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Were they in fact employees of the governor? where they detailed by him to work politically. were they all doing this for him? and for him to say oh, they were out rock gas stations or doing something on their own, the whole heart of this was political. what they were doing was political in his interests. and thats what i find is amazing. they skate away from this and say they werent working for me. >> you kind of touched on this, chris, for instance, he describes lane closures as lane realignme...

Because the moment that i heard the testimony, i knew that it was untrue. because it was all built around the idea that there are somehow private roads for ft. lee only residents that lead to the george washington bridge. that is completely untrue. there are no such lanes of traffic. no private roads only open to private residents and carry 25% of the traffic and they are 25% of the roadways that lead to the upper level of the george washington bridge. not only was there no traffic study, there ...

That went to the governors campaign manager and among others. it really shows that there was a significant political component to what was going on here. we dont know why. were trying to get that answer, but clearly, involving all of these folks in the campaign, running by them, the press strategy indicates there was some political element to this. >> so, if it was just a traffic study, why would you be calling the campaign, the governors office? why not just be handled in the port authority? >>...

Least we have explained the counternarrative. what do you make of that phrase? used to describe a testimony before your transportation committee? >> its troubling. i sat through that and it seemed implausible when it was being delivered, but to see this communication really underscores the fact that they werent there just simply to put the facts on the record, but they were there to put a story on the record. a counternarrative as we see it described. there was no traffic study. thats been said ...

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Washington bridge. not only was there no traffic study, there are no private roads for the use of ft. lee residents only. so, that was a cover up. it was untrue and it was untrue from the moment somebody wrote it to the moment bill uttered it. >> was he under oath when he told you this? in your committee? >> im sorry? repeat that. >> was he under oath when he said -- >> no, he was not. nor was he there as a result of subpoena. he was there by the prior assembly transportation committee, which wa...

Administration is under investigation for making up a story about a fake traffic study thinks, quote, i could make up an answer at any time that sounds convincing. do you know how many times youre going to hear that line in attack ads against chris christie in republican presidential primaries if he makes the mistake of actually running for president? youre going to hear it a lot and it turns out nothing he said there is actually true. not even the bit about being a trained lawyer, a law school ...

>> as you can tell, christie was once again playing to a solid republican crowd in a safe republican area of new jersey and so they think its funny that a governor whose administration is under investigation for making up a story about a fake traffic study thinks, quote, i could make up an answer at any time that sounds convincing. do you know how many times youre going to hear that line in attack ads against chris christie in republican presidential primaries if he makes the mistake of actually...

And david wildstein both announced, both decided they are going to resign from the port authority. this comes at the same time that pat foye and other officials testify in trenton that this was not -- there was no traffic study. this whole story there had been a traffic study, there was no traffic study. they testify. this comes two months after "the wall street journal" reports on the memo from foye. there have been months of reporting now and at this point hearings in trenton that really sugge...

Is the fact that he so adamantly and publicly tried to advance the cover-up. he took credit for it. bill baroni said, hey, it was all that guys idea, and paul said, yes, yes, it was all my idea. that was me. on the day that david wildstein resigned from the port authority, the chris christieie ally who arranged the lane closures, on the day mr. wildstein resigned from the port authority, it was paul who defended him. he was working on an issue that i brought to his attention, and it was turned i...