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Which corey booker would not be on the same ballot. so in fairness, he did engineer a landslide for himself. could he replicate virginia. could he win outside of jersey? >> i guess well find out. but ive been with him in other states. north carolina and new hampshire, which are very different kinds of states. the people loved him there, too. hes a very, very absolute shhh rude guy and has got some very intelligent people working for him. so i think its going to be a very interesting race that st...

And its not even the worst thing christie did on this trip. because theres also the nasty finger-waving side to chris christie. this photo was captured by slate reporter and msnbc reporter dave weigelel. it shows christie berating a teacher who dared to challenge him after calling her, quote, you people. that teacher later ended a blog post about the encounter this way. what do "we people" want, governor christie? we want our schools back, we want to teach. we want to be allowed to help these ch...

Read the book, page 61 is where it starts and talks about that. about the other thing, i think this kind of thing were going to bother christie, he wouldnt be as popular as he is right now. hes on the brink of having a landslide in this state. and every time im with him in another state, its the same kind of reaction. people just love him. and one of the things they like about him is he talks like that. he talks like people think that they would talk if they were in the public eye. >> well, they...

Those obstacles, which you kind of described at the top, havent disappeared. the dynamics havent really changed. in fact, what ryan is saying they have kind of gotten worse. they are going to aim for a grand bargain. >> paul ryan wants to keep room on the playing field in case he wants to run for president. on this note americas workout king was dealt a little blow who said at one point about ryans chances in 2013, sometimes youve got to recognize that someone else on your team has a better chan...

Was rightly banking on this reform threading and weaving itself into peoples lives. then social security also took decades. social security came under attack -- >> prescription health program. the prescription health program was a disaster when it happened. it took a long time. were going to continue to see tweaks of the process over and over again, extensions there, delays to help people understand whats going on. part of the healthy process, a good part. >> let me say one thing. i think its a ...

That senator. >> ryan, what does mr. enzis status as a fishing buddy of mr. cheney have to do with the battle for control of the senate next year? >> well, this is apparently -- you know, the only race in the country or on the planet where closeness to dick cheney is actually viewed as an asset electorally. but thats what -- thats what cheney thinks, though. and apparently, thats what enzi thinks, at least among some wyoming and other national donors. but theres a much more interesting dynamic h...

Abuses of that administration, thats a conversation that they dont really want to have. ive got great respect, i have to say, for dick cheney and this new book about his progression along heart disease and all of these issues he has had. but ive got a fair amount of disrespect for how he has tried to recast the narrative around the bush years. you know, its going to be awfully interesting in the coming days. >> yeah. now, ryan, this weekends pheasant hunt in iowa reminded us of a hunting trip in...

>> the way i understood it -- [ inaudible ] >> it happens. >> yeah, look. it happens. ryan, can you believe the compassion this man has for people? for a man who was shot in the face, after all? >> look, he says that whittington is a friend of his. and he lived. what a lot of people dont know is that he nearly died. he had, you know, some of those pellets were very close to his heart. and he was in intensive care for a while. this was not like, you know, he just scraped a few pellets out and the...

>> what complete poppycock. >> i think weve got a long way to go, obviously. >> thats my agenda. lets go hunting. >> lets get right to our panel, joining us now is goldie taylor, columnist for thegrio.com and msnbc contributor and ryan grim of "the huffington post." gold goldie, over the weekend, you had him shooting off a baretta or dick cheney firing off from his mouth. how did republicans get so lucky to have these two as their main leaders? >> i think they got lucky because there are no lead...

Where you see some of the willingness to follow through on these hostage situations. like you think, they wouldnt actually do something that they know would harm the country, would they? >> and yet, they would. >> well, they would if they -- if they think that hurting the country could actually take it to a place that in a kind of paradoxically marxian way would hasten the revolution by sharpening the contradiction and making it worse so it could then get better. >> we have to leave it there. th...