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reed wilson from national journals hotline talking about politics. we begin with new jersey. the passing of senator frank lautenberg, democrat of new jersey, opens up the seat. and the governor, republican chris christie, held a news conference. he scheduled a special election for october. roles inwhat are their new jersey for filling the seat? guest: new jersey, like other states, have convoluted -- convoluted roles. it obviously does not, very often. but chris christie's reading of the law is he had to declare a a vacancy, which governors do once somebody leaves the senate in whatever manner they do. he had to declare the vacancy, he had to diskette -- to schedule an election within a certain number of days. depending on how you read the law, it could have been as late as november of this year or as early as what chris christie be awhich there would primary election august 13 and a general election on october 16, so it gives candidates a pretty narrow window of time to get their acts together to campaign throughout the state and run a pretty short general election. one of t

in the middle of it, editor-in-chief, reed wilson for the national journal joining us this morning. >> bill, how are you doing? >> bill: i am doing great. yes realize when i was in the big crowd at the grand reopening of fraggers's hardware store that you were there, too. >> i wondered by and ran into vince gray, who is still unindicted as of today. that line must have been 200, 250 people long. a community store that had been there since 1932 or something like that. we talked about the tragic fire destroying the hardware store. their garden store has been relocated. they had the grand opening with the mayor and about a thousand locals all there lined up. do you live in the neighborhood? >> i am a couple of blocks away over there. >> bill: get your ass in here one of these mornings here i didn't know that. where do we start? let's say, first of all, i have got to start with edward snowden. to many journalists he is a hero. to members of congress, it looks like they are going to treat him as a villain. what's the story? >> i don't know exactly how we are going to sort of proceed on thi

host: reed wilson is joining us from editor of national journal's hotline to talk politics this morning. we'll begin with new jersey, the passing of senator frank lautenberg, opens up that seat and the governor, republican, chris christie, held a news conference yesterday. has scheduled that special election for october. why and what are the rules in the -- in new jersey for filling this seat? guest: well, new jersey, like more than a few states, unfortunately, has some convoluted rules about how to fill a senate vacancy. this obviously doesn't come up very often, but chris christie's reading of the law was that he had to call -- he had to declare a vacancy, which governors do once somebody leaves the senate in whatever manner they do. he had to declare the vacancy, he had to schedule the election within a certain number of days, depending on how you read the law, it could have been as late as november of this year or as early as what chris christie did, there will be a primary election on august 13, a general election on october 16. so that gives candidates a pretty narrow window of ti