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>> way behind him. >> the other thing is he had me. at first he was apologetic. i was buying into every bit of that story until later when he started defending that traffic study. if you want to go back and watch how he defended it, started throwing out numbers, this wasnt about a traffic study. it was about a pay back to the fort lee mayor. he should have said, you know what, im cleaning house. lets move on. dont defend a traffic study. there was no traffic study. next two big stories over a ...

>> well, i am not a lawyer, but i do think that there are severe legal questions involved when you talk about using a public facility for a political vendetta. thats almost the definition of corruption. so i think there is -- there are ample grounds to investigate, to have the u.s. attorney and others investigate this to see if there was a violation. but i think what really becomes clear from the new documents that came out today is that, a, this was a political operation. and b, that they were ...

Because the reason that this scandal blew up, the reason they were caught red handed is that the port authority is a bistate entity. >> right. >> and the new york side of the entity, new york appointees wouldnt play along with the charade. right? they say, i dont know what the traffic study is, what the heck is going on? it makes you wonder if there are other shenanigans happening throughout new jersey where everyone is under the umbrella of fear. whats there? >> chris christie said he was sorry...

Make sure that it existed, particularly given the reputation he has cultivated and what he was originally elected on was the fact he was a hard-charging former united states attorney. >> that makes sense and a question that a lot of people wanted asked. if you, governor christie, believed this was a legitimate traffic study being conducted by the port authority and not some political extortion being committed on a local mayor who refused to endorse you, then why didnt you say to your staff, all ...

Guy, passive, accepting excuses, not knowing what his four staff people are up to, his four appointees are up to and quietly accepting naivety. is that the chris christie the one that exists or the one that performed today? >> it certainly is not the chris christie we have seen in prior years. you know, he should have been angry. where was his anger? he was very humble, and heartbroken over his staff. im angry that my constituents suffered, you know, the threat of public hazards, what you just t...

>> no question. as i said in my statement, i take the governor at his word. listen, i know the governor, not very well, but for years i worked under him technically as an undercover agent in a very high profile undercover case while he was the u.s. attorney. and where i stand, he is a man of honor and integrity, period. and i do take him at his word, absolutely. listen, he is the governor of a very large state. the idea hes going to look into a specific traffic study i think is ridiculous. no go...

Explain how it is that a couple of weeks ago he said that he put it to his team, to his aides, to give him a full explanation of what happened. and that they did, in fact, give him a full explanation. he was satisfied with that. and then when he was asked in a town hall forum what about this traffic study, which is supposed to be the thing that was the explanation, the counter-explanation, not the corrupt explanation for what happened here, he said you know, why would i be worried about that? wh...

Know instantly what that meant unless there were previous discussions about it. >> absolutely. and when you say "got it" you dont just come up with a statement like that out of the clear blue without something transpiring or something that precedes it. i agree with you 100%. that "got it" was a ratification or confirmation that everything that previously transpired was acceptable. i know my instructions and im going to move on them. >> does it seem odd to you that the governor had been told that...

This is classic how federal prosecutors in the fbi operates. they start with the lore fish and try to work their way up. but again, chris christie and the top staff say look, we did not know that this was happening and we were lieds to by members of our own staff. what i just cant understand tonight is, we keep hearing this traffic study that became a vendetta or a vendetta that became a traffic study. how is it something that happened back in september, we still dont know whether there was a le...

Low standard of expectations. lets go to valerie huttle. the chris christie today, meek guy, passive, accepting excuses, not knowing what his four staff people are up to, his four appointees are up to and quietly accepting naivety. is that the chris christie the one that exists or the one that performed today? >> it certainly is not the chris christie we have seen in prior years. you know, he should have been angry. where was his anger? he was very humble, and heartbroken over his staff. im angr...