Hello, unprecedented security at the big game. Thats a live shot of times square and metlife stadium. Law enforcement officials locked in, saying the next few hours pose the greatest danger. And tracking everything being done to block an attack. Good morning, pierre. Fworgood morning. This is the biggest event. This morning, its a fortress, but for the nest few hours, turning to the softest, most vulnerable target, fans streaming to the super bowl by mass transit. Travel big subways and trains. Specialized units will be checking anyone with bags. At this staging area, bombsniffing dogs and sophisticated radiation and xray machines scan for explosives and weapons for every delivery to the big game. Food, everything . Even seat cushions. On the waters today, teams looking to protect the people in the fan zone in times square and the super bowl. There are even super sonic f16 fighter jets to protect against threats in the sky. I saw firsthand when i suited up to train with the new Jersey National guard. In this exercise, a team of three f16s is told to intercept the cessna in the sky. They talked about they fear most. The person we dont know about who comes out of nowhere who wants to make a statement. The issue of concern not only in new york, but the country, the lone wolf. As in boston, the two brothers who conspired. The Boston Marathon bombings were a painful remind that anything can happen even during fun and games. And now to the two governors, john hickenlooper, and governorhickenlooper, are you satisfied that everythings safe . Yes. I think they have done everything you can do. We did the Democratic Convention in 2008. They put in the time and effort. They have. Are you okay, governorness l . Yes, we have a total interception liege of doom. You got right to the game. You are feeling good about the defense. Thats what were kons traltitral concentrating on. Peyton manning going to make histo history . Hes made history. Both on and off the field, hes an inspiration for colorado. Rebuilding the roads, we used hurry hurry, get people back in their houses as quick as we could. So youre confident, what are you betting . We dont have a bet, but we have honored the states. Governor has named his 14,000 foot peaks over individual broncos. But were a more teamoriented team, we named Mount Rainier mount seahawks because we are thinking team. We are looking forward to it as well. Later in the program, we are bringing a panel of experts on legalizing marijuana. Your two states are on the forefront. Governor, you opposed the referendum. A few weeks in, are your fears realized and whats the biggest challenge Going Forward . I think that anyone who opposed it, and there are a lot of good reasons to oppose it, we have an obligation. The voters pasted it 5545, to do it properly. Make sure that kids under the age of 21 dont get it. A lot of the top scientists thinking you lose longterm memory using highthc marijuana. Regulate it like alcohol. That we have the resources necessary to keep it out of the hands of kids and keep our communities safe. Your sales start later this year. Are you learning anything from the colorado experience . Well, a little bit. I think both states are doing a good job of having a wellregulated market. Both our governors are very interested in making sure we educate our kids about dangers associated with this like with alcohol. I think things are going well in both states. And i want to give appreciation to the Obama Administration whos been working, i think, in a very responsibility way, allowing the states to move forward. Sit states have beenoratories of democracy in american history. They are going well. I want to say we want a wellregulated system. It is going to be that in both states. We are going to achieve success. Have fun tonight. Thank you, gentlemen. Now to the new troubles for the host governor of the super bowl, Chris Christie. Confronting poishlly explosive charges that he wasnt telling the whole truth at the marathon press conference on the bridgegate scandal. Pushing back hard overnight, and rita has the latest. Thousands of fans cheering their teams, but new Jersey Governor Chris Christie getting jeers from the crowd saturday. That speech is the same thing. Reporter after a potentially explosive claim from a former ally, former Port Authority official, David Wildstein who alleges that christie knew about the lane closures that brought the George Washington bridge to a standstill. He wrote that evidence exists tying to show mr. Christie had knowledge during the period. But he is fighting back, sending an email to supporters saturday, obtained by abc news, attacking wild steins background and credibility. The message concludes that he will do and save anything to save himself. And the statement repeats christies claim that he had no involvement in the lane cloe sures. I had no knowledge, the planning, execution. I found out about it after it was over. Reporter but the investigation continues. On monday, newly subpoenaed documents are expected to be turned over, examining the traffic scandal. While christie has not been subpoenaed, much like the final score of tonights game, his political future is still unknown. For this week, reena ninan, abc news, new york. And now the top headline ewe are paul ryan. And now begin with the new charges against Chris Christie. The democrats have an online ad this morning. With all the investigations swirling around, are you confident he can continue to run the Republican Governors Association and be an effective spokesman for your party . Im confident. He is a friend and fantastic governor. Now we have one persons word against another. You cant base a conclusion on such a thing. Unless Something Else is known or made clear, i dont see why you would change whats going on. He shouldnt step down. Nothing has been proven, and always give a person the benefit of the doubt in my judgment. Turn to the president s state of the union this week. He called for congress to act but made it clear he would use executive orders to advance his agenda. Wherever and whenever i can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more american families, thats what im going to do. You have a tough reaction, saying hes circumventing the constitution. Do you think his proposals are unconstitutional . His rate of executive orders is far behind president reagan, bush, clinton. Its not the number of executive orders, itsed scope. Its the fact that hes actually contradicting law, like in the health care case, or proposing new laws. Thats the issue. An ningly lawless we have an increasingly lawless presidency where hes doing the job of congress, writing now policies and laws without going through congress. President s dont write laws, congress does. When he does like in health care, delaying mandates that the law said was supposed to secure, thats not his job. The job of congress is to change laws if he doesnt like them, not the presidency. Executive orders are one thing. But executive orders that actually change the statute, thats different. Bnkts. But if hes lawless, sir country venting the cushion, are you going to impeach . No, we have a difference of opinion. You have religious freedom going to the court this spring. But im concerned with the trend that if congress doesnt give me the law, im going to do it myself. Thats not the way the constitution works. Sworn in, a president or a congressman, you swear to uphold the constitution. These are creating a dangerous trend temporary to the constitution. Listening to you and president obama, you could have a meet of the minds on immigration, reach a compromise on Immigration Reform. One that opens a path to citizenship for the undocumented, but doesnt necessarily center a special path for the undocumented. But this talk of compromise unleashed a furious debate in your party. I want to show you what bill kristol wrote. He said bringing immigration to the floor has a circular firing squad instead of shooting together at obamacare and other biggovernment liberalism. Theres no reason to act this year. Dont try. Your response . We dont know whos coming and going, interior enforcement. You talked about the boston bombers. Its not a responsible thing to do. Its important you brought this up after the executive orders. All republicans agree that we dont trust the president to enforce the law. Look at the standards that the Republican Leadership put out, security first. First we have to secure the border, have interior enforcement, a worker verification system, a visa tracking system, they have to be in law and in practice and independently verified before the rest of the law can occur. Its a nonamnesty approach. The other concern they dont want us in conference and compromise to a bad law. We wont that let that happen. We wont go to the kchbs with the senate. This is not an issue with a deadline, a Government Shutdown that forces us into a compromise we might not like to take. Here are our standards and approach, if you want to do it this way, this what we do. And we are having a debate about that. But we dont think that we can allow this border to continue to be overrun. And if we can get security first, no amnesty before anything happens, thats a good approach. This is not a trust and verify, this is a verify and trust approach. Can you put something on the president s desk this year he can sign . I dont know the answer to this a question. Its clearly in doubt. It depends on whether theyre willing to actually secure the border, have interior enforcement and no amnesty. Securityfirst, no amnesty. We might be able to get somewhere. But i dont know if thats going to be the case. Let me ask about the debt limit, the president made it clear theres no way hes going to agree to anything but a clean debt limit. You and members of your caucus talking about attaching policy changes to the debt limit. Any reason to think it can succeed . It hasnt before. Well, we have had policies attached to the debt limit before. Thats more the case than not. Whatever a president is, whoevers running congress, there is policy attached to the debt limit. Thats not a new idea. We dont want to rubber stamp the increases without acknowledging the problem that got us into debt in the first place. The president never proposed to balance the budget, let alone pay off the debt. He has been fiscally reckless. We need to take steps in the right direction. And there are democrats who agree with us. What are those things we can do to step in the right direction with jobs, the economy, getting the deficit under control while we deal with it being out of control. President is not going to sign that. You made comments about pope francis. You praised him for taking on the debate about poverty. But dismissed his critique of capital him. You said the guy is from argentina. They havent had real capitalism in argentina. Was that too flip . No. They have crony capitalism in arkansas ggentin argentina. Thats real exploitation. Thats crony capitalism. We are starting to see it in america. What im excited about the popes comments, hes inviting the debate, not settling it. And asking lay catholics how we would tackle the problems and stop higisolating the poor. Hes starting a fantastic debate. If you look at comments closely, he talks about the welfare mentality. About the welfare state and how we have to avoid creating a welfare state. Bring the poor in, create upward mobili mobility, and Free Enterprise that gives opportunity to everybody in life and in america. Thats what we are for. Hes invited the debate. You dont think hed endorse your budget, do you . Of course not. Hes a pope. Popes dont endorse budgets. Popes say lets have a conversation about how to fix the broken status quo, how to bring the poor in, not have a welfare state and produce upward mobility. Popes dont endorse actual legislative changes or budgets. Congressman, thanks for your time. Its an interesting debate. Thank you. And up next, the powerhouse roundtable and the state of the union, Chris Christies troubles and Hillary Clintons latest polls. And the latest twist in the amanda knox trial. Will they have to return her to italy . And the marijuana debate in america. Our team tackles the tough issues. Department be forced to send amanda knox to italy. And the marijuana debate. We tackle the tough questions. F italy. And the marijuana debate. 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President obama promised to focus on economic growth, education and health care, or as people tuning in thought, oh, crap, its a rerun. Proposals, with the republicans in the house, its likely nothing will come of them. Proposals on the bachelor have a better chance of working out. Late night on the president s speech. And two of the newest members, bill kristol, and ana navarro, republican strategist with matthew dowd and donna brazile. And krooug krooug paul krugman of the New York Times and princeton. We have to begin with the new developments over the weekend about Chris Christie. We have David Wildstein, the Port Authority, suggesting that Chris Christie is not telling the truth, saying that evidence exists there. You say the new allegations which prompted a huge response from Chris Christie means hes less likely to be elected president than amanda knox will vacation in italy . Isnt that overstating the case . No, of course not. Theres no way i would overstate it. Hes in a serious situation. This memo they put out they put out a memo trashing wildstein. They brought up the fact nobody liked him in high school. Any time you do that, to me, it sends a signal you are worried and concerned and theres more to this than that. Just like Punxsutawney Phil saw theres going to be six months more winter, Chris Christie stood up at that super bowl thing yesterday, got booed, and he has a long winter ahead of him. And the question is that Chris Christie has information, he said evidence exists suggesting that. Well see if its true or not, that would be a huge blow. I have no knowledge what happened. But having talked to various republican establishment types, im reaching across the aisle. It would be nice to be since when are you against republican establishment . Im protea party. But the last 48 hours, asking about the christie situation, they have a twoword answer, jeb bush. Im serious. Im really struck by how much christie, who was the establishment favorite i think for the republican president ial nomination in 2016, they are beginning to, maybe foolishly, they are beginning to write him off. I think we will see a big drum beat of jeb into the race. Meanwhile, paul krugman, the democrats are jump on this hard. I was surprised they put out an ad. It runs on its own, doesnt it . They are having fun. He scared them for 2016. And this is wonderful, actually. And this whole thing, wildstein, he is scum of the earth, nobody should trust him, and i put him in an important policy post. Christie is in a nowin situation even without a smoking gun. Its a lot of going on. And now Chris Christie will deal with those who oppose him. He will do a document dump. The information out of his office, ana told me its official, to put out on this guy. To go back to high school, he was deceptive and unproductive. To appoint him to the highlevel position. He was a Chris Christie guy. They are meeting in washington, d. C. This week. I wonder how many governors will take pictures, Chris Christie versus scott walker or other governors. Ink Chris Christie is in a lot of trouble. Unlike other politicians we did a dump on somebody thats talking bad about him. Look, put this in context. The only new evidence we have right now is that this guy who, you know, Chris Christie keeps saying was a dork in high school, hes got to stop that. Its turning into revenge of the nerds. Only new evidence we have now is that hes not going to have Chris Christies back. Hes implicated and wanting to clear his name. Hes giving all indications that hes going to say what he has to say and show whatever hes got show. That changes the equation. But we have no new evidence in the last three days that he actually knew anything. If that comes out, the situation changes completely for Chris Christie. But today, we are in the same spot we were three days ago. We just dont know how this is going to shake out. And we know that wildstein is trying to get immunity before he talks, which is significant. What about the point about jeb bush . Interesting to see him talk about running for president this week. Take a look. The decision will be can i do it joyfully . We have to have candidates raise our spirits. Its a pessimistic country right now. He can barely crack a smile. Can he do it joyfully . I think so. I think the question hes asking himself ive heard h