who is this see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil character? while his campaign headquarters administer corporal punishment on those who failed to march to christie's music? and how could he not, hearing his heart's shout of innocence this morning, not hear the echo of that same from rick's cafe american, that still leads the ban for proclamations of hurt innocence? >> i am humiliated by the fact that i did not know this and that i was deceived. and that's an awful way to feel. >> how can they close me up? on what ground? >> i'm shocked! shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. >> your winnings, sir. >> oh, thank you very much. >> everybody out at once. >> what christie said today can be perfectly, even exquisitely true. but was it the whole truth and nothing but? jonathan capehart is an opinion writer for "the washington post," and michael steele was chairman of the national republican committee. jonathan, i want to start with you.