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Issues. and will react to any other information coming in. theres an investigation and a legislative investigation. >> and just days later there was some new incoming information to christie to deal with. it came on this show a little more than one week after that press conference when hoboken mayor dawn zimmer charged that one senior christie administration official, l lieutenant governor kim guadagno linked her level of sandy aid to a project represented by the law firm of one of christies top...

Theyre getting rejected for the wrong reasons from the contractor, they need to be notified. >> absolutely, everybody needs to be notified. >> one of the strangest things about this, if it turns out to be the case this contractor is doing a bad job and the christie administration fired them, kudos to the christie administration. >> wouldnt they have celebrated saying, we heard you, and we did the right thing. people have a problem with the way the process was going, lets fix it. they didnt do th...

Be the case this contractor is doing a bad job and the christie administration fired them, kudos to the christie administration. >> wouldnt they have celebrated saying, we heard you, and we did the right thing. people have a problem with the way the process was going, lets fix it. they didnt do that at all. >> that is whats so weird, richard constable is one of the people that -- he testified specifically about criticism of hgi. when people asked him whats going on with this, he didnt say, we ju...

Else to administer these programs. now theyre getting even larger amount of money. you know, the problem is when you talk to my constituents at the jersey shore, they, you know, a lot of them havent gotten their checks. a lot of homeowners and businesses havent gotten their checks to rebuild or raise their homes. they call up and theyre told theyre on a waiting list. they dont know what the waiting list consists of, when theyre going to get chair check. what the criteria are. its incredible no o...

Now theyre getting even larger amount of money. you know, the problem is when you talk to my constituents at the jersey shore, they, you know, a lot of them havent gotten their checks. a lot of homeowners and businesses havent gotten their checks to rebuild or raise their homes. they call up and theyre told theyre on a waiting list. they dont know what the waiting list consists of, when theyre going to get chair check. what the criteria are. its incredible no one has any answers. thats why mysel...

>> when you say you dont have any answers, youre a congressman. youre far of the new jersey delegation. cant you get richard constable on the phone, chris christie on the phone, guys, whats the deal with this contract? its important to me, important to my constituents. tell me whats going on here. >> theyre not telling us. thats the bottom line. for them to say now, we dont need anybody, we dont need a contractor, were going to do this ourselves, what does that mean? i mean, again, the criteria,...

Against this project and you have to move it forward. >> the fact is that the lieutenant governor came to hoboken, she pulled me aside in the parking lot and she said, i know its not right. i know this thing should not be connected but they are, and if you tell anyone ill deny. >> it and the lieutenant governor wasnt the only christie official who directly linked sandy money to approving the rockefeller development deal according to zimmer. that same week, zimmer attended a public television eve...

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...

>> i thought it was awesome. i thought he was about to call out the new age outlaws. that was a wwe reference. i thought it was an amazing moment, because -- and whats so hypocritical, so many sports writers complain about athletes that give the same canned responses all the time. say, good lord willing, we play one game at a time, good lord willing, we play one game at a time. and hes decried, not just by sports writers, but people on the right, who you always hear complaining about we live in ...

The court documents, the man identified by "the washington post" as the owner of freedom industries, cliff forrest, is the same man who started a new company with the capacity to secure a big chunk of freedom industrys assets while sidestepping much of its legal liability. even though these two companies are both run by someone named clifford forrest, a certified and a legal filing, the terms of this agreement were negotiated, quote, at arms length. all this got us wanting to learn a little bit ...