joining me now is as i mentioned, david mellow and former democratic ticket barbara bono. i understand you have been in contact with the office. >> i have been in contact with the city of hoboken, i will meet with them next week. >> you have been instructed to not get into the details, the conversation you had with mayor zimmer. >> yeah, i have been instructed that it's best at this time to no longer rehash the details that i have already released to some members of the press. >> but you are on record having broadly corroborated at least her telling of a contemporaneous account of a meeting. >> i stand with what i said by the press. i don't want to rehash it at this point. i want to take the opportunity. i'm looking forward to speak to the u.s. attorney's office about it. >> the issue now, separating out what mayor zimmer has said on our air and to others about retaliation and a kind of quid pro quo on sandy, one of the issues that's happened now is the governor's office is pushing back saying hoboken has tons of help, $70 million in federal money. we deconstructed that, a

joining me now, richard wolf, executive editor, new jersey democratic state dart barbara bono who ran against christie for governor last year and hunter walker, national afair balls reporter for talking points memo. just to backtrack here on the story, the theory of the case, and it's the stupidest case i've ever heard, is that they were going to retaliate against the mayor of fort lee, new jersey, a democratic mayor for not endorsing the republican governor, as barbara can tell us, too many democrats got in line with this republican governor's relex. they were going to punish nj nnl driver's cars who use the bridge who come from all over new jersey, including people who come from pennsylvania and people who were driving from all over -- i mean, it's this -- the idea that you could punish an individual politician in new jersey, local politician by slowing do you think the george washington bridge is insane. but that's what got us here. >> right. and, you know, there's so many damning revelations from the set of documents this morning that it's really hard to settle on just one. but on

he actually won a majority of his panics in the state, beating his opponent barbara bono here. coalition of voters. here in union city, this city is over 80% hispanic. and christie won the city, even though president obama carried it in 2012. so this event today was full of symbolism. he was surrounded by hispanics, so called dreamers, students, and he really leaned in. at one point one of the speakers introducing him called on washington to pass immigration reform and christie applauded throughout that statement. so again, if christie can get through a republican primary, he'll have a pretty good resume to talk about to hispanic voters in a general election, wolf. >> the key question, if he can get through a republican primary. republican caucuses out there. might have a much better chance of winning a general election than winning the republican nomination. thanks very much, peter, for that. >>> meanwhile, a major shift in attitudes towards marijuana use in the united states. i'm going to tell you what a majority of americans now have to say about legalizing pot. [ male annou

joining me now is christie's opponent in the 2013 gubernatorial race, state senator barbara bono. thanks so much for joining us today. what's your reaction. >> my pleasure. well, you know, when this first surfaced back in september, i was convinced that christie was directing it. you get to know how he operates. he runs a para military organization, very strict discipline. people don't sneeze or go to the bathroom without asking christie's permission. so to suggest that the people closest to him, his deputy, the young woman that he fired, his spokesperson for a long time his campaign manager, bill step yan, if anybody who run a statewide campaign, you get very close with your campaign manager and two highest appoint ees on the port authority, david sampson, chairman of the port authority that christie appointed, all of these people knew and orchestrated and took part in the cover-up of bridge gate. and yeah, unbeknownst to the governor this was not going on and i find that strains kred you'llty to say the least. it leaves no skin till la of doubt in anyone's minds. >> you're sayin

local folks including the governor's former opponent barbara bono called on the u.s.of new jersey paul fisherman to look into any possible criminal activity resulting from this. other folks have asked whether there might have been an abuse of official authority, a form of official corruption that went on, using the authority to shut down and tamper with bridge lanes for political pay back. >> so we will continue to look for your reporting on this. steve is from the newark star ledger and thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> reporter: iraq leaders are holding off on an all-out military offensive against al-qaeda fighters and concern any attempt to retack the city of fallujah would lead to civilian casualties and could insight sunni anger against leadership and the alaska -- al-qaeda group took over a week ago and graham are calling for more u.s. military involvement in iraq and mccain blames the spread of this on the obama administration. >> the bloody conflict that was fought in our entire involvement in iraq was the second battle of fa loo