behind him and settling back into his old ways. i don t know if you had it in the clip before, but he says he ll be taking our questions going forward. this was the first time in months we had a chance to question him since the january 9th press conference. let me ask you, melissa, really quickly. do you think he s still feeling as confident and vindicated now that the bridget kelly response has been released? you know, i m not sure what he thinks about that, but he was asked yesterday by diane sawyer if he thought that if bridget kelly were to speak out if she would be able to discredit the report. he said he did not think she d be able to. he seemed confident yesterday before she issued her statement that he was standing by this report and believed it to be fact. he reiterated that numerous times today. he called this facts and said there were footnotes and things. he didn t really focus on the fact a lot of this was information gathered through interviews which you might be able
friend, steve s, show this weekend at 8:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. and melissa hayes from the bergen record. thank you both. sure. coming up, the governor and 2016. anybody who tries to game out the politics of this kind of stuff years in advance, that should probably show them that that s a fool s errand. a fool s errand. this from a guy who is flying out to las vegas this weekend to meet with someone who bankrolls republican presidential campaigns and who happens to have some baggage that no presidential hopeful really wants to carry on. we will talk about that just ahead. sn t a street. .return on investment isn t the only return i m looking forward to. for some, every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college.
we do know, officially, her role in the governor christie s office was as head of intergovernmental affairs. her office interacted with mayors and other local officials who had concerns or needed things from the state. so she oversaw this group of appointees that interacted with those local officials. melissa, let me ask you about another dimension of the whole bridget kelly back and forth. this, i guess, bridge-gate part ii. insofar as christie in this report, team christie had suggested bridget kelly was overcome with emotion. he s not exactly won the favor of feminists or a lot of women sitting on the sidelines saying is that really a fair characterization in a report that s just supposed to be the facts? we now have bridget kelly coming out saying it was a venomous characterization. that cannot help christie s case with new jersey women and women nationally. i mean, i actually asked governor christie today what he thought of the portrayal of
if that happens, kelly s lawyer says she will be fully cooperative and provide truthful and complete answers to any questions asked of her by the appropriate law enforcement authorities. this is a potentially huge development that comes on the heels of christie today holding his first news conference since january. follows the release of a 360 page internal report that found the governor was not involved in the seemingly politically motivated decision to close access lanes on the george washington bridge in september, leading to four days of traffic gridlock. christie spoke to the press for more than an hour today before the release of bridget anne kelly s statement and carried himself like a man vindicated despite the fact the internal investigation he commissioned was derided as little more than a taxpayer-funded whitewash by critics. it s colorful, brian. colorful. why don t you just get to the question and cut the commentary back a little? not my top person. can you get
of the port authority, and the contract on two bridge contracts that sampson voted to award to construction companies with some ties to his law firm. those federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena to the port authority. and remember there? the jersey shore is open. the word is spreading. because we re stronger than the storm. you bet we are. now, that a federal inspector general is looking into the propriety of $25 million going into what looks more like a re-election ad, the winning advertising firm won because it was planning to put the governor in its ad. joining me now, former op ed columnist for the new york times and melissa hayes no relation. she was at the christie town hall meeting yesterday. there was this massive vortex of