the guy who played that role in 2008 was rudy guiliani.ybody in the media thought rudy juliana was the prohibitive favorite to win the nomination in 2008. but then rudy guiliani actually started running and it's kind of like that moment in men in black when they're scouting out the guy who looks like the alien at the news stand in new york city and then the alien starts talking and it's not the guy who looks like the alien. oh, it turns out it's the dog. rudy guiliani's campaign was so bizarre and completely unexpectedly dysfunctional, not only did he not win, he was the laughing stock of the 2008 presidential primary. they had the idea to not compete in iowa, in new hampshire, also not compete in south carolina. he was going to skip all that, he was above those states. no, he was going to go straight to florida and just start winning then. start winning then, four weeks into the nominating process. absolute, total failure. credit for that genius strategy that turned rudy giuliani from the favorite to the laughing stock because of his stop

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we had it with guiliani, he tolerated bernie car rick ultimately go to jail.o the biggest security job in the united states at that time, homeland security because he was a crony it was all sort of covered up. he had a pad above ground zero after 46911, so it comes out that he rushed to his defense over the weekend. but this kind of, go back to tammany hall, go back to jimmy walker as mayor of new york, things that have happened in many states the country, this kind of thing usually exloads in the end. >> i find this saga in new jersey to be fascinating even totally independent of chris christie's presidential hopes. he does clearly want to run for president. at least before this all happened the republican other than rand paul most likely to run for president. but a lot of the national discussion about it as the national press picked it up belatedly is asserting breezily that chris christie is not going to run, but he was the likely nominee. >> that both doesn't seem important to this scandal, but i am not sure that i believe that. do you think that's true? >

let's go down to florida where rudy guiliani joins us.bad weather down there, you were delayed. >> tremendous amount of flooding. it really is amazing. flash flooding all over this area between palm beach and boynton beach. >> you got to come back to new york. it's beautiful here. it's 9. >> i just got here last night. >> i thought about you specifically for so many reasons. you're the perfect guest to talk about what chris christie went through yesterday. number one, you were the first major politician to endorse him when he ran for governor and now he's the rock star of the republican party for many. how do you feel he handled this bridge scandal from when he learned about it 8:50 wednesday morning, according to him, until his presser yesterday? >> exactly the way a leader has to handle a mistake, and a pretty big mistake and exactly the opposite of what the president and hillary clinton and the way they've handled benghazi or the way they've handled the irs scandal. they've yet to have a press conference. he had a press conference, put

well, new york's new mayor is an unabashed liberal following his two immediate predecessors, rudy guilianind michael bloomberg who emphasized fiscal constraint and crime control. brit, how do you explain a rather dramatic change of direction in new york? >> i think the wonder, chris, is it took this long. it has worked some 20 years since the lasting liberal governance and that ended up rather badly and we now have a new york, a significant portion of whose electorate is composed of people who don't remember what it was like beyond 20 years when the city was crime riden and businesses were leaving and so on. so now it appears after 20 years of governance, which was tough on crime, hospitable to business and new york city has made a tremendous comeback, they will try it again. maybe it will work out better this time than the last time. maybe he won't be able do all these things he is talking of doing. for the sake of new york, i hope he doesn't. >> one noticeable aspect of this inauguration was the clinton. bill clinton swore in new mayor deblasio and hillary clinton was front and center, f

these kinds of statements, the ones we heard from mccain, guiliani, how helpful are they to christie? >> they're helpful, because they're supportive of him, and they make the point that he's answered every question, in a two-hour press conference. but they do leave a little wiggle room here, wolf. you know, as guiliani said, look, if for some reason what he is saying is not true, he has put his political career at risk, and mccain says as long as another shoe doesn't drop. so you can see where republicans are coming from. but you know, they're also making the case that the governor went out, had a two-hour press conference, they want to compare that to president obama on issues like the irs and benghazi where they believe he has not been as forthcoming. they want to compare the two and say, look, chris christie answered every single question. but they're all waiting to see what the investigation turns up in the state legislature. >> could there be sort of a plus side for him? all the media attention that's been devoted to this story, given the fact a lot of conservatives think there i

lou: don't leave out a guy by the name of rudolph guiliani.ted to that ceremony. they're coming right back with the "a-team." they have a lot to sayho>> ♪ lou: we are back with the "a-team," and we want to complete as best we can hear in a short time, the new york times and their call for clemency and pardon, if you will, for edward snowden to many, many of us feel somewhat different about. >> it is typical, what you can expect a massively self-serving because they have benefited from much of the material that snowden stall, and of course they would defend there whistle blower. lou: and the guardian in lockstep with their joint editorials in the same publishing cycle. but also, the reporter for the new york times who wrote this 7,000 pages of drool. >> this is a gat shocking story. on the scene in libya. basically indicating his own reporting. lou: that to put too fine a point on it, but those of you not interested. >> it was shocking to me. lou: it is stunning. your thoughts, snoen, what should he -- where should he be right now? >> at think

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announced he would be hiring an entire legal team headed by a former federal prosecutor under rudy guiliani, currently representing chevron in a multibillion dollar pollution case. the flurry of lawyers, a sign of things to come. here come the subpoenas. the assembly's special committee indicated today that 20 subpoenas would be issued from the assembly for 17 individuals and three organizations. then the new jersey state senate began its investigation today. >> senator weinberg. >> state senator loretta weinberg said she planned to ask for documents from three other christie officials. but first, the man we've been asking questions about from the beginning, david sampson. >> four hours later, wildstein wrote sampson was helping us to retaliate. sampson is one of christie's closest advisers. >> he's a pillar of the new jersey political establishment. he has an enormous amount of respect, democrat and republican. >> next on weinberg's list, regina egea, christie's brand new chief of staff. we know at the very least, egea was aware officials were angry about the traffic jam. >> regina egea, w

john, you worked for the former mayor of new york, rudy guiliani and somebody who writes about independents. what is your take on comments like, for example, talking about the fact that he said when i said i would take dead aim at the tale of two cities i mean it. we do it. >> this was an unapologetically liberal speech with mayor deblasio really setting forth a strong ideological agenda for the city of new york. and dana, as you know, new york city has had 20 years of republican and independent mayors that has coincided with the city's resurgence. deblasio's vision skips over that 20 years and tries to draw a direct connection to the policies of fdr, the great society pol policies and put himself squarely in that direction. this was a strikingly had ideological vision for the city of new york and an attempt to reignite the liberal tradition in urban america. >> it really was. just him talking about one of his big campaign promises that he says he's going to keep which is to try to raisetachs and put that money into pre-k education saying that it's $973 a year. that's less than 3 bucks a da

, guiliani has terrible communications with the minority community.he number one issue for new yorkers. the other is i think he has to confront is how do you deal with all the contracts that need renegotiated? mayor bloomberg says i will not give you anything. i am not laying anybody off. >> that's tough with deblasio. >> there is an interesting point, in his primary election, he did not have union support a. vast majority of support. the teachers union, one union, 1199, that's i. so he's not really beholden to all of these unions. >> water interesting, you could say then, that an argument of the unions losing a little bit of power when it comes to getting people elected? i want to sort of expand that. the democrats outnumber the republicans in the city i think 6 to 1, yet it's been 19, 20 years since there has been a democratic mayor. what does that say about the view of democrats in the city? it seems like with governor, it's the same thing, we have a lot of success with republican governors, success of republican maresch they're not doing it well m

generally came to christie from the offices of other politicians included former new york mayor rudy guiliani. among the trusted aides from his u.s. attorney days, kevin o dowd and mckenna, another lawyer. the political people included bill stepien, the former deputy mayor with whom he severed ties, deputy chief of staff and also broke bridge yet ann kelly who was deputy chief of staff after stepien and who christie very publicly fired and maria ca mel la who used to work for rudy giuliani. bob ingle, tell us, is this second group or the is of a booster rocket you cannion away and say well, i only deal with the lawyers around me and i have -- i have what do you call it a code of trust with them. but these other people i'm sort of cutting them off and letting them drift, in fact, calling them liars and stupid on the way? >> i think both groups had a direct line to the governor's office. you notice that the first person to come out to defend the governor when all this first hit was rudolph giuliani. that wasn't a coincidence because so many of the people who are working for christie now worked

. >> tonight former new york mayor rudy guiliani is calling the public releasings nightmare for team christie a partisan -- relations nightmare for team christie a partisan witch hunt. >>> the grammy awards will air right here on wusa9 and morning news anchor andrea roane has more on who is expected to take home some hardware. >> reporter: sunday is the 56th annual grammy awards. who will take home the top honors? i'm joined by usa today entertainment reporter alyssa gardner with some insight on who she thinks will be triumph ant and why. she's covered a lot of these. let's start with record of the year. get lucky, radioactive, royals, locked out of heaven and blurred lines. what do you think is the best chance winning record of the year? >> i actually think it's going to be lord who recorded royal. she's a 17-year-old sort of cinderella darling out of new zealand. she has critical credibility. she also got locked out of the best new artists race which surprised a lot of people, so this reward would be kind of compensation for that and it's also a single in a lot of people love, a hu

but as the former new york city mayor, rudy guiliani says, the threats aren't just because of lasting political unrest in russia. >> the minute you hold the olympics in a place, whether it's salt lake city or rio de janeiro or it's london, you have actually brought all the world problems to you. so, yes, sochi is dangerous, because it's close to the cow caulks. but every one of these causes gets attracted to you and you've got to have enormous security. >> joining us now our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. we're learning a terror threat e-mail was sent to the olympic committees of hungary, and germany. are they being taken seriously? >> reporter: we're told that the officials say no, not for this particular threat. they don't think it's a genuine threat. they think it's some sort of random e-mail from the public. but that really has not eased concerns and worries, as you know, about the sochi olympics. security officials in russia are said to be looking for several suspects, so-called black widows, women that are -- will be claiming to carry out terrorist attacks, they believe,

at the end so i hope that nobody telephones me during this presentation or i will feel like rudy guiliani. i don't know if you remember when he had to answer a phone while addressing a huge political campaign. the scope that doesn't happen. what i want to try to do tonight is tell you about the background of this book which is a big plum pudding of an affair and once i have told you how it will come in to being, two plums from the putting and illustrate what the book is all about but first background. it is the context story. as you might be able to tell i am english. i fell in love with this country quite literally when i first arrived hindered in 1962 as a student hitchhiking. i basically match in london and dublin get to of science fair, schoolchild science fair, i met a young canadian women. i was 17 and she was 16 and we fell in love or whatever one does at that age. i went to oxford. that i would visit her. i worked in a mortuary carving up bodies and earned enough money to go see her. i arrived in montreal in early 1962 and saw carol as her name was and after a while there was a hu

judge napolitano: i agree with rudy guiliani.ou can make poor people rich by making rich people or has been a failure throughout all of american history and british history. i didn't want to go there. you are my favorite prime minister of recent memory, margaret thatcher once said, many great 1-liners from her the problem with socialism is sooner or later you run out of other people's money. bill deblasio thinks that won't happen. he will drive the high welfare's out of the city before they let him take their wealth from them. stuart: he is dragging president obama to the left, you could argue bill deblasio occupies an import position in the democrat party. judge napolitano: i don't know people drag president obama to the left but he is one of the new left leaders of the democratic party nationally along with governor o'malley of maryland. and pull the democratic party to the left. and the democratic nomination to the left of hillary clinton. charles: in your illustrious career you saw people go to jail, when they got in jail, it

rudy guiliani becomes mayor. names, but the mayors were not doing it. they weren't doing a good job. rudy became mayor, did he an excellent job. mike bloomberg did an excellent job. then you have the change. so it's very popular. it's easy. it's a great thing to say and everybody wants to vote for a guy like that, but what happens is when things start turning bad and when crime goes through the roof and when taxes get even higher in the case of new york, they're way too high, and people are going to leave and they are leaving. so it's very popular, but when it turns, it's nasty and it turns very quickly. >> if he doesn't change, there will be a problem. >> no doubt he's a lefty. we'll see how far the city does go to the left or right in the middle where it probably should be. donald trump, see you back here or monday. >> thank you very much. >>> 13 minutes after the top of the hour. the battle over the obamacare contraceptive mandate hitting religious groups. next, an archbishop who is taking the president to tas

kathy mcmorris rogers, kevin mccarthy, rudy guiliani, big show when martha and i see you in ten minutes delicious calories. well, not exactly like yours. >>> well, you had seen them on the "the real housewives of new jersey." don't call them house men. they don't like that at all. our next guests are the sons of caroline, one of the stars of the show, and they join us now. right now. super bowl drinks coming up. >> we are. >> they're talking about -- thanks. appreciate it. >> thanks for having us. >> you've got a joint in hoboken called little town. you're from my little town out in new jersey. here we are in the elements right now. we're freezing. i think it's funny you've got iced hair because we're surround by ice. what would make a great super bowl beverage for this sunday? >> some of the restaurant, you want to promote what's out there and kind of join the festivities, if you will. so we have -- >> look at that. green? >> team drinks going on. >> broncos and seahawks, of course. >> it's got ice in it! don't you have something on a can of sterno. >> toe back psycho. >> tell me what'

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