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It leads but not switch gears and follow another investigation. >> and state assemblyman investigating the mysterious closure of the george washington bridge and at that press conference made it known for now his committee will focus just on the bridge scandal and not the any allegations from hoboken mayor dawn zimmer broken last weekend during this show involving chris christies allocation of hurricane sandy aid in a development deal in hobokenjoining us live at the table, thank you for take th...

Care enrollment. he said, no, im not even going to accept that money. not going to do those things. important policy issues. we want to make sure those dont get lost in the personality and the politics. >> and the other issue is -- when youre -- but when youre having this argument about did hoboken get enough and the governors office is strongly saying, oh, no. they got all this money. getting lost is, clearly, publicly, the mayor of hoboken has been saying consistently, we did not get enough. w...

Everyone around her. >> yeah. thats the only way i could see it moving beyond. there is a second -- the other person who was involved in this, she says she also delivered the same basic message, the same basic you will get more sandy money if you approve the development deal. it was a member of christies cabinet, the commissioner of the community affairs, richard constable, a few nights later he delivered a similar message in less explicit terms than kim guadagno did according to dawn zimmers ac...

Accuses the lieutenant governor of refusing to give money from sandy unless the mayor signed off on a development deal. the lieutenant governor says the order came straight from the top, governor christie. >> mayor zimmers version of our conversation in may of 2013 is not only false but is illogical, and does not withstand scrutiny when all of the facts are examined. any suggestion, any suggestion that funds was tied to the approval of any project in new jersey is completely false. >> well, hobo...

The storm ads last year that aired while christie was running for reelection. pallone announced this week that theyre launching an audit of new jerseys use of federal ad money for that campaign. i want to start with what we heard at the start of the show from mayor hoboken about how she thinks that sandy aid money to her city has been linked to a development deal. does this change at all the scope of what you might be looking at? >> i think this is part of abuse of power that i was kurnd about i...

It. i guess two of the things that stand out at me when i look at what the story that mayor zimmer told as one, to use sandy money -- >> right. >> to use sandy money as a lever i think would strike people even accepting for a certain amount of the governor is going to use whatever leverage he has to use sandy money as lemplg might strike people as unseemly. nothing we showed in the first hour and i dont think anything that the mayor herself put out there shows any allegation of direct, you know ...

Your definition of immediately, general? >> joining me now, darryl and kate and tara, who worked at the port authority and in the mcgreevey administration, where david samson was attorney general. i want to just get. to me, as i follow this and i get barbarian on it, samsons role becomes more and more important. partly because, "a," this is a prominent, very important figure in new jersey politics. this is a big guy, a rainmaker. you want to do a development deal, you hire david samson. he is a ...

To me, as i follow this and i get barbarian on it, samsons role becomes more and more important. partly because, "a," this is a prominent, very important figure in new jersey politics. this is a big guy, a rainmaker. you want to do a development deal, you hire david samson. he is a big deal. it is not bridget kelly who most people hadnt heard of until two weeks ago. he is the one guy that is in all these e-mails, governor christie sat down with for two hours. can samson convince them i had nothi...

Samsons role becomes more and more important. because this is a prominent very important figure in new jersey politics. this guy is a rainmaker, you want to do a development deal, you hire david samson. its not bridgette kelly who most people have never heard of until two weeks ago. b, hes the one guy whos in all these e-mails, governor christie sat down with for two hours, the day they all said -- samson convinced him he had nothing to do with it, to me, samson is the fire all, am i wrong about...

Remember marty mcfly off "back to the future"? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. >> there he is. hes got these shoes. nike working on this development deal to have an automatic lacing system. you basically feel like if you want them loose or tight, push a button. >> that wouldnt be bad at all. saves you time. thats not bad. >> it reminds me of the bubble shoes. >> for the lazy athlete. >> the lazy athlete, right. does it give you any special powers? thats what you want to know, right? it reminds me of th...