vegas where he is speaking to the republican jewish coalition. so a significant signal that his ambitions are far from dead. here to speak on this subject is michael steele, former head of the republican national convention, currently an msnbc contributor and finest guests. i appreciate that. how are you doing? doing well. michael, christie s standing was somewhat damaged before the report, even among republicans and nbc news wall street journal poll last month found christie was under water with republican voters. do you think the current p.r. charm offensive will salvage his credibility? it remains to be seen. the effort will be there from sure. from christie s perspective, until there s something more damaging, he s going to get the benefit of the doubt from a lot of republicans, establishment republicans who are kind of looking over their shoulders and seeing emergence of rand paul
in there and doesn t make sense. you worked for david wildstein, what do you think his motivation is in not cooperating. probably he feels he s under the threat of a criminal indictment. that would be the most approximate explanation. he s trying to stay out of it as much as he can. it s always worth remembering, this report, the conclusion was foregone, once chris christie picked who was going to be writing the report, we knew what the conclusion would be. it s just a question of what route you take to get to the end point. thank you so much, appreciate you re joining us. thanks for having me on. the emergence on the stage that chris christie is going through right now raising a lot of questions about the future and bearing of his futd you re on the republican party. again, we re waiting for the press conference scheduled for the very next hour after this one in which he will presumably speak on these issues and try to lay them to rest and set the stage for a departure t
happy friday, reiders, this is the reid report, i m joy reid. chris christie s news conference is his first after the one in january when he vehemently denied causing the traffic mess in new jersey. christie is expected to again repeat his claim that he knew nothing about the plan ahead of time. and he ll release a commissioned review that he says backs him up. the 360-page report by attorneys hand picked by the governor s office and paid for by the taxpayers of new jersey concludes that the governor was not involved in the bridge lane closure plan. here s what christie told nbc news last night.
contributor and former employee of david wildstein, one of the officials who did not participate in the report. thanks for having me on. tell me, what you think of the accusation that this report gets too personal? the new york times calls it sexist and says the portrayal of bridget kelly is offensive. i find it highly questionable that they have both two parts of this report, one part about bridgegate and 130 pages are about hoboken. the two chief villains of this story, are dawn zimmer, the mayor of hoboken and bridget kelly. there s a certain gender issue. the issue with getting into the relationship is a lot of reporters knew about this and we never talked about it because it didn t seem relevant to reporting. to throw it in there it was something of common knowledge. that s right. people have families and relationships are complicated and bill stepien was married,
actually enjoy their work. so there s some penalty for admitting that the work part of it is fun. i m glad we can consciously couple to reid report now, i appreciate and respect the fact that you are one of those strong working moms, joy reid. by the way, my kids should be getting home right about now, so clean the house and get your home work done. next on the reid report, we re all over the latest in the chris christie scandal. the administration s hand picked law firm did the report and it s costing taxpayers a million bucks. the reid report starts just minutes from now. we need it right away! we cannot let the fans down.