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A phony story about a traffic study no one could believe. low an lo and behold the morning we found out it was a phony story he found out. what he found out was that we found out. >> and you had been calling for a federal investigation, the u.s. attorney for new jersey announced last week they are preliminarily starting to look into this to see if theres a case. my thought when i saw the news was, wow, if chris christie was still the u.s. attorney for new jersey, a democratic governor in a situa...

In november. >> is it fair that one community with 4.5% of the users has direct lanes on the bridge where every other community, and with the exception of assemblyman amodeo, forgive me, every one of you has people in your communities who sit in longer traffic every day because of the special lanes for ft. lee? >> when you consider those comments and when you consider that christie was still this week suggesting there might have been some kind of real traffic study, it suggests the possibility t...

To ft. lees traffic problems. and then a couple days later the financing issues were over and the money to continue building that redevelopment area five was in place. now check this out. again, here is the street map around redevelopment area five. highlighted to point out something nobody besides the everyday driver of ft. lee knows. those lanes that were closed by christies port authority crew are the same lanes anyone moving into or working at or parking at anything built in redevelopment ar...

Scope. also 2,000 pages of new documents show a pattern of christie aids stone walling inquiries about the g.w. bridge lane e closures. the documents do not show any connection between christie and the plot to snarl traffic in new jersey. we are tracking the story from new york. you have looked through the documents. what stands out at this point? >> an investigation has revealed about 2,000 documents including scathing e-mails. two people have resigned and one was fired in what appears to be a ...

Forces from the gaza strip. he was a backer of israeli settlements and occupied territory. fema is sending 75 tanker trucks filled with freshwater to west virginia whereas many as 300,000 people have been warned not to drink or bathe or wash anything in the tap water. this is coming after a chemical at a coal industry facility seeped into the water supply. testses show that the chemical level is dropping but theres still no end in sight. investigators have released more than 2,000 documents ...

In 2009 he did something politically core ray jous. he cast the sole republican vote in the new jersey senate for gay marriage. it didnt pass back then and exposed him to a ton of heat from the right in his own party. so when christie came to power, he offered him the gig. and he took it. he told christie that he wanted to bring somebody with him. he wanted to bring his friend, david wildstein who had also been in politics before hed started that website that i worked on for him. thats why wild ...

Out of work for a year. his wife, writing in to complain. there are new questions raised about the involvement of david samson, a christie appointee at the port authority who christie has defended and did not fire. we will talk more about that momentarily. its also clear from the documents there was a full-on charade about a traffic study that basically had no conclusions other than to show that when you shut down two of the three lanes of traffic to ft. lee, well, really mucks things up. as we ...

These individuals i just named knew that the traffic study was more or less bogus. it raises the question of whether the governor knew. it raises the question of whether some pretty high-up people in his campaign who have not yet been mentioned publicly in this also may have known. bill steppian was the campaign manager. two or three other people who were very high up in that campaign, were waiting to see if they knew. >> as you said earlier, this is under investigation. so well find out more as...

After pat foye found out about the lane closures and reversed them. samson is the key figure, infuriated by the fact the e-mail got to us, other newspapers and really is going after him to his new york counter parts saying you have to bring this guy in. hes always trying to stay distant from issues, ride in and solve the problem. it sounds petty, but what they are fighting about is the basic duties of the organization and whether they are being managed right. >> they have been vocal about other ...

Of traffic problems, we now know that within the port authority, the traffic engineers were asked to provide a few different scenarios for how exactly to that for ft. lee. under what appears to be a guise of a traffic study, the chief traffic engineer proposed three digit scenarios for messing with the access lanes on to the george washington bridge. three scenarios in essentially descending order of hellishness. the proposed plan from the engineer that would have the worst impact on ft. lee wou...