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Damage to the new jersey wetlands. chris christie can use a law he proposed last year to steer the exxon money to balance his state's budget gap. instead of putting it to words environmental restoration. this is barely being talked about. in reality, this seems bad on every level. >> yeah because you have this staring you in the face. that's what everybody is looking for. that's where the heat comes in. and by the way, chris christie we all know by memory the most famous political e-mail in the history after political e-mails. time for some traffic problems ft. lee. that was from a yahoo accou...

Ferguson. it's not just the anecdotal -- overwhelming anecdotal evidence we heard over and over not just from young african-americans, but from older african-americans, saying we are pulled over all the time. they are filling their budget gap with tickets given to us. now the data shows that. the state of missouri has already pointed out these incredible statistical disparities. but also it gives you some insight into why so many middle class, working class, ordinary african-americans were marching day after day for weeks. it was bigger than mike brown. that there was a relatinship between thi...

>> there is no other way to fix a severe problem like this, but with pain. >> christie's over the top attempt at self-parody would be just that, if it weren't directly at odds with his actual record. this spring the governor is choosing not to make over $2 billion in scheduled pension payments, amove that financial an rigids say will likely lead to further downgrades in the state's ed credit rating and the budget crisis worst down the road. when it comes to actual deficit reduction measures like the tax on millionaires prosed by new jersey democrats, christie refuses. so no pain. then this. ea...

And an elementary school. on may 20th, that school shut its doors for the last time. >> remove kind of the heart of the community. one of the larger employers in town. everyone participates at school but also participates in activities and groups in town. so it's just a part of what makes a small town tick. >> darryl talbott has worked in the area school district for 30 years. he's been the principal of marquette elementary for the last seven and he's also the school's phis ed teacher. now that the school's closed, he's retiring from public education. >> a lot of our families have been here fo...

And then what does he do? he moves the goalposts, he changes the rules. this is chris christie at his best. this is what he's done continuously. it's not to be -- it's not a surprise to us in new jersey, but it's unacceptable. >> he ran around the state, denigrating every one of his predecessors, democrat and republican, basically being like, these shiftless losers hustled and conned all you people, because every year, year over year, they had a shortfall. and instead of paying the money into the pension, they just took it to close their budget gap. that was the great sin. he is, am i wrong th...