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Success of his policies, but some ohio democrats argue that kasich's deep cuts have left communities out in the cold such as cleveland, 60 million short. ruth conniff joins us tonight. if there's going to be a launching off pad for kasich this would be it wouldn't it? >> yeah. it's interesting though. the segment you just did on chicago and taking about kasich there's this commonality, which is cuts to public schools. they're causing a lot of trouble for people. now is the time to make deeper tax cuts more cuts and hearing all the objections from republicans and democrats alike really sets up ...

Moderate and reasonable which i think gives him a shot in a general election. >> ruth conniff, thank you very much. chris christie tried to do some damage control today one day after a judge ruled he cannot follow through on his plan to reanything a cut in pension payments. in the wake of the ruling but the union he was talking about said that no deal had been reached. there is one thing that christie said today that no one is going to argue with. >> the numbers do not lie. let me tell you this. we don't need any court to tell us we have a serious problem. >> indeed. new jersey is in horribl...

On the show. in a series of tweets today he deemed prosecutors false. wrote that no laws were broken and called the inquiry nothing more than a partisan operation. joining me on the phone, ruth conniff of "progressive" magazine who's been covering this story. ruth, tell me first of all why we're seeing these documents now? >> well, chris, the reason we're seeing these documents now is that the club for growth want this investigation to go away. they went to federal court and asked the judge to review whether the investigation had any merit at all. in response to that request, the federal judge...

County executive before he was governor and led to the convictions of six people including two former walker aides convicted of illegally doing political work on county time. walker did not respond to our request and invitation to come on the show. in a series of tweets today he deemed prosecutors false. wrote that no laws were broken and called the inquiry nothing more than a partisan operation. joining me on the phone, ruth conniff of "progressive" magazine who's been covering this story. ruth, tell me first of all why we're seeing these documents now? >> well, chris, the reason we're seeing...

Because this is the smoking gun. it is, you know, walker in his own words saying, you know, we need to get this act together. with all these groups. and r.j. johnson is a point person on it and we're a coordinator. >> ruth conniff from the "progressive" magazine. we lost the shot due to weather but your voice is so gripping that it worked. things don't appear to be looking so good for governor chris christie, either. that's next. ♪