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After some initial conflicting and confusing information that night, the port authority did issue a statement, apologizing statement on monday. the port authority apologizes for the disruptions that travelers faced. that was not good enough. the written apology was not enough. ultimately they had the executive director of the port authority get out and make a public apology to the people of staten island. >> i will start by apologizing to staten island residents and everybody affected by the extraordinary delays. >> april 20 11 this was. that was an apoll write from the port authority executiv...

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 should understand about david ...

Sampson's complaint was that the executive director of the port authority talked about it. pat foy is the leak, stirring up trouble in this case, he's playing in traffic, made a big mistake. in the earlier bridge backup, david samson's mad at the executive director because of the backup, and he says so. in the more recent one, the ft. lee one, there's nothing said publicly, the only thing david samson is mad about this time is that he's talking to the press about it. he's playing in traffic, he's the leak, stirring up trouble. he's made a big mistake. that's when some of the first press about ...

Samson has spoken for the governor. almost anybody who's named at the port authority by christie prefaces anything they say with, well, on behalf of the governor, or thanks to the governor. and, well, he's the chairman. >> in terms of how he fits into this scandal, the contrast between the way he was so vocal about that backup, which was a port authority caused backup back on easter sunday, 2011, and the fact he made no public meant about what happened in ft. lee. obviously that could be explained by him not knowing what was under way in ft. lee and so, therefore, why would he make a public co...

>> 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 toll collector...