what can you tell us about chris christie and william palatucci?l these new jersey guys. >> yeah. >> you have palatucci's cell phone number, i'm betting. >> palatucci was very good to me -- >> did he call you from pay phones or did you use your cell phone? >> this was all on the up and up. and i'd be happy to tell you the story of bill palatucci and chris christie, it's an interesting one and explains everything about where chris christie is right now. >> by the way, you have exactly three minutes to try to get that "x" taken off of chris christie and get him restored to life in the veep stakes. >> i don't think i can -- >> take your time. you have three minutes. >> i don't think it's possible. but the relationship goes back just over a decade ago. and it's hard to believe now, but at the end of the 1990s, chris christie was absolutely washed up in new jersey politics. he'd been voted out of local office in morris county, and he was basically a has been and a joke. his friend, bill palatucci was tied in with the bush world. this was around 1998, 19