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Politically motivated payback. the closest thing from a smoking gun is this august 13th message from the chief of staff, "time for traffic problems from fort lee." the reason was a traffic study. problem is, the town that felt most of the pain was fort lee, new jersey, whose democratic mayor had endorsed christies opponent in the gubernatorial race in november. democrats in the state pounced. >> they felt they needed to inflict some measure of retribution on fort lee or the mayor of fort lee? >>...

Good afternoon to you and yours from the fox news deck. the new jersey governor chris christie says he is heartbroken humiliated that a staffer, a long-term one, lied about creating a traffic nightmare for millions of drivers and apparent plans to gets revenge against a political rival. now with the u.s. attorney announcing he is launching an official investigation, its turning into an enormous headache at a minimum for the governor of new jersey who analysts say is the leading contender for the...

I didnt read it that way at all. that was a reference to a traffic study that candidly i know nothing about. and i recognize the e-mail said something about the governor supported or endorsed it. i have to believe that was the governors office generically. as i stand here today, i dont know anything about the traffic study in stanfield. [ inaudible question ] >> absolutely not. terry we have built relationships over four years with folks trying to be helpful to every town we could be helpful wit...

After that nearly two-hour apology and explanation over shutting down two of the three lanes on one of the -- scratch that, the busiest bridge in this country, if not the world. governor christie set to come here to apologize face to face to the mayor of fort lee. i talked to the mayor earlier. the mayor says he is going to welcome the governor. he does not want to hear any more about some sort of nonsensical traffic study. he wants the governor not just to apologize to him, but to the people of...

Position is lanes were closed to do a traffic study. and 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 -- 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 political operative. i dont know. well, listen, as be...

And even then, what i was told was that it was a traffic study and there was no evidence to the contrary until yesterday that was brought to my attention or anybody elses attention. and so i understand why people would ask that question and i understand your question completely but what i also want to tell the people is, that even with all that being said, its still my responsibility. i didnt know about it but its my responsibility because im the governor. so im taking that responsibility and ta...

I guess maybe sometimes when youre going to win by overwhelming numbers, you may become a little more arrogant than you should. as you said, we have no proof either way. >> right. >> i was surprised by it. and it was incredibly stupid. >> and i think christie has been very candid with calling voter asking them whether theyre stupid. i think in the days press conference, he called bridget kellys abject stupidity. so he is very capable of calling other people stupid. it will be interesting to see ...

Marsha. [ inaudible question ] >> listen, you think im suggesting any traffic studies any time soon, you got to be kidding me. i dont want a traffic study in front of my house. i think im out of the traffic study business for certain. never really in it and definitely dont want to be in it. listen, heres what we should do as a policy going forward, that should be left to the professional staff at the port authority. and let the professional engineers and those folks deal with whether those thing...

Prompted -- >> i dont. i dont. and again, i dont know whether this was a traffic study that then morphed into a political vendetta or a political vendetta that morphed into a traffic study. ive seen some so i know theres information there. i dont know what it is. well find out over time maybe. but thats really in the minds of the people who were doing that and thats what i based my decisions on at the time was the testimony that people gave. lastly -- >> no, listen, i dont know exactly what your...

Behind him, as if you cant see me. >> at first he was apologetic. i was buying into every bit of that story until later when he started defending that traffic study. guys, if you want to go back and look at that and watch how he defend it had, started throwing out numbers, this wasnt about a traffic study. its admitted that this was about a payback to the fort lee mayor. he should have said im cleaning house, lets move on. dont defend the traffic study. there was no traffic study. >> next two bi...