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They are under his thumb. does this give you, do these allegations give you more context for what was happening? >> more context, that's an interesting phrase. interesting choice of words. you know, i knew that things were happening. i knew that there was intimidation. because, you know, i would call people up, raids money, they were very direct with me. look, i don't want to be on that report. i can't give you more than $300. but in turn, honestly, this even surprised me with what happened with respect to mayor zimmer. >> i want to reiterate, others have strongly denied these allegations, i w...

Democrats were rolling over for chris christie. they are under his thumb. does this give you, do these allegations give you more context for what was happening? >> more context, that's an interesting phrase. interesting choice of words. you know, i knew that things were happening. i knew that there was intimidation. because, you know, i would call people up, raids money, they were very direct with me. look, i don't want to be on that report. i can't give you more than $300. but in turn, honestly, this even surprised me with what happened with respect to mayor zimmer. >> i want to reiterate, ot...

Trajectory of the country, we're going to fiscally collapse. >> let me follow up on that point. do you have confidence that paul ryan, the chairman of the house budget committee, will be able to -- he's going to be the house leader on this negotiation that's supposed to continue through december 13th. how senate budget conferees will deal with some of the issues you're talking about. patty murphy will lead the senate democrats in this conference committee negotiation. do you think they'll be able to make progress between now and that target date of december 17th? >> paul is one of the brightes...

Longer. in some cases too long. the national bureau of economic research showed when medicare is cut, nurses are spread thinner and more tall ti rates for heart attack patients go up. because they have to wait too long. >> the good news is you read it. the sad news is a lot of people didn't and they have put forth a yes on it. betsy, glad to have you here. >> thank you. >> coming up, the house votes to slash millions from the food stamp program but lots of folks are outraged. that story is next. then, who will play me on "saturday night live"? i don't know. >> here is a program i wouldn't mi...

And author of the book "voting wars." reverend barber, i'll begin with you. i'm curious your reaction to the justifications for the bill we just heard. they all seem to run in one direction which is making it harder for people to vote across the board. >> there is no justification. this is a vulgar display of the misuse of political power to manipulate political outcomes. this is what we have called a monster bill. it is clearly targeted at voter suppression. it's not about voter i.d. 34% of those without voter i.d., over 300,000 people, are minorities, are african-american. african-americans ...