you cannot have someone at the top of your political operation who you do not have confidence in. >> now, talk to anyone in new jersey politics privately know and they'll they will you there's an awful lot of suspicion around bill. he's connected to the other players. his first big break came in 2003. ba ro any was the only nonincumbent republican who won a legislative race in new jersey that year. so that election made him a rising star and i also made steppian, who managed his campaign a rising star. so from there steppian went on to work for george w. bush's reelection campaign in 2004 for john mccain and then he got his real big break. he won christie's successful campaign for governor in 2009. it's the first time in 12 years that a republican had won a