to convince lawmakers to still have that strike on syria up his sleeve. >> that's happening 9:00 eastern tonight. you can watch his speech right here on cnn. our primetime coverage starts at 7:00 eastern. >> thanks for watching "around the world." wolf blitzer is up next. >> "cnn newsroom" starts now. >> president obama faces a crucial test of leadership at home and on the world stage. right now, the president is on capitol hill. he's trying to lobby very skeptical lawmakers. he wants them to authorize u.s. military action against syria even

bill de blasio is hanging on to a 41.2%, enough to avoid a runoff with bill thompson.ds of new yorkers filled out paper ballots because of broken machines so it could take days or weeks to finish counting. thompson vowed not to concede until a recount. anthony weiner ended his campaign literally giving a middle finger to reporters. he finished in fifth place. >> and on a high. >> another high profile new york race, eliot spitzer came up shot in his bid for a political come back. he lost too scott stringer. during a subdued speech, he thanked his supporters and told them he was proud of the campaign they were in. >>> two democratic state lawmakers who backed tougher gun control laws have been ousted in recall elections. one of the lawmakers supportsed firearms legs lags that included size limits on magazines and checks for online purchases, both of the efforts failed. >>> we'll turn to politics on capitol hill where the focus is still on syria, even though an actual vote on force has been delayed for now. today you'll want to hear this. harry reid invoked the spector of

de blasio, who led the field in last week's primary, locked up the nomination today when rival bill thompsonce republican joe lhota in november's general election. the winner will succeed mayor michael bloomberg, who's finishing his third term. the white house said today president obama still intends to nominate someone to replace departing federal reserve chairman ben bernanke, later this fall. former treasury secretary lawrence summers dropped out of consideration on sunday. he said his senate confirmation would be too "acrimonious," with some democrats opposing his ties with wall street. still, white house spokesman jay carney defended summers' past service. >> larry was in the trenches here, making stuff decisions with the president, make thing tough recommendations on policy that were often not popular but proved to be the right things to do for our economy. >> ifill: with summers' exit, janet yellen, the fed's vice chair, could become the new front-runner for the top job. on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average gained more than 118 points to close at 15,494. the nasdaq f

. >> have you talked to bill thompson, you why closest opponent? >> on tuesday night we talked.of respect for. and he made clear he wanted to look at his options. and i respect that. >> you haven't talked since tuesday night? >> we have not. >> let me go to another opponent. if you are the nominee, as it appears, the republican nominee is mr. lhota, joe lhota. and he said today, and i'm quoting him, that your campaign divides people. how do you respond people? >> rev, i think it's divisive to not talk about the problems we're facing. we just had the worst economy since the great depression. we had a city government study, a new york city government study two months ago that said 46% of the people of this city are at or near the poverty level. >> 46% in the city of new york? >> in the city of new york. unprecedented. it's divisive not to bring that out in the open and talk about the inequalities that the city is facing right now. it starts with income inequality. let's talk about health care disparities, hospital closures. let's talk about disparities in the educational system, i

so as to avoid a runoff with bill thompson or christine quinn, who are battling it out for second placed with just 6% of the vote, it's our self proclaimed future two-term mayor of new york, anthony weiner. meanwhile, eliot spitzer continues his attempt at a political comeback after a sizeable lead over opponent scott stringer early in the race. spitzer now finds himself neck and neck, if not trailing, according to some polls. we're also told there is apparently some sort of republican primary race for mayor going on today, as well. more on that coming up. but first, with the nation gripped with tough questions over syria, leave it to the tea party all-stars to go completely off-road. >> anybody here want to wait in line for their gallbladder to come out? ♪ i saw the sign ♪ it opened up my eyes i saw the sign life is demanding ♪ >>> time for your business entrepreneurs of the week. elaine, tammy and brian are a few of the small business owners in downtown bedford, pennsylvania, working with their main street manager, these entrepreneurs are trying to fill empty storefronts and bring in

let's see what happens with the runoff and the democrats, bill thompson who finished second yesterdayidn't look like he was going to take his marbles and go home, either. stuart: do you think that the mood in new york city is anti-wall street? tax the rich, hit the banks? >> there's a sense of the disparity, you know, he may-- bill deblasio made a strong case about this. there's a division to which he speaks to that is real in the numbers. the question is whether he can also suggest that he's the guy who can successfully pull new york together and move it forward and that's a tall order when only a third of democrats think that a mayor can do something about that. stuart: and congratulations for the maris poll because your poll was close to-- >> and with eliot spitzer and anthony weiner and that's why broadway is only a couple of blocks. what a show, what a show. stuart: check the big board. we're up 30 points, that's not a huge gain, but it is a gain. remember, the dow has gone up, what is it, in the last two trading sessions we're up 270 points something like that, and now we're up

if he does he will avoid a runoff with the number 2, bill thompson and this does look like the end forthony wiener in terms of his political career. he is out just 5 for 7 in the race for mayor last night. elliot spitzer also done, lost to scott stringer in the race to the new york city comptroller. dagen: weiner's goodbye wave was giving the middle finger to a local tv crew. he was giving his concession speech. go away. we don't want to see you anymore. moving del west and the 4-3 vote city council in richmond, va. approved a plan to become the first city in the nation to use eminent domain to acquire mortgages that are underwater. the city could be essentially sees underwater mortgages from their investors to help the presidents in their homes. councilmembers who oppose the plan say this maneuver would put richmond at risk for expensive lawsuits that could ultimately destroy the city's finances. investors holding these mortgages have already sued to trust wells fargo and deutsche bank to block this plan, the two sides meet in court in person for the first time thursday. retailers are

bill thompson 32 per vote and the winner spent $20 per vote.kind of interesting. >> christine quinn a drop there. >> "new york times" had a cool interactive map showing who won where. she only won the upper east said where the bloomberg supporters reside but didn't win anywhere else. >> isn't that all you need to win? >> willie and barnacle will do our must read. there can only be one read. i feel i can't bring what they could bring to it because it is the voice of vladimir putin. speaking to the american people i think we're getting an education here. >> we are. >> interpretive read. >> vladimir putin in today's "new york times" op-ed page my working and personal relationship with president obama sparked by growing trust. i appreciate this, i carefully studied his address to the nation on tuesday and i would rather disagree with the case he made with american exceptionalism stating american policy is what makes america different. it's what makes us exception jam unquote. it's dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional what