the republican vote in the primaries. chris christie and no one else is a front-runner. chris christie has problems wholly apart from whether he is a bridge over troubled water which he clear sly not. he has problems with some of the social issues he is considered too moderate by much of the republican base. so i think you are absolutely right. >> well, the other question, john, is new jersey's newspaper came out and said if these allegations are true, if christie is lying about his possible role in bridge-gate, then he is not fit to hold office. could he lose his governorship? >> look, you know, if it is found that chris christie knew about this and lied to the people in new jersey, of course that becomes very, very serious. his core attribute as a politician is he is straightforward, blupt, honest. and if all of a sudden one of the core political -- hypocrisy, if that gets undercut and chris christie knew about it, that becomes very serious. there's question about the aides