it was not charlie crist, it was charlie crist and jeb bush. there are republicans, brother mainstream republicans, who believe in redemption and will take risks for it. there are others to become the new mainstream who are willing to do whatever they can to suppress the vote, and i think that is why it is important those of us on the left early to say, i may not agree with you on most things, but if this is one thing that we agree on, let's get it done. >> i want to raise the question, the supreme court will be deciding very soon on the issue of voting rights. your sense of what it looks like in terms of the court's decision, the importance of this decision? >> we have chosen to remain optimistic because the supreme court upheld the voting rights act in the past four decades. it would be an outrageous violence of multiple presidents for them to strike down section 5 now, especially because it was passed unanimously -- well, 98 with two abstaining, after 15 -- >> >> and section 5? >> the part that gives the certain counties the power to preempt

. >> you can follow christian schaffer on twitter, he's at @ crist on abc2. >>> former division chief jonathan hart says the county is not equipped to ensure firefighters safety. in the editorial hart said as well as a fire that injured 25- year-old gene kirchner last week. county disagrees with the statements and says it has plenty of qualified people to manage larger fires. >> that's the first thing that should be there at the beginning of the i think so when things are dangerous, when things are happening very quickly. when things are very contrite. that's the person in the incident. >> we have many command aers and every day they're commanding fires and other incidents in baltimore county and doing so successfully. >> under the national average. the fire that injured kirchner is still under investigation. >>> e well, tonight, schools were rewarded for hard work and dedication while the school district learned that they'd be losing millions of funding from the federal government. they competed in various categories, painting, dance, poetry, and others and while they were being hone

investigators believe the victim's shoe somehow ended up in the canal or intersection of hill crist avenue and wild horse drive. he went to get it and got caught up in the fast-moving water. the teen's 10-year-old cousin tried to rescue him, realizing the water was too powerful, we went to get help but it was too late. the teen's body was found in the water two hours later. >> a boeing 787 dreamliner flights today resumed. flights in san jose are supposed to start again as well soon. ana's commercial flight in japan follows 170 test flights which were required after battery fires on board. san jose international airport launched dreamliner service january 11 but because of battery problems grounded lights just six days later. well ana plans to resume dreamliner service between san jose and japan on june 1st assuming all goes as planned. >>> first cal train to use the new track rolled through san bruno this morning. $147 million project to improve safety by elevating tracks over san bruno, san mateo and angus avenues. grave separations help reduce accidents by separating vehicle and pedestr

reporter: more events with wounded veterans and then next week, the prince will visit the kingdom of cristm going to be spending the entire day with prince harry. so believe me, nobody is going to get naked. >> reporter: there will be the obligatory polo match for charity, complete with a guest list of hollywood a-listers and hedge funders. it's no wonder the ladies are clamoring to get their hands on a ticket. rumor has it that all the children and girls in particular of parents that are associated with the olo club have been saying please don't that i can your business associates, please take me. >> reporter: even if you don't get to go, ladies, at least we'll get to see pictures of the prince looking all ma hcho, alln the name of charity, of course. >> thank you for watching abc news. "world news now" is coming up soon. tune into gma tomorrow and as always, we're online. good night, see you right back here tomorrow.

want us to defeat terrorism the only poll that crist. has really about it's. going to look at you distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm abby martin and we're going to break that. more news today violence is once again flared up from these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada from china operations are all day . welcome back to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter about to mind you we're discussing events unfolding in iraq. we still have kelly and grant michael decided to leave the program i guess he didn't like the questions grant you want to jump in right now all right you know yeah peter this is the problem in the united states we don't have rough and tumble conversations like this between informed analysts so you know i'm not surprised that michael hamlin decided to leave but you know let's just think about his think tank is a microcosm of the iraq invasion problem in two thousand and two the b

christie's embrace of obama is much like florida governor charlie crist's obama love. after jumping in bed with obama crist eventually had to leave the gop. >> come on, alex. i don't think so. look. chris christie has a problem in his own party but if you look at the national polls he's also the only one who can give hillary clinton a run for her money. the republican party right now is split. you see john mccain fighting with republicans in the senate and you're going to see the same issues with chris christie. i would argue that the visit from the president doesn't hurt him any more than he already has been hurt because people believe he's moderate and if you don't like a moderate republican, you just are not going to support him. >> he has made this calculation that he is who he is and is going to call it like he sees it and stand with a president who helped his state, answered his phone calls, has checked back to see how you're doing. chris christie's calculation is there are some republicans who will never forgive me, they'll blame me for mitt romney's loss, not g

republican primaries, bringing marco rivera to a victory over the previous establishment candidate charlie crist. they made in the massachusetts special election decided scott brown who shot the democratic card in my one-party state and by november 2010, the tea party was massive gop that the how these are much more conservative republicans. we all know they push those republicans to refuse compromise with the obama administration throughout 2011 and push for big cuts and changes in national policy. and we see tea party funders weighing in during the course of the 2012 primaries in a way that i'll discuss at the end of my remarks. having reminded you go of that huge phenomenon that changed the focus of national debates and created a lot of new energy on the formerly dejected right, let me mention how we got involved. the nest of his demented term paper for robert putnam's capital fund and noticed it was on the right that a lot of protest energy was happening around health care reform. i was finishing up the first two years in 2010 and couldn't help notice the agenda has been shifted by a remarka

. >> charlie crist dropped out so he won it. >> his base helped get him there extremely conservative,ing this out you can imagine the blowback he's already been getting. if this thing goes through on the one hand, hey, you know. it helps him with hispanic voters, it's something long-term when you're looking at a national election probably puts him on better footing but if it doesn't work or even if he's -- >> i always say watch what ted cruz says and does. we know ted cruz wants to run for president and he's clearly staking out the other ground. >> exactly. >> alan, ruth, thank you. >> thank you. >>> and right now we're watching the white house press briefing room where jay carney, the white house press secretary is expected to give his daily briefing at any moment. there will be a lot of benghazi questions, that i can assure you. you are watching msnbc. [ whirring ] [ dog barks ] i want to treat more dogs. a. >>> as leaders in washington wrangle over what to do about syria, turkey's prime minister sat down for an interview with ann curry, she spoke to him about chemical weapons and t

look at charlie crist, the former governor of florida and hugged barack obama and ended his career asublican. barack obama is a boogeyman to the republican party. there's nothing you can do that's worse. not cheating on your wife, using taxpayer money to fly yourself down to her country. none of that is as bad as what chris christie did in being nice to president obama. >> you believe that? >> i believe that's the singular motivating force of republicans. if you look this in district right now, people are voting or saying in polls, at least, republicans, they fill favor mark sanford. they don't like him. he's under water with both men and women, yet mostly men in the poll are saying they're going to stick with him because he's the conservative and they have this distaste for barack obama and the democrats. >> finally, dana, do you think mr. sanford could win? >> as i was saying, the shock is he could actually, any republican could actually lose -- >> this is, of course, mitt romney carried this by 18 pointed. >> it's completely lop shooside. the fact it's a close contest suggests how

lewis, property executive vice president, kenyon and walsh, cio, united realty partners ceo and cheri cristns real-estate welcome to all of you. let's take a check of the markets with nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole: some back-and-forth action, dow jones industrial average down 36 points, positive for the week and some new all-time record highs on the dow and the s&p. highest levels ever in history. and the nasdaq, the take heavy nasdaq, doing well on the dow jones industrial, and the best performers on the dow, and the nasdaq, and back to you. cheryl: thanks to mortgage interest rates, double digits, ben bernanke could ruin that party, the federal reserve bank of chicago, the fed chief just spoke. >> he brought up the issue of asset bubbles in the past including housing bubbles, and because of the financial crisis it is a lot more vigilant about watching out for future bubbles, watching a lot more key indicators, and with more oversight there will be times weekend identified bubbles, the sub prime crisis. >> the impact of the sub prime mortgage market

that many of the most euro skeptic members of the conservative party are ardent tra trans-atlanta crists they don't have it on board that leaving europe would create a fault line between us and washington as well. >> or maybe it's just that washington, for their own purposes, want the uk to stay, because as you say, they are a reforming force. stay there, alastair. let's go back to jules, who's been speaking to mr. schulz. hopefully, jules, you can hear us now. >> reporter: yes, i can hear you. thanks, ross. sorry about that. we've been having sound issues all morning. yes, i spoke with president schulz this morning. a number of issues to pick up on point you were just making about david cameron and the uk's membership of the eu. we talked about that and i asked him for his advice and i'll bring you that later on in the show, but he did happen to say that, david cameron, by opening pandora's box on a referendum with eu membership, he's created a rug for his backing, in some sense and allowed the party to push him in this sense. but bringing it to a broader issue of just handling these ki

the president is going to new jersey to meet with chris crist tissuing tour the jersey shore and lookt how some of the rebuilding efforts are going look at some of the damage. they are now becoming very good friends, it seems like. i am sure this will drive republicans even crazier that chris christie has sort of embraced the job the president has done on drafter relief. now they are getting together again. >> what's the president doing about gitmo? >> shearhere is the problem that i think is part of the president's creation. he didn't create guantanamo there, the detainees there but he came in to office with a strong commitment to close gitmo quickly and didn't follow through. the problem got worse and worse and he never invested any political capital. yesterday was a commitment to invest political capital. he has some obvious stack els in his way. there were some obstacles congress passed, he signed, that make it harder to move people out of guantanamo but he still has a lot of power left. and for the last couple of years, a lot of us who have been working on the guantanamo issues h

the politics of this -- the fema administrator was appointed by jeb bush that stayed through charlie crist fallon is a republican or a democrat. he deploys support at 100%. >> the governor said that she's very appreciative of the fact that the president has shown such foot-first approach, saying that he supports the recovery efforts. also, the president in that speech from the other day, he made a point of noting where these federal funds go. i want to remind people what he meant by that. take a listen. >> i know everybody in congress cares deeply about what is happening and i'm confident that resources will be forthcoming when it comes to rebuilding but remember it's the ongoing training and equipment that we're making sure that those things are placed. we can't short change that kind of ongoing disaster response. we can't just wait until the disaster happens. >> what do you make out about that? especially how fema has pitted how it operates under the obama administration in comparison to what we saw in the katrina administration, being prepared? >> i think it's great that an agency is pr