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Debacle, and he lambasted the executive director of the port authority for having caused that traffic jam on that bridge 2 1/2 years ago. when the port authority caused this even bigger traffic jam for four straight days, the same chairman, david samson, didnt say beep. no public comment on the issue. no apology. no telling the press it was unthinkable, nothing. not a word. why is that? in contrast to the outer bridge backup in 2011 where david samson raked the director over the coals for public...

September on the orders of governor christies deputy chief of staff. joining us now is steve, reporter covering the port authority for new jersey "star ledger" newspaper. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> you are more informed on these matters. youve been covering the port authority for a long time. >> you seem to be doing pretty well. >> having covered the backup when it happened, did i screw anything up there? is it pretty much how it happened? >> you got both the f...

Other lanes. >> it was so bad that the website gothamist did a feature on the galactically stupid traffic jam on the bridge. saying the port authority ruined easter. look at the coverage the next morning, that was easter sunday, right? was the jam. the next monday, monday morning, right after easter, its from the "staten island advance." motorists fume as port authority creates an hours long bridge backup. easter spirit gave way to traffic outrage yesterday, on what should have been a reasonable...

Lee, david samson turns up again. ft. lee got back all three lanes this morning, we are appropriately going nuts. david samson is helping us to retaliate so says david wildstein on the last day of the shutdown. it was only after that document came out that david samson made his first public comment of what happened in ft. lee. the backup that was caused by the port authority. that was the first public comments that he made. he put out a statement saying i had no knowledge of the lane closures. h...

Backup and not a peep about the one that happened in september on the orders of governor christies deputy chief of staff. joining us now is the reporter covering the new jersey port authority for the star leather. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> you are more informed on these matters. youve been covering the port authority for a long time. having covered that backup when it happened, did i screw anything up there? >> you got both the ft. lee backup and the goethel pretty right...

"ft. lee got back all three lanes this morning. we are appropriately going nuts." samson, david samson, is helping us to retaliate. so says david wildstein on the last day of the shutdown. it was only after that document came out that david samson made his first public comment of what happened in ft. lee. on the hours of long backups on the george washington bridge and leading up to it that lasted four days. a backup that was caused by the port authority. that was the first public comments that ...

There at the top of your screen, that is not the only way to cross the river from new jersey into new york. below the george washington bridge, your next option is a tunnel. the lincoln tunnel. below the lincoln tunnel your next option is another tunnel. the holland tunnel. below that, you have three bridge options all of which go from new jersey not to manhattan but rather to staten island. first you get to the baon bridge. beyond that, the goethals bridge and theres an outer bridge crossing. h...

Governor. almost anybody whos named at the port authority by christie prefaces anything they say with, well, on behalf of the governor, or thanks to the governor. and, well, hes the chairman. >> in terms of how he fits into this scandal, the contrast between the way he was so vocal about that backup, which was a port authority caused backup back on easter sunday, 2011, and the fact he made no public meant about what happened in ft. lee. obviously that could be explained by him not knowing what w...

Tunnel. the lincoln tunnel. below the lincoln tunnel your next option is another tunnel. the holland tunnel. below that, you have three bridge options all of which go from new jersey not to manhattan but rather to staten island. first you get to the baon bridge. beyond that, the goethals bridge and theres an outer bridge crossing. holds a romantic place in my family because my partner, susan, was born under the bridge in perth amboy. something really bad happened on the outer bridge, it was a hu...

Authority had talked about it. the article, "confirms evidence of pat foye being the leak, stirring up trouble." "in this case, hes playing in traffic. made a big mistake." so in the earlier bridge backup, david samsons mad at the executive director because of the backup and he says so. in the more recent one, the ft. lee one, theres nothing said publicly, the only thing david samson is apparently mad at the executive director about this time is that hes talking to the press about it. hes playin...