today, though, the staffer charged with getting that endorsement from the ft. lee mayor says nobody on team christie particularly cared about the fact he wasn't going to give it. >> at that point i did not view an endorsement as a possibility. upon passing this information to others no one i spoke with seemed overly interested or concerned at the time. >> okay. well, if it wasn't the endorsement that generated the apparent political vendetta from governor christie's office and today there was direct testimony that it was not, then why did that thing happen? there has been no alternate explanation put forward at any point for why it all happened but so far testimony under oath says the reason everybody thinks this thing happened isn't the real reason. joining us now is new jersey assemblyman, co-chair. thank you for being here. >> rachel, good to be here. >> watching these hearings today, mr. mowers, in charge of getting the endorsements, at least to for that part of new