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Gives you what you need to move forward to your point "c". capella university. start your journey at capella.edu. governor chris christie facing new allegations he mostly sunny used sandy money. the funds withheld unless the mayor backed a project he supported. here is what she said at the state of the union. >> you have the christie administration using their authority to try and get something. i dont know what they were trying to get in the bridgegate, i know they were trying to get in hobok...

Got 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. >> she said that to you. >> she said that to me, is that this is a direct message from the governor. i was with him on friday night. >> again, if this happens in may, youve got a city that was just devastated by super storm sandy that needs these funds and theedz them immediately, not two ...

Kim gordana communicated what she said was a message from christie himself. she came and made a direct threat to me and said you got 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 this was a direct message from the governor. and zimme said if you tell anyone ill deny it. it is stunning, outragious and true. >> she said she wrote a journal entry saying i thought he was honest and moral thi...

Lieutenant governor communicated what she said was a message that came from christie himself. >> she came and she made a direct threat to me. the lieutenant governor pulled me aside and said essentially youve got to move forward with the rockefeller project. this project is really important to the governor. she said that she had been with him on friday night and that this was a direct message from the governor. >> then zimmer says she told her this. >> you tell anyone, ill deny it. its stunning....

Out about bridge-gate, that i had an obligation to come forward because i think there are some strong parallels here. >> you would concede as a politician yourself that christie camp would look at this and see this as piling on or supporters of the governor would say, this looks like democrats piling on, sort of keeping it in the news. >> im sure they would look at it that way. to me, thats a deflection, again. have they answered the question -- did the lieutenant governor say this to me. they h...

Quite good and that in fact you were in the governors office, not meeting with the governor but meeting with some of his officials as late as last thursday. so the relationship is still okay? s . >> well, actually, they were in my office. there was one representative from the governors office. there was new jersey transit. a rebuild by design team, an international design team and we were talking about this plan, this competition that were a part of under hud secretary donovan. it is an excellen...

Mayors claims. >> the mayor for the first time tied governor christie to the threats of retaliation. she said her funds held hostage until she pushed through a project by the rockefeller group. this is a real estate group with ties to chris christie. in may the governor kim guadagno came to her with a message sent from christie himself. lets listen to how she skid this on cnns state of the union. >> he made a direct threat to me. the lieutenant governor pulled me aside and said youve got to move...

Connect sandy funding, hoboken sandy funding to the rockefeller project. they did. im coming forward sharing my story. im sharing my journal, offering to testify under oath. what are they doing? hiding behind spokespeople. the mayor reached directly by the bergen journal and she wouldnt comment. i believe if she is asked to testify under oath will truth will come out. you have the christie administration to use their authority to try and get something. i dont know what they were trying to do in ...

Well be cut out. >> since may, which i have recorded in your diary, you have complemented the mayor. weve seen you several months later say in a tweet, im so glad that chris christie is our governor. so can you square that for me? as you know, coming at this point, what the governors office says had this is just politics. why can this not be seen through a political lens? >> thats part of the reason that this was so hard because i do have a really -- i did have a really good relationship so i co...

Were trying to get in hoboken, they were holding our sandy funds hostage in order to push through and expedite the rockefeller project. >> i did speak to someone inside the governors office this morning, and they said, listen, our first pot was $300 million. the request from hoboken was $100 million. they got $70 million. and they said when you look across the state of new jersey, all of these places were hurting and needed more money at that point, obviously, than they had. that $70 million out...