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Buzzfeed.com. thank you for joining us. casey, start with you. you probably spent the most time this week with republicans than anybody at this table. >> a lot of time together. >> your observations on just the conversations you had this week in washington with republicans about chris christie, what were you picking up on? >> chris christie is still somebody who republicans view as a potential candidate in 207116. he's gone from the one who sits at the top of everyone's list when you ask. so, hey, who do you think's going to be best in the running for 2016? it used to be, first answer, all our...

To me at least harks a only in jersey feel to it. right? i always say, christie sort of traded on nationally a positive image of new jersey. the image that new jersey is home to a lot of -- people who are rough around the edges but give you straight talk, and they're not going to b.s. you. chris christie would go to these republican events, in iowa, wherever it was, tell them, i'm going to talk to you jersey-style and they love it. it would be blunt -- seems the other image of new jersey is reinforceed by all this, casey, when talking to republicans this week, were you picking up on that? this...

Best friends, his law firm, represents. i don't think people equate that on the same level of civil rights, but i guess that's one thing i'm wondering about, casey. that image of bullying. it sort of cut both ways, i think, and a lot of republicans received it one way the last few years. he's a tough, strong leader like you're hearing from mitt romney. i wonder if republicans themselves are rethinking that? definitely a sense that. >> definitely a sense while on the one hand christie's personality has been something that's appealed to even some elements of the tea party. he has problems with c...

0 administration are sending a similar message a few days later. this came after the george washington bridge lane closure episode which simmered beneath the surface for much of the fall had just exploded into a full-fledged scandal. together the scandals, we learned this week, completely eroded the massive popularity chris christie built with garden state voters more than a year ago in the wake of hurricane sandy. there you see he starts to shake hands with dignitaries on the stage. leaders of the state legislature, ex-governors, tom kane senior, supposedly christie's mentor, tension between ...

he says his 53-year-old mom sherry hicks and his step dad were visiting from santa barbara. they were walking home from starbucks wrapping up what he describes as a wonderful day. >> it should be a great day, first time i saw my mom in three months since i graduated coll e college. >> reporter: but just a block from home the unthinkable happened. police say 53-year-old hossein tabrizi drove his truck up on to the sidewalk striking hann's mother and his 23-year-old wife shane hahn. >> he was speeding. he came directly at us. there was no time to move, and i saw his eyes before he kill...