coming up in 45 minutes stephanie rawlings blake of baltimore and the challenges facing u.s. cities. william kristol, founder and editor of the weekly standard on the future of the republican party. at 9:15, changes brought about by hurricane katrina and ♪ >> the house of representatives meets and the briefly -- briefly today. for programming this afternoon if you are interested in finding what is going on across the united states, the u.s. conference of mayors hold its meeting. you will see part of that at 11:15. also, at 2:00 this afternoon the republican national committee has their annual meeting and the focus is of gop rising stars.

and stephanie rawlings-blake is the mayor of baltimore. to me to to put it bluntly that the old games starting in '92 to get elected president was like roller derby. make sure bob kerrey is out of the race and you're the nominee of the party. and then along came obama, who didn't necessarily run a negative campaign, he ran a campaign based on state-of-the-art numbers krur s crunching where he was able to find delegates through caucuses in states like the dakotas and places out west and beat hillary clinton before she could get in the name by modern number crunching. how did the clintons 2016 pull it altogether? >> two things, chris. one, you have to have a reason for wanting to run. you have to have a set of ideas that you believe can help the country grow again and make the 21st century a global century with america leading it. mrs. clinton will be able to craft a message around that. to your point around the mechanics, there's no doubt the campaign in '08 in my estimation didn't really prepare for the long run. did not expect to have to

democratic mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings-blake, is also here. she's the secretary of the democratic national committee as as well. and kim strassel, a columnist at "the wall street journal," and a member of their editorial board. so here is the latest on what we know this sunday morning about the bridge scandal. there's been no smoking gun. that's important. no smoking gun found yet. no e-mails or correspondence that link governor christie directly to the scandal. the documents released, however, do show knowledge of the closures by christie's closest aides. the motive for all of these lane closures, by the way, on the bridge remain a bit unclear. and investigations do continue both at the federal and the state levels. let me bring in everybody. chuck todd, the questions still on sunday morning. >> right. >> how much did chris christie know? >> well, or why didn't he know more? right? there is sort of like -- there really isn't a good answer for him either way because his defense right now is i'm a hands-off manager. i did a lot of delegation. w

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ofo joining us, the mayor baltimore, stephanie rawlings-blake. thank you for joining us. you are here as part of a conference that takes place. can you tell our audience when you gather here, what are you talking about. it play out overall in the united states? we talk about everything that happens in cities. we are divided into committees and we have a committee on parks, public safety, infrastructure. we share best practices. resolutions. we offer each other moral support. can you talk a little bit about what you're most concerned about? guest: there are a lot of concerns about meeting epa requirements and making sure we are able to keep the infrastructure improvements affordable. -- weinteresting to hear have our own challenges in baltimore and it is interesting to hear you different concerns that each of the cities are having. drought, water a access issues. some have a similar infrastructure issue like we have. is do we approach it -- there a unified way to approach it? i think that is an example of president issues in city -- example of present issues in cities. get

ofo joining us, the mayor baltimore, stephanie rawlings-blake. thank you for joining us. are here as part of a conference that takes place. can you tell our audience when you gather here, what are you talking about. it play out overall in the united states? we talk about everything that happens in cities. we are divided into committees and we have a committee on parks, public safety, infrastructure. we share best practices. resolutions. we offer each other moral support. can you talk a little bit about what you're most concerned about? guest: there are a lot of concerns about meeting epa requirements and making sure we are able to keep the infrastructure improvements affordable. -- weinteresting to hear have our own challenges in baltimore and it is interesting to hear you different concerns that each of the cities are having. drought, water a access issues. some have a similar infrastructure issue like we have. is do we approach it -- there a unified way to approach it? i think that is an example of president issues in city -- example of present issues in cities. get to