he s a mayor of a town of 35,000 people. there s 566 municipalities in new jersey. of the 566 municipalities in new jersey, tell me how many of them have mayors sitting on tom of $1 billion redevelopment plans. right. that s a hugely significant economically and christie and his administration have been on top of all the redevelopment in the state. they knew who mark sokolich and what the project is. this project sits at the foot of the george washington bridge they have oversight over thanks to the port authority. the second thing, christie when he was initially joking about this whole ting trying to laugh off the whole scandal in early december. remember, he talked about i was putting the traffic cones up. the next thing out of his mouth after he talked about the traffic cones was, you know what, i hear ft. lee has three special access lanes and i don t think it s fair. by the way, that s not accurate because those lanes are not just for the people of ft. lee. he said, yeah,
complete tabula rasa doesn t really make sense. when this thing was happening in realtime, you mean the state governor didn t want to know why the lanes were closed, when his top aides resigned a the port authority, he didn t ask them why are you resigning? he didn t have them talked to or spoke to or let them gorge what they knew before they walked out the door? it doesn t make logical sense that he knew absolutely nothing. agreed. and look at the pictures of him walking around, strolling around with bridget kelly ten feet from everywhere. the thing he would call her a liar again and again means one thing. he is scared to death of her testimony under oath. that s what he is trying to screw in with in the jury pool. he wants to destroy all his enemies. jonathan capehart, thank you. and joy reid, thank you. the big winner last night at the golden globe, american hustle. director david o. russell joins us now to talk about abscam, which is at the heart of the story. this is hardba
i m in traffic. despite the political damage done to christie so far. chris cillizza still ranked him as number one in the republican field for the most likely to win this thing, with the best shot of capturing the 2016 nomination. according to cillizza. he is smart. here is a quote here. a sign of both the considerable strengths he retains in the race and the lack of an obvious challenger to his dominance. assuming that no other revelations emerge linking him to the closure of several lanes of traffic. this is one of those caveats. of course, this pill makes you arms fall off and everything else on television, the exception of possible florida governor jeb bush whose best position to build the coalition of major donors, party activists and gop elites necessary to win the nomination. howard fineman is editorial director of the huffington post and both are at prized msnbc political analysts. i want to start with howard. by the way, you guys take all the time. i m going to listen for o
i wouldn t know the mayor of ft. lee, i couldn t pick him out of a lineup. he s a mayor of a town of there s 566 municipalities in new jersey. of the 566 municipalities in new jersey, tell me how many of them have mayors sitting on tom of $1 billion redevelopment plans. right. that s a hugely significant economically and christie and his administration have been on top of all the redevelopment in the state. they knew who mark sokolich and is what the project is. this project sits at the foot of the george washington bridge they have oversight over thanks to the port authority. the second thing, christie when he was initially joking about this whole ting trying to laugh off the whole scandal in early december. remember, he talked about i was putting the traffic cones up. the next thing out of his mouth after he talked about the traffic cones was, you know what, i hear ft. lee has three special access lanes and i don t think it s fair. by the way, that s not accurate because thos
that s smart. here is marco rubio just yesterday. we don t know all the facts. i think this is a story that is still developing. and we should reserve judgment. that s smart. and senator rand paul cracked a joke when asked about it last week. i don t know who e-mailed who and who works for whom. i have been in traffic before that. i know how angry i am when i m in traffic. and i m always wondering who did this to me. you like the way they both put the knife? the one guy said this story is still developing. it s getting ripe. the other said i get mad when i m in traffic. despite the political damage done to christie so far. chris cillizza still ranked him as number one in the republican field for the most likely to win this thing, with the best shot of capturing the 2016 nomination. according to cillizza. he is smart. here is a quote here. a sign of both the considerable strengths he retains in the race and the lack of an obvious challenger to his dominance. assuming that no oth