possible. as dictated by new jersey law, i have today issued a writ that will specifically designate the cause and purpose of this special election and the dates the primary and general elections will be held. the process to fill this u.s. senate seat must allow the people to have a choice to determine their nominees. this is simply nonnegotiable to me. i will not permit the insiders and a few party elites to determine who the nominee of the republican party and the democratic party will be. >> all right, want to bring in jake back, jake tapper here. jake, if you will, there is another very popular new jersey figure who weighs in on all of this, politics of all of this. that's newark's mayor cory booker. can you tell us what this move does whether it comes to cory booker? >> it makes it easier for cory booker. look, the last thing that any politician wants to do is run against an incumbent. incumbents, this is why incumbents are re-elected at the rate of something like 95 or