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Hoboken might find it would get easier access to sandy relief funds if she helped along a project in her city, a project that was important to the governor, when steve broke the story of those allegations from the hoboken mayor on saturday morning, this was how the governors office responded. "the facts behind msnbcs false sandy claims." the initial response from the governors office was to dismiss those allegations from the hoboken mayor on the basis of the fact that those allegations were aire...

>> i have to ask your first reaction upon hearing these new allegations from the mayor of hoboken. did you have any advanced notice they were coming? were they a surprise to you? >> my reaction was, wow! i mean, those are very serious charges that mayor zimmer has leveled. we dont know all of the facts that surround it. its curious that the lieutenant governor and her response admitted that there was a conversation, because she said mayor zimmers version of the conversation was false. so, at lea...

Any questions and provide any documents, take a why detector test, and my question back to them is, would all of you be willing to do that same thing? to testify under oath? to take a lie detector test? >> how does this issue get resolved? and is this a whole new separate investigation of the christie administration apart from the bridge fiasco? or does this dovetail? is this the same thing? the man leading the select committee on investigations in the new jersey assembly joins us next. stay wit...

I covered the election in 2003. its surreal to watch this. but to take that aside, yeah, i didnt know him personally for the three years i was there because he was anonymous. he had great sourcing from the insider sources from both sides of the aisle. you really couldnt detect much of an idealogical bent to the site. he gave me the option, listen, do you want to know who i am and who your boss is? no, everybody is going to be asking that question, i want to look them in the eye and say no. for t...

Bridget kelly, got it when she suggested the traffic jam in new jersey going back to the hearing. >> but threats have been made by different persons to the media in connection with the alleged lane closures of the george washington bridge. and if for example, there were charges relating to his former employment and whether he was a public official at the time, the answer to the question that the chair just posed would be evidential. and could be used by prosecutor in his or her chain of proofs. ...

More damaging. for him to say im not a bully and taking action, is a key part of what hes got to do today. the next part is that trip to fort lee. i spoke to aides who say they dont have anything set up yet but he is absolutely going to be in fort lee today. they are going to try to work that out with the mayor of fort lee. that was a big part of the conversation, if not, what should he do? theres a bit of an on the fly type of moment happening for the christie team. off to my right in the room,...

Meeting with the governor of the same date? >> mr. chairman, on the advice of counsel, i assert my right to remain silent. >> for the edification of the committee and i certainly want to ask counsel, yes, sir. >> if it is your clients intention to assert that right on every single question? >> yes, sir. >> so i want to be clear. so that any question that i may ask or that any of the members of this committee may ask, it is your intention or your advice to your client to assert the right to not a...

Of course fort lee democratic mayor mark sokolich, jonathan de deanst joins me from new york. what investigations or inquires are even contemplated at this point? >> we heard the governor say mistakes are made. the question is were crimes committed? the u.s. attorney in new jersey put out a statement saying he has received a referral from the inspector generals port authority and they are going to do a preliminary look, preliminary review if you will to hear if any sort of federal crime might ha...

Political story that is going to continue. right now we know that the mayor said in fort lee he would not say no to a phone call, wouldnt turn down a phone call from the governor. and we know that the governor is going to be heading this afternoon probably by around 2:30, arriving in fort lee. >> right. i think chris christie would acknowledge that this press conference today was not ever going to be the sort of end of things, unless chris christie said yeah, i did know about this, and then it w...

Subpoena power to get to bottom of. he really boxed himself in, that he knew nothing about this and did not authorize it and doesnt condone the kind of conduct. that does not give him much room. will his mea culpa be enough. it was one of the extraordinary moments to seem a national political figure in that moment. andrea? >> and kelly and chris and i just wanted to, steve, take a listen to this. this was mark sokolich, audio of a news conference in response to what governor christie said. >> he...