joining me now is zack fink, the reporter who broke the story about chris christie giving a prosecutor loan. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> zack, take us back to the day christie shut down the network that you were working at and broke the story. what was your first impression? >> we had indications that he was going to do that. i can't say on a personal level i thought it was retribution but i will say the democrats said that several times to me. they would say zack fink, the guy that got shut down. he had been the u.s. attorney for many years. very often prosecutors hide behind the fact that it is an on going investigation. when you run for governor it is a different ball game. this was the first thing to do that. >> there were other people like your network that thought this was retribution. >> absolutely. the structure was flawed in a lot of ways. the state of new jersey ran it and in the television business. this is probably not the best way to go forward with it. tht rest of the industrialized worldt that is the case. there had been proposals to transfer the licenses