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Tonight, jockey for position at cpac talking points. lots of interesting speakers at the annual conservative political action conference in washington. republicans who may need to do some reputation rehab with the base. new jersey governor chris christie whose star has fallen since bridge gate gave a terrific speech mostly on the economy and was well-received. florida senator marco rubio once considered a darling of the tea party before that is senate's immigration reforeign policy in his address. >> there is only one nation on earth capable of rallying and bringing together the free people on...

So cpac and the hard right conservatism that it showcases snubbed him last year, well so much better for his moderate cred. christie, did, of course, get himself re-elected by 22 points last november. that was the biggest margin for republican in new jersey in 28 years. so it seemed he was on his way. then his world turned upsidedown. days before his inauguration for that second term, the state legislature released thousands of pages of e-mails tieing members of his inner circle to the scandal commonly known as bridge-gate. deputy chief of staff apparently ordered up gridlock traffic for the t...

Agree with you, what would happen to david samson? >> so there's many things that the commission can do. they could, for example, fine him up to $10,000. they could impose imprisonment up to six months. and they could bar him from public office for up to five years. for someone like david samson who has been in the middle of every, it seems like, every single chris christie scandal from bridge gate to this harrison question it would be significant that he's barred from being able to hold public office. >> and what do we know about the track record of the state ethics commission? is this genera...

Investigating bridge gate even though he himself is tangentially involve in the scandal. we had heard there was a reference but now we can see it. even though he is on the committee, the co-chairs of the legislative committee investigating this issue say that senator o'toole may actually face questioning on this issue. which would probably mean that he would have to get up off the dais and sit in the witness chair and then come back to the dais later. or maybe i just talked like this. the one thing we got from the redaction is this. this is what we had before. this is the old thing tex bottom ...

On the legislative committee investigating bridge gate even though he himself is tangentially involve in the scandal. we had heard there was a reference but now we can see it. even though he is on the committee, the co-chairs of the legislative committee investigating this issue say that senator o'toole may actually face questioning on this issue. which would probably mean that he would have to get up off the dais and sit in the witness chair and then come back to the dais later. or maybe i just talked like this. the one thing we got from the redaction is this. this is what we had before. this...