chris christie is in this thing called politics to help him. chris christie.nd he'll say whatever he has to, even if it means turning down hardworking americans in the process. but they don't have an ounce of truth to them. so tonight we are going to expose the real chris christie, the media darling of new york city. the media darling of the mainstream media. he has done nothing wrong. he's really a moderate. no. he's a wolf in sheep's clothing for reasons unknown to "the ed show," some democrats think that christie is a big bipartisan hero. you know what this guy has done? he walked with the president of the united states. he appeared with the president after hurricane. what governor wouldn't do that? accepted federal disaster relief along with every other republican governor whose state has ever been hit by a hurricane. this makes him bipartisan? a photo-op does not make chris christie bipartisan. accepting disaster relief, which was the right thing to do, does not make chris christie bipartisan. do not let him fool you. he's no different than the radicals a

but chris christie is -- i'm not one of these guys who says chris christie is a jerk and he'll overheatnd that will be the end of his campaign. i think democrats would have to worry about chris christie particularly if he does not veto these bills. at a time when people see washington as completely broken, he's one of the people who i think folks can look at and say, he could fix it and the last thing that i'll say about him is that the reason that barack obama, i believe, is president of the united states, is because he figured out how to run the same election -- the same campaign in the primary as he did in the general election. >> yeah. >> if you look at the republicans, there's not one of them who i think can do that except probably for chris christie. if that works and if he can get through the primary, i think it could be very dangerous. >> seeing cory booker steaming toward the senate with winning this primary today, seeing what elizabeth warren has, i think, cemented since being in the senate in the way she's conducted herself since then, you're starting to see the development o

i think christie is a nice guy. i'm not a chris christie basher.is the run of the mill establishment, you know, big government. >> laura: i remember when he ran in 2010. he ran the same year as mcdonnell in virginia. he ran as pro-life. ethnic conservative running and in a state like new jersey. he ends up winning. tough on the teacher's union. he did the hugy, hugy kissy kissy with obama taxes why isn't this an example chris christie has a the lot of good things to say. >> laura: is he a fighter. up against hillary. >> likeable and he dismisses the press and he dismisses his ad investor sears and he is a great northwestern democrat state republican. but when it comes to the national stage and dealing with the republican party and everything that we are dealing with right now, and that includes containing the republican party, when we're nearly $17 trillion in debt and as you mentioned the nsa thing, government getting too big for its britches all over the place. and chris christie is not a guy who is equipped, i think, and armed to come into washi

did christy have a thing going with him? mrs.r and sister since we moved in. green: when was that? two years ago. ever get the impression ethan wanted to be more than a big brother? no. never. briscoe: i don't get it. the kid takes your daughter out for a night on the town and you're not the least bit suspicious of him? pepper: you don't understand. the vances have gone out of their way to make us feel at home. briscoe: so? you're rich, they're rich-- why shouldn't they make you feel welcome? the vances, as you very well know are old money. and the ink isn't dry on your dough? people like the vances often don't let you forget it. mark and marianna have been awfully decent to us. it is hard to believe that their son could have anything to do with christy's death. you apologize all you want. that won't get my boy his job back. look, sammy cooperated. we hope you will, too. so, i tell you stories out of school then i'll be looking for a job, too. we just want the truth. the truth is that little girl wasn't such a good girl. why do y

chris christie is not even a part of that.ou have people like mike leigh, ted cruz and rand paul. >> those are libertarian, but they're really the tea party people, against the john mccain establishment wing of the party. if you look at mike leigh, ted cruz and rand paul, they have a collective five years of experience between them and they're the ones running the gop right now. >> we had senator cruz on, and i may not agree. >> he wants to eliminate obama care, okay? i do, too, but i wouldn't defund obama care because i think that gets you into government shutdowns and all kinds of debt limitation issue, but nonethele nonetheless, they've got 11 votes in their party and they may get more on this. that's what i'm saying. the infiltration of the libertarians. that's really what i'm saying. >> that's why i'm saying it's dangerous to the republican party and to the repiblic at large and when you look back at the reagan administration, when tip o'neal was chairing the house and the democratic house, we were passing 600 bills every

i happen to have chris christie's reaction to your kissing proposal.w jersey radio station. i'm running for re-election in new jersey i don't really have time for that at the moment. so rand, you will be lucky if you get a hand shake. and if you do get to shake his hand on republican presidential debate stages it will be before and after he beats the living heck out of you in those debates. a quarter million tweeters musicare tweeting.eamed. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why the internet needs a new kind of server. one that's 80% smaller. uses 89% less energy. and costs 77% less. it's called hp moonshot. and it's giving the internet the room it needs to grow. this ...is going to be big. it's time to build a better enterprise. together. with the bounce dryer bar, my clothes will be fresh out of the drawer for weeks. and it's great when things last a long time. well...most things. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? [ woman ] can't regret fresh. >>> the campaign for mayor here in new york city couldn't get nuttier,

christie is coming across as a pro-democrat republican.here the republican party is not very -- >> i think what he has to do is a, corruption, has to run against washington corruption. can do that easily. two, run on his record. tree, as an outsider to washington. he can make a broad-based appeal by running against washington. >> of everybody that's mentioned, if you're watching, you know reagan's biography better than anybody, of who's running has the best chance being a 21st century reagan? >> if it plays out if christie makes a mistake, then that makes rand paul the heir to the reagan/goldwater rein. >> going to be fascinating to watch. thank you for coming on. he's author of reagan's revelatire revolution and rendezvous with destiny, download both of them. next, more of this morning's first read. filner follies. the petition under way to remove him from office. will it work? we'll find out. plus, with his vineyard vacation over, president obama gets back to business. egypt is just one of the issues on his plate this week. what does he

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the chris christie who can be so aggressive and assertive, that chris christie went away and that seemsuenced this choice today. >> if you think about it, it's father to father, a plea that's father to father and i got off the phone with brian wilson the gentleman that confronted chris christie, he said, you know, this is a small victory in the big scheme of things because it doesn't give us everything that we wanted. >> right. >> but it could save my daughter's life. >> all right. well, thank you very much, appreciate it. rosa flores reporting. >>> and i want to bring in a republican strategist now "outfront" who, of course, was the top adviser for rick santorum, obviously, hogan, when you look at this, you are talking about the social issues that are so important to social independents and chris christie 2016 is not going to win without independent votes. he's well aware of that. but the republican party has a rocky relationship. republicans approve medical marijuana overwhelmingly but they do not support the legalization of marijuana overall, not even close. half democrats do, only a

. >> new jersey governor chris christie. >> new jersey governor chris christie is as hot as it gets. >> are you stupid? on topic. on topic. next question. >> senator mcconnell took the stage at the traditional kentucky fancy farm event. >> obama care is a disaster for america. >> the struggle is just to be heard above the din. >> if the dodgers told senator mcconnell that he had a kidney stone, he'd refuse to pass it. >> can you put this in perspective? >> the politics of the terror threat. >> chris christie is as hot as it gets. >> minority leader mitch mcconnell is setting the tone. >> the struggle is just to be heard above the din. >>> tonight, 20 u.s. embassies and consulates are closed and will remain closed for the rest of the week in an extraordinarily large-scale security precaution as we continue to learn more details about the terror threat that prompted it. sources told nbc news the closures came after the nsa intercepted an electronic communication between the man who succeeded osama bin laden as the head of al qaeda central and a former personal aide to bin laden and who

looks like christie and paul will be having the beer summit. want to know from you, who would you like to see have a beer together. it could be anybody. use the hashtag "way too early." >>> san diego's mayor is accused of coming on to eight women. according to his lawyer the city may be held liable for not training him about sexual harassment. the democrat's attorney said the city is object gated to provide employees on guidance what sort of behavior is acceptable which he said the city never did. the attorney said lack of training department excuse inappropriate behavior. the lawyer par phrased bowl dylan's lyrics. you don't need a weather person to tell you which way the wind blows. earlier this week the city council voted to sue filner for any damages it will incur from the lawsuit. the president is considering a complete exit from the troops in afghanistan by 2014 but a deal well beyond then isn't close to being done. afghanistan will need a significant military presence and financial resources far into the future. secretary kerry said the

the same poll had christie ahead by 30 points.reading this, democrats are remembering that christie is a republican thanks in no part to the gop establishment and veto of gun bills and proudly backing the man we just talked to, steve lonegan. christie previewed his pitch in an rnc meeting in boston last week. "for our ideas to matter, we have to win. if we don't govern all we do is shout to the wind. i'm going to do anything i need to do to win." here to discuss this with us is kate and a close christie watching, kate, thanks for joining us. >> sure. >> i'm interested in this question of what he's trying to do this year in new jersey in his re-election campaign. the polls have had him ahead by a huge margin and his pitch to national republicans, hey, i'm in a blue state and i'm a winner. everyone is expecting this blowout win and i'm looking at this saying his courtship of national republicans being mindful of national republicans is starting to take a toll in new jersey and that democrats are starting to come home there. could it

christie is running for a second term as governor.ana, are all being viewed through the prism of a potential 2016 bid for president. >> these are complicated issues. >> it's simple. >> i know you think it's simple. i know you think it's simple. but it's not. >> reporter: that's the father of a 2-year-old girl suffering from a rare form of epilepsy, pleading with christie to pass a medical marijuana bill. on friday, christie conditionally agreed to allow qualified children to take edible forms of marijuana if changes are made to bill. >> just talking about gun control isolation is not going to deal with the entirety of the problem. >> reporter: christie has previously signed legislation enacting tougher gun laws in new jersey. but on friday, he vetoed a proposed ban on firearms with the caliber of 50 or greater. saying the wide scope of the ban would not improve public safety. >> this has been a huge week for governor christie. the decisions he has made now are certainly going to have ramifications if he runs for president. he took act

the chris christie/rand paul smackdown is about more than personal animosity.alk to conservatives on both sides of this battle next. >>> first, i want to share the three most awesomist things on the internet today. marina had been hypnotizing audiences for decades. perhaps her most difficult task to date was a video she made to help raise funds for her proposed institute. she tells a joke. how many hours does a performance artist need to change a light bulbs. >> how many light bulbs you need -- oh, god. how many performance artists we need -- >> i was not long enough. i can't do it i don't know, i was there only six hours. >> nailed it. now, granted she's not going to headline at the comedy store any time soon. you can rest assured her three minute video is funnier than the entire cast of summer camp 2. >>> the cookie monster is trying to -- mccrory hand delivered a bunch of cookies and described him selecting a woman from the crowd to receive them. he handed her the plate of cookies and waved as he walked away. she was too stunned to say anything back. the int

christie is smart to come out. is more of a feeling that america is a responsible global power. next time something like boston happens again, that will immediately under cut the isolationist and dangerous push by people like rand paul who wants to gut what we are doing. >> just to say, i hope dan is not right. we've had a long history of isolation. the country has never fully -- there has been a fringe element and now there is a big boom from right wing commentary that is supporting rand paul. at the core of american psyche they are not with it. >> paul: but there are a lot of people in the grassroots, the iraq war did not help the republican party in 2006 and 2008. they want to go back to domestic issues because they think if you for active government overseas, that means bigger government at home. i disagree with that because i think reagan you could be for free markets at home and muscular foreign policy. but there is an a element of the party that doesn't agree with that? >> that is right. key phrase. to quali

this is like a chris christie.nk nationally you're going to see chris christie is going to appeal to a lot more people, especially people we need votes from, which is the moderates. neil, the republicans and democrats, they're not going to decide the vote in the 2016 election. it is going to be the moderates, independents. >> the conservatives first within the party, and they are still angry about how he handled his relationship with president obama during hurricane sandy, and even angrier about how he goes back and forth with the likes of rand paul and libertarians that have a different view on privacy, surveillance, that kind of thing. is this going to be a civil war? >> no, i don't think so. it depends who enters into the 2016 presidential primary. >> they all are, at this point, it is everybody. >> right, yeah, but look at who some of the fundraising, like the king of bundling, sheldon adelson, chris christie caught his eye. sheldon was behind newt gingrich, too. >> thanks for bringing that one up. i have to te

what is chris christie doing right?arently many things. the profile examines christie's standing in the heavily blue state of new jersey. his brash, in your face approach, and how christie became what the magazine calls the most popular republican in a. here to give us more on the man who could be our next president, the writer of that cover story, "new york" magazine contributing editor ben wallace. thanks for being here. i want to start with a theme that plays throughout your piece, which is that christie's persona, his attitude, at one point which you call a bullying style, has predominated over other parts of his record. take a listen to this sound of him defending muslim-american judicial nominee in new jersey. >> sharia law has nothing to do with this at all. it's crazy. it's crazy that the guy's an american citizen who has been admitted to practice in the state of new jersey, swearing an oath to uphold the laws of new jersey, the constitution of the state of new jersey, and the constitution of the united states o

that's christie's drawing card.ear, a lot of anger against the democrats but i can get 51%. i can be the probable winner against hiss in the polls. that's his case to me. >> we shall see. chris matthews, thank you so much. always great having you. love having you. >>> up next, you know him from "the daily show," lewis black will be doing something no comedian has ever done. ever. he explains it to us next. ♪music plays ♪behold! ♪the power of a well booked vacation!♪ ♪booking.com ♪booking dot yeaaaahhhh! always go the extra mile. to treat my low testosterone, i did my research. my doctor and i went with axiron, the only underarm low t treatment. axiron can restore t levels to normal in about 2 weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women, especially those who are or who may become pregnant and children should avoid contact where axiron is applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or increased acne in women may

what will you do if governor christie vetoes this bill?ng into neighborhoods who move in colorado. we really don't have a choice except to leave our family, friends, grandparents, leave everything we've known and grown up with and have to vacate our state and be kind of run out of town if you will. it's either that or stay in new jersey and suffer. we're looking at the truly compassionate states that are medically advanced and weigh our options of leaving, especially in this doesn't pass through. >> brian wilson, thanks so much for joining us. our thoughts are with you and your family and of course with vivian. thank you dr. sanjay gupta. you can watch his documentary "weed" on friday night at 10 p.m. i want to update you on one of the families most devastated by the terror attacks at the boston marathon, the richard family. they marked four months since the terrorist attack. it shows a picture of 7-year-old jane richard who lost her leg in the blast, standing with her prosthesis and wide smile. her family refused to sleep in their home un

this is relevant to chris christie. what he had to say to aid about victims of hurricane sandy and react. >> do you think the federal government should be supplying funds in any way to any extent? >> the role of the federal government is questionable. if we look at suicide's home destroyed in a hurricane, that is tragic to see their home being destroyed, remember every day around this country somewhere, somebody is suffering a tragedy of equal or worse impact. we don't run and hand them a check. the role of the federal government needs to be limited to the role of the federal government. >> mckay, isn't hurricane sandiened aid one of chris christie's defining issues? >> right. >> how does this work him endorsing lonegan. >> this is the libertarian that christie has tried to go to war with over the past few weeks. it was with no small amount of irony that he got up there on stage yesterday and said i have been waiting to endorse lonegan. he's my best frent friend. but this is part of a long time for christie. he obviousl

in the spotlight tonight, chris christie versus cory booker. he endorsed him.onegan. >> wait until they see steve lonegan on the united states floor of the senate. steve and i have believed and still believe in so many of the same things. >> here is something steve lonegan believes in, that chris christie did not mention today. >> do you think the federal government should be supplying funds in any way to any extent, if so? >> well, you know, the role of the federal government in this kind of catastrophe is questionable. if we're going to look at somebody's home being destroyed in a hurricane, and that is tragic for them, the home being destroyed. but remember, every day somebody in the country is suffering something of equal impact and we don't hand them a check, the role of federal government needs to be limited to the role of federal government. >> joining us now, ari melber, just in time, officially calling the race for cory booker, right here, on whatever today's date is. >> you got to get it early. >> that guy is going nowhere. this is crazy, hopeless. i

think christie is smart to come out.hink there's more of a reservoir of feeling that america is a global power, we do face security threats. next time something like boston happens again, that will immediately undercut the isolationist and dangerous push by people like rand paul to gut what we're doing in national security. >> just to say this, i hope that dan is not right. we've had a long history of isolationists like rand paul. >> you think he's an isolationist? >> surely. the country has never fully -- there's always been a fringe element, a very loud one. now of course there's this big boom from right wing media commentary which is supporting rand paul in all of this. >> there's a lot of people in the republican party at the grassroots who think, look the iraq war and the afghanistan war were not good for the country. did not help the republican party. hurt in 2006 and 2008. they want to go back to domestic issues because they think if you're for active government overseas, that means bigger government at home. i di

i look at christie, christie is not going to have that problem, he might have the other problem where much and lord knows what will happen. christie has the personality where people want to give him -- republicans want to give him the benefit of the doubt. >> you know this guy better than anybody. where do you peg him? >> it depends on what you mean by moderate anymore. we're playing games with this. the republican party has moved so far to the right, he may be a moderate in the modern republican party, but i'm not sure any of that matters. i think a lot of politics about personality and stack up any of those guys that you're talking nabt the last segment against chris christie and he's going to win, personality. >> i think he's clearly no moderate. you can go down a list of positions and he's very right wing on them. but he has a number of positions where he appears somewhat moderate, and although he's not really. he has nuance positions on some things like gun control, like immigration, and i think those are enough -- those may be enough to really hurt him in the republican primary.

. >> chris christie had some strongs words. in direct reference to bobbyin da who called the party stupid christie said i am not going to come and call you the stupid party. the alexandria is over and we need to move on. for our ideas to matter we have to yuan. because if we don't win we don't govern. and if we don't govern all we do is shout into the wind. he is right. this has got enlost. the sole purpose of political parties is to deliver election vick together, not be ideology vessels. >> he's saying go have an argument. have a debate. let's put together a yuaning coalition to put republicans back in power so they can implement some of the policies they want to. this is an echo of what bill clinton was saying to the democrats in the early 1990s. it's something that was successful for him. if you're chris christie, this is are you on lie option is to make the argument that you're best suited to win and it's about winning not ideology. chris christie is not where the rest of the republican party is. >> i think he's trying to

here is chris christie. reportedly she's against the mini series about her life because it's more likely to hurt than help a presidential campaign. new jersey governor chris christie signed a bill that bars licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight. he believes people are born gay and that it's not a sin. >>> bill clinton and jimmy carter will attend next week's 50th anniversary of the "i have a dream" speech. president obama and his family adopted a water dog, she's a female, bo's new companion is named sunny because of her cheerful personality. she looks like a happy girl. and this is your morning dish of scrambled politics. a little bit of scrambled video in there, too. now for a look at the weather, here is bill karins. >> nothing will phase you. it's 88 and sunny and you're in your glory. >> there you go. >> fire still the big story. it was 95 degrees, windy. almost 2,000 firefighters, like a little mini army trying to fight the fire in rural sections of idaho. so we wish those men

governor chris christie has a lot on his plate. how his moves are impacting the gop across the country. >>> the clothing company, forever 21 cutting employee hours and blaming obama care for it. >>> bear attacks on the rise. how seven people were malled in four days. this is cnn newsroom. we're keeping a close eye on the massive wildfire rolling across idaho sun valley. look at these pictures. you have thousands of people in the path of this fire. they're being told get out of their homes. in the southeast very different story. that's where you're going to see heavy rains swamping parts of the florida panhandle and areas along the gulf coast. the rains are even saturating areas as far north as the carolinas where some roads there under two feet of water this weekend. i want to bring in chad meyers to talk about all the severe weather. dan simon is in idaho. chad, i want to start off with you here. this is crazy. it's insane to see this extreme weather throughout the country. you're looking at the florida panhandle where it doesn't