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their part. there s a good chance you, your families and friendses, will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout or barbecue and celebrate independence day when we mark our independence as a nation and our independence from this virus. joining me now, nbc news chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-anchor, kelly o donnell, yamiche alcindor, former deputy white house chief of staff to president obama, jim messina and former rnc chair, michael steele. welcome, all. kristen, let me start with you. if big primetime address last night after a major legislative win. now of course the challenge to make sure that americans understand why it is that they are receiving the help that they have. what s the plan going forward? reporter: that s right. now the president and vice president are going to be focused on selling this massive piece of legislation that just passed, $1.9 trillion covid relief and of course one of the ....
Heard a word about it since, and we see him flying around the country for the republican governors association. isn t that the kind of thing that new jersey voters may be considering as we watch his popularity decline in the polls in that state? yeah. although to be honest with you there s always some complaint about governors going out of state, usually from the opposition. i certainly had that when i was in vermont. and the voters don t get upset about that. frankly the biggest damage that he s got is this assembly investigation is going to be bad. but i can t wait to find out what s going on with the hoboken money. i mean, that really is a federal crime. if he did in fact send his lieutenant governor to threaten the mayor of lobe kenn and withhold 157bd sandy aid, he ma finish his term. that brings up something he said in his press conference where he was asked about would he comply with subpoenas? this is really important. let s listen to this. ....
Although to be honest with you there s always some complaint about governors going out of state, usually from the opposition. i certainly had that when i was in vermont. and the voters don t get upset about that. frankly the biggest damage that he s got is this assembly investigation is going to be bad. but i can t wait to find out what s going on with the hoboken money. i mean, that really is a federal crime. if he did in fact send his lieutenant governor to threaten the mayor of hoboken and withhold sandy aid, he may not finish his term. that brings up something he said in his press conference where he was asked about would he comply with subpoenas? this is really important. let s listen to this. if you were to get a subpoena for whatever reason, what would you do? i m not going to speculate on that. of all the things to not answer, will you comply with subpoenas, if there s a subpoena that he gets either from the investigative committee or from ....
Committee. we will go through what is relevant to a case but to the committee for the answers. so i think once that s disseminated we ll reconvene in mid-february and will have some information. see, david, what jumped out at me from what assemblyman bramnick was saying last hour, he was trying to discredit the assemblywoman s committee trying to say the process is not fair. it s rigged by the democrats. it s 8-4. only wisniewski has the authority the to issue subpoenas. it made me think back to chris christie s address where he would cooperate with all appropriate investigations and it seemed to me the groundwork is being laid for the governor to declare the assembly investigation, which is the most aggressive, may be inappropriate to cooperate with. ....
Counsel on their investigation of the bridge scandal. we thought that announcement might come today. we learned the announcement could come as early as tomorrow but certainly by the end of the week. meanwhile, it s expected the nexts round of subpoenas from the assembly investigation, those subpoenas could go out as early as tomorrow as well. they could include the person most directly at the center of this scandal, chris christie s former deputy chef of staff who appears to have ordered time for some traffic problems in ft. lee back in august of last year. will bridget anne kelly be issued a subpoena? could that happen tomorrow? joining us now, the newly elected speaker of the new jersey assembly. mr. speaker, thank you very much for being with us. great to be here. why was reid char selected as special counsel for this body? well, we wanted to pick best person qualified for it and the people that i ve spoke to, reid was the person that made the most sense to help us and guide ....