(laughter) the governor put the bridge gate nonscandal to bet weeks ago. well, guess what? somebody woke it up, folks, and it's cranky as hell. >> explosive new allegations about chris christie. >> bombshell new allegations. >> a former new jersey transportation official who once worked for chris christie is making new claims tonight suggesting the governor lied about when he knew of the g.w. bridge lane closure. >> the lawyer for david wildstein writes: "evidence exists tying mr. christie to having knowledge of the lane closures.". >> stephen: "evidence exists." ooh! (laughter) it exists! and should evidence ever be "presented" shaking in my boots would "occur." (laughter) folks, this is just the governor's word against david wildstein's and, yes, they were high school classmates and, yes, christie created a job at the port authority to appoint wildstein to, but it's not like they were close, right, sghorn >> david and i were not friend in high school. we were not even acquaintances in high school. i was the class president and athlete, i don't know what david was doing. (

this scandal, nonscandal, scandal. >> it certainly feels that way.on't begrudge bill o'reilly for asking the questions he did. i do find it odd that he didn't have the full facts in front of him. people have looked into this a lot. they've come to the conclusion that it was a bureaucratic bumbling. people did things that were wrong, but there wasn't a plot by the white house here. that has been discussed a lot. if bill o'reilly is going to go in guns ablazing, he should probably have the full facts. that's where i thought the interview went off the rails. >> that's also the question. whether o'reilly was listening to the president's answers or has accepted any of the facts that have been reported by the irs. when the president sat down with david remnick -- the issue has been the inability of my message to penetrate the republican base so they feel persuaded that i'm not the character that you see on fox news and rush limbaugh. as long as there's those perceptions, it's hard for folks like john boehner to move in my direction. i wonder whether he can