four gop candidates for governor of illinois planned to attend events with christie during his trip to chicago. the governor will have a series of high-profile speeches and events upcoming. his schedule includes an appearance at the c-pac conference in march. so will the scandal help him garner sympathy among the republican base, or when it comes to national leadership, is it time to throw in the towel? here to help us answer those questions and more, msnbc contributor jonathan alter and bob engle, co-author of chris christie: the inside story of his rise to power. thank you so much, gentlemen. hi, karen. you bet. bob, i want to start with you. there was a story in politico yesterday that reported on the mood within the christie camp and kind of noted that the governor s been a bit down. he didn t really like getting booed at the event last week for the super bowl. you ve covered him for so long. give us a sense of what is going
0 president bill clinton. the democrats can t say, oh, we re the great defenders of women s rights in the workplace and we ll defend you against some kind of abusive boss that uses their position of authority to take advantage of a young woman when the leader of their party, the leading fundraiser in the country is bill clinton, who was a perpetrator of that kind of sexual harassment. you know, so they can t have it both ways. so i really think that anybody who wants to take money from bill clinton or have a fundraiser has a lot of explaining to do. in fact, i think they should give the money back. you know, rand paul has a bit of explaining to do himself. why target a man who hasn t run for office in almost 20 years? could it have something to do with the democratic woman currently ahead of mitch mcconnell in kentucky? or the woman expected to top the democratic ticket in 2016? the timing may be right for senator paul to show he s the right person to stand up to the clintons with
lieutenant governor we ll have more in the next hour, but last night the city approved this is hoboken hiring a high profile criminal defense attorney to represent zimmer. three sources with direct knowledge tell nbc the fbi is questioning zimmer s aides over her claim as a new poll from rutgers shows the favorability plummeting 19 points since november. let s talk about it. bob engle from the asbury park press and co-author of chris christie which i m sure must be flying off the shelves. they haven t told me. let s talk about the rutgers poll, favorability dropping 19 points, job approval rating 15 points to the down side from november. for perspective, after sandy, approval rating was at 73%. from where you sit and your knowledge, how bad is this?
0 potential confrontation all and when he wouldn t cooperate, it was resisting arrest without violence, but it was his actions failing to obey the normal commands in an arrest, just to keep your hands out, put them on the car and behave yourself. he kept throwing throws the f-bombs around like punctuation marks. driver s license expired for six months. i believe the bond would be $2500, and of course we will be on top of the story. mark, i believe you ll be there all day. we appreciate you being there, and of course chris witherspoon, thanks for hustling over here. thanks. i appreciate it. the growing concerns about threats to the winter olympics in sochi, russia, now just two weeks away. tlaes five european olympic committees, along with the u.s. received disturbing e-mails on wednesday. while they contained a threat written in russia, efficiency say it does not pose any damager but the fear among americans is real. a new poll shows that nearly half fear an attack. among tho
governor s office, if you re talking about bridget kelly s documents, you re going to get a batch of documents from them that at least has the potential to raise a whole bunch of other questions. no matter what chris christie said last night or last week, doesn t matter if there s a new revelation there. bob, put that all together for us, what s the timing, could this go on for months, through 2015? i think at least months. i was talking to what we call a veteran of the state house the other day, i said give me your best bet, he said at least april. if they find stuff, it may go on past that, as well. right now if you look at the polls nationally, they are not paying as much attention to it, but the more this drips out, i think the more that s going to change. heading to florida, will that affect him at all in terms of support? that s a question, he s the how many republican governors want to be associated with him at this point? steve kornacki, bob ingle.