. >> joining me now, salon columnist steve karna, who follows new jersey politics closely. that's a preview of the christie presidential campaign when he becomes a daily feature of "the view," if he were to become a republican nominee. he has to be thinking about things like that and be thinking about, hey, wait a minute, i've only been doing this politics thing for, what, two years now? >> he's been doing politics a lot longer. it's kind of interesting. there's a lesson buried early in his career that i think most people don't know about which i think is really relevant to what's going on right now. he's one of those guys in middle school and high school, he was rehearsing the inaugural address in the bathroom mirror. he always wanted to run for office. he was the student president at the university of delaware. he's a new jersey guy and always dreamed of the new jersey governorship. early in his career he was elected to a county board out in new jersey. it was supposed to be the first rise of chris christie. he's doing the whole rise of a bull in a china shop. there wasn'