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Rare newark politician who was as popular if not more popular outside newark than he was inside newark. lonegan is clearly trying to change that. >> meanwhile, booker got a huge cash infusion from bloomberg, but its an interesting mixed bag of people showing up for lonegan when we have sarah palin stumping for him, rand paul has campaigned for him and chris christie whos numbers are in the 60s. hes a likeable guy. what happens to a sarah palin in new jersey? >> yeah, if you look at sarah palins ...

Where there are three, four dozen african-americans in the house. and often they represent districts that are protected by the voting rights act, majority/minority districts and theres is an informal ceiling imposed by state democratic parties they view condition whose come from the districts not as electable statewide, theres a stigma attached to nap when you look at cory bookers story, jamelle, im curious what you make of it. comes from a majority black city, newark but the most popular democr...

Be so small, dominated by the political leaders of the state. and what booker has going for him is that he has the kingpin in essex county, county executive and democratic leader, thats going to help him. but hes not popular with a lot of the democratic leaders of the state. hes not a beloved figure at all. the public knows him and likes him -- >> explain that. why is that? i tried to explain to people, nationally, people look at new jersey democratic politics and say corey booker, you know, gre...

We invest more in the u.s. than anywhere else in the world. over fifty-five billion dollars here in the last five years - making bp americas largest energy investor. our commitment has never been stronger. so corey booker is going to be announcing his senate candidacy in newark, then travel to south jersey and do another announcement there. so, we talked about the republican side. steve lonegan, conservative republican, looks like hes the republican candidate. doesnt have much of a chance in t...

Newark is not corey bookers place. hes not -- it doesnt seem to be in control in administrative matters, budget, police, so on but hes had political problems in newark. how do new jerseyans look at that? probably not a lot of people are aware of that. and corey booker, in a way, is a kind of chris christie person in wanting to go out and talk to people and be well known. booker has been all over the state doing graduation speeches and so on. how does that count? in this rather strange election, ...

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>> if you watched the grammys last night you know it was a soulful tribute to whitney houston. one performer there still too shaken up to sing and well talk about all the winners from last night. a massive budget battle. an election preview. it seems to be. the president is unveiling his final spending plan before the 2012 election today. and you know what, its mot even delivered to capitol hill and the gop is already on it. what are they going to say about it and how do we know this...

Year. one of those involved a dead dog that a passenger brought to the gate -- or to the security checkpoint with him, and the dog was sent down to cargo to be screened and loaded onto the plane and they found out after the plane had taken off that it hadnt been screened after all. >> ann davis, who is a spokesperson for the tsa agency released a statement saying, tsa managers have basically learned from this report, and that lapses like this wont happen again. are people buying it? do you buy i...

Federal security director barbara powell. shes the one that allowed that dead dog on a flight, but the tsa is backing her saying shell stay in charge in newark. why? will anyone be fired here? >> i dont know if anyone will be fired. some of the rank and file tsa employees running up to these two meetings suspected that they might -- the purpose might be to inform folks at newark that miss powell would be out, but that is not the case. and they, as ann davis said, theyre backing her. as for wheth...

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