at the same time, town halls have always been an important part of building our perception about chris christie. the clips you showed us just now initially contributed to perception of him as very much a forthright kind of a tough leader. some people even at the time did use the term bully. but now the town hall that we saw yesterday, and he is going to have another one in the coming week or so, you know, his people are sort of looking at this as an opportunity to restore a bit of normalcy to the christie administration, to the governor who what really been besieged by this scandal since the very beginning of 2014. so while perhaps certainly a different chris christie than we've seen in previous environments, it's sort of in the view of some of his supporters an opportunity to show that he is taking steps to be back in the game. >> i'm still waiting to see what is in all the e-mails. i want to know everything, because this case is getting real. >> absolutely. >> if chris christie was testing a new persona yesterday, he got mixed reviews, even though he