Rand Paul talks aobut the GOP debate duiring an interview on Fox News. Rand Paul tries to revive Bridgegate scandal

Rand Paul on Wednesday expanded upon his attack on Chris Christie's involvement with the George Washington Bridge scandal during Tuesday night's debate. For the Kentucky senator, it all comes down to one word: "judgment."

"You know, he picked these advisers. Their offices were just down the hall from him, and it stretches credulity to think he knew nothing about the bridge," Paul said in an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."


Even if Christie did not know anything about shutting down the lanes of traffic on the George Washington Bridge in 2013, Paul remarked, "how petty and how, just amazing, to shut down an entire bridge for hours out of spite, out of people you don't like, to punish some mayor."

Federal officials indicted Christie's former deputy chief of staff as well as two Port Authority officials in May. Christie, however, has maintained that he knew nothing about the lane closures.

"So I think, yeah, it goes to judgment," Paul repeated on Fox News. "If he didn’t know anything about it, it goes to judgment in picking the individuals, but I think it stretches credulity that his office was next door to all these people that he'd known for years and that he knew nothing about closing the bridge down. If you're willing to close a bridge down, it goes to judgment."

Paul couched his remarks during the CNN debate with the same "judgment" argument, after the New Jersey governor said that he would shoot down any Russian plane that violated a no-fly zone after Syria.

"I mean, I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends," the senator said during the debate. Christie did not address Paul's reference in his response.

But in an interview earlier with CBS News, Christie defended his vow to shoot down Russian planes.

“You asked about a no-fly zone and that is the definition of a no-fly zone," Christie told anchor Charlie Rose. "If that offends folks in the U.N. crowd, I’m sorry, but America needs to assert itself again, and playing the weak hand this president has played with for this country, we now have Russian troops in Crimea, and we have them disrupting Ukraine."