2016 has shut itself down. they wrote a letter to the fec explaining they neither raised nor disbursed any funds and would like the fec to, quote, terminate and be discontinued. so that s not good news for jeb bush. that said. they didn t raise any funds or disburse any funds and so jeb bush probably wasn t counting on them. and given that, you probably would rather be jeb bush today than, say, chris christie today. because yeah, jeb bush had a bad day. but the news for chris christie is not only bad today, it is potentially really going to be bad in coming weeks. you ll recall that two chris christie associates, his deputy chief of staff you see on the right there and his top appointee to one important state agency, they re both going on criminal trial this spring in april, because they are both accused of a criminal political conspiracy, a conspiracy to shut down access lanes on to the world s busiest bridge as a political vendetta of some sort
they wrote a letter to the fec explaining they neither raised nor disbursed any funds and would like the fec to, quote, terminate and be discontinued. so that s not good news for jeb bush. that said. they didn t raise any funds or disburse any funds and so jeb bush probably wasn t counting on them. and given that, you probably would rather be jeb bush today than, say, chris christie today. because yeah, jeb bush had a bad day. but the news for chris christie is not only bad today, it is potentially really going to be bad in coming weeks. you ll recall that two chris christie associates, his deputy chief of staff you see on the right there and his top appointee to one important state agency, they re both going on criminal trial this spring in april, because they are both accused of a criminal political conspiracy, a conspiracy to shut down access lanes on to the world s busiest bridge as a political vendetta of some sort designed to punish other
he will be running for president. much longer. and then, speaking of indictments, it s that kind of day. there was very, very late breaking news this evening about another supposedly top-tier presidential candidate who is not himself under indictment like rick perry, but he s a candidate whose failure to thrive, many people have attributed to the criminal indictments that have come down against members of his administration. forthcoming criminal trials of two of the senior aides, the ongoing nature of the federal criminal investigations into various lurid scandals of his time as governor. i m talking about, of course, chris christie. you remember the bridge scandal, of course, that was the almost unbelievable scandal in which allies and appointees of governor christie concocted a scheme to shut down access lanes on to the world s most heavily trafficked bridge, two years ago this week. it was the time for the first day of school to deliberately
the first major party candidate to ever run for president while being under indictment. but it is hard to imagine that he will be running for president. much longer. and then, speaking of indictments, it s that kind of day. there was very, very late breaking news this evening about another supposedly top-tier presidential candidate who is not himself under indictment like rick perry, but he s a candidate whose failure to thrive, many people have attributed to the criminal indictments that have come down against members of his administration. forthcoming criminal trials of two of the senior aides, the ongoing nature of the federal criminal investigations into various lurid scandals of his time as governor. i m talking about, of course, chris christie. you remember the bridge scandal, of course, that was the almost unbelievable scandal in which allies and appointees of governor christie concocted a scheme to shut down access lanes on to the world s most heavily trafficked bridge, two yea
newark airport where united airlined hangar partially collapsed. here s video. station in new york reports three people taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. when we find out more, we ll bring you the situations here. on the topic of united airlines, the ceo out of a job today. the undoing? a federal probe into whether the carrier traded favors with the former chairman of the port authority of new york and new jersey and centering around the nation s third largest airline agreed to bring back money-losing flights to an airport closes to sampson s weekend home in exchange for improvements they wanted at the airport. sampson as you may recall is a former new jersey attorney general, appointed by chris christie to manage the port authority and stepped down in march of last year months after revealed that port authority officials worked with senior aides in the christie administration to shut down access lanes on to the george washington bridge as part of a