welcome back. no apologizes. governor chris kristy defending his decision to spend time on the beach and announced his state has reached a deal to reopen. this beach was shut down and closed. barricades greating disappointed visitors, outrage e running on monday after aerial photos that one of them e americaning of governor kristy, his family and guest enjoying one of those beaches all to themselves at the governor s residence on island beach state park. because of the shut down it was off limits to the public. now in a news conference a shore time ago tristy says he s not
lot of people have no doubt russia is bind it. thank you so much guys appreciate it. next here on cnn newsroom new jersey governor chris kristy speak out about what some jokingly called beach gate. he s not sorry. we re going to discuss that next. stay with us.
incident. this is just a perfect example of the runs being disconnected from the american people. it s just like the healthcare plan where we get tax cuts to the rich so where peach have lesser means are beginning to suffer more. the beach is closed to the public but yes, the man in charge gets to enjoy it. shawn i know you ll give us your thoughts on that too. but it was interesting that at a news conference before the photos came out, the governor said he did not get any sun today and one of his aids said later after the conference came out and said well he was wearing a basketball hat. it s a very large baseball hat. i think there were a lot of clouds in the area at the time. you saw the picture, that big home that you saw next to the beach, that s his home, that s where he lives. hi front yard is the beach so he walked maybe 30 or 40 feet with his family. it was a perfect day. you can see the picture
apologizing for spending 40 minutes with his family. where i took on the question was hey were you out getting a tan to do. that wouldn t what i was doing and that s not what those pictures show. sitting there with a baseball hat, sorts and a t-shirt talking to my wife and our guests. i don t apologize for it. i don t back away from it and i think my pole number show i don t care about political optics. new jersey beaches and parks that were closed because of that shut down will reopen later on tuesday because a deal has been don to get a budge to the governor. we re back with california talk roadway host ethan and shawn stiller. it s interesting wen governor christy says my poll numbers reflect that i don t care. his poll numbers are around 15% approval. this probably wouldn t have helped. yeah if anything, the 15% will now will 9% after this
her speak. eventually, they did get quiet and, i guess, left the stage. with the help of john lewis, i think, who was there to kind of ease the way a little bit for her. jon: right. he s, obviously, a legend in the civil rights movement. sure. and i think she was lucky to have him by her side. and they should let her speak, and she made a very good point. look, you may like what i have to say. if you listen to me as opposed to what we ve seen on the other side when chris kristy is basically blaming the movement for the death of cops and saying they went the death of they want the death of cops. that s why republicans don t get the black vote, because of statements like that. jon: john lewis said it is unfortunate that they didn t have that they didn t listen to the secretary. well, he comes from the time. right, yeah. jon: when protesters were loud and got their it was handled in a very gentle way and no in an arrogant and not in an arrogant or dismissive way which is w