coming up right now, "the ed show." that's next. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. >> let's focus on jobs together. >> the clock is ticking. people have got bills to pay. >> this is something the government on its own cannot solve. >> lures people into dependency and prevents them from reaching their god-given potential. >> we're all concerned about those who have had a difficult time trying to find a job. >> what happens if you don't get the extension? how does that affect you looking for a job? >> gas for your car costs money. you need to have a cell phone so people can call you and offer you an interview. >> we've got to make sure this

recovery leaves nobody behind. >> our current president and his liberal allies, his proposal is let's spend more on these programs. >> giving money to rich people doesn't cost anything. >> the same old thing. >> now another call, one more call, for a government fix. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. there is some breaking news with the chris christie story. it's the biggest story in america, no question about it. there are 2,000 more documents that have been dumped here on this friday afternoon. there's a lot of people involved, but remember this guy says he's innocent. governor, here's what i think you ought to do. you know how this operates. you were in the u.s. attorney in new jersey from 2002 to 2008, a bush appointee. why don't you as governor of the state put together your own

executive investigative team. if you're clean, you've got nothing to worry about and nobody in your office has any credibility. you know how to mop this stuff up, chris. i bet the democrats would help you find some folks to do that. put it away from the legislature. get some professional investigators. put together them and have them work right out of your office and get to the bottom of this. we know where governor christie was yesterday. i'd kind of like to know where he was today. interesting. no public events. you as a taxpayer from new jersey, wouldn't you like to know what your governor did today after he said he is just so sad and heartbroken and was blind sided. he's going to get to the bottom of it, right? sure. here's how i see this. he's either lying or he's telling the truth. at this point, that's really all

people care about. now, of course, there's the legal ramifications and all the lawsuits that have been filed, but we want to know if he's telling the truth or not. have at it with your own investigati investigation. you know how this works. put your own team together. have at it. remember, you're innocent. if anything that comes up in this hour that is a smoking gun that deals directly with the governor, we'll update you. if anything pops up, we'll bring it to you. but this is one guy, this is one state. is it really the biggest story in america right now? today is friday. today is payday for a lot of americans in this country. don't you love fridays?

that's not the case for 1.3 million americans who stopped receiving their unemployment benefits three weeks ago. the bills are starting to come. they're starting to pile up right now. 1.3 million americans, right? the bills are piling up. and you know what? the cost of living in this country, it isn't cheap. 35% of americans in this country rent. they don't own their home. they rent a home or they rent an apartment. if you get $300 a month and about $1200 a month roughly, you've got to pay the rent. you've got the electric bill. you have the heating bill. you might have a car payment. you've got to have insurance on your car. you have to keep your cell phone. internet, cable.

you've got to have internet because you have to stay connected on where the jobs are. cable and satellite, those are first things to go. you have to eat and you have to feed the kids. these are the essentials. the average unemployment benefit right now is roughly $1200 a month. this is reality. this is a hard number. we should point out that the average rent in the united states of america is $865 a month. now, i'm sure there's probably some $200/300 a month apartments out there. 1200 bucks doesn't go very far. just the cost of rent alone puts many of these unemployed americans in a pretty tough spot. the cost of living in america isn't cheap. their gut is starting to turn a

little bit. how are we going to pay the rent? what happens if you don't pay the rent? you don't own the property. you're renting. i'm sure that there is a contract there. i'm sure after ten days the landlord is going to want his money and the thieves start piling up. there's probably a clause in there if you don't pay for 30 days or 60 days, you're going to start get eviction notices. where does your credit go? in the toilet. this is the key thing right here. putting a roof over your head. a lot of people miss meals. a lot of people can go without communications. we've heard of people putting their coats on. electricity, do you really have to have it? this is real-life stuff, but the republicans are in denial. rebuilding your credit to get

the electricity turned on so the heating oil company will show up and put stuff into your can so you can use it, they probably only want cash only if you have bad credit. who is going to be able to finance a car? a guy comes into the car shop with bad credit. he's not going to help him. that's how america works. i'm not convinced that the congress understands that. everything listed here is absolutely necessary to find another job. without these essentials, job hunting is almost impossible. meanwhile a new report shows members of congress they're rolling in the cash. more than half the members of the house and senate are

millionaires. we have millionaires who are making decisions on people who all they want to do is pay the rent and get a job. the median income rose to over $1 million over the past year for members of congress. they're on a role. 1.3 million americans have lost their unemployment benefits. if congress doesn't act, the white house is saying 4.9 million americans could be losing their benefits by the end of 2014. the extension, breaking news, it ain't looking very good. we have trouble in the senate, folks. after these six republicans decided to cozy up to the democrats and move this thing over procedurely, some are now getting cold feet. they're changing their minds as well. it is the same old republican story that i told you before the christmas break. they want offsets.

you can't trust them. senate majority leader harry reid, he compromised. let's do a 10-month compromised extension. republicans, not good enough. you know harry reid. he doesn't get too excited too often. here he is taking about this situation. >> the american people want to know where we stand. are we going to extend unemployment benefits for people who have been out of work for a long time? that's the issue before this body. it's almost but not quite right. rather than continually denigrating our economy, our president, and our country, i think that we should have some more constructive things around here. >> oh, yeah. but they want to derail everything. republicans don't have a

solution to extend unemployment. they don't care about it. if they did, they wouldn't be blocking this senate bill. here's how paul ryan wants to solve poverty in america. >> it goes beyond just the federal government. we've got to involve our communities. we've got to get people engaged. i think one of the casualties of this approach has been people think it's getting handled by government. i pay my taxes. i'm working really hard. it is tough to make ends meet. the government is going to handle this. that's not true. that doesn't cut it anymore. people need to get involved in their own communities and solve this one person at a time and we need to do more to remove the barriers that allow that to happen. >> breaking news here, ryan, we are the government. we the people, ever heard of that? we are the decision-makers. we have elections and we vote.

at least in your state they have chosen you for some odd reason. community. it's all up to community and it is up to all of us. i suppose you want us to take in our next door neighbor if that's what we have to do. there are many generous americans out there. there's no question about that. but the poor shouldn't have to rely on their neighbor to get by. many of these unemployed people, all of these unemployed people, have paid into this unemployment insurance throughout their entire working year. when you have millionaires who are making the decisions and their belly is not turning about whether the rent is going to be okay, you have to expect that they're going to have a different perspective on all of this. get your cell phones out. tonight's question -- do

millionaire republican politicians even care about the unemployed? text a for yes. text b for no. you can go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. we have trouble in the senate. it looked pretty good earlier in the week, but now it doesn't. senator, good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be with you. >> you bet. everything was looking good early on this week. what happened? >> i think there's an enormous amount of politics involved here. when bush was president, republicans voted for five extensions of emergency unemployment without any offsets. that's when bush was president. obama is president and it becomes a different story. what these guys want to do is pretend, i believe, that they're concern about these 1.3 million workers. i want to thank you for talking

about what happens to somebody's life when they don't have income coming in. that is something our republican colleagues are not thinking about at all. what they're talking about now are quote/unquote, offsets. what these offsets will be is taking money from peter to help pay paul. they want to cut the affordable care act. they want to cut health insurance. these guys have been vicious about cutting food stamps. they want to cut social security and medicaid. they want to cut the programs that benefit the working families of our country. >> senator, would you council be to do some offsets to get this thing through? is it worth it to try to find some cuts somewhere else? >> there are offsets and there are offsets.

when one out of four corporations in this country, ed, don't pay a nickel in federal income taxes, you think we can raise some revenue there? we're losing $100 billion every year because corporate americans are stashing their money in the caymen islands. they are supporting the complete repeal of the estate tax. that's hundreds of billions of dollars not coming into the federal government only applying to the top 0.3 of 1% of americans. >> they're a billionaire of inherited wealth. that'll help concentrate the wealth if they can get rid of the estate tax. >> right. >> is there going to be a deal

in the senate? that would be offsets. i don't think we're going to get any corporate tax reform that's going to help this thing out. it looks like the democrats are going to have to let these 1.3 million people fall by the wayside or do a deal or believe pressure can be brought against republicans. what is it? >> what we have going for us on this issue and the need to raise the minimum wage is widespread support from the american people. we have to make the republicans an offer they can't refuse. they're going to be hurt politically unless they do something significant to help these 1.3 million americans. when you help these 1.3 million americans, you're helping the american economy. if they don't have money to spend, we're going to lose collectively about 200,000 jobs a year and a decline in gdp.

it is the moral and right thing to do. it is got economics. the american people have to stand with us and tell the republicans, we've got to do the right thing. >> what is your response to paul ryan who tells msnbc this has to be solved community by community, one to one, government doesn't have a role at this point? >> that's an outrageous statement. you're quite right in quoting some republicans who actually believe by the way -- there's ryan. massive cuts in medicaid, putting the burden on the backs of sick elderly people and then somehow magically the churches and charitable organizations are going to fill the gap. they're not. government has a responsibility. we are the only country in the industrialized world that

doesn't have a national health care program guaranteeing health care to all. >> doesn't look like that's going to happen. we'll stay on the story. thank you for your time tonight. i appreciate it. remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts with us on twitter and facebook. still ahead, texas two-stepper reveals the real reason he ran for congress. first, a teacher who stood up to governor chris christie weighs in on his claim that he's not a bully.

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>> chris christie can't run away from the bully label. >> are you stupid? >> you don't send your children to public schools. i was wondering why you think it is fair to be cutting school funding to public schools? >> it's none of your business. >> you're being an idiot. i am who i am, but i'm not a bully. >> joining me now is ms. tomlinson. good to have you with us tonight. you have been exposed to the demeanor that chris christie that quite often illustrates. yesterday he made the case to the media and to the world that he's not a bully. i want your reaction to that. >> i don't understand how he can say that he's not. i think in light of the e-mails that are coming out and the sense that we get that these people had no kind of fear of

retribution or getting in trouble for what they were doing just shows what kind of atmosphere he's creating within his public office. if he does something, people that work for him are going to say, i can act like that too. >> what was your reaction when he lost his cool in front of you and countered you verbally in a dogmatic manner? >> what was my reaction? i started trembling. i didn't know how to react. it was frightening. >> trimbembling. >> yes. >> christie compared the teachers union to playground bullies. here it is. >> when you come out to the schoolyard, all right, like i did in trenton back in january of 2010 and you see a bunch of

people lying on the ground bleeding and moaning in pain and there's one person standing, that's the bully. my approach is you punch them, i punch you. that's why i'm taking on this fight. you can't reason at the moment with these folks. there's no reasoning with them opinion. >> your response to that. >> he talks about how one is standing and others are lying on ground trembling and bleeding. he doesn't see he's doing the same thing to public education and to other people right within his state. people he is supposed to be accountable too. it is time we take a stand and start making my accountable. he wants to push accountability in all the different public sectors that he represents. there's no reason he shouldn't be held accountable for his

actions. >> he was asked about him being a bully yesterday and what people said about him. he counters that by trying to define his personality, but you have seen him face to face doing this. did you feel like you were being bullied? did you feel like you had a chance to tell the governor of new jersey how you felt? >> no, not at all. not at all. a typically bullying incident is a person placing another person in a category of people based on characteristi characteristics. you're a teacher. you're no good. all of a sudden i was no good and he felt he could say whatever he wanted towards me. it's the classic bully/victim syndrome there. >> you told him you were a

teacher and he thought you were part of the political thuggery operation. does this administration as a taxpayer in your opinion try to intimidate more than lead? >> definitely tries to intimidate. they have a definite agenda. they want everybody to follow along with that agenda. we have no say in where things are going. >> it's interesting the confrontation -- or the exchange, that you had with him. i don't mean to mischaracterize it. as a professional educator, would you ever instruct any of your students to act like this when someone approaches them with an issue? >> not at all. not at all. i instruct my students to engage in conversation. there's many different views in the world. somebody has a different background comes from a

different story. you need to be open to listening to that. he's not that way at all. >> this picture we're showing is when you had an exchange with him. what did you ask him to put a smile on his wife's face and put a look on his face with his finger pointing at you? >> i asked him why he portrays new jersey public schools as failure factories. that was my question. what was leading him to this conclusion because that's not what i was seeing at all. >> it tripped his trigger. >> it did. >> thank you for joining us tonight. the governor yesterday making the case he's not a bully. we think this is part of the story. next, the new team of christie cheer leaders who are raising the governor to the top of the political pyramid. the motor city revisits

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say it with milk-bone. welcome back to "the ed show." we love hearing from our viewers. why are people so quick to accept christie's apology over bridge gate and not president obama's apology over the affordable care issues? interesting. they handled it totally differently. if the president of the united states talked about himself for two hours and apologized and tried to reinvent himself, the networks would have been covering it. here's the point. president obama, he knows there's better days ahead. governor christie, i'm not so sure he's that confident. they have the microphone. there's a lot of conservative

media that are out in front of the parade trying to reinvent christie. more people are signing up for health care every day in america. our next question is from james mills. are chris christie's chances of becoming president gone? no, i don't think so. in some strange way i hope they're not ever gone because i think his personality parallels the bulliness of the republican party and the conservative movement. if there's any sunlight getting through these documents, he's toast. you can count on it. rapid response panel is next. stocks ending mixed today and little change despite a much

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welcome back to "the ed show." bridge gate is heating up again this friday afternoon. new subpoena documents are now out detailing communication among the governor's staff.

they are highly redacted. we'll update you as the story develops. the media continues their love affair with the governor. >> how did he do? >> it was an amazing performance. >> that's what you're looking for in a leader. he did pass the test. >> i think he gets great reviews. >> i think i'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. >> off the cuff for that period of time shows his unbelievable talent. >> that was an impressive performance. >> all in all, it's a refreshing change to what we have in the white house right now. >> some people yesterday were saying traffic in new jersey, this is news? there's more to it than that. the governor would not have responded that way. >> all you have to do is go out and sell hard.

that's how you've got to do it. the critical eye of the media sounded more like best actor reviews, i think. i said yesterday this is exactly why chris christie is so dangerous. everything is a performance for this guy. it's all political theater for this governor. he did not show leadership. he just went out and did what he had to do. christie actually showed a lack of control by coming out and admitting, i didn't know anything about it. you want us to believe that? really? gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. mike, let's talk to you first about the legal wrangling going on out there. the executive director of the port authority wrote, quote, shutting down of the bridge

violates federal law. another e-mail shows the effort to keep the story under wraps. how will charges look if we get there? >> they're talking about interference with state commerce. that's minor compared to what i see here ahead, ed. the whole team is facing obstruction of justice potentially. they're facing interference with an ongoing investigation. that's where this case is really going to land. the fact that, yes, there was some interference with intra and interstate commerce is a minor issue here. this developing every time we see one of these wildstein characters dig their way in deeper. the names that are redacted generally are people that people like wildstein or people all the

way to the top are concerned might actually start talking about what they know. they want to disconnect that person from the investigation. ultimately, that's not going to work. >> mike, can christie do anymore to mop this up? he's a former u.s. attorney from 2002 to 2008. if he's clean as he says he is, can he put together his own executive investigative panel and go after it? >> it's going to be tough. the place he has to worry about is coming from other areas. this civil lawsuit. that's a case where they're going to find documents and witnesses not found anywhere else. it will not be redacted. this is where this thing is going to turn.

>> this press conference went on for nearly two hours. he made a lot of statements about his lack of knowledge surrounding the scandal. if there's a smoking gun, what does this say about all of the media's positive assessments of the performance? >> the media you showed there was mostly fox. there are more smoking guns here than a john woo movie. what we've got here is a governor who says he is surrounded by these people who lie to him and creates this false world that he believes is real? it's "the truman show." christie can't pull off a closed bridge. this is all about the tea party. the chamber of commerce is going to be funding republican

candidates against tea challenges. the only thing that matters to christie is do these revelations hurt him or help him with the tea party voters? tea party guys won't be that outraged by a big bully who made life tougher for new yorkers. >> what does christie face legally if he wasn't telling the truth? >> at this point, legally other than obstruction of justice -- listen, he spoke two hours yesterday. one thing we heard him say was david samson, that he didn't have anything to do with this. very clear about that. he really overcommitted. then we find out david samson is the guy who is being discussed as the person who is going to help them retaliate.

so i don't know who advised him to go in front of the camera for two hours and overcommit. that's what this man did yesterday. we're talking about an al capone kind of mentality. he's a karl rove kind of politician. he might have put himself in a bad situation. >> john, is the media covering for the republican front-runner? >> a lot of the media are sensitive to governor christie. he's an entertaining politician. he is like mccain, sort of a maverick. let's so entertaining. i don't think this is going to damage him long term. i'd like to say the media is covering for him, but fox will no matter what. he's their guy. i'm not surprised by any of this. this is a guy that wall street

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>> mr. speaker spoke a couple of days ago here about a real burden on my heart for women who are lured into ruts ruts by pro of money by the federal government. and yet ignorance in the left wing of our media is so pervasive that you can actually have people write stories saying i was up here blaming single moms. >> well, congressman gohmert, let me introduce you to the magical world of recording devices. as warner wolf would say here in the big city, let's go to the videotape. >> if it weren't for the policies in this war on poverty declared 50 years ago, it may well be that i would not have ever run for congress. it began to really eat away with me that in the '60s, the federal government, desiring to help

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time now for the friday punchout. here on "the ed show," we never quit working for you.

so follow us through the weekend on twitter at ed show. and now here is a peek at what we're working on for next week in fast forward. coming in at number three, detroit kicks it into high gear. >> everybody in this city shares the same dream of the detroit rewant. >> the struggling city will host one of the world's biggest auto shows starting monday. >> we're going to have well over 800,000 people come visit downtown detroit. >> i love this car. >> fast forward to number two. terry mcauliffe takes the oath of office in virginia. >> terry understands what folks are going through. he knows how to get things done. >> on saturday, the former chair of the dnc is sworn in as virginia's governor. >> i promise you tonight that i will be a governor for all virginians. the real test is my actions when i take office. >> and our number one story to watch, state of the state after bridgegate. >> i've done some

soul-searching. >> we're going to be under a lot of media scrutiny. so if there is anything that you want to talk about, any kind of secrets or stories or fibs. >> on tuesday, governor chris christie addresses new jersey. >> i don't hide my emotions from people. really. you know, some may go down tonight, but it ain't going to be jobs, sweetheart. >> linda standard joins us from the state of new jersey tonight here on the "ed show." great to have you with us. >> thank you, ed. >> what do you make of the document dump today, 2,000 pages, lots of people involved, lots of redacted material. what is your impression? >> lots of work to be done. it's going to take a very deliberate conscious effort to wade through all of that and to begin to put the pieces together more than we already have. we have so many unanswered questions. >> so many documents and so many people involved, how could the

governor not know? >> i don't believe the governor didn't know. i don't believe any could if you've been paying attention to this at all, not knowing his style and the way he has conducted his office for the years that he has been there. people don't sneeze without him knowing about it. >> so what impression did you get watching him yesterday? totally cleared the beach, exonerated himself. he spent two hours making sure that he wasn't guilty in the minds of the people. >> well, he said all of the right things that he was supposed to say. i think that he needed to apologize to the people of new jersey and ft. lee. and i think he is probably genuinely sorry that this is all going on. this is a man who has great ambitions, and his ambitions were just slowed down. >> how are you going to get anything resolved at the hearing in the assembly if everybody is taking the fifth all of the sudden? >> i don't know -- >> do you need the u.s. attorney? >> i think the u.s. attorney's job, that's their job and they will get on that track and start to move it forward. but we also have a role in the state legislature too to continue to gather the

information and get through it. find out why things are redacted, get it clear, understand the inconsistencies, who all were involved, who is on the list and being talked to. there is lots of questions. it's a snowball effect. >> okay. i want to talk about the port authority. there were some e-mails in that 2000 documents that were released today that shows that someone wrote in there that this could be a violation of federal and state laws. >> yes. >> what is your response to that? if they knew and it was brought to their attention and this traffic thing continued on, what does that tell you? >> i think it raises very serious issues of official misconduct. and i also think interstate commerce being impeded because of the nature of the bridge and where it sits, i think this are very real legal issue there's, and that's why we saw mr. wildstein plead the fifth every step of the way yesterday. >> if it turns out that mr. christie knew anything about this, if there is any kind of paper trail, is it time for a resignation? >> i think that we have to get

through the process and that as if that builds there, then it's something that is going to have to be looked at. >> is the attorney general going to get confirmed? >> i don't believe that there is going to be a hearing about that on this coming week. i think that that's not happening at this point. >> what do you say to the people of new jersey with your relationship, working relationship with the governor? is it good? is it hostile? is he a bully? he says he is not. >> i believe he is a bully based on everything that he has done and the things that he said and how he has managed different issues along the way and just the commentary. take a baseball bat to this legislator and throw really nasty comments at people along the way when they don't agree with him. my relationship has been cordial. but i don't -- have learned not to trust where he is at on issues. >> if the governor is completely exonerated in his mind, would it be a good idea for him to put

together his own investigative committee? he's been down this road before. >> he knows how to do it. you would absolutely agree, and i think it would have started with if there was real sincerity in that, he should have started by asking bridget kelly to come in and explain to him what she did and who was involved. >> okay, linda tender, thank you. i'm "ed show." "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed, and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, did governor christie know? today several thousand pages of new documents were released in the investigation of the new jersey bridge scandal. one of the most striking new developments and biggest revelations came from david wildstein, the former christie appointee who refused to testify at a hearing yesterday. the leading ies