that is a slimmed down chris christie. -- besides big boy.hio, georgia, and florida those are all key presidential battleground states with the possible exception of michigan. if kristi defends republican incumbents there, big deal. illinois, massachusetts connecticut maryland, all blue states. how big a deal is it if chris christie not only offense his republican incumbents but in crutches on some of those blue states? and wins victories there? >> i think it is a pretty big deal, mark. after rich gate, chris christie was knocked off his horse. he comes back and says i'm going to put my head down and try to rack up some wins. if he pulls that off, he can make a credible and convincing case that he is fully back. if he doesn't, they're still going to be doubts about him erie it >> donors are going to love him. in that state that's the kind of endorsement that matters. maryland is in play. if he. is off in the blue states, i think it puts him right there with jeb bush. we had the jeb bush news over the weekend, i think if kristi pulls off a big

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what did chris christie say? >> chris christie refuses to apologize.ake a look. >> my job is not to represent her it's to treatment people of new jersey. i know she was upset andry. she wanted to go home. any of us have seen people traveling and stopped whether late for a plane or whatever they get upset and angry. that's fine. i have absolutely nothing but goodwill for her going forward. she's a good person. went over and doing good work in west africa but she needs to understand that the obligation of elected officials is to protect the public health. >> okay. okay. here's the deal. two americas. there's the americas of editorial writers, people like mike barnacle, the rest that we sit around tables and talk about things. then there's everybody else. what i said yesterday is everybody else is on chris christie's side. outside of the news media. i was shocked. like the most liberal liberals, yeah i got no problem with her staying in a tent for a couple of days. i was actually kind of blown away. i'm a big believer of the 21 day in home quarantine. i t

a feisty chris christie.dly, he is thinking about running for president and the party, now the base, hates government, hates authority -- >> hates obama. >> of course, doesn't trust the cdc, et cetera. and after what happened with hurricane sandy where he was seen in public actual cooperating with obama, that will never do. so he has to wipe out that memory and replace it with one of doing battle with government. this is a new gesture on his part. new jersey can handle its own affairs. we don't need washington telling us what to do. he's got to quietly let this woman out of the quarantine that he's got her in, she after all, is not ill, as far as anybody knows. but he just kind of overshot it -- >> i think that she said she had access to the best take-out in newark. i did some tweeting the other day and i discovered, which i should have long ago, that the excitement in the democratic party is on the hard left, people who are exciting about elizabeth warren. the clintons can't break their ties with wall street

chris hayes is, as you know, up next. "hardball" starts right now. >>> tonight, two title fights, christie versus obama. rsus elizabeth warren. let's play "hardball." ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. p.t. barnum, the guy who created the greatest show on earth, knew how to fill the tent. if you want a crowd, start a fight. he put his money where his mouth was. he had his men start brawling on street corners, when the crowd gathered, they'd hand out flyers that the circus was coming to town. meet chris christie, who knows how to start a fight, telling the president he doesn't know how to conduct his business. itching to get into the center ri

i think this is chris christie being quintessential chris christie.r love him or hate him. take him or leave him, but this is what he is. you see what you get. if you provoke him, he's going to react. he's going to react strongly. we know he's going to say these type of things and that's just who the man is. at this point he can't be anything else. if he tries to be mother teresa, it's not going to play as genuine. i do get emotional and i'm going to express it. >> the he cckler said he was any that new jersey hasn't distributed $800 million in aid for victims. he told bloomberg quote, if i just stood up, sat down, been polite, you and i wouldn't be talking. it's necessary to do large and small acts and if governor christie doesn't like that, he's in the wrong business. does heckling really work? >> i don't think it really works. there's an argument from the professional protest crowd that that draws cameras, then the media buys into it big time. the issue here is that in the middle of a sandy rem mem brans when a guy stand up and talks to christie, h

risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. >>> new jersey governor chris christie is traveling the country as head of the republican governors association, trying to elect gop candidates this year and perhaps set the stage for a potentiality 2016 run for the white house. governor christie joins us from florida, where there is a tight governors' race for his first sunday interview of 2014. welcome back. >> good to be with you. >> before we get to the politics, this whole controversy of ebola. you just heard dr. fauci, dr. mary bassett reportedly was fewer yew she was not informed before the quarantine was imposed. do you no longer trust the cdc and doctors and scientists? >> well, that's a pretty general statement. of course, we do, but the fact of the matter is that the cdc protocols, as dr. fauci admitted himself, have been a moving targets. imagine you're the person in charge of the public health of the people of a large densely populated state, in fact the most densely populated state in the union, and these protocols continue to move and change. it was my concl

i don't know if you are keeping track of chris christie being chris christie.ve the latest incident here in that, you know, superstorm sandy two years later and of course the sit down and shut up comment. let's consider this. bridgegate aside, ebola quarantine aside, are people over the chris christie being chris christie, people that may see him like he's going to, you know, surface in 2016 or does it add to the christie charm we love or hate. >> charm is your word but you live in new york, maybe you have more of a tolerance for that thing. he will never win the mr. congeniality award. too often, you see him display that new jersey charm, as you put it. it is something that is probably a flaw in his appeal nationwide. the republicans are casting about for anybody, and he's in the mix. i think, after awhile, a lot of people are going to think he's a bully. >> do you think the bulliness of it will overshadow his effectiveness as a leader. >> many question his effectiveness as a leader, but your personality, how you present yourself is something people put stock

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>> ted cruz, ron paul, chris christie, marco rubio. scott walker. >> there ought to be a ticket, ted cruz and rand paul, i think that would be perfect. >> eric makes a very good point about trying to get through a republican primary, because you're going to hit him on the compassionate conservatism. open borders, he's going to get crushed on that. er eric's writing about common core, i think there's bush fatigue, period. >> before you go after last names, remember what rand's last name is. so that criticism to me is one dimensional. when you have a big primary fight -- >> but his dad wasn't president. >> but rand paul, you have to look at the other people in the race, what kind of politics they have, what they recommend, how they treat people, do they have a solid set of convictions. i think bush is a good guy, but i would like to see something different than what happened in the previous ruined where you have kind of a police line of people all really angling for talk shows. i want people who are really serious who have stature, who h

plus, governor chris christie tapping into his inner jersey boy in a very big way. what got him all righted up and what it could mean for the midterms and beyond. ♪ hi. i'm new ensure active clear protein drink. >>clear huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've got 8 grams of protein. new ensure active clear protein. 8 grams protein. zero fat. ensure. take life in. >>> fox news alert. yale graduate student now free from a 21-day kwaurn fine after state officials in connecticut feared he may have contracted ebola. ryan boyco says he says that he was working at the liberian government to develop a computer program to track the virus. three days after returning home he developed a fever and other symptoms and was hospitalized. he later tested negative for ebola, but because of concob's new he bowl policies and his exposure to the nbc cameraman who was successfully treated for the disease at nebraska medical center, that quarantine was in effect. joining me now is ryan boyco, a third year graduate student in yale's school of public health, and he is just released from qua

she comes back -- chris christie thinks he is going to bully here and she is like, i'm not scared of you. i was just dealing with ebola ebola. >> and now christie is taking heat from the right for letting her go and caving. rush limbaugh criticized him for caving into obama. you could takeway -- takeway the partisan aspect. just the fear is enough to drive conservative votes in a mid-term. >> right. because this is fear of cells basically. >> also this aspect of christie trying to get some cede with the base on the right and establish himself, and even this wasn't enough. seems like the right warnedded him to keep her for 21 days even though she wasn't sick, just to sort of stick it to obama and give everybody a story to talk about through next tuesday. >> over the course of this week, you saw this fascinating jurisdictional political wrestling match, and you saw it -- i submit you saw it at the first fresh -- press conference in new york, the mayor speaks first but the governor speaks for longer, and all this stuff looks like to me as an observer, it's being negotiated behind scenes

chris hayes is up next. "hardball" starts right now. >>> christie goes macho on ebola. ardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. new jersey governor chris christie went viral this weekend. his people shut the george washington bridge down, he wants to stop the spread of ebola. he now wants to stop the virus from coming the other way. the trenton team that put out the cones is now trying to put every ebola suspect under quarantine. >> i don't believe, when you're dealing with something as

people are concerned that chris christie.he bridgegate scandal, it you've seen his personality come out in recent days on ebola and on sandy. he's been in your face with people. that's why this is a lot of pressure. i've talk to several people who work with him, they are close to him and they say, he is thinking about it. he has yet to make up his mind. and he'll decide after the holidays. >> i'm not sure chris christie's style of life or manner of speaking gets too much further west than south philly. >> reporter: i'm not sure it works in iowa. >>> up next, the hawks are in a tizzy. must the feeding frenzy on the right over ebola. advertise y. ♪ music ...the getaway vehicle! for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. >>> republicans smell blood in the water, the far right of the republican party, people like steve king of iowa, are getting control of the senate for their party and increase their margins in the house. what are they promising? i it is fair to say ideological warfare. plus the senior administ

this is chris christie being chris christie.t makes makes ed grimly mental when a party attacks another. we know what he meant. he was making a legitimate point. i cannot stand this part of our politics where you have democrats jumping on a gaffe like this. i have no sympathy now for democrats trying to make this a big issue. yes, they can debate the minimum wage with christie, but this is not a gaffe and not reflective of anything. there is one truth, and that is the republican party is on the other side of the wage issue from the democratic party. >> all true. >> forgetting about the sound bite, they should be driving this issue. they need to get back on message because it helps them distract attention away from things cutting against them. >> i am all for debate about the minimum wage, but that is not what this is about. ridiculous. >> i agree. we will see it play out. moving own to our next senate race to watch, the one tonight is in new hampshire. the democratic incumbent and the republican challenger will have their second

new jersey governor chris christie is a political rock star. >> he brings more notoriety to larry hogan. that the republican party thinks that we really do have a good chance here. >> that is certainly larry hogan's hope. two days after president obama appeared to support his opponent, anthony brown, hogan is thrilled with chris christie's support. >> i have complete confidence in larry. >> with his help, i think this could be the biggest upset in the entire country, right here in maryland. >> a spokesperson for the campaign of lieutenant governor anthony brown said that they did not want to talk about chris christie show appearance. they wanted to change the subject and talk about the nra endorsement of larry hogan, something hogan did not want to talk about. >> he wants to change the subject. but the fact is, he is the one with the record. he has the one that she is the one with the record of raising taxes in maryland. fewer thanails with 10 points. brad bell, abc 7 news. >> thank you. a consumer alert. holiday travel may be more expensive this year. , theding to expedia.com cost of f

just another day at norfolk southern. >>> new jersey governor chris christie is traveling the country as head of the republican governor's association. trying to elect gop candidates this year and perhaps set the stage for a potential 2016 run for the white house. governor christie joins us now from florida, where there's a tight governor's race for his first sunday show interview of 2014. governor, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> good morning, chris. good to be with you. >> governor, you just heard, and we want to talk before we get to politics about this whole controversy of ebola and the quarantine. you just heard dr. fauci, new york city's health commissioner, dr. mary basset was reportedly furious she was not informed before the quarantine was imposed. do you no longer trust the cdc and doctors and scientists? >> well-r well, no, that's a pretty general statement, chris. of course we do. but the matter of the fact the cdc quarantine guidelines were a moving target. imagine you're in charge of the public health of a densely populated stated and these protocols continue to mo

chris christie has defended the decision to detain her. he said just that.isten. >> governor ultimately have the responsibilities to protect public health and safety of the people within their border when is folks come in with this problem. all we are talking about are folks who have been in contact as health care workers with folks who are actively infected with the virus. >> the cdc is now taking a different tact with health care workers like i hhick ox. dr. art kaplan is the director of of medical ethics and actually a representative of the who on this very ebola debate. i will start with you, herbert. thanks for taking the time. i know it has been hectic with the attention casey is receiving. we are glad she is testing negative and doing fine. your firm spoke to her today. how is she doing? she said in the past she is fine physically, but this is emotionally trying for her. >> casey is not a public person under normal circumstances, but this has been a trying period for her. thank goodness she is back at maine at home and doing well. it has been a harrow

chris christie and jeb bush. they are the establishment favorites. kristi is almost certainly running, and i am hearing more and more that bush is leaning toward runnings. . wire those numbers so low -- why are those numbers so low? >> it is really well known, but not in sync with the iowa party. chris christie is underwater in terms of his favorable and unfavorable. >> it is a huge jump ball. romney is kicking up a lot of space. a lot of excitement about him in iowa as of late. with ben carson and second, he will get a lot of attention. a lot of people do not put him on their poles, and evil will start to include him -- polls, and people will start to include him. >> when we asked voters who shares their values more hillary clinton or elizabeth warren, elizabeth more than doubles her score. >> political police, we invented this question for this poll. failing to be sophisticated and pick the front runner. she is still way behind, but the fact that a quarter of iowa democrats say that their beliefs are closer to her says that if there is a populist c

and speaking of governor chris christie, he called out speaker boehner and he wanted to make sure that the money would get to the right issue not be spent on other things and nevertheless there it still sits. >> again, we saw a lot of headlines with politicians saying yes, we're going to fix this issue, but look at the associated press polls, only 22% feel that they have even recovered and they are saying that they are fighting against us, people say we shouldn't live in a flood zone and there's a lot of economic growth and activity in these communities. neil: they never say that in the hamptons. >> that's right, but this is what happened. they tripled the number of buildings considered in the flood zone, so these people may not know that they need to get flood insurance. 85,000 buildings are considered in flood zones. >> that's the other thing that they can't get flood insurance and no one wants to insure them. neil: we expect the government to do this. and we hope to make sense. >> jacqueline onassis said that her two weeks peopledistended upon her with sympathy and well wishes and t

this is chris christie being chris christie. he thinks being boisterous, being, you know, speaking forcefully is a sign of leadership. but, you know, what we really need in a situation like this is very careful, thoughtful decision-making. and this is a serious matter and that's all the more reason why we should take politics out of it and we should listen to the experts who know more than politicians, and we should then follow their advice and do everything we can within the scientific community to protect the people of this country. and, so, politics should have no place in a public health issue like this. and people say, well, i'm not a doctor. that's all the more reason why we should listen to the doctors. because they have specialized knowledge. this matter has been studied. and they're coming forth with guidelines. we ought to follow them. if we do that, i think the american people can be assured that we're being protected. >> let me ask you this, doctor, before i run out of time. you were in liberia. tell us what you saw.

now look at where chris christie is going in the next five days before you answer. he's traveling to 19 different states. >> is paul ryan taking a dig at republicans like christie who are way out in front of the 2016 primary? >> i don't know if he's taking a dig so much as he's saying, this is his own way of dipping his toe into the water without having to actually go through the trouble of racking up all those air miles. paul ryan has been a bit reticent saying, his future is going to be in the congress. so this is a significant shift for him. this republican field is very crowded and it doesn't really have any sort of a dominant figure. you can sort of picture the seven dwarves scenario here, although it seems like we're going to get rather more than that. >> jason, let's get away from the smoke and the tv ads. look at six gop candidates in key races. let's deal with real policy since they're just five days away. look at these positions. all of them oppose raising the federal minimum wage. all of them support repealing the affordable care act. all of them support b

chris christie is not immune, of course, very familiar with controversy.e says he's not backing away from his position at all. >> he's sticking to it. don't forget, he's a potential 2016 presidential candidate who is the truth telling, no nonsense, common sense guy that says, you know what, she was inconvenienced a little bit. she showed a little bit of a temperature, so that's a little bit of a symptom. and i want to protect the state of new jersey and if it inconveniences her, i'm sorry, but i have to do it. and i'm not going to change my mind on it. >> not the first time chris christie has been criticized by the left or from the right. he's getting criticism from fellow republicans. >> well, you know, wolf, if it's late october, chris christie's in the news right before an election and controversy. >> they think he caved to the white house, if you will. >> look, i think what happened was, frankly, we saw one doctor who had ebola who didn't do a good job of the quarantine. and the two governors at that point didn't have national guidance from the cdc too

chris christie versus scott walker. months ago, they were the very picture of bromance. >> chris has been a great friend. he was here in '10, back in 2012 and back again with us. he's been a great leader in new jersey. a great leader for the rga, a great man all the way around. >> that's how our families are. we spend a lot of time together. this election is not only really important to me as chairman of the republican governor's association, i will tell you, this one is personal. this is personal to me. >> this one is personal. a chilly november cold front seems to have blown in early especially after a panicked scott walker started blaming his pal, chris christie for not helping walker out if more money. it began last week when walker proclaimed we are always looking for more help. our main help has to be the rga. it got worse when a number of top wisconsin republicans told the weekly standard christie might be tanking walker a potential rival for the 2016 presidential nomination. then it got worse. monday, walker, ag

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chris hayes is up next. "hardball" starts right now. >>> christie goes macho on ebola. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. new jersey governor chris christie went viral this weekend. his people shut the george washington bridge down, he wants to stop the spread of ebola. he now wants to stop the virus from coming the other way. the trenton team that put out the cones is now trying to put every ebola suspect under quarantine. >> i don't believe, when you're dealing with something as serious as this, that we can count on a voluntary system. this is government's job, if anything else, the government's job is to protect the safety and health of our citizens. and so we've taken this action, and i absolutely have no second thoughts about it. >> for christie, it's a test of macho. he abandoned mitt romney for a waterfront bromance with obama. in 2013, his people stuck it to a small-time democratic mayor for not ponying up an endorsement. now teaming with governor cuomo and sticking it to the president for not being as tough as he is. >> it

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the president seemed to be going directly at governors such as chris christie who have chosen to come up with their own policies instead of what the cdc is saying when it comes to ebola monitoring. in some ways, it seemed point by point refutation of governor christie. >> reporter: the president didn't mention governor christie by name but was responding to what he had seen over the last 48 hours and what he had seen is states going out on their own and the white house has been very frank and up front about this that states have the capacity to do that. the cdc does not have enforcement authority but the president wanted to come out today to say cdc guidelines that came out 24 hours ago are sensible ones the rest of the nation should follow but it was interesting at one point when the president said healthcare workers coming back from west africa should "be applauded, thanked and supported for their work" a contrast he was drawing there from treatment given to the nurse up in new jersey who is confined to a tent for 72 hours before she was ultimately released from that confinement. th

so according to chris christie's logic, dr. fairchild, every one of those workers who go home to new jersey tonight from having worked at bellevue should be quarantined by chris christie for 21 days, and every single new jersey resident who comes home from bellevue as a patient should also be quarantined, is that right? >> and it also discloses the fatal flaw in mandatory quarantine, where you have no reason to believe that somebody is either, medically, scientifically, clinically going to expose somebody but also from the point of view of responsibility. is going to take any kind of action to put anybody at risk. >> these policies should be based on medical fact, not on fear or myth. ? and dr. fairchild, what does this do? some doctors and nurses are take being time out of their careers and their income earning here in the united states to go to africa. and we all know that the way you protect the united states is you stop this in africa. and we all know that american medical personnel will be invaluable in the fight against t

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new jersey governor chris christie and new york's governor made up their own ebola policy.s jesse gary's live at the state house in trenton with more on that. jesse? >> reporter: yeah, vai, citing a need to protect the citizens of this state, new jersey governor chris christie enacted a new policy, and the new york governor took similar action. now both states are requiring a 21-day home quarantine for people returning from west africa who had contact with ebola patients. federal health officials say such measures could hurt the effort to recruit health care workers to fight the virus on the front lines. and here at home, one new jersey nurse under mandatory quantirane inside a hospital says her civil rights have been violated and has hired an attorney. >>> today we will hear from septa union workers after they voted to authorize a strike. nbc 10's matt delucia's live in center city. matt, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, the decision of when to strike is now up to the union leadership, and they will be holding a news conference later this afternoon to discuss those

i'm chris christie, you don't question me. if you look at new york's policy, it was a lot more systematic. it was a lot more about getting the patient to the hospital and making sure there was a system. in new jersey, it was, you're a leper, get in the tent. >> you don't speak to me! michael, it is fascinating, this difference. because there have been two cases of people who got the disease here in this country. it's not an outbreak. it's not exponential, not a pandemic or anything like that. but it could be. and here we are so close to an election, and you can imagine it going another way. we don't know. therefore, the fear factor works. probably. >> fear factor works. and public fear of this is way out of proportion to the actual numbers. you look at polls -- >> 72% of the people say they should be quarantined, anybody coming here. >> right. >> 72%. from two cases. it's insane. >> what about the military? just to cloud things up here? the military apparently is quarantining everybody who comes back from working over there. o

risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. >>> new jersey governor chris christie is traveling the country as head of the republican governors association, trying to elect gop candidates this year and perhaps set the stage for a potentiality 2016 run for the white house. governor christie joins us from florida, where there is a tight governors' race for his first sunday interview of 2014. welcome back. >> good to be with you. >> before we get to the politics, this whole controversy of ebola. you just heard dr. fauci, dr. mary bassett reportedly was fewer yew she was not informed before the quarantine was imposed. do you no longer trust the cdc and doctors and scientists? >> well, that's a pretty general statement. of course, we do, but the fact of the matter is that the cdc protocols, as dr. fauci admitted himself, have been a moving targets. imagine you're the person in charge of the public health of the people of a large densely populated state, in fact the most densely populated state in the union, and these protocols continue to move and change. it was my concl

sometimes they have good ideas. >> what i needed was help not doing what chris christie did. that's a disaster. this guy will not be president ever. >> you needed people to stop you from doing that. >> you needed people to stop me from -- i did that once during the presidential. it was a disaster. one guy was really abusive, unlike the guy who was on your show that actually put skin in the game. one of the guys that screams at you. i said, you sit down, you've had your turn to talk. it looked terrible on television. >> authenticity to a point. >> you have to respect everybody even the ones that are a pain in the butt. >> howard dean, that's a good summary of electoral politic. >> yes it is. >> rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. here in our offices at 30 rockefeller center, in our office closet, actually, we have sort of randomly, a really hideous, complete set of kitchen canisters. aren't they lovely? like in the closet that's like a normal office closet we've got spare umbrellas and jackets that people

we have theda daildal daily ins of chris christie yells at the random person. plays to what he thinks is his greatest political strength that he is a straight shooter and willing to face people down, but too much of a good thing is not always wonderful. we are interesting into the too much of a good thing territory right now for christie. >> according to the trenton bureau. inquirer, there is a real issue here. it's two years after sandy, the anniversary was yesterday. state officials in new jersey said there were 8900 home ownerships approved for the federal program. the money has been turned over from the feds to the state. as of september 30th, the state disbursed 285 million. 2100 people remain on the waiting list. the applications of people eligible. there is a lot of fact checking that shows that this former councilmember has an issue. a lot of homeowners have the issue. >> this holds a danger for chris christie. i agree that he can take this straight talking persona too far when they are raising a legitimate issue. especially when his calling card is tha

new jersey governor chris christie and hillary clinton are both in town in a show of party support. tonight, we have live team coverage, randy gyllenhaal is in wayne where christie just wrapped up a rally with baengs governor tom corbett. >> we begin with nbc 10's george spencer live at independence mall. hillary clinton will take the stage for tom wolf in just a matter of minutes, george? >> reporter: yeah, jim, it is a standing room only crowd spread around this atrium as expected and an energized crowd, giving the campaign of tom wolf a boost here in philadelphia. a campaign that is already favored by the polls. as we take a look at the podium, you can see that former candidate katie mcginnty has just taken the stage here. we are expecting tom wolf and then hillary clinton in just minutes. though this has been built as a women for wolf event, it is pretty evenly split among the crowd and includes many who are perhaps most interested and the headliners, potential presidential ambitions. >> what i want to hear from hillary is she's running. i'm looking forward to her running for pr

chris christie is who he's always been.t is that i absolutely believe -- i'm pro-life, gayle. every life is precious. not just in the womb. when they come out of a jail cell, it's a lot messier. >> i saw headlines, a passionate conservative, chris christie is still who he is but there's a softer edge to him. that he's not going to necessarily take your head off because he disagrees with what you said. >> i never did. >> there were a lot of teams people were walking around with no heads after they challenged you. >> they deserve to have their heads taken off when i need to and i stel do. still have one club in the bag for golfers that are watching there. you have to understand as a leader there are times when you have to be tough and direct and times you have to be softer and listen. i can do both. >> there is speculation you're laying the groundwork to prepare for 2016. >> for the people who really know me, they know this is what i've been all along. >> what is going into your decision-making process as to whether you will

at the time, even governor chris christie said she was not symptomatic. >> today, a traveler arrived after treating patients with ebola but with no sittommings. governor and i discussed it before we came out here. a quarantine will be issued either here in new york or new jersey, but we've agreed that quarantine is the right way to go. >> because of the new policy, casey hiccox was greated by a hazmat team and put in this isolation tent. >> the best way to stop this epidemic is to help the people in west africa. we do that by sending people over there, not only from the usa, but from other places. we need to treat them returning people with respected and make sure that we -- they're really heroes. so the idea that we're being a little be draconian, there are other ways to protect. there's monitoring, there's direct monitoring, there's active monitoring. >> new york city mayor deblazio who had not been informed of the new policy before it was announced had this to say about the quarantine today. >> what happened with nurse hiccox was disrespectful to a hero. that was not the smart way

toms river was one of the ocean county communes that got clobbered by the storm and chris christie is marking the anniversary in toms river today. nora muchanic was there. >> it seems longer than two years ago to me, it seems like a long time we have been at this. >> reporter: governor christie spent time at the dover marina, it was under water in the storm and lost everything and they are struggle everything to come back since. >> it's a long time getting back to where we are now and we have put it behind us and the biggest hurdle now is getting our customers back. >> a group criticized governor christie for the long delays and red tape, that left some storm victims waiting for grants. >> it's a fight for two years, the flood insurance or the dca with the grant moneys. >> i have moved 12 times in the last two years, i don't have money to rebuild and ask questions later. >> there are 1200 homeowners that are homeless in toms river shameful. >> 365,000 homes destroyed in one day, and for those that are not back in their home yet, i understand that they are frustrated but we can only go

rush limbaugh took it a step further saying, we need to quarantine chris christie. joining me now is a infectious disease specialist from the cdc. it's good to see you on this umpteenth day of ebola panic. you have a great read in the beast today. headline, new york and new jersey's ebola quarantines are an insane over reaction, and in part of that you write, the real situation is far more complex than the simple thuggish gubernatorial suggestions indicate. >> i think they stepped in, didn't realize public opinion was going to be reasonable. they figured people wanted tough guy stuff. they both do very well, they're both very thoughtful accomplished politicians. i think they're stunned this bounced the wrong way. >> this seems to be a crisis of their own making. why even begin to impose the quarantines if you have no medical experts and no particular public pressure calling for them? >> it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist yet. and what's strange is to see these two men who handle super storm sandy quite well, and adeptly, and they manage the government r

here is what chris christie said. into are going to get debate and it is going to get very interesting and very fun because somebody like you does damn thingw to do a but do something when the cameras around. sit down and shut up. >> i don't know if saturday night live could do a better job. [laughter] >> was he running for office right there? i think he was. >> this is why he was so popular. he is so good at channeling that. his popularity has nothing to do with policy or his record as governor. >> the heckler invited chris christie to dinner afterward. [laughter] >> he is as much playing for iowa there as he is for new jersey. became popular three youtube videos of these kinds of performances. he shouted down a teacher at a union meeting once. >> will this fly in the midwest? >> it is soaring in the midwest. a meeting ofnt to republican lawmakers at the state level and they were desperate for chris christie to run. that was the cry. he is so good at this. i think it plays. >> the man invited chris christie to dinner

governor chris christie says he is protecting the public health.istine and john. >> so new jersey governor chris christie and new york governor andrew cuomo are standing by thursd their decisions. the stay can now be at home if possible. the obama administration arguing back with unnecessary quarantines will discourage workers from fighting ebola at the source. >> i'm sorry for the inconvenience, but the inconvenience of having people symptomatic and ill is a greater concern. >> we are staying one step ahead. we are doing everything possible. some people will say we're being too cautious. i'll take that criticism because that's better than the alternative. >> we need to find a way when they come home that they are treated like heroes and not stigmatized. >> the texas nurses who cared for the first ebola patient thomas eric duncan, those nurses say they confronted obstacles with inadequate protection policies from the cdc and lies from duncan. the nurses told cbs that duncan said he came from africa and only later specifying liberia. he misled autho