cooler, but dry. we ll take it. thank you so much. let s take a look at what s coming up on new day. happy friday. hello, my friends. chris christie is the news. the bridge scandal, the epic press conference he gave probably just the beginning. why? here comes the support stage. will his story stand up? we ll vet with about a thousand pages of documents being released this morning. you re also going to have it tested with all the analysis that we can provide with people who have been following this story. we have a reporter who is digging into this, the 91-year-old woman who died. was it really a result of the traffic problems cacreated by t? we also have a cnn exclusivive. it s been one year since a teen daep disappeared. he was found dead rolled up in a gym mat inside his school. cnn has covered this story
government. and you re darn right, what they did hurt the people of new jersey, hurt the people of fort lee and i m sorry to all the people of the state that they have to be occupied with this matter. it s embarrassing. as i said before, the whole matter is humiliating to e me. all you can do as a person when you know this is to stand up and be genuine and sincerely apologize and hope the people accept your apology. i think i have built up enough good will over time with people of new jersey that i m hopeful they will accept my apology. 108 minutes of i m sorries and a different tenor. let s bring in paul stienhouser in washington this morning. talk about the different tone from chris christie e yesterday. is that going to be a new chris
broken and humiliated. chris christie apologizing after his employees are tied to a traffic scandal. welcome back to early start. i m christine romans. and i m john berman. great to see you this morning. a lot of news. we are watching this morning the new evidence that will be coming out today on what many people are calling bridgegate. this is the political scandal surrounding the office of governor chris christie over the shutdown of lanes on george washington bridge. a mayor would not endorse him and so this is being called payback. he s asked his campaign manager to step down and the governor
south carolina. the senator there lindsey graham. i want to show you what he said before the news conference because it s telling. it seems to me the whole bridge thing reenforces a narrative that s troublesome about this guy, he s kind of a bully. that was before the news conference. this is what lindsey graham said after the news conference. he said i m impressed with the contrite nature in taking responsibility. in today s political environment it was a breath of fresh air and i think he handled it it as well as he could. that s a big change from a key senator from the key state. very important change. you also saw that coming from conservative bloggers. and a the lot of republicans are trying to make the contrast between somebody they don t like a lot more and that s president obama. at least chris christie did fire people. president obama hasn t fired yet. you re hearing a lot of that from the right as well.
has apologized, a lot, saying he was deceived, humiliated and disappointed. today a lot more going on in this. the state committee plans to release hundreds of pages of documents from its investigation. cnn has learned that the fbi is now looking into the shutdown as well for possible federal charges. christie insists he knew nothing about it it. as you will hear, he apologized again and again and again. i am responsible for what happened. i am sad to report to the people of new jersey that we fell short. we fell short of the expectations that we have created over the last four years for the type of excellence many government that they should expect from this office. but i have repeatedly said to them that while i promise them the best governors office i can give to them, i can never promise them a perfect governors