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Trout forced employees to sign loyalty oaths and failed to conduct mandatory legal background checks. five months after christie took the oath of office, a grand jury handed down a 43-count indict against sheriff and her two staffers. when the charges became public, governor christie assured he would have this whole thing thrown out. that sounded like bluster. then the state killed the case. chris christies attorney general paul odowd assigned a deputy attorney general to take control and the in...

Only received a fraction of 1% of the funds they asked for. but if causing a traffic jam in ft. lee is one way to punish your political enemies, starving a drowned broken city of funds is certainly another. >> ive got a job to do. my state has been damaged miserably by this storm and they expect me to work with everybody to get this job done. so i hope we put the silliness aside. its crazy. >> joining me now, former new jersey state senator barbara buono who ran against christie for governor on ...

Thrown out. that sounded like bluster. then the state killed the case. chris christies attorney general paul odowd assigned a deputy attorney general to take control and the indictments were dropped and three career prosecutors were forced out of their jobs. joining me now, one of those former prosecutors who lost his job and republican richard murt, a former new jersey assemblyman who ran against chris christie in the 2009 republican gubernatorial primary. before we get into the details of this...

What is not going to happen. what good things we can do for this growing fast town of jersey city, new jersey, which has a horrible history of corruption that we can talk about for half an hour. they have this new mayor in there and the governor is sending all these people in there to do political work. good for the people of jersey city. until the governor finds out, or his office finds out that the mayor, mayor phillip, is not going to endorse him. a series of phone calls. weve seen the e-mail...

>> well, the governor has bullied people who have come to his town hall meetings to ask reasonable questions about his policies. the governor has bullied members of the legislature. the governor has bullied municipalities. and so time and time again we see a governor who when he doesnt get his way or he thinks that youre challenging his authority, he uses his bluster, he uses his scare tactics to try to get his way. and so its not hard to imagine that people who work for him see that and they sa...

Reasonable questions about his policies. the governor has bullied members of the legislature. the governor has bullied municipalities. and so time and time again we see a governor who when he doesnt get his way or he thinks that youre challenging his authority, he uses his bluster, he uses his scare tactics to try to get his way. and so its not hard to imagine that people who work for him see that and they say well, thats the model the governor has set for our behavior, and they find that accept...

Days. when you look at this storm compared to other storms over the last ten years, how does this compare? because now its starting to lose some of its bluster, if you will. >> bh youre talking about storms in the northeast and a snowstorm, its usually never this cold when it snows. usually its 25 to 30 years. this is more like you see -- ive covered storms like this when you have this powdery snow in fargo and bismarck and minneapolis/st. paul, but i have never been in a storm this cold in the ...

Another record-breaking day on wall street. on thursday, the dow closed at an all-time high. thats the 50th record set this year. stock futures were lower before the opening bell. pope francis -- well, pope francis -- ill say it, hes a rock star. perhaps its fitting that a fading star used the popes luster to sell his message. president obama appears to be doing just that. according to the los angeles, the president ask -- the "los angeles times," the president asked a speechwriter to add a re...

The pop music industry is helping the democratic party big time n. the last presidential election bruce springsteen, jay-z, mare i cant carey all either gave money to the democrats or campaigned for the president. the pop world lost some luster in america. radiations are now frag the meanted but still a powerful industry. i talked with tommy matola. wa i want to get insight into the minds of pop performers. you have bruce springsteen, middle class and becomes a big liberal guy. hes a fund-raisin...

The pop music industry is helping the democratic party big time n. the last presidential election bruce springsteen, jay-z, mare i cant carey all either gave money to the democrats or campaigned for the president. the pop world lost some luster in america. radiations are now frag the meanted but still a powerful industry. i talked with tommy matola. wa i want to get insight into the minds of pop performers. you have bruce springsteen, middle class and becomes a big liberal guy. hes a fund-raisin...