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Running for office at numerous levels. i have watched ad after ad of every prosecutor thats ever run for office who will come to the voters and tell them all the terrible thugs and crooks and rapists and murderers they have put away. that is how prosecutors get elected. it is how they get re-elect eded. it is what they do when they call a press conference to announce a big indictment, when they go out into a neighborhood and say their gang task force is taking down these terrible people. that is...

I take the ones i do call my sisters to heart. >> sister. >> rosie trevino who faces a possible death sentence if convicted on her murder charge is considered the unofficial leader of atom 100. >> see, we laugh, we smile, we talk. we chop it up. you hear us. were just like yapping and were about each other. but if you disrespect us, its just were petty with disrespect, you know what i mean? >> they may be sisters and happy now because this is new digs for them. this is a new playground and theyr...

Seeing in north korea with the kind of bluster, these arent just defensive weapon systems. these are meant to scare other nations. south korea, japan, united states. i mean, now theyre looking on working at an international continental ballistic missile. they have missiles that will launch satellites into orbit. they have a submarine launch capability. whats next? this is challenging and disconcerting. >> for now, you believe its a tool of intimidation? >> well, youve seen over the years, over t...

Deal, its a model going forward there. because a lot have concerns about irans nuclear potential. they look to north korea and say, listen, youve made deals in the past before and look what happened under cover. so, you know, its alarming whether its something that they would follow through on, thats more in the category of bluster, but it does change the calculus on the ground in that region in a threatening way. >> of course, as has to be said a lot with north korea, is this more saber rattlin...

Use of the word "likely." >> exactly. there are 23 instances, you can count in the report where theyre using language that is qualified. its more likely than not, more probable than not. we think this is the most plausible thing. there are no instances in there where they definitively say this is what happened. here is the concrete proof that shows this is what happened. and that explains if you look at this statement that tom bradys agent put out today, theres a lot of bluster in, there a lot o...

Candidates. he tries to establish himself as a truth-teller and a great manager, as governor. bridgegate of course plays against both of those narratives. i do think, however, it might have had a positive effect in one sense and that is i see a little bit less bluster in him. he was asked about bridgegate he was kind of chuckling about it. >> he smiled. >> he smiled. i think hes kind of watching himself a little bit, because that bully thing doesnt really work with women voters in particular. >>...

Jersey. the fact that new jersey elected a republican governor new jersey often elects republican governors. but at the presidential level where the stakes are very different and voter nose that the stakes are different, because the stakes involve the supreme court and all kinds of social issues that people dont really care about when they vote for governor, he is going to have a tough time holding his own state. >> i agree. >> new jersey is a great story for chris christie. his reelect numbers ...

And you wonder if christies bluster is going to sell in places like south carolina. >> when you talk about that bluster and you talk about that performance. you talk about the tell it like it is series as its been described. you also need to -- lets throw up that poll number again. he needs to deal with the problem with favorability. in the latest poll, when you look at republicans and republican leading independents, his favorable ratings at 38% is unfavorable. thats a problem that hes going to...

City hall to make this political point. but he was like that just relentless. nevertheless, she did get into the race. and when she did formally get into the race against giuliani she cleaned his clock honestly. you could see from day one the way she rattled him, despite all his bluster. on the day that she made her announcement the day she made her meticulously planned, formal announcement she was running, giulianis response that day was to accidently blurt out that he was running, too, without...

Week after week and you would think that in the middle of negotiations he would -- he should pull back a little bit from the threatening behavior to say nothing of the fact that his forces are now in yemen overthrowing another government. so his conduct has really been extraordinarily aggressive. >> so when administration officials say its bluster for domestic consumption in iran hes trying to appease hard liners if you will dont take it all that seriously, you say? >> i say he has said theyre g...