addressed is through the outside counsel. that s why i would refer you to answer them. so if it s true, the proposed cuts on the hurricane sandy funds, ebola fund, can we see them retrieved. [inaudible] why that wouldn t be true for other areas of the budget the administration has targeted. i would refer you to omb to get into the details of that. we ll be happy for additional information also over the next few days on specifics. the president again took a stick to his favorite piñata, jeff sessions today. what is the that s interesting. what is the president s goal here? to remind the attorney general that he s really peoed at him or
least people on his staff may not have been on his side. that there really was no price to be paid for that, for rejecting federal spending for thinking that arguably would be for people in his state. did you find that odd that that never dented his popularity before? not so much since he didn t reject federal money for the big head that hit his state. with hurricane sandy funds. let s say in the hypothetical world where congress was forthcoming with funds and christie rejected funds, then his palm later would hit. most people tend to remember the big things. in christie s case the big thing was a major hurricane that hit his state. for that reason, i think voters have forgotten about the other time he s rejected federal funds. i think now that his popularity has gotten back to ground level, you might see voters begin to rethink christie s position on these things. you can support trimming the pensions in new jersey.
whether or not the u.s. attorneys can ultimately prove it and find that smoking gun in a political world, in the court of public opinion, folks have got to be like, yeah. and this is national, because he s got to be able to raise funds for the republican governor s association. if he can t fly around to dallas and chicago and these other places, raising funds for these 22 republican governors who are up in november, then he can t help them and it becomes a national problem for them. susan milligan and toure, we re going to have to leave there it. thanks again for coming on the show tonight. thank you. and don t forget to watch toure on the cycle weekdays right here at 3:00 p.m. on msnbc. still ahead, chris christie s other headache, the growing scandal over hurricane sandy funds. where they used to score political points? big news tonight. also, a republican town hall where voters said some shocking things about the president. how did the republican congressman respond?
cut? gone. good-bye. do they deserve a mention in this speech at all? strong words from a man whose political career is in the balance right now. things are getting worse by the day for this guy. there s no question about that. first it s bridgegate, which no one in the media had anything to do with. then the mayor of hoboken, new jersey claims christie used hurricane sandy funds as leverage over a development. if the governor did abuse his power, that s going to be another story. the consequences are definitely going to catch up with him. and his slide from grace with the public with all of this has already started. let s look at the numbers. new polling shows christie s disapproval rating has doubled
while it may not have looked like it from the outside, inauguration day for governor christie has been a fiasco. an intimate dinner last night was cancelled due to lack of interest. embarrassing new poll numbers released yesterday showed his unfavor blt rating is double what it was last year. today his inauguration was cancelled due to weather. the biggest disaster of all is the allegations against the governor and his administration. his administration is facing a federal criminal investigation into its administration of hurricane sandy funds and then there is bridgegate or operation road hog. they announced a super committee