Rick Lazio: “I hope that Donald Trump will focus on some things that are very real for American people like the fact that they have…”

This is not the kind of statements that you would associate with the party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan.

And really in the end for Governor Christie, what he has to salvage coming out of all this is the perception that he is a straight-shooting, honest politician. And that's the most important thing that he has got to focus on.

I'm saying that it is our responsibility, in fact, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's responsibility, to seek transparency, to determine whether or not foreign governments are investing in this mosque, if -- if radical Islamic organizations…

This is not just deception. This is ripping people off.