Talking about Chris Christie. This time its president obama an the Tappan Zee Bridge minus the scandal. The president is right there now driving a week long push for roads an bridges. He put the rebuild on the fast track two years ago. The existing bridge is in such disrepair, one of the top aide was called the hold your breath bridge. It has a 4 billion price tag, more than a quarter comes from a federal loan. The president wants congress to pass a 302 billion Transportation Plan because the current fund is running out. Anthony fox says a quarter of u. S. Bridges need significant help and 2 3 of roads are inadequate. Its also about jobs. 700,000 according to the wiet house. All that congestion is causing more problems than other. 120 billion in gas and lost time and 27 billion in additional shipping costs for businesses. 6 in 10 americans feel roads and bridges are up will they use it to ref their midterm engine. Henrich is here with more. You have sarah palinsstyle knowledge about the tappan zee because you can see it from your house. The current toll on that bridge is 3 to 5. Some are saying the toll may have to go as high as 14 because the bridge is owe expensive. Is sticker shock like that going to be something that builds Political Support for a Transportation Plan like the president is pushing . Well, this has been one of the biggest Infrastructure Projects in the country. Thats what the president is doing today. Hes pushing that. There are a lot of local problems involved here. Some of which are political and actually of national interest. Cuomo is looking to shore up his left which is collapsing almost as fast as the Tappan Zee Bridge. He needs to build a nice new bridge to the left and hes having trouble doing that. Have cuomo i mean having obama come and give him a pat on the head is a political deed that cuomo has got right now. Im glad that the president is there focusing on the need, not just to rebuild the Tappan Zee Bridge but to rebuild infrastructure across this country thats failing, not just bridges and roads. But airports, essentially the whole system is in need of an upgrade and revamp. Yet, its like a fools errand. Theres no political consensus even though the overwhelming majority of the americans see this need. Its good for business, the Business Community is behind it. It would create jobs. It would help position america to be an economic power continuing into the 21st sent rip and yet, theres little political hope that there will be Real Movement in terms of infrastructure jechlt. How are we going to get out of this . At some point we have to do something. Well, the problem you describe is not just limited to infrastructure. Certainly. Its limited to virtually every problem on the National Agenda where this in so many of them, theres a national consens consensus. About a minimum wage, about revamping the tax system to make it easier on regular people. All these things have public support, the system is unable to translate that into action. Its not the fault really of anybody. Its not obamas fault or the democrats or the congress fault. Its the setup. The setup is just its just completely rigged against action. And if you want something to happen, you got to have action. Yeah. Speaking of infrastructure, lets bridge over to Chris Christie who just this week on his monthly radio show opened up about some of his feelings when comes to thinking about running for 2016. He talked about running against someone that he respects and someone that considers a good friend. Lets take a listen. So it would be stressful. You wouldnt you like to run against people that you dont like. Not run against people that you do like and respect. So of course it would be stressful if you have a relationship. In the end, everybody is going to make their own decisions, myself included on that, on what they think is best for them and what they think is best for our party and what we think is best for the country. So here he was talking about potentially running against jeb bush. Theyre both being talked about and considering a run. It seems like what he was really trying to say is yes, its tough to run against someone that youre friends with and respect. They will be in the same lane if they both decide to run. That would make it a lot more challenging to make it through the primaries. He might as well have been talking about cuomo if hes going to run, maybe not this time but next time. But he and cuomo are similar characters. They play a similar role. Cuomo plays a similar role as a democrat as christie does as a republican. Tough guy, plain spoken, reaches across the aisle when he has to and who comes down hard on his opponents. So there is a similarity there. You guys talk about candidates who arent in the race yet. One who is all but in the race now is Hillary Clinton, right . With karl roves attacks on her, makes it seem like the campaign is already in motion. Its a very disgusting, underhanded attack and easily refuted. Lets call on the explainer in chief for that. First, she said she faked her concussion and now they say shes auditioning for a part on the walking dead. Look, she works out every week, she is strong, shes doing great. As far as i can tell, shes in better shape than i am. She certainly seems to have more stamina now. Theres nothing to it. But roves attack was far from dumb, right . In the conservative circles, you dont need facts to make these conspiracies survive. So you see here how hillary would have to sort of fight against ghosts, right . Conversations about why wont her doctors come out and what is she hiding . No matter how many medical records are put out, what is she really hiding . Where are her real medical records . The long form ones. Jon stewart referred to it as brain gaz i. The berther attacks. In an era of two americas, it becomes like a rorschach. Because this is not an era of sort of persuasion, its an era of motivation and turnout. If youre predisposed to dislike hillary, this is more of a reason to do that. If you like her, mover a reason do that. If youre a Senior Citizen, its more of a reason to support her. True. Theyre going to have to deal with this question, actually. Shes going to be 69 years old when she takes office if she runs and wins. Her health is going to be a legitimate issue as it probably should. Maybe with mccain too. Isnt that a challenge that republicans, theyre going to chuck todd alluded to this, this morning. The republicans will have to throw their own people under the bus, whether bob dole or reagan or mccain who are all older than Hillary Clinton if she decides to run. Talking about their own people. The Senior Citizen group is a core part of their constituency. Thats the real problem. That certainly is a problem. But there is a legitimate thing here that hillary is going to have to deal with. She will have to release her records, though. And people can decide at that time, is that something that bothers me or not. She might as well do it sooner than later. Its a little bit like the birth certificate craziness. It was beneath contempt. Right. Obama waited a long time before picking up the phone and saying okay, give them the damn certificate. Thats part of the reason. Sooner rather than later is a good idea in these situations. Timed in a way to embarrass donald trump. We always love that. So much of our politics is these nonsense issues. Karl rove saying that maybe hillary has brain damage. With the president coming here today to talk about this infrastructure issue, it seems like its an issue like the farm bill, you can have stale mates over it. You have to do something, a highway bill has to get passed. Last time around, they couldnt do a they did a twoyear bill. They have to do something. Is this one of the few areas were going to see something out of this . What might actually happen for this push . What might happen is that the issue becomes gets big. The people understand that we have to do something about infrastructure. Of course, they already understand that. Right. For the most part. Its a question of getting people motivated to overcome whats in the system. It takes more than a majority. It takes a motivated public all across the board to get something done and this is one of those things that the public can get motivated about. Thanks so much. Well bring you the president s live remarks as soon as they happen. Up next, what Magic Johnson says hes doing for Donald Sterling. Heres what well be doing. Spinning. As the cycle wears on for wednesday, may 14th. mother vo when i was pregnant. 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He didnt educate himself before he actually came on and talked to you. Nba great Magic Johnson was so appalled by Donald Sterlings comments that at times last night it seemed he actually felt bad for this disgraced clippers owner. Even telling Anderson Cooper hes going to pray for him. From comments on race to his unprovoked attacks on one of pro sports most beloved players, with each day that passes, Donald Sterling digs himself into a deeper and deeper hole. Then theres this doozy about ending the stigma over hiv. Hes got aids. Did he do any business i like did he help anybody in south l. A. . Its hiv i think. Not fullblown aids. Unbelievable. Josh farrow has more to say about it. We had to spin on it as well. The thing i go back to and something i have said before. He could have picked on anyone in the nba community and he chooses Magic Johnson. Someone who is arguably the most wellrespected in the nba community and even the world. I think that speaks to how crazy he is and speaks to what of a racist this guy is. I cant imagine how magic is not actually hurt by some of his comments. When he says he should be ashamed of being hiv positive and hasnt helped out the minority community. I mean magic is someone, l. A. Is his town. This is a guy fighting for, what, 20 years to change the stigma around hiv and i think magic coming out and speaking, saying im still out here and you cant hurt someone like me. At the same time, saying you really need some help. I think hes speaking for everyone when he says that. Josh, i cannot fathom who is the p. R. Team hes surrounded himself with. Are they telling him, just keep speak, thats going to make the situation better. If i were them, i would book him a oneway ticket to a place with access to nothing. I dont think he has a pr team. If he does, i feel sorry for him. He sounds drunk to me in that interview. I dont know if he is. Its all very weird. But i think, i have a different read on magics reaction to that. It was mostly that he pities Donald Sterling. I think hes displeased about the comments made about him, he said hes angry in the interview. Its out of left field and so weird. If youre going to come up with a talking point about why you dont like Magic Johnson, Magic Johnson doesnt do enough for the black community is a weird angle to take. Magic is wondering why hes in the middle of this. Its not about him. This is between you and your girlfriend who is part of you. I dont want to be part of this threeway situation. Magic feels like hes put in an odd place. Im really glad magic gave this interview. I dont think anything speaks more powerfully than the contrast between magic, who has been unfairly attacked in this situation, has never done anything to don sterling and yet, hes the one with all the grace in the world saying hes going to pray for don sterling. Saying if he saw him tomorrow, he would say hello, right . Versus don sterling who is attacking Magic Johnson in the most egregious, heinous way as you can possibly imagine, this icon, this person who has done so much for destigmatizing hiv. Its to me, that contrast tells you everything you need to know about these two men. Magic is obviously, as youve said a collateral part of all this. We understand racism may be aimed at specific individual but youre actually talking about the entire group. Youre not talking about that one individual youre speaking to or speaking about or acting toward. But one thing within this debate that has made me somewhat uncomfortable is this whole thing of the shock of like how could this be said about magic. Hes the nicest person in the world, always smiling and happy, never caused a problem. All that is true, magic is an awesome, amazing individual who we should be looking up to. But it posits this thing like hes the good negro we should be more like. If you put in another name, maybe if we were talking about matt kemp or matt barnes or somebody else, then wed understand a little bit better. This sort of framing just bothers me deeply. Joseph, the founding director of the center for the study of race and democracy spoke about this. He said the genius of the Civil Rights Movement heyday and made that era heroic, africanamericans defied the odds by refusing to believe in the good negro versus bad negro dichotomy. I reject that whole architecture. Hes speaking about all of us and i dont want to hold up magic and say you cant say that about magic but you can say that about somebody else. Thats a great point. I think what it shows is that don sterling is not even at the level of racism of oh, i have a black friend. He doesnt even have the black friend. Right. Thats part of what people are reacting to. Im speaking to how crazy he is. Even his wife said she did not recognize him in that interview. Lets hope it ends sometime soon. 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