involving also possible allegations of corruption. remember, before he was the bipartisan figure, he was the guy cleaning up new jersey politics. you have management questions. you have corruption allegations. and then you have this partisan pitched battle. and none of that represents what chris christie for the man that was supposed to the man who was going to change new jersey politics. right. there are subpoenas out from the state legislators super committee due back monday. what do you expect to happen after that? i mean, how long do you think this will run? that s a great question, al. i think listeners need to understand that investigations of this type are marathons. they re not sprints. which of course as richard pointed out is bad news for governor christie. and really, the starting gun has only sounded. i think what we need to really look for is not this alleged bipartisan investigation the legislature is obviously going to advance, but paul fishman is the u.s. at
experience with a big sprawling bureaucracy, because that s what this job is. it has to be important. this is one of the most unwieldy agencies in the federal government. it faces a lot, right now, existential questions about should it even persist in the form we know it as. it s very easy to come into dhs and know a whole lot about one thing that it does, cybersecurity, aviation security, immigration. it s very rare and in fact, we haven t really had it yet, for a dhs secretary to know everything or at least most things about everything dhs does. tell us what you think about jeh johnson. think he could be effective? fascinating choice. johnson has a very rounded background inside a lot of the very important national security law issues that he faced at the pentagon. for someone to run an agency like this, even with the management questions, he knows a lot as we were just discussing about the inner agency process that s going to be really important. and this will be a test of how