msnbc coverage for donald trump s camille trial. next, a conversation at the apollo. isn t it great to be at the apollo! . i grew up coming to this place so many times and tonight, especially, i thought about when i was coming in backstage. i have been on this stage for godfather of soul james brown who was like a father and michael jackson and the list goes on. tonight, you will have something that is special at the apollo. you are going to have two icons that are going to talk about their work and talk about what they do in this country that is so needed at this time. it couldn t be a better night at the apollo. this is not just a great show tonight but this is history. [ applause ] [ cheering ] so it is my honor and my pleasure that i can t tonight bring you the godfather of soul, but i bring you the godmother. rachel maddow. [ applause ] i got you on that one. [ applause ] [ cheering ] wow! how are you doing? i am so nervous. fantastic! fantastic. thank you all for
welcome back to hardball. despite what some would have had you believe, the christie scandal is not a creation of democrats or the big national press eager to pop the christie balloon. the story has been doggedly pursued by reporters in his own backyard, and those reporters continue to take the lead on this unfolding story. here is how david carr of the new york times laid it out today. it started with the publisher of the bergen record, a newspaper in northern new jersey that tipped off the newspaper s editor that getting on to the george washington bridge from ft. lee was taking hours. the editorialist passed it on. he began placing calls to local law enforcement. later a reporter at the record who covers the port dug in and tried to find out what was behind the lane closings. after a number of articles, on december 28th he wrote that e-mails show that officials at
and save up to thirty percent. welcome back to hardball. despite what some would have had you believe, the christie scandal is not a creation of democrats or the big national press eager to pop the christie balloon. the story has been doggedly pursued by reporters in his own backyard, and those reporters continue to take the lead on this unfolding story. here is how david carr of the new york times laid it out today. it started with the publisher of the bergen record, a newspaper in northern new jersey that tipped off the newspaper s editor that getting on to the george washington bridge from ft. lee was taking hours. the editorialist passed it on. he began placing calls to local law enforcement. later a reporter at the record who covers the port dug in and tried to find out what was behind the lane closings. after a number of articles, on december 28th he wrote that e-mails show that officials at
you start at the starting line and the starting line is iowa and you do not have to say i want to be in iowa but that is where you start. that is where the press will be in the early stages of the presidential race. he may decide he will not play iowa at all and maybe that is what this decision by announcing on the day of the straw poll is about but i guarantee you watch, the other candidates will beat the daylights out of him for not respecting the iowa straw poll and so will the iowa republican party and out there, just the conversation on the streets will be that it was bad form to make the announcement on the day that the attention was in iowa and one other thin, all the big national press political writers, where will they be? in iowa, 700 credentials press will be there not covering him in south carolina so the b team of the reporters will be in south carolina covering the announcement. neil: but he does disrupt things $he not?