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That you can ask them to give up their private sector life which they use to support themselves and their family. the way to deal with that is to have an effective system where people recuse when appropriate. i trust thats being attended to at the port authority, and if its not, it should be attended to with even greater care. do you have a follow-up? >> for a lot of this examination examination--relationship with the port authority. >> thats your assumption. i dont believe thats in the facts. t...

Spoke to samson january 8th and asked what he knew about this, if he had any involvementf he authorized it or had any idea of the planning of it or the rest. he said absolutely not. and that rang true to me at the time not only because of davids reputation over honesty over the course of his entire career but also the role of the chairman of the port authority is not an operational role. his role is a policy role. so i wouldnt expect david would be involved in any kind of day-to-day operational ...

>> colorful, brian. colorful. why dont he you just get to the question and cut the commentary back a little. >> prosecutors not understand that the executive director, your top person. >> not my top person. >> the top official. >> you can get to it already? i will answer. listen, they didnt first off. the first time this came into my consciousness was the "wall street journal" story of october 1 or 2, somewhere in that neighborhood, when executive director foy leaked his memo to the newspapers t...

During a combative news conference this afternoon the new jersey governor chris christie insisted a new report clears him of wrongdoing in connection with last years traffic jams at an entrance to the george washington bridge. he also announced the chairman of the group that oversees bridge operations resigned today. the governor revealed the tie ups actually were associated he says with the traffic study but he blamed all the trouble on two people who already lost their jobs. >> whether the mot...

What do you make of that? >> hes still pushing the traffic study. i think hes just trying to run for cover and as i said before this is a public relations stunt or its just to somehow get more support -- garner support for himself in those areas outside of the state of new jersey when it comes to the primary season coming up. thats all i can get out of this. there is no way after all this information thats been put out that one can believe that there was a traffic study going on. >> and the timi...

There was a public safety, you were made aware of this early october. admitted to that. some of your staff -- [ inaudible ] most of whom are former federal prosecutors working for you. how is it that this went on for roughly eight weeks or so where all these former federal prosecutors were accepting really what was the word of snake oil salesman about a traffic study. >> colorful, brian. colorful. why dont you get to the question and cut the commentary back a little. >> how can federal prosecuto...

Street journal" story of october 1 or 2, somewhere in that neighborhood, where executive director floyd leaked this memo to the press weeks earlier. i said to two former federal prosecutors, my chief of staff and my chief counsel, find owl for me whats going on here. the way you do that is in a normal circumstance where you look like youre dealing with an operational issue with the port authority is to go to our people at the port authority and ask them whats going on. they came back and said th...

Only. >> well, first off, the report seems to okayed there was a traffic study of some kind, and whether the motive for the traffic study was a traffic study now seems to have been disputed and put into real question, if not completely blown away by the report that there seems to have been on the wart of mr. wildstein and ms. kelly, some type of inappropriate motivation for it. as to the fort lee lanes being dedicate it to fort

Randy mastros report does not tell us what his team did to try to find the traffic study. but most of the reports references to the traffic study refer to it as if its a real thing, a real study that you can just touch and hold in your hands and read. the only other person whos still been clinging to the possibility that a traffic study ever existed is randy mastros client, chris christie. >> i still dont know whether there was a traffic study. >> you still dont know at this point whether there ...

Leaked his memo to the newspapers. he had written weeks earlier. and i said to two former prosecutor, the chief of staff and chief council, find out whats going here. the way you do that is, in a normal circumstance where you are dealing with an operational issue, to go to the people and ask them whats going on. they came back and said this was a traffic study and we blew the notifications to the executive director. thats our fault. it was a traffic study and he is just upset because he didnt kn...