christie todd in a thong doing mold cleaning? the whole thing doesn't surprise me, but on some level it surprises me how far they went with it. one man cave is okay. >> the government continues to grow if you don't stop it. it is a cave in a sewer in an uh uh -- aqua duct. >> we are joking around. we all joke. don't listen to any of that. this man cave was created because these guys needed to get away from the boss and have some dude time. the phrase man cave comes from guy being away from their wives where they can have some dude time. it is that one small tiny windowless hole where they can put their stuff after they got married. i don't have a man cave. i have an apartment because i am single. this is exactly what happens to a man once he turns into a castrated rat after the ring is on his finger. >> wow. >> wow, you held back. but you made reference to having -- everybody brings creature comforts to work, right? >> so when you do your stand up comedy, what do you bring? do you stand on the stage and have a picture of your fam

this amount of time and even longer, and i think he could have pleased everyone by arc pointing christy todd whitman. she's a moderate, maybe even a progressive republican, et cetera. here he's opening himself up to a lot of criticism. cross is a factor in this day and age particularly because new jersey has its problems like most day states do. the august primary and the october general, and why have the october general when you have it, when it would cost a dime extra. >> you and i were discussing it before we went on the air because cory booker on the ballot would have brought american africans out in large numbers. look, chris christie will do better among african-americans than most republicans, but he's still going to lose 6 1/2, 7 out of every ten and chris christie is not in any danger of losing as mark said, but what he's rung for, tamron is to run up a margin that's impressive. that would be considered a disappointing showing. for an ordinary politician that's a landslide. if you look at decision that he made as mark pointed out and you did as well, there were risks on both sides.

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this election at the same time as christie because they think they think christie helped their potential candidate. >> chuck toddn washington, chuck, thank you very much. >>> there are new developments this more on the fight on that massive wildfire in california. >> good morning, everyone. hundreds of people in homes are still staring down the threat of on wildfires north of los angeles this morning. nbc's ayman has the latest from lake hughes, california. >> what difference 24 hours makes. yesterday evacuation orders were in place for about 3,000 people. it is a sign that firefighters have momentum on their side. really, the weather speaks for itself. for the first time in several days, as you can see behind me there is a marine layer that has set in on lake hughes. right now, that 33,000 acre blaze has been contained, up to nearly 60%. and firefighters hope with the weather conditions in their favor, that number will grow. right now, it is foggy, there is high humidity, low temperatures and above all, the wind has died down somewhat considerably. that has been a major problem for them over the past several da

todd. chuck, let's dive into politics first and then we'll get into business. chris christie's that complicated? >> yeah, the complicated part is trying to figure out when, if he has to hold a call for a special election and if so when. it's my understand askind the reporting i've done. and he's going to -- may even set that timetable as early as today. there's some sort of legal confusion in new jersey. two different institutes in the law indicate that it would be -- that you could call for a special election this year. the question is -- is it in october or november? obviously it's a lot cheaper for the state to put the election at the same time as the governor's race. but politically a little more uncomfortable for governor christie. or he could try to say, no, the next general election for the u.s. senate is not until 2014 and try to delay that. that, though they think wouldn't hold up in the courts and that he would be forced to hold it this year. national democrats, harry reid obviously wants the special election this year because they think that they'll win and they don'

chris christie wants to have a bunch of republicans win state legislative seats at the same time in november and by having booker not on the ballot that will drain some democratic enthusiasm. >> chuck todd with all the political headlines, thank you. >>> towns along the mississippi river are scrambling this morning to deal with some very dangerous flooding. it's already led hundreds of homeowners to evacuate. nbc's kevin tibbles is in west alton. kevin, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, i'm standing pretty much at the confluence of the missouri and mississippi rivers, and while people around here probably thought the flooding season was over, all these storms and all the rain they've dropped are making otherwise. once again, they are manning the barricade as long the mississippi. >> we're just going to get our stuff out of here and vacate the premises. you can't really predict the river. >> reporter: voluntary evacuations are in place here in the town of west alton, missouri, as the rising waters now threaten this tiny community, about a half hour drive from st. louis. local casino was closed as a precaution. >> me and other cousins are going to take the kids and get away from dan

christie, the people that can win big swing states. >> in the general. >> because they don't go so far right. anyway, let's go to ireland. he went -- from where we went, far right, chuck toddight now. chuck, the british are listening to this conversation right now. the tree over your left shoulder is bugged. be very careful about what you -- >> i see a microphone. >> what why have you to say. we've got vladimir putin, it comes out, what mike said several years ago, which is that putin stole it robert kraft's super bowl ring. but you also have now on the front of the "financial times," putin warns america over aiding syrian rebels. i take it there's a lot of talk over there about syria and what the west should do? >> well, a couple things, joe. number one, you love the satellite delay, so this should be a fun conversation that we're about to have here in a couple of seconds. second is, there is that feel of sort of is the cold war at least rhetorically coming back. yesterday putin was in london. all the headlines were made because putin went to london did a bilateral meeting with david cameron, on the issue of syria didn't go well. not warm body language. putin doesn't have