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here is how david carr of "the new york times" laid it out today. it started with the publisher of "the bergen record," a newspaper in northern new jersey that tipped off the newspaper's editor that getting on to the george washington bridge from ft. lee was taking hours. the editorialist passed it on. he began placing calls to local law enforcement. later a reporter at "the record" who covers the port dug in and tried to find out what was behind the lane closings. after a number of articles, on december 28th he wrote that e-mails show that officials at the port authority, in spite of their earlier claims knew about the closing and the resulting mayhem, some of it potentially life threatening. on january 8th, he was the first with an article linking the closings directly to the staff of governor chris christie. boburg is still on the story. he joins us now. and david corn, msnbc political analyst. mr. boburg, thank you very much for joining us. what is your reaction to the news we broke tonight in the beginning of the program, the fact that bridget

and it started around 93-94 when alan krueger and david carr, two of the preeminent economists said ratherhan just except that, let's look at this interesting natural experiment. new jersey just raised the minimum wage and it's right on the border with pennsylvania and, in fact, what on each side of the border are fast food restaurants that look exactly the same. so they went and looked and he found when the minimum wage went up in new jersey, not only did it not cost jobs, it almost seemed like it had a slightly positive affect. and people started to study that. there was researched by debate, right, others that looked at every contiguous county in the country, i believe 504 or 288 pairs of counties, and found the same thing that we are right next to each other, places where the minimum wage went up, it did not have this job impact. so what that pointed to was other human behavior other than simply what happens to price, which is study after study showed that there was greater retention, less absenteeism, companies didn't have to spend as much time hiring, searching for people. there was

they look and say, this was the first research done like this alan krueger and david carr did this, they new jersey raised the minimum wage and said wow it's on the border with pennsylvania so we can look and say did fast food restaurants in new jersey, right on the border where they raised wages, did they lose more jobs than in pennsylvania where wages stayed lower. and what they found was, not at all. there was no negative job impact and then -- >> you think the cbo got it wrong? they obviously -- you say you have great respect for them and the work they do. they obviously had access to the same studies that you're talking about. >> right. >> and others have talked about for some time. why do you think they got it wrong? >> i think that, you know, people are taught in economics 101 that if price goes up there must be a little less supply and i think their mistake was not looking at the practical research that was done because then economists looked at 500 counties where there was this, you know, one state raised the minimum wage and on the other side of the county they did not, and all

carr, and then... johnny carson taking the helm for three decades he stepped down, leno was chose yoefrn the man many expected to get the job. davided world to a virtually unknown comedian and writer. you know, dave letterman is a legend here. >> the run had memorable and news worthy moment sxez was never afraid to get serious when needed. >> i want to ask you about this voter suppression thing. >> yes. >> his second only to carson 30 years, keeping the show at number one but surrendered host keys in 2009 only to come back after the transition didn't go over well with viewers. he will now have time to focus more on what one of his biggest pangses, antique cars and motorcycles the final show this thursday will feature as his last guest, billy crystal, also his first. >> here now with more is ainsley earhardt. he said he does not want to leave this job. >> you can tell in that interview. couldn't you? just seemed very numb. his wife is mad about conan o'brien thing but his reaction, i heard many people over the last week talking about this. he seemed so numb. >> i agree. >> i love my job. i'd like to keep going but i understand it i