when ychris christie was 14 yeas old he knocked on this guy's door and said tom caine taught had himdo it. probably the most person in his political life. tom caine told me that he is no longer sure that if chris christie runs for president he will back him, he will endorse him. he's now being look at three possible republican 2016 candidates. jeb bush, scott walker and john kasich. that's a dramatic statement from one of the most important people in chris christie's life. >> you write in the article that he volunteered that. you didn't have to press for it. tom caine brought up the fact that i might look elsewhere. >> i didn't think it would even be a question. at the end of the interview he brought it up on his own. very clearly wanted me to know that. >> he also said this is part of the discussion about tom caine speaking about his former pupil, chris christie, he doesn't always try to persuade you with reason. he makes you feel that your life is going to be very unhappy if you don't do what he says. jonathan martin, if tom kean was supposed to be your character witness to the rep

leadership both on the commission, we had leadership from tom cain, a republican, and lee hamilton, a democrat, where there was no democrat or republican pride if authorship -- in authorship. they appeared together every time they did any kind of press so that they would be on message together, and that was a message to the five democrats and five republicans that politics should be put aside and facts and recommendations and success should be our ultimate mission and goal. another area of huge cooperation for getting to your end mission is the cooperation of the agencies involved. the 9/11 commission ultimately we had pretty good cooperation across the agencies to get access to documents and to get their support for briefings and follow up, and that helped us within timelines to succeed at the end of the day. and finally, we had a talented staff, expert in a host of different areas that helped us on the 9/11 commission. john gannon, we've haired -- hired as our executive director who has 30 years of experience in the intel community. we're in the prosecution of trying to hire -- proc