or at least said good things about him, when you talk to them, there is a lot of sincerity there. there s no question about it. i would be the last person to deny that, and there s also, off the record, some of them will also say, i have no other choice. and even if dawn zimmer cannot ultimately prove her allegation, and there s been a lot of pushback even behind the scenes from the christie administration, i can tell you that. i ve been subject to some of that, like, brian, come on. this isn t the way we operate. but even if you give the administration the benefit of the doubt on this, you can t deny the feeling of some democratic mayors, i don t want to make a blanket accusation here, who played ball, because they felt that was the only way they were going to get their fair share. the governor controls the precincts? we have to get a quick break
it leads but not switch gears and follow another investigation. and state assemblyman investigating the mysterious closure of the george washington bridge and at that press conference made it known for now his committee will focus just on the bridge scandal and not the any allegations from hoboken mayor dawn zimmer broken last weekend during this show involving chris christie s allocation of hurricane sandy aid in a development deal in hobokenjoining us live at the table, thank you for take the time to join us. appreciate it. i ll start with the question, when i call around trenton, talk to people in new jersey politics they say with the news this week that the u.s. attorney s office subpoenaed chris christie s re-election campaign and the republican state committee and is looking into the george washington bridge scandal, the u.s. attorney office now looking into that, that the days for your committee may be numbered, because historically, the u.s. attorney will look at a legislativ
situation like this and say back off a little. i need space here. is that something you expect? have you had conversations with his office that leads you to think he wants that to happen? i have no conversations with u.s. attorney s office but i think it s important to look at what the legislature is doing. we re looking at an abuse of power, because ultimately our role as legislators is to fix the laws that allowed it to happen. to change the rules of the game that allowed a bridget kelly to send and e-mail to a david wildstein to close the lanes. a lot of things have to be fixed to make that not possible in the future. the u.s. attorney s office, law enforcement officials are looking at it for an entirely different reason. so what we re doing is a separate path twhan they re doing. our intention, work cooperatively with all other investigations, but we expect on february 3rd or shortly thereafter to get answers to the subpoenas issued, analyze the data and make the decision where t
candidates want christie by their side? fund-raising trip to florida last week christie made zero public appearances. wouldn t even tell the media where the events were held and no photos from that trip. no grip and grins of christie and the florida governor rick scott together. these were the closest the media could get to finding chris christie. the big, dark suvs there. the question of what christie s own constituents will tolerate as well. new jersey residents, will they want him whisking around the country while his administration is under investigation and christie ever does have to resign, would that mean conceding any shot of the presidency? if things crumble for christie? who does the establish turn to for its candidate sglex to discuss these questions, congressman steve cohn from tennessee with nbc political reporter casey hunt reporting from the meeting this week and politics writer at the national journal and john stanton, washington bureau chief for
we like our politicians to be people who speak truth to power, they want somebody hoop polite. how does he come across to the christian evangelicals? he would have to win over those states. if not christie, who? and who on the republican side nationally, we ve had a few quotes, interesting quotes from republicans maybe trying to capitalize on this moment for chris christie. we ll look at that and raise that question right after this. turn around