that s the guy he was. and you can be made by the machine and unmade by the machine if it flips on you. in other words, the central control that you have that makes you effective is what also raises questions about what the attorney calls the enterprise of the government of new jersey. that is what we are sitting around here trying to figure out. yes, people have taken the fifth. the legislative committeys that think they are getting public hearings are not. those people want to cut deals. we are not going to know what the facts are until he finds the facts. there is nothing worse, by the way, for somebody in the middle of a crisis like this to have a u.s. attorney who is known to be a political and professional which this guy fishman is. he is not a grand stander or
they have to keep their personal feelings about christie separate from how they act publically. anything they do that has the whiff of partisanship, christie and his able political team will seize on as a way to paint this controversy as a partisan battle. if christie isn t linked to the scandal might the strategy be effective? i think that s right. in a way that s why u.s. attorney paul fishman who is a key player here who people haven t paid attention to is interesting. he s a low key guy with a reputation as a nonpartisan, careful investigator. not a show boater or a grand stander. they should rely on what fishman has to say about this. by the way, chris christie s people will try to politicize any investigation. and cry foul about it being politics. i have to agree with you that as
blower a threat to national security or is he an american hero in your mind? to begin with, i find it very interesting that he goes to hong kong to get a little security. it s a pretty strange going to hong kong. and frankly, i don t think you have any winners here. i didn t like him. to me, he looks like a grand stander. he s been there three months. i didn t like him. at the same time, i mean, that s a lot of information that people are getting, and that our government is getting. you say where does it stop? it s a mess. there is no question about it. i don t like him. i don t like what they re doing. gretchen: yeah. my concern this morning is i don t want our country to have infighting as a result of it. i fear that now the country is going to be separated on what they think about him, what they think about the nsa, what they think about how we treat terrorism, and do you have that feeling at all? i don t know that there is any answer. i m as strong as it gets on terrorism, ye
that s really unusual. his people say, he wasn t being personal, yet it was certainly perceived that way. but two different ways. elizabeth warren still trying to do the same thing that ted cruz is doing, but choosing a different platform. there was actually a fascinating story in politico yesterday about her decided decision to keep her head down, literally, to keep walking when reporters tried to interview her in the hallways of the capitol. but, you know, when it s in your wheelhouse, and i thought some of her questions might have been a little bit unfair, because there are other ways to sanction banks besides going to trial. going to trial is risky. but the best way, with i think, to make an impact as a new senator is to do a good job of questioning. you know, it is interesting, though, what s interesting, bot elizabeth warren and ted cruz did get the memo on how to be a grand stander. how to ask questions that you don t care about the answers. i tell you, watch elizabeth w
he always has been a grand stander. does huntsman have to win to stay in this race? he has to come in second, third, or fourth. i say bauchmann s out if she can t win in iowa. i think if huntsman can t win where he says he has to win, he loses. well, you know, for heaven sakes, huntsman isn t going anywhere anyway. if he wins new hampshire. if hep wins new hampshire, then we re talking a new dynamic in this race. let me go to john. what do you think? let s talk about the two moderates. mitt romney and jon huntsman. one of them will probably win up there, it s probably mitt romney. what happens if that doesn t happen? well, i think it depends on what happens in iowa, chris. if mitt romney wins iowa and then somehow new hampshire does what it does often and hands new hampshire to someone other than mitt romney, i think mitt romney could still survive that. i think if mitt romney loses in iowa and doesn t come in first and then loses new hampshire, he will be fundamentally