too far, to leave on principle. no one leaves government because no one leaves politics on principle. everybody is in this game. the country believes it, they're in it to feather their own nest. gates wants to write a book. other people want political power, whatever. we seem to have lost the idea of politics as something where you owe the country first. >> in the meantime, we have all this information coming out. i want to move on to new jersey governor chris christie getting some support from republicans, john. >> some. but not much, i might add. i think that in the four days since the revelations, the biggest story of it is how muted most republicans are. both in new jersey -- >> why? >> in new jersey, they don't like him. okay, even the republicans don't like him, and they're afraid of him. he has steam rolled over a lot of republicans. >> isn't the, john, they're seeing a guy who embraced president obama during the last week of the election, during their hurricane cleanup. he's a moderate republican, and