Is appropriate, that is my feeling, too. That is a result of my soulsearching over the last couple of weeks. What is your opinion of this guy . You said you dont have a close personal relationship. Listen. I obviously believe that having David Wildstein at the Port Authority was a mistake. Let us just leave it at that. I said phil. I meant bob. Sorry about that, bob. Town hall at the meetings that you are very proud of the fact that you introduced for if the attorney general like furniture . [indiscernible] thats not fair. Think to characterize the attorney general as a piece of furniture is really beneath what you guys should be doing. The attorney general is doing an outstanding job. They are to enforce the law. They are not there to act as an ethics advisor to the government office. Governors office. If you find that in the statue of regulars, pointed out to me. [indiscernible] no, he is not. He may have to provide an investigative function in some later time. Imagine that. Imagine what you would be saying if that happened. Supposed to whos have an investigation of his own is helping us to comply with the mitigation of others. Anwould you be opposed to election at as a whole different story. Im not getting into that now. [indiscernible] my support of kevin odowd has never wavered because i knew how kevin conducted himself throughout this entire episode. I think the report backs that up in terms of the efforts he took, particularly with Bridget Kelly, to try to get to the truth than bottom of this. My support of kevin is unwavering. I was not going to resubmit his nomination in the midst of all this while i report was pending, but kevin on i will sit down and talk now that the report has been issued about the future and whether that is something he wants to pursue. Given occupied with other matters, so we will sit and talk about that. Concerned,m everything i said about kevin odowd on the date i nominated him to be attorney general applies just as much today as it did then. I chronicled on the ninth and just again in response to matts question. Reasonss force my for severing my relationship with bill. There is nothing new to add to that. [indiscernible] my decision was that all you would do is ask me about this. I did not have the facts i needed to be able to answer your question. It was not going to sit up here and lay dodge will play dodgeball on your questions. It is not much more competent than that. You know me. I have had regular press briefings throughout my administration. I am certainly not afraid to answer questions from all of you, any of you. If the fact is i know what youre going to ask and i do not know the answer, why would i submit myself to that . It does not make any self any sense. That is why i did not do. It is merely to me when you write stories about what you think youre entitled to. I think you are entitled to the answers when i get them. If all youre going to do is ask me these questions and yelled them at me at every town hall i walk through, i am not stupid. I get with this would be. I was going to answer these questions as soon as i had answers to give them. Remember, when i gave answers before when i thought i had complete information and he did not, it turned out to be a big mistake. One of the things ive learned is to try to not make that mistake again. Yes, i will hold ring the press of the lipase hold ring a press availability. We will quibble over what regular means. You hear about retaliation after the lanes have been over. I asked him directly says yet no idea what they were talking about. [indiscernible] matt, and this is for all of you. Me that askedsk me to speculate on David Wildstein was thinking or what Bridget Kelly was thinking, im not going to answer because i do not know. Into theoing to get speculation game because it will put me in a spot where im throwing stuff out against the wall and i drowned have a factual basis for. I will not do that. The thing i remember for sure is asking him what about the bridge lane situation he knew. And he have any prior knowledge or prove it, and the answers were no. I do not remember if i asked them about that particular piece on that day were the days after that. I clearly asked him at some point very early on and he said yet no idea what he was talking about. In the back. [indiscernible] saying that they cannot do an internal review. If they want to, they can. That is certainly within their purview. I think they are descended to the Inspector General, so i think Inspector General has will serve that purpose. This is not to be exclusive. What i think the report is recommending is that you need a group of people who have not been involved with the Port Authority. One of the things i find him for what the port authorities up to right now is the ring back they recommend bringing back executive directors who created the situation in the first place. Let me tell you, this not the first time the Port Authority has been involved in incidents to grow out of the inherent that grow out of the inherent conflict between new york and new jersey. I think bringing in the very people who helped to lay the foundation for this problem to examine the problem does not make a lot of sense to me. Oft is why this type Independence Commission may make sense. In the end, let us be clear. If anything is going to be change, it is going to have to be something i work on with governor cuomo. I have not had any conversations with him about this yet. He and i will talk. We have a good relationship. I think that the idea of splitting the Port Authority into two may have some real merit to it. Ive only been thinking about this for the last 24 hours, so i dont want to jump to conclusions. I think it has merit to consider and something that will be part of a lot of conversations that i will have with our friends in new york over the course of the coming weeks. Kelly . [indiscernible] kelly, i give them anything they asked for. My cell phone and my email accounts. Being interviewed . Its a number. I dont member exactly. Anytime they asked. They called and they asked and said they needed x amount of time with you. I said fine, cleared my calendar, and did it. Remember how many times. Kelly, i really do not remember. It started all the way back in january and has continued through to very near the time to issue the report. I dont remember how many times and i dont think it really matters. The bottom line is that whatever they asked, i said yes. However long they wanted, i try to give them. If they needed more time at another time i give them more time. In the end, my desire from this was for them to get all the information they needed to put forward a comprehensive result, which i think they have done. It is incumbent upon me to do that myself. I did. [indiscernible] as a government, we need to have higher than yes. Youre accusing something wrong is potentially something that could come back on your administration. [indiscernible] i have up here trying to very carefully answer questions. I dont know if you can take notes or if you are not listening, but for you to characterize my last answer as i did not want to ask her because i did not want to know is so awful that it is beneath the job you hold. What i said was that i made a decision, that given the likelihood of a chance i had of getting honest answers out of Bridget Kelly because you like to meet weeks earlier, versus the appearance that it would create in a later in cory that i attempted to course, influence, and anyway intimidate this , then ind her story made the decision that the cost benefit analysis of those two, wait on the side of me not having a private meeting with Bridget Kelly in the aftermath of these revelations. That is far from saying i did not want to know. Those kind of questions are just ridiculous. Melissa . [indiscernible] i assume the only reason for that is the did not get testimony or have documentary evidence that gave them a window thosehe emotional side of folks. I dont think there is any other reason why that would have occurred. Brian . Strong point of protecting fifth amendment rights, and yet the report uses the terminology in talking about the same individuals that says they asserted their fifth amendment rights from which add loose adverse influence can be drawn perko drawn. In a civil context, which is what this is, the the examination was a civil examination, in a civil context, and adverse inference can be drawn. In my instance, and adverse inference cannot be drawn from having their Constitutional Rights asserted. It is the distinction tween a civil and criminal inquiry. In a criminal instance, it cannot. The judge will charge a jury to say in a criminal context. [indiscernible] first of all, i dont know where they got the 1 million from. I dont know where they got that number. I sought saw it. I dont know where the number came from. If we want to have a search for the truth and we have an incident that people are concerned about and you have investigations which are asking for the production of enormous amounts of documents and testimony, you need to get lawyers to help you shepherd that process, to do it appropriately. That means they get paid for doing that task. [indiscernible] come frome it would the attorney generals office, who are the people who hired the lawyers in the first place and who reviewed the bills and authorized payment of the bills. That means sure you. Were not going to do anything to try to hide what the costs of this are if that is the thrust of your question. I do not know and have not been whated at the moment on this is costing. Im more focused on the result it met myoduce and if mandate and peers and it did and it appears that it did. How the process worse, when it happens, i am confident that we will make it public under the appropriate circumstances to do that. [indiscernible] tomorrow. For a meeting [indiscernible] no. Not at all. The report had nothing to do with it and i have gone to seven or eight states in the last four or five weeks. Im not going to have any meetings until i get the report . No. There is significantly less interest around the country in this report then there is in this region. I think appropriately so. If iknow if having am having a private meeting with sheldon and miriam or not. Imre thing i know for sure doing a las vegas is im speak to the republican jewish coalition. That is the resigned going to las vegas. I will be doing that as the rga chairman. Often times they set up with private meetings for me with donors are potential dover stood the republican governors association. I dont know you. I usually wait until i get on the plane tomorrow and i look at what im going to be what im theg doing when i that when i get there. How much responsibility [indiscernible] take complete responsibility for Bridget Kelly being in the position she was in. It was my decision. I take ultimate responsibly responsibility for David Wildstein being in that position because i permitted bill baroni dyer bill baroni to hire him. Sensitized,that im even more than i was before to this, when you go to experience like this. I think the people that advise me on the stuff are more sensitized to it as well. [indiscernible] a pot that he had . All right. To the never come and talk to you about what the alleged was . My understanding is that what said that it was a legitimate traffic study and it was his idea. It would not be news to me the time. It had been related to me numerous times since october 1. I dont think David Wildstein said anything different than that. I think that he also said at that time that Bridget Kelly had some knowledge about it. Us to goin, triggered back to Bridget Kelly and asked her, and she said she did not. Mike not bring it directly to me. That is not a relationship. You need to understand this that is not a revolving door. Its not where anyone can walk in on any topic they want and have at me. There is a process around here. Report to certain people. If they want to get information to me, they go through channels. The people who had unfettered access to me were evan odowd and Charlie Mckenna and everyone else in the office reported to either kevin odowd were Charlie Mckenna. I have seen some recounting of this in the press and the section about, why did not this person come to you . Im the governor of new jersey. Myont have everyone walk in door saying, hey, something i would like to tell you. To be able to run an efficient and effective office, you have to have lanes of traffic, especially moving towards me. I thought you would like that. [laughter] come on, everybody. We have to have some sense of humor. In this instance, those access rdedts regarded are gua and covered by kevin odowd and Charlie Mckenna. Is my,will tell you always appropriately, when her to his trek supervisor his direct supervisor or his indirect supervisor to report on all of those things. Not erect we to me. Know what i expect him to. Nor would it be appropriate for him to do. His job is to report to the people he is supposed to. I believe that is what the report shows. When my cat information that he thought was a portrait or relevant to the information to the rotation, he shared it maria or directly with kevin. That is how you are supposed to do a. I didnt do it that way, all i would be doing is taking people into my office and hearing information. Himself plainly a propylene clearly appropriately. There are other instances in the report where he went to maria to provide information about pressing quarries or other things about this issue. In the end, from my perspective, that is the way and effectively. Most goodk at governors offices or any chief executive, whether it is in the private sector or other areas of government, that is the way you have to do. If you dont do it that way, you will be overwhelmed by the people want to come in and have face time. I dont have the time to do that all the time. That is why i set up a twochief system, as opposed to the fourchief system we have had in the past. I wanted authority that ran to me. Is clear lines of authority exist today. The chief of staff and the chief counsel. They divide up the office as they see fit with my approval and then folks beneath them, like my, follow that course of conduct. If they do not, they will have trouble. This is the way we have to run things. I appreciate all of the questions. Joys such an extraordinary and relief to be able to come back and interact with you in a kind and gentle way that we always have. I would love to say that i missed you, but i did not. But, im looking forward to having you all back. The fact of the matter is this the single most important thing for me to do is to learn from this experience, to learn from what i have read and what i have heard, and to do my job. Areother considerations really not even secondary, but tertiary. My job is to do the job of governor of new jersey. I have another 3. 5 years to do that and i intend to do that as vigorously as i have done it in the years that i did before any of this occurred. I look forward to seeing you all again soon. I dont know when that will be. I will see you all again soon and be prepared to answer questions them. Thank you very much. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] next, the Supreme Court oral arguments severely us versus hobby lobby on the contraceptive provision of the health care law, followed by reaction from some of the parties in the case and u. S. Senators. Later, new jerseys governor Chris ChristieNews Conference today on the George Washington bridge closure. Comee thing to did not known until the late 1980s when a leading fbi scholar founded a filet when he threw through the freedom of information act. That is something that had taken to 1966. M 1940 the fbi had a formal relationship the american 1800n, in which members members of the american agent acted for informers for the fbi in their communities and regularly filed reports with the fbi. Americans had no idea that that kind of informing was taking place and they were untrained informers. On march 8, 1971, a group broke into an fbi office in pennsylvania and stole every document in the building. The story, sunday night at eight on cspans q and a. This week on prime ministers questions, David CameronDiscusses Energy prices, unemployment figures, and defense spending. The Supreme Court heard oral argument tuesday challenging the Health Care Laws concert captives contraceptives mandate. Justices questions touch on numerous issues, including religious freedom, corporate rights, federal mandates, and possible ignition if the companies when their case. A decision is expected before the end of the term in june. This is 90 minutes. Well hear argument this morning in consolidated cases number 13354, sebelius, secretary of health and Human Services v. Hobby lobby stores, and 13356, Conestoga Wood Specialties corporation v. Sebelius. Mr. Clement . Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court, when a federal Government Agency compelled employers to provide something as religiously sensitive as contraception, it knew that free exercise in rfra claims would soon follow. In particular, the agency itself provided exemptions and accommodations for the religious exercise of a subset is your claim limited to sensitive materials like contraceptives or does it include items like blood transfusion, vaccines . For some religions, products made of pork . Is any claim under your theory that has a religious basis, could an employer preclude the use of those items as well . Well, Justice Sotomayor, the first step in the analysis would be to ask whether or not theres a substantial burden on religious exercise. I do think this case is, in a sense, easier than most of the examples that youve brought up because heres o