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europe. hundreds of african migrants are turned back after scaling fences to enter the spanish area. and we'll look at the man who has been chosen to be nato's new leader. and i'll have all of the latest sport. there is a corruption investigation that forces one of the most powerful men in world cricket to step down. ♪ we start in egypt, and the 23-year-old woman, a journalist has reportedly been shot dead as police fought anti-coup demonstrators. demonstrations have been taken place in at least 12 regions after the head of the army announced he was running for president. charles has the report. >> reporter: this journalist was reportedly killed by a live round in a suburb.

one of the news organizations she worked for posted this video on line. the protests began early friday focused on the man who lead last july's coup and announced he was resigning as mill stair chief to run for president. the former defense minister announcement came as no surprise to most egyptians. >> i think he real question is not whether he can become the president but how he can govern, while he may be popular among american populations, however, given the suppression doesn't seem to bring peace soon. more than 900 people have been accused of being supporters

or members of the muslim brotherhood. this have 528 people were sentenced to death in a separate case. human rights groups are accusing the security forces of being the supporters of the violence. the deposed president, mohammed morsi and other senior brotherhood figures are on trial. state media ran these pictures. sisi does have considerable support, but this event drew smaller crowds than expected. only one politician has said he will standing against sisi in the election. some potential candidates says running against the former chief will be futile in what they say will be a rigged race. we can talk life now to the editor of a online newspaper who

employed the journal list. thank you for joining us. what is your understanding of today's events. >> today she was responsible for to cover this story -- the story about the demonstration, and she was working there [ inaudible ] the people related with [ inaudible ] also, and she's working as a professional journalist, she went to [ inaudible ] before that in during the day, so after -- after that a lot of -- lot of gang -- full of journalists, and a lot of demonstrat

demonstrators. suddenly the journalists and the demonstrators fell between the police, the crowd and the gangs, which what they called [ inaudible ] in egypt now. so they any police should -- shot a lot of the fired -- shooted -- fired at the demonstrators, and one of them came to [ inaudible ] -- she killed her and a few demonstrators they kill, they kill her. >> okay. sorry, can i get you just to clarify as far as you are aware, who or -- who was the person or which group of people was it who fired shots, which led to the death of the freelance journalist who was working for

you? >> websites said that [ inaudible ] from -- from police -- the police that surrounded the demonstrator, and one of -- one of -- one of the shots came [ inaudible ] from this -- from -- from the police because [ inaudible ] behind here -- >> okay. i'm going to have to stop you there. thank you very much. the quality of the line isn't that good, but thank you so much indeed for talking to us here at al jazeera. but now we'll go to the senior [ inaudible ]. thank you for staying with us and joining us here at al jazeera. this seems to be an indication of how restive egypt is today.

>> yes, after months of anticipation and speculation as to field marshall sisi's intentions to enter politics or not. i think egyptian society or different segments in egyptian society were just waiting for a opportune moment to make differing opinions about these developing known, and his dramatic decision yesterday to change his military uniform to civilian dress and stand for the presidency. alongside the mass verdict of 500-plus people being convicted to death earlier in the week, i think was exactly the moment egyptian society was waiting for coal paralyze -- polarized as it is, we see again the anti-coup

block taking to the streets. and of course, also politicians sort of being at a loss whether to stand or not. but the very fact that no credible counter candidates are being fielded to take on field marshall sisi, probably will to a degree delegitimize the way he is most likely coming to power in the summer. >> but there are, as we have seen today, those who are opposing what they fear is a return to the awe her to tearianism it was before. but he does have a bedroom of support? >> yes, there is a continued develop we talk taking place last summer when president mori was ousted how terribly polarized the egyptian society

is between the government who see themselves being rocked from a government that was put in to place through legitimate elections and another block that was so disenchanted with the misgovernance of the year we saw of the morsi administration, and who are craving stability and a sense of certainty that apparently they are willing to trade a further transition for what they perceive as a much-needed stability. and sisi is the only one who can give that, they believe. >> thank you very much indeed. talking to us live here at al jazeera. thank you. now to afghanistan where the seize of a kabul guest house used by a foreign aid group is now over. two people including a child was killed in the fight between afghan forces and taliban fighters on the other.

bernard smith has more. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: the taliban fighters armed with grenades and assault rifles shot their way into the ka tul headquarters of a foreign charity working in afghanistan. one attacker blew himself up to blow a hole into the gate of the bidding. there was a gun battle with security forces that quickly surrounded the building. the house is in a district of kabul not far from afghanistan's parliament. it is occupied by staff from roots of peace, a charity that clears land mines and replaces women with vines and orchards. one woman was carrying a child. they were forced to take shelter as the battle continued. there are more than a hundred nonprofit aid groups in kabul. they are easy targets and are unlikely to have defenses that

can withstand a suicide bomber. most embassies and government buildings have concrete blast walls and are in areas with sealed-off streets and 24-hour armed protection. this is the third attack in kabul in the last seven days. it follows a tall ban assault on a luxury hotel and an attack on a building of the election commission. all to do its best to disrupt presidential elections on april 5th. bernard smith, al jazeera. president obama as arrived in saudi arabia on a trip that is being regarded as important for mending strained relations. the saudis have become wary of how washington has handled syria's civil war and iran's nuclear ambitions. patty culhane examines the issues. >> reporter: a lot has changed since 2009 when president barack

obama received this warm welcome to saudi arabia. many of his foreign policy decisions have since angers the saudis. the president calling for mubarak to step down, negotiating with iran, and then threatening to act against bashar al-assad and then changing his mind. all leaving the saudis to take the unusual step of questioning the president's credibility. the president's job on this second visit, to restore the trust. xrts say although the u.s. is importing significantly less oil from opec countries, the saudis still have leverage. >> it's their place in the oil market because what happens is the saudis are the ones who have the capacity to expand and

contract production depending on what the market bares. >> the u.s. view is that the saudi relationship feels increasingly concerned about his place in the region. >> the saudis are worried that the united states and iran may have some sort of detente, and iran will take the place of saudi arabia. with his represence here and his words, president obama is expected to send the message, the decade's old alliance is still the centerpiece of foreign policy in the region. patty culhane, al jazeera, washington. youtube is the latest social media website to be blocked in turkey, following similar action against twitter.

the government cited national security certains saying the video sharing website has been used to leak a sensitive discussion between officials about the war in syria. the turkish foreign minister said international companies must operate within the law. >> no country can tolerate a broadcasting which is really affecting that country's -- nation's security. everybody must respect to turkish court decisions as well as turkish nation security matters. if they respect us, they will of course -- our main concern is freedom. we will respect them. if they respect the court decisions of some european countries, which they did, they must respect turkish court decisions as well. the syrian government has been responding to the leaked tape which allegedly implicated

turkish involvement in the civil war. >> there is no reason whatsoever to anybody to shed the slightest doubt or cast the slightest doubt on the turkish government's involvement into our domestic affairs, and the turkish direct involvement sponsoring the terrorist groups operating on the syrian territory. turkey is deeply involved into this aggression. this is a flagrant violation of the charter, flagrant violation of the neighborhood agreement and international law. the search for the missing malaysian airlines has now shifted. plus -- i'm in south africa where

organizers of lawn ball are hoping to unearth the next black champion. ♪ hundreds of african migrants have again tried to scale the fences between morocco and the spanish enclave. we'll get more on that from lauren. thanks very much. around 800 people tried to climb the fences several times, but most were turned back by security forces from both sides. but some managed to get over. simon has more. >> reporter: this has been happening for two days now. early on friday, 800 african migrants tried to pass in to the spanish enclaf. it's a familiar routine for the spanish police. over the years this fence has

gotten higher and higher. these migrants are already on spanish territory. they shout freedom to encourage their friends on the other side. back in february over 200 got through in the biggest breakout of recent times. many of them come from sub saharan african countries to seek work and a better life in europe. most arrive without passport or papers. spanish authorities are on blij bliejed to process their applications if they have no id. barack obama has pulled on russia to pull back its troops from the ukrainian border. in an interview with a u.s. tv network, he warned that russia's current military exercising could be a precursor to other

actions. >> it's well-known and well acknowledged that you have seen a range of troops massing along that border under the guise of military exercises, but these are not what russia would normally be doing, and, you know, it may simply be an effort to intimidate ukraine, or it may be that they have additional plans, and in -- in either case, what we need right now to resolve and de-escalate the situation would be for russia to move back those troops and to begin negotiations directly with the ukrainian government and the international community. in the capitol here, inspectors have been inspecting more than 500 bomb shelters to ensure they are in good working order. and are working on a new early warning system. after a right-wing protest

outside of parliament later on toourz, the acting president has accused russia of trying to destabilize the country. they were demanding the resignation of the interior minister after the death of one of their leaders. >> translator: this is the path which leads to catastrophe for the country. this is against our own state. this path supports the aggressor who is concentrating its armed forces on the borders of our land. viktor yanukovych has called for a series of referendums so people can decide if they want to leave ukraine and be part of russia. >> translator: if that was yanukovych's statement it would be further evidence that this president who used to be president of ukraine has now in fact become a tool in a fight

against the ukrainian people. he has become a tool aimed at destroying the independence of ukraine. >> john that hall has reaction. >> there are probably two ways of looking at the comments by viktor yanukovych. the first way is to see them as the slightly irrelevant statements of a man who has lost all credibility in his homeland here. a man who is widely seen across this country, even here in the east of the country, this is his former political hardland, seen even here as a thief, as a crook who stole billions before deserting his country. but the second way is to look at his comments and the extent to which they align with the views of protest groups in towns and cities across the south and east of this country. these groups are calling for a

ref ren -- referendum into their regions, and they are calling for automy. the people i have spoken to and what they tell me is not to let the decision be made on kiev. with fascists who are bent on pulling this country to the west. nato has chosen its next leader. rory challands has more on the challenges that await him in october. >> reporter: as a scandinavian

politician he is used to holding together coalitions. it is experience that will be invaluable as the next secretary of nato. he has twice been prime minister of norway. it was he at the helm when 77 people were killed in norway's worst peacetime massacre. and he fought in vain by canvassing as a taxicab driver. his reputation as an expert negotiator makes him a telling choice. on ukraine he has been firm. >> the idea of [ inaudible ] is just becoming even more important when we see how russia is using force to change borders in europe. we can only be a strong political alliance as long as we

have reliable military capacities. >> reporter: the dwindling european defense budgets have frustrated washington. under the new leader na nate -- nato will face its stiffest challenge in decades. they will have to defending its members against threats at a time when few seem willing to pay for it. now back to martine in doha. >> thank you. new zealand's air force has spotted objected in a new area that is being searched for the missing malaysian airliner. the teams have now moved their search northeast of australia's southwest coast. they are focusing in an area,

covering 319,000 square kilometers in the southern indian ocean. they had been looking more than a thousand kilometers away. the flight disappeared more than three weeks ago with 239 people on board. well the search for this missing plane has caused a bit of a rift in the relationship between china and malaysia. >> reporter: the messages as they march to the embassy in beijing were personal. one speaks of a mother's cooking being the best. another a waiting marriage proposal and engagement ring all addressed to missing people who were on board flight 370, and now their personal grief and anger have become a national issue. >> translator: china malaysia cooperation has not only benefited our people, but it is also conducive to regional

stability and development. chinese president's visit to malaysia last october was meant to strengthen an already established relationship. bilateral trade was worth $106 billion u.s. dollars last year. and it is expected to go up 50% by 2017. but that is not the only reason to keep relations friendly. >> translator: china also has territory disputes with malaysia, but not as serious as with philippines and vietnam. so china will want to keep malaysia as a good neighboring country. >> but many are already calling for a boycott of everything malaysia. it's not a matter of sympathy or compensation for the relatives of the plane's passengers. they feel the way malaysia

handled information showed a lack of respect and understanding not just towards them but china as a whole. and it isn't enough for these relatives that chinese officials allowed them a rare public show of emotion. they want their government to do something more to punish malaysia. >> the key here is the extent of the public pressure coming from within china itself. and i think to the extent that that is the case, the really revealing thing about this story is not so much the relations between malaysia and china as the regime of china itself. >> reporter: it's now down to the chinese government to balance the situation. still to come, here at al jazeera -- >> first we heard a roar. i thought maybe there was a 747 or something going down.

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>> the only way to find out, is to see it yourselves. on... borderland only on al jazeera america hello and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm tony harris in new york city. we are standing by, waiting for new jersey gov -- governor chris christie. he is set to hold a news conference that we will bring to you live when it happens. governor christie has been cleared by his own attorneys of any involvement in the bridge-closing scandal. the results were released yesterday. the investigation concluded that there was no evidence linking governor christie to plotting the traffic jams. john terrett has been following this story for us and has more. >> this is an absolute textbook

study in crisis management. >> is that how you feel about it? >> if you want to know how -- if you are a potential contender for the white house and you are in trouble, and you row back from that, or at least you attempt to row back, or you buy yourself some time, then look at this document here. this is very clever. it's not the christie campaign, it's the christie office. this is done by friends of the christie people. they are allies. here are the main conclusions of the report they came up with, which by the way was leaked to the "new york times" on monday and journalists had about an hour on wednesday to read the 300 pages. let's go to christie. >> i read the report, both its

findings and recommendations. it's an exhaustive report that follows the mandate that i set out. i told them to find the truth no matter where it lead, and to turn over every rock that they were able to get to in order to get to the bottom of what happened. they conducteded over 70 interviewed. reviewed over 250,000 documents, and had access to the personal and business devices, emails, and texts of my former senior staffers, of the lieutenant governor and me. and we made the report public as soon as we received it. i want to thank randy mastro and his team and other members of gibson dunn for the extraordinary amount of work that they did in a relatively short period of time. as for the recommendations, i'm

fully embracing the reforms as it pertains to my office. it has been my resolve to learn from this, and to do whatever we can to be better, to be a better governor, a better staff, and a better administration. we owe that to the people of new jersey and that's what i will attempt to deliver. there will be further announcements in the coming weeks as we work to implement these recommendations and their structure and find the best possible people to fill these roles. as to the port authority i agree for the need for structure change at the port authority. i'm particularly intrigued by the idea of dismantling the port authority to two offices. i intend to work with governor

cuomo to further explore these deck me-- recommendations and other ideas. lastly i received a call from david sampson who informed me that he completely supports the recommendations laid out for the port authority and he believes the best way to start a new year at the port authority is with new leadership. in line with that belief, david tendered his resignation to me this afternoon, effective immediately. i want to thank him for his service and his friendship. i look forward to discussing with governor cuomo, ushering in a new era at the port authority in light of the recent events and past history, and the recommendations laid out in the report. questions? kelly? sorry. >> reporter: governor you talked

about how this will not impact your decisions about your future. we have seen these events have effected how voters even republican voters view you. how it is possible this will not impact a choice to run for president or how you might even do? >> those are two different questions, right? impact running as a choice, i'm just telling you that it won't. the fact of the matter is that i had nothing to do with this, and as i said from the beginning in this report has supported exactly what i said, and in the long sweep of things any voters if they consider this issue at all in considering my candidacy if there ever is one, i have got a feeling it will be a very small element if any element at all. but in terms of my decision-making, it's simply not the way i would make a decision. the way i'll make a decision about whether to seek any future

office would be do i think it's what is best for me and my family, and secondly, do i believe i have something unique and particular to offer that particular office at that particular time. if the answer to those two questions is yes, then i'll seek that office, and if the answer to either of those questions is no, i won't. and there won't be anything else that will enter into it. because anybody who tries to game out the politics of this kind of stuff years in advance, the last 11 weeks have probably shown that is a fool's errand. >> do you acknowledge that your standing has fallen? >> yeah, sure. you know. but -- but there's nothing that is permanent about that. the same there is nothing permanent about my standing being extraordinarily high. there is nothing permanent about this stuff. i said that all along when my polls were good and you weren't here, but i said that all along to folks when my polls were really high. i said get ready.

they will come down. when you make decisions, events occur, they impact you. but it's of no moment to me, though, kelly, in the end. if i were running for reelection tomorrow, maybe it would be a moment to me. i already ran for reelection and got 61% of the vote. if i run for something else in the future, i'll care about the polls a few days before the election. not now. and they are not what i'm most concerned about as i stand here today. i am the governor of new jersey and i have a job to do. and if i do my job the best i can, my future will take care of itself. brian? >> regarding some of the meet of the report, it was pointed out you were made aware of the executive director's emails. and laws both state and local

were broken, there was a threat to the public safety, and you were made aware of this in early october. you admitted that. and some of your staff also admitted that. most of whom are formal federal prosecutors working for you. how is it that this went on for roughly eight weeks or so, where all of these former federal prosecutors were accepting really what was the word of a couple of snake oil salesmen about a traffic study -- >> that's colorful. why don't you just get to the question -- >> how can federal prosecutors understand that your direct person -- >> not my top person. can you get to it already? i'll answer. >> how did they do that? >> they didn't first off. this was the wall street journal

of october 1st or 2 when it first came to my attention when the executive director leaked his memo to the newspapers that he had written weeks earlier. and i said to two former federal prosecutors, find out what is going on here. now the way you do that is in a normal circumstance when it looks like you are dealing with an operational issue at the port authority is go to the people at the port authority and ask them what is going on. they came back and said this is legitimate, we blew the negotiations to the director. that's our fault. but it is legitimate and he is just upset because he didn't know about it. contextually that made perfect sense to me. because there is a history of conflict between these folks at the port authority. i heard about conflict between

chris ward and our folks, the current executive director and on our folks on a regular basis. it's why i believe the best way to deal with this, at least something to consider is taking the hatfields and the mccoys and move them to separate homes because they haven't been able to get along with each other despite our best efforts. so nobody dropped the ball here, brian. you are looking at this both through your editorializing in the question and everything else that you know today. if i knew then what i know today i would have done a lot of things different. we got -- we went asked the questions and got the answers back and we believed it was an operational issue at the port authority that we felt they

needed to deal with. and we told them to deal with it. all of us -- you, me, and now everybody is looking through the retro-spectroscope. you are always smarter when you have more information. and i think it's unfair to say our folks didn't do anything for eight weeks. the report lays out that they went and pursued a number of avenues from that time to my december 13th press conference, to challenge and question people about what went on here and what i individual's role was. so it wasn't effective, because people didn't tell us the truth. but it's not fair in my view to say that people didn't do their job and try to get answers. >> reporter: governor some of your closest aids felt like some of this behavior was appropriate. i'm wondering what have you changed about how you govern now?

>> first of all i would say that one of my closest aids participated in this. and for that she was fired. and that's the first thing i did to set a different tone here. if participate in this kind of conduct you will not be held in a position of trust. secondly, as i said before, i have done a lot of soul searching over this in the last ten or 11 weeks. and for me it is going to be about making even clearer to people what is acceptable conduct and what isn't. but i will say as i said yesterday, i think anybody who works for me who believed that something like this would be something that would be pleasing or acceptable to me, didn't know me in the first place, and from that perspective, i'm not only disappointed in them, but it's obvious to me that i have to

make even clearer as we move forward in the future, and i have already about what is acceptable conduct and what is not. that is a constant challenge when you are running a large organization, and one that did not do as well as i needed to obviously, and one i intend to focus on more as we move forward. >> reporter: governor, mr. mastro informed us that the attorney general sampson declined to participate in the investigation. so two part question. one does that concern you? two, did the attorney general ever talk to you throughout this process and offer an explanation since it was the agency that he lead? and when is he resignation coming? >> as i said before, effective immediately. and i spoke to general sampson

on january 8th, and asked him what he knew about this, if he had any involvement in it, if he authorized it, or had any idea of the planning of it or any of the rest. and he said absolutely not. and that rang true to me at the time not only because of david's reputation for honesty, but also because of the role of the chairman of the port authority is not an operational role. his role is a policy role. so i wouldn't expect david to involved in any kind of day-to-day operational issue like a traffic study at the port authority. in terms of his and firm's lack of participation in interviews conducted by the mastro group. he explained to me that there were issues of attorney-client privilege that he feared would be compromised if he

participated in an interview. i didn't push it further, because it wasn't my job to push it further. i think his role was not central in any of these things. nor has that ever been aledged. but that's a decision he made whether i agree with it or not, you know, is a different matter, but in the end he and everyone have their own obligations to their clients and what they think they can and cannot say publicly because of that. >> reporter: i have a statement from david stanton, he said over the past month i have shared with the governor my declare to conclude my service with the port authority. [ inaudible ], did you ask him to stay on? >> yes. >> reporter: and was his answer

to that i -- i'll wait until this report is over. >> no, his answer was i'll stay on as long as i think i'm able. >> reporter: if he wanted to leave, though -- >> and this preceded by the way -- his discussion with me about leaving the port authority goes back a year. >> did he cite any reasons why he would be interested in leaving? >> he was 74 years old, and he was tired. that's what he told me. and i said i'm in the middle of an election campaign, and i'm going to be going through a transition if i'm elected, and why don't we not do this at this time. and he stayed. but he had talked about wanting to move on because he is 74 years old, and he said chris i would like to spending more time doing other things. and i asked him as governor to please stay and give me the time

in what i hoped was going to be a transition to a second term. and in deference to me he was willing to stay on. john? >> reporter: a couple of weeks ago there was a question about the [ inaudible ] and those reports portrayed your role a little differently than it was portrayed at the time. do you want to respond to those stories, and also explain, again, what your role, if any was? >> not really. my view is, those are the type of operational things that the port authority work on all the time. we came to an agreement on the toll hike and it has been implemented. yeah, heather? >> reporter: [ inaudible ]

>> sure, a few things. one when an administration needs to respond appropriately and at my direction swiftly to inquiries, you need to bring a law firm in to do that. we don't have the capacity in house to be able to do that, nor would people think it would be appropriate for us to do that. so there was no question that we would have to bring in a law firm from the outside to be able to sheperd all of the questions raised. and we wanted to do that as quickly and cooperative as we could. so we wanted to have a significant law firm with the type of resources available to them to be able to do this job as quickly as possible. and it also made perfect sense to me and is best practices in

the department of justice, that when you have a problem like this, you conduct an internal review to find out what happened and make recommendations. having the same group do that made absolute sense to me. no matter who i chose to do this, questions would be raised by some quarters, as to those people's objectivity. my answer to that is, look at the report. we gave them unfettered complete access to everyone in this government. and allowed them to interview people, multiple times if they so desired on multiple occasions in order to try to get to the bottom of things, gave them complete access not only to people's professional emails, but their personal emails and personal devises to be able to review text messages as well.

the objectivity is based on two things, one the breath of it, and the access that they had without restriction to any information they wanted. and secondly the reputation of the six people running this thing. these are six former federal prosecutor who i can guarantee you have worked hard to protect the reputations they have earned over the course of their career, and would not give those away to do some sort of slip shot job for me. and lastly after seven years as u.s. attorney in this state and nearly five years as governor, there is probably not a major law firm in this country or certainly not in the region that i don't have some relationship with. so in the end what i decided to do was pick the people i thought were best to do the job. i did. and i think the report will stand the test of time. but it will be tested by the other investigations ongoing,

and it is limited as randy mastro pointed out by the small access they had to certain people. but in the end all of that is fronted in the report. it is exsaucive and thorough, and i don't have any second thoughts about who we selected or the process. no matter what you are going to be criticized in this instance, and when you are, you have to answer and answer it directly. well there you have it. governor chris christie, and i think that last answer is a direct response as we bring in john terrett to discuss -- and michael shure is going to join us as well from i believe los angeles, and that last response -- that was tantamount to the question of the credibility of this report which is being criticized mostly by democrats, right? >> yeah, he was saying bring in

an outside agency. we have so little time and there's so much to say. these are the key points. he said he instructed the lawyers to find the truth, turn over every rock, embrace the reforms they put forward which was to appoint a chief ethics officer. he said he supports fundamental structural change to the port authority. you see david sampson resigned. govern governor christie saying he has been talking about that for the better part of a year. and then regarding whether he would run for the white house in 2016 which is why we're dealing with this man and give him so much air time is he said this won't change his decision, and, you know, he doesn't think that it will be a alarm element. he said it will be a small element if at all in the campaign in 2016 can i have one

more moment -- >> yeah, sure. >> because this is why i think this is a case study in crisis management -- >> that is your point of view -- >> because they leaked this to the "new york times" on monday. yesterday, thursday -- this is a 300-page report, journalists had one hour to read it before asking questions, they talked about sex -- >> unconsciousable -- >> the former chief of staff -- there is -- >> there is a talk -- >> there is a relationship there. >> now sex angle is all over the tabloids. they didn't interview five of the key people involved -- >> stop, stop. >> and just two more points. >> okay. >> the guy that received the memo from bridget ann kelly -- >> who says the governor knows

more than he is letting on -- >> let me stop you, because i got to get michael in and then i want you to respond. michael shure what are your thoughts? >> well, i -- you know, everything that was just said is true. going back through my retrosp t retrospectroscope as the governor sited, it is easy to have a press conference like that when you have organized the investigation -- >> his words are not the final word. >> that's exactly right. although they are the words we listen to. >> yes. >> he comes out and says, quote, i'm not going to game out the politics here. well this is the most gaming out of politics you can imagine. people are eating it up, though, and that's what he is doing. but people's minds in some respects are made up about

governor christy because of the way he behaved in this press conference. i did not watch it, but i heard him getting after an editorializing journalist -- >> yes. >> those are going to stand in the way of the ascension of chris christie -- >> it is tone and style, right? >> exactly. >> it's his tone and style, and if you believe he has acted in the way in his political career that more resembles that of a bully, you can hear that in this press conference, can you not? if that's what you believe? >> absolutely. >> if that's what you believe -- whatever you are looking for in this conference, you are going to get that -- >> and if you believe he is a shrewd politician who is out on the front foot of this crisis, you can see that in this press

conference as well, correct, michael shure? >> that's absolutely correct. what we saw today was shrewd politics. however, there is another crisis coming and there are other investigations going on. and that's when we'll see what happens to chris christie. >> let me get michael terrett back in here -- >> i think that's where we have to leave it -- >> and what you heard from me as well. >> exactly. exactly. but -- and here is the point. governor christie is leaving us all on this note, but the joint chairman of the committee investigating this issue say this is not the end of the matter, and the feds are still looking into the issue of the $2 million overspending in the summertime. and that's ongoing as well. so we haven't heard the end of it. christie's word not the last. >> terrific. let's leave it there. we'll take a break and come back

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this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. another casualty in the new jersey bridge scandal. chris christie announced that david sampson has resigned. he was chairman of the port -- chairman of the board of the port authority. federal and state investigators are still look going the scandal. president obama is -- saudi arabia right now. they will discuss the crisis in ukraine, iran and sir -- sir are. rain could