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Conversation is offensive, is completely inaccurate and as a victim of sandy shes offended, youre saying shes lying? >> well, i -- yeah, im -- she said she would deny, and shes denying it, part of me is not surprised, and my reaction is, youre offended? how do you think i feel, and everyone in hoboken feels? we havent been given that much sandy fundy. -- funding. and we have been told theres a connection between the two when theres a push to get one particular project through. and development in...

The details. you know, i started to explain some of the challenges that im facing on the ground and that i want to move the process forward, you know. and thats the challenge here is that there are, again and again, i have found myself in meetings explaining to the christie administration, listen, weve all got to be careful here. we cant have a conversation about what the plan is for the rockefeller group because it hasnt been designated, and its my job as the mayor of hoboken to follow that red...

Lieutenant governor, as you said, the lieutenant governor called the allegation complete. -- completely false. i want to read to you what a source close to the lieutenant governor said about your conversation. kim, meaning the lieutenant governor remembers in their conversation that she was talking about redevelopment and making investments in hoboken, meaning you. she remembers zimmer pressing kim for more money. and she remembers pressure for aid for sandy. shes saying it was you linking sandy...

Is. the sort of can do governor. what the mayor is saying is, there was more to it than that. >> if this conversation is accurate as the mayor says, its like something out of a movie for the lieutenant governor saying, im going to deny this conversation ever took place. >> and, you know, in a parking lot. >> in new jersey. >> yeah -- >> if its true -- >> did really is. that is another reason why this is potentially so devastating to christie. not only the biggest reason, this is much more than b...

All. it is a progression leading up to something where they wanted to give me a direct message because they felt i wasnt getting the message clear enough. >> people close to the lieutenant governor, i mean, as you said, the lieutenant governor calls the allegations false. but i want to read what someone said. kim remembers in their conversation that she was talking about redevelopment and making investments in hoboken. she remembers zimmer pressing kim for money for sandy and kim remembers sayin...

What i said. and when you look at the documents, you look at the letters that ive written, you can see that it wasnt illogical at all. its actually a progression leading up to something where they wanted to send me, you know, give me a very direct message because they felt like i wasnt getting the message clearly enough, so she was sent in. >> because people close to the lieutenant governor -- as you said, the lieutenant governor calls the allegations completely false, but i want to read to you ...

>> we have winds down south. im with him, always wonder why. good luck to that guy. inauguration day in new jersey. what would normally be chris christies spot in the spot light, now scandals cast shadows on him and his ambitions. at his side and at center of his latest controversy, his lieutenant governor. she fierce loi denies claims she tried to strong arm the hoboken mayor. >> when you see the lieutenant governor, in a press conference now saying point blank, youre memory of your recollect...

Whitney, along with his sons chip and scott, are battling village officials for the store that frank bought more than 20 years ago. they join us live right now. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> okay. so it all comes down to sandy. sandy did a lot of damage to your store. they say that over half of it was destroyed. so you need, what, special permits, special authorization from the city to continue? >> yes. >> right. what theyre claiming is that its actually out of their hands and ...

Msnbcs steve kornacki on saturday, that the lieutenant governor said unless she approved a particular real estate deal, her city would not receive state controlled money for sandy relief. >> lieutenant governor came to hoboken, she pulled me aside in the parking lot and said, i know its not right and know these things should not be connected and they are, if you tell anyone, ill deny it. so these -- the bottom line is its not fair for the governor to hold sandy funds hostage for the city of hobo...

New jersey is completely false. standing in union beach, as we are today, with some of the mayors whose towns were devastated by sandy, and also being a sandy victim myself, makes the mayors allegations particularly offensive to me. the suggestion that anyone would hold back sandy relief funds for any reason is wholly and completely false. i thought i had a good relationship with the mayor of hoboken. in fact, just three months after