hampshire by the end of today to do a town hall meeting and several days of those kinds of events. one thing that advisers say is that the new hampshire style of politics where he takes questions and candidates get to sort of dish back that might play well to chris christie. we ll have to see how he does. thomas? people like his retail politics. thanks so much. great job. we are asking you to weigh in on our bing pulse question today, will chris christie s telling it like it is strategy work? head to pulse.msnbc.com. cast your votes now. i want to bring in bob i think lt columnist and blogger and author of chris christie, the inside story of his rise to power. bob, great to have you you here. your first impressions. how did he do with his announcement? i think he went through his 2015 quota for cliches, actually. you don t really expect a lot from these things. i mean it s a ra-rah rally i m really out there and running. let s get on with it. i wasn t disappointed.
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swallowing up really everything in its path. some good news today, though. containment is now up to 15%. the city of san francisco, some 150 miles away, is keeping a close eye on this fire. that s because the city gets much of its water supply from a reservoir that s sitting right in the fire s path. cnn s nick valencia is just outside the park in groveland, kra rah. nick, you have been out on the fire lines for days now. what are crews doing to get the upper hand here? reporter: hey, brianna, fire officials i ve spoken to earlier this morning are very concerned. they re concerned because this fire continues to grow. just in the last few days since we ve been here, it s grown more than 30,000 acres. bringing that acreage up to 149,000 plus acreage. as you mentioned, yes, there is positive sides to this. containment is up from 7% to 15%. but there have been some very critical losses. yesterday afternoon according to the u.s. forest service, berkeley campground was lost. why is that im
alexander ferdman. convicted for running an organized crime ring in texas that ripped off insurance companies. it hasn t stopped him from coming to california, setting up a drug rehab clinic, and billing taxpayers. even though felons are barred from running drug medi-cal centers. mr. ferdman, how can a guy with a record like you be operating a drug rehab clinic here in kra rah? you ve been convicted of a major insurance car crash scheme in texas. i was convicted. but it s not what it seems. reporter: in the last two fiscal years, taxpayers spent nearly $186 million. supposedly treating drug and alcohol abuse patients in california. our investigation, with the center for investigative reporting, found half of that money, or about $94 million, has gone to clinics that have shown questionable billing practices or signs of fraud. joy jarfurs, former drug
disconnect. in fact, he calls romney the gop s al gore. all right. so let s get into this. you write that romney s emotion deficit is doing to him what republicans, basically what we saw with al gore. expect what you mean by that? yeah, sure. when we talk about romney s trouble connecting with the conservative base we tend to talk a lot more about issues, the health care program in massachusetts that was passed or even his religion which some christian conservatives might be suspicious of. but really i think it s more of a personality and temper meant tall kind of thing. temperamentally he s not a conservative. conservatives, one thing you can say about them, real committed, engaged political conservatives hate liberals and hate liberalism. if you go to them and you give a speech that s rip roorg of what liberals are trying to do to this country, ra-rah-rah. romney can t do that.