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Industry on that. i'm begging against the pharmaceutical industries. and i told the president that. and i told gary kohn that and i told him we need to have leverage. there is none in here. so i hopekohn that and i told him we need to have leverage. there is none in here. so i hope as the senate looks that the, and i've talked to senators and my staff is talking to republican givdemocratic governors to get it done. >> on friday the nonpartisan political report downgradedican governors to get it done. >> on friday the nonpartisan political report downgraded election prospects. house willingness...

Christie staff. >> i am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team. >> joining me now, charlie cook, editor and publisher of "the cook political report" and msnbc political analyst david corn for mother jones and msnbc political analyst. okay, charlie, nobody brings a more sober and careful look at these kinds of election prospects. the senate as a whole and the individual race. i'm dying to hear what charlie cook thinks about chris christie's prospects for the presidency now. >> i think it's a convenient narrative to say the front-runner has been derailed. but ...

Analyst. okay, charlie, nobody brings a more sober and careful look at these kinds of election prospects. the senate as a whole and the individual race. i'm dying to hear what charlie cook thinks about chris christie's prospects for the presidency now. >> i think it's a convenient narrative to say the front-runner has been derailed. but i defy anybody to go to the iowa straw poll in 2011 or spend time around republican primary voters in 2012 and tell me that chris christie had a decent chance of winning a republican nomination. i mean, when you think of michelle bachmann, herman cain, rick san...

Has political staying power? even if the website is fixed which it certainly will be, or will it be forgotten quickly? and perhaps well before the 2014 midterm elections. let's say like april it's all perfect. are we going to be thinking about this in november? >> i think this absolutely has political staying power. this is president barack obama's signature campaign promise. it's been a blythed rollout by any account. regardless whether or not the administration is successful in meeting its deadline in a couple of short hours, republicans and competitive congressional districts will be lookin...

Of obama officials willing to talk about classified information to the media in a way that boosted the president's election prospects. there's a bit of an irony here in that conservatives were furious. they were demanding very strong investigations. i guess they didn't specifically say that the press's phones should be tapped or phone records should be seized. >> they weren't tapped. they weren't tapped. >> no. they weren't tapped. what i'm saying is they weren't calling for a crackdown on the press, per se, but there is a little bit of an irony here of the conservative criticism of the admini...