in an email to supporters senator corey booker says: >> the obama administration along with 55 democratic senators support it. however, it would have many hurdles in the house where speak e-john boehner opposes the measure. a spokesperson for john boehner says he believes it is frivolous legislation and will cost jobs. john boehner and house republicans say existing measures provide protection from discrimination. >> if it doesn't pass we'll live to fight another day. it will pass eventually. the american people are changing. the country is challenging. >> the last time enda was put before the senate was 1996, when it lost by a vote. advocates say they are getting closer to its passage. >> current federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race and national origin. it does not stop an employer from firing or refusing to hire workers because they are gay, bisexual or transgender or les bian. >> another chilly start to the northern part of the united states. this time we are going to head into snow. in fact, the first part of the snow is going to be the first of the season fo

corey booker officially became a u.s. senator. vice president joe biden swore in the new jersey democrat. >> my seat has a latino and a black representing them. it's incredible. new jersey is a special place. as i travelled around the state no one seemed to care that much about the colour of my skin. what they wanted to know was what i was going to do to help with the issues of our state. >> booker is one of two african american u.s. senator. the other is republican tim scott of south carolina. booker and his mother met with senate majority leader harry reid and later with president obama. he's filling the seat of frank latinberg who died last summer. >> a federal appeals court is blocking a ruling to change the stop and frisk practice. in august a judge ruled the controversial police tack take unfairly targeted blacks and his panics. on thursday a court put a hold on that ruling. the judge has been removed from the case. police commissioner ray kelly defended the ruling and practice sitting reduced crime rates in mork -- citing r

democratic senator corey booker said: >> the obama administration, along with 55 democratic senators hurdles in the house where speaker john boehner opposes the measure. a spokesperson for boehner said the house speaker believes this legislation will increase frivolous legislation and cost american jobs, especially small business jobs. boehner and house republicans say that existing measures already provide the needed protection from discrimination. >> we just live to fight another day if it doesn't pass. it will pass eventually. the american people are changing. this country is changing, definitely becoming more inclusive. >> the last time before the senate was 1996, when it lost by one vote, but advocates say they are getting closer and closer to its passage. aljazeera, new york. >> we should point out current federal law prohibits discrimination on the base of sex, race and national origin. >> in maine, a congressman running for governor reveals that he is gay and said it shouldn't matter. he declared it monday in a newspaper op ed column. he said he did so to address campaigns by

the national democratic party by president obama and corey booker, the most prominent new democrat in the state. >> it's a good question and a lot of his appeal for independence is that he has been bipartisan. i'm sure people are thinking about the anniversary of hurricane sandy. that's a very good question. >> you wonder if the clinton wing of the party wanted to know. hillary clinton knows this. it's a bit of a protective quantity. they step forward and it's that's null and void. i will take a shot at chris christie. if they are still engaged and let them fight it out. then make a decision about who is the candidate that you want to support. >> and the other is that by crazing christie, the more it fires up the tea party. >> that's the line of thought that if christie does well and gets over 60% and shows he is too appealing to liberals and democrats, the more it hurts him in a primary. you don't want to be seen to that point about democrats unhappy that they didn't take him down a notch. we may learn we should have been going after him. >> very impressive. he got to define himself.

twitter has launched careers, as with corey booker and it's ended them. >> today i'm announcing my resignationss. >> reporter: when marco rubio took an awkward swig of water on national television, his team knew the perfect response. they use twitter as an early warning sign and a valuable outlet. >> one of the most important ways to get your message out. >> reporter: especially when you're a senator with vital information to disseminate. >> let's see, tweet there i'm being interviewed by abc. >> reporter: for "this week," i'm rick klein. that's @rickklein. >> thank you, rick klein. >>> whether or not twitter is helping or hurting politics, helping or hurting journalism? keith ellison, active user. >> first thing i have to say, @keithellison, follow me. it's a good way to get a message out and get feedback. if you send out a press release that's a one-way thing, twitter is a two-way thing. i tweeted the president about minimum wage, and we had a lively discussion. >> and we also saw in the last presidential election, john, the explosion of coverage on twitter. >> the main thing it's done more

senator reid, additional republicans, senator heller, corey booker.ginning to develop a chorus of growing support amongst senators and also military leaders. we have had a letter published, some of the highest ranking generals and officers within the military supporting the reform because they have been working on this for decades and not fixed and they believe this large-scale structural reform where you're putting objective, trained military prosecutors in charge of this one decision making point, whether or not to go to trial, will make the difference. creating the transparency and accountability that's lagging today. >> there's a case i was interested in. there's a two-star general in japan up far major promotion and actually ended up being suspended because he failed to properly report or investigate an allegation of sexual assault and at the time the intimation was that would have tarnished the record. he was up for a big promotion and seems to me to be exactly at the heart of what you're talking about with your amendment. talk a little bit abou

victory, although just as when he spent $25 million taxpayer dollars to separate his election from corey booker'sstie is leaving nothing to chance. >> who did you vote for? >> listen, i made that mistake one time in the seventh grade, i voted for the other person, lost by two votes. i'm never doing that again. i voted for myself. >> and he's probably right. because the bully version of chris christie keeps resurfacing like when he berated a teacher saturday for daring to challenge him over his education record. and that probably cost him the votes of at least a few new jersey educators. what's more, despite the rap tourous media adoration among republican politicos he's enjoyed up to now, as stories of christy's past begin to surface, the garish controversies lurking in his record, a victory will lead to closer scrutiny of the christie record. and joining us now, karen finney, host of "disrupt with karen finney" and steve kre naki. christie has this reputation he developed in the media as this moderate. is he really as moderate as people are portraying him? >> no. and that's the thing. i think wh

but he also engineered a race in which corey booker would not be on the same ballot.s, he did engineer a landslide for himself. could he replicate virginia. could he win outside of jersey? >> i guess we'll find out. but i've been with him in other states. north carolina and new hampshire, which are very different kinds of states. the people loved him there, too. he's a very, very absolute shhh rude guy and has got some very intelligent people working for him. so i think it's going to be a very interesting race that starts after the election tomorrow. >> all right. it's all good until you bully a teacher. all right, ryan grim and bob engelel, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> all right, and still ahead, senator rand paul fires back on allegations of plagiarism in today's top lines. i challenge thee to a dual! >> if dualing were legal in kentucky, if they keep it up, it would be a dual challenge, but i can't do that. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is claira. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for her, she's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male ann

we have a new senator sworn in, corey booker is taking the oath of office, and we'll have first of several votes beginning at ten after 12, and we'll wrap up at 12:20. the last question i'll ask each of you to have a chance the think about it is the -- sometimes i say when you say something awful that's happened, and you hope something good comes of it, sometimes it does; sometimes it doesn't. a few things could be much worse than losing a loved one, and a bunch of families -- 11 families lost loved ones, and in the navy yard not far from here, and they'd like to know something good comes from that. i think the american people feel that way as well, and one of the last things i'll ask you to do is just to reflect on what you said here, what you heard here today, what you've been asked here today, and see if you can, give the families some insurance out of the tragedy they suffered through and good is going to come and what that might be. know that's coming, okay. dr. coburn. >> i just wanted to follow up. i'm not clear. when you say "opm validates," do you use a contractor to validate? >>

. >> today is the first day on the job for corey booker, sworn in thursday by vice president biden. >> my state now has a latino ad a black represents them. that's kind of incredible. new jersey is a special kind of place. as i was traveling the state, not one person seemed to care that much about the color of my skin. what they really wanted to know was what was i going to do with the emergent issues of our state. >> booker brought his mother along to meet senator majority leader harry reid and later with president obama. he won that special election to fill the seat of the lake senator fran. >> tech companies looking to stop the nsa. >> stop and frisk tactics now on hold. >> a story you'll see only on aljazeera, civilians in an african country caught up in violence between army and rebel forces, putting them in harm's way. >> derrick rose has kept bulls fans on the edge of their seats waiting for over a year. the waiting didn't stop even after his return to the united center. we'll have that story later in sports. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news sto