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Debacle, and he lambasted the executive director of the port authority for having caused that traffic jam on that bridge 2 1/2 years ago. when the port authority caused this even bigger traffic jam for four straight days, the same chairman, david samson, didn't say beep. no public comment on the issue. no apology. no telling the press it was unthinkable, nothing. not a word. why is that? in contrast to the outer bridge backup in 2011 where david samson raked the director over the coals for public in that backup, here's what we know about what david samson did about the backup this past septemb...

September on the orders of governor christie's deputy chief of staff. joining us now is steve, reporter covering the port authority for new jersey "star ledger" newspaper. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> you are more informed on these matters. you've been covering the port authority for a long time. >> you seem to be doing pretty well. >> having covered the backup when it happened, did i screw anything up there? is it pretty much how it happened? >> you got both the ft. lee backup and the goethals pretty on the mark. >> excellent. tell me what you think people sho...

Other lanes. >> it was so bad that the website gothamist did a feature on the galactically stupid traffic jam on the bridge. saying the port authority ruined easter. look at the coverage the next morning, that was easter sunday, right? was the jam. the next monday, monday morning, right after easter, it's from the "staten island advance." motorists fume as port authority creates an hours long bridge backup. easter spirit gave way to traffic outrage yesterday, on what should have been a reasonable holiday commute turned into an hour's long ordeal. the reason, for most of the day only a single t...

Lee, david samson turns up again. ft. lee got back all three lanes this morning, we are appropriately going nuts. david samson is helping us to retaliate so says david wildstein on the last day of the shutdown. it was only after that document came out that david samson made his first public comment of what happened in ft. lee. the backup that was caused by the port authority. that was the first public comments that he made. he put out a statement saying i had no knowledge of the lane closures. he said he was extremely upset and distressed by the documents that were released. that's it. that's ...

Backup and not a peep about the one that happened in september on the orders of governor christie's deputy chief of staff. joining us now is the reporter covering the new jersey port authority for the star leather. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> you are more informed on these matters. you've been covering the port authority for a long time. having covered that backup when it happened, did i screw anything up there? >> you got both the ft. lee backup and the goethel pretty right. >> tell me what people should understand about david samson, his role in this agency and new jer...