Who do you think you are? Joe Scarborough?

Joe Scarborough: You‘re in charge of the public schools of New Jersey. Are they not good enough for your kids?

NJ Gov. Chris Christie: No, listen. You what they don‘t do? They don‘t teach religion. And my wife and I want to make sure that our children, every day, are getting part of the values that we‘re trying to teach them at home reinforced at school.

We made that decision. I made the choice. My wife made the choice to pay for our kids to go to a parochial school.

Lawrence O’Donnell: So Joe Scarborough quickly and smartly goes straight to what Chris Christie had declared, a forbidden zone on “Meet the Press” the day before, and asked Chris Christie why he doesn‘t send his kids to New Jersey public schools. Are they not good enough for your kids?

And Chris Christie doesn‘t dare say to Joe Scarborough, it‘s none of your business. He simply answers the question, says he wants his kids to go to religious schools and be taught religion every day. He says that—he gives that answer to that question about his parenting decisions the day after telling David Gregory, I‘m not going to let people question my parenting decisions in public.

He had no problem allowing Joe Scarborough to question his parenting decisions in public. And last week on “the Today Show,” he had now problem allowing Matt Lauer to ask about that same parenting decision, about where he sends his kids to school.

In Chris Christie, the Republican‘s dream candidate for president who will never be president, we can now see an inconsistent temperamental man who is capable of showing flashes of anger at his constituents like Gayle, the woman who asked him about his children not attending New Jersey public schools, but is very well behaved in formal interview settings.

Now that we know that Christie has no rule about discussing his parenting decisions in public, let‘s look at how he treated Gayle one more time.

Watch: NJ Resident Gayle: You don‘t send your children to public schools. You send them to private schools. So I was wondering why you think it‘s fair to be cutting school funding to public schools?

NJ Gov. Chris Christie: Gayle, you know what? First off, it‘s none of your business. I don‘t ask you where you send your kids to school. Don‘t bother me about where I send mine.

Lawrence O’Donnell: So now we know what Christie really was thinking. Hey, Gayle, you know what, first off, it‘s none of your business, because you‘re a nobody. You‘re just a constituent. If you want me to actually answer your question, get your own TV show. Who do you think you are? Joe Scarborough?

Watch Lawrence O’Donnell Rewrite NJ Gov. Chris Christie here