let's go to valerie huttle.he chris christie today, meek guy, passive, accepting excuses, not knowing what his four staff people are up to, his four appointees are up to and quietly accepting naivety. is that the chris christie the one that exists or the one that performed today? >> it certainly is not the chris christie we have seen in prior years. you know, he should have been angry. where was his anger? he was very humble, and heartbroken over his staff. i'm angry that my constituents suffered, you know, the threat of public hazards, what you just talked about. i didn't see that today. i saw much humble demeanor and i can tell you that there has to be more answers to the questions. certainly, again, a traffic study for four days. this has been since september. we have not -- we would not have had those e-mails broken in the record yesterday if it were not that we passed subpoena powers to the legislature. so we needed to get subpoena which means there's no transparency there, there's a culture of inclusivenes

and valerie huttle, a democrat whose district includes ft. lee.e whole showdown over the court, you were one of the key players along with senator weinberg. he was in the same press conference yelling at you specifically. >> he was. >> does this scam to you? >> who knew when i said i wasn't going to support helen hoens in re-election, that would end in the result of chris christie's presidential ambitions. that's what it's coming down to. >> do you think it's plausible to you that this is what it's about? >> anything is plausible. he's made his reputation on beating people up and beating them down. he would take retribution for any reason. >> you represent ft. lee. i think one of the important pieces of context here is there is basically, as far as i can tell, one political issue in ft. lee. it's traffic. >> traffic. >> you represent a place the single most notable thing about it from the perspective of your interactions with the state, with everything else, is the fact that it is home to the busiest bridge in the world. traffic in ft. lee, that's

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. >> thank you so much, new jersey assemblywoman valerie huttle. >>> christie kept returning to a theme and likely to any plans for the presidency, bipartisan. >> no state in this country has shown more bipartisan cooperation in governance over the last four years than in new jersey and our people are proud of it. >> now joining us right now, steve kornacki, host of "up with steve kornacki" here on msnbc, who has reported extensively on new jersey politics. also somebody very familiar with new jersey politics, bob engle, who authors "politics patrol" and author of "chris christie: the inside story of his rise for power." steve, we'll start with you. "the new york times" are looking at his message that he had given out, that 108-minute news conference. more than 800 times he used me, myself, i sort of references, but then last night during the state of the state address during that 45-minute speech, about 97 times he used "we" references, then you're listening to the assemblywoman. has he changed? >> little difference between christie reading from the prepared text and talking off the cu

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still with us new jersey assemblywoman valerie huttle, zach fink, now a reporter with new york one newsorted in 2009 and then what happened. >> it was the height of the campaign and really christie had been a prosecutor and a lot of times with prosecutors they can very often not answer questions. say that's part of an ongoing investigation. when you start running for governor it's a whole new ball game. and this is the first story that landed a punch, so to speak. michelle brown, who he had promoted to number two person at the u.s. attorney's office, he had loaned her $46,000. this was hard to find but we did wind up finding it and david ha halbfinger had the story the next day, i believe it was, that he had failed to disclose the income from that lone an on hisx returns which indicated to a lot of people there was something to hide here or cover up. >> that's the other piece of the story, david, that you had. there was not just the relati relationship, the financial relationship, which raised questions, but then there was the tax issue as well. >> that's right. and, remember, all this