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Them and their states of mind. what did you make of that? >> to be honest with you, when i read this, i was appalled. i was appalled that the taxpayers would have to pay for it. and as a woman, i was appalled that they would say that brilgt ann kelly did this all on her own because she was scorned. we're not back in the stone ages, they're trying to put out that tony th that the tony of the -- bridget ann kelley would not have had those responsibilities in his office if she could noll be reliable. >> and she was hired by governor chris christie. to if she was that unreliable and not stable, i ...

There's something to go back on. >> that is why, i think, joan, this does read as the opening argument for the defense, that you do have, as steve just pointed out, a kind of preimpeachment, a prebrutal of anything kelly might say. it does read like anyone who could potentially give evidence that perhaps chris christie perhaps knew anything, et cetera is being taken down. but the women are the ones being accused of having some sort of emotional problem. >> and people now try to blame this report on randy mastro and crihristies lawyers have done ts thing. but i can't believe this went out witho...

News conference. >> i expect it's going to be another long pity party, about how wronged he feels about this and how let down he's been and how he's losing sleep, like he was telling diane sawyer, i expect him to do exactly what he did last time. i don't know if it will go on for two hours, i don't know if he has that stamina, but i expect it to be self serving and he won't give an inch. >> be sure to check out joan's article on the christie scandal at salon.com. we're also linked to the report. steve and bob are going to stick with us as we continue our coverage here on msnbc. we're just mi...

To the lane closure, although the report doesn't explain how. christie critics are not buying it. friends of ms. kelly are calling the report sexist, saying it doubles down on a strategy of portraying ms. kelly as due police to us and ze pending on men for approval and stability. if you believe an emotional and stupid jilted woman caused bridgegate, i've got a bridge to sell you. steve carnanke has been extensively covering the bridgegate scandal. co-author of chris -- joan, i will go to you first, because you wrote what was in my brain and i love it when somebody who is an excellent writer ca...

>> i'm going pretend like i know more than the next person. i'm going fight the elitist because too often, and for too long now, i think the elitist have tried to make people like me and people in the heart land of america feel like we just don't get it and big government's going to have to take care of us. >> joining me, atlantic media political director and steve carnanke. let's talk about your theory about what you've discovered about the primary voter and how sarah palin could still be a real player and possibly win this thing. >> she has real assets here and one of which is reflected in t...