very studio, we think about the fact that we have folks in all 50 states depending on us. we struggle to not have news that s new york-centric or washington-centric, remembering this is a big country. but this was home, it was this area. you can t trade where you re from, nor would i trade with anyone else, so if our coverage seemed personal, it was just because we couldn t prevent it. this was home getting ripped up before our eyes and large portions of it still are. brian, as you go back, then, in the week ahead to look at it one year later, what are your big questions? what have you found? what do you want to know now? who is not being served, who has made the choice not to come back? among new jerseyans with that state motto, the government is stronger than the storm, most people i know wouldn t think of looef leaving, but we know some people
you can t change where you re from, nor would i trade with anyone else, so if our coverage seemed personal, it was just because we couldn t prevent it. this was home getting ripped up before our eyes and large portions of it still are. brian, as you go back, then, in the week ahead to look at it one year later, what are your big questions? what have you found? what do you want to know now? who is not being served, who has made the choice not to come back? among new jerseyans with that state motto, the government is stronger than the storm, most people i know wouldn t think of leaving, but we know some people who have reluctantly made that decision. government is coming in in a sweeping way. there are cities and towns getting corrugated steel walls between them and the ocean. they didn t ask for that, but this looks like a survival tool. i want to know who is not coming back, i want to know who is not being served, and i want to know whose lives are being changed forever.
screeching halt. had you been here in washington, do you think you would have done anything differently than what you saw and what will you try to do for future fiscal fights? there s probably going to be one welcoming you on your doorstep as you move here. yes. i can t say what i would have done. i m one of those people that had a side line seat like you did, but i did know right here in new jersey, i saw firsthand how so many people, tens and tens of thousands of new jerseyans were directly impacted, hurt, had their lives in many ways put in deep insecurity as a result of it. it s something that s just unacceptable. i think i agree with what the president said. there were no winners in this. there were just a lot of losers starting with the american people. i just came from a press conference where we brought yet another development project creating hundreds of jobs in newark, it was the governor and i together, the governor, a republican and me a democrat. we built new jersey ne
ledger and times of trenton are urging him to sign the bills as well saying for the greater good and safety of all new jerseyens, governor christie should take this opportunity to ban .50 caliber rifles, the most powerful weapon available to sieve ville wrapcivilian civilians. these five-foot-long sniper rifles with armor piercing bullets. captain mark kelly, the astronaut and combat veteran, and gun owner, who s the husband of congresswoman gabby giffords, he also just wrote an editorial in the star ledger focusing on the bill for universal background checks for gun purchases which chris christie has nod decided to do about. captain kelly says, polls show 96% of new jerseyans, 95% of gun owning households in the state, support expanding background checks to keep guns away from those who should not have them. he says i was raised in west orange near the governor s hometown of livingston and don t think i ve ever seen 96% of people in new jersey supporting everything except bon
and they include the one about whether or not it should be legal for this military weapon to be sold to civilians including 18-year-olds in new jersey. because it is legal to have those guns in new jersey now. even though new jersey, the most densely populated state in the nation, has a pretty progressive history on guns overall. new jersey was the first state in the country to enact an assault weapons ban back in 1990. well now two former new jersey governors, one democratic former governor, one republican former governor, christine todd whitman, are urging chris christie to go ahead and sign the remaining five gun reform bills as well saying, regardless of politics and party, new jersey residents have always shown unwavering support for common sense gun laws and these remaining bills are common sense bills. editorials in the newark star ledger and times of trenton are urging him to sign the bills as well saying for the greater good and safety of all new jerseyans, governor chri