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Bridge gate, and where would he be now? the good luck is also bad luck in the sense that he's in danger of being a little bit too familiar by the time the next wave of candidates come in. if you believe as i do that the next presidential election will be decided on a crescent from pennsylvania to wisconsin, pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, michigan, particularly, you have to get three more presidential candidates out of the states. the governors of kasich in ohio, snyder in michigan, and walker in wisconsin. >> and maybe penson, indiana. >> there's a danger he's out there too early and the novel...

Bridge gate, the prevailing interpretations of christie fundamentally missed the mark. he has been so singularly successful at constructing his own mythology as a reformer, a crusader, a bipartisan problem solver that people have never really seen him clearly. the problem with christie isn't merely that he is a bully, it's that his political career is built on a rotten foundation. christie owes his rise to some of the most toxic forces in his state. powerful bosses who ensure that his vow to clean up new jersey will never come to pass. he has allowed them to escape scrutiny, rewarded them for ...

Was part of an effort by governor christie to use the port authority of new york and new jersey, a giant bistate agency, really as an additional arm of this government and a political wing to solve his political problems. so what happened during the tunnel, and we've learned some of this since bridge-gate is the same individuals, david wildstein, bill baroni, the ones who directed the lane closures, were also orchestrating from very early on, from way before christie publicly said there are cost overruns here, they came in to the port authority literally two months after christie was elected a...

Into bridge-gate had started to investigate. where did that money go, how were the decisions made? was it transparent? they were not getting answers. they were stonewalled. when it came to this round of f subpoenas, they say we want to understand this. because essentially, the trouble with bridgegate is is not just the mayor of ft. lee, but it's that the port authority was being used in a way that served governor christie perhaps more than it served to do what it's supposed to do, which is increase port activity in new york and new jersey. >> in terms of those political incentives might have l...

Empty because of his promise not to raise taxes. at the port authority, looking around for money to dump into that trust fund so you could avoid the potholes calls, would the tunnel money have been the biggest pot of money sitting there is. >> it was absolutely. it was $3 billion that once it was taken out of the tunnel could be redirected to this and in fact, that is what happened. this is not something that the port authority has done. and this is something the same committee that is now looking into bridge-gate had started to investigate. where did that money go, how were the decisions made...