Senate Looks to Pass Immigration Bill; Chris Christie Slams Hillary Clinton's Sports Loyalties
CONAN O'BRIEN, HOST, "CONAN": President Obama personally called and talked to the two lesbians who helped legalize gay marriage in California. It was operated (ph) first because the woman had to put Bill Clinton on hold.</s>O'BRIEN: And finally calls them constantly.</s>JIMMY KIMMEL, HOST, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE": Pre-sales of Paula Deen's upcoming cookbook have skyrocketed. Apparently, America's distaste for racism is trumped by its taste for bacon.</s>KIMMEL: The only N-word they use in the book is nutmeg. So --</s>CUOMO: What do you got?</s>BOLDUAN: And butter.</s>CUOMO: That's not an N-word.</s>BOLDUAN: I know. I was going for an N-word, but --</s>CUOMO: What do you got? Who did you like?</s>BOLDUAN: I'm not funny, so I'm not going to judge the funnies.</s>PEREIRA: I was going to enjoy them.</s>CUOMO: Look on both.</s>BOLDUAN: Yes. And I wasn't -- I was just sort of sitting there and just didn't giggle either.</s>CUOMO: I'll go with Jimmy. What do you think? Tweet me. We're kicking off 30 minutes of commercial free news for you. Let's start with our political gut check. All the stories you need to know coming out of Washington.</s>BOLDUAN: Yes. We're going to start with the Senate looking to finally pass an immigration bill by the end of this week, but, it's not the Senate people have been worried so much about. CNN's chief national correspondent, John King, is here to break this all down for us. So, John, I keep hearing from people in the Senate, senators themselves, that what they're trying to do with racking up these big vote counts on these procedural votes is they're trying to build momentum when they send this to the House. Do you sense momentum?</s>JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes and no. Kate, Chris, and Michaela, good morning to you. On the key test votes in the Senate, we've seen 67 votes, we've seen 69 votes. This may sound silly, but on final passage, it would be a huge boost for this bill if you support it. If they can get over 70 in the Senate. If they can get over 70, that means they're picking up one or two more of these conservative Republican senators who has, so far, have been objecting to provisions in the bill. When it gets to the House, here's the big question. The National Republican Party's interest is to pass this bill, maybe make some improvements to their cause, but pass this bill so they can start to put behind them their problem with Latino voters. But Kate, you know this from your days on the Hill, if you look at the map of the red Congressional districts, the red House districts in the United States of America, most Republicans, not all, but most Republicans represent White America. And they represent conservative White America. So, those individual House members don't feel the pressure to support this bill that many people who have to run statewide do in the Senate or people who are thinking maybe about running for president in 2016.</s>BOLDUAN: And to take -- you know, it's considered tough votes. The pressure needs to be there and it has to come from their districts. That's for sure. So, let's talk future presidential politics. Governor Chris Christie doing a pretty interesting interview with a New Jersey radio station. Let's listen to this.</s>GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE, (R) NEW JERSEY: Listen, I'm not going to be Hillary Clinton, OK? I'm not going to, you know, be a Cubs fan my whole life and then when I go to run for office in another state, you know, pretend I'm a Yankee fan, OK? I don't think there's anything in sports more reprehensible than that. You're a fan of who you're a fan of. And I absolutely think that people can tell a lie about people who change their loyalties to sports teams. If they won't be loyal to sports teams, why the hell would they be loyal to you?</s>BOLDUAN: Ouch! I mean, I know this is a tough topic for a die-hard Red Sox fan like you, but what's the deal with the sports loyalty jab?</s>KING: Well, number one, if Christie runs for president, we're going to be doing this every morning, because he says what he thinks. You guys probably don't still have that front page from yesterday. Remember that the New York -- the Yankees general manager's response to A-Rod?</s>BOLDUAN: Yes.</s>KING: That's what Hillary wishes she could say to Chris Christie this morning, but she can't, of course. Look, this is part of who this guy is and this is -- if you -- look, Christi/Hillary match-up would be fabulous, right? It'd be fabulous for our business. I don't know what the voters would think about it. But he's just trying to get at the fact that you can't believe, you can't trust who she is, but he's also just being himself as a fan and this Christie being Christie, and he's an entertaining guy. Like him or not.</s>CUOMO: All right. So, let's go from the inside politics to the outside, the things that are going on that really affect people that have to be focused on. Student loans. We've been talking about it here on the show, John. We hear there may be a compromise. Give us the latest on this and the sense of whether or not people get what they're playing with here down in Washington?</s>KING: That's a great question. It's a great way to put it, because we were just talking about the Republicans trying to make inroads, trying to put away their long history of problems in recent years with Latino voters. We also know that they've had a problem with younger voters. Both the House Republican leadership, the president of the United States, I should say all three, and the Senate Democratic leadership, say they want to get this done. All they (ph) say they don't want these interest rates on young people to go up. The problem is, they all have different plans. And trying to work out the difference has been a problem right now. And the House has dug under heels saying our way is better than your way to the Senate which you're saying no, it isn't. There's a great urgency to get this done, but the devil is in the details. This is another one of those tests for who's going to blink? Who's going to blink in the sense of it? Will something temporary happen? The new senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, she's not the new one anymore, I guess. Ed Markey is coming in. She has a one year Band-Aid fix to this. Watch for something like that to come up if they can't figure this out. But this is another -- when people look at Washington, this is what frustrates with them. If everybody says they don't want these rates to go up, why can't they figure it out?</s>BOLDUAN: Could not have said it better.</s>CUOMO: Just as importantly, who's pushing to make them go up?</s>BOLDUAN: Yes.</s>CUOMO: You know what I mean? Which is a little bit of the story behind the story. We got to dig on that. John, thank you very much.</s>BOLDUAN: Thanks, John. You hear it? Yes. That music means it's time for the "Rock Block," a quick round up of stories you'll be talking about today. Let's start up with Michaela.</s>PEREIRA: Let's do it. Let's start with "The New York Times," Delta Airlines being fined $750,000 for its overbooking practices. Apparently, Delta bumped some passengers without asking for volunteers first. In the "New York Daily News," the city council overriding Mayor Bloomberg's veto of paid sick leave. Businesses with 15 or more employees will now have to provide up to five paid six days a year. And from the "L.A. Times," hundreds of chimpanzees that were used for biomedical research in the U.S. are being retired. They're expected to be released into the federal sanctuary system.</s>BOLDUAN: -- to the retirement. It was kind (ph) of hard. Kind of hard.</s>CUOMO: Very nice. Very nice. Time for the business news. Christine Romans here. How are you?</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: How are you? Look, this morning, we're looking for another rally in stocks following a strong performance Wednesday. Economic growth in the first quarter slowed, but that's a sign the fed might keep propping up the economy of stimulus. That's why stocks liked it. Can a big desk and a big chair make you cheat? Apparently, yes. Marco Watch (ph) says a new Ivy League study says the bigger the chair, the more powerful people feel, the more likely they are to cheat and steal.</s>BOLDUAN: What?</s>ROMANS: Hmmm.</s>PEREIRA: Thank goodness my chair is smaller. I guess, it's not that big.</s>ROMANS: They buy us the chairs here, so they're all the same --</s>ROMANS: Yoplait is playing catch-up with the Greek yogurt competitors. Yogurt wars. Yoplait reportedly changing the way it makes Greek yogurt. They'll use the traditional straining recipe that its rivals already used. The yogurt wars --</s>BOLDUAN: Love me some yogurt and breakfast and I also love Indra, so let's go straight to Indra in the weather center with what you need to know before --</s>INDRA PETERSONS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Before I give you the forecast, that always changes after I give the forecast. And it's all about highs and loss. What that means? Yes. When we see the jet stream look like a roller coaster, that is weather of extreme. So, what does that mean? Out in the northeast all the way to the southeast, we're going to be talking about rain, and yes, heavy rain as we go through the weekend. And out towards the west, we're talking about huge heat wave. I mean, we're talking about temperatures that only happen once every ten years. We're talking about those temperatures soaring close to 130. I hope you still like me now.</s>BOLDUAN: We like you despite your forecast.</s>PETERSONS: Thank you.</s>BOLDUAN: Thank you so much. We are now at the top of the hour which means it's time for the top news.