chris christie declined to prosecute george norcross. he's now his tightest political allies, george norcross and his allies in the legislature. look where this is going forward, you have to ask, what are chris christie's democratic friends going to do. >> that makes a lot of sense in terms of bipartisanship in his 45-odd-minute message there. you heard the assemblywoman. she seemed like she felt he did okay. she wasn't highly critical of him, despite her history with him. do you agree with what steve is saying here? >> absolutely. steve is right on. the whole thing about bipartisanship in new jersey can't be understood unless you know christie cut deals with key democrats. in fact, when he ran against jon corzine, the democrat, when corzine was running for re-election, there was a very unusual low turnout among democrats that we hadn't seen before in new jersey. >> did he make the turn? did he make the turn, is he coming back now from what you heard last night, what the assemblywoman said? >> i think he's trying to. i think he's in shoc

their boss is george norcross. he declined to prosecute george norcross. >> so speaking of christie, we've been talking about the sandy money and talking about this one story that's come out of hoboken. and the hoboken mayor stepped forward the other day, and she basically said, you know, my town was just destroyed by sandy. i asked for $100 million in sandy money. i got $300,000. i asked for $100 million, got $300,000. my understanding is, you've got some news, tomorrow's program on this story. what's going on? >> this is the big tease. but i think this is an important story and i hope people will get up at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning to watch this. the story that's been out there is, oh, she declined to endorse chris christie and therefore did not get sandy money. we've got documents that point to a very different story. it's a story she's agreed to come on the show and talk about tomorrow. it involves some of the names we've been talking about. it involves some new names. and i think it's a very -- >> wait a seco

south of route 195 in new jersey, all politics are run by this democratic power broker named george norcross and all of his allies have been friendly to him and very helpful with chris christie. south jersey is more republican friendly in terms of the electorate. it's an area where chris christie did extremely well last year. where the son of the former governor and current leader of state republicans say i want to win back the state senate. these are ripest targets. south jersey. he spent republican money trying to win back those seats. those are chris christie's allies. what happened the day after -- the week after the election last fall? the republicans did not take out any of those democrats who were aligned with chris christie. secondly, the democratic leader from down there got very, very mad at tom for doing that and chris christie intervened and tried to oust tom, the republican leader of the state senate, for the crime of spending republican money against democrats. that's the kind of alliance we're talking about here. that's another protection we talk about here. >> culture of poli

the senate president is the lieutenant of one of the unelected political bosses in new jersey, george norcross. >> why didn't you try to approach governor cuomo then? this is a bridge that is shared by both new york and new jersey. governor cuomo is a democrat. the appointment there of patrick foye is the person who lifted the lane closures. >> thank god for patrick foye. >> did you think to contact governor cuomo to bring him up to speed on this, since this is a -- the most popular, most traveled bridge, up of the most traveled bridges in the world. did that don on you to contact governor cuomo? >> we tried all avenues. the fact of the matter is in new jersey, as i said, there is a culture of fear. i tried to contact certain mayors, actually, endorsed this governor, and, you know, one of them, mayor from long branch, had a relationship of sorts, and i remember he called me one day and he said, you know, senator, i have to tell you, i'm going to endorse the governor, and i said, you know, why don't you wait. let's talk about it. no, no, i have to do it this week. and i remember asking him, you