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Ive heard nothing from them that changes their position. i now see e-mails which indicate that there is a political overtone to what went on. i dont know what the situation is. i dont know whether -- like i said, i think i answered this before, i dont know whether this was some type of rogue political operation that morphed into a traffic study or traffic study that morphed into an additional rogue -- >> as best i can. mr. wildstein is scheduled to testify at the legislature. so not like hes ava...

This question. after days and days and weeks and weeks, this governor has been treading water on this issue. the boat -- he keeps bailing out. people keep getting fired. first theres a traffic study now theres somebody that completely lied to him. i dont know if you believe the traffic study. he was part of the cover up. now he has somebody else hes blaming for misleading him. he ducked his public appearance today. showed no face to the press. slipped this statement out before "newshour" and tha...

Cynical and said one of the texts -- >> one of the supporters children, yeah. [ indiscernible ] >> this raises questions about kids getting to school and ems response. can i get your thought on how serious this was, this snarl on traffic? >> it wasnt good. thats why im here apologizina. it was an awful, callous, indifferent thing to do. and if it was part of a traffic study, thats one thing. once it has political overtones its an entirely different matter. thats why i am upset about this and tha...

Is there any credibility to that? is there any evidence to support it? is it likely that that was ever in their minds? >> well, if you call a traffic study three or four days before, the idea put forward that youre going to close a few lanes and look at that, i suppose you -- vaguely could call that a traffic study. but there are much better ways to do this. i mean, youve got cameras all over the place. youve got computers. you can look at the -- you can read the license plates. you know where p...

Target. and they created a traffic jam and put our citizens in jeopardy and caused our children to be late to school? >> its pretty disgraceful. >> its unbelievable. >> it is unbelievable. let me go to the road warrior, reporter for the bergen record. the argument thats been spun until now from the christie camp is that they were conducting some traffic study. is there any credibility to that? is there any evidence to support it? is it likely that that was ever in their minds? >> well, if you ca...

Certainly not something that im prepared to talk about now. yeah. >> can you explain e-mails first published. [ inaudible ] >> no, i think it was -- it wasnt pat foys e-mail, i think there was an earlier story. i dont remember exactly. >> it was about the traffic -- >> something about the traffic, yeah. >> why didnt you respond then, especially -- [ inaudible question ] >> we did. we did. and we were told it was a traffic study. >> they tell you traffic study, but the mayor is saying -- [ inaudi...

Emergency the first morning, it took more than an hour to arrive at a building where a person had called 911 complaining of chest pains, the delay was because of the standstill traffic on route 46 east in fort lee, which was caused by the deliberate traffic disaster ordered by chris christies office. so far chris christie has accepted the resignation of david wildstein. he accepted the resignation of another one of his appointees, who was involved in the shutdown, and lied to the state assembly ...

Where the woman collapsed. the woman did later die. emergency responders were late getting to a third medical emergency the first morning, it took more than an hour to arrive at a building where a person had called 911 complaining of chest pains, the delay was because of the standstill traffic on route 46 east in fort lee, which was caused by the deliberate traffic disaster ordered by chris christies office. so far chris christie has accepted the resignation of david wildstein. he accepted the r...

And asked them that i would get an honest answer. maybe that was naive. that was what i believed. now im going in digging and asking for questions. i cant make a warranty on that. i wont because i did that four weeks ago and ended up being wrong. [ inaudible question ] >> absolutely not. i knew nothing about this. no. i was told about we were doing a traffic study. i dont know the answer. it all matched up that it was a traffic study.

I heard a lot in politics. >> im sure you have and i want to get back to the department of justice and what you want. i have to go back to the original point. we heard from chris christie saying he had zero knowledge of any of these exchanges and any of this so-called vendetta against this mayor. we heard from the governor calling it his family. they should be equally loyal. are you saying hes lying to us? >> there was a lot of mistruths in this scenario. two of the governorss high appointees ju...