Page 32 - Traffic Study News Today

I dont. mistakes were made in the way this stuff was communicated by senator baronis own testimony. and theyve taken responsibility publicly, both of them, for the mistakes that were made. as far as im concerned, thats it. you guys all want to keep chasing it around, chase it around. its your business. but im not running around doing independent investigation. >> what evidence makes you accept there really was a traffic study? >> because they told me. i have no reason to believe that they lied. ...

Simultaneously, more documents are expected to come in from remaining individuals and organizations that have been subpoenaed. this is going to be a process that evolves probably slowly. the meeting, theres going to be a meeting on monday of this joint committee to discuss what these documents contain in the early stages. we just dont know yet. >> the other thing that has emerged since last we spoke, just over the past few days, was allegations from david wildstein subsequently backstopped by so...

Attorney in the legal department of the port authority. this is a legal department that has several attorneys. its a large legal staff. phil kwon and at least one other attorney was recommended for jobs at the port authority. so these are people who moved from the christie administration to the legal department within the port authority. >> and then once in the legal department for whatever reason were tasked with prepping mr. baroni for his false testimony about the traffic study. you see why t...

Story that isnt what actually happened, they came back and told him it wasnt a traffic study. it was a traffic study. kind of lame, right? the governors chief counsel and chief of staff, best case scenario, they were duped twice. by the port authority in october and then again by the governors senior staff in his own office in december. these guys were just rubes right? they bought it happily and brought it back to the governor. they couldnt tell what actually happened. they couldnt figure it ou...

Story that isnt what actually happened, they came back and told him it wasnt a traffic study. it was a traffic study. kind of lame, right? the governors chief counsel and chief of staff, best case scenario, they were duped twice. by the port authority in october and then again by the governors senior staff in his own office in december. these guys were just rubes right? they bought it happily and brought it back to the governor. they couldnt tell what actually happened. they couldnt figure it ou...

When they did those interviews, they did that vision in the governors own office, they were not able to feret out that people were lying. they reported back, the governor says they reported back to him all was well, nobody knew nothing. the governor this week says for the first time that those same two men, his chief of staff and chief counsel also were sent by him to the port authority right after the shutdown came to light and there too, they were hoodwinked. they were sent by governor christi...

>> ewe still dont know at this point whether theres a traffic study? >> what im say, eric, was this a traffic study that morphed into political shenanigans? or did it start as political shenanigans that became a traffic study. >> joy reid, hes the governor of the state. if theres a traffic study, wouldnt it be on his desk? all two pages of it or 25 pages of it? wouldnt it be right there in his hands? >> well, the best part of that quote, political shenanigans that morph into a traffic study. tha...

The city of hoboken where the mayor of that city has alleged the christie administration put pressure on her to approve a specific private development project as a condition of that city getting post-hurricane sandy funding. the mayor says she also met with federal prosecutors and handed over documents to them. we also know that federal prosecutors and fbi agents have conducted interviews in hoboken with witnesses who say they can corroborate that mayors story. but at least not yet. federal pros...

With overseeing the expenditure of literally billions of dollars in this region. not one voice to say you know what, senator, we should get to the bottom of this. you know what, i am going to call in the people involved. absolutely nothing right up until if you had, which is, what, february 4? were five months into this issue. not one port authority commissioner has spoken publicly about anything. >> you know, the governor said something extraordinary last night. i will play what he said last ni...

Specific private development project as a condition of that city getting post-hurricane sandy funding. the mayor says she also met with federal prosecutors and handed over documents to them. we also know that federal prosecutors and fbi agents have conducted interviews in hoboken with witnesses who say they can corroborate that mayors story. but at least not yet. federal prosecutors are not asking anything of the chris christie staffer who shut down the bridge. its fascinating, right? the mean, ...