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we are going back to kindergarten here. no one says no to me. i am not a big christie supporter. put aside your relentless bias you bring to the program. it is a good video for him to release. >> it makes joe biden look like the sane one in the room right now. if he was running for president we would be looking at him saying thank you, uncle joe. i think he is embracing his unique bluntness, i guess you could say. he has some problems, but it won't come out until he is up against something. >> what are his problems? are you talking about the bridge thing? >> the bridge thing is a huge problem. everyone around him, his circle of trust is being indicted. when the circle of trust goes down -- i don't know why he thought this would be the time to announce his presidency. maybe because nobody was making jokes about him and he thought it was a safe time. everybody ran out of jokes. >> he has to jump in at some
state senator who was a big christie supporter who today said who announced in the post he is now helping run christie's 2009 campaign and is now endorsing jeb bush. this is not the only person that's doing this. you're seeing a lot of people on wall street who used to be for chris christie, who are now for jeb bush and this is a sign that people feel he can't get beyond bridgegate and he's fallen out of the top tier of candidates. and the question for him now is is he willing to run for president full-time knowing his odds of winning are very very low right now. >> perry bacon, thank you so much for joining us for the first read this morning. we appreciate it. still ahead, results of a new massive study just released earlier this hour because whether there is a link between autism and the measles vaccine. it is one of the stories we are following around the "news nation." plus you may remember him as the cute faced ben seaver on "growing pains." today jeremy miller joins me to talk about his crushing battle
to have a spine and know what you stand for, and a lot of the people who have tuned out, who have said they're just waiting to die, i run into them so often, it's because they don't think anybody really represents them. they think people are going to have a jelly spine and go away. >> thank you very much, doctor. you'll hear more of this from john mccain, what the thinks about what the doctor was saying and thinks of those who are the rebel rousers in the republican party. is it a great divide or are we overstating it. >> chris christie came in fourth in the cpac poll. is this big christie backer worried? he's going to take your questions. you can tweet right now with the hash tag ask the ceo. we'll get to them. in the meantime, they say it's impossible with for a guy with a
welcome back, i'm jake tapper in trenton, new jersey. you're watching a special edition of "cnn newsroom," covering governor chris christie's inauguration. i want to talk to a big christie supporter, even though he lost back in 2009. he's now, of course, running for congress, as you may know. he continues to be a christie supporter. the governor reasonable helped long gan raise money to retire the debt he racked up in his senate race, which he lost to now senator cory booker. steve long gan, thank you for joining us. has the governor indicated he will formally support your run for congress? >> no, we haven't talked about that, jake. but i'll tell you, i thought that speech today was a powerful one. and that speech explains why the democrats are so committed to pulling down the image of this
the traffic jam on the george washington bridge. "did he call him back?" "radio silence. his name comes right after mayor fulop." steve fulop, mayor of jersey city. fulop who like sokolich says he's a victim of christie's bullying because he voted for barbara buono, the democrat in christie's re-election last fall. "on the day last year he told christie's political team he would not back the governor, several high ranking state officials and cabinet members called to cancel meetings that christie's administration organized." fulop claims new jersey's senate president steven sweeney, a democrat but big christie ally killed a pension bill in the statehouse that would have saved jersey city $4 million a year. and this, the guy who said,
don't have to take the "time's" word for it, either. go back to the same e-mails and see christie's aides and port authority staff talked about ignoring messages from mayor mark sokolich of ft. lee, new jersey, when he called to report the traffic jam on the george washington bridge. "did he call him back?" "radio silence. his name comes right after mayor fulop." steve fulop, mayor of jersey city. fulop who like sokolich says he's a victim of christie's bullying because he voted for barbara buono, the democrat in christie's re-election last fall. "on the day last year he told christie's political team he would not back the governor, several high ranking state officials and cabinet members called to cancel meetings that christie's administration organized." fulop claims new jersey's senate president steven sweeney, a democrat but big christie ally killed a pension bill in the statehouse that would have saved jersey city $4 million a year.
democrat but big christie ally killed a pension bill in the statehouse that would have saved jersey city $4 million a year. and this, the guy who said, "there's a culture in trenton of being punitive. being petty." trenton, new jersey, of course where the governor's office is located. in response to these allegations from fulop about bullying and retribution, christie had this to say. >> i don't know about specific meetings or what's going on, but certainly, you know, i will look into all of those things, but the fact is that what mayor fulop knows is when we agree with him from a policy perspective, we'll work with him. when we disagree with him, we'll express those disagreements. sometimes that will mean friction. >> as soon as christie finished speaking, this is the statement mayor fulop, himself, put out. "governor christie's comments today on my relationship with the state are a gross misrepresentation of the facts." joining me now, one of the foremost experts on the operations of governor chris
even at the time to heal over, you know, any bad feelings. i think that he came out of that race, you know, as someone who had been on the other side of a tough campaign against him. with people feeling pretty good, you know, about mitt romney at the end of the campaign. >> if chris christie had entered the race today, that obviously would have been great news for rick perry. centrist republicans would have been splitting votes between mitt romney and chris christie and would open up a lot of room to move for rick perry. right now rick per we doesn't have his footing. looks like mitt romney has a real straight shot at the nomination. do you think there is -- is there anything important to know about how the republican establishment is going to or not going to coalesce around mitt romney? >> i think a couple of things, rachel. i think you saw ken langone, a big christie supporter coming out today endorsing mitt romney. i think you will see a lot of undecided donors, big donors,
big christie supporter coming out today endorsing mitt romney. i think you will see a lot of undecided donors, big donors, part of what you would call the republican establishment will break to mitt romney decisively over the next couple days. i think this has been a tough couple weeks for rick perry. it's not like he's over or he's completely out of it. as we go forward to the next debates you look forward to seeing michele bachmann attacking him from the right, rick santorum attacking him from the right. obviously herman cain has risen pretty high in the national polls. i think all of those candidates are going to try to take a piece out of rick perry. i think rick santorum has every potential to see movement in his numbers in iowa. so you're going to see a pretty vigorous contest now about who's going to be the conservative l alternative to romney and a pile-on in that part of the primary. it will be interesting to watch. >> in terms of what comes out of that conservative, say, sort of still unanswered fight it be the
you know, any bad feelings. i think that he came out of that race, you know, as someone who had been on the other side of a tough campaign against him. with people feeling pretty good, you know, about mitt romney at the end of the campaign. >> if chris christie had entered the race today, that obviously would have been great news for rick perry. centrist republicans would have been splitting votes between mitt romney and chris christie and would open up a lot of room to move for rick perry. right now rick per we doesn't have his footing. looks like mitt romney has a real straight shot at the nomination. do you think there is -- is there anything important to know about how the republican establishment is going to or not going to coalesce around mitt romney? >> i think a couple of things, rachel. i think you saw ken langone, a big christie supporter coming