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Dolan is pressuring the u.s. congress to act on legislation before the end of this year saying its, quote, a matter of great moral urgency. remember earlier this week, vice president joe biden made a call to the wrong marty walsh? he meant to call the mayor elect. it happened not once, but twice. biden left a voice mail saying, anything i can do to help you from the white house in terms of your needs in boston, holler, man. any other marty walshs out there, we would love to hear from you. lo...

People? >> it one of the most important things. one of the things elector got scenical politics, understandable. aught then tisty you can smell from a mile away. if youre not authentic, its a hurdle. he has that in spades. here is a problem. when you match him up and look at no time record and positions hes taken, look at where he is om same-sex marriage. you can make the argument hes out of step for the general election and in new jersey if you get inside the exit poll numbers in new jersey, ev...

>> certainly not prepared. this is the first time for me ever dipping my toe in the political world. its exciting. again, still humbling. >> mayor elect joe pollino on the phone with me. mr. mayor elect, congratulations. you with me? >> thank you very much, brooke. thanks for having me on. >> youre welcome. you got 557 votes out of 596 cast. that doesnt sound like an accident. did you campaign as a write-in? how did you pull this off? >> i did. i did campaign as a write-in. initially, i was, you...

And you say please dont undo this? >> its important for those of us in city government and the mayor to respect the fact that we have a new mayor-elect and we will have a new mayor. the mayor made clear to me and everyone who serves in the administration and the advice we give to the mayor-elect to be private. i am not going to criticize. our job really in this country we have a great democracy and a great city to have an effective transfer of power. >> lets talk about mayor bloombe bloombergs e...

Youre quoted by the union county weekly as saying, let me quote you, im not sure commercial development in marvin is necessary. we should be more concerned with preserving what we have than building more stores and creating more traffic issues. is this a winning message there in the ex-burbs of charlotte? >> i think so. i think theres a lot of reasons many people move down to our area, is to get out of the, you know, the hustle bustle city life. if you go one way a couple miles, youre into the c...

From the financial brink. and new york city will have its first democratic mayor in two decades. earlier today, he met with michael bloomberg, who held on to the mayors seat for the past 12 years. im sure they had plenty to talk about at their meeting today. perhaps the new mayor elect can teach him a few moves. take a look at the de blasio familys celebratory smackdown dance from last night. check it out. [ cheers and applause ] my customers can shop around-- see who does good work and compare ...

Christies record that has not gotten that much scrutiny in new jersey. democrats did not mess him up. you think about, muddy him up very much. think about the last republican, every election, and ran up a big margin like this. democrats failed to muddy up. george w. bush. that was the model bush followed in 1994. >> i would say in 2009. a lot of the stuff out there about chris christie they did throw at him. if we had this conversation four years ago at this time. there wasnt a democrat in new j...

Politics. welcome to "crossfire" im newt gingrich on the right. >> im van jones on the left. two u.s. senators, bernie sanders who supports obama care and david vitter who does not. tonight republicans are jumping up and down, theyre so happy, saying obama care is terrible. if you look at the actual election results, you will see a much different story. new jersey governor chris christie embraced obama cares medicaid expansion, and he won. virginia governor-elect terry mcauliffe was in a close...

Have, would have, might have led to a different outcome in terms of who the party controlling city hall was. could have ended up with a different candidate on a democratic side. a much closer race. he just soared. its really a real testament to, to the bloomberg, i think the bloomberg. the third term, when the race was much closer, people forget how governor, matt bloomberg with the huge financial advantage in the third term. there is a change in virginia tonight. we will hear from governor elec...

Democratic nominee. >> you are going to have to defer to the mayor elect of new york city. bill de blazio. bill deblasio. my fellow new yorkers, today you spoke out loudly and clearly for a new direction for our city. united by a belief that our city should leave no new yorker behind. were proud of what we have accomplished on this campaign. and were hum bummed by it. and let me say to all of you from the bottom of my heart, thank you. thank you for all you have done.