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With a development project is categorically false. all right, steve. these are major claims. its also very complicated. i trud to get the general idea of it. what do you see as the key issue in this moment? >> there are several things and the store line itself connects the high ranking people in christies administration, it connected the port authority and the law firm that is run by the chairman of the port authority, david samson, chris christies coffey dant. theres this plot of land potential...

That she doesnt know why, but this project is very important to the governor. and thats why she is conveying the message. >> okay. i want to read now the response from commissioner constable. heres that one. mayor zimmers allegation that on may 16, 2013, in front of a live auditorium audience, commissioned hoboken, moving forward with the development project is categorically false. so there are definitely two opposing viewpoints there. is there evidence that proves categorically otherwise? >> no...

Jersey mayor dawn zimmer who says two senior members of the christie administration warned her that her city would be starved of hurricane sandy relief money unless she approved a certain project that he wanted -- a development project. what is your response to that? >> shocking and disturbing. and i think in light of these new revelations, we need to even get more answers. and one of the members of the port authority, the chairman, the allegations, he had conflicts. his firm was involved with t...

Washington bridge to begin with? >> no, it doesnt. but if what she is saying is true, it does get you to -- you can see the christie administration here looking for a lever, right? they found in sandy aid, found a lever to try to get something they wanted from her. and it raises the question of -- it would raise the question to me, at least, of looking at the lane closures, did they see that as a lever -- whats been reported in the press is the speculation about the endorsement of the mayor. thi...

Hey, what about us? >> so basically, this project is slowing down in early 2013. and at the same time, hoboken is reeling from hurricane sandy. >> right. >> and the mayor of hoboken applies for about $100 million in state aid and she gets $342,000. >> a hit. >> and christie has this $1.8 billion fund, and this is all they get for hoboken, which is 80% under water. >> i remember. >> so she writes a letter to the governor, pleading her case, does not get an answer. and then she is told the lieuten...

So i know we hit you with a lot in that last hour. were going to have some time here to breathe and take it all oef with our panel. lets remind you of the basics of what we reported last hour. the mayor of hoboken, dawn zimmer, says that tw of the highest ranking christie administrator leaders told her that her sandy relief money is being held up because she is not moving forward on a development project in town. as we told you the developer of that project is represented by a law firm called wo...

They have worked together on a lot of things. and the relationship really started to hit, according to her, to go in the other direction when these two things came to a head at the same time. one was this redevelopment project in hoboken that she says the governor strongly supported. and the other was her city being in need of sandy aid after the storm at the end of 2012 and in applying for all these funds that christie controlled. basically she said that the lieutenant governor and that a membe...

Thats because of development. when people talk about why is new jersey a corrupt state. its because new jersey, especially north jersey has valuable land and all decisions made about that -- >> integral part of the ft. lee story. >> thats a long story but the lanes adjoin this $1 billion development project. its also a 1 billion development project. ripple effect. who is architect. who is engineer. every one of these deals -- there is so much money at stake and decisions are made and youll find ...

This wasnt the luckiest piece of land. and since then, four decades ago, that land, those 16 acres that every builder in the state has salivated over, that land has sat vacant. that is until last year and thats because of mark sokolich a mayor who says he has no higher ambitious in life than to run his town and he has made the redevelopment of that site his defining mission as mayor. its what hes poured his efforts into, what he wants to be remembered for. it is his legacy. so what is it that he...

In november. >> is it fair that one community with 4.5% of the users has direct lanes on the bridge where every other community, and with the exception of assemblyman amodeo, forgive me, every one of you has people in your communities who sit in longer traffic every day because of the special lanes for ft. lee? >> when you consider those comments and when you consider that christie was still this week suggesting there might have been some kind of real traffic study, it suggests the possibility t...