what she may have is something that she could dish at other members of his administration. if we re to believe the kind of common thinking that she could not have ordered this on her own and that wildstein could not have come up with it on his own, even though randy mastero in his report tried to make it sound as though this was a, quote, you been quote, crazy idea by wildstein. why this guy with crazy ideas was still in the port authority, as a christie appointee, is a whole different issue, of course. yeah. all right. brian thompson, bob ingal, good to see you both. inside the rise of america s energy independence. how this new-pound found power is reshaping the current crisis in ukraine. we ll explain next.
when e-mails first leaked linking his aides to the traffic in ft. lee, the governor, himself, requested to meet with two top lawyers at the firm. deborah wong yang and randy mast row. miss yang has described christie as a very dear form and as a former bush appointed u.s. attorney just like chris christie. randy maestro with a deputy to former new york city governor rj religion. he s now at least the eighth giuliani staffer to join team christie over the years. while gibson, dunn may be highlighting the documents and people they did have access to, the four most important people to getting to the bottom of the scandal were left out. mark sokolich, the mayor of ft. lee. former christie campaign manager bill stepien. christie appointee at the port authority, david wildstein, and bridget kelly, the former aide who ordered the traffic problems in ft. lee. all refuse to talk to gibson,
himself, requested to meet with two top lawyers at the firm. debra wong yang and randy mastro. miss yang has described christie as a very dear form and as a former bush appointed u.s. attorney just like chris christie. randy mastro was a deputy to former new york city governor rudy giuliani. he s now at least the eighth giuliani staffer to join team christie over the years. while gibson, dunn may be highlighting the documents and people they did have access to, the four most important people to getting to the bottom of the scandal were left out. mark sokolich, the mayor of ft. lee. former christie campaign manager bill stepien. christie appointee at the port authority, david wildstein, and bridget kelly, the former aide who ordered the traffic problems in ft. lee. all refuse to talk to gibson, dunn. here s what we currently know. the firm that chris christie hired to investigate his own
the christie administration told her to approve a project linked to samson s law firm if she wanted to receive hurricane san is direlief money. you may remember that because steve kornacki was the first to report it. if samson does end up resigning, he would be the third christie appointee to do so. following the lead of david wildstein and bill baroni. joining us now to talk about all of this is the catastrophe writer for the new republic. welcome. thank you. you covered this story a lot, david samson, why is he so important and how is he lasing? i don t know how he s lasting. it s really remarkable. we now know the s got these federal subpoenas looking into his activities. you ve got the executive director of the port authority it.ed by new yo appointed by new york saying samson no longer has the moral authority to be the chairman.
quote, this should begin with the firing of the authority s chairman david samson, a christie appointee who appears to have used the job to advance his professional interest, his law firm, his clients, and the governor s own political ambitions. as port authority chairman, david samson oversees a budget of $8.2 billion. that budget is bigger than the budget of 25 state governments. and it has many more opportunities for corruption in it than most state budgets do. the chairman of the port authority has jurisdiction over complex issues than boast governors, but chris christie s definition of the job and david samson s definition of the job and the actual formal legal definition of the job, it s not a full-time job. and so david samson spends much of his time on his real job, which is lobbyist. lawyers function as lobbyists all the time without officially claiming that status.