CNN’s Tapper to Christie: Does Bridge-Gate Make You Seem ‘Shady?’

TAPPER: "I want to play for you a question that you got in New Hampshire yesterday. Take a listen." 
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UNKNOWN MALE: "When we talk about you, and this is no disrespect, one of the biggest things I hear all the time is shady. How do you convince me — and, right now, my vote is wide open. I love everything you’re talking about tonight — but how do you convince me that you’re not shady and you’re actually here to help us?"
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TAPPER: "Do you think that that is what’s keeping you from being in first place, this perception among some voters that you’re shady, that the Bridge-Gate scandal really is indicative of a bigger problem with you?"
CHRISTIE: "No. In fact, if you showed the rest of that tape, I then asked him, what made him think that? And he said, I don’t know. I mean, so, no, I don’t think it’s anything in particular. I think what we concluded, he and I had a conversation back and forth about it, was, he said, well, it’s probably because you’re from New Jersey. You know, so, listen, there are just certain cultural things that get baked in, in some people’s minds after, you know, 'Jersey Shore' and 'The Sopranos' that make people think certain ways. But I wanted to know what he wanted. If you played the rest of it, we went back and forth, and I questioned about, like, so makes you feel that way? And, eventually, what they concluded was, it’s just because I’m from New Jersey. So, I said to him, well, heck, man, there’s nothing I can do about that. I was born there and raised there, proud to be there from. That was really all that was, Jake."