it only took about a week for that nomination of bernie carrick to fall apart. seven days after george w. bush nominated him in this ceremony at the white house, bernie carrick withdrew his name from consideration saying, he had unknowingly hired an undocumented nanny and housekeeper and so he couldn't take the job in part because he would be in charge of enforcing the nation's immigration laws. turns out it was more than that. in 2006 he was convicted of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of home renovations for himself from an allegedly mobbed up contractor that had business before new york city. he admitted to lying about that, lying to the irs, and lying to the white house when they vetted him for that homeland security job. because this is new york, and because new york is as amazing as new jersey, when bernie carrick plead guilty and was about to be sent to prison, they had to move quickly to take his name off the jail he was about to report to. less than 48 hours after he plead guilty, they had to take his name off the lower manhattan detention compl

we had an example on this side of the river with giuliani, that he tolerated bernie carrick, who ultimatelym to the biggest security job in the united states at a time -- >> homeland security secretary, that's right. >> he was a krocrony, it was covered up. he had a pad above ground zero. after 9/11, carrick did. so it always comes out badly. it's interesting to me that giuliani was one of the few republicans who rushed to christie's defense over the weekend. but this kind of -- you know, there's always a comeuppance, go back to jimmy walker, mayor of new york. things have happened in many states in the country. this kind of thing usually explodes in the end. >> i find this saga in new jersey to be fascinating, even totally independent of chris christie's presidential hopes. and he does clearly want to run for president. he does seem like, at least before all this happened, the republican other than rand paul most likely to run for president. but a lot of national discussion about it, as the national press sort of picked it up delatedly has been asserting kind of breezily that chris christi