of them want realistically, neither one of them wanted to be on the same ticket, however, if i'm cory booker, i don't want a two-month long primary against one opponent. he's been thinking about this for a long time, he's definitely going to run, another congressman is looking at running, i don't think booker was looking forward to this, that said, if he wins, he wins that election, he is then the incumbent most likely statewide. >> this would encourage pallone if he ran in 2014, i would have to give up his seat? >> and money saved in the bank. >> it's something he's wanted to do for a long time. >> joining me is former republican majority leader dick armey, congressman army, thanks for joining us. what is your reaction to this move by governor christie, should he have appointed someone in your view? >> of course he should have. and this is what wrangles conservatives, there's not a democrat, governor, that wouldn't have seized the opportunity to appoint a democrat senator, no matter what the status. in some states they may try to sell it and get rich off it as they did in illinois. all chri

the truth is in cory booker's rhetoric matched reality of cory booker, he would indeed be the next unitedtates senator from new jersey. i don't believe he will because like president obama he doesn't actually like to governor. so the city can't borrow money against a new water system. unemployment is higher than national average when you have the economic powerhouse of new york across the street. he laid off 162 police officers as one of his first acts and closed three firestations which might explain why he has to rush into buildings to save people. he couldn't clear the streets of snow so he decided to go out and shovel the snow himself. look, he is head of a failed city. spends more than half his time outside of newark. he's earned over a million dollars in speeches giving 90 peach speeches in 32 different states as reported by his local paper. "the new york times" recently did a piece that outlined the economic, educational failure of cory booker. so again, he gives great speeches. he'll give a great speech in education. most of the underprivileged children in newark go to failing sch

i think that cory booker will be seen more to the center than frank lautenberg.y booker has had some interesting things, gun control issues are interesting, and not as far left as the others. >> i want to know how-- he gets along well with chris christie. stuart: i wants to see how he reacts to obama care. if he takes his place in the senate, any difference in obama care? >> no matter who chris christie puts in for the next, i don't know, a year or so, year-- a year and four months. i think that cory booker gets that seat anyway. stuart: all right. eric bolling good stuff. see you soon. it's time for the gold report. the dow is up 50 points. what happens to gold? nothing, absolutely nothing. 1392 is the price of gold per ounce. there you have it. scandal at the irs and here is how that agency spends your money, line dancing? you can't make this stuff up. charlee payne is here, and he's doing a mean line dance. watch out, he's here. he gets me nervous. [laughter] ♪ >> whoa, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to show you a clip you may have seen. the irs has used th

you've got the cory booker election. if you run that thing in october, october 16th, after an august 13th primary, get it out of the way, come november 13th, the cory booker base and the democratic turnout is lower, that not only helps christie, it may help the underticket in the state legislature for the state senate and state assembly. maybe christy is smooart as a f here. >> i buy that argument and i'm hearing that from top inside sources. they believe that now with christie's chances of picking up a u.s. senate seat, pretty minimal. especially if you don't have christie's coat tails. but christie is now going to probably coast to re-election against barbara buono and all the new jersey republicans under her will do well, because cory booker won't be on the ballot in november. >> and then maybe christie can get his 10% across the board tax cut also. robert costa, stick around. you're going to tell us who christie is going to appoint if only for a couple months. n now, in another political news, still no answers about

the way he solves this problem is to hold a special cory booker election in which all the cory bookernd get it out of their system and vote for cory booker and hopefully stay home three weeks later while christie lets the rest of new jersey vote for him for re-election. this will cost, by the way, an estimated $12 million more than if general elections were held on the same day. you can pay 249 new jersey teachers for one year with that money based on typical starting salaries. and it contradicts the spirit of a law christie himself previously signed to consolidate elections to save money. it contradicts christie's boastful tv ad. >> taxes cut, spending cut, government means smaller and smarter. >> the fundamental fact about our political system is that one party has an incentive to make sure that as many people as possible vote, that's the democrats, and one party has an incentive to make sure as few people as possible vote, and that's the republicans. whether it's a statewide attempt at voter disenfranchisement or chris christie coming up with a special election just three weeks bef

that plays with. >> only one guy could beat -- if you have two or three couldnthr running against cory bookernd of booker vote out there, which i don't know that there is to begin with, running it three ways makes it a virtual for sure win for booker. >> what is the smart move for çr him? was this a smart move for him? >> my guess is that this is a smart move. is the grief you're going to take for doing this, is that going to cause more or lessok damage for having cory booker on the ballot. >> smart move. he brings some coat tails in. >> thank you for coming on. steve, thank you. we'll be back, as always, after this. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact that i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list actually have blown me away. join today and find out why over 1 million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. glass on floors. daily chores. for the little mish

party. $24 million taxpayer money total to avoid having cory booker on the ballot.has huge name recognition. he is a great fundraiser, and he has to be careful because palone is a strong candidate. >> does anybody believe just because cory booker may be on the ballot in november was going to effect chris christie's outcome in that election? >> but if you're chris christie, you don't want to take that chance j. >> cenk: and it affects the turnout for the entire state. >> yes, it does. >> john: understand the rules, he has 70-76 days from the time he makes the announcement to the special election. he conceivably could have waited 18 days, and then made the announcement and saved the state millions of dollars. but the conservatives are coming down on him. and will they be able to use it against the conservative-- >> they will. and if chris christie continues on the path he is on, he will be the republican nominee for president. >> this is my concern-- >> let me tell how the big loser is, the democrat running against chris christie. i'll tell i couldn't. the way it stoo

that moves that christie will not have to share the ballot with new york's cory booker.they say $24 million for the primary and special elections. with headlines like special elections with the dollar sign as an "s" and $24 million special vote there. the star ledger, a paper that endorsed the independent candidate in 2009 for chris christie and his opponent jon corzine, wrote a scathing editorial that wrote, skillful political spin obvious to all. christie defended himself at a press conference yesterday afternoon. >> i don't know what the cost is and i, quite frankly, don't care. i don't think you can put a price tag on what it's worth to have a person elected to the united states senate and i'll do whatever i need to do to make sure the costs are covered because all of the people of the united states are not going to be punished for it and we're not going to be penny wise and pound foolish. my colleague, steve kornacki, and sean trende is the senior election analyst for real clear politics. gentlemen, thank you. i've done the calculation. what is going to happen, beca

that's newark's mayor cory booker. can you tell us what this move does whether it comes to cory booker? >> it makes it easier for cory booker. look, the last thing that any politician wants to do is run against an incumbent. incumbents, this is why incumbents are re-elected at the rate of something like 95 or 97%, because they already wield power. so they get a lot more money, and they have a built in advantage. it is why incumbent presidents as well as members of congress are so seldom defeated. if governor christie had appointed a republican to fill that seat, that would have meant that cory booker would have had a much bigger challenge to run and win that seat. and, in fact, suzanne, we were talking before you rolled that tape about the criticism that governor christie might face. former congressman joe walsh from illinois, you might remember he ran and lost to tammy duckworth, but was a member of the tea party class, he just tweeted, and christie hands the seat to cory booker, not surprised. rhino, rhino meaning re

it's his pal, cory booker. and 20,997 days to deep dive with the man who is officially the longest serving of congress ever. more than any senator or house member in history. hear what john dingle has to say abo about serving, leading, winning and losing. good morning from washington. it's friday, june 7th, 2013. let's get right to my first reads of the morning. new jobs numbers are out for may. it shows steady hiring, but not enough to put a real dent in unemployment. 175,000 were added last month while the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 7.6%. there were some revisions to the march figure. that was revise up from 138,000. net change over the last two months was a net negative of 200,000 jobs. the pace has slowed down in spring. 255,000 jobs have been added. that's down from 233,000 over the winter. it remains to be seen how this will impact the public's view of the economic recovery. it's been recovering, but it's been slow. accordinging to our latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll, people are ge

cory booker could organize his own -- so i really think the strong advantage here is cory booker. >>>you see any way this election is not held this year? >> if the christie people had any confidence that they could beat a court challenge, or any appear tide for a court challenge, they would. >> that doesn't seem like they have that appetite. steve, thank you, sir. steve will have much more on this story on his own show this weekend, at hopefully the timeline for itself. that's 8:00 a.m. every saturday and sunday right here. >>> coming up next, a republican rift, a new look at just how deep the dividing lines are in the house republican conference. a great insider story. our gaggle will be here next. >>> first, the white house soup of the day, lemon chicken and brown rice. very healthy. methinking michelle obama is now in charge of the white house soup of the day. we'll be right back. yeah? then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. silence. are you in good hands? silence. you know it even afte

he's got choices that don't have to be cory booker.im. >> neil: what about we could attach motives to stuff that just isn't there. that's what the press does. what if this might be he doesn't care? he wants to do the right thing for new jersey, and maybe he's had his fill of party politics and this is his way of saying you know what? i'm more of an independent than i knew. i might run if i ever run for president as an independent. >> i think there can be an element of that. you can also serve your own political ends while you're doing it. the fact that the date is three weeks before his own race where he wanted to keep booker off is interesting. it also may actually benefit state wide republican races because you won't have that big democrat turnout that might flood there. >> neil: very good point. >> he mat may get extra seats is own house. if he wants to run in 2016 making these classically chris christie moves which earn him his good approval rating in new jersey. >> neil: he's doing something right in new jersey. mary kathryn ham,

. >>> christie's choice, was it a move to avoid cory booker?new jersey's governor defends his decision to spend millions just three weeks before the general election. >> there's no political purpose. the political purpose is to give the people a voice. i will not permit the insiders and few party leaks to determine who the nominee of the republican party and the democratic party will be. >> and remembering a liberal lion. vice president biden and hillary clinton just among the many mourners eulogizing frank lautenberg at his funeral in new york at this hour. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington, with president obama is turning to susan rice. a trusted adviser whose comments did take her out of contention to become secretary of state, to repla(c tom donilon as national security adviser, the closest adviser to the president. "new york times" white house correspondent mark lang her joins us now. mark, this is a long predicted move, but it certainly is sweet for susan rice action who does not have to be confirmed, as this is a president'

he will go to an election, a general election in october against likely cory booker.hoever wins that will have the seat for one year. >> this is like public access televisionn new jersey. >> when lautenberg's seat comes up, they'll go forward. >> i would like to formally apologize to the united states of america for talking about a local election that means nothing to anybody. my vote, snookie. >> another bad choice. >> snookie is emblematic of new jersey, spunky, slightly dangerous, ball of birthh, she would have your -- ball of mirth and has your interests in mind all the time. she's also a mother. >> if somebody else could run like tom king, jr., joa i don'tw many republ who have run state wide. >> someone else could run, the primary and a couple months before >> it makes absolutely no sense. >> it keeps the popular democrat, cory booker, off the ballot that chris christie wants to win by a huge margin. >> it's about the down ticket, the down ballot. >> you should know this. >> i don't wa to go, but this is very important. we need to stretch this for an hr, people.

you know what cory booker did? d up with his snow shovel. >> john: that's pretty good political optics for him. >> exactly, but remember part two of the rule, set limits. this guy actually tweeted to major booker: >> john: wow! twitter is rough. >> oh, no, definitely. and you know what, let me put it in terms hillary clinton would understand. hillary, girl, with being on twitter is like having 100 benghazi hearings every ( cheers and applause ) >> john: welcome back. my guest tonight is editor at large for "time" magazine. he's also the host on cnn, please welcome back to the show fareed zakaria! ( cheers and applause ) thank you so much. for being here. i understand there were other options open to you and other hosts, perhaps preferable hosts for you to be with, but i appreciate you being here. >> you know i study international politicaise lot. are you staging a brilliant, slow-motion coup. he's out there filming in some moroccan desert, and meanwhile you are slowing taking over the empire sphwhrawn no, no, no. >>

from the districts not as electable statewide, there's a stigma attached to nap when you look at cory booker'slle, i'm curious what you make of it. comes from a majority black city, newark but the most popular democrat in new jersey, national rock star. what do you take from the booker story as a lesson nationally? mr. i think the booker story is ace confirmation, if you are black politician with national ambitions your first order of business to -- this will sound terrible -- get far out of your majority/minority area as quickly as possible. >> right. >> i think if you looked at barack obama, it's a very good thing in his political career that he lost the first house race in the south side of chicago because it forced him to look out of the ar for a political base. as a result he found a diverse political base, a wealthier base and a chance to go statewide. likewise, booker, you know, immediately after winning, booker began doing like a long media tour. and while that rankles for people in new jersey who are like, why can't you do your job. booker's always had national ambitions i don't know

cory booker is poised and ready, as they say.rkable, by the way, we are talking about a black candidate as a sure thing. i don't know if i lived long enough to see this day. >> fair point. this is just where we are politically in the state of new jersey. maddie, chris christie is he going to pay any price among conservatives? i would argue how everything about this, the timetable that he set basically benefits one guy and it's cory booker who has been very politically helpful to chris christie over the years. >> we are talking about the appetite for a young democrat. i think on the republican side it is refreshing for a lot of folks to see christie join hands with obama and his amicable relationship i think with other democrats helps him. the focus for christie everyone is talking about 2016 and i think we are too far out ho say a certain attitude towards him given what we have seen recently are folks on both sides of the issue whether or not his bipartisan helps him or not, i think still too early to tell if that works in 2016.

has very lit toll do with cory booker and a lot more with thou do how cory booker could drive the voteit doesn't mean he would lose his election but instead of getting 70% it could be 68, it could be 67. so this is -- a lot of the politics here has less to do with how much it costs and the value of having the voters vote and more about how this thing is framed coming out of a blue election in a state like new jersey, the reelection of a republican governor an what that sets up for beyond 2014. >> chris christie is afraid of numbers that don't look good nouf for him to one in 2016. he's spending $25 million to frame his potential run for president in 2016? that's even worse than the story line coming out before you sat in that chair. >> again this is not about chris christie being afraid of anything. this is a political decision that was made. a lot of the national republicans are bothered if not in fact upset that they didn't get a fair shot of having a republican hold the seat for the next year, as opposed to having the special election in october with an election in november. so ther

the sort of back and forth he had lately with cory booker over whether or not corey booker was running with his blessing for the democratic seat he was vacating. one of the last things we discussed vis-a-vis frank lawsuitsenberg. i want to ask you, glen, as far as the sort of political dimension of all of this, the senate and a lot of, a lot of discussion in some corners about whether or not, whether or not democrats can hold on to their six-seat majority. we know there was a piece in the "new york times" last week discussing south dakota, west virginia and montana, where democratic incumbents are retiring. and arkansas, alaska and louisiana, where democrats are in a tough, tough fight. i wonder how much you think this changes the dynamics? how much this is something that needs to be considered in the broader strategy for 2014? >> well for one thing i think it's sort of an extension political moment for governor christie. who could theoretically go way out of the box and choose corey booker to serve out the term. that's a possibility, he's certainly been embraced. >> and win a bear for

we'll play a little bit of "meet the press," cory booker. cory booker has issued a statement today. but on me"meet the press," he w not so patient in pushing lautenberg to announce his retirement. let's play a little bit of that with david gregory not too long ago. >> the idea that you've not worked out with senator lautenberg what his plans are. any missteps in terms of that? >> this is really early. we reached out with him, we had a trip down here to speak with him, but he wasn't able to speak. right now the senator who i support needs to focus on the debt ceiling, focus on funding for sandy. i have two good senators in the senate, we're going to support that. >> chris cillizza, it was an unseemly by many accounts, unseemly push to try to get lautenberg to announce his retirement. >> well cory booker may have not seen anything there. but we know for a fact because he sort of referenced it publicly, that frank lautenberg did feel in fact that cory booker, the mayor of new york, widely seen as a rising star, he took a pass on running against christie. making clear his intention to r

appeal, and cory booker from a majority black city. interesting thing about it, he is more popular outside the city of newark than inside the city. the base is the suburbs, a long-serving congressman named donald payne, that would talk about thinking about running for higher office and democratic office will say, you know, we won't run donald payne, he's not electable. cory booker is different. >> he went for the constituency, the counts, which is wall street, in addition to african-americans. so he's very strategic in the way he's risen and that puts him in a special category. >> he's hedge funders candidate candidate, and this is a guy who was one of the people who came out in front and said don't criticize mitt romney for being a -- >> it was on "meet the press" during the 2012 -- >> this is where his backing comes from, wall street. this is as much of a wall street candidate as everyone and that's why he has that broad support. it really comes from the wealth. >> booker, a little broader, look at afirmtive action, and i think in th

he's leading his democratic opponent by a lot but cory booker is very popular nationwide and could really bling in a lot of democratic voters that could come and shake that up. cenk: obviously they're not running against once another booker for the senate and christie for governor again but it would draw in a lot of democrats. do you think that might be the overwhelming reason he wanted to separate those two elections? >> i mean it definitely, i don't doubt that it came into consideration. i think that that argument sort of goes both ways. i think i read that some democrats were a little worried if you put it on the same day people often vote, action as i'm voting christie, i'll just vote for the republican senate candidate as well. people were sort of wary of having it the same day people are wary of having it a different day. it's all just sort of kind of a mess. i think everybody is concerned about no matter what they do. cenk: that's a great point by elise. harry reid were thrilled that it was on a different day. they would rather have that by himself, because they don't want chris ch

favorite, off the november ballot. >> i'm cory booker. >> why? r could help barbara buono, who in her ad says she's not that well known. >> let me be clear, this guy is bono, i'm barbara buono. >> reporter: christie shrugged off the charge. the special election, costing almost $24 million benefits booker. no surprise, democratic and republican leaders in the senate had different reactions. >> i won't question the path that he has chosen. >> i'm happy with what he's done. >> reporter: who will be named as temporary replacement until the october election, the governor's office says no decision made. an adviser to cory booker says the mayor will make his decision at the appropriate time. one top gop strategist said "it would have been very helpful had christie waited until 2014." jim acosta, cnn, washington. >>> let's bring in cnn's jake tapper. host of "the lead." john berman keeps telling me the biggest winner in all of this is chris christie, do you agree? >> there are certain advantages to what he did. he can make the case to new jersey democrats

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cory booker said he was going to be running for this seat in 2014. but new jersey governor chris christie gets to have an interim appointment. that person would be expected to be a republican and that would bring the democrats majority in the senate from 55 to 54, reducing it by one. of course, how this impacts some particular pieces of legislation like the immigration legislation that's going to be hitting the senate floor later this month is unknown. but it does mean that the democratic majority won't be as big as it was earlier. >> all right. thank you very much, mark murray. again, a liberal icon in the u.s. senate, senator frank lautenberg. we have casey hunt? on capitol hill. i know that -- we literally just got this confirmed, but i'm wondering at this early moment, is there -- i'm sorry? is there any reaction there? all right, casey sh we're having some ifb problems, so let me bring in our panel for this morning. amanda turkel joins us with "huffington post" and ron fornier. let's talk first about what we heard mark murray was discussing and

head to head between cory booker and steve lonegan it's 54% to 27%. chris christie is widely expected to win re-election in the landslide. after all, governor christie night have provided steve lonegan good old christie coattails. that is not happening. christie avoided answering direct questions about lonegan's chances including this exchange. >> governor, what do you think of the steve lonegan candidacy for u.s. senate? are you disappointed there aren't any moderates in the party running? do you think that hurts the party's chances? >> you know, listen, again, that's another way of asking the second part of terry's, so no thanks. >> ah, but this has not deterred mr. lonegan. >> i anticipate with enthusiasm governor christie and i will be making great team the next 16 weeks to win the first republican u.s. senate seat in 42 years. >> koch brothers stooge, perennial also ran, spanish language billboard hating, obama care repeal crusading, lonegan is christie's special election stepchild. we'll be right back. >>> pentagon papers leaker daniel ellsberg

rush holt, sheila oliver and cory booker. on the republican side this is interesting.former mayor of bogoda, new jersey who is a serial campaigner tea party guy named steve lonegan. he ran in the governor's race twice and lost both times. his competition on the republican side a woman by the name of alita ecks. she's also a self-described tea party candidate. so if you want to know who is going to be the next senator from the great state of new jersey after this placeholder guy, we still don't know, but the republican field is not exactly a constellation of bright political stars. and the democratic primary ought to be a good fight. between four accomplished serious-minded democrats who are all pretty well regarded and who all have real jobs in politics. on paper on the democratic side for that senate seat it is a great fight. it is a great fight on paper until you look at the other part of the paper that has the poll numbers on it. a quinnipiac poll out today shows that in the democratic field mayor cory booker leads by, wow -- he leads by 44 points, leads rush holt b

if he puts cory booker -- no matter who he puts in -- >> right. >> cory booker running for the senate the ballot, that's not going to affect his reelection campaign in new jersey. he's immensely popular. >> it doesn't matter. you also talked about tom kings. >> a distinguished republican centrist, he's got a lot of choices. >> i think it's the conventional thinking that we just spelled out there. but since when has that ever worked for chris christie? it's almost -- it appears he almost becomes more popular when he goes against conventional thinking. >> gene robinson, chris christie is getting democratic votes, getting money from democrats, getting money, actually, from members, i guess, of george sorros' hedge fund. he's breaking down barriers to say the least. of course, all of this makes him less popular with the national republican party who would prefer to lose every four years and expand their base and expand, actually, their support. >> look, let's not forget, chris christie is a republican and so, of course he's going to name a republican in my view. and i think, you know, the

and then he'll get to run for re-election, safely alone without cory booker on the ballot 20 days later two elections in 20 days? $12 million a pop, really? despite governor christie's protests today that his hands were tied, he had to do it this way, there is nothing in new jersey law that made him do this. he just chickened out. amazing. and now, having chickened out, he gets to continue his re-election campaign to be governor again. his re-election campaign is running under this slogan, strong leadership. wow. strong, maybe, but also clearly afraid. with our "name your price" tool, people pick a price and we help them find a policy that works for them. huh? also... we've been working on something very special. [ minions gasp, chuckle ] ohhh! ohhh! one day the world... no, the universe will have the pricing power they deserve. mouhahaha! mouhahaha! mouhahaha! ooh-hee-hee-hee! blaaaah! we'll work on it. wah-hah-hah! stopping at nothing to help you save. >>> okay. this video has been kind of a haunting thing. at least it has been for me. through this incredibly rough storm season we've

there are some thoughts out there that the governor was concerned that cory booker running for the senateunning for the open senate seat might draw a very large turnout and that in turn might aid his democratic opponent in the gubernatorial race this fall. barbara bono. so there are some political calculations, some say in all of this, but you heard governor christie just a few moments ago, suzanne, say there were no political calculations in this and that what he wanted to do was what was best for the people of new jersey. >> he's been criticized by the conservative republicans when he appeared with the president after the big storm that hit his area, his region, for aligning himself with the president here. does he do himself any favors in what he's decided now with the conservatives? >> i think that remains to be seen, suzanne. a lot of people were saying, wait a minute, governor christie, you come across as a fiscal conservative, you're selling yourself as a fiscal conservative by setting a special election for october, instead of just having everything done in november, that is going