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>> its launched more than 20 million of attack ads on democrats who backed obamacare. >> if you have health insurance now, youre happy with it, you can keep it. >> now, we know the truth. they have told us the biggest lie of the year. >> hagen trails five potential gop rivals by a point or two in the latest poll by the democrat-leaning policy poll of registered voters. among independents, she trailed them all by double digits. shes hardly the only democrat to pass on a home state appearance with...

The christie spokesman saying the governor had appointments with many that morning, all there to pay tribute to the heroes of 9/11. from trenton chief cnn washington correspondent, jake tapper. paul begala and rick alozio. >> how do christie people feel this went? >> they feel like it went pretty well. initially they did not want the governor to talk about this issue in the state of the state address. but it became clear that he had to. they know this is a bad week for the governor. but they hop...

Deeply involved in the scandal in that long press conference christie said it had been a long time since hed actually even seen him before the election this. was taken on september 11th day two or three of the bridge scandal. >> this is the problem rick was talk about. when you fill 108 minutes and now a couple more minutes in his state-of-the-state youre going to say things that will be overtaken by events. its entirely possible he forgot. he meets with lots of people. but this is the guy at th...

Lot but in reality it may not be enough to cover these players and their families. not just now but for the decades to come. >> reporter: many pundits thought this was a bad deal from the start, the nfl was getting off easy. if this deal doesnt go through, the nfl could face thousands of lawsuits totaling billions of dollars. ryan smith, abc news, new york. today is the australian tennis tournament. as we went on the air this morning, the tournaments website said it was 97 degrees in melbourne...

To. they know this is a bad week for the governor. but they hope that ultimately the fact in their view, they maintained, he had no knowledge of this and no involvement will ultimately rule the day. and he will get through this. >> paul, obviously youve been involved in a lot of speeches and speech writing. how did you think he handled it bringing it up right away off the top and in the way he did? >> you know, as a speech writer not as a partisan im not sure i would have brought it up. its the ...

Nature and good humor. they will be doing a detailed investigation and issuing subpoenas and looking at a lot of e-mails and the texts. this has to be peeled back. we dont know all the details. in terms of the temperament issue though, the point is even though chris christie said he knew nothing about this, people in his office were doing this because they thought it would make him happy. when you work for a governor ors ennor or president, you dont like to bring them bad news ump like to do thi...

No followup, theres no tangible evidence of accountability. but christie has an image which he wants to amplify of strength and decisiveness. and i think he did that with the press conference, and hes trying to do it again tonight in the state-of-the-state. >> paul, let me ask you about this photo that the "wall street journal" dug up. were going to show it again. showing that he did in fact -- its him with this port authority official who was deeply involved in the scandal in that long press co...

The governor had appointments with many that morning, all there to pay tribute to the heroes of 9/11. joining us is jake tapper, paul begala and rick alizio. how do christie people feel this went? >> they feel like it went pretty well. initially they did not want the governor to talk about this issue in the state-of-the-state address. but it became clear that he had to. they know this is a bad week for the governor. but they hope that ultimately the fact in their view, they maintained, he had no...

But christie has an image which he wants to amplify of strength and decisiveness. and i think he did that with the press conference, and hes trying to do it again tonight in the state-of-the-state. >> paul, let me ask you about this photo that the "wall street journal" dug up. were going to show it again. showing that he did in fact -- its him with this port authority official who was deeply involved in the scandal in that long press conference christie said it had been a long time since hed act...

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 o...