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Usually that is something that democrats really rally their base up on in an election year. what is happening there? >> cares about people. it goes back to there. again, you have to say it is an image problem. we don't hate hungry babies. this is ridiculous. they have to sell their message in a different way. >> message and policies. >> you have a great message and terrible policies. >> absolutely. you look at the minimum wage debate or long term unemployment debate which is the place where they are arguing income inequity now. how do the republicans approach it? they have to say what are you ...

At half past the hour, welcome back to "weekends with alex witt." governor chris christie wants to rebuild trust with new jersey, but the investigation into bridge gate may not be going away any time soon. nbc news has learned that christie's appointee personally showed up to watch the lane closures on the bridge and a statement from the speaker-elect includes the call for a special session thursday to reauthorize subpoena power and continue the current investigation. nbc's kelly o'donnell has the very latest from trenton for us. te kelly, hi to you. >> reporter: state lawmakers and other offi...

An image problem for christie despite the fact that he right now is popular with the base? >> you know. before this, he was sort of fashioned as almost bipartisan, my little pony. his, you know, biggest moment was hugging obama. >> the hug. >> standing here election night. he talked about hugging the state of new jersey. he was mr. hugs. this is really the opposite of that. but i think, steve is right. sort of, this is kind of the limited scandal. one thing that is interesting though, you know this has brought out more stories of christie's, allies kind of taking revenge in other instances. if...

Unemployment insurance, food stamps, increasing the minimum wage, and republicans wonder why they have an image problem. >> there you go again with the image problem. >> seriously they are caving in for a group of middle who have other jobs, and this is a $6 billion item over ten years, yet these are the phones who say -- which are huge -- >> this is just simple constituent casework. in essence -- and i don't think this was geared towards republicans. i isle -- and this was nothing look standing in a town hall that makes you change your mind. this is how this happens, how people change their m...

Code. this allows thieves to make counterfeit cards they use to make purchases, return those goods for money and that's how the money is laundried. despite what it means for target, right now website down, deals with credit cards because there's been so many people going to the site. the phone number you call in order to ask about credit cards, that is not picking up in large part because there's so many people calling. it's trying to get more people in to deal with customer's concerns. what they are likely to see is penalties and higher fees as well. it's a costly image problem for them as we...