Christie: No thoughts of quitting in amid traffic-blocking scandal

Published January 08, 2015

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he never considered resigning because aides shut down traffic leading to the George Washington Bridge.

Christie tells ABC News, "I'm not a quitter."

He says he won't decide for another year whether to run for president in 2016, but says the scandal overshadowing his administration won't influence his decision and will make him a better leader.

Christie's appearance Thursday comes the day a lawyer he hired released a taxpayer-funded report clearing him of involvement in the political payback plot.

A federal criminal investigation and state legislative probe are continuing.

It's the first major scandal to hit the Republican governor.

Christie hasn't held a press conference since early January, when he had to rescind a claim that no staffers were involved in the lane closings.

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