donovan, the state of new jersey, everybody has stepped to the plate and rolled up their sleeves and done all that they should do to help us recover as best we can. what about the governor, crist christie? the state of new jersey has been wonderful. what about the governor chris christie? well, the state of new jersey and those professionals who are in certain positions in the state government have done has been asked of them, are and i m pleased with their cooperation and support. i asked the question because you ve had a rocky relationship with the new jersey governor. he criticized you severely backing in 2012 for not evacuating atlantic city. let me play that clip. evacuation is no longer possible and this has become particularly problematic in atlantic city where for whatever reason, mayor langford urged
other for the benefit of everyone in new jesey and the people of atlantic city. no question about it. it would be better if we got along personally, you but we don t need to get along personally. all we need to do is respect each other for the job we have to do. if we do respect each other and endeavor to work cooperatively for the greater good of the whole, everybody will win. mayor lorenzo langford, the mayor of atlantic city. good luck to you and governor christie. i hope you guys can have a beer, talking about this and move on for the benefit of all of your constituents. well, i don t drink so there will be no having a beer. but i can work with anybody. have a lemonade or something, coca-cola or whatever and try to make peace. as a matter of fact, i ll be happy to buy him one. all right, good. maybe he ll accept your invitation which is generous. there are a few nice places in
0 there is called a boulder dwelling frog. what is a golden skink? we ve got them as pets down there. what is it? is it a rodent? i don t know. we ll get to the bottom of that soon. that s going to do it for us on around the world. i m hala gorani. i m mike holmes. cnn newsroom is next. hala will have the international desk an hour from now. don t miss that where she will punish you. punish you. thanks for watching. captions by vitac www.vitac.com right now the obama administration is under fire on several fronts. we re waiting for today s white house briefing. line of coverage coming up this hour. the administration facing tough questions regarding the president s promise about keeping your health care plan. also right now, top administration intelligence officials, they re getting ready to get grilled this hour. the head of the nsa and the president s top intelligence chief are both standing by to testify. we ll have live coverage. the nsa s decision to spy on ame
0 one of the first obama administration officials to be questioned directly by congress in this debacle that has been the obama care website rollout. have a listen to how it went. despite our democrats opposition to part d ten years ago, we committed to making the best of the program. and because of all the changes that have occurred in part d prescription program, 90% of seniors right now the are satisfied. and why are they satisfied? well, are in my district, before that was vote, i made seniors know that i was going to vote no and opposed and i told them two reasons. the gap, the doughnut hole when you re paying for premiums you re not getting any benefits. that was horrendous and number two, no one was an outside source was not sitting down and being the third party to the negotiate the prices of prescription drugs. so it lost. we lost the policy fight. and what did we do? we went back to our districts and we told our seniors although we voted no, we re we personally believe an
course after super storm sandy. the east coast is still recovering and hoping to get back ready for the memorial day weekend holiday. communities are getting help from many people, including an unlikely figure. eagles quarterback michael vick, who joins me now from atlantic city along with its mayor, lorenzo langford. welcome to you both. michael, good to talk to you again. i remember after sandy seeing you pretty emotional down at the scene and tweeting about it and really quite affected by what happened. when you re back down there now, how does it seem to you in terms of its recovery? it feels great. i tell you, it s a totally different makeup than what it was back in october when the hurricane hit. you know, just great to see everybody out, everybody, you know, just excited about, you know, the new opportunities and just a very vibrant feel. it don t get any better than that. michael, when you look at what s happened in oklahoma, the devastating tornado there, another place tha