i went to a restaurant in marion, iowa, where he just did a walk through and it was packed, people spilling out into the streets, people having their baseballs signed. >> is that different than the other candidates? is that in a different league? >> i think so in the sense that that there's a novelty factor with chris christie. some of the other candidates, you can see them and say hello with your morning coffee just about every other week. chris christie just hasn't been here, and a big personality, somebody that people are seeing in the news all the time. there's a lot of curiosity. >> in terms of the republican, sort of more -- the republican elites in iowa, when they look at the george washington bridge scandal, what do they think about that? do they say, hey, this is a ticking time bomb here or do they say liberal media, never