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There's a market for people like that. he has converted that from a positive to a negative in this way. if you're a hard-fisted guy that is taking on maybe the unions or maybe the press or somebody, your people love you. if you're a hard-fisted guy that kicks your own voters in the butt because they didn't vote for you, that turns you from a hard-fisted guy to a bully and that is his problem. whether this bridge thing turns out to be anything serious or not, that is the difference. >> that is the difference. >> jim, stay with us. coming up, "morning joe's" can't miss predictions for this wee...

And what we've seen is two, three, four, i mean, there's now more e-mail, i don't know how many more have come out, that's very clear that the personnel there was not sensitive to what seemed to be a fairly obvious wrong thing to do. >> all right. let's play this like a republican debate stage. and we will now play chris christie's response to that, which is one sentence that he gave in his press conference last week. >> that i delegate enormous authority to my staff. and enormous authority to my cabinet. >> charlie cook. we can imagine a lot of republican tv ads against him for that i delegat...

Republican tv ads against him for that i delegate enormous authority line. >> put aside the whole bridge thing. it's not that christie is that -- is ideologically -- i mean, yes, he's ideologically incompatible with where the republican base is, but it's not just imcompatibility, they hit him. they viscerally hate him. and so, i mean, and this was not going to be pretty. forget the bridge. >> after all christie did dare to make physical contact with barack obama. it's almost like case closed. and, you know, he's attacked the shutdown in washington. he is a conservative in many ways. he's not a...

You don't put him out front. rick scott, he should be a felon himself. this is the guy who stole $1.4 billion from the american public. chris christie is going to feel right at home down here in florida with rick scott. >> rick scott is going to tell chris christie, you've just got a bridge thing going on. >> exactly. >> let me show you how to really get out of stuff. >> yeah, i stole $1.4 billion. >> this is going to play out for a long time. how often does chris christie talk about this? does he keep it alive himself to exonerate himself or has he done everything he can do? >> from a media r...

And we are hearing that he will, to some degree in his state of the state address that comes later today. byron york, chief critical correspondent at the "washington examiner" and fox news contributor. byron, welcome, good morning to you. >> hi, martha. martha: what do you think? is that the major nexus which all of this comes as bill says? >> it absolutely is. there is no doubt that chris christie is not only leader, frontrunner in the 2016 republican race, set person most political insiders believe would have the best chance running against hillary clinton or anybody else the democrats would...