but cory booker showed us how a politician can turn things around.ing out there and shoveling and had the competence factor and of having the empathetic factor. >> we can pay for equipment that we're going to use one day a decade, like the sixth biggest snow storm in new york city or suck it up a few days and stay inside. so, i think new yorkers need to just suck it up. you don't want to pay for those snow shovels. >> coming out -- >> brooks to new york. what about this, though? let's take it back, e. jncj. 1969, another new york mayor running for re-election, having to account for another big storm. this is john lindsay in 1969. >> i guessed wrong on the weather before the city's biggest snowfall last winter and that was a mistake, but i put 6,000 more cops on the streets and that was no mistake. the things that go wrong are what make this the second toughest job in america. but the things that go right are what make me want it. >> how about that? >> it is one of the greatest ads in american history, because it began -- david garth, the late david g

my hero cory booker talked about enterprise. that was not a common sense solution.hen it was invented. not everybody was thinking about giving scholarships to second and third tier academic african-americans when this hedge fund innovator in been a bad idea. and more important than uncommon sense solution which has to do with things like the price elasticity of demand, pricing things, taxing things that will create the lowest level of inefficiency. taxing cigarettes is a good idea because you want people to smoke less. taxing soda as much as it is derided is a good idea would have a fourfold increase in the level of diabetes in america and that's an extra cause. that's an uncommon conversation because people don't understand the notion of externalize costs. so we need some uncommon sense but we also need uncommon courage. the kind of courage that congressman castle dentistry when he voted for tax entry. the kind of courage that arlen specter demonstrated when he voted for the stimulus package. the kind of physical courage that cory booker demonstrated when he went o

be available, be on the scene, and i think cory booker really set the best example.e was not only there. >> the mayor of newark. >> but he was actually receiving tweets about side streets that had not been cleaned and he received one vulgar e-mail, and he showed up, and then he retweeted and said, wow, you should be ashamed of yourself. i arrived on your street and your mom and sister was outside digging. where were you? i mean, this is a guy who showed up. >> great politics. >> but in new jersey in general, major, chris christie, the governor campaigned as a can do problem solver. >> problem solver. >> and does this take some of the glossy off his sheen? >> i think what it does for the first time in new jersey for democrats is give them traction which is surprising in a snowstorm. they have a way by which to frame chris christie in ways they haven't before as someone who was unresponsive, did not solve a problem and more importantly appears to be indifferent to the actual suffering of new jersey constituents that will give them a toehold they haven't been able to ge

i have mayor cory booker in the audience, as well.working on reforming the newark public schools, together, with mark zuckerberg, with the facebook grant he gave to newark. the campaign i was running in 2009, that president obama and i agree on this issue. agree much more than he did with my predecessor on education reform. this is the transformational issue that can also bring both parties together, if we rise above the interests, the special interests that want to protect the failed status quo. >> tip o'neill said all politics is local. you came under criticism after the post-christmas blizzard, including from former new york mayor rudy giuliani. >> my advice? they elected you governor. you got in an emergency. you have to be there. you have to be there if you're a governor, a mayor or even a president, if it's important enough. >> he said you shouldn't have been at disney world. >> i know you find it shocking that two, strong italian guys will disagree on something. we agrow on so many more issues that mayor giuliani and i, two for

i want to thank mark zuckerberg, and i look forward to continuing my work with mayor cory booker to reform newark schools. we've got a lot " -- we have got a lot of work to do, cory. but we need to tell those children and their families, trapped in these failing schools, that we are coming. so before this legislature goes home for the political season, we need to give them more help toward improvement, more hope, and more choice. our commitment to these principles is why i have asked, and i am honored to have, my friend, former d.c. schools chancellor, michelle rhee in the chamber today. no one in america has been more clear that we must change our public education system from one that caters to the feelings of adults to one that prepares our children for the 21st century. michelle, thanks for coming today, and i want you to count new jersey among those who like you are finally putting students first. thank you, michelle. we must expand the charter school program beyond the six we approved this year and the 73 operating in new jersey. that is a top priority. i am ready to work with you to

i want to thank mark zuckerberg, and i look forward to continuing my work with mayor cory booker to reform newark schools. we've got a lot " -- we have got a lot of work to do, cory. but we need to tell those children and their families, trapped in these failing schools, that we are coming. so before this legislature goes home for the political season, we need to give them more help toward improvement, more hope, and more choice. our commitment to these principles is why i have asked, and i am honored to have, my friend, former d.c. schools chancellor, michelle rhee in the chamber today. no one in america has been more clear that we must change our public education system from one that caters to the feelings of adults to one that prepares our children for the 21st century. michelle, thanks for coming today, and i want you to count new jersey among those who like you are finally putting students first. thank you, michelle. we must expand the charter school program beyond the six we approved this year and the 73 operating in new jersey. that is a top priority. i am ready to work with you to

just like cory booker said, they are tremendous. aircraft carrier when they launched a plan, they look you up to a catapult from underneath. it is a big swing -- sling that throws you into the air. when they do, it is the ride of your life. sometimes just before they are about to launch you, they say stop, shut down the engine and get out. no pilot worth their salt will cover shut down their engine until they know they have been under attack from the catapult which is underneath them and they cannot see. if you turn off your engine and you are still sitting on the plane, they can make a mistake and if they push that button, off you go and you are not coming home. all of the sudden, this 19-year- old kid walks onto the flight deck and goes under the belly of the plan with the pilot cannot see. he detaches the plane from the catapult. that young man or woman walks to the front of the plane. engines are roaring. it is a simple signal like that. and that kid does not move. until that pilot has shut off his or her engine and gotten safel