our senior political analyst, ron brownstein, joining us now from culver city, out in the california. ron, give us an idea of what kind of documents we're talking about, what this potentially could mean if hillary clinton runs for president. >> reporter: hi, wolf. first of all, substantively, i have written books using the presidential libraries and the general trend over time is to longer delay and narrow disclosure. fdr library, lbj library, huge trove material, part of a long standing trend. we don't know what are in the documents. many confidential advice within the white house. i think politically, this really plays into the broader issue, which is that obviously one of the fulcrum points of the hillary clinton campaign in 2016, if there is one, whether she can keep it focused on the future, and whether she is dragged back into fighting polarizing disputes of the '90s. >> and that's going to be a big issue. as you know, by law, the papers can be withheld from the public for about 12 years after a president leaves office. that means the documents could have been released a year ag

. >> let's discuss what's going on with our senior political analyst, ron brownstein. first of all, ron, the report, the cbo report, nonpartisan, came out, highly respected. is this really bad news for the white house and democrats? >> it is a complex nuanced analysis of a subject that is super-charged and doesn't lend itself to complexity and nuance. what they said is very important to parse. they did not say that the affordable care act will reduce the demand for labor. it will not reduce the willingness of business to hire workers. what they said was that over time, it would reduce the supply of labor. that fewer people will choose to work, either for early retirement or for staying out of the work force at a rate of 2.5 million people by the end of a decade. elsewhere they say the law might reduce unemployment by freeing up resources among people receiving subsidies now spending on health care to spend on other things. to so it was a very complex analysis but one that by and large i think -- my feeling has been, and we have talked about this before, that public opi

>>> joining me around the table, former alabama congressman artur davis, ron brownstein, cnn's senior political analyst, and former white house communications director anita dunn. okay. mr. christie. let me just try to tell the latest chapter in this saga. first of all, this was in times square, i believe, yesterday at some sort of nba -- or nfl festivities -- wrong sport. >> there is a football game coming up. >> i don't love this picture but i think this pretty much says a thousand wore here. we also had, when he went to speak, there was audible booing from the crowds. >> governor chris christie. governor? >> good afternoon, everybody. you've already heard enough speeches. enough speeches of the same thing. >> booing in times square is not an unknown thing. let's just say. exactly. and then, i mean, all of the papers. what we have is a once-friend -- ally, somebody or other, who's now saying, actually, chris christie knew about the traffic jam during the traffic jam. he has said, no, i didn't. whew! okay. that's where we are now. >> this is a big deal. chris christie in many ways i