. >> aaron blake has written on the topic.have one guy who set at the cool table at lunch and one who did not. explain how christie cannot know the guy very well but his office can know about wildstein's relationship with his social security teacher? >> i don't know if they are based on press reports about wildstein's past. he was mayor at one point so perhaps there was writings about his background back then. i thought it was unusual that they would point out he was once an anonymous blogger and registered websites under other people's names without telling them about it. if this is the worst kind of research they have on this guy, i think that they might want to look a little bit harder at what they are putting out there. >> wouldn't a lot of this information have been known to christie's people before they hired him? >> you would think so. that's the big question now, this is a major appointment that christie made. this is one of his two top appointees on the port authority. you would think there would be a certain amount o

aaron blake is joining me and washington bureau chief, lynne sweet. welcome to you both.d morning. >> good morning. >> lynne, another wrinkle in the chris christie story. is it possible the governor didn't know about the memo before it went out? >> yeah. no harm in giving him the benefit of the doubt. it's part of the drip, drip, drip of the ongoing investigation. >> it sure is. you think, aaron, if the govern didn't know and considering the tenure and the importance of this issue around his office, should he start firing people around him because this approach was panned in political circles? going after someone's high school record, really? >> it was juvenile. i don't mean that in any puny way. the fact is, this was kind of -- according to the politico report, it was an e-mail they put out to supporters every week. it's something that doesn't necessarily go to journalists. journalists were surprised the information was thrown in there. i wonder, the staff, if they felt like they should throw this in without checking with somebody higher up, kind of what they were thinki

tweet from aaron blake "the daily beast" tweeted this. >> major league baseball also issued a statement regarding the legislation earlier today. we'll try to bring you that as well. a look at the arizona republic from earlier today and they have a headline here, all eyes on the governor as debate rages on. we expect this to be updated shortly but they write in here, of all the questions senate bill 1062 has arizonans asking, one of the most difficult, at the center of the bill's language, how do we judge the sincerity of another's heart. some say the bill defends real jus freedoms, others say it protects discrimination. it would provide a legal defense for individuals and businesses facing discrimination lawsuits if they can prove somehow they acted on a sincerely held religious belief. let's go to canton, ohio, on our republican line, this is crissy. make sure you mute your television, go ahead with your comment. caller: i want toddle call about the bill and just state that think arizona has a right to push this kind of a bill and that they can't force private be open to ers to lgbt li

but i would say and one of the folks who works for me, aaron blake, great reporter, he pupt the numbers together and noted his numbers are way down. 44 disapprove in new jersey. those are still a heck of a lot better, marco rubio, rand paul, some of the people he might be running against in 2016. yes, has he come down from the levels he was when he got re-elected in 2013? yes, absolutely. i'm not sure he's persona non grata compared to the rest of the field. >> there's news yesterday that the superior court judge mary jacobson has ordered bridgett ann kelly to had -- in dort on march 11th. from the giving, those are two people on the top of my list and it's grown long in terms of people who could really change the dynamic for christie and who could have material that could be very damaging to his governorship. what is the sense do you get in and around christieland about this march 11th. >> i don't know about the march 11th thing, but there's a lot yet to be found and heard. i think chris is absolutely right, we're still on the downward path. i would add 51% approval rating, a lot of pr