Im not going to go into the corner and curl up because someone found out something embarrassing about me. You see whats going on here today . If you become mayor of the city of new york, youd better put up with this every single day, people saying, you know what, you did something we dont like, cameras in your face, back down, quit. Thats not the kind of man im going to be. Sir, i say to you in all due respect, if you do not like to vote for me, dont vote for me, but dont deny these people the right to vote for me if they want to. Okay. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to morning joe. Little known fact, mika. Whats that . Before approaching senator barack obama in 2006, robert gibbs had been pressuring Anthony Weiner to run for president of the United States. Anthony said no, said he was busy and couldnt do it, and so he reluctantly went to barack obama. There you go. With us on set, former White House Press secretary and msnbc contributor robert gibbs. Is that true, robert . No, i wouldnt want Anthony Weiner to be president of the local rotary club. There we go, all right. Msnbcs Thomas Roberts. Good morning. Youre a little too obsessed with the house lines. Were going to have to talk. I know more than just the jersey works. I know about all of them. Oh, my lord. And jim cramers here. Hes mad. Host of cnbcs mad money. We havent seen you in a long time. Where have you been . My morning show is really killing me. And what a day to come in, the wall street journal talking about Corporate Tax cuts on the table. And we need them real bad. People talking about a grand bargain. Who knows . Maybe the president gets Infrastructure Spending in return for Corporate Tax cuts. Business better get behind this instead of just abandoning the president. This is whats needed. People are moving to ireland. A lot of Big Companies moving to ireland, low taxes. A lot of people are saying no. Well start with Anthony Weiners campaign, things are heating up with just one more month to go. Speaking of which, the daily news, a Public Service for those who live outside the tristate area. We should let people see. I guess hes going to do a porn movie. Anthony weiner text lady. She was on howard stern and said shes keeping her options open. You know everything, thomas. What is wrong with you . All gossip. Im swimming in the big pond here. I want to come prepared. I want to know whats in the know. I can tell you from pine valley to pakistan, i got it covered. Pine valley. What show is that . All my children. Exactly. Awesome. Im bringing you to northwest florida. Its going to be fun. Im big there. They love you there. I used to live in ft. Myers. Of course you did, and that has nothing to do with northwest florida. Is that where you did that standup about britney not being able to get her latte. That was in malibu. With just one more month to go until primary day, Anthony Weiner is pressing on with his bid for new york city mayor. After losing his Campaign Manager this past weekend and dropping to fourth place in a recent quinnipiac poll, the former congressman is vowing not to drop out of the race. Did i look in the mirror . Yes, i did. You know who i decided to vote for . Anthony weiner. I decided ive got good ideas. I decided im not beholden to the political class. I decided that i have shown a level of independence in standing in front of you today . Do you think it was easy . Do you think i okay, lets go and talk to these good people, bring 50 cameras, knowing id get this question. Im trying to say yes, you know some things about me, more than any other candidate youll know ever in your life, more than you want, certainly way more than i want. So i dont know if im going to win. I dont know if im going to come in second or third or get no votes at all, but im going to stay in here and keep fighting for what i believe in, and youre welcome to not vote for me. Hes going to keep going on here. Wait a second. Just really quickly, its a pretty good performance, right . Come on. I will say this, this might not be popular. There is no other candidate in the country currently in fourth place that were going to spend any time talking about, and i think if we want him to go away, we just have to let him go. He gets his oxygen off of us. I know. I think we should just let him go. This is way too important of a race. You know who hes sounding like . Who . Hes sounding like the person who drew up those posters in Spencer Gifts in the 70s where a dove would be flying, and it said, if you love them, let them go. He is right. If they come back to you, theyre yours. Theres this whole thing with the do i have to read this . You have to Read Everything weiner. Everything. Everything spitzer. Its an inflated story. Do a Public Service and go to something that is remotely relevant. You know why, we can tell youre not from new york city, come on. Theres one thing Anthony Weiner is not in danger of, and that is being the mayor of new york city. That guy can vote. You can do whatever you want. I can assure you of only one thing, hes not going to be the mayor. Weiners campaign was overshadowed yesterday by his communications director. In an interview with the website talking points memo, the female staffer unleashed a tirade of expletives aimed at the former intern, calling her a freakin im not going to say what he called her. Among other things. It was in response to an article the intern wrote in the New York Daily News describing her experience with the weiner campaign. She said staffers joined the team simply to get close to his wife huma and Hillary Clinton. This is actually and by the way, the reason he got upset at this, jim cramer, is and by the way, if he were connecteded to some third rate congressman somewhere, but this isnt hillarys world. Sorry. This isnt hillarys world. And you know why he got so angry because the truth came out that, if anybodys working on his campaign, its to get close to his wife so in 2016 a good word might be spoken, and they could be on hillarys 2016 campaign. Thats a lot of work to get close to hillary. Thats why he became so enraged, that the truth came out. It makes sense. Theres a winner, and why not try to get in that pantheon. Its got to be done now. Youve got to make your move right now if its going to be important for 2016 to get your name recognized. I dont disagree, but it is like watching the kardashians and a car wreck all on the same tv. It just doesnt go right. Its very interesting while we sit here and bathe ourselves in moral rights. Just a couple of days he was going to be the runoff, and we found out from quinnipiac hes in fourth. Ive seen political campaigns before where things move around pretty quickly. And Bill Thompson, who well have on the show later, coming in at 20 . Anthony weiner at 16 he was polling right now. That could really, if he does step out of the way, where do those numbers go . Its anybodys race. Christine quinn at 27 now, she is the frontrunner, but not far behind diblazio, who was here yesterday, and thompson who will be here today. But its just a few votes away. Quinn, thompson, maybe they have a meth lab in new york city. You never know. And a gun was here yesterday. I dont know. All im saying i want to talk about the soda ban. Things are happening right now, mika, as we said, way away from weinerville in the Republican Party. Chris christie and rand paul. Thank you for letting me skip all that. Getting ready. That was nice of you. Getting ready for 2016. Its a war of words between governor Chris Christie and senator rand paul. Theres no sign that either side is ready to back off. Chris christie criticized rand pauls position on nsa wiretapping, saying the senator should, quote, sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. Paul took offense, saying it was, quote, sad and cheap that he would use the cloak of 9 11 victims. Paul then took aim at politicians in new york and new jersey over Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane sandy aid, saying the gimme, gimme, gimme attitude was draining the federal government. Christie and paul whats wrong with him . Christie and paul continued that fight yesterday. I find it interesting that senator paul is saying accusing us of having gimme, gimme, gimme attitude towards federal spending. Maybe senator paul could deal with that when hes trying to deal with the reduction of spending on the federal side, but i doubt he would because most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon so that they can get reelected. This is the king of bacon talking about bacon . Hes making a big mistake picking a fight with other republicans because the Republican Party is shrinking in new england and the northeast part of our country. Im the one trying to grow the country by talking about libertarian ideas of privacy and the internet. Attacking me isnt helping the party. Hes hurting the party. A poll out in iowa shows rand paul is out in front with 6 . Christie is tied with jeb bush and paul ryan with 13. All within the margin of error. For any politicians, it doesnt make a lot of sense to attack Chris Christie. Hes got Approval Rating in the 70s. He loves a fight. He does. I want to say this and were good friends with Chris Christie. We are. And hes losing weight. This has nothing to do with his weight. He looks great. My grandma in dalton, georgia, always said this. Never get in a fight with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it. Im making no reference people say, oh, youre talking about no, im talking about Chris Christie likes fighting. He likes mixing it up. Rand paul, hes daddys boy. Im sorry. Hes grown up i dont know if he scratched and clawed his way to the senate. Im glad hes there. Ive got a libertarian streak in me. You dont want to screw with Chris Christie. Hes adept at it given his background. He knows exactly how to fight a fight. I think it is interesting to watch. This is the beginning of what i think will be increasingly regular mixups between the names you just mentioned as the jockeying begins for 2016. The party has been out of National Power or will be by the time we go to 2016, for eight years. Mitt romney, obviously, not a particularly strong nominee. Theres been a bit of a voice vacuum in the party, and theres going to be a lot of jockeying as we get toward that. I do think what is interesting, weve kind of lost the subtext of what started this was, as you mentioned, the libertarian views and National Security and nsa, which i think will be interesting in both parties how those things sift out, not just for 2016, but over the course of the next month as we get into fall, and we have bills to make that program more transparent. Jim, its always hard too if youre a libertarian and youre a senator, as Chris Christie basically said, youre still bringing home the pork. New jersey is a donor state. They pay out a lot more than they give back. Kentucky gets 1. 51. I think Chris Christie said. Was there anyone who wasnt hit up in jersey to give money to the shore . I know i was repeatedly. I have a place down there. I had a lot of fish on my grass but didnt get hurt that bad. Theres still towns boarded up. Christie, for every dollar he got from the federal government, he pressed the flesh to get more. It was a Public Private partnership. I cant believe what he was able to rebuild. He was instrumental in raising money. If you went down in april, you would not believe what it looked like versus memorial day. This guy did a full court press to get the beach open, so did his wife. Mary pat did a great job. Does this elevate Chris Christie to the level of looking like hes a true contender . Is especially when it comes to having sharp tongues within the gop. Thats a great question. Fantastic. The question is, and lets open it up here, whos helped more by this . Is Chris Christie elevated as a governor to the National Level, or is rand paul one of 100 senators elevated for taking on Chris Christie . I think christie likely got the better of this four or fiveday exchange. I dont know that either of them would see that as a bad thing. If youre rand paul, you got to be the libertarian thats for personal freedom and against spending. If youre Chris Christie, you watched even the beginning of that press conference, he does a masterful job of reminding people hes not from washington. When hes asked a question, he gives a plain answer. So i think each one of these guys comes out of this pretty much okay because, again, this starts the jockeying. From a deep bench. We do have a deep bench for 2016. Theres going to be a lot more jockeying. Theres probably seven or eight legitimate people that can claim the nomination. Robert, can you explain for people at home, the jockeying in earnest has already begun. Absolutely. People go, why dont you talk about this in december of 2015 . Because guess what, they started talking about this the night your boss got reelected, and this all has an implication. And as cramer said, theres political talent that ultimately has to be hired. That political talent wants to get noticed. These people want to hire the best political talent. They want to appeal to activists, absolutely. The jockeying has begun. I want to get to the soda ban. President obama is proposing a new grand bargain on spending on Infrastructure Projects while offering a lower Corporate Tax rate. It was panned by a local newspapers editorial board, who suggested the president take his jobs plan and shove it. That is not southern hospitality. That is rude. Why would they write it that way . I dont like that. Thats where mitch is come. That explains a lot. Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell called it a further left version of a plan he already proposed two years ago. Thank you so much. You really i dont know. Theres something so whats the word that comes to mind when i think of Mitch Mcconnell . He works with people. Lovely. He does work with people. Never, never. All the time. When has he once . He quietly works behind the scenes all the time to make america a better place. The president shot back at the supporters of Keystone Pipeline who claim the project would create thousands of jobs. The president said they were putting all their eggs in one basket. Now its time for republicans to lay out their ideas. If theyve got a better plan to bring back more manufacturing jobs to tennessee and around the country, then let me know. I want to hear them. Wasting the countrys time by taking Something Like 40 meaningless votes to repeal obamacare is not a jobs plan. Its not a jobs plan. We cant be getting into a whole bunch of fads and pretend like you roll back obama care, and suddenly all these jobs are going to be created because the middle class was struggling before i came into office. So, jim, i think youre right. Thats a good point. If the president puts out a plan that specifically is going to do something significant for the Corporate Tax rate, if hes going to put out a plan thats going to help bring back a trillion or two dollars thats offshore right now and been offshore, that will be reinvested in the economy, and then gives that to republicans, and on the other side, he wants spending on infrastructure, he wants spending on r d, he wants spending on things that are actually investments in the economy, then who knows . Maybe we can get a deal, and maybe you can have ceos calling up and going, hey, you know what, ive got a great idea. Why dont we make our Corporate Tax rate competitive with every other industrialized nation instead of having the second highest Corporate Tax rate in the world . Just to speak, paragon, maker of knockoff drugs thats when you go to cvs, the brand at cvs. They spend 8 billion to buy an Irish Company in order to be able to move their domain from the United States to ireland. This is the trand. Why do they do that . Because 12. 5 is way lower than the 30 we have. A right wing plan . This is the best plan the president has offered. What is our Corporate Tax rate . Most people are paying between 25 and 30 . Instead of paying 30 in the United States, they can go to ireland and pay 12 , 12. 5 . They can go other places across the world, pay the same, even less. If their margins are thin, theyre going to do that. Absolutely. This is the way to raise earnings per share, which is what Companies Want to do. They want their stock prices higher. A lot of guys have options. This is a terrific plan because most of the guys who have who are important in terms of the president , in terms of creating jobs, they have billions and billions and billions in cash. Every report shows 2 billion, 5 billion, 12 billion, 30 billion. And none of its here and it cant be traded because the tax bill is humongous. This is a great plan. Weve been hearing, robert, since 2009, early 2009, people around the table saying theres 2, 3 trillion on the sidelines. If we can just