policeman and charged him that day without a long investigation. let the d.a. decide later, so she has the ability to do either. the question is what she s going to do. my guess is she s going to talk about a transition and that she s doing her own investigation. that s all that i got on the ground in the leadership meetings and all. but that doesn t mean that s all she could do. reverend it seems like there s always such a disconnect between, you know people on the ground, people who are affected and who feel disenfranchised, and don t really necessarily, i don t know understand the judicial system and the way it works. it s almost like there s a disconnect between how the system has been set up to make it be objective and fair and what people s expectations are about information that system should be giving us. well i think you re absolutely right, and i think that therein lies the tension,
marshal law? do you know he never met with me since then even though i was the number two person in the stat in leadership meetings. that s the kind of thing. he s very thin skinned. he gets offended very easily. and he holds a grudge. what did you hear as you were going around trying to build support for your campaign, which was i think history will show a campaign that was not supported by the democratic party up and down from washington, d.c., national democratic party, institutional democratic party in the state of new jersey. what did you hear from democrats about how what the relationship to christie was like? well, very often it arose in the context of fund-raising. i would call up people, lobbyists, people who worked in new jersey and try and raise money. there was a real culture of fear. honestly, i ve never seen anything like it in my 20 years in the legislature. stop for a second. do you really mean that? i do. we know how new jersey politics operate. people say, t
declared a fiscal state of emergency. i said, what is he declaring marshal law? do you know he never met with me since then even though i was the number two person in the stat in leadership meetings. that s the kind of thing. he s very thin skinned. he gets offended very easily. and he holds a grudge. what did you hear as you were going around trying to build support for your campaign, which was i think history will show a campaign that was not supported by the democratic party up and down from washington, d.c., national democratic party, institutional democratic party in the state of new jersey. what did you hear from democrats about how what the relationship to christie was like? well, very often it arose in the context of fund-raising. i would call up people, lobbyists, people who worked in new jersey and try and raise money. there was a real culture of fear. honestly, i ve never seen anything like it in my 20 years in the legislature. stop for a second. do you really mean tha
this must be a strange week for you because you spent the campaign, you sat at this desk right here, interviewed you during the campaign, talked about your campaign several times throughout the campaign. basically saying this guy has everybody spooked. that no one wants to cross him in the state of new jersey. all these democrat its were endorsing him, scratch the surface a little bit. why are they endorsing him? then we get the e-mails. i tried to tell you. what was your response? well, you know, back in september when we first heard about this lane closures, i knew what happened. you know, in my heart of hearts, i know it was this poor mayor who happened to vote his conscience and support me, and this governor has a history of being retaliatory and seeking retribution. when he was first sworn into office in 2010, i was the majority leader, number two in the senate. i actually said something about him in the press that he declared a fiscal state of emergency. i said, what is he
you can see why. aka, stat hall. stat hall, and we just came from the senate side over to the house side. right here behind us, we re limited in where we can go with cameras, but this is where we can be. right around this corner is where john boehner s office is. so much action happens here. you see the reporters lingering and loitering in the hall way. so much time, deirdre walsh, myself, ted barrett, spent sitting in that alcove over there because we want to know who s coming in and out of his office because they have the leadership meetings and decide what is going to happen in the house. it s incredible for me to see and the viewer who doesn t know the inner workings like you do, to see the close proximity between the leader s offices. you would think they would talk to each other. they don t need a telephone, they don t need twitter. they could go knock, knock, knock. so old school of you. welcome to theuber glamorous basement of the u.s. capitol. dana bash, lovely wirin