yesterday, his aspirations for president are essentially over. you wrote in your article, this story is going to be unveiled in slow and excruciating detail. i don t think he will come back from it. there s a possibility he can, but i don t think he will. that is not a great position to be in if you re running for president. running for president is really hard under the best of circumstances. this is going to weigh on him constantly and this is the very beginning, not the end. francis, let s follow-up on why. i think what we ve seen so far is what there is. and there is nothing linking this directly to christie. i think the man has a shot at surviving and i would not under estimate him. i think putting him out is premature. but i also think we got to put 2016 at a pause.
chris christie needs to focus like a laser on new jersey and setting that ship straight and then national politics can come on. right now, his operation, they got to hit the pause button. i agree with you that we can t say too soon that chris crease s christie s career is over. we just don t know that. documents are coming out today. you may have more mayors talking about acts of vengeance. more could come out. if democrats are smart, they re going to have stuff bubble up. i think the best thing the governor has going for him is that this is small ball going after this local mayor that didn t really matter to you. francis, speak to this. this idea that i didn t know anything about what my main,
governor? joining us, our panel, francis will kin son and mark lamont hill. welcome everyone. anna, let me start with you. so you and i have been e-mailing back and forth. republicans yesterday, i was wait to go gauge more of their reaction to all of this. it seemed that they either were staying as far away as possible or saying let s take a weight and see approach. now that we have heard from chris christie, do republicans say, all right. it s time to move on, we need to support our guy? what do you think the reaction is going to be? i think we re in a pause stage, kate. look, people like me who like chris christie who could think of him as a nominee, we are prone to give him the benefit of the doubt. now there is a right wing that s never liked him, that s never trusted him. they re probably not as willing.