. ♪ >>> here's what's happening. president obama has told the german television he will not allow u.s. spying to damage relationships with germany and other u.s. allies. aimed at repairing the damage from reports the nsa had monitored communications of european citizens and listened in on angela merkel's cell phone. >>> a boy wanted in the shooting at a philadelphia high school has turned himself into police. two students were wounded in that shooting. now back to "lockup." >>> rikers is a jail, not a prison. and that means most of the people housed here are still awaiting trial. their average stay here is 48 days. with thousands of men and women moving in and out of the system, it's no wonder rikers eventually ran out of space. they came up with an innovative way to deal with the overflow. >> i'm only here for the proof. i thought this boat was going to hawaii. >> it's still in jail. you're still behind bars. when you look out, you see barbed wire, gates. >> i live right there. that's my buildings right there. and i can't, i can look at them, but i can't reach them. >> welcome aboard

discussions at high level u.s.-russia meetings about lending moscow high-tech american equipment to thwart remotely debt fated bombs. but it's too late for that. u.s. military officials tell nbc news, they don't have time to install the anti-bomb technology before the games. the venues are spread out, the coastal structure built around the tight circle of the stadiums for the opening ceremony, nearby is the athlete's village, connected to a train station and airport. 30 miles away up theen mountain road is a mountain cluster t. skiing is spread out over slopes and valleys. all the talk about security threats has some american athletes and their families concerned. free style skier mother diana hermann is still going but almost cancelled twice. >> the u.s. government seem they question whether the russians have a handle on it or not. >> reporter: family members of other athletes say they are cancelling in part because of security. >> later today, nr nsa leaker edward snowden will speak out, a week removed from president obama's speech on reforms. most americans think snowden should s

he didn't stone wall questions. he faces investigation by the u.s. attorney. he went to florida for an event that was supposed to launch 2016 for him. he's falling apart in the polls at home and nationally. if the guys was innocent, they'd be putting out all the e-mails and he wouldn't be lawyering up. he can't run new jersey. so let him run the nation? >> there's a lot of material to go after there by those who would be competing against him. how is he going to be able to function as the head of the republican governors association and have this cloud of trouble around him and be able to function properly and do the kind of job that has to be done there? >> i think he's going to be tremendously distracted. they're probably spending 80% of their time trying to handle this, let alone run the state of new jersey and the republican governors association. he may soon get to the point where he worries more about avoiding criminal charges than about whether or not he can run for the white house. we just don't know at this point, but we're going to have a lot more coming out. as i said ear

through her office to us that she has been requested by the u.s. attorney's office to do not do any further media interviews. yet another indicator of the serious turn the story has taken. if she's going to talk, the u.s. attorney prefers she do her talking with them. the christie administration now facing 20 subpoenas from the state assembly, all to his inner circle, which will have to be produced by february third. the inspector general has requested an investigation into the explosive allegations from dawn zimmer. it's not surprising that dawn zimmer has become target number one for those pushing back to defend chris christie. >> mayor zimmer just shortly before she made this revelation said she didn't believe any holdup in the funds had anything to do with any kind of retribution for not endorsing the governor. >> this is a lady mayor who asked for $127 million of hazard mitigation money from the governor to give that to her from the federal money, when the state was only receiving in its entirety $300 million. >> i'm sorry -- >> is there any reason you don't come on the megyn k

cohortly planted software allows the u.s. to conduct remote surveillance and create a digital highway for launching cyber attacks, but right now there is no evidence the nsa does this inside the united states. most of the software is implanted by gaining access to computer networks, but the "times" reports the ns sais increasingly using a secret technology that relies on radio waves. the paper adds that they have used it to monitor china's army, the russian military, drug cartels, trade institutions inside the european union, and sometimes u.s. partners against terrorism, like saudi arabia, india and pakistan. the "times" reports the nsa calls the effort an active defense and has been using the technology for several years now. >>> okay, so, to a scary story of a school shooting in new mexico, where two students were shot, including a young boy who is fighting for his life at this hour. police say a 12-year-old boy opened fire tuesday at berrendo middle school in roswell. he surrendered to school officials, who coaxed him into dropping his gun. right now he's in an albuquerque psychiatric

, if my client gets immunity from the u.s. attorney, from the new york authorities and new jersey authorities, you'll get the answers to your questions. that's a very subtle hint we have a story to tell here but we need immunity to tell it first. in short, is david wildstein the john dean of this affair? one other clue that got overlooked yesterday. those documents that have been turned over by wildstein, those e-mails, those incredibly damaging e-mails, they have all those deletions because the subpoena only called for documents responsive to the traffic closures, to the issue in question. while there are all those deletions, one of the things wildsteen did include was references to a meeting that was proposed between christie and david sampson, christie's appointee as chairman of the port authority. in mid-august just a few days before bridget kelly writes that e-mail saying time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. why did he include the references to a meeting between christie and sampson in this response to a subpoena? that's the question i've been talking to a lot of people

together, that is true. and ever since i was a u.s. attorney, i've ensdwrendereded sense and feel with the people closest to me that we're family, we work together, we tell each other the truth, we support each other and admonish each other. i am heartbroken that someone who i permitted to be in that circle of trust for the last five years betrayed my trust. i would never have come out here four or five weeks ago and made a joke about these lane closures if i had ever had an inkling that anyone on my staff would have been so stupid but to be involved and then so deceitful to just not disclose the information of their involvement to me when directly asked by their superior. and those questions were not asked, by the way, just once. they were asked repeatedly. so i take this action today, because it's my job. i am responsible for what happened. i am sad to report to the people of new jersey that we fell short. we fell short of the expectations that we've created over the last four years with the type of excellence from the golf that they should expect from this office. but i have repeate

drill instructors have been through a special three-week boot camp with the u.s. marine corps. >> what little i can provide them here, a little structure, give them an opportunity, just that one thought at that one time before they make that fatal mistake of either getting high, picking up a gun, or violating their parole, or better yet, just doing something wrong. >> why are you looking at me? i'm not your girlfriend. you want me to be your girlfriend, i'll make love to you the hard way. >> they have that one thought, wow, i better think about this, because last time i came to jail and this might be my last trip up. >> i've learned discipline, mainly, mainly discipline, how to follow orders, something that i'm not accustomed to doing. >> like mike morales, inmates who have stayed inside rikers jail cells say they would rather be here. >> it's safer here. >> it's safer to be in this program than to be in a regular jail? >> ma'am, yes, ma'am. >> detail, post colors, post. >> we get fresh air. you know, every time you step out the door, you know, you can see the stars. you can s

this where things that might have otherwise been looked at the other way, u.s. attorneys got a lot of other things to do than to try to turn new jersey into the pristine reformer state that it is never going to be. now everybody is on guard and everybody is aware. and a lot of democrats who in the past might have decided to play ball with chris christie, who had played ball with him in the past, who didn't want to be threatened by him or wanted to go along, the mayor said times and circumstances have changed. i'm going to come forward. one of the things chris christie has to worry aboutt and anybody thinking of him as a potential presidential candidate is the democrats going along are going to say in the light of day let's look at this a little differently and i will come forward. i'm sure that dawn zimmer is not the only one thinking that right now. >> thank you. >> it seems to me that in the real world federal prosecution is not going to go forward based on what we have seen publicly at this point with respect to the mayor zimmer situation. however, if there is corroboration it seem

governor's office today, it says the administration is fully cooperating with the u.s. attorney's review and other appropriate inquiries. again that use of the word "appropriate, which has some of the legislators on edge saying, wait a second, are you suggesting, governor, that our inquiries are not appropriate or leaving open the option at some point of claiming this is partisan politics? that's certainly a question the governor will have to answer. >> quickly here, michael, you were looking at that first tranche, if you will, of going through the documents. anything else -- that may be subpoenaed or that might be out there as we speak? >> look, the fact is we have only seen a fraction of what's out there. if we take those demming e-mails that came out last week which talk for time with traffic problems in ft. lee, written by bridget kelly, the deputy chief of staff, and then david wildstein, suggests there was a -- there were prior texts about where this idea came from. that certainly with both these assembly and senate committees, they'll be looking for all those e-mails, the prior e-

states to be behind insurgent attacks in his country. a u.s. ambassador called the allegations a deeply seeded conspiracy. we have not talked nearly enough about afghanistan as a country, as the media on this channel, on this show. you have reported from afghanistan. there it seems relations are as fraught as they have been and yet we have further down the ladder to go. there is now a new fight brewing about the release of 37 prisoners who are regarded as dangerous insurgents. how much worse can things get in terms of our relationship over there? >> let's look at the fact we saw a clip of the president recognizing this army ranger. this young man did ten tours. ten times he's deployed in these war zones and gets seriously wounded this last time. this is a generation that's grown up in this permanent state of were. when obama took office, his security advisor said there were less than 100 in afghanistan. what is the war about now? this is a fight about a domestic insurgency. what do we tell the families who are killed now? karzai's government is incredibly corrupt. they play both sides o

of with subpoenas coming out whether from the state legislative committee and potentially u.s. attorney and who knows what u.s. senate committee will do. we'll get more e-mails and more answers. my suspicion right now is willful ignorance is the explanation for what chris christie is sort of put forward on this. the idea that he's a reasonably intelligent guy. he's a former federal prosecutor. you have all of this -- you have all of these questions being raised by the press. you have controversy swirling in the political arena and he doesn't ask any questions in october, november, december, but there was also a reason for that. the reason was as i said before, the subpoena authority for the state legislative committee that looked into this, the reason you have all these e-mails out right now is because of that subpoena authority due to expire next tuesday. the thing to always understand about new jersey politics, you think of democrats and republicans, christie is republican. democrats are against him. that's not the way to understand new jersey politics. the key to understand

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-- look, if chris christie were a u.s. attorney now and we had a democratic governor and the same facts were presented, he would have already begun conducting a federal investigation and that would have been merited. but at the very least we need to have an independent law enforcement authority independent of the governor because the governor's attorney general is appointed bid him. the governor's comptroller is appointed by him. we need an independent legal authority such as the u.s. attorney's ochffice to come in d get to the bottom of this. >> to find out what he knew and when he knew it. i think he's going to be forced into it -- >> i didn't want to cut you off. >> he's going to be forced into it otherwise people won't have the comfort level they need to place their faith and trust in him again. >> thank you for being with us today as this continues to evolve. we want to go to the state assemblies transportation committee which is having an open hearing with david wildstein, one of the key players in this. >> the right to refuse to answer questions of this committee is not per

said he hunts for justice regardless of the politics. >> i think it is fair to say that the u.s. attorney's office is an equal opportunity prosecutor of public corruption. 99% of public officials and government employees across various levels of the city, county or state and federally are honest. there have been a number of high profile cases. for those individuals we can say they didn't get the message. >> this honest public official didn't get a message for over a decade. it was reed shaw's job to make sure they did. now it is his job again. late today the new jersey assembly announced members of their new special investigation committee. tomorrow they will get right to work likely putting [ inaudible ] and campaign manager bill stepien. this investigation is just beginning. with the new special counsel on board we might be close to getting some answers. >>> joining me new jersey congressman frank pallone. congressman pallone this is a seasoned prosecutor. >> the main thing is this has to be thoroughly investigated. i think that the public deserves some answers. i think a lot

hours meeting with the u.s. attorney's office in new jersey, the federal prosecutor who has started an inquiry on the bridge issue in new jersey. mayor zimmer says the meeting was at the request of the u.s. attorney. she said that she has not only answered all of the u.s. attorney's questions thus far, but that she also handed over her personal diary. she handed over her journal to the prosecutors. that's the journal that she says was her contemporaneous accounting of what happened back in may when she said those two members of the christie cabinet effectively, shook her down for sandy relief money. the claims from the hoboken mayor are explosive. if proven, they could potentially be even more damaging than the allegations around the shutting down of lanes on to the george washington bridge. not only because the alleged shakedown here would be, itself, an egregious abuse of public power for private ends, but also because the handling of sandy, in new jersey, and the recovery effort in new jersey is something that governor christie expects to be central to his national appeal as a polit

have been prevented if u.s. officials had heeded warnings about terrorist activity. the reports say analysts too quickly classified protests as the reason for the violence without proper intelligence to back up that assertion. four americans including ambassador chris stevens were killed in the attacks that fell on the anniversary of 9/11. >> bombings across iraq killed dozens of people that took place outside busy markets and outside of a funeral. the u.n. says the death toll in 2013 was the highest in six years. >>> an explosive emergency near detroit right during the height of the morning rush. a huge warehouse fire sent flames shooting from this recycling factory. a number of explosions can be seen from our chopper shot. luckily no one was hurt. the cause is still under investigation. >>> today marks five years since the miracle on the hudson. survivors are gathered where it happened on manhattan's west side. >> they'll toast to life and take a boat ride out to where the plane landed. five years ago today flight 1549 splash landed in the river within minutes of departing laguard

are things that could be subpoenaed by the u.s. attorney to look at whether there's a game plan and some of those things might indicate, well, where does ft. lee fall into that top 100. the other thing that troubles me, they mention about the town hall meetings that the governor has had. town hall-style meetings which have always been considered somewhat orchestrated for political purposes. but there was something set up where there was a study done in terms of donors and possible endorsements, these were on the public dime, these events. >> right. and the "times" reports a lot of this was under the so-called interstate or government affairs piece of this, right? which is supposed to be working with local government on public goods, public interests. it's not supposed to be a shadow campaign. the laws on that can get complex. david corn, i want to bring you in on the texting piece of this. you've been known to use a cell phone to text yourself. well, you and chris christie have that in common. according to the "times" here, they said mr. christie attended to the smallest of details.

u.s. attorney paul fishman for several hours. right now, this is a he said/she said story, but only one side has spoken to and turned the over her journal to authorities. she now faces the threat of prosecution if she's lying. joining me now is steve kornacki, the host of "up" on msnbc, who broke the story over the weekend on his show. steve, phenomenal reporting. >> thanks. >> great work. >> thank you. >> all right, so let's subject this to the massive amount of scrutiny here. you've got the christie camp coming out and saying that this is characterizing her as a partisan mayor with an ax to grind. what's your response to the characterization that this is a democrat who wants to take down chris christie, waited until things -- he was softened up by this scandal and now she's coming in for the kill. she wants to get her name in front of the camera. >> this is all the questions we had -- and ultimately, i'm not here to say that mayor dawn zimmer is telling the truth. i don't know. the story, for all i know, could collapse. but what happened was, she was willing to go on the record wi

charges related to his attempts to benefit from choosing a replacement for president obama in the u.s. senate, in effect trying to sell a senate seat. jurors said fbi wiretaps of his phone conversations were the key here. and as he met with reporters after the verdict today, blagojevich told him he was trying to learn his lesson about talking too much. >> i frankly am stunned. there's not much left to say other than we want to get home to our little girls and talk to them and explain things to them. and then try to sort things out. >> jurors added they wanted the verdict to send a message to public servants about the line between deal making and corruption. blagojevich will become the fourth illinois governor in recent memory to go to jail. his predecessor george ryan is still in federal prison, also for corruption. >> before illinois democratic governor rod blagojevich started serving 14 years in federal prison for corruption, while he was still governor of illinois, while he was fighting those corruption charges against him. rod blagojevich did a round of media interviews in new yor

u.s. interests safe, sometimes at a moment's notice. they were deployed in 134 countries in 2013. that is about 70% of the nations on earth. the military points out that on a skiconsistent basis, is numbes more like 80 countries. the size and scope of the operations under way might actually harm u.s. interests abroad. while exact numbers and dollar figures are hard to come by, what's difficult for the military dispute is that these elite forces operate largely in secret and their reach may be growing. nick takes us inside the world of the shadow army. his book "kill anything that moves" is also out in paperback. welcome. >> thanks for having me on. >> absolutely. let's start with where these policies come from. your article says maybe this secretive and expansive program is problematic. you spend a lot of time writing about the military. does the buck ultimately stop with president obama and the congress having ordered and arranged this type of foreign policy, or do you think we don't know enough to know where the buck stops? >> well, i think -- of course, these policies certainl

the u.s. attorney's office. this is the latest allegation to surface after the george washington bridge scandal. a news of a federal audit of hurricane sandy aid used for a tourism campaign featuring the governor. kelly o'donnell explains the breakdown of the new allegation, another that team christie vehemently denied. >> only brief glimpsed of governor christie coming and going from florida republican fund-raisers this weekend, but a once supportive ally, the democratic mayor of hoboken, made a series of tv appearances and allegations against christie's administration. >> it's not fair for the governor to hold sandy funds hostage for the city of hoboken because he wants me to give back to one private developer. >> dawn zimmer released a statement sunday night saying she met for several hours at their request with the new jersey u.s. attorney's office. and promised to provide any requested information and testify under oath. zimmer claims that last may, new jersey's lieutenant governor told her that hurricane relief money would be delayed unless the mayor supported a particular

federal investigation, the u.s. attorney's office is in inquiry right now. and it if proceeds to a full investigation, you could have a grand jury required where you don't get to plead the fifth. those people will be brought up and have to give answers. your thoughts on any of that? >> i think people like us tend to talk about political spin a lot -- >> --! >> no. >> you can't spin your way out of something like that. >> right. >> it doesn't matter what chris christie says. it will either be exonerated and this will look like a serious management lapse on his part in hiring people he should not have hired and empowering people he should not have empowered or it will be far more serious than that. and i presume both the democrats and the legislature, and whatever federal investigations are pursued, they're going to deliver at least most of those facts. >> and, jonathan, the other part of this story is since the initial bridge revelations have come out, we've seen story after story, hmm, was i targeted, one mayor had all these meetings lined up with cabinet-level folks. all of a sudd

has a c -- writing. that'll mean a lot to the u.s. attorney's office. >> okay. great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. remember to answer tonight's questions there at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts with us on twitter and facebook. >>> coming up, chris christie's superintendent suspended several public school principals. why? a goofy campaign ad from the governor of california. [ male announcer ] this is the story of the dusty basement at 1406 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall off roble avenue. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had the power to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world's great stories. that began much the same way ours did. in a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪ in fact, they depend on a unique set of nutrients. [ male announcer ] that's why there's ocuvite to help protect your eye health. as you age, your eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye

. meanwhile on capitol hill, the u.s. senate commerce committee has already launched its own inquiry. jay rockefeller is asking the port authority for answers. he has set a january 15th deadline for a response. new jersey's democratic senators cory booker and bob menendez called the revelations "troubling" and said they will both be monitoring the senate commerce committee's inquiry. i want to bring in mark murray, "new york times" political reporter who covers governor chris christie for the "times." and as we have come to find out, steve is also an expert of sorts when it comes to new jersey politics. michael, let me start with you. we know that david willstein has been testifying now for about 30 or 40 minutes. at this point, has he said anything noteworthy or does he continue to plead the fifth? >> my understanding is that he has continued to plead the fifth to essentially make the case that this is not the right venue for him. i think that's problematic -- of course, legal, but problematic for him and the governor. this is a moment when governor christie is arguing for disclosure for

once was the u.s. attorney for the district of new jersey and newark. if you're in trouble in new jersey or anywhere else in america, you can't get better representation than michael chertoff. and now chris christie's favorite chairman of the port authority, david samson has michael chertoff representing him. chris christie's new team of the best and the brightest defense lawyers, headed by a former federal prosecutor will not be able to help chris christie with voters, who in a new quinnipiac poll out today are turning against him. in a hypothetical 2016 if thetial match against hillary clinton, mrs. clinton beats chris christie now 46% to 38%. a big change from the december poll that had christie actually one point ahead of mrs. clinton. 42 to 41. the biggest change in that poll is among prized independent voters who preferred christie over clinton in december by 15 points. and today say they would now choose clinton over christie by a point. that's a 16-point loss for chris christie from the last poll to today's poll. and as he loses support in the polls, chris christie is gett

is a former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst. and bob ingle is with the asbury park press. and he is the co-author of "chris christie: the inside story of his rise to power." mr. coffey, talk about the three elements here, criminality, if there was any crime committed, who might have been involved or is exposed to being charged with a crime, and what investigators might do and prosecutors might decide to do with that exposure on their part. >> well, there is still the big question of what exactly is a federal crime here. and obviously, investigators aren't sending subpoenas around unless they have some definite idea as to what the federal crimes might be. i think it's going to take development of facts to see if there are federal jurisdictional elements here. but we think they're looking at, for example, a question of whether there was some kind of extortion within a general meaning of the word of extortion that used the instrumentality of an interstate facility such as a bridge, perhaps a conspiracy to violate civil rights. they've got things that they're looking at. they have

important because of all the subpoenas that are out there. because you've got a former u.s. attorney from chicago who's been brought in by the legislature. you've got the u.s. attorney in new jersey, paul fishman, beginning to look at various things. chris christie will have to set up an informal department of government to keep track of the investigations going on. >> yeah. that's absolutely right. what we heard today didn't match that environment. this government today almost sounded like he was in a pretraffic e-mail mindset. like he was still living in the time before. we all saw the documents that showed people in the administration used and misused government resources for payback. take a listen to him. >> we have to play outside the red and blue boxes that the media pundits put us in. we have to be willing to reach out the to others who look or speak differently than us. >> he makes it sound like it's other people's problem when it is partisanship when his own aides were doing partisan payback. >> the problem with the narrative as we say these days is he was talking about bipa

u.s. attorney has announced the opening of a federal investigation and key christie appointee at the center of the scandal pled the fifth in front of the new jersey house committee and we will get to all of that. >>> but before we do, governor christie gave the performance of his life today. once apologizing and portraying himself as the victim, all in an effort to prove he has nothing left to hide, but there is so, so much we still do not know. >> good morning. >> today in new jersey, chris christie put on a marathon performance. ripped straight from a "west wing" script. >> i should do a till they drop press conference on the nuclear accident. answer every reporter's question. stay at the microphone until i bore them to death. >> during a press conference that lasted 108 minutes the world got a chance to see how chris christie is dealing with the scandal that could end his career in politics. for one thing, chris christie is stunned. >> i'm stunned. >> he is embarrassed. >> it's embarrassing. >> he's also humiliated. >> because he's been betrayed. >> a person close to me betray

american people. if he does, he can hold the u.s. senate this november. if he doesn't, he probably can't. for all kinds of good american reasons, let's give these efforts a mush. and that's hardball for now, thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. two new reports give us two new pieces of the puzzle being fit together by lawyers and legislators in the state of new jersey. so so far, allegations and documentation have centered around alleged political retribution. today we have a story of an apparent reward. >> this is an historic day. i can tell you i've watched politics in this state for most of my life. and i never thought i'd see a day like this. >> for the christie re-election campaign the mission was clear. win a second term by a blowout margin and then set sights on the white house in 2016. and central to that mission was painting christie as a bipartisan kind of guy, capable of winning over republicans and democrats alike. the key to that is racking up endorsements. today the new york times report

very strong attempt to communicate with the u.s. attorney to say, there are things i know and things i can prove and if you give me immusei immunity, i can provide those details. >> christie said he was hurt, disappointed, sad. what kind of legal jeopardy could he be in if wildstein is telling the truth? >> he could be in considerable legal jeopardy. there's no quibbling about the political jeopardy he would be in if this charge turns out to be true. not only would it end his presidential campaign, but it would possibly end his governorship if the law was that flat and that obvious and that public. but i think we need to be careful here, ed, not to jump to conclusions. there are many unanswered questions about this letter. it is almost on the order of fishing for something. fishing either for a deal from paul fishman, the u.s. attorney from new jersey, in which case raises the question why didn't he seek that deal in private? or fishing for indemnification, payment of his legal fees by the port authority of new york and new jersey. he wants to get the port authority to pay tho

renewed into the new legislative session. so there's that track. there's potentially the u.s. attorney for new jersey who may be getting involved, and if not, might be a different u.s. attorney. potentially that. of course there's the senate commerce committee. jane rockefeller is asking questions. we know there's a lot of unanswered questions. a lot of things left unanswered by christie's press conference. we will have a lot more answers in the coming weeks and maybe months. >> steve, i appreciate your microscopic look at this thing. but your political history knowledge is also. i want to look a little further into late 2015, somewhere in there. americans like a tough guy. they like a tough politician. chris christie has presented himself as a doer who gets things done at a time when washington has seen to be like a rugby scrum. where all they're doing is pushing against each other and not moving forward. if he starts to take on this stench of the bully, nobody likes a bully, everybody wants a bully to get knocked out, especially perhaps by a woman, especially perhaps by an

that be on the able as well as the investigation goes forward? we know the u.s. attorney and the fbi are investigating hoboken. could the investigations affect how the legislature can investigate that matter? number three, and perhaps most importantly, will governor christie's top staff and his appointees and his re-election campaign and his own office, the office of the governor of the state of new jersey, will all of those individuals and entities comply with the subpoenas that are now technically being reissued through this new committee of the legislature. those reams of documents and blackberries and iphones and ipads and call records and instant messrecords and diaries and calendars that the subpoenas say all have to be handed over a week from today, on monday, the day after the super bowl. will those be handed over? are they going to do it? stay with us. >>> i have to read this to you and get your response to it because it was one of the most vicious little jabs in there. after following an article about the traffic jam, we have david wildstein who just resigned saying it will

, there is another tragedy involving a u.s. military helicopter, this time here at home. a navy helicopter crashed yesterday morning off the coast of virginia. two sailors are dead and one remains missing. two other crew members were injured. rescue helicopters arrived about 30 minutes after the crash and rushed them to the hospital. that's where the two victims were pronounced dead. >> the sea dragon helicopter was on a training mission at the time. it went down minutes after sending a distress call. authorities are he is scene to determine what went wrong. four members of the air force were killed on tuesday in a crash in england. >>> that record breaking polar vortex having a chilly economic effect. the cold spell could mean a $5 billion hit for the u.s. economy. nbc news's kevin tibbles as more. >> reporter: we 11,000 flights canceled this week, the airline industry could take a $1.4 billion hit as travel plans were left in ruins and passengers frustrated. and for all the truckers stuck for days in indiana, lost time is lost money. small businesses like this hot dog stand le

. >> and he should. and i'm going to tell you something, if he were u.s. attorney today, he would have conducted an investigation into this already. that's why i called on the u.s. department of justice to do just that. because there is sufficient evidence to look into the possibility of criminal acts were committed here. i mean, i think it goes beyond a bridge closing. this is an issue of character. this is a governor that has a reputation for utilizing the levers of power to exact political revenge. and this is something that people, not just of new jersey, but the people of the united states of america need to know about. he's somebody who wants to lead our nation and be the chief executive over the largest, the most powerful military force in the world. and he can't be trusted to manage the busiest bridge in the world. >> i've never seen a smoking gun like ms. kelly's thing that says it looks like we need to close the bridge today. that one. she works for him directly, completely fireable by him. why she is still employed tonight is beyond my wildest dreams. tomorrow, it seems to m

today, the u.s. supreme court has driven a stake through the heart of the most important civil rights law ever enacted, the voting rights act. >> we remember that. that may be changing. >> it was an honor for me to stand up here with all of these distinguished legislators to talk about an issue that really goes to the heart of our democracy. >> it is almost unreal that we were able to come together so quickly to craft a compromise that both democrats and republicans can find a way to support and move forward. >> a bipartisan bill introduced thursday restores the core of the voting rights act adding federal supervision for states that repeatedly discriminate against voters. but there's a big exception it sidesteps a serious threat to our voter turnout and that is identification laws. toure's going to get to that part in a minute. but first, we're going to talk about the details of this compromise with blake zeff, a washington insider who has worked for president obama as well as senator clinton and senator chuck schumer. blake, welcome back to the show. >> is this called recycling if y

sorry they are having to endure this. target is offering free credit monitoring to customers at u.s. stores. whyte says she still needs to shop. >> it has changed my mind set. every time i swipe my card, i think, here we go again. >> that was katy tur reporting there. neiman marcus is saying their data base was hacked in december. they say some customer's cards were possibly compromised. the online customers do not appear to be affected. with both the stores, how concerned are you about using credit and debit cards? you can talk to me on twitter. i will read your tweets throughout the show. >>> president obama is outlining his economic agenda for 2014 calling it a year of action. >>> i'll keep doing everything i can to create jobs and opportunities with american families, with congress or on my own and with everyone willing to play their part. that should begin by extending unemployment insurance to americans laid off through no fault of their own. >>> republicans dedicated their weekly address focusing on the affordable care act. here is ted cochran of mississippi. >> if the law ca

with the bark. the u.s. conference on catholic bishops, which has been aligned with some of the conservatives in the republican party, came out and said paul ryan's budget -- they rejected it and they said it failed to meet certain moral criteria by cutting programs that serve the poor and vulnerable. is the catholic ministry going to take a more active role, you think, in pushing the republicans to try to do something on this legislatively? >> i know we at network are very active in engaging this issue. one of the places we're trying to establish dialogue is with the business community. the reality is business will do better if everyone shares in a living wage, in the capacity to live in dignity. to have food, shelter, clothing, health care, those are the basic necessities to live in dignity. this level of inequality is eroding our society. and the pope points out accurately is creating and enhancing violence, causing war. we need to change it. it would be good for the 100% to change that reality. >> sister campbell, you are a nun, obviously. for being someone who has committed

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was chris christie's time as u.s. attorney. quote, when chris christie got the u.s. attorney post, he had no sympathy for the poor old pauls who were plying their crooked trade at taxpayer expense. chris christie cut a far more public figure than previous u.s. attorneys. every week seemed to bring a few development, a perk walk or a leaked word from christie's office of an official being subpoenaed. after he had been in office as u.s. attorney for a year, the media and people on the street were already suggesting chris christie should run for governor. chris christie was appointed u.s. attorney for the state of new jersey in 2001. he was appointed by president george w. bush. mr. christie had no prior experience in law enforcement at the time. he certainly had no prior experience as a prosecutor. he was a lobbyist in his previous job. but he had also been a pioneer for the george w. bush for president campaign in 2000. mr. christie bundled middle eastern half a billion in campaign funds from bush-cheney in 2000. that was apparently enough to get him considered for the u.s. attorne

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