against christie joked about the scandal when he was asked during a white house walkout yesterday. i don t know. who e-mailed who and who works for whom. i have been in traffic before. i know how angry i am when i m in traffic. i m always wondering who did this to me. he didn t even bother to stop. but christie has never shied away from bashing his fellow republicans. is he suffering the consequences of that now? what goes around comes around. david gregory, the moderator of meet the press on sunday s on nbc, and david axelrod is a former senior adviser to president obama and an msnbc senior analyst. david, i want to start with you. as a democrat, it seems to me that the democrats are enjoying this for the reasons i would suspect is that they suspect he might be the toughest republican candidate for president in a general election. he gets knocked off, then they only have to face at best maybe scott walker, if jeb bush gets back in the game, of course, but probably face a right-w
could. that s certainly minimal. meanwhile, rand paul, potential rival for the 2016 nomination against christie joked about the scandal when he was asked during a white house walkout yesterday. i don t know. who e-mailed who and who works for whom. i have been in traffic before. i know how angry i am when i m in traffic. i m always wondering who did this to me. he didn t even bother to stop. but christie has never shied away from bashing his fellow republicans. is he suffering the consequences of that now? what goes around comes around. david gregory, the moderator of meet the press on sunday s on nbc, and david axelrod is a former adviser to president obama and msnbc senior analyst. david, i want to start with you. as a democrat, it seems to me that the democrats are enjoying this for the reasons i would suspect is that they suspect he might be the toughest republican candidate for president in a general election. he gets knocked off, then they only have to face at best maybe sc
power is one narrative, but the other narrative is, you know, he is a transactional politician. he rewards his friends and he punishes his enemies. later, senator graham backtracked a bit saying he was impressed by christie s press conference yesterday. he handled it as well as he could. that s certainly minimal. meanwhile, rand paul, potential rival for the 2016 nomination against christie joked about the scandal when he was asked during a white house walkout yesterday. i don t know. who e-mailed who and who works for whom. i have been in traffic before. i know how angry i am when i m in traffic. i m always wondering who did this to me. he didn t even bother to stop. but christie has never shied away from bashing his fellow republicans. is he suffering the consequences of that now? what goes around comes around. the moderator of meet the press on sunday s on nbc, and david axelrod is a former adviser to president obama and msnbc senior analyst. david, i want to start with you. a
necessarily because of an incident like this, but sometimes because of it. but i remember back in 2008 when john mccain went into the race as a front-runner, was written off, didn t have the resources, had misplayed the race and ended up as the nominee. these things have a way of taking weird twists and turns. yeah. running for president, you get tested along the way and you either pass the test and get stronger or you fail the test and you re gone. and i don t think we ll know for some time just where christie fits in that in whole tale. thank you, david gregory. i ll see you on that show, meet the press on sunday, of course. thank you. a big show on sunday. and david axelrod. love your institute out there at the institute of chicago. thanks, chris. up next, the christie bridge scandal has become gold for the late night comedians. no surprise there. this is hardball, the place for politics. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open.