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Who are unwilling to make the hard choices and look people in the eyes and say, no, you'll take less money and short the pension fund. >> that was the defining feature! that was the whole thing. people forget that the theme of tough talking and taking on the teacher's union was all about this central policy issue, which was getting the pension finances right. and here he is, you know, a term and a half in, and the pension finances are still a mess. >> and don't forget, the way he got that pension thing -- senator lesniak, he brought democrats on board with this. he brought -- one of the sort o...

Has elected a series of cowards who are unwilling to make the hard choices and look people in the eyes and say, no you'll take less money and short the pension fund. >> that was the defining feature! that was the whole thing. people forget that the theme of tough talking and taking on the teacher's union was all about this central policy issue, which was getting the pension finances right. and here he is you know a term and a half in and the pension finances are still a mess. >> and don't forget the way he got that pension thing -- senator lesniak, he brought democrats on board with this. he b...

This central policy issue, which was getting the pension finances right. and here he is, you know, a term and a half in, and the pension finances are still a mess. >> and don't forget, the way he got that pension thing -- senator lesniak, he brought democrats on board with this. he brought -- one of the sort of dirty secrets of chris christie's governorship, how does he succeed as a governor in a blue state getting something like that through. there's a big democratic boss that basically runs south jersey, and chris christie made an alliance with that guy and chris christie got all those democ...

Highway trust fund. the companies will have to put the money into the pension fund but it falls odd the ten year budget window congress uses to decide if the bug is balanced, it doesn't count. >> you're not creating revenue. you're pulling revenue from the future into the present. >> exactly. because of the ten-year thing. the amount of revenue this will generate over ten years is enough to fill the highway trust fund back up for five more months. so this buys us five months and then in january we have to come back and find a new gimmick. we can't use the pension thing because we already used ...

The -- the companies will eventually have to put the money in the pension funds so later they'll pay less corporate tax. if it falls outside the ten-year window that congress uses to decide whether it's balanced, it doesn't count. >> you're not creating any new revenue. you're pulling revenue from the future into the present. >> exactly. because of that ten-year thing. the amount of revenue this will generate over ten years is enough to fill the highway trust fund back up for five more months. so this buys us five months then in january we'll have to come back and find a new gimmick to put mon...