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York from its bad decisions is what he told a group of reporters. >> i dont defend everything that new york has done. having said that we would be in a lot better position if we were treated the way south carolina was. we pay $48 billion every year to the federal government. more than we get back. we get 79 cents on the dollar. mulvaneys state gets far more than that. 70% more than we do. if we have the same balance of payments to the federal government as mulvaney does in south carolina we woul...

>> theres going to be extraordinary damage here. with sandy, it was in the tens of billions of dollars. we need to make sure that we do that for the people of texas like sandy aid was and from quite frankly a lot of people that represent texas in the united states congress. >> neil: what do you think of that? >> well, while i think he has it wrong, the truth is theres a time and a place for that discussion. but it isnt now when we are in beaumont evacuating people in critical condition, trying t...

Also in the house, 180 members who voted against sandy aid. 179 were republicans, including many texas republicans. this is going to be a test for them. surely democrats will remind them of that vote, but i dont see democrats right now standing in the way of this. and, you know, making demands to this. so far weve seen -- excuse me -- mine orpty leader nancy pelosi and sheila jackson lee, texas congresswoman, we need ate without any problems. >> and frankly, seems unlikely republicans will be th...

>> john brought up chris christie. where is he? >> chris christie it seems to us all the signs show he will run for the presidency. new hampshire could play to his strength. it is a place for a comeback. he wants to see how these indictments play out how he is able to separate himself from it. >> do you think theyll be deal breakers? >> i dont think it will be deal breakers. what he said there is nothing to do with bridge gate. however, other accusations, sandy aid withheld was dismissed. he has...

Mayor zimmers allegations are unsubstantiated and the mayors allegations about @ lieutenant governor do not withstand scrutiny. thats what the master report concluded. but, of course, dawn zimmer declined to be interviewed for that report. shes been interviewed by the united states attorney pall fishman. and fbi agents have examinened records and spoken with others in hoboken about her accusation as. take the interview with guadagno. the memo said she told the lawyers that zimmer had requested t...

With respect to the conversations she had with the lieutenant governor. >> just quickly, this is a question im curious and havent asked you of it, which issue to you is more troubling in terms of finding out what really happened, the bridge or the sandy aid? >> well, i think all of them are very important to the people of new jersey. sandy aid are important to people who needed it and also from the bridgegate controversy, because thats a tremendous abuse of power and we cant have our government ...

The senate or the assembly are bumping into each other by having one supercommittee? >> thats secret. and initially we had the two committees i believe. thats part of our process in new jersey. and after some thorough discussions at the leadership level within the state legislature, it was determined that it should be a combined committee, and thats what came out today in a public statement. >> steve, that is part of what people were very concerned about, whether you would have a subpoena from t...

And this was a new mayor. incoming mayor. hed never held citywide office for him. this was the keys for him to understand state government. department of transportation, economic development, the commissioner who oversaw sandy aid and reconstruction for the state. and these meetings were all lined up for him and this would have been a big deal and they were canceled. >> lets look at christie last week talking about kevin odowd. >> kevins, you know, confirmation hearing will go forward on tuesday...

Information on where just a fraction of it all went, and of that money, only 36.9% went to the people christie promised hed give it to. the whereabouts of the rest of the billions of dollars remains a total mystery. we do, however, know where an additional $25 million in sandy aid went, to a very well-produced ad campaign. in fact, a whopping $4.7 million federal dollars paid for this one commercial. ♪ cause were stronger than the storm, whoa ♪ >> turns out, the firm hired to run the campaig...

>> fair share housing center, an advocate group says theyre frustrated, and talks of the failure to provide the most basic documents, on why thousands of families have been denied the most basic necessaries since sandy. >> the christie administration has released no information on how the money is being spent. what we do know came out of a lawsuit that alleged that the christie administration is improperly holding data on the use of the funds, in response to that, they released documents on wher...