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Christie, somebody hes described as a friend a couple of years ago is going further and first out on the limb to tell the world theres nothing the see her. if youre chip michaels, do you call your brother and say you might want to tell the governor that i saw something a little different? >> for the record it has to be said that the governor did put out a statement that he has never had any conversation -- >> right. >> -- with chip michaels or jeff michaels, his brother the lobbyist about the br...

Socklich, telling commuters, if youre upset, you should call the mayor. now there has been further reporting in the last week where some commuters were tracked down and they corroborated that story. they said that port authority police officers were seeking them out, basically, hey, roll down your window, i want to tell you something. and then telling them, hey, if you dont like this traffic, you need to let the mayor know. now it raises the question, not just a question about chip michaels, its...

Akpaebing wildstein. why is he making if suggestions about traffic. you know, why are there suggestions that somehow the port authority police are sending message to the crowd that this is the mayor of ft. lee who did this? this is like some kind of private security force in some kind of, you know, to tall tearian state. this isnt the way the police force is supposed to operate. theres supposed to be a chain of demand. why are they involved? why are friend of the governor actually accompanying w...

Little nuggets keep coming out, one you reported on this morning. another possible tie, if you will, between the port authority police, someone who was possibly there when the lane closure was going on, has a pretty close tie to the governor. explain that. >> yeah. theres -- lieutenant michaelmi port authority police chip michaels was on the scene when david wildstein who oversaw the bridge closures. lieutenant michaels was on the scene when that happened and then drove around wildstein, around ...

Caused. he said in that log that there were many incidents of road rage. there was a car crash that he observed and that there was a lot of phone calls that he placed to port authority officials that werent returned when he was really urgently trying to get information about what was going on there. so, again, we dont really know how much more information he was told about that. >> well, were getting a lot of information. >> we still have a lot more questions. >> look at today, yesterday. in fac...

Was being sent would be responded to in that time, and they wouldnt have to go the full month, because four months of five days a week of traffic jam-up for four to some hours every single day would be almost ballistic in terms of what it would do to the drivers. >> yeah, this was an interesting new development. we had never really heard before how long the supposed traffic study was to last. it was aborted prematurely by pat foye, the executive director of the port authority who said we need to...

Heres what it means in english. according to two journalists familiar with those logs, chip michaels, a port authority police lieutenant informed the ft. lee police chief on day one of the political punishment operations that the bridge lane closures were going to last for an entire month. well, thats what those words meant. in other words, ft. lee was going to be told that their city was going to be turned into a parking lot for the entire month of september. brian murphy, come in on this. it s...

Placed police authority or bridge authority police officer, the one who drove david wildstein around that day knew exactly what was going on, knew it was some kind of bridge study or traffic study. a four-week jam-up of traffic of the busiest bridge anywhere and it was all a traffic study. what this adds is a plan to jam up the traffic and blame on it a month-long traffic study was known to the christie appointees, the union chief and the same port authority police officer chip michaels who told...

Christie administration about their own knowledge of this going on during when the lane closures were happening and afterwards, but hes broadened that review. the most interesting document for me in there was the handwritten log from the ft. lee police chief where hes recording his observations during the lane closures and his calls and what he knew about it at the time. and the first recording in that log, he says that chip michaels, the lieutenant we referred to before had told him on the firs...

Had with a port authority police officer chip michaels. it includes this note. chip michaels month last relieve rout 95 from executive jersey city. now "the wall street journal" explains it means ft. lee was being told the closures were part of a month-long study. in other words, the traffic may have been intended to last a month, this traffic jam. so this was supposed to be even more damaging than it was, it turns out. >> i cant imagine. look what happened in only four days. why would they thin...