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After she said to me, you know, that you have to move ahead with the rockefeller project, i said, is any other town being asked to do development in exchange for help with the flooding? and her answer was, well, the shore brings in $38 billion. so she was the one connecting -- she very clearly was connecting the development with the sandy aid in our conversation. and i made it clear -- its ironic shes saying that. when i sent a letter on april 23rd saying these two things are not connected and t...

Taxpayer dollars, for sandy mitigation and relief, in the wake of this horrific storm that happened. the site of a huge political battle on capitol hill. that money being held hostage and used to make sure a private developer is given a government favor that will mean millions of dollars in private profits. i mean, this is absolutely facially corrupt, probably illegal, if it turns out to be -- >> yeah, yeah, if its true. and i think, even beyond the legal questions, if its true, i think theres s...

The threat guadagno made in an entry in that diary, dated may 17th. quoting from it, at the end of a big tour of shoprite, she pulls me aside with no one else around and tells me i need to move forward with the rockefeller project. it is very important to the governor. the word is you are against it and you need to move it forward or we are not going to be able to help you. i know its not right, these things should not be connected, but they are, she says. if you tell anyone i said that, i will ...

Particularly offensive to me. >> when you look at the documents, you look at the letters that ive written, you can see it wasnt illogical at all. it is actually a progression in leading up to something where they wanted to send me a very direct message because they felt like i wasnt getting the message clearly enough so she was sent in. after she said to me that, you know, you have to move ahead with the rockefeller project. i said is any other town being asked to do develop. in exchange for hel...

But did not say in that interview if he will run for the white house. for now his top aides, inner circle, have been hit by 20 subpoenas to investigators. hearings will be held in trenton, new jerseys office, the accusations that the lieutenant governor put -- to support the real estate deal that mr. supposedly wants, but, says the mayor, the south no one would buy her story. >> i couldnt believe they were doing this. the bottom line is that the christie administrations response was one deflecti...

Time fiercely denying the allegation that she threatened to withhold sandy funds on behalf of retribution for failing to support a real estate project. its the latest in the widening string of scandals that plague chris christie as a potential presidential bid for 2016. cnns erin mcpike is joining us. whats the latest? >> reporter: wolf, today chris christies administration got very aggressive in fighting back against these accusations that dawn zimmer has had. they even described a conference c...

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She accused christies lieutenant governor of shaking her down by threatening to withhold superstorm sandy funds if zimmer did not back a rockefeller group real estate development. >> she pulled me aside and said essentially, you have to move forward with the rockefeller project. this is really important to the governor. she said she had been with him on friday night and this was a direct message from the governor. >> your dawno denied any wrong doing. she refused to take any questions from repor...

Aid would be contingent on moving forward with a private development project. in an interview with cnn, she claims she met with lieutenant governor kim guadagno last may, who brought a message from chris christie himself. >> you have to move forward with the rockefeller project. this project is really important to the governor. and she said that she had been with him on friday night. and that this was a direct message from the governor. >> reporter: zimmer told msnbc, her city received only $342...

>> the suggestion that anyone would hold back sandy relief funds for any reason is wholly and completely false. >> reporter: guadagno is playing defense after being accused by dawn zimmer of intimidation in the aftermath of superstorm sandy. in an interview on sunday with candy crowley, zimmer said that she was told that hoboken would receive millions of dollars in storm recovery only if she pushed a real estate project by the rockefeller group, a developer with ties to the governor and his alli...