he has been reporting on the george washington bridge scandal. david axelrod, you have worked with candidates and i have a theory why chris christie is running. i think for him not running would feel to him like pleading guilty in the george washington bridge scandal. he'd rather have his campaign dream publicly end in a concession speech than staying home with his family and never getting in to the race. i think for christie that would feel like surrender to his enemies. >> that may be. i can't crawl in to his head. a couple of years ago, he got in to a jam of his staff's own creation he was the hottest ticket in republican politics. in some ways you can see why. he's sort of the anti-obama. he is discourteous and a guy who's going to take you by the neck and lead in that way. he's the antithesis of the president's style. republicans love that until he