tourism ads might be a misuse of the federal relief funds given to new jersey to recover from sandy. >> i think this extra money spend on the ads to put them on the air during the campaign, that could be used for other purposes during the relief. >> reporter: federal auditors are probing those allegations though christie's office dismissed the revelation as conveniently timed and added the obama administration approved the effort. another incident of retribution. new jersey city mayor, steve philip considering endorsing him but declined to do so on july 18th. over the next two days, christie owe pointies canceled meetings with him leading him to right an e-mail to bill baroni who has since resigned. he wrote, in part, i am not sure if it is a coincidence that your office canceled the meeting several weeks back. that seemed to be simultaneous to other political conversations elsewhere that were happening. prior to that, you were always very responsive and i sincerely