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After some initial conflicting and confusing information that night, the port authority did issue a statement, apologizing statement on monday. the port authority apologizes for the disruptions that travelers faced. that was not good enough. the written apology was not enough. ultimately they had the executive director of the port authority get out and make a public apology to the people of staten island. >> i will start by apologizing to staten island residents and everybody affected by the ext...

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 ft. lee backup and the goeth...

Sampsons complaint was that the executive director of the port authority talked about it. pat foy is the leak, stirring up trouble in this case, hes playing in traffic, made a big mistake. 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 mad about this time is that hes talking to the press about it. hes playing in traffic, hes the l...

Samson has spoken for the 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...

>> 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 holiday comm...

When off four-day-long bridge backup, you have to ask yourself at some point, do you -- do you just posit the question to your chief of staff or deputy chief of staff or somebody in authority, what the hell is going on and why is this happening? and thats the question that i think a lot of people keep stumbling over and having a hard time taking the answers as credible. >> well, governor christie is gonna need one heck of a gigantic plow for this storm. steve kornacki and chairman steele, thank ...

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