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And does it compromise your ability to serve? >> no, i am not. politics aint bean bags. nerve the country who engages in politics knows that. on the other hand, thats very, very different to saying that, you know, someones a bully. i am who i am. but im not a bully. >> christie also says he doesnt know why ft. lee was targeted. whether what began as a traffic study became a political venn de vendetta or vice ver spap after the situation, he went to visit mayor mark sokolich, who he said he could...

Unguarded honesty, christie admits something different. >> i havent had a lot of sleep the last two nights, and ive been doing a lot of soul searching. im sick over this. >> so governor christie, was it two sleepless nights or one? >> if youre asking me over the last 48 ours or last 36 hours, ive done some soul searching, you bet i have. >> next, why do you still think that there was a traffic study? >> there may have been a traffic study. whether there was a traffic study or not, i dont know. >...

>> that is because, once more, for those like the governor who are slow tos up, there was no traffic study. >> i dont know what makes a legitimate traffic study. i probably wouldnt know a traffic study if i tripped over it. >> you dont just create traffic to study it. >> this could go back to the nuance of what really constitutes a traffic study or not. >> only traffic study that happened was, what will happen to traffic in ft. lee when the governors cronies punish the mayor? next, what was davi...

November. hes nine pounds. hes a fighter. the only one in his litter to survive. and -- >> thats sad. >> we wanted to show you that. >> cannot go wrong. that is buzz worthy. >> its it. stay tuned. "way too early" starts right now. there still may have been a traffic study. >> there may still have been a traffic study. we have ample data showing that shutting down lanes of a political rival can come back to bite you in the -- >> we have lane gate. how will this impact his stature on the nationa...

Due diligence, whether he inquired of his staff adequately. the other issue here that we should keep in mind for people who do not know the port authority, it controls the areas airports, its brings and tunnels. its an independent agency, bi-state agency that is not directly controlled by the governors office. they appoint people to run it. so that makes this even more remarkable that someone within his inner circle was exerting or seemed to be authorizing some sort of traffic study, even if you...

She said at a party late one night, i was the one that kicked this thing off, do you think he would have fired her? i dont believe that in a minute. the reason was she lied to him right before a press conference. her real sin was getting caught. >> well, exactly. she did get caught. now some of this might have eventually come out because of the question about the traffic study, right. at some point it was going to become clear that this wasnt a traffic study. >> it was clear. >> the newspapers w...

>> does it seem odd to you that the governor had been told that there was a traffic study being done, and even though the story continued to bubble up it seems like at no time did he ever ask anybody on his staff to see the traffic study or to see a requisition form for the traffic study. does that seem odd to you? >> there was never any traffic study. there will never be any traffic study concerning that shut down during that week in september. thats clear. thats unequivocal. i dont know why we...

His behalf. i dont think this is going to go away. >> maybe a lot of people dont realize what happened. you have this bridge that goes across new york/new jersey. on the new jersey side, fort lee is at the tunnel. that backs up with a lot of traffic. that depends on a lot of commerce, people getting out and up the palisades parkway. when the bridge backs up, stuff shuts down. fort lee shuts down. what you have to ask yourself, later on someone asked an important question, what kind of traffic st...

Tunnels. its an independent agency, bi-state agency that is not directly controlled by the governors office. they appoint people to run it. so that makes this even more remarkable that someone within his inner circle was exerting or seemed to be authorizing some sort of traffic study, even if you believe that on its face. her very involvement raises questions. >> john, for governor christie to give this massive press conference, two plus hours, as categorically deny any involvement whatsoever, e...

Commerce or anything that could possibly involve the fbis interest. >> well, i think what they thought is that they were on closed circuit and to the degree that anyone in new jersey was going to look into it, it was going to be their buddies. an important thing that governor christie failed to do today was address the fact that he has put his chief of staff up for attorney general of the state of new jersey. you were speaking on some of this in your opening about the fact that hes only tuned in...