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Them and their states of mind. what did you make of that? >> to be honest with you, when i read this, i was appalled. i was appalled that the taxpayers would have to pay for it. and as a woman, i was appalled that they would say that brilgt ann kelly did this all on her own because she was scorned. were not back in the stone ages, theyre trying to put out that tony th that the tony of the -- bridget ann kelley would not have had those responsibilities in his office if she could noll be reliable....

Theres something to go back on. >> that is why, i think, joan, this does read as the opening argument for the defense, that you do have, as steve just pointed out, a kind of preimpeachment, a prebrutal of anything kelly might say. it does read like anyone who could potentially give evidence that perhaps chris christie perhaps knew anything, et cetera is being taken down. but the women are the ones being accused of having some sort of emotional problem. >> and people now try to blame this report ...

News conference. >> i expect its going to be another long pity party, about how wronged he feels about this and how let down hes been and how hes losing sleep, like he was telling diane sawyer, i expect him to do exactly what he did last time. i dont know if it will go on for two hours, i dont know if he has that stamina, but i expect it to be self serving and he wont give an inch. >> be sure to check out joans article on the christie scandal at salon.com. were also linked to the report. steve a...

To the lane closure, although the report doesnt explain how. christie critics are not buying it. friends of ms. kelly are calling the report sexist, saying it doubles down on a strategy of portraying ms. kelly as due police to us and ze pending on men for approval and stability. if you believe an emotional and stupid jilted woman caused bridgegate, ive got a bridge to sell you. steve carnanke has been extensively covering the bridgegate scandal. co-author of chris -- joan, i will go to you first...

>> im going pretend like i know more than the next person. im going fight the elitist because too often, and for too long now, i think the elitist have tried to make people like me and people in the heart land of america feel like we just dont get it and big governments going to have to take care of us. >> joining me, atlantic media political director and steve carnanke. lets talk about your theory about what youve discovered about the primary voter and how sarah palin could still be a real play...

Blue collar voters. in 2008, theres an analysis of the entire exit poll that showed that 51% were by noncollege voters. we think as the corner office and palin, in that argument, the argument she made is one that republicans have used against democrats coming back to addly stevenson. individuals kind of detached from the real world. you can imagine her using it against barack obama, but also in a republican party against someone like mitt romney, where i am the voice of this blue collar, beer tr...