i am soul searching on thp p but what i also want the people of new jersey to know, this is the exception, not the rule. the exception and not the rule. and the problem with that when you talk about a lot of the accusations of bullying is there s not just one thing here that everyone s looking at. there s a pattern of behavior. a recent story in the new york times, reports of a number of incidents suggesting political retribution, for example, for a former governor, richard cody, said that the governor s office, chris christie s office, took away his security detail as relate retribution. another, rosenthal, said he lost his state funding over redistricting battles with the governor. and the times reports that a republican state senator said a local judicial appointment was held up because he disagree eed with the governor over medical reforms. blake, i think that does go to the record and the broader policy, history here, which is what kind of sleerd he.
0 more seriously. the holes are something we ll report on. you mentioned the fifth amendment. people have a right to take it without us assuming anything negative about them, but there are a lot of other people that are not necessarily providing full cooperation or releasing full documents. state senate majority leader loretta weinberg, thank for your time today. ? thank you very much. thanks for inviting me. absolutely. for more on, this we welcome e.j. dion, a columnist with the washington post, and steve kornacki, our colleague here at msnbc and host of up with steven kornacki and a resident new jersey expert. as we mentioned before, i want to go right to you, steve, on the traffic study. this is not a little thing. this was consuming a lot of attention at the press conference for good reason. take a listen to how christie describes this traffic study issue. i don t know what makes a legitimate traffic study. i don t know whether this was a traffic study that then morphed in
and begins a bus tour in ohio tomorrow. he s cutting down on fundraising and spending more time with voters. he admits he s slipping behind the president in several key swing states. today in ohio the obama campaign unleashes a campaign ad targeting romney s comments about americans who don t pay taxes. last night president obama and mitt romney made their case. susan mcginnis is in washington with the details. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. this is the last full week before election season shifts to a new phase, that s the presidential debates and at last night s duelling interviews it will be another week of attacks. president obama and romney appeared on 60 minutes. romney defended himself that he hasn t laid out details about his plan to fix the economy. you re asking people to hire you as president of the united states. they want to hear some specifics. i can tell them specifically i won t raise taxes on middle class folks. i will not lower the shar
photos of organic or not organic foods and then asked how much time they would offer a stranger in need. the organic group offered the least amount of help. the nation s toughest te texting while driving bill may be in new jersey. if you get caught, first offense, 200 bucks. second, 400, third, 600. and you could get your driver s license suspected for 90 days. with me is new jersey state senator richard cody, primary sponsor of this bill. why do you think it s needed? it s needed because right now, chris, i passed the first texting bill years ago. $100 fine. and people in new jersey reacted as they say, slap on your wrist. just a nuisance, really. right. so we need to slap them in the face. and i think this bill does this. it gets the message across. because you are much, much more dangerous on the road than somebody who is drunk. think of the campaign for the last 20 years, mothers against drunk driving. got to get them off the road.
morning, i m thomas roberts. the agenda next hour, are both presidential contenders out of touch with the real u.s. economy? the campaigns are pointing fingers, while both the president and mitt romney target swing states for campaign cash. our power panel weighs in. can attorney general eric holder avoid a contempt of congress vote for his testimony about the fast and furious gun smuggling investigation. or is it continued pressure from the right that s considered a political loser? flooding the white house leak, roy blunt wants a special prosecutor to find out who is spilling secrets. the senator is my guest. the president, of course, has a lot of important meetings, but yesterday he took a couple minutes out of his day to chat with, yes, betty white. this photo just released by the white house. and he asked the 90-year-old to see her birth certificate, showing a sense of humor. she was in town to give a speech at the smithsonian. and a very, very sad story to end our program o