on the entire country. all right. that does it for us here at "the cycle." our old friend and new neighbor in the late afternoon alex wagner continues our christie coverage. did the man embroiled in a political retribution scandal really just double down on bipartisanship? yes, yes he did. it is tuesday, january 14th and this is "now." >> governor christie's state of the state speech today. >> we let down the people we're entrusted to serve. >> it is tough to keep them straight. >> a super panel to investigate christie's inner circle. >> i think you're going to see more names come forward. >> several new jersey democrats were rewarded for their

endorsements. >> the stories are coming out when you disagree with chris christie, there will be pay back. >> political blood in the water. >> everybody is going to be looking for other stories. >> i'm the governor and i'm ultimately responsible for all that happens on my watch, both good and bad. less than a week after he took the stage for a two-hour mea culpa, he began his state of the state address an hour ago. he addressed bridge gate on this afternoon. >> last week has certainly tested this administration.

mistakes were clearly made and as a result, we let down the people we're entrusted to serve. i know our citizens deserve better, much better. i'm the governor. and i'm ultimately responsible for all that happens on my watch, both good and bad. >> despite the fact that the very heart of the bridge gate scandal appears to be revenge, christie used today's remarks to revive his favorite theme -- bipartisanship. >> we need to create an attitude of choice. attitude of choice is not about choosing everything. it's not about saying yes to everyone. it is about us setting our priorities and choosing to invest in new jersey where it matters. the best part of our turn arounds in these past four years is because we have chosen to work together.

no state in this country has shown more bipartisan cooperation in the last four years than new jersey and our people are proud of it. >> today may have provided him a brief moment to focus on the issues, including education reform. but consider the man is facing not one, but two investigative committees looking into bridge gate. given all that, despite christie's positive overtures in the past hour, the state of his state seems troubled at best. joining me now from washington is new york magazine's johnathan. i want to get your immediate thoughts on what has just transpired, meaning christie's

state of the state address. he went out there and said i was responsible. was it enough to change the tide? >> no, it's not going to change the tide, but he's not going to use a speech like that to take responsibility. this seems less plausible today than it seemed yesterday. it didn't seem plausible yesterday. david wildstein who was involved in the closing of the bridge met with christie during this period. "the wall street journal" reported this by the way. it seems plausible that wildstein would have been there with the governor without either informing the governor who was doing it or being certain the governor knew this was going on anyway. >> you made a point about the david wildstein. there's photographic evidence at

an event commemorating september 11th. even if the governor is not involved in the bridge closures, there is the trust issue. trust is one of those things it is very hard to win back once you've lost it. the fact he went out there and said i have had no contact with david wildstein in a long time and then there's this photo of them amid the bridge gate closures is going to be a major cause of skepticism. there's going to be this new committee that will have subpoena power. >> that's right. there are a lot of potential scandals swirling around him. my colleagues in their game change book about the campaign reported that mitt romney wanted to put chris christie on the

ballot. once they looked at his record, they ran in the other direction. misappropriation funds questions, abuses of power questions. he's governed in a pretty bipartisan way in new jersey. that's part of the reason why he's popular. on the other hand, part of his bipartisanship is cutting deals with a very corrupt democratic party. he seems to come out of the corrupt style of governance that prevails in new jersey. >> largely the animating narrative here on the christie story is he's the guy that's the tough talker, but he speaks truth and he speaks truth to power and he's unafraid. he'll take a photo with president obama even when it is

not politically expedient. comparing chris christie to richard nixon, let me read an excerpt from this. in the e-mails that went public last week, the tone of christie's aids displays the thuggery and characteristic of nixon's men. not the slightest anxiety about getting caught in both cases. whether or not the boss sanctioned these actions, they came from the top. that's what the boss wants and rewards. that's fairly damning not just for chris christie and his staff, but for everybody who was on board for team christie in a way. >> that's right, but the flip side is it's an apt analogy.

nixon did liberal things that would be unimaginable in today's republican party. in fact, these things can go hand in hand. when you don't care much about the substance of policy, when what you want is popularity and power, your incentive structure is to crush your foes. >> one last question to you. there have been a lot of folks coming out of the wood works these days that say i feel pressured. don zimmer told "the wall street journal" that she requested $100 million in grants for hurricane sandy and received only

$300,000. of all of this, i feel as if the hurricane sandy relief, if that was abused or misused, that more than a traffic lane and a bridge lane closure is the thing that will damn chris christie on the national stage. >> there's no reason for this. this is a pure attempt to screw our enemies. sorry if i used the wrong word. >> it's okay. >> the add situation is murkier. christie picked the higher bidder, not the lower bidder for tourism ads. these ads featured christie and his family in all kinds of other states. it happened in dove tail with his political prospects. until we come up with some damning comments that were in

here to boost our candidate, i don't know if it's going to be anything like the bridge scandal where the language is so gross and the movie dialogue of villainess. >> you have just coined my new favorite term. we don't know what we don't know. therefore, this is a story we'll continue to follow. thank you as always, my friend. >> thank you. we are awaiting jersey democrats' response to christie's state of the state. after the break, there's a proposal on the table to finally, actually extend unemployment insurance. we'll talk to senator bernie sanders about what exactly happened in that meeting next on "now." tdoor fresh gives you more freshness

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while 1.4 million americans wait and worry about the future of their long-term unemployment assistance, lawmakers are spending the day debating how best to offset the cost of that assistance. this morning president obama urged congress to get moving. >> it's important that they do something about unemployment insurance. i think we all know that there are a lot of hard working americans out there who are desperately looking for a job and unemployment insurance is not only good for them and necessary for them, but it's also good for our economy as a whole and will accelerate our growth if we go ahead and get that done. >> of course republicans in both chambers have different ideas. they are less concerned about getting aid to those who need it than they are finding others

funding sources to pay for it. it would bar undocumented immigrants from claiming a refundable child tax credit, which would satisfy the party's alienating immigrants. despite the fact it is his party holding up things, boehner had something to say. >> he has taken his eye off the ball. he's taken his eye off the issues of

>> again another one. first republicans complained they are filibustering because the extensions have not been paid for. >> we've been on the bill a week. a week. no amendments have been allowed. it is pretty clear that the majority leader is not interested in having an open amendment process. this has obviously been fixed to guarantee that you get a no outcome. >> joining me now from washington is bernie sanders. thank you so much for joining us on this day. it is shocking to me that republicans continue to drag their feet on this and lay the blame squarely on the president's doorstep, on democrats doorstep. do you think at any point

republicans will have to pay a price for their callousness? >> this is a long pattern of republican action. these are the guys who want to cut social security, medicare, and medicaid. and now they are fighting tooth and nail is our ability to provide necessary help to those people who are long-term unemployed. the fact of the matter is long-term unemployment today is almost at a record level. 37% of unemployed people have been unemployed for longer than six months. if we do not provide them the help they need, they are going to have a horrific time trying to pay their rent, trying to put gas in their car, trying to have the resources to go out and get another job. not only is it awfully cruel to push these people aside and ignore their needs, it impacts the entire economy. if they don't have on average

the $300 they get in extended unemployment benefits, they're not spending that money locally. the economists say we'll lose 200,000 jobs and have a reduction in gdp. we have to provide help to people who desperately need it. >> senator, what should democrats have done here? we have seen unemployment benefits extended under republican presidents. did democrats do something wrong in sort of opening the door to pay for this or is this the cost of doing business with the republican party? >> everybody has got to understand when george w bush was president, we extended long-term unemployment on five separate occasions.

the republicans did not ask for any offsets. this is a state of emergency, 1.4 million people who have very little to live on. my own view is that we should do is say, you know what? we're going to require 50 votes. we're going to overcome the republican filibuster. we don't need to have to get 60 votes for every single piece of legislation designed to help working families whether extending unemployment benefits or increasing the minimum wage. majority should rule. i'm laughing because we have seen unprecedented obstructionism on the part of republicans since obama has been president. it's hard for me to imagine things getting worse.

what we could by having a majority vote, we would tell working families that we understand that you have problems and you want us to address it. you want us to raise the minimum wage. you want us to extend the unemployment. you want us to invest in the economy to create the jobs we need. if the republicans want to vote against that, they have the right. they don't have the right to filibuster the needs of a struggli struggling middle class. >> i know you have to take yet another vote. i want to ask you this last question. there is a new resurgence of rhetoric about caring about the poor and poverty is a big ticket issue. do you think there is any bite with that bark? do you think the republican party is any closer to doing anything to show it has a heart when it comes to the poor and working class in america? >> the republican party is very

good at reading polls. they understand the american people are deeply offended that the rich are getting richer while the middle class disappears. the republicans read the newspapers and they hear pope francis now talking about the moral elements of income and wealth inequality and they're trying to give some rhetoric to addressing that. but at the end of the day, their actions speak a lot louder than their words. these are the guys that want to cut social security, medicare, medicaid, not raise the minimum wage. you tell me how those actions reflect the concerns of the poor. >> thank you as always. coming up, as his hometown of cincinnati prepares to shutdown water intake following a massive chemical leak, john boehner says he is not in favor of more regulation. we'll take a look at the

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last week's toxic chemical spill in west virginia's elk river left 300,000 people without clean tap water for days. cincinnati, ohio, plans to stop using water from the ohio river to protect its city from the dangerous chemicals. the facility where the spill occurred had not been inspected for 20 years. what of the officials who knew of the toxic chemicals were sitting there? they did nothing. the lesson gleaned by john boehner who hails from cincinnati, ohio, the same place they are literally turning off the taps today, the lesson

according to him is less regulation. no not more inspections, not more accountability, not more safety. none of that. when asked this morning about the west virginia disaster and whether republicans had maybe gone too far in their deregulatory zeal, speaker boehner said this. >> the issue is this. we have enough regulations on the books. what the administration ought to be doing is doing their jobs. why wasn't this plant inspected since 1991? i'm confident that there are regulations already on the books to protect the health and safety of the american people. >> the facts on the ground tell a very different story. the region of the chemical spill is so lax in its regulation that residents refer to it as chemical valley. this is the third major chemical accident to take place in that region and the area suffers

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the white house has finally unveiled all important data concerning the age of those americans who have signed up for obamacare. as with all things aca, what the data shows naturally depends on one's point of view. it shows okay news for the white house. 24% of those signing up for coverage were between the ages of 18 and 34, which is better than doomsayers predicted, but below the 40% goal targeted by the white house. nevertheless, there is still plenty of room to grow. >> i think we're sort of at a "b." we had a "d" roll out of the website. i'm expecting this to improve towards the march 31st deadline.

>> the administration plans to launch a massive outreach effort over the next couple of weeks to encourage young invisibles to sign up. that doesn't mean the war against the affordable care act is over. far from it. today republicans continued to wave their battle axes making abundantly clear that obamacare will be one of two issues that the party campaigns on in the fall. >> it's about two issues. it's going to be about the issue of jobs. also part of that is the issue of obamacare. obamacare is part of the no jobs problem. why? because we're making it more expensive for employers to add new employees. >> obamacare is not living up to its promises. if the numbers are as bad as they seem with the lack of information, just imagine perhaps how bad it really is. people's health care is at

stake. people's pocketbooks are at stake. >> at this point, america probably understands pretty well where eric and his conservative colleagues fall on this issue. ezra, thanks for joining me. >> good afternoon. >> there are a lot of questions surrounding the success of the aca presently. what are you gleaning from this latest data? >> well, we can say a couple of things. one, there's not going to be a death spiral. that's just done. it was an idea you would have so few young people sign up and so many older people sign up that pr

premiums would go chaotic. not going to happen at all. this is going to be the low point for young adults. every projection based on what we've seen in the massachusetts reforms and medicare part d, younger people in these programs, they sign up towards the end. not the beginning. we expect the early ones to have a lower portion of young people. let's say it froze right here. 25%. that would mean a 2.5% increase in premiums. that's not a death spiral. the big question is what happens in march. if it goes from 24% to 35% or to 38%, than the obama administration got the numbers they wanted and to some degree needed. if it sticks to 25%, it's survivable, but it's not optimal. >> to the point at the rate of

which young invisibles signing up, massachusetts 23.6% of young people signed up for health care. which is almost exactly the same as today's 24%. given the "d" rating that was given the roll out of the aca, it's pretty amazing we're tracking parallel to massachusetts plan. >> i think zeke is getting soft. that was a solid "f" right there. when you can't use the website, you're failing. yeah, i'm surprised at how much we look to be following the massachusetts example. i don't think we're really properly in the third month

there. i believe that is 17% on the mass graph. we're ahead of that. in massachusetts you had political consensus around it. you had ads from the red sox. you had an ability to not just to sign up, but there wasn't this political friction. there's a caveat here. in all of this when we're talking about mass and nationally, we're using young people as a stand in for healthy people. if it turns out the people who are signing up are young, 24% of them are young, but they're the fraction of the young people who are not healthy, then this sort of normal calculations we're making here don't hold. i do want to say that is a caution. this is really about healthy people, not just young people. i think this is going a lot better than i expected it to be going given the roll out. if these are not the young

people we're looking for, all bets are off. >> one last point, ezra. i think this bears repeating. you wrote about this a year ago, i think. you talked to a young invisibles executive director. he said less than 5% of young people choose not to have health care. the number one reason is the cost. this seems to bear that out. this is a rejoineder to all these outside groups that have been encouraging young people not to sign up for health insurance. young people want health care, and this roll out seems to prove that point. >> yeah, as you say, young people want health care. we see it on every poll. when you offer them health care in a job setting, young people take it up at almost the same rate as old people.

as long as it's affordable, young folks want it. you and i know from experience, all young people are bargaining for jobs. getting a job with health care is a huge deal. that's essentially the marker of becoming an adult. finally a job with health care. if they don't buy it, it isn't going to be because they don't want it. it is because it's unaffordable for them. >> young invincibles know they are not invincible. coming up, christie could get no higher during hurricane sandy. could he recover from bridge gate? we'll take a look a that. that's just ahead. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go--

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i know that the reality is that i think we'd all like to go to the last chapter of the book and read the conclusion. that's not responsible. there needs to be a systematic approach to this. >> that was a democrat trying to regain focus nearly a week after bridge gate rocked his state. in this afternoon's state of the state address, christie addressed the toughest crowd. fresh off of hurricane sandy relief effort, one that saw the

governor embrace a president from the opposition party in the heat of a reelection campaign, his approval stood at a whopping 73%. bridge gate may have sunk any hopes of becoming his party's nominee in 2016. with so much more bridge gate bad baggage to be delivered, the load is just to heavy. joining me now is the national political reporter for "the washington post," and glen thrush. glen, the talk of 2016, it's rampant speculation as always. what do you make of rick

hertzburg's interpretation? >> you mean because of bridge gazi? yes. >> there may be early triumphalism on the left. he isn't going gently into the good night. he's pretty good in public. he's holding up fairly well. what i think is really interesting here is i remember in 2012 the dnc and the white house were putting out these pictures of obama with christie and now our inbox is full of dnc videos whacking christie. the question for democrats is -- do they want to kill this guys candidacy this quickly?

>> that's a really good point. there's a problem that some democrats may have, which is a foaming at the mouth, a visceral desire they may not be able to repress to get christie out of contention. one of the leaders in the new jersey state senate, a democrat, said we'd all like to close this chapter, but we have to let this play out. i'm sure democrats relish each day this is the headline. what's the play here for chris christie? does he keep his focus straight ahead as he seemed to do today just hours ago at the state of the state address or does he need to come out again and address these new allegations of hurricane sandy funding? >> he had four paragraphs dedicated to this bridge gate scandal that's going on now. then he turns to his entire

agenda. he talked about drug offenders and trying to offer rehabilitation services to them and talking at inner city schools. he talks about some point he would be willing to cooperate with any appropriate inquiries. it depends on the meaning of "appropriate," right? is that another free wheeling press conference? thursday is going to be an interesting day when the subpoenas come out. here's a man who called bridge kelly a liar on tv. christie's challenge is to try not to have this as a drip, drip, drip rolling scandal that goes on the next few months as he tries to keep the brand going should he run in 2016. his brand being someone that can

bring people together and get things done. >> christie has to make sure this doesn't become bridgegazi. some part of that is going to be determined by how his own party reacts. mums the word on that one. he's supposed to be in florida this weekend with rick scott. what's the sense you get about conservatives and republicans reaction to all this? each day brings a new level of intrigue. >> let us not forget that chris christie is an enormously popular figure in the northeast and in the rest of red america, not so much. i've seen scandals come up along

the pike. i think what this will be if christie finds himself in 2016, it will be a rand paul commercial. the problem for republicans is less than the problem democrats face. the press conferences get ahead of the investigations. i think democrats and republicans would be well served by shutting up and letting the investigative process play itself out. my sense is there's going to be plenty of news there from the perspective of democrats that's going to be damaging for him. but the democrats can overplay their hand. >> that's the way it goes sometimes. no matter what the facts are. if you play the sympathy card right, the tides can change dramatically. you pointed out subpoenas are predicted to come down on thursday. among them is bridge kelly's,

someone the governor called deceitful and stupid in his last two-hour mea culpa. you're going to need her to defend your rep under oath. >> he attempted to discredit her before she even gets a chance to talk. he used "lie" 15 times in the press conference in trenton. everybody is waiting to hear from her. of course, what we saw before was taking the fifth. she could very well do that, but she's a woman that i'm sure wants to clear her good name. >> indeed.

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[ female announcer ] aaah, the amazing, delicious cinnamon and sugar taste of cinnamon toast crunch and cold milk. ♪ cinnamon toast crunch. crave those crazy squares. another day, another republican making wildly insensitive comments about the most vulnerable members of our society. with congress expected to pass a farm bill in days, a video from october posted today shows rand paul endorsed dr. greg brannon giving his take on food assistance. >> the government is now keeping its in power by giving these goodies away. it should go away at the federal

level. 80% of the farm bill is food stamps. it enslaves people. >> food stamps enslave people. if you're not a fan of him and you are a fan of facts, according to census data in 2012 food stamps lifted 4.9 million people out of poverty. including 2.2 million children. but these results ones showing how assistance programs actually help people, they complicate the rhetoric. him and most of the people he would like to work in congress has built his campaign on the belief that everything the government is doing is wrong or morally bereft. giving people a little help so they can put dinner on the table is the same thing as whipping them into servitude for a

lifetime. there's always a mother jones to murphy points out the undeniable ridiculousness of the statement himself. he is suggesting that people on food stamps are lazy and comparing them to a system of labor exploitation where people were working to death. the world view they reflect is not entirely out of place in today's republican party. in september the gop controlled house passed a bill to cut food stamps by $40 billion. the compromise legislation expected to pass both houses instead cuts food stamps by $9 billion. efforts to extend unemployment insurance to the long-term jobless have not come without

republican resistance. forcing democrats to find a way to pay for that assistance for the first time in years. comparing food stamps to slavery is not politically expedient. according to a ppp poll released today, if the north carolina senate election was held today, he would beat kay hagan 43 to 41. that's all. "the ed show" is up next. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. >> i am the leader of this state and its people. the state of our state is good and it is getting better. did i say on topi