joining me now is aaron blake of "the washington post."to fold the pizza in half, right? >> reporter: i have to plead the fifth on this one. i'm from the midwest. my wife would tell you, you definitely have to fold it in half. >> let's move on to christie. >> if those tied back to the governor in any way, it clearly becomes an impeachable offense. what's the next step here? >> there first needs to be some official tie from christie. all the e-mails don't establish whether he was informed or involved. we don't know. until we get to that point, it is tough to see where it goes from here. certainly, if he is tied to it, his blanket denials would suggest he would be in very serious political jeopardy, if not have his job be in jeopardy. >> he is preparing for new jersey's state of the state. it happens tomorrow. aaron, what does he need to say and what do you make of the way he has been handling the fallout? >> i think the press conference was a successful one, as successful as you can be under the circumstances. he spoke for almost two hours

that was one of my deputies, a guy named aaron blake, it was a 54 word sentence that he unleashed in which the construction of it was confusing to many people. and they just -- mike huckabee needs to be aware this is a party that had todd aiken and murdoch in the not so recent past and they are struggling underneath a perception that the party and its policies are not accommodating and friendly to women. so context matters here. and mike huckabee is usually a better politician than this. he should be aware of it whether or not he thinks the words are misinterpreted. you can't leave your words open to be misinterpreted if you're a republican, national figure, talking about women's issue given what has happened within the party and to the party over the last four or five years. >> susan, take a look at what nicolle wallace had to say on quts morning joe, former romney and white house adviser. >> i don't think any man should sit around and talk about female libido on television or in a stump speech. i think as a political matter, keeping it focused on what you're for instead of trying t

blake griffin scored the game-tying basket and beating the mavericks 119-112. meanwhile the houston rockets struggle against the new york knicks. the play resulted in a foul which sent aaronoks to the free-throw line which would give the rockets the 102-100 win. now the nfl playoffs kick off this weekend with four games taking place in the first round. the cold weather could play a major factor. the first afc wildcard match up has the kansas city chiefs playing the indianapolis colts. and the the cincinnati bengals host the san diego chargers, that's on sunday. and greenbay packers host last year's super bowl runners up san francisco for the wild afc wildcard. >>> in the nhl, penguins beat the new york rangers. the 4-0 lead in the second with the 23 goal of the season. pittsburgh going on to win 5-2. >>> we'll have more sport news on our website. check out www.aljazeera.co www.aljazeera.com/sport. there is your sport for now and we'll have more a little later on. >> thank you very much. american singer phil ever everly brothers died of lung disease. ♪ bye, bye love ♪ bye, bye happiness ♪ hello loneliness ♪ i think i'm ♪ going to cry ♪ now and forever ♪ let it be me ♪ drea