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KELLEY PAUL, WIFE OF RAND PAUL: But I think he has a great hair.

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: What about the mock turtle necks, do you get grief about that? You've struggled with that a little --

PAUL: It wasn't my favorite look for him, but you have to let him be who he is.

PEREIRA: Absolutely.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN GUEST ANCHOR: I thought Cuomo was the only guy who cut his own hair but now --

PEREIRA: Look at the face, my goodness, the face right there. Well, Kelley, it is really a delight to have you here with us. I can imagine this is a bit of a mind bending experience for you, all of it.

The two of you with your children, potentially, you know, looking at a presidential run here. Thanks so much for bringing the book to us. It's been a fascinating journey.

And as a woman I appreciate that you're writing about the sisterhood and importance in our lives, really a pleasure to meet you. Thanks so much for being here.

PAUL: Thank you.

PEREIRA: Chris.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Mrs. Paul, you picked a man with curly hair because you know that that means something significant in a partner. Good for you for doing that. Good for him for keeping his curls the way god intended them to be. Good to have you on the show.

All right, so did you hear what the head of the NRA just said about the president? John King will tell you. He's also going to discuss why people are saying this went too far, next on "Inside Politics."

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CUOMO: A lot of fireworks going on in politics. Everywhere you look there's a story. So let's get to "Inside Politics" on NEW DAY with Mr. John King. What do you got, J.K.?

JOHN KING, CNN HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS": Good morning all in New York, Michaela, John, we're going to start with the almost-forgotten man of the 2016 Republican field.

With me this morning to share their reporting and their insights we talk about Chris Christie in a town hall in New Hampshire, CNN's Nia Malika Henderson and CNN's Peter Hamby.

For a weekday audience that's the first time I've said that. You're a new addition to the team. We're proud to have you with us. Chris Christie is going to have a town hall today. He's in New Hampshire for a few days. He's in eighth place I think in the polls in New Hampshire now.

He was once viewed as somebody who would be a credible top tier player in this race and he may yet be. Let's be careful nobody's running away with this. He's going to do a town hall today. That's his trademark in New Jersey.

Yesterday, he said let's means test, essentially cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for older Americans and he says he's going to be the truth teller. John McCain has great success in New Hampshire, Mr. Straight talk.

But Chris Christie we're still waiting for final reports on bridge- gate. He said this to the union leader editorial board yesterday, "At my core I'm a trusting person. I believe in the honesty of other people. And I think for me I'm also someone who likes to delegate responsibility to people and let them perform. So I'm probably going to have a tighter rein on that."

Essentially, Peter, what he's saying is, gee, his own people undermined him and he gave them too much authority. That's not really how he's known to be in New Jersey.

PETER HAMBY, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER: No, he's not. But that's sort of been his primary excuse since this happen that I sort of let my aides do this and I had no idea. He said that in the press conference afterwards.

This was -- you know, he hadn't really been asked about bridge-gate for a while at least kind of a high profile setting like this, only when an ED board at the New Hampshire union leader be a high setting in presidential politics.

But he also said I don't know what's going to happen. He said "we have to wait and see what happens with the U.S. attorney with this investigation." We'll have to wait and see where it goes. He's professing not to know anything.

Now, what's interesting is if you talk to Christie world about this and his supporters, they actually seem in-genuine when they say that they seem a little more concerned with his deflated political standing, self-inflicted wounds over the winter with the sit down and shut up moment, the vaccination thing. NIA MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER: Yes.

HAMBY: They seem to not be too worried about bridge-gate, but again with the U.S. attorney you just don't know what they're looking at.

KING: You don't know, but we would be wrong to discount anybody. And Chris Christie believes in the power of personality and the power of ideas. We'll see how the town hall thing goes. If you need an exclamation point to know there's no Republican front runner in this race.

We just talked about New Hampshire, a brand new South Carolina poll out this morning. Scott Walker at 14 percent, Jeb Bush at 13 percent and Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, 8, 8, 6, 5. This is the Democratic Party.

HENDERSON: That's right.

KING: This is wide, wide open.

HENDERSON: Wide open, so many choices. People obviously still not in who will declare people like Bobby Jindal, people like Mike Huckabee. So it's a field that feels like maybe there's kind of a top tier and maybe Walker and maybe Bush are in there and then a second tier where everybody's bunched all together.

It's going to be a conversation about all the different wings of this party whether it's libertarian, Evangelicals and more of the chamber of commerce. But each field of those fields is crowded.

KING: And because of that the presumptive Democratic nominee and we'll see if a challenger emerges to Hillary Clinton. Again, it's very early. Somebody may emerge and challenge her. But at the moment she doesn't see a challenge.

Monticello, Iowa yesterday, Hillary doing a small casual setting. She likes this. The people of Iowa like things like this. The news media might whine it doesn't get enough access. But it's early in the campaign. She can do it the way she wants. Listen to her talk about why she wants to be president.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We need to build the economy of tomorrow, not yesterday. We need to strengthen families and communities because that's where it all starts. We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all even if that takes a constitutional amendment. And we need to protect our country from the threats that we see and the ones that are on the horizon.

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KING: Couple of interesting things there. One, you know, a populous economic pitch. You know, let's help families. Trying to make sure she doesn't create a lot of space on her left to say she's not doing that. But campaign finance plays well with liberals, independents, but even if we need a constitutional convention?

HAMBY: Actually I thought that was pretty smart. Campaign finance reform, you know, in the wake of Citizens United, these are things elites dismiss. If you live in Washington you're like that's not getting done any time soon.

But if you talk to voters, money and politics comes up all the time. Republicans say it, independents say it, and Democrats say it. I think if she's veering in kind of a populous space, I think it's kind of a smart thing to say.

HENDERSON: But it of course won't prevent them from raising gobs and gobs of money. I think it's something like $2.5 million --

[07:40:12] KING: You don't unilaterally disarm even as you make this case, right. How significant is this? A story in "New York Times" back in 2012 Darrell Issa, the Government Oversight Committee on the House side asked Hillary Clinton specifically do you use a personal e- mail account.

And the state -- here's the thing in the letter. Have you or any senior agency official ever used a personal e-mail account to conduct official business, if so please identify the account used. That's what she was asked.

The State Department sent back a litter essentially saying these are our policies that did not specifically address the question of Secretary Clinton.

Now, the replacement committee, the Select Committee wants to interview her in private and then probably public testimony. How significant will it be she didn't give an inaccurate answer but didn't give an answer?

HENDERSON: I think it's a drip, drip, drip. Trying to roll out this campaign sort of being the first lady next door, secretary of state next door everybody's familiar with and comfortable with, all of this with scandal hanging over her.

They aren't done with answering questions about this. I think for -- it's to their benefit that it's still so early. I think the countdown clock says 572 days or something. They've got time to sort this out, but they haven't figured it out yet.

KING: Let's end on this. I'm going to call this the knucklehead of the day award. If we had one of these every day we'd only talk about these. This is Wayne Lapierre, he is the executive director of the National Rifle Association, a pretty powerful guy in the conservative movement.

You might not like his positions or you might love his positions, this is him at their convention on Saturday talking about presidential politics.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) WAYNE LAPIERRE, CEO AND EVP, NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION: When he's finished he intends to go out with a coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yes. Yes. I have to tell you, eight years of one demographically symbolic president is enough.

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KING: So you insult Barack Obama. You insult Hillary Clinton. Implicitly you also insult African-Americans and insult women. Census.gov, you see what's changing in America. Don't take it from mainstream media guys like me, really? There's a way to criticize.

HENDERSON: I think some people might interpret this as let's go with the white guy next time.

KING: Really?

HENDERSON: I mean, that's kind of what he said --

KING: As we get back to you guys in New York, if your strategy is let's go with the white guy next time, again, just go to census.gov, watch the Romney campaign, study these things. Sorry, but the demographics are changing. If you insult women and African-Americans, good luck winning in presidential politics.

BERMAN: All right, John, from one white guy to another, I'll take it back. Thanks so much.

So why is this day different from all other days? Well, we were crying at the table. And number two, it is tax day. If you have not filed your taxes, number one, panic. Number two, listen to CNN. We're going to tell you what you need to do next.

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PEREIRA: All right. It is time for CNN money now. Money correspondent, Alison Kosik, is in our money center. Huge merger to talk about this morning, Alisyn.

ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Exactly, Michaela. Good morning. This is a big story. A new giant in the telecom industry to tell you about, Nokia is buying French firm, Alcatel Lucent for $16 billion.

Now just a few years ago, Nokia was number one in mobile phones worldwide, but it since been clobbered by Apple and Samsung, so it sold it handset business to Microsoft and focuses instead on network equipment and broadband.

Ding, ding, check your calendars. The deadline to file your taxes is today. If you haven't filed yet, I say don't panic. Contrary to what John Berman just said.

First of all, filing your paperwork even if you can't pay because it will generally cost you more to file late than pay late, and if you can't get the paperwork done on time, go ahead and file for an extension.

But remember, with this extension what you're really doing is only pushing back the deadline of the paperwork. You still got to pay any taxes you already owed, few tips there.

PEREIRA: So she's saying file first, panic second.

BERMAN: Panic in general. Whenever it gets close to tax day, just panic, it's not --

CUOMO: Just file your taxes. Don't give people bad advice like that, John Berman.

PEREIRA: My goodness.

BERMAN: There was a scary moment in Cleveland last night, some video really tough to see. We'll tell you all about what happened in the "Bleacher Report" next.

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CUOMO: We have been discussing police brutality a lot lately and with good reason. And now an NBA player is accusing the New York City Police Department of breaking his leg and as a result he is going to miss the playoffs.

We got Andy Scholes with this morning's "Bleacher Report." Are we talking about Thabo Sefolosha here? What's the deal?

ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS: That's right, Chris. Thabo Sefolosha, you know, he is a key member of the Atlanta Hawks and he was at the New York City nightclub, the night that Pacer's forward, Chris Coplan was stabbed.

Now Sefolosha was not involved in that incident, but soon after he was arrested by police because they claim he was interfering with the establishment of a crime scene.

Now video of the arrest was obtained by TMZ Sports. You can see police taking Sefolosha to the ground, and he suffered a broken fibula and torn ligaments that night and he says the police are to blame for his injuries.

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THABO SEFOLOSHA, ATLANTA HAWKS: I hope you can appreciate I cannot discuss the facts of the case, and this question will be answered by my lawyer in a court of law. I will simply say I am in great pain that I suffered significant injury, and those were caused by the police.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SCHOLES: Sefolosha will have surgery this week and is going to miss the entire NBA playoffs, and the NYPD is not commenting on the arrest, but they did say that the investigation has been turned over to the Internal Affairs Bureau.

Scary moment in the big blast night, Indian's pitcher, Carlos Carasco is hit right in the face by a line drive off the bat of Milky Cabrera. He would lay emotionless on the ground for a while. Carasco, he was taken for x-rays and luckily he was OK. He only suffered a bruise jaw. The White Sox won that game 4-1.

In the Rockies-Giants game, we have the catch of the season already. Colorado's Nolen Arenado going after this foul ball, and he makes an amazing over the shoulder catch and it bounces off the tarp, and then he can almost get the runner at third.

You have to take another look. Catch of the year, seven games into the season, and I will go out and say he will get a third gold glove, and he bounced. The man bounced.

PEREIRA: Yes, and he almost gets the runner out.

CUOMO: If that is me, I probably have some type of labrum and hip issue, and that's a dislocated shoulder.

[07:55:07] PEREIRA: He's a younger man than you are dear.

CUOMO: To throw that to dislocated shoulder right there.

PEREIRA: Almost the runner out too

PEREIRA: Almost got the runner out too -- thanks for that Andy. That was a good collection of "Bleacher Report" stuff there, really impressive.

All right, mass protests breaking out in major cities against police as new dash cam surfaces of a cop using his cruiser to take down a suspect, necessary force or excessive force?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These demonstrations will only get larger, they will only get angrier.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: New video igniting more questions about excessive force.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gun is loaded.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hillary Clinton back on the campaign trail.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's it like to be back in the game?

CLINTON: It's great. Americans and their families need a champion. BERMAN: Chris Christie trying to build support for a presidential run.

CHRISTIE: I will not pander and I'm not afraid to say the truth as I see it.

BERMAN: It's 34.5 hours and still counting. Jurors return for a seventh day of deliberations, if Hernandez is found guilty, he could face life in prison.

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