i got this. >> booker. >> governor, stand back! i got this. i got this. >> booker!w booker says he will honor a challenge he made to one of his million plus twitter followers to live on food stamps for a week to see how the other half lives. although it's fair to ask, as mayor of newark, doesn't he already know? the s.n.a.p. challenge, as booker calls it, means eating on just $4.32 a day. he he says he's doing to, quote, raise awareness and understanding of food insecurity, reduce the stigma of s.n.a.p. participation, and amplify compassion for individuals and communities in need of assistance. he was told by a constituent that nutrition is not a responsibility of the government. he seems to be itching to prove her wrong. he could run against the govern governor. i'm not saying he's insincere. i'm just wondering what living for just a week in someone else's shoes really proves. it's not like the food stamp challenge hasn't been done before. mayors of philadelphia and phoenix and even super chef mario batali has done it. what will it tell us that we don't already kno

charles payne is explains how booker misses the point entirely. even when its not it is always about money melissa: first, let's take a look at the day's market headlines the fed announced new measures to help stimulate the economy but apparently investors were not impressed by fed chairman bernanke's afternoon press conference. stocks gave up all of their early gains and the dow closed down two points. >>> shares of warren buffett's berkshire hathaway getting a jolt. the company is repurchasing 9200 class-a shares from the estate of a quote, long-time shareholder. >>> another business giant repurposing shares. dupont will buy back one billion shares of its stock. it also adjusted its 2012 earnings outlook to the top end of the expected range. shares rose more than 1%. >>> now to our top story. a huge natural gas explosion erupting in west virgina. fouromes went up in flames yesterday before collapsing another five with severe damage. fortunately -- look at that! fortunately no one was killed. but this is not the first time we've seen this of cour

cory booker is determined to tackle it. the newark mayor is doing some pretty extraordinary this week, living off food stamps himself, just food stamps. he has just $29 and change for seven days' worth of food. this is what he bought. life-changing experience for him, what he sees as a wake-up call in all of america. he hasn't talked to anyone on camera after starting this but that changes tonight. joining me for an exclusive interview is mayor cory booker. welcome to you. why did do you this? >> you know, it actually started by a late night conversation over twitter with a woman who was pooh-poohing government's role in provision nutrition for kids. i shot back at her, we had a couple exchanges and finally i said why don't we both live on food stamps. i went to bed not thinking much of it and got up the next morning and it had spread through the social media world, and was a bigger story. i called my staff and said we're doing this. >> you were on day four of this. this is the exact pile of food that you got. >> yes. >> wh

cory booker, 2016 might be a little soon for him to run. if he gets in the senate, he can serve out a term change and try again maybe 2020, 2024. >> ifill: i want to know what bruce springsteen has to say. whatever he says goes. thank you both. >> merry christmas. ifill: thank you. you can watch the first part of our discussion about the latest scramble for senate seats in two states. find that on our politics page. now to a pair of health stories and the important questions they've prompted. first a recent study on mammograms is reigniting a longstanding debate over the benefit of annual screenings. newshour health correspondent bete ann bowser has our report. >> reporter: last year after a routine mammogram detected two tiny breast cancers 56-year-old diane wright underwent a lumpectomy four months of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiation. >> i think i was devastated. i was surprised. i was shocked. i was overwhelmed by it all. >> reporter: wright has been following the advice of the american cancer society, getting an annual mammogram

we could either be talking about a democratic primary or booker is very well known. he's got a strong national presence.el so this is somebody who could clear the field for the democrats but either way it will be competitive. republicans always say that they think he's within their sights.. chris christie proved to republicans that a republican can win there. t it's going to be very interesting but that governor's race is next fall.. >> ifill: let's talk about that governor's race next fall. does chris christie have a free run? >> it's looking like his ride to a second term will be a lot easier than it would have been if cory booker were in the race. these are two big new jersey personalities. in a state like new jersey those are big, big personalities.se i think he'll have a much easier time. this obviously sets him up in as much better position should he decide to run for president in 2016. i he can focus on that building a national profile and a nationali donor base, not having to worry so much about his challenge at home. p >> ifill: you raise an interesting poin

newark mayor cory booker will be joining us, but let's begin tonight as i really should begin almost every night, with an apology. we've had a bit of fun here over the years concerning what is commonly referred to this time of year as the war on christmas where a small band of 70% of the country have fought tirelessly for the right to openly celebrate the feast day of their lord's birth, to have a mass on that day honoring their christ, a mass christ, if you will. [laughter] now, we have poked fun at this, saying such things as, there is no war on christmas or you're [bleeped] crazy. [laughter] classic wit. that was before i realized what these poor folks have been going through. >> this is the thing about atheists, they bully other religions. >> they're trying to put their hands in my religion. >> it's about being intolerant to the nature of tradition in this country. this ends up being about bullies. >> they're being bullies. what are christians supposed to do? turn the other cheek. oh, oh, no, wrong jesus, my friend. >> there is a problem in america with the christian forces being

booker accepted the challenge in a twitter debate with a north carolina woman. other public officials have tried this before booker and have reported it to be a great challenge. there's no place like home for the holidays, and keeping up with its annual tradtion, fannie mae and freddie mac won't evict familes facing foreclosure during the holiday season. this year's freddie/fannie evicition-free dates are dec. 19 through january 2nd. you might think airlines wouldn't be able to find ways to add more fees to your ticket, but that's exactly what was talked about at the airline information conference that just wrapped up in san diego. airlines are reportedly looking at ways to use past passenger preferences as a way to customize add-ons for future travel. airlines collected $36.1 billion in extra fees this year. still to come, how you may be able to get your house back, even if it's already in foreclosure and you were evicted months ago. plus, why the u.s needs good old american ingenutity now more than ever. bill moller explains, after the break. w the industrial

she wanted to do it with mayor booker but was never contacted by his office. >> corey booker's not thee's getting a lot of attention. he's not the first. if you can believe it, four governors, nine mayors and 20 members of congress have taken up this challenge. again, booker wants to have a greater understanding of what it is to live like this and hi also says, he wants to try in his small way to remove the stigma of what it's like and for people -- >> let's us know how this goes friday. i wonder if he'll lose weight, because he's got to cut back. >> people who are actually on food stamps, interestingly enough, tend to be overweight because those types of cheaper foods are higher in fat and calories. we'll watch it closely. he did buy a lot of vegetables. >> thank you. >>> eighth grader, an eighth grader, has made it her mission to get gender neutral easy bake ovens. all because her little brother wanted one and they're being marketed to girls. hear all about it in a moment. >> i'm cooking cookies. >> you are? that sounds fun. so tell me, what do you want for christmas? >> i want a din

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newark mayor cory booker announced yesterday he will not make a run for governor in 2013. perhaps due in footer christie's soaring approval ratings in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. booker says he's looking into running for senate in 2014 when 88-year-old frank lautenberg is expected to retire. but interestingly enough, lautenberg hasn't made any decisions yet. his office dismissed booker's comments saying the senator is focused on his work adding it's not the time for political distractions. >>> in a rare moment of bipartisanship, democrats and republicans came together yesterday to say farewell to hawaii's daniel inouye. the second longest serving senator in u.s. history. the army veteran who died on monday was honored by having his casket lie in state. that's a privilege that's only been received by 31 other americans ever. vice president joe biden paid tribute to his colleague. >> he was in every sense the quintessential american. he possessed, in my view, every virtue that we like to ascribe to our country. i never met a man, or woman, in that period with as much p

comes down to the one basic need that we all take for granted food is exactly why newark mayor cory booker is trying to prove by taking on the snap challenge that he just finished today snap is the supplemental nutrition assistance program and with eight hundred fifty thousand new jerseyans on food stamps he thought it would be helpful to walk around and their shoes for a change so the challenge himself by pledging for one week on the same amount of money that the poor in this country are lauded by the government's food assistance program get this that's roughly four dollars and thirty cents a day you know the same amount that more privileged americans will likely spend on one latte from starbucks needless to say he's found to be more than challenging and even debated making a meal out of mayonnaise and salsa he's been blogging about it on linked in where he wrote quote this is hard but what has me profoundly humbled is that this is just a week just one week and then i'm done and can and will throw out burn food but millions of americans are living with food insecurity with worries and con

we'll also get the take of rising democratic star cory booker, the mayor of newark. what's his answer to the washington gridlock? and is he planning a run for governor against chris christie. for analysis, we'll turn to joe klein of "time" magazine. "washington post" columnist michael gerson, and our own norah o'donnell and major garrett, our chief white house correspondent. it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning, again. well, to the famous combos of modern life, from mac and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, rum and coke, bread and butter, and salt and pe pepper, add one more pair simpson-bowles. alan simpson may be in wyomingy and erskine bowles in north carolina but you can't mention one without think of the other. when you headed up the bipartisan deficit commission appointed by the president you laid out the dire consequences if we don't get the country back on a sound financial footing. the two sides are still at loggerheads. i guess i would st

and with congress still considering sixteen billion in cuts to the federal food stamp program booker said that he hopes the challenge highlights the need to protect the fund that star state of all hunger for millions of americans each day so for being one of the only politicians willing to empathize with someone in need by walking in their shoes you mayor cory booker are my hero of the day so he's the hero who's the villain well this one's quite an easy target today it's bob ryan and for those if you don't know who bob ryan is he's a top housing adviser in the obama administration for not much longer you see mr ryan is conveniently decided to jump ship yep next month the start of mortgage banking position at wells fargo so why is this a big deal well you have to dig a little deeper for that one see mr ryan has a pretty hefty resume that just screams conflict of interest first off his current position since two thousand and nine has been senior adviser to the secretary for housing and urban development last year he worked as a commissioner for the agency working on high risk f.h.a. lo

corey booker, let me start with you. it is heart-breaking. it's agonizing. you can't say anything to make it better. what i find fascinating about him is his incredible dignity. the way he was prepared to offer comfort and sympathy to the family of the man who had shot his child and he went on to talk about gun control and said that he didn't want wide-ranging gun control to come as a result of this, but he didn't understand why this shooter's mother would ever want to have the kind of assault weapon that was used in her home to defend herself. he raised a number of issues about that which we'll see more of tomorrow. but what do you say to other families in america that can't send them to school now, to movie theaters? there is almost nowhere left now that's sacred for americans to be safe because of gun violence. what is the answer? >> well, first of all, this is not as rare as people might think. there's a virginia tech, so to speak, 30 to 30 americans dying every day to violence. fortunately the courage that he showed there is something they have to deal

is cory booker a shoe-in to be the next senator from new jersey? and one week after the tragedy in newtown, a moment of silence will be marked this morning after 9:30 and echoed across the country to pay tribute to the victims in a community still in shock. good morning from washington. it's friday, december 21st, 2012, and this is "the daily rundown. i'm chris cillizza in today for chuck todd. we start with speaker boehner's stunning defeat last night. his own party pulling the rug out from under him with just 11 days to go before we go over the fiscal cliff. boehner and his team spent the better part of the week trying to round up support for his plan b to avoid the cliff but in the end there weren't enough republicans willing to pass it. so at 7:45 last night the speaker convened house republicans, said a prayer, broke the news, and sent everyone home for the holidays. the majority leader eric canter relayed the news to reporters. >> no vote today? >> no. >> will there be a vote tomorrow? >> no. >> are you ditching plan b? will there be a vote t

corey booker let me start with you. it is heart breaking.hat i find fascinating about him is his dignity. the way he was prepared to offer comfort and sympathy to the family of the man who had shot his child dead and said that he didn't want wide ranging gun control but didn't want to understand why this shooter's mother would want to have the kind of guns in her home to defend herself. he raised a number of issues which we will see more of tomorrow. but what do you say to other families in america that can't send them to school now to movie theaters. there is almost nowhere left now for americans to be safe because of gun violence. this is not as rare as people might think. there is a virginia tech 30 to 34 americans die every day due to gun violence. the courage and dignity that he had to deal with there is on a regular basis in newark. what gets me most frustrated is that we all agree in america. if you work with gun owners. we have a republican pole ster to poll gun owners and nra members and you get 70 to 90% common sense issue that we

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cory booker, christiane amanpour, and others will join us. it got heated.al, "guns in america." cory booker, let's start with you. it just is heartbreaking. it's agonizing. you can't say anything to make it any better. what is the answer? >> first of all, this is not as rare as people might think. there is a virginia tech, so to speak, 30 to 34 americans die every day due to gun violence. what gets me most frustrated, i guess, is we all agree in america. in fact, if you look at gun owners, i work with a coalition of mayors called the coalition against illegal guns. a republican pollster polls gun owners and nra members and you get from 70% to 90% depending on the common sense issues we can do to make our country safer. let me give you one example. roughly 40% of guns sold in america are sold in what is called a secondary market, in other words, private sales where there's no federal registration at all. where people with criminal backgrounds, you could get someone on the terrorist fly list who can't get on a plane, but they can go to many of these secondary

cory booker, everybody is ambitious or least favorite.his week what a shock he's not going run for governor of new jersey in 2013. that would have been a kamikaze mission. he's committed to newark. even though he spenz his time in new york. >> i love cory booker. leave him alone. >> the one republican here loves cory booker. >> so now the big issue he wants to represent in 2014, he wants to run for president. 2014 you have a democratic, frank lautenberg who will be 90 in 2014. he's not said he's retiring. frank lautenberg made the biggest mistake he left the senate after three terms. he left the senate. he was miserable for two years he told everybody who asked the biggest mistake he ever made. he caught a break in 2002 when they put him back on the ballot. take a lot to get him out of there but booker could beat him. >> the e.r.a. the potential race that i'm excited about, sanford v sanford an i'm not talking about the 1891 supreme court case. i'm talking about mark appalachian trail sanford who is rumored to want to run for tim scott's

featured in the ad campaign to legalize same-sex marriage. >>> newark, new jersey, mayor co cory booker is gearing up for a food stamp diet. he will be living on $30 worth of food stamps for the week. the mayor took on the challenge after getting into a debate with one of his twitter followers. >>> north of the border a few military vets suited up for team u.s.a. despite their inspiring stories of lost limbs and sacrifice, team canada beat the americans 2-1. however, team u.s.a. earned enough wins for a spot in the semifinals. >>> sports, tipoff in the nba, bobcats and nicks, with three seconds left new york's j.r. smith took the inbounds pass and hit a following jumper for the left side for a dramatic buzzer beater, 100-90 win over charlotte. >>> in new orleans the lakers kobe bryant scored 29 points to become only the fifth player to score over 30,000 points. he is the youngest player to beat that milestone. >>> nfl wide receiver andre johnson, number 80 of the houston texans took a dozen at-risk children on an 80 second shopping spree at toys"r"us. can you imagine how fun that would

. >>> new york's mayor cory booker taking the food stamp challenge tomorrow.he man who is known for among other things shoveling snow out of constituents driveways and rescuing the homeless during flooding will start living on the monetary equivalent of a person on food stamps for a week. in new jersey that works out to about $133 a month or about $1.40 a meal. booker is the latest politician to stand in solidarity with welfare families. let's meet another man who tried the same thing, phoenix mayor. what was it like to live on just $4 a day for meals? >> well, in phoenix the food stamp amount is $29 per week. and to live off of that and still try to live a healthy lifestyle with healthy meals is incredibly difficult. i had to skip a bunch of meals. ate a lot of ramin and beans and rice and lost a few pounds. it was tough. >> a record 47 million americans use food stamps in august. that cost nearly $72 billion. so when you hear about the fiscal cliff and you hear about possible cuts to entitlements, did this experience change your view of that? >> i would say

i think cory booker has a huge future, and i think if he runs for that frank lautenberg seat from new as the democratic nominee, he'll have a pretty good chance of winning. i don't know who the republican might be. that's not going to happen until 2014. so we still have some time. the gubernatorial race is next year. >> he has some big money behind him already and has had some for quite some time already. this is a guy who maybe, you know, if americans are starting to hear more about him because of his super hero, you know, business, he rescued someone from a fire and had all these wonderful light stories that have hit the press. but this young man for at least the last seven, eight years has been on the radar of those who make politics tick. and i'm talking about the people with the money. >> because everybody sees that he's, you know, he's got a really, really good future ahead of him. popular mayor of newark, new jersey. i think he's a harvard university graduate. could've gone into other yars, he decided he wanted to do this. and as you point out, you know, he's very active in soc

he might say i'm going to let cory booker have his chance.ent -- >> michael, we're going to find the video of frank laudenberg rush going a burning house to save people as well so don't you worry. >> rushing? rushing? [ laughter ] >> all right. up next political birthplace of ronald reagan but lately a political burial ground for gop economics. shouldn't they at least be able to tie their shoes in the golden state without ♪ >> "the war room" is track the republican party's quest to rebrand. today they launched his growth and opportunity project to prevent it's 2012 failings from repeating in 2016. how can this gop fix the gop? they are looking for someone like this. yes, sr. a smooth-talking idealist who can take the country by the horns. but take a close look at that portrait. that's not president reagan it's california governor reagan. california might not be the party savior anymore. out here r might as well stand for "rust." only 15 will be republicans in the next congress. that's six fewer than two years ago. in sacramento where reagan c

corey booker announced he'll run for u.s. senate., he tweeted, a link to a video explaining his plans. >> i will explore the possibility of running for the united states senate in 2014. >> there had been speculation booker would challenge govern nor christie next year. >>> outgoing massachusetts senator scott brown would have a good chance to remain senator if senator kerry is appointed secretary of state. a new poll shows 47% of vet voters would choose brown. he said he would back a federal assaults weapons ban. >>> it oes time now for the gut check. the national rifle association will hold a news conference tomorrow morning to discuss what it calls, quote, meaningful contributions following the tragedy in newtown, connecticut. supporters have said that they would support new restrictions on guns including assault weapons and high ammunition clips. do you think the nra will support any gun control legislation? go to facebook.come/newsnation to cast that vote. thank you so m we'll see you tomorrow, friday. "the cycle" is up next.

he might say i'm going to let cory booker have his chance.believe correspond dent -- >> michael we're going to find the video of frank laudenberg rush going a burning house to save people as well, so don't you worry. >> rushing? rushing? [ laughter ] >> all right. up next, political birthplace of ronald reagan, but lately a political burial ground for gop economics. shouldn't they at least be able to tie their shoes in the golden state without tripping over themselves? that story is next only on "the war room." honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ piano plays ] troy polamalu's going deeper. ♪ ♪ and so is head & shoulders deep clean. [ male announcer ] with 7 benefits it goes deep to remove grease, gunk and flakes. deep. like me. [ male announcer ] head & shoulders deep clean for men. ♪ ♪ rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. don't forget about that payroll meeting. rolo.get your smooth on. also in minis. ♪ >>

booker is not only talking about poverty.residents in newark, many of whom are poor. since he's a mayor, he's in a position to do something about policy. >> right. >> other times you'll see somebody that's just doing something, it seems like a lark, you don't see much of an upside for it. you have to look at the individual cases. >>> when i come back, i want to ask about the other aspect. part of is it the psychology, but when you write a book about it, they pay you for that. there's a profit question on the other side. we'll take a quick break and when we come back, i want to talk more about what do we learn by pretending. [ loud party sounds ] hi, i'm ensure clear... clear, huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've got nine grams of protein. that's three times more than me! [ female announcer ] ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach. ♪ you can stay in and like something... ♪ [ car alarm deactivates ] ♪ ...or you can get out there with your family and actually like something. ♪ the lexus

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please welcome to the program mayor cory booker. [cheering and applause] how are you? >> i'm good. got a lot of jersey coming on recently. >> jon: tremendous amount of jersey. you know, i'm from the area. >> i know. >> jon: born in new york city, raised in new jersey. were you born in newark? >> i'm like you, born in washington, d.c.,, proved to jersey when i was a few months old. >> jon: so lived... >> lived in bergen county, small town called harrington park. >> jon: beautiful harrington park. very nice. and now you are the superhero mayor of newark. i read stories about you. you pull babies out of burning buildings. you have reversed the rotation of the earth. how does this happen to you? do you patrol at night? are you filming an episode of cops? what are you doing? >> i did pa terrell at night a lot, especially when i first got in and there was a lot of change we were trying to make in the police department. i get a lot of attention for things frankly a lot of people in my city do every day. i remember during hurricane sandy i let a lot of my neighbors stay in my house until m

a lot of people have brought up cory booker's name. can any democrat in new jersey in that is not named cory booker? >> i think so. i have spoken with other candidates that will be running in new jersey and i think it will be a very spirited race. new jersey has not experience the kind of economic revival we have seen in some of the states that are led by democratic governors. a year in politics is a long time. two weeks is a long time. we are running against a popular incumbent. that can change. if we have a strong candidate that concern the economy and moving more quickly we think that we can do a better job of leading new jersey with a number of the candidates. >> let me ask you more broadly about the kind of voters you are going after. in a lot if he states it seemed that people vote differently thafor state office and federal. he mentioned montana. -- you mentioned montana. how is that voters make the distinction between a democrat or a republican running for governor and the same candidate for the senate or house. >> is a very di

newark mayor booker is now into the third day of living on food stamps.ecember 12th he agreed to eat only what he could buy for $4 a day. this idea came from a twitter conversation he had with a woman. >>> people in the u.s. can now travel to cuba. president barack obama eased restrictions earlier this year but the tourists still can't come and go as they please. there are still restrictions on what they can see and what they can do. it's been put in place by the u.s. government. >>> the voices will be back in baltimore this weekend. we're talking about the joyous voices of the acappella caroling group. they're going to perform at the walters' art museum on sunday. it will take place in the afternoon and filled with hot cocoa and a lot of holiday goodies. the concert runs from 1:00 until 4:00 sunday afternoon. >>> this time last year u.s. military personnel were deployed to iraq and afghanistan. now many are spending christmas with their families for the first time in years and abc2 news lament williams explains. >> reporter: lupus was stationed in iraq.

it could be an uphill battle for booker as a recent poll shows that over 60% of registered new jersey voters, that's mostly a democratic state, says he deserves to be re-elected. >>> turning to overseas news from afghanistan. one of our country's greatest, a navy s.e.a.l. has died from his wounds after helping successfully rescue an american hostage that was being held by the taliban. this all happened over the weekend during an operation to save dr. phillip joseph who was kidnapped by the taliban last week. the military raid was ordered after intelligence indicated the doctor was in imminent danger. secretary of defense leon panetta issued a statement last night commenting the special forces that carried out the raid. he said he was deeply saddened by the soldier's death whose name has not yet been released. >>> now to the ongoing crisis in syria. the civil war now spilling over the border into lebanon where at least 17 people were killed in recent clashes between supporters and opponents of president assad. this as syrian rebels continue to make advances continuing much of the count