talking about. republican columnist george will. this is not a phony scandal because as the principal watergate scholar here knows, john dean sent a memo to mr. higby, who was the assistant of the chief of staff haldeman saying we should use the machinery, the federal machinery of government to screw our enemies. that s what this was about up there. nixon of course resigned the presidency under the threat of certain impeachment, a subject that came up this weekend in regards to governor christie. could he be impeached or what would be the penalty? well, i think we re a little early on that, bob. i think you pointed out at the beginning we re at the early stages of this. but clearly if it becomes known that the governor was involved and he knew about it and he knew about the cover-up and he was approving the actions taken by his senior staff, that raises serious questions that the assembly ought to look at. the assembly has the ability to
supportive of his campaign. whether it was spending ad money that was taxpayer dollars to put him on the air with his family or it was threatening those to try to get them to support him in his campaign. this culture or abuse of power i think is the problem. we don t know exactly what he ordered or didn t. but the bottom line is this is the culture, this what i call impropriety that is pervasive in this administration. well, we have polls now showing that a majority of new jersey voters, the voters in this country who know governor christie the best, do not believe his story thus far. congressman frank pallone of new jersey, thank you very much for joining us tonight. thank you, lawrence. coming up who should chris christie fire next? and what do lie detection techniques tell us about what chris christie said in his news conference last week?