but chris christie is -- i'm not one of these guys who says chris christie is a jerk and he'll overheat and that will be the end of his campaign. i think democrats would have to worry about chris christie particularly if he does not veto these bills. at a time when people see washington as completely broken, he's one of the people who i think folks can look at and say, he could fix it and the last thing that i'll say about him is that the reason that barack obama, i believe, is president of the united states, is because he figured out how to run the same election -- the same campaign in the primary as he did in the general election. >> yeah. >> if you look at the republicans, there's not one of them who i think can do that except probably for chris christie. if that works and if he can get through the primary, i think it could be very dangerous. >> seeing cory booker steaming toward the senate with winning this primary today, seeing what elizabeth warren has, i think, cemented since being in the senate in the way she's conducted herself since then, you're starting to see the development

i happen to have chris christie's reaction to your kissing proposal. said this tonight on a new jersey radio station. i'm running for re-election in new jersey i don't really have time for that at the moment. so rand, you will be lucky if you get a hand shake. and if you do get to shake his hand on republican presidential debate stages it will be before and after he beats the living heck out of you in those debates. uh-oh! guess what day it is?? guess what day it is! huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is?? ah come on, i know you can hear me. mike mike mike mike mike... what day is it mike? ha ha ha ha ha ha! leslie, guess what today is? it's hump day. whoot whoot! ronny, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? i'd say happier than a camel on wednesday. hump day!!! yay!! get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. it guides you to a number it guides you to a number that will change your life: your sleep number setting. it even knows you by name. now it's easier than ever to experi

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chris christie is in this thing called politics to help him. chris christie. and he'll say whatever he has to, even if it means turning down hardworking americans in the process. but they don't have an ounce of truth to them. so tonight we are going to expose the real chris christie, the media darling of new york city. the media darling of the mainstream media. he has done nothing wrong. he's really a moderate. no. he's a wolf in sheep's clothing for reasons unknown to "the ed show," some democrats think that christie is a big bipartisan hero. you know what this guy has done? he walked with the president of the united states. he appeared with the president after hurricane. what governor wouldn't do that? accepted federal disaster relief along with every other republican governor whose state has ever been hit by a hurricane. this makes him bipartisan? a photo-op does not make chris christie bipartisan. accepting disaster relief, which was the right thing to do, does not make chris christie bipartisan. do not let him fool you. he's no different than the radicals

the chris christie who can be so aggressive and assertive, that chris christie went away and that seems to have really influenced this choice today. >> if you think about it, it's father to father, a plea that's father to father and i got off the phone with brian wilson the gentleman that confronted chris christie, he said, you know, this is a small victory in the big scheme of things because it doesn't give us everything that we wanted. >> right. >> but it could save my daughter's life. >> all right. well, thank you very much, appreciate it. rosa flores reporting. >>> and i want to bring in a republican strategist now "outfront" who, of course, was the top adviser for rick santorum, obviously, hogan, when you look at this, you are talking about the social issues that are so important to social independents and chris christie 2016 is not going to win without independent votes. he's well aware of that. but the republican party has a rocky relationship. republicans approve medical marijuana overwhelmingly but they do not support the legalization of marijuana overall, not even close. half

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this is like a chris christie. i think nationally you're going to see chris christie is going to appeal to a lot more people, especially people we need votes from, which is the moderates. neil, the republicans and democrats, they're not going to decide the vote in the 2016 election. it is going to be the moderates, independents. >> the conservatives first within the party, and they are still angry about how he handled his relationship with president obama during hurricane sandy, and even angrier about how he goes back and forth with the likes of rand paul and libertarians that have a different view on privacy, surveillance, that kind of thing. is this going to be a civil war? >> no, i don't think so. it depends who enters into the 2016 presidential primary. >> they all are, at this point, it is everybody. >> right, yeah, but look at who some of the fundraising, like the king of bundling, sheldon adelson, chris christie caught his eye. sheldon was behind newt gingrich, too. >> thanks for bringing that one up. i have

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i think christie is a nice guy. i'm not a chris christie basher. he is the run of the mill establishment, you know, big government. >> laura: i remember when he ran in 2010. he ran the same year as mcdonnell in virginia. he ran as pro-life. ethnic conservative running and in a state like new jersey. he ends up winning. tough on the teacher's union. he did the hugy, hugy kissy kissy with obama taxes why isn't this an example chris christie has a the lot of good things to say. >> laura: is he a fighter. up against hillary. >> likeable and he dismisses the press and he dismisses his ad investor sears and he is a great northwestern democrat state republican. but when it comes to the national stage and dealing with the republican party and everything that we are dealing with right now, and that includes containing the republican party, when we're nearly $17 trillion in debt and as you mentioned the nsa thing, government getting too big for its britches all over the place. and chris christie is not a guy who is equipped, i think, and armed to come into w

in the spotlight tonight, chris christie versus cory booker. he endorsed him. steve lonegan. >> wait until they see steve lonegan on the united states floor of the senate. steve and i have believed and still believe in so many of the same things. >> here is something steve lonegan believes in, that chris christie did not mention today. >> do you think the federal government should be supplying funds in any way to any extent, if so? >> well, you know, the role of the federal government in this kind of catastrophe is questionable. if we're going to look at somebody's home being destroyed in a hurricane, and that is tragic for them, the home being destroyed. but remember, every day somebody in the country is suffering something of equal impact and we don't hand them a check, the role of federal government needs to be limited to the role of federal government. >> joining us now, ari melber, just in time, officially calling the race for cory booker, right here, on whatever today's date is. >> you got to get it early. >> that guy is going nowhere. this is crazy, hope

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chris christie is not even a part of that. you have people like mike leigh, ted cruz and rand paul. >> those are libertarian, but they're really the tea party people, against the john mccain establishment wing of the party. if you look at mike leigh, ted cruz and rand paul, they have a collective five years of experience between them and they're the ones running the gop right now. >> we had senator cruz on, and i may not agree. >> he wants to eliminate obama care, okay? i do, too, but i wouldn't defund obama care because i think that gets you into government shutdowns and all kinds of debt limitation issue, but nonethele nonetheless, they've got 11 votes in their party and they may get more on this. that's what i'm saying. the infiltration of the libertarians. that's really what i'm saying. >> that's why i'm saying it's dangerous to the republican party and to the repiblic at large and when you look back at the reagan administration, when tip o'neal was chairing the house and the democratic house, we were passing 600 bills eve

. >> chris christie had some strongs words. in direct reference to bobbyin da who called the party stupid christie said i am not going to come and call you the stupid party. the alexandria is over and we need to move on. for our ideas to matter we have to yuan. because if we don't win we don't govern. and if we don't govern all we do is shout into the wind. he is right. this has got enlost. the sole purpose of political parties is to deliver election vick together, not be ideology vessels. >> he's saying go have an argument. have a debate. let's put together a yuaning coalition to put republicans back in power so they can implement some of the policies they want to. this is an echo of what bill clinton was saying to the democrats in the early 1990s. it's something that was successful for him. if you're chris christie, this is are you on lie option is to make the argument that you're best suited to win and it's about winning not ideology. chris christie is not where the rest of the republican party is. >> i think he's trying to

you have chris christie, marco aruba he yo, there's a litany of those. i think we're going through the right process of sorting it out. >> eric: last word. how do they sort this out? she's got three years ago. man, that's a meat grinder out there. >> well, we've already seen a preview of the republican message against her which seems to be just that she's old. that's the message that i think is really going to back fire on them. one thing that's very new about hillary clinton is she could be the first woman president. if her campaign finds a good way to capitalize on that, this could be really interesting. >> eric: some would say that's pretty strong, ron. >> obviously you're talking about the first female president, but she has to have a message. she can court female voters, yes, of course, but you have to have a solid message behind that, and you have to sell that message. what that is has to be different from what it was during the 2008 primaries because clearly she wasn't connecting. you cannot ride on the fact that you were the first lady and you we

chris christie is agagenius. there is no nice guys in this, sorry, not for president. >> but he hasn't eaten him up yet. he's going at the for the die -- >> won -- >> but listen -- >> [ overlapping speakers ] >> listen, dean, camden, new jersey is not camden, south carolina. when he goes nuts on some conservative asking him a question, he's heard it for the third time in a day in south carolina and he tries that act on them, he's going to be shun in a hurry because a lot of republicans like him attacking the president. they like him attacking the press. but when that act comes to town and they see it up close, he needs to down it down a bit and be more -- >> he won't. you know, hogan, he won't. that's who he is. >> you didn't think he learned to realize you don't want to be too nasty in republican primaries. >> there is a fine line between fighting for believes and a reality show. people could go you're not presidential any longer. so hogan is right about that. if he goes too far. i think people respond to this.

chris christie is acutely image-conscious. so it has to really chap his hide today that republican political etiquette requires that he, as a republican governor of new jersey, somebody who possibly wants to be president, he has got to endorse the republican party's nominee for the united states senate from his state. everybody knows who the democratic nominee is, cory booker, a guy nationally known, heavily favored to win the seat. but the republican party nominated somebody, too, they nominated this guy. >> president obama, don't tread on my freedom, president obama, don't tread on my liberty, president obama, don't tread on me. don't tread on me. >> steve lonegan, a candidate in new jersey, the only office he held was in bogota, new jersey, population 200, but this guy who runs for everything, he really is a perennials candidate, even running for governor, he has now become the republican party's nominee for the united states senate. the real one. and of course, democratic groups are gorging on the buffet that is steve lone

chris christie. >> chris christie. >> signaling he's ready for 2016 to start now. chris christie will sign a law to ban gay conversion therapy. >> ban conversion therapy. >> it's a loony loony thing. >> he's certainly already beginning -- >> new jersey governor chris christie's effort -- >> -- what looks like a presidential campaign. >> in the current republican party someone like him can't win -- >> christie has a big problem. >> the party in the northeast is shrinking almost down to nothing. >> the party is open to support. >> successful parties were r. about building great coalitions. >> moderate republicans, conservatives, libertarians and tea party. >> establishment candidate chris christie. >> are you stupid? >> libertarian republicans like myself. >> an emergency committee of the neo cons. >> we've got to stand up and fight and win the argument. >> they see obama care as a big violation. >> a real divide within the republican party. >> successful parties are about building great coalitions. >>

chris christie. >> chris christie. >> signaling he's ready for 2016 to start now. chris christie will sign a law to ban gay conversion therapy. >> ban conversion therapy. >> it's a loony loony thing. >> he's certainly already beginning -- >> new jersey governor chris christie's effort -- >> -- what looks like a presidential campaign. >> in the current republican party someone like him can't win -- >> christie has a big problem. >> the party in the northeast is shrinking almost down to nothing. >> the party is open to support. >> successful parties were r. about building great coalitions. >> moderate republicans, conservatives, libertarians and tea party. >> establishment candidate chris christie. >> are you stupid? >> libertarian republicans like myself. >> an emergency committee of the neo cons. >> we've got to stand up and fight and win the argument. >> they see obama care as a big violation. >> a real divide within the republican party. >> successful parties are about building great coalition ppz.

chris christie said that yesterday. we're not a debating society. we're a political operation that needs to win. i'm in this business to win. i think some folks who believe our job is to be college professors, college professors are fine, i guess, being a college professor, they basically spout out ideas but nobody ever does anything about them. for our ideas to matter, we have to win because if we don't win we don't govern and if we don't govern all we do is shout into the wind. i couldn't agree with that more. if you're a republican, and you care about what republicans care about, do you really want barack obama to be president for eight years and appoint supreme court justices for eight years and then have hillary clinton for eight more years and appoint supreme court justices for eight more years? are you going to take such extreme positions you're going to chase voters that want to vote republican, to the democratic party again. >> but in the broader spectrum of things how do you stick to core conservative principl

what chris christie misses is in many respects the conversation has changed. because of the 2010 elections. the republican party is not willing to claim victory. >> let me give you an illustration of what i'm talking about. it's from the garden state. there's a lack of quality control in the republican party when it comes to candidates. just look at new jersey, a state that republicans have eyed for a long time. this is the candidate that primary voters have chosen to run against cory booker in the state's special election for senate. his name is steve lona gichlt n. here's what he stands for. he opposes marriage equality. he's against gun control. he's anti-abortion. even in cases of rape and incest. he wants to dismantle the irs. he's a hard liner on immigration and wants to make english the official language. and he rejects climate change. matter of fact, a recent buzz feed of lonegan summarized it like this. he called social security a ponzi scheme. denounces spanish advertisement. as racial profile marketing. and describes cory booker his pony in the new

christie, he was not playing ball, your reaction to this. >> chris christie, was in boston last week saying, that republicans are have over intellectualized this, i think we have some folks who bieve our job is to be college professors, and say for youro our ideas to matter we have to win, if we don't win we don't govern, if we don't govern all we do is shout into the wind, i think he will making a swipe at your son rand paul uif not. >> he said he was precise, say anything, do anything, get elected. defeat the people to get elected. neil: he said, interesting, i think this was the gest, he would be no different than elections a democrat going to chris christie, what party loses the core principles who cares if they win orose? >> with all due respect to congressman paul, and senator paul, and many others chris christie will win overwhelm league with about a 70% approval rating in a deep blue state, he has gone through tragedies in his home state, lowered taxes, fought the unions, did everything that a republican will do but because he embraced obama had his state was in turmoil, he i

they can see themselves supporting chris christie. showing a shift getting behind democratic candidate for governor here. if that's something you might expect could happen on the national level as he comes out. right now i feel like his national identity are still republican democrats like. >> i think they need to switch that out. if democrats are smart, they could compare and say this guy is no different than all the people you think, so, please do a reset and please do not think that chris christie owns some sweater vests and he wears them out and looks like a guy you know. >> it's the fleece. see, you're merging him with the republicans already. >> you went from pants to you're a whole outfit. >> i know. i really think that is the biggest mistake and we do it, the democrats do it all the time. it's like there is such a clown car out there that chris christie doesn't seem like, but when he votes, he votes exactly. >> but is it sort of an almost devious, maybe unintentional devious. it's like, i think of the democrats with john mccai

and chris christie has to figure out, how does he prove he's conservative enough? and it's going to be tough. >> congresswoman, as you look as a democrat on the outside, you don't have the rooting interests, but how formidable do you look at the republican party as being right now? >> well, i don't see the pathway for chris christie, given especially what chuck has really outlined. and the problem for republicans is not kind of where they say what they say and how many venues they have to say it, it's what they're saying, and when what they're saying is against immigrants and women and african-american teenagers, it's something that just isn't going to go for the broader swath of those independent voters and the country. so, i don't really see the pathway for chris christie. >> i will say, i think one of the most important speeches at the rnc this week was when newt gingrich challenged the party not to simply be against obama care but have positive policy ideas. and you see that in the clip from reagan. and rich talked a little bit about this sort of the debates so

christie, he was not playing ball, your reaction to this. >> chris christie, was in boston last week saying, that republicans are have over intellectualized this, i think we have some folks who believe our job is to be college professors, and say for youro our ideas to matter we have to win, if we don't win we don't govern, if we don't govern all we do is shout into the wind, i think he will making a swipe at your son rand paul uif not. >> he said he was precise, say anything, do anything, get elected. defeat the people to get elected. neil: he said, interesting, i think this was the gest, he would be no different than elections a democrat going to chris christie, what party loses the core principles who cares if they win or lose? >> with all due respect to congressman paul, and senator paul, and many others chris christie will win overwhelm league with about a 70% approval rating in a deep blue state, he has gone through tragedies in his home state, lowered taxes, fought the unions, did everything that a republican will do but because he embraced obama had his state was in turmoil,

governor chris christie has a lot on his plate. how his moves are impacting the gop across the country. >>> the clothing company, forever 21 cutting employee hours and blaming obama care for it. >>> bear attacks on the rise. how seven people were malled in four days. this is cnn newsroom. we're keeping a close eye on the massive wildfire rolling across idaho sun valley. look at these pictures. you have thousands of people in the path of this fire. they're being told get out of their homes. in the southeast very different story. that's where you're going to see heavy rains swamping parts of the florida panhandle and areas along the gulf coast. the rains are even saturating areas as far north as the carolinas where some roads there under two feet of water this weekend. i want to bring in chad meyers to talk about all the severe weather. dan simon is in idaho. chad, i want to start off with you here. this is crazy. it's insane to see this extreme weather throughout the country. you're looking at the florida panhandle where it doesn't

here is chris christie. reportedly she's against the mini series about her life because it's more likely to hurt than help a presidential campaign. new jersey governor chris christie signed a bill that bars licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight. he believes people are born gay and that it's not a sin. >>> bill clinton and jimmy carter will attend next week's 50th anniversary of the "i have a dream" speech. president obama and his family adopted a water dog, she's a female, bo's new companion is named sunny because of her cheerful personality. she looks like a happy girl. and this is your morning dish of scrambled politics. a little bit of scrambled video in there, too. now for a look at the weather, here is bill karins. >> nothing will phase you. it's 88 and sunny and you're in your glory. >> there you go. >> fire still the big story. it was 95 degrees, windy. almost 2,000 firefighters, like a little mini army trying to fight the fire in rural sections of idaho. so we wish those men

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