look at it this way, cory booker, opted out of the governor's race to run for frank lautenberg's seatalking about challenging him is frank palone, the congressman from the shore. this is the third or fourth potential opening i've seen where frank palone has been mentioned. you have people locked into seats now for so long with no upward movement and kept people sort of below them from moving up a few wrungs and ending up in this situation. >> is some of this -- the other part of this, is some of this when jon corzine came in and basically bought off the new jersey democratic party, you know, and so many ways to sort of become a u.s. senator and then eventually governor, did that end up dwarving the growth of the democratic party oddly at least among some individuals? >> i really believe that the biggest reason that chris christie was in position to benefit so much politically from sandy and other things that happened the last four years, the reason he was able to win in 2009 is because of the new jersey democratic party, it really goes back to jon corzine running for the u.s. senate a

states senator frank lautenberg. >> we are connected. i love a robot voice. probably just a person who talks like that, which makes you think it's a robot. it's interesting, right? this ad is about senator pat toomey. about how a republican senator from pennsylvania named pat toomey should vote for the same kind of background checks that his home state is already using, but anybody moved by that ad to call that number at the end of it is not necessarily connected to pat toomey's office or some fund raising organization. instead, it asks you to enter your zip code, then it connects you to whoever your senator is. oh. so that you can tell your senator. okay, to support background checks. take people who are moved by this issue and connect them to the person they can most move in washington. senator. this ad is also getting a million dollar ad buy in washington and in ten states. this showings neil, whose 6-year-old son jesse was killed in newtown. it is being run in states to target these ten senators. the idea is that the senators themsel

joining me is larry gatlin, also former adviser to new jersey senator frank lautenberg, julie and red eye's andy levy. great to have you guys here. >> all right. >> julie, let me start with you. we went through this terrible housing collapse. people lost homes, they were in foreclosure, the banks on the brink had to be bailed out by the government, which i still think was nut. now the president is saying we ought to give loans to people who really don't qualify. does that make sense? >> well, what doesn't make sense is allowing the banks secure advertises the mortgages. mortgage backed security is part of the reason for the great recession. i'm concerned about the fact that these banks, put them in the trenches that they can sell basically as junk bonds and at the end of the day you have horrible situations where the banks and the homeowners have to be bailed out. we have to make sure the banks and the lenders and the borrowers are in the position to be able to really be a good faith honest broker in terms of paying the mortgages back and not secure advertising them and selling them t

bush is here and a former political adviser to new jersey senator frank lautenberg. welcome. matt, compromise doesn't seem to be very much in vogue in washington. can they deal with the three issues and get anything meaningful done? >> getting the hat trick, eric, that's probably difficult. but one at a time, i think what president obama is doing, reaching out to the republicans, both in the house and the senate is smart. i mean, let's face t. everybody wants to sit around and have dinner with the president, especially if you near congress, and you are increasingly frusterated that, you know, you are not able to move the levers like you would like. to when it comes to the budget, the president needs to get a deal. the short-term skirmishing might have led to his re-election, but him looking back on on the presidency, he has to goat a deal to turn to the major pieces of legislation he wants to pass in the second term, like immigration reform. >> eric: it seems like the president has a high-wire act. he sits down and has dinner with republican senators and attacks them on other

is country music star and political commentator larry gatlin and former advisor to new jersey frank lautenbergjulie, and let me start with you. [applause]. we went through the terrible housing collapse and people lost homes and banks had to be bailed out by the government until it's nuts. and now the president is saying, we ought to give loans to people who don't qualify? does that make sense? >> what doesn't make sense the banks to mortgage-backed security problem is part of the reason. and i'm worried about them putting these into tranches with junk bonds and the home owners and the banks have to be bailed out. before we do this, we make sure that the banks, lenders and borrowers in able to be good faith not securitizing them and giving them to someone else. >> mike: the same pattern? >> and i don't think that the government should be incentivizing the banks to repeat the mistakes of the past or the home owners. and there's a notion that everybody needs to own a home. i don't understand that, if you can't own a home, i rent. i don't feel like a second class citizen. if you can afford a home,

it's frank lautenberg's bill, but he's sick.senator joe manchin of west virginia talked about amending his background check bill so it instead just says, okay, how about this, how about we just try to fix this. the fbi says 247 people on the terrorist watch list legally bought guns in the united states in 2010. how about we just take the baby step of fixing the terrorist watch list loophole if we can do nothing else. is at least that doable? those two measures would make discreet, simple, concrete changes in federal law. but you got to think that both of them are also a test. if we cannot agree that the sale of bomb making material is the kind of thing that might maybe need some rules attached to it, if we cannot agree that the terrorist watch list might be a good place to start in terms of regulations who you sell guns to in this country, than is it possible to agree on anything at all? can we agree that the sun will rise in the east? if it is not possible to ban people from being -- people on the terrorist watch list from buyi

. >> open debate, breaking news that senator frank lautenberg from new jersey may come to washingtonn toomey/manchin, which is an indication of apparently how tight it's going to be. >> in terms of emerging coalitions is a guy under whose masthead you write mayor bloomberg and the fact that he is not letting this go as a national issue. >> you have wealthy outsiders who are willing to put their money and their stature behind the issue of gun control. yeah, he is a leading example. >> we will be following it all week, all month, all year. >>> as the u.s. unwinds its military presence in afghanistan, another forgotten war wages on. the increasing and legally questionable campaign of government-sanctioned drone strikes, just ahead. what do you think? thats's great. it won't take long, will it? nah. ok! this won't take long, will it? no, not at all. how many of these can we do on our budget? more than you think. that didn't take very long did it! this spring, dig in and save. that's nice, post it. already did. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. dig in and save w

jay rockefeller, tim johnson, frank lautenberg and tim hark in.ir top goal was that none of those five guys would retire. all of those five guys are retiring, and now max baucus. 25 have quit just since '09. we're still doing the numbers in our own research, but as far as we can tell so far, this appears to be the fastest pace of u.s. senators quitting that job in modern american history. why is the u.s. senate suddenly such an awful place to work? why are they all quitting? we have been trying for months now to book any of the senators who have decided to quit from either side of the aisle. i have even offered, which i never do, i have even offered that we would only talk about the senate as a place to work. we don't even need to talk policy. but so far not a single one of these quitting senators has said yes. listen, as a country we invest a lot of energy and money and figuring trying to decide who is going to go to the united states senate. tell us if something is wrong there. what is the secret about this place that has you fleeing like rats f

. >> yeah, frank lautenberg not likely to have won.mocrat winning there is going to be tough. >> bill: and [ inaudible ] just got reelected. >> yeah, harry reid is counting heads and those are some hard seats we is going to have to count for. center manchin is . but you have the guys up for re election that are running. senator pryor, senator hagan, these are folks that will be running really hard races. so the democrats are counting seats, and when you have someone who is going to retire, it's going to be a fight for them. >> bill: and the same thing for the senator in iowa, red-blue state, but not blue. >> yeah, there's two harkin in iowa that state is a little bit more swing state. louisiana a red state, but she is a 12-year incumbent, she has run before, so she is a little less vulnerable but the cards are starting to stack one way against the senate demes, and they are going to need a lot of money and a lot of campaigns. >> bill: yeah, when the team of horses is retiring it is going to make it even tougher. speaking for another se

new jersey's frank lautenberg. saxby chambliss of georgia. mike johanns of nebraska. they're all quitting. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." mark sanford's political comeback trail may be coming to an end. with a special election for the first congressional district two weeks away now a new poll shows sanford trailing his opponent democrat elizabeth busch by nine. 50% for cobert busch 41% for sanford after national republicans announced they would no longer fund his campaign because he violated his divorce agreement entering his ex-wife's home without her permission. sanford took an unusual approach pleading with voters in his full page ad in a charleston newspaper. he writes it's been a rough week. though we may be public figures we are still human figures who struggle just as so many other families and divorced couples do in getting child rearing right as best you can. michael steele is the former chair of the rnc and msnbc political analyst and singt ya tucker a visiting professor from the university of georgia from atlanta. were you taken with t

with respect to the new jersey democrat frank lautenberg, he hopes to be back. it is a very positive sign since we have seen him missing a number of votes due to illness. if he is back, that helps democrats. why is that so critical? in addition to his long personal history for greater control on guns and gun safety, they need his vote. they need that number to get to 60. with just a handful out. i think it would be interesting to watch two republicans from arizona. you've got john mccain who his senior aide said he is confident mccain's vote will be a yes. and we're still waiting on jeff flake. as he close personal friend of gabby giffords. they represent a state that went through the trauma of tucson. so they come at this with both the personal experience that their state has gone through and the red state experience. so they will be important to watch as this unfolds. >> i'm curious, kelly. what kind of behind the scenes details can you give us regarding the reaction to the mother of one of the children whose life was taken down in that massacre, giving the pr

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and julie is a former advisor to frank lautenberg and a fox news contributor.'t do the religious thing we do the historical thing. there's a historical figure who is better known and his name is jesus christ, lars. >> yes the most written about man on planet earth, jesus christ, with more books written than any other historical figure and here is google and a ubiquitous presence that decides to inassault over a billion christians on planet earth and what's strange is of course they're a private company and julie will remind us they can do whatever they want to do. of course they can. why would you want to slight this religion and why is it you have to go back 13 years to find the last time that google recognizes easter. they care more about the ceasar-bunny rather than jesus giving up his life to save us for our sins. >> megyn: we have the google doodle from 2000 and remember it was easter and put up the eggs. it wasn't the historical figure of jesus. there it is, back in 2000. but google's statement, it's difficult for us to choose which to highlight and somet

gregg: julie roginsky, a former political advisor to new jersey democratic senator frank lautenberg.katharine ham joins us, editor-at-large for hotair.com. both are fox news contributors. good to see you both. >> good morning. gregg: julie, is there something the white house should and could be doing in addition to say, oh, behave? >> i don't know the answer to that. almost every white house for the past 60 years have been trying to do something to deal with the kim dynasty. nothing seems to work going back all the way to harry truman. you have the bush administration doing carrot and stick approach. clinton administration doing the carrot-and-stick approach. the obama administration is doing the same thing. seems around since 1990 the first george bush administration when they started developing nuclear capability they seemed to sort of have the bellicose statements they put out in order to get some sort of concessions from the west, from the other six partner talks and it's the same cycle over and over again. i don't know what there is to be done really, gregg. gregg: mary katharin

our twitter page -- one member of congress who is not expected to be back this week, senator frank lautenbergthe story from politico is available on politico.com. will not return to capitol hill next week and it is not clear, if ever, he will be back. democrats in new jersey and in washington are watching the moves of the retiring 89-year- old senator closely because if he does not return, it could affect the balance of power in the chamber were democrats hold a 55-45 majority. the senator has been plagued with a number of health issues recently. he has been absent much of the year, including a marathon series of votes just before donruss adjourned. -- congress adjourned. ontenberg did not make clear any return date. he said, "i regret i will not be returning to washington next week as i continue treatment and recuperation from muscle weaknesses and fatigue yuriko -- fatigue." his return remains unclear, the story from politico.com. next is marked joining us from howard beach, new york, on the independent line. good morning. thank you for having me on your show. i saw the budget proposal from

democrat new jersey senator frank lautenberg released a statement last night saying he would not returnt, it is unclear went 89-year-old, who is planning to retire in 2014, will be back. >>> and hillary clinton was in new york yesterday. she spoke at the annual women in the world summit. take a listen. >> we are the richest, most powerful country in the world, yet many american women today are living shorter lives than their mothers, especially those with the least education. that is an historic reversal. >>> the controversial plan b emergency contraceptive will now be available without prescription and without able restrictions a federal judge friday ordered the food and drug administration to lift restrictions on the so-called morning after pill. nbc's justice correspondent, pete williams, explains. pete? >> reporter: craig, this legal dispute has been going on for eight years and the federal judge finally said enough. this is all about the morning after pill, commonly known as plan b. when it came on the market in 1999, it was available only by prescription. the fda eventually said i

i want to salute my colleague, frank lautenberg, who has been a champion of this cause for some time, as well as senator feinstein, cho include, who incn high-capacity magazines in her bill, which is before us now, and my colleague, senator murphy, who has been a partner in this effort. and he and i have listened to the families of newtown when they have told us why they support a ban on high-capacity magazines, which is supported by 65% of all americans and 55% of gun owners. it is supported by groups across the board, from law enforcement to health care, gun safety, child health and education, religious groups, and, for the record, i wish to submit a list, madam president, if there is no objection. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: we have listened to the families of newtown who talk about high-capacity magazines. bill sherlock, for example, who was the husband of mary sherlock. you've seen her picture here. he had this to say about high-capacity magazines -- quote -- "it's just simple arithmetic. if you have to change magazines 15 times instead of five times

blumenthal: on behalf of myself, my friend and a great champion, senator frank lautenberg with us today and others, including my colleague, senator christopher murphy, i call up amendment number 714. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from connecticut, mr. blumenthal, for mr. lautenberg and others, proposes amendment numbered 714 -- at the end, add the following -- mr. blumenthal: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: this amendment -- the presiding officer: two minutes of debate equally divided. mr. blumenthal: this amendment, very simply, mr. president, would ban high-capacity magazines of ten rounds or more, more than ten rounds, that are used to kill more people more quickly. in fact, have been used in more than half the mass shootings since 1982. i ask my colleagues to be listen to law enforcement, their police and prosecutors and others who are outgunned by criminals who use these high-capacity magazines, but i ask you also to listen to the families of newtown to nicole hochley, for exa

frank lautenberg came here. he hasn't been here for awhile. he's been ill. he came here. he voted.we voted with a strong, strong majority to change things here in america so that people who have serious mental illness would have to have a background check before they can buy a gun or that criminals would have to have a background check before they can buy a gun. even people who are selling the guns think there should be some background check. the man that sold the gun to the man who walked into the courthouse in las vegas and blasted away, that man that sold that gun said he sold guns to lots of people that were bad people, but he did it legally. he thinks the law should be changed. so the vast majority of the senate agree that should be the case. but, we couldn't get to 60, the magic number here in the senate. yesterday the families of gun violence watched as republicans defeated a commonsense proposal to expand background checks that has the support of 90% of americans. but make no mistake, the debate is not over, mr. president. this is not the end of the fight. republicans are i