governor chris christie and shaquille o'neal. a little photo op.ve responses for the caption. natalie? >> well, roe said, look at me, looking up to an obama supporter? yikes. way too early to be way too tall. and john said, how is the weather up there? and jack said, hey, it's the guy from the soda shack. >> do we have one? >> we do. >> those are real? >> those are real, apparently. i've never had one. and then tom said, daddy, can i have an ice cream cone? shut up and drink your beer. >> that's something shaq would say. thank you, natalie, have a great weekend, everybody. "morning joe" starts right now.. >>> it is day the end of the government shutdown, but you know day ten -- let me add that to my frequent shutdown punch card here. okay. get that right there. and -- oh, hey, i win a free cdc eboli monkey. >> welcome to "morning joe." we have mark halperin. how are you. you're smiling. i like that. good to have friends on board.

governor chris christie and shaquille o'neal. a little photo op.ve responses for the caption. natalie? >> well, roe said, look at me, looking up to an obama supporter? yikes. way too early to be way too tall. and john said, how is the weather up there? and jack said, hey, it's the guy from the soda shack. >> do we have one? >> we do. >> those are real? >> those are

>>> new jersey governor chris christie scored an intriguing endorsement from former nba star shaquille o'nealthe daily news points out, o'neal joins a number of prominent african-american officials an pastors out in support of chris christie, his growing stat tour in the african-american community stands in stark contrast with other republicans in the country. shaquille o'neal praised his education reform efforts. >> i don't endorse many politicians but chris christie is different. he's working with me to bring jobs back to the cities and help kids in tough neighborhoods get ahead. he provided more funding for schools and giving more parents more choices and merit pay for good teachers. he's a good man -- excuse me, he's a great man. please join me in supporting chris christie for governor. >> joining me now daily beast senior political correspondent david freelander. i think the end of that -- excuse me, he's a great man. bringing up that charm shaquille o'neal has which is why people like chris christie rough around the edges but able to turn on this local loveable charm as some people woul

and that's what shaquille o'neal touted in his endorsement of christie.this is something the democrats have to worry about, whether clinton is on the ballot or not. >> if we do look at clinton being on the ballot or not, there is an achilles heel when it comes to benghazi. senator lindsey graham said republicans were going to double down on their efforts to get to the bottom of what happened there, thinking that they haven't asked enough questions and they don't have enough answers publicly. he specifically mentioned secretary clinton. take a listen. >> and where was hillary clinton during all these multiple requests for security? you could see this attack a long time in the making, according to the people on the ground in libya. why couldn't you see it in washington? and who the hell told susan rice this story about a protest gone bad? >> so it seems that benghazi and that being a strength for republicans going after hillary clinton will remain a strength all the way through 2016. >> it's a powerful driving force for conservatives and something they have

shaquille o'neal has been known for great closure when it came to world championships. think he'll help close it out for chris christie in this race. christie has run almost a textbook perfect campaign. i think he'll have a great run. >> you don't have to take ideological positions on everything. you can get away from abortion rights. anyway, here was ted cruz on friday making a case against running moderates. never forget what you hear now. this is the voice of the hardest right who says there's something wrong with compromise, something wrong with moderation. this is barry goldwater 2013. here he is, barry's back. >> what all the washington strategists say in 2014? let's go back to the model of '06, '08, and '12. pushing on obama care, that's risky. no, no, no. keep your head down and we'll win races. that's not how you win races. that's based on the oh, so clever idea that if your opponent is here in the spectrum, you want to be infinitesimally to their right so you can capture every voter where you are. the problem is if you do that, you destroy any reason everyone

. >> shaquille o'neal making an endorsement for a new jersey candidate. he is backing coming up. >> two indiana students face charges for stabbing a student. university police arrested sun sun chen and kie ue wow on sunday. both charged with intimidation and chin is also charged with battery. the two had been arguing with the victim who was stabbed in the back. the victim is going to be okay. it is not clear why the three were arguing. this is a great call in chicago. the over due bills of cash strapped women's sherlts. the owner of the charity who has been struggling to secure new grants she didn't realize it prepared so much. >> chris christie gets his tallest endorsement in the campaign, shaquille o'neal. >> i don't endorse many politicians. but he's different. he's, woulding with bring jobs back to our cities and with a new program to help tough neighborhoods get ahead. governor crist tee provided more school choices for parents. >> o'neil is a new ark native and has arrested cyst thristie state initiatives in the past. he doesn't normal glit involved

. >> the list is now three of candidates that shaquille o'neal has endorsed in his lifetime.re in 1999, barack obama for president only in 2012. only for reelection and now chris christie. >> he has a long list of products he has liked to endorse. gold bond powder, the icy hot patch is among them, too. what chris christie is doing, this is really about the black vote. he is trying to argue that he can get the black vote. it looks like he is on pace to get about 30% of the black vote. he has prominent endorsement from black preachers in new jersey. he is going to be making that argument in 2013 that he is a different kind of republican. between african-americans and latinos and he is going to get a pretty good majority or slice of that in his pam f -- campaign. will there be a republican candidate who can match george bush's ratings among black folks? did very well in key states. can he match that or can he even get -- nixon got about 17% of the black vote. was on the cover of jet magazine with sammy davis jr. i think that's the question. is there going to be a republican cand

. >>> christy is called a great man in the new ad by shaquille o'neal. >>> now the cliff diving world series. come pet tors take to the mountain in thailand diving up to 90 feet. this is the last of the diving championship. the overall championship crown won here. that picture right there, beautiful. >> that's absolutely gorgeous. >> the height is a little too much for me. >>> time for a look back now. michael jackson's doctor released from prison. murray served two years in the conviction of the death in 2009. on this day 1962 the end of the cuban missile crisis reported by nbc ray sheer. >> if he does, we will call off the quarantine and there will be no invasion. >> happy birthday to joaquin phoenix 39, julia roberts turns 46. charlie daniels 77. >>> this morning, lindsay von talks about her upcoming season, injuries and relationship with tiger woods. then a performance by se lean i did i don't know. [ female announcer ] now get high speed internet at home on our newly expanded advanced digital network, a connection you can count on. at&t u-verse high speed internet offers more spe

[laughter] >> shaquille o'neal, he got booted in atlanta. did like an instagram video where shaq was pretending to choke a guy. >> got to be terrifying, even if you know shaq is joking. >> hey, i love you!

. >>> and in pretenders tonight, nba legend and anti-itch powder pitch man shaquille o'neal. jersey's most famous big guy, chris christie. the diesel is backing christie because of support of public education? >> chris christie is different. he's provided more funding for schools, given parents more choices of schools, and better pay for teachers. he's a good man. excuse me. he's a great man. please join me in supporting chris christie for governor. >> shaq, you traveling with some bad information there, dude. chris christie cut a billion dollars from public education in the first year alone and fired 6,000 teachers. shaq also called christie a great man. let's watch his little buddy at work. >> you know what? and you know what? and you know what? let me tell you this. it's people who raise their voices and yell and scream like you that are dividing this country. if what you want to do is put on a show and giggle every time i talk, well, then i have no interest in answering your question. i can go back and forth with you as much as you want. after you graduate from law school

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shaquille o'neal is throwing his support behind republican governor chris christie.a new ad for christie's re- election campaign in new jersey. features the former n-b-a star. in it, o'neal praises christie for his economic and educational policies. voters in the state head to the polls on november fifth. we're the biggest economy in the world.and some say, the most powerful. but a new study says we americans fall short on gender equality. zain asher has the story. forget the battle of men versus women. it's the u-s versus the world. and we're not doing too well when it comes to gender equality. the world economic forum looked at where men and women are most equal, and ranked 136 countries. number one? iceland. followed by other nordic countries like finland, norway, and sweden. but if you're looking for the u-s, we're not even in the top ten. nicaragua is ahead of us. so is cuba. the u-s doesn't even make the top twenty. to find us, you have to go all the way down number 23. last year, the u-s was number 22. so we've dropped. the u-s gets high marks for economic opp

and they know what it means to work with democrats to compromise and the most recent obviously shaquille o'nealof chris christie. this is where the party should be looking to move forward. >> chris christie has been talking about bipartisanship a lot and doesn't want to be caught in the type of conflict in washington over and over again. if he wants to run for president is another matter because obviously there's a reason why everyone in washington is at each other's throats, it's politically beneficial. >> you write about a deeper point in your column, with the middle class nur dur res and inequality rising, they offer tax cuts for the wealthy and reduced subsidies, does the republican philosophy sort of fundamentally not match the problems of our time? >> i'm not sure if the philosophy, it's seems to be the practice more. you have two wings of the republican party. one wing wants to going ba to the 1980s and ronald reagan and the other to the 19th century. politics and campaigns are tests about the future. there's not that contest taking place right now in the republican party. it seems to be

the store personnel were not involved. >> star governor chris christie is getting a boost from shaquille o'nealexplaining support for the governor. he mentions kristi's support for education and refers to him as a great man. the election is set for november 5th. >> department see that coming. children are turning to devices more often than ever. 30% of age under 2 have started using the devices earlier than previously thought. they found 7% of children now have a tablet device of their own. >> i was in the apple store this weekend and i was there for eight hours. it was not fun. but they had this table with ball chairs around it and there were 2-year-olds. and there were four tables like that and parents just hanging around letting their kids be obsessed with the ipads and going like this. they were little, little kids and they were wizes on the ipad. it was amazing to watch. since i was waiting for hours, i got to watch that for hours. >> that's fantastic. we may want to hire willie. >> that are genius. >> george geist. >> he is brilliant with the touch screen. >> maybe we can put him in charg

kristi gets an 11th hour endorsement from the big aristotle, shaquille o'neal. >> i don't endorse many politicians, but chris christie is different. he is working to bring jobs ba being to our cities and to help kids in tough neighborhoods get ahead. he's a good man. excuse me. a great man. join me in supporting chris christie, the governor. >> this is not the first time shaq made a surprising endorse am. he endorsed al gore over bill bradley. at that time it was as much about a basketball rivalry as democratic. michael jordan was on bradley's team so shaq picked gore. he is models off of george bush's. they wanted to show distance from the left house republicans as he used reelection in texas to make his case to donors nationally and governors. cri christie will timeout his bipartisan accomplishments and reelection as he perfectsa a more anti-washington message. many governors feel they have no choice to utter that their party is taking a beating nationally. listen to this. >> the government almost shut down. now they are tapping somebody's phone and now this. this is creating an issu

. >> shaquille o'neal. what more would a guy want?>> not exactly going out on a limb endorsing a guy that is 30 points ahead. chris christie is -- are you calling shaq a coward? is that what you're saying? because he'll come down here. he won't fit in the seat, but he'll be here. >> i think the more interesting and telling race here is virginia. chris christie is a phenomena. but what is going on in virginia is really interesting. frankly, you have a democrat opening up a ten-point advantage in a state that for years has been a lot more red than it has blue. you look at "the washington post" poll on this, the voters were angry at the republican party for closing down congress. i think this is where we see what happening in washington begins to affect what's going on in other states. >> but even before was down. >> it was where the shutdown. i think christie is not just a regular incumbent. i think he is a pretty special case. he's in a blue state. he's going to win a second term with 25 to 30 points. he didn't have a terrible democrat

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the umps looked at the reply and decided if he dent morph into shaquille o'neal he wouldn't have caught that one. in the eighth the tigers added three more runs. tigers win 8-6 forcing a decisive game five in oakland on thursday. >> i was challenging him, and i thought if there was a change-up, you can get a swing and miss. i was able to do that. with boyd, he's been battling me the whole series and put good ones against me. i got ahead of them and was able to get a fastball by them and it was a big pick me up. you're so close to get out of it. i know he's a great fastball hitter and i challenge him. he almost got a hit, and there's a challenge. i thought i gave up a hit, but austin ran it down. that was one of the greatest things i've had. >>> to hockey, he's 19 years old and speaks barely enough english to order dinner in san jose. after three nhl games he's looking like the next big star. he scored four fwoels tuesday night in new york including this ridiculous between the legs top shelf shot for the goal. he scored his four goals in just 11 minutes of ice time. he's the younger play