the education commissioner's name was bret schundler. he screwed up the race to the top application. chris christie said the number one rule of this administration is you don't lie to the governor. now bret schundler admitted that he and his teamed a screwed up the race to the top application, admitted he deserved to go, but did not like being called a liar. what happened a week later? bret schundler had documents, he had e-mails, he has records. he could prove that when chris christie called him a liar, he had not been a liar. chris christie and his administration had known bret schundler had talked to them. and i cannot help but think of them right now. because chris christie confidently got up there three years ago with all the cameras rolling and called him a liar, even though there was evidence out there that came back to haunt there. there is a precedent. >> now, you know wildstein a bit, and i heard your story you knee him indirectly because he ran your website. i'm watching this guy. i'm really try to empathize with people in tro

it was all lining up for bret schundler and then, well, it didn't work out. he lost to a democrat named jim mcgreevey. you probably know his name. probably know his story. and schundler tried again in 2005. this time he didn't even make it out of the republican primary. he had been the great conservative hope that big career making breakthrough he needed was elusive. by the time 2009 rolled around, he'd been eclipsed. chris christie by that point was the next big thing in new jersey republ republican politics. he made his name prosecuting crooked politicians and in 2009 the gop made him its candidate for governor and he won that fall which meant that as the new governor he had jobs to give out. he had important jobs to give out, jobs in his cabinet, jobs like state education commissioner. that job, christie announced to some surprise, would go to brett schundler. so brett schundler was back. education reform and charter schools had been a passion of his and now here he was, the point man in a new republican administration ready to put his policy ideas to work.