bridgegate having a national toll on chris christie. in new jersey, the monmouth university poll, 59%, down to 51% an eight-point drop and nine-point increase in his disapproval. here's one plus governor christie can brag about. $33 million ain't chump change. that's a record in this period of time as he's led the committee, including $23.5 million during those bad bridgegate headlines. mostly bad news in the polls, decent news in the fund-raising. an extensive new profile in the new yorker will be out tonight. >> one these of news that i can drop here is in new jersey politics, tom caine sr., twice elected governor, probably the most popular political figure in the state, he is chris christie's political mentor. when ychris christie was 14 yeas old he knocked on this guy's door and said tom caine taught had him how to do it. probably the most person in his political life. tom caine told me that he is no longer sure that if chris christie runs for president he will back him, he will endorse him. he's now being look at three possible repu

>> i don't think it's a white wash, but if chris christie, i think what the poll numbers show is if chrishristie thought this report would be the end or sort of sewing up the last suture on that political wound, we're not there yet. i actually think the news today from the judge not saying that two of the main bill stepien, bridget kelly having to relate documents related to bridgegate, that's a big deal in that clearly is something that this legislative committee wanted and they are not going to get, at least currently. but i would remind people, there are concurrent investigations going on. there's a federal investigation going on, there's also this within the new jersey legislature investigation going on. that ruling pertains to the new jersey legislature. you know, i continue to think that this is going to not get better for chris christie for a while. it's going to be hard for him to go beyond it, but look, the legislative committee not getting access to anything bridget kelly and bill stepien did is a victory for the christie forces. >> let me go to you, steve kornacki of our networ

from samson saying he's playing in traffic, made a big mistake, that did not get him fired by chris christieil last week, when he says it's a resignation. obviously it was absolutely necessary by the time christie was doing his news conference, that the first thing he had to go out there and say is david samson's resigned. >> david samson, who by the way they didn't interview in this so-called exhaustive report. they never called him because i think his reason was attorney-client privilege. >> let's listen to the governor's explanation of why in this exhaustive investigation they revealed last week, why they never talked to the chairman of the port authority. but what he doesn't explain is why the report never says that they never talked to the chairman of the port authority. let's listen to the governor's excuse for samson. >> in terms of his and his firm's lack of participation in interviews conducted by the mastro group, he explained to me that there were issues of attorney-client privilege that he feared would be compromised if he participated in an interview. i didn't push it any furthe

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download snapfix for free. >>> chris christie's legal team released a report written by chris christie'segal team that said he had absolutely no role in the george washington bridge. you know what? if you believe this, there is a movie that came out today called "noah's ark" that you might enjoy. >> time for the sideshow. that was bill maher on the review of the chris christie george washington bridge scandal. >>> next up, the obama administration is making a final push to get people to sign up for health care before the final deadline tonight. but folks on "saturday night live" came up with a few more ways the president could use social media to boost enrollment in the last stretch. here is one of them. >> okay, sir. i think if i think if you trust, she'll get you at least ten million new signups on healthcare.gov in the next 48 hours. >> great. so what do we need to do. >> and he is hot right now, the pope. so let's get him in here, your holiness. >> you got pope francis? >> we got -- he loves affordable health care. thank you so much for coming. >> no problemo. >> all right. now, for

the authors of the report, chris christie's lawyers spent a lot of ink playing that down. ng and reiterating that governor christie remembers nothing about that conversation. "whatever brief exchange they had occurred in a public setting where they were surrounded by many including other port authority officials and the governor's wife and a steady stream of spectators requesting photographs and handshakes with the governor. governor christie has no recollection of such an exchange. since the report was first published, wnbc here in new york has obtained these new pictures of governor christie and david wildstein together at that memorial that day. although we cannot hear what they are talking about by looking at these pictures, they do not appear to be interrupted by a steady stream of spectators requesting photographs and handshakes with the governor. it's not like david wildstein was on a receiving line. they hung out. also in this report, the sort of astounding e-mail from governor christie, himself, in which he edits the press statement about david wildstein's resignat

especially in a situation where the transportation commissioner was begging a chris christie staffer named bridget kelly to please let him meet with the local mayor to avert the traffic crisis. especially not when that same christie staffer that the transportation commissioner was begging is the same chris christie staffer who ordered traffic problems for the town of ft. lee. the extent to which chris christie staffers also served as an election machine, and the way the chris christie administration governed new jersey as an election machine, that has been one of the startling revelations of the past few weeks. we began to see some of this in the report issued last month by randy mastro, whose law if i were was hired by the governor's office to do an internal review of the governor. yesterday, that law firm released notes from 75 interviews they did for that internal report on the governor's office. those notes have more and in some ways, more unsettling detail that we didn't know before. for example, they interviewed a sandy regional director in the governor's office. this person ser

his top political consultant was told that just before chris christie made a public statement that wouldce three weeks later when the kelly e-mail finally did come out. what did duhaime do with that information? did he alert christie? did he say nothing? a report doesn't tell us. we reached out to duhaime yesterday but we haven't heard back. the memos say that one of christie's closest people was being told by david wildstein that there was proof kelly had known and wildstein said he had the governor's office approval for what he had done. they say that duhaime was being told this that he was talking with the governor, that he was in close touch and we know his relationships with some of the most critical players go back years. they go all the way back to the franks campaign in 2000. but all we now about his communications with christie and wildstein comes from the memos, the memos released. the law firm that e e we just found out donated $10,000 to the governors association just before it released that report exonerating hum. a a statement to msnbc clarified they regularly give to the r

but how did chris christie do himself?down with diane sawyer and i thought he was pretty compelling last night with megan kelly. what do you think? >> i think it's fascinating he so badly wants to get back on the national campaign trail. that to me we learned the last week, no doubt he is running for president. he wants to run for president. and maybe they have even made the calculation get more aggressive about running for president now because then it makes the bridge scandal look like it's part of this coordinated partisan attack to bring him down because he is such a powerful presidential candidate. to watch this. look. i think -- i don't see how he gets all this back, all of his assets are gone the biggest one being he was a guy with bipartisan reach. that's gone. he's either a straight shooter or he is either not a straight shooter any more or he is not competent, right? because he wasn't a very good delegator if that is what he was doing. one of those two assets are gone. i don't see the path. never mind we didn't b

you know what that means. >> chris christie got his mojo back. >> mojo, swagger. >> his mojo is back.e is back. >> it's the mojo christie. >> jon: he has gone from being a desert of mojo to a veritable mojo asis. as you can see on this jersey region mojo-meter. he was barely at sits quietly at a jets game but now he is up to wears a track suit to a funeral. [laughter] all right. he has his groove back. didn't even have to go to jay macka and -- jamaica and fall in love with taye diggs. hey, girlfriend. he did what anybody on a hot streak and within drivinging distance of atlantic city would do. he went to leg yeas. >> the republicans governors are heading to las vegas. they are speaking at the spring meeting at the republican jewish coalition but the private talks with one man republican super donor sheldon adleson. why would christie go to vegas to impress a guy whose tight wol be a zionist who makes most of his money off macau. >> in 2012 the newt gingrich campaign got $15 million from adleson, mitt romney got $30 million. >> jon: oh, right he throws millions away on political campa

. >> good news/bad news for chris christie. good news is the new jersey legislature cannot right now force christie's former aides to tell them what they did at the george washington bridge. the bad news, very bad news, the u.s. attorney can now force them to tell everything. >> i have been elected and re-elected. constitution says i can't have another one. so i am done. >> chris christie faces a townhall today. >> the chickens are coming home to roost. >> the thing he most wants to get away from. >> the bridge situation. >> just keeps coming back. >> late this afternoon. a big development. chris christie bridge investigation. >> new jersey has a sense of humor. >> legislative community, investigating lane closures >> a new chapter. >> superior court judge, mary c. jacobson denied the super committee request. >> to comply with subpoenas for documents. >> a big distraction no matter what happens to the two investigations. >> they want to see the transcripts. >> the saga has a new chapter. >> a new phase. >> al be it new phase. >

of the investigation that chris christie himself commissioned. rhaps i'll read about it in this scandal's paper of record, "the christie sun-times picayune." >> time now for the sideshow. you can see that jon stewart wasn't all that surprised by the results of chris christie's internal investigation. here is more from his report about how the governor's legal team is deflecting blame. >> if christie is not responsible for this bridgegate, who is? >> the internal review heaped all the blame for shutting down lanes on former port authority official david wildstein and christie's former top aide bridget anne kelly. >> they said, quote, this is about bridget kelly. she seemed emotional. she was habitually concerned about how she was perceived by the governor. a boyfriend had ended a relationship for portraying ms. kelly as weeping, and comment on men for approval and stability. >> it's clear why the official report was titled "bitches be crazy", right? >> as hard ads as it is to speak their names in the same sentence, it's recently apparent that ted c

>> chris christie, the way he's walking up to him.like to,and he's like is meat ball a sport. >> the late shows love chris christie jokes, but what he's saying about colorado and can any bus is no joke. >>> and escalating pushing back pro-russian militants in the east. >>> and a hot game between the sox and the yankees, one pitcher was sweating pine tar. that's not sweat. that is cheating. this is way too early. >> something there on his neck, and check it out. >>> hey, everybody, i'm thomas roberts. it's thursday, april 24th. welcome to way too early. we will do whatever is necessary to plait at peak levels. what is on the back of the tie? on the neck? you have to be smarter about it. we are going to talk about that up in sports. >>> we have breaking news out of

in her letter, zimmer said that she and other whistle-blowers need to be protected from chris christielast week, christie proposed a bill that would require public officials to immediately report misconduct to the proper authorities or face a disorderly person's offense. zimmer said it could have, quote, a chilling effect on whistle-blowers like her. christie's chilly bill is just one recommendation from a tax-funded government report from the governor's office to conduct a review of christie's office. it is the same report that dismissed zimmer's charges as, quote, demonstratively false. joining me now is hunter walker. and political reporter for "the new york times" michael barber. michael let me start with you. the latest with dawn zimmer -- we're going to hunter first. sorry about that. i think we have technical problems at the "the new york times." how much do you think dawn zimmer's latest journal entries move the needle on her allegations? >> not very much, because her original allegations which were that the christie administration threatened to withhold sandy aid from hoboken

he is flying under the radar screen and not endured the damage chris christie has gone through. >> we'll see about immigration in the question with rubio. casey hunt, thank you for joining us tonight. just ahead, governor christie hoped the george washington review would be the last word on the bridge scandal. not so fast. stay with us. you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh...little help? i got you! unh! it's so beautiful! man: should we call security? no, this is just getting good. the name your price tool, still only from progressive. it would be a scary process... truecar made it very easy... for me to negotiate, because i didn't really need to do any negotiating at all. save time, save money, and never overpay. visit truecar.com >>> the crowd cheers. the russian flag is raised for another building in eastern ukraine. the police station seized by pro-russian separatists. amateur video circulated widely on the internet, unverified by nbc news, appears t

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have a great night. >> good news/bad news for chris christie. right now force christie's former aides to tell them what they did at the george washington bridge. the bad news, very bad news, the u.s. attorney can now force them to tell everything. >> i have been elected and re-elected. constitution says i can't have another one. so i am done. >> chris christie faces a townhall today. >> the chickens are coming home to roost. >> the thing he most wants to get away from. >> the bridge situation. >> just keeps coming back. >> late this afternoon. a big development. chris christie bridge investigation. >> new jersey has a sense of

that was the investigation conduct by lawyers hired by chris christie and purportedly clears chris christie while simultaneously discrediting those who accused his administration of wrongdoing. this man, this witness, from a report, appeared on msnbc over the weekend at the suggestion of the christie administration. then offered on air an account i found confusing and self-contradictory in which i believe seriously calls into question the credibility of the report we rely on him as a key witness. matt doherty, the man we're talking about, the democratic mayor of belmar, new jersey, a shore town ravaged by hurricane sandy. if you watched my show yesterday morning, you saw my interview with him. he reached out to us again with another statement, something that raises more questions, something we will get to in just a minute. >>> first, we want to start with background on who matt doherty is and why he is so crucial to the credibility of christie's internal investigation. doherty features prominently in the report that was issued last week by randy mastro, the lawyer whose firm was hired by th

he is flying under the radar screen and not endured the damage chris christie has gone through. >> we'll see about immigration in the question with rubio. casey hunt, thank you for joining us tonight. just ahead, governor christie hoped the george washington review would be the last word on the bridge scandal. not so fast. stay with us. hey kevin...still eating chalk for hearburn? yea. try alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. alka-seltzer fruit chews. enjoy the relief! add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. we put members first. join the nation. ♪ nationwide is on your side why relocating manufacturingpany to upstate new york? i tell people it's for the climate. the conditions in new york state are great for business. new york is ranked #2 in the nation for new private sector job creation. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york - dozens of tax-free zones where businesses pay no taxes for ten years. you'll get

chris christie. >> there's the chris christie comeback scenario.earned that if you're a law firm hired by a governor who needs an internal investigation, and you're going to do a comprehensive and exhaustive investigation, you need not record a thing. >> it makes you wonder how much of an investigation this was versus how much of a defense document this was. brian. >> as a criminal defense attorney whose clients walk into court as a two to three touchdown underdog and the notion of criminal justice being like government intelligence or jumbo shrimp, i know the constitution is alive and well in the garden state. props to this judge for recognizing this, what it was, an overly broad fishing expedition. major props to judge jacobson. >> two lawyers agree that was the right ruling this week. we'd love to have seen those documents but i guess somebody will soon enough. i want to thank paul butler, lisa brennan, brian wice. up next is melissa harris-perry. the problem isn't likely to go away... ...on its own. so it's time we do something about it. and th

>> well, joy, i think it's a problem for chris christie.ristie, he's got to get over this scandal, he's got to start governing new jersey. he's got to start focusing on bringing jobs to new jersey and improving their economy, because otherwise if he doesn't do that, he's not going to be able to translate into any other state. in this scandal hurts his ability to govern, he's in big trouble not only in new jersey, but in the rest of the country. i think this is a problem. does it affect him as he governs and can he still be successful as governor, and we don't know the answer to that question. >> eugene, doesn't this payment, this contribution made by the same law firm negate any usefulness this report would have had, even given the limited usefulness it's had so far, politically for christie? >> it certainly hasn't helped, and for some people who may have been inclined to give christie the benefit of the doubt based on the report, those people will see the contribution and see the linkage and say hold it, this smells. i don't think there ar

bill stepien regularly, and that he was, by the report's own definition, constantly talking to chris christieistie gave the press conference, that david wildstein knew with 100% certainty that bridget kelly had this memo. the question is raises is not what did mike duhame did wrong, but it's what did he do next? did he call christie or somebody in christie's office? that's what i want to know. the report doesn't answer it. >> let's not speculate, let's investigate. you know, no one knows better about throwing out names to tarnish peoples reputations than u.s. attorney chris christie. look what he did to joe dorya, bob menendez. >> he was not u.s. attorney when joe doria -- he was not the u.s. attorney. >> we all know he had a heavy hand in that u.s. attorney's office. >> now you're accusing him of something. >> christie left the -- when the menendez thing happened, christie was there. the doria thing, people are debating. there's a lot of agreement on what went wrong. >> between fishman's investigation, we will get a lot of answers. i have no doubt about that. let's keep politicians away from

finally, his political future may be uncertain, but as a father, chris christie's still got it.cording to the national fathers and mothers day council which named the new jersey governor the father of the year today. he said to be honored with the award in early june. so he's got that going for him. up next, why even democrats who are criticized the keystone delay may be privately smiling. >> an american won the men's [ male announcer ] identity theft ... it's one of the fastest growing crimes in america. in fact, there's a new victim of identity theft every...three...seconds. so you have to ask yourself, am i next? one weak password could be all it takes. or trusting someone you shouldn't. over 100 million consumers had their personal information stolen in recent retail store and online security breaches. you think simply checking last month's credit score can stop identity thieves now? that alone just isn't enough. but lifelock offers the most comprehensive identity theft protection available. as soon as the patented lifelock identity alert system detects a threat, you'll be n

. >>> coming up, what happens when you mix baseball, taco bell, and chris christie? you get a lot of damn food. eric reveals the wild results of this fastest seven next on "the five." >>> so what do you get when you mix a breakfast burrito, a dodger dog, and chris christie? nothing a little pepto biz mole couldn't cure. you get a story to write home about. three meaty stories. seven minutes. opening day across america, and kids are ditching school, heading out to the ballpark. baseball is hugely popular. millions upon millions of viewers, fans, and experts, but is baseball still america's sport. as a pro/ex-pro ball player, you may be surprised where i come down? >> i love baseball. that's my first favorite and i used to go to the doubleheader games. i would even go early at candlestick where it's early and cold, but i didn't care. i wanted to be there to watch batting practice of a doubleheader game. what does that tell you? >> you're a junky. bobby, football or baseball? >> football. nfl is the dominant sport in america, but baseball has made a comeback. they were

conversations with ba roan knee and wildstein, especially on the 11th when he said he talked to chris christieut bridgegate. but he remembers other things, including this, which defies explanation. before the 9/11 memorial event began, the governor recalled that mrs. christie asked to use a bathroom and david wildstein directed thoer a large white port authority trailer. she went into the van and then exited saying that there was no bathroom in the trailer. a female port authority police department officer who was possibly baroni's driver, then took mrs. christie to the bathroom. otherwise, mrs. christie was with him for the entire event. how is it that you do remember about your wife being guided to the wrong ladies' room? >> i think the details on where mrs. christie went to the restroom is really an important thing. there were probably a thousand dollars of legal fees. >> just for that detail. >> just for that detail. this report is so weird. you conduct an investigation like this, where you do all of these interviews and don't keep transcripts or recordings of the interviews, it's hard to

today, there was a major development in the ongoing chris christie investigation scandal out of new jersey. since the scandal first came to light, five christie administration appointees or staffers have stepped down or been fired in relation to this scandal. two of those people, the governor's former deputy chief of staff and his former campaign manager, they have been fighting an effort by the state legislature to investigate the bridge scandal, the closure of access lanes under the george washington bridge back in september. bridget anne kelly and bill stepien had invoked their rights and said they would not hand over documents to the investigation in fear of incriminating themselves. well, today a superior court judge in new jersey agreed with bill stepien and bridget anne kelly and said, in fact, they do not have to comply with the subpoenas from the legislature. they do not have to hand over any documents. the judge ruled that their fifth amendment claims, basically, were legitimate, because it is reasonable, she said, for them to fear that they may face criminal prosecution related

lee of 2014 which may have sunk the 2016 presidential aspirations of new jersey governor chris christie january, david wildstein's lawyer said if mr. wildstein could just get immunity from prosecution, david wildstein would sing like a bird. he would tell all he knows about what happened in the christie administration in regard to that bridge. well, it appears that that may have just happened, and that story is next. what if you could shrink your pores just by washing your face? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® pore refining cleanser. alpha-hydroxy and exfoliating beads work to clean and tighten pores so they can look half their size. pores...shrink 'em down to size! [ female announcer ] pore refining cleanser. neutrogena®. it would be a scary process... pore refining cleanser. truecar made it very easy... for me to negotiate, because i didn't really need to do any negotiating at all. save time, save money, and never overpay. visit truecar.com >>> a federal prosecutor, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york is this man. he's a very busy person and a very successful pros

[ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: i love it, chris christie, the way he's walking up to him, too. 's like -- "the --the that, you like to -- uh, uh." [ laughter ] christie was like, "is meatball a sport?" [ laughter ] no, that's not a sport. here's a major business story here. a pharmaceutical company in canada is offering $47 billion to buy the company that makes botox. people at botox were pretty excited. i mean, you should have seen the look that wasn't on their face. [ laughter ] it was just priceless. here are their faces before the sale. and here are their faces after the sale. [ laughter and applause ] unbelievable, the excitement. >> steve: so exciting. so exciting. [ applause ] >> jimmy: just the excitement. you can feel it. i'm so sad right now. [ laughter ] speaking of botox, here is some big news from over at "the view." [ laughter ] >> steve: what? >> jimmy: that's not a seg -- >> steve: what? >> jimmy: that's not a segue. what does that that even mean? >> steve: yeah, you can't -- >> jimmy: for the first time ever, all 11 current and former co-hosts of "the view" will

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chris christie and the governor's own people have compared her to christie, prebridgegate. so, you know, i make multiple comparisons in the piece. i think the palin one is, was there to be made. you know, made to me a number of times by people who know the governor and who followed her political career. >> yeah, wanted to ask you. a useful piece of information. the idea that every time, there is a -- sort of a republican woman who has questions facing her, being compared to palin so uniquely i think unqualified. thank you both for joining us tonight. >> thanks. >> uh-huh. thanks. coming up. karen finny joining us to talk about what the republicans are facing as they go home to their district and basically have to spend time with people who are actually using the aca. liking it according to some new polls. and "the new york times" took a look at the rape allegation against heisman winner jamous winston. they found a flawed investigation that speaks to sports stars, administrators and police. also tonight, crews are trying to get inside the sunken south korean ferry amid hope

>> i'd love to say i missed you but i didn't. >> not even a week after chris christie's sin city getaway and the launch of the taxpayer-funded effort to revive christie's national political standing, we are learning federal prosecutors have upped the ante in their investigate into bridgegate. today there are new reports that the port authority official at the center of the lane closures, david wildstein, met for several days with federal prosecutors as "esquire" magazine reports that wildstein is cooperating with u.s. attorney paul fishman. it is an indication that wildstein may have been granted immunity. his lawyer -- immunity his lawyers have been asking for since january. that report is unconfirmed by nbc news. but it comes just on the heels of another report suggesting an expanding federal inquiry. late friday, abc news discovered this man, christie press secretary michael drewniak, gave testimony to a federal grand jury in newark. while his lawyer told abc that his client was there as a witness and not as a target, his very presence before a federal grand jury is significant. why?

and neither does chris christie, chris christie said this on the "ask the governor" series if new jersey should join the legalization bandwagon? >> i am not going to be the governor who is going to tell our children and our young adults that marijuana use is okay. because it is not. i don't care about the tax money that may come from it. and i don't care quite fran like thlike -- frankly it is inevitable. it is not inevitable here. i will not permit. never as i am governor. you want to elect some one that will legalize marijuana and expose our children to the gateway drug and effect it has on their brain. you have to live with yourself if you do that. it will not be the governor that does it. >> joining me the national political correspondent for "the washington post" and the huffington post wrirt who wrote "this is your country on drugs, the secret history of getting high in america. "welcome to you both. ryan tell us about the sea change? >> well, i mean, i think it basically can be credited to my book, right. it came out five years ago. if you put the pew poll up and put when the book