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Bridge gate, and where would he be now? the good luck is also bad luck in the sense that hes in danger of being a little bit too familiar by the time the next wave of candidates come in. if you believe as i do that the next presidential election will be decided on a crescent from pennsylvania to wisconsin, pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, michigan, particularly, you have to get three more presidential candidates out of the states. the governors of kasich in ohio, snyder in michigan, and walker in ...

Bridge gate, the prevailing interpretations of christie fundamentally missed the mark. he has been so singularly successful at constructing his own mythology as a reformer, a crusader, a bipartisan problem solver that people have never really seen him clearly. the problem with christie isnt merely that he is a bully, its that his political career is built on a rotten foundation. christie owes his rise to some of the most toxic forces in his state. powerful bosses who ensure that his vow to clean...

Was part of an effort by governor christie to use the port authority of new york and new jersey, a giant bistate agency, really as an additional arm of this government and a political wing to solve his political problems. so what happened during the tunnel, and weve learned some of this since bridge-gate is the same individuals, david wildstein, bill baroni, the ones who directed the lane closures, were also orchestrating from very early on, from way before christie publicly said there are cost ...

Into bridge-gate had started to investigate. where did that money go, how were the decisions made? was it transparent? they were not getting answers. they were stonewalled. when it came to this round of f subpoenas, they say we want to understand this. because essentially, the trouble with bridgegate is is not just the mayor of ft. lee, but its that the port authority was being used in a way that served governor christie perhaps more than it served to do what its supposed to do, which is increas...

Empty because of his promise not to raise taxes. at the port authority, looking around for money to dump into that trust fund so you could avoid the potholes calls, would the tunnel money have been the biggest pot of money sitting there is. >> it was absolutely. it was $3 billion that once it was taken out of the tunnel could be redirected to this and in fact, that is what happened. this is not something that the port authority has done. and this is something the same committee that is now looki...

Her last name is actually pronounced bernstein. didnt i promise you because i was practicing it, id get it wrong? i didnt do that to be funny. im just a failure. why do you think the tunnel stuff is in this round of subpoenas that otherwise seems to be about the bridge lane closures and the effort to cover up the bridge lane closures? >> well, theres a link and i think that the bridge-gate scandal has been very gripping because its traffic, its what you were just describing. its people, perhaps,...

To hand over documents to the bridge gate investigation. the investigative committee this week voted to try one more time to compel them to hand over those documents, if mr. steppian and miss kelly continue to refuse, then they too honestly will be moving toward contempt charges just like david wildstein. in their case, it is an open question whether they will plead the fifth in order to refuse to testify and thats an important question, right? after what david wildstein did, is everyone going t...

Week voted to try one more time to compel them to hand over those documents, if mr. steppian and miss kelly continue to refuse, then they too honestly will be moving toward contempt charges just like david wildstein. in their case, it is an open question whether they will plead the fifth in order to refuse to testify and thats an important question, right? after what david wildstein did, is everyone going to sit there and plead the fifth? is everyone going to refuse to answer questions? when new...

Charges the deputy chief of staff and bridget kelly have invoked their rights to refuse to hand over documents to the bridge gate investigation. the investigative committee this week voted to try one more time to compel them to hand over those documents, if mr. steppian and miss kelly continue to refuse, then they too honestly will be moving toward contempt charges just like david wildstein. in their case, it is an open question whether they will plead the fifth in order to refuse to testify and...

On the radio. bridge-gate was mentioned briefly. the allegations related to sandy money in hoboken werent touched on at all. this thursday hell attend a town hall in middletown, a town ravaged by superstorm sandy. we dont know how much time, if any, hell spend addressing the scandal rocking his administration, but it is clear at this point that no matter how much chris christie avoids questions about the traffic in ft. lee and the allegations in hoboken between the u.s. attorneys investigation a...