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Job growth in eight years. in 2010 to 2015 we have now grown 198,000 private sector jobs. we took a basket case and made it better. >> you lost government jobs. >> sure. state government alone were down over 9,000 jobs since ive been governor. >> you mentioned bridge gate. i want to ask you about this. i do believe it impacted your polls. theres no evidence that ties you to this. everybody in the media has looked at it. they thought they had you. 50% recently polled still think you might have ha...

Showed. there was bridge-gate which absolutely had something to do with him, it had everything to do with him. and he also had these abysmal poll numbers at home in new jersey. if you cant win your own home state, where can you win? thats the biggest issue here. >> erin you know governor christie talked a lot about his record in new jersey today. listen. >> we balanced six budgets in a row, we refused to raise taxes on the people of this state for six years. we made the hard decisions that had t...

The single most trusting thing they can do as a citizen, is to give you their support. so you better tell them exactly what youre thinking and exactly what youre feeling. >> so which political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? that was a tease by the way. how about another republican joining an already crowded presidential primary race? msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt joins me now. after sagging poll numbers, bridge gate, other challenges it looks likes chris christie...

Chris christie in this campaign. >> what do you think, april? is there room for an old-time rockefeller, or a tom ridge, eastern republican who is not a right-wing person? is there room for that? >> before bridge gate i thought there was. chris christie is the gift that keeps on giving. i also think his perception, he wants his perception to be reality but the reality is that, you know, can we remember al gore who didnt win his own election. >> who is paying for his travel? >> i dont know. >> wh...

Bridge gate problem, if he were totally clean where would he be now? >> did he haveefinitely in the top three, i think. >> theres room for an east coast republican? >> theres a lot of room for kk chris christie in this campaign. >> what do you think, april? is there room for an old-time rockefeller, or a tom ridge, eastern republican who is not a right-wing person? is there room for that? >> before bridge gate i thought there was. chris christie is the gift that keeps on giving. i also think his...

Field. i think thats a totally separate discussion. >> thats the question of hero worship and what we do in society these days right, dean? >> let me say first of all, full disclosure, im a giant fan. im a diehard giant fan. >> you do need to disclose that. >> i agree. i think its unfair. i think he should be banned for life. i think the patriots should be broken up as a team. i think they should ban the cowboys, too. >> just take them all out. >> tom brady, his legacy honestly is going to be at...

Its something he tried to avoid during his other stops. i asked him about it he was pretty dismissive of the question. i think shat the woman who is standing in that audience raised exactly the question and you know, i think his answer shows that its very difficult to distinguish between account accountability and responsibility. this is not the first time hes been -- bridge gate has confronted him in new hampshire. if it in fact fades from the headlines, it might be one thing. if these indicted...

Crisscross the state of new hampshire this week. after a full week of covering chris christie in the granite state, kasie hunt joins us live from the palmetto state at the site of todays event in greenville. thanks for taking a few minutes. let me start on christie. there was an interesting exchange we want to play at new hampshire. a woman asked him about bridge gate. he responded. lets play that question and response. >> people with whom you work very closely somehow got the idea that that was...

But being accountable and being responsible are two different things. i am accountable because im the accountable officer of that government. but i had nothing to do with it. >> joining me now is kolpi from "the washington post." do you think bridge gate is going to hurt chris christie to the point he doesnt stand a chance in 2016? >> since bridgegate happened, everyone thought when is he going to bounce back and he hasnt yet. hes still down low and having a hard time shedding this perception th...

That does not mean that hes not in a world of hurt in terms of the lagging problems of bridge gate. in terms of the split screen reality when the criminal trials start happening just as he is campaigning in new hampshire. but i think he was fairly and his people were fairly able to tell backers on friday that its not any worse than it was the day before and now that these have come out we can move forward and the strategy going forward is all about new hampshire. hes got to win or at least come ...