but are our nukes safe? >> nuclear weapons and cheating, a bad, bad combination. >> bad combo. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's thursday, january 16th, and it is exactly 5:00 a.m. in the east. and we are going to begin this morning with subpoena time! and that is a dreaded time that any and all politicians hope to avoid, but that time is coming as early as this morning for key players in new jersey governor chris christie's administration. christie today is set to visit the jersey shore for a talk with voters about hurricane sandy relief money, money, by the way, that his administration is accused of misusing for an ad campaign. this is the first time the public will be able to see the governor in person since e-mails and text messages indicated that his aides were responsible for shutting down lanes to the george washington bridge. of course, this was apparently all as political payback against a mayor who would not endorse their boss. now, this is all coming as a new state committee begins its work looking into what happened there. that committee could issue