>> moderate is a slippery term. it's easier to say what a conservative is rather than what a moderate is. a moderate is basically a practicing mma pragmatitist. actually it's how to get things done so much as articulating the way things ought to be. >> it's mentioned some republicans are leaning more toward the tea party. can traction? >> a lot of this comes down to basic problems that we have with our definitions. but sure. you still have a number of constituents ease in the careen party. if you are looking at gailing out the 2016 nominating contest, there is a reason that chris kristi's name continues to be mentioned in this. he is seen as being the more stereo typical sort of northeastern moderate republican but he has conservative stances. >> people are thinking of what is palatable. i don't know that they think it's authentic. >> that's a question and i think that's something if i were a christie advisors i would be concerned about. his great strength has been that sense that he is a real, authentic character i

here is what to expect: we are going to have light to more likely moderate rain and this will take its sweet time getting through the second wave behind it, and through 4:00, it will take its time. we will get another quarter to half an inch and some could get up to 1.5" in the western facing mountains and hills. ponding will be a big thing. probably will have trees down because they weak but actually, the wind you are nonexistent right now. we will have more on the heavy and moderate rain ahead. >> the inform is leave the biggest mark in the south bay where hundreds of students can not go to school and thousands were without power for hours. matt keller shows us storm-related problems from san jose to los gatos. >> the times on the signs are change. a student teacher began the day in front of the high school in san jose holding this sign saying classes stat at 9:00 a.m. an hour and 45 minutes late because of a power outage. after 8:00, he switched to this, saying no school, after the principal found out pg&e would not have the power back on until at left afternoon. >> we can not have

down to about half moon bay and san mateo bridge up to about highway 37 where we are getting the moderate rain. the light rain is in the green will take over other areas as we head throughout the next couple of hours. here is what to expect: we are going to have light to more likely moderate rain and this will take its sweet time getting through the second wave behind it, and through 4:00, it will take its time. we will get another quarter to half an inch and some could get up to 1.5" in the western facing mountains and hills. ponding will be a big thing. probably will have trees down because they weak but actually, the wind you are nonexistent right now. we will have more on the heavy and moderate rain ahead. >> the inform is leave the biggest mark in the south bay where hundreds of students can not go to school and thousands

they had first bush, they see him as too moderate and the second bush, also in some ways too moderate for them. it doesn't seem that the party is living up to what they actually did. here is somebody who did actually reform immigration and gave a path way to citizenship and that is learnly not the direction the party wants to do. >> the republican hits on christee, they are glancing and sideways. they don't want to mention his name when they are doing it. what is your sense of how this is going to look when it becomes pretty open conflict of republican presidential candidates? >> i think over time it will get more specific over policy. i think the reaction to hurricane sandy and what people refer to as the hug. they didn't actually hug but they had their arms over shoulders. that will arise in the primaries. but when those attacks are coming, i think we need to keep in mind this will be a replay of what happened four year ace go. and you had more conservative candidates. but they had to spend a lot of time attacking each other. there is room in this field for the establishment candida

he's done some moderate things in new jersey.id, which is also really poisonous in the republican base. that makes you a collaborator with the hated obama care. so when you combine the fact he collaborated with obama care and collaborated with obama himself, you've really hit the two biggest emotional touchdowns in the republican party. >> and so final question to you, ryan. where does -- do you think the last week's events leave mr. christie? >> well, i mean, you know, fundamentally, you know, the picture he presents is of an angry white man. and so as much as people try to tar him with the kind of moderate label, republican primary voters are going to be attracted to that position. because, you know, is there a lot of anger in the republican base. and they can see him channelling that. so i think that gives him a little bit more room to be a little bit more moderate in some of his policy positions, like, for example, with the medicaid expansion. which three years from now will be something that maybe is a little bit less toxic.

and young women moderate minority, yes. i mean, if the republican party were a business, you would say they have an unsustainable business model unless they change this. and so you tell me whether they're going to address these challenges. >> chuck, we started out, i was asking charlie about how when we started talking about washington together, they got to the white house, and now we're even. and now you wonder how with the change of social issues whether the democrats are facing a lock. he said he's not sure, could be. what do you think? >> when you start with 200 electoral votes over five straight elections, that's a pretty good baseline to start with, which is what democrats start with. that's their biggest problem. to me what was interesting about virginia governor is it essentially played out like a federal election. when you realize that terry mcauliffe were essentially sway bid swing voters. they weren't really crazy about any of them. there actually is a republican precinct in arlington county, and, you know, all o

look at this, the largest chunk moderate. where do moderates live?urbs in fair fax, prince william, arlington outside of washington d.c. look at this number here, 55% of moderates breaking for terry mcauliffe. a third of the vote going for ken cuccinelli. terry mcauliffe winning right now. again, this is what we see tonight right now. when the republicans won the governor's race last time watch the northern virginia counties. that's what happened. this is where virginia decided when president obama carried the state in 2012 blew up here. it's right up here in the d.c. area. let's come back to where we are now at 91% of the vote. terry mcauliffe with a very narcotic low le narrow lead. >> nose those of us who live in d.c. area were bombarded with commercials and it was ugly what they accused each other of. >> they said terry mcauliffe was corrupt and running a bunch of lousy businesses and from terry mcauliffe saying cuccinelli far right extremist. they said a very hash campaign. much more spending on the democratic side. republicans will say look at

romney lost to obama by 14 points by moderates. they keep relearning the same less some, but they don't absorb it. and i don't think they're going to absorb it. >> i think the definition of a zealot who after they lose said if they'd only done more. cuccinelli was the problem from day one. instead of saying we blew it by running too extreme they say the moderates didn't back the extremists. therefore it's moderate's fault. >> why are they so zealous? they hate rino. >> describe what that is. >> that's a republican in name only. they think the people that are bringing the republican party down. >> so the guy running for reelection in trenton should have gone down to richmond to campaign for the other guy. and since he didn't, it's his fault. >> the people who are the problem with the party didn't help. so that's the problem. cuccinelli, we talked about this last night, was about as good a tea party candidate as you can get. he had statewide name recognition. he's been working in virginia for years. and even so, he couldn't beat terr

he has power with what's become the moderate wing. they're obviously very conservative but have become the moderates. george w. bush is a former governor himself. i think a lot of the governors there want to say this is where the next president is going to come from. chris christie thinks it's going to be him. i think it's also funny, you've got a bunch of people there who

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. >> rose: is it a moderate party? >> not right now. >> rose: well i mean can you name me five moderates who have elected office in the republican party? >> well,. >> rose: at the state or fall level? >> and here is part of the problem there are a lot of people out there who think chris christie is a moderate. >> rose: but that's now how in defines himself. >> se not a moderate historically those people who have come into the party and redefined who everybody was and think they can rearrange the deck chairs on the party that right now in real estate chul races is the "titanic", they don't understand the history of the republican party or else they wouldn't be calling chris christie a moderate. a lot of this also is a reaction, it is a reaction to eight years of george w. bush, where i have got to say, a lot of the people today who are kicking and screaming and conducting these ideological witch trials, they kept their mouths shut for eight years when george w. bush was president, and he was engaging in reckless spendin

fund and they provided direction that the transfer of low and moderate income housing funds that had been identified through the hat to the city was invalid and directed all funds be returned to the successor agency that was excluded from transfers to housing successors. where we are today is that we have this existing /hatd sitting out there listing all of the housing obligations. meanwhile we're, as you just heard, submitting a property management plan that includes a significant number of affordable housing obligations so they were somewhat in conflict. in order to make our approach consistent, we wanted to take this action to have the commission and then the oversight board confirm what actually is a transferred as sets and what's a retained asset so we can sync up all the documentation. in order to do that we 're providing to you the list of transferred housing assets. there are over 1,000 as setses on that list. perhaps ground leased, the interest is in affordability re restrictions of the original hat with two changes. one, we removed the retained housing obligations from that

moderate has become a dirty word with some republicans recently. he wanted to pull back and say i want to look at the whole range of their views. >> thank you both for being with us on newsmakers. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> monday is veterans day and resident obama and the first lady are expected to host a breakfast. the president is expected to deliver remarks. watch for live coverage starting at 11:00 eastern time. >> both chambers return on tuesday at 2:00 p.m. on tuesday and they will consider bills on suspension of the rules at 6:30 p.m. and in the senate, general speeches when they will debate the nomination of the circuit judge for the d.c. court of appeals. a procedural vote is set for 5:30 p.m. watch live coverage on c-span, the senate on c-span 2. >> the place is call

jimmy, republicans always seem to describe governor christie as a moderate.f syphilis. is moderate a dirty word for republicans? >> syphilis is certainly a dirty word. now, look. chris christie is pro life and he dislikes labor unions for the most part and makes them give him things in the state legislature. i mean, i can tell you this. he's severely conservative when it comes to mitt romney, that is an absolutely fact. but i will say this. rick perry said something interesting that i hate to agree with. a conservative in new jersey is a very different kind of conservative than in south carolina or in texas, and so the question is, i think what you're asking is can a conservative from new jersey play well in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and other states. >> florida. >> texas, florida, exactly. and i think the answer to that is i don't know. and i don't think so. but the republicans don't -- there is no presumptive republican nominee at this point. they don't have anybody. in the last three cycles they have come up with the guy they thought is the one

happen tony i had perhaps stick around you've got some thoughts on chris christie the so-called moderate i want to hear after the break ok i'll be glad to be here. people are interested but he has something to say everybody has a story. that a person want to sit next to an airport. i mean it's always in the was and. that's whether it's a ballet dancer. things that are curious to is it just things i think about. them or not it. from the look of a little it was a. very hard to make out of the significance of the life that he ever had sex with her thick hair flowing. through much. of. the city with a. slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow one of the feel of the flow. in the bus to the rest of the news new jersey republican governor chris christie easily want to re-election tuesday night the now democratic challenger barbara buono christie won reelection in a deeply blue state leading many to think that he'll run for president in two thousand and sixteen and that he could potentially win over democratic voters meanwhile down in virginia tea party republican ke

if you're a moderate republican running in a moderate republican district and you are embracing johnoehner's agenda, then it creates a very difficult path towards re-election. that's why about 14 republicans have bailed out on john boehner in this congress alone and announced they would not run for re-election. >> well, let's talk about what happened in new jersey. chris christie won a convincing victory in a blue state. is he potentially the candidate to beat in 2016 now? do you need to start directing your attention toward chris christie? >> well, i'm directing my attention at the 17 seats that we need to regain the majority in the house of representatives and end the shutdowns and slowdowns, the crisis and the infliction of pain on our economy. i will say this. chris christie, for whatever his reasons, motives, he actually did well by campaigning against john boehner. when the house republicans refused to pass hurricane relief aid, chris christie was one of the first guys out there saying that's crazy. when they shut down the government for two weeks, chris christie actually said

had to endure hours of post-election pundit stupid talk about how chris christie might even be a moderate democrat at heart just crazy dog the pundits do that because they don't arm themselves with actual facts the truth is that the bar has been and has been set so low for republicans these days that i mean the stupid factor is just been set so low that you have the media that is willing to embrace a guy like chris christie in hopes that they can create a horse race to where you actually have a horse race creates profits for the media so take a guy like chris christie who is nothing but a mean spirited oafish bully who is union busting anti-education anti women's equality anti public workers rights pynchon busting you name it he has all of the papers he's in favor of corporate welfare he's willing to take away from the middle class working poor to give it to the rich he's wholly owned and operated by wall street super wealthy donors so here's the point the media loves this guy only because the bar is so low for republicans they tried to do the same thing tom with ted cruz remember they tr

. >> light-to-moderate rain showing up with green or yellow all the way up toward petaluma and rohnert park moving away from you and headed over to american can beyond and napa is you will get sprinkles to light rain again as the waves keep rolling through the north bay stretching all the way back to the president plume marshal road and point reyes station and bodega bay all getting light rain to moderate rain sliding to the east and southeast. it looks like it could head into san francisco as far south as pacifica and daly city if it holds together. from now until 7:00. the best chance for measurable rain in the morning commute will be from the bay bridge north. as we head to noon, everyone is get light rain, the lightest in the south bay but you will pick up if intensity the hardest -- the commute with the wettest roads is in the evening. temperatures are stay in the mid-50's to low 60's and well all get light rain at 7:00. if the kids have practice check the e-mails and the text because the coach could tell you, we are future having it. leyla gulen? >> speaking of american canyon if

a moderate democrat running and moderate republican. these are not normal times. want to rally the american people, stand up and fight what their needs. >> you can do it. >> many of the issues i'm talking about will appeal to people who do not consider themselves -- >> in today's top trender, letting the ayes have it. >> 39 democrats have decided to side with john boehner. >> welcome to the dark side. >> i think it's a deal with the devil when it comes to legislation. house dems are taking heat for voting on the junk insurance bill. >> i wish that our colleagues could see the evidence and that the decisions would be evidence-based. rather than politically motivated. >> one of our big problems in washington is that we tend to react to sound bites, about 30 of them, were insulating themselves against sound bites. >> 46 times i stood up. this is the 47th. i have a state that can't sign anyone up. people are getting their insurance cancelled and they can't get replacement insurance from the exchange. what should i say to them? >> sure they can. >> sorry about that. >>

. >> is that code for he's a moderate?, it's code for the truth of the matter is, listen, we're all different states. is a conservative in new jersey a conservative in the rest of the country? >> that's a great question. so when david gregory asked christie whether he was a conservative or a moderate, he wouldn't really give a straight answer. do you think that's what he's worried about, that moderate is a dirty word? >> well, in the republican primary it sure is. here's chris christie's problem. he's going to face a republican party that by 2015 when the primaries are heating up is going to be as divided as it is today. and when you're looking at places like iowa and south carolina where you have both they vthe y -- evangelical and tea party wing, christie is going to have a difficult time appealing to them because of some of his positions that he's taken. listen, he is obviously more conservative than by most democratic standards, but by republican base standards in some of these key early states, he's a moderate. and a

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christie has this reputation he developed in the media as this moderate.y as moderate as people are portraying him? >> no. and that's the thing. i think when you look at what republicans and really conservative republicans will be asked to swallow with chris christie in 2016, it's not as much of a leap in terms of all of the major boxes you need to check off to sort of be a republican today. like abortion, you look at guns, issues like this. he actually checks off all those boxes. i think back to rudy guiliani and the run up to 2008 and the whole story was can this new york city liberal republican win over the republicans nationally. that was a real leap for republicans. i think there is a reputation with christie as a moderate that's been very beneficial to him politically. and would be very beneficial to him politically in a general election. but i think he is a lot more sellable to the republican base than people realize. >> much more conservative. and i want to look on the other side of that, karen. the "new jersey star ledger" endorsed chris christie,

he won by presenting himself as the bipartisan moderate guy which is not really what he is. no one in the history of terry mcauliffe has ever accused him of bipartisanship. >> what are the issues he wants to attack? >> he wants to find money to expand education, and take care some of the major traffic issues in the washington area and roads, and he wants to do something about job creation. but he's up against that. >> the take away from this is that the democratic party can put up, maybe not almost anybody but certainly somebody like terry mcauliffe who even to a lot of democrats is anodous guy, comes out of the money politics of washington that they can win with candidates like that and republicans put up extreme tea party people who are unelectable even in southern states like virginia. i mean, that's the most amazing thing to me. even in virginia, which is still kind of a republican-leaning state, terry mcauliffe who is not really even from virginia can win because of the republicans couldn't help themselves but put up through that primary process such an extreme candidat

that's what this moderate is fighting for.erate who has finally stood up against the big got having this guy repair active therapy going on in his state and after months and months finally said he thought it was wrong and was hailed as a moderate for sticking up for the gays. but this guy still thinks the gay taxpayers citizens don't have the right to marry who they love. so i don't know where this moderate talk comes from. maybe compared to ted cruz's pop he is a moderate. but according to the dictionary, he ain't. >> given your analysis, what hope does anyone have who is not on the far right wing who is a republican who wants to hold his head up high and say we believe in science, we have our religious beliefs here, but we're common sense cal kind of human beings. where is the hope for the republican party to find a candidate who can run, win over the right wing? >> i ask myself this question all of the time. i think governor huckabee could have done quite well last year. i think chris christie could do it. he is by far the

rowhani is no moderate. no moderates were allowed to run in the iranian election. the moderates were excluded. but he's still a hard liner, it's not clear to me that he can make these decisions anyway as the supreme leader, khomeini who can make these decisions and he hasn't shown any kind of moderation whatever. i think we need to use these next six months to make sure that iran dismantles it's program. they keep saying as we speak, they have a right to enrichment, that troubles me, they don't. >> let me ask you, as a final question, at this moment, what do you think is the worst that can happen over the next six months, and there's really not anything right now that congress can do, is there? >> here's the unfortunate thing, we had put enormous pressure on iran and it was having an impact internally. some of the polling out of the country by gallup showed that 2/3 of the people wanted a western style democracy, and you had hyper inflation, you have mass unemployment in, you have a situation where iran was having a hard time funding the type of instability it like

moderate? >> i'm a conservative. and you know, i've governed as a conservative in this state and i think that's what's led to some people disagreeing with me. >> is he conservative enough to win over republicans in 2016? >>> then pope francis, shaking things up once again, this time asking catholics what they think about gay marriage and divorce. the vatican survey on the modern family, coming up. >>> plus, moments to live in, an extreme kayaker gets stuck under a waterfall and a daring rescue was caught on camera you're watching "around the world," the voters have spoken in key races around the knt and we're watching closely, ha does it mean for 2016 and the presidential race? the big winners are new jersey governor chris christie, a likely presidential hopeful. he beat his democratic challenger, in a mostly democratic state by a wide margin. we're talking 60% of the vote. well christie says he did it by reaching across the aisle, something he says washington has not yet learned. an apparent reference to the 16-day

so how do you say this guy is a moderate, michelle?> because in today's republican party, any deviation from pure conservative ideology means that you're unfit to be their nominee. as we've talked about, he has expanded medicaid and more than that, he has not been sufficiently mean to president obama, which is basically a disqualifier among certain segments of the party. especially the three senators that we're looking at. you know, we're talking about three senators. and most of the republicans i talk to suggest or actually are almost convinced that the 2016 nominee has to come from outside of washington. they think congress is a disaster. all the way around. >> jonathan, if you think the republicans are doing christie in rhetorically, you should listen to the radio talkers. i mean, listen to house they are really, really attacking christie and what they're saying about him. >> i dare you, i mean, all the tough talking chris christie, i want to hear you say yeah barack obama is a liar and he lied about his lies. i don't think that's g

look, he is no moderate. no moderates were allowed to run in the iranian election. all the moderates were xluted. you had six hard-liners that were allowed to run. he is the most moderate. but he is still a hard-liner. it's not clear to me that he can make the decisions anyway. it's the supreme leader, khomeni, who can make the decisions. he hasn't shown any kind of moderation whatsoever. look, i think we have to use the next six months to make sure that iran dismantles the program and that they have no right to enrichment. they keep saying even as we speak they have a right tone richment. that troubles me. >> chairman royce, let me ask you as a final question. at this moment, what do you think is the worst that can happen over the next six months? and there is really not anything right now that congress can do, is there? >> well, here's the unfortunate thing. we have put enormous pressure on iran and it was having an impact internally. some of the polling out of the country showed that two-thirds of the people wanted a western style democracy. right? and you had hy

most of us see him as a moderate, most analysts do. is that the difference between him and cuccinelli, does the moderate winning of the republican party gain some new traction today? >> i think just a little bit. but if you're talking about christie for president in 2016, i still think it's a huge long shot for obvious reasons. namely when you get him to the primary season for the republicans, he's going to seem way, way, way too liberal particularly on social issues for a lot of folks. he is a pretty unique character. just listening to that just now sort of thinking i'm listening to tony soprano. brash, catholic, tough guy, he has the vibrato which has played very well and comes interestingly against the backdrop of the state with very high taxes and exceedingly high poverty rate. >> that's true, tom. >> i disagree with jim. christie is opposed to gay marriage. pro-life. i don't know what more conservative you want on the social issues. chris christie, the one thing he has done and done very well is what republicans throughout the cou