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Christie, somebody he s described as a friend a couple of years ago is going further and first out on the limb to tell the world there s nothing the see her. if you re chip michaels, do you call your brother and say you might want to tell the governor that i saw something a little different? for the record it has to be said that the governor did put out a statement that he has never had any conversation right. with chip michaels or jeff michaels, his brother the lobbyist about the bridge scandal. that has to be put on the record. congressman, i m sorry. the point i m trying to make is you have that codery, this little group that s very close to the governor, wild sfooen and now chip michaels, it s just a real problem in my opinion that these people who are close to the governor, the ones that are involved with the closing of these traffic lanes. and again, what is the chain of command? why is chip michaels being called on to do this? ....
Explicitly knows she s ordering up a mess here. nunziato sending some very conflicting signals right now. and then there s the question of, as we say, chip michaels, we can interpret it a number different way. it is note wore think when you think of the suggestions he was sending out. he was sending out a suggestion that would have sent people into this mess. that s not definitive evidence in any way. when you look at a relatively small group, is that the group that you see or do you see more people that could be involved? first after were i don t know if chip michaels is involved or not. we have not had chip michaels before us. do you want him subpoenaed by the way? subpoenaed or brought in. he may be somebody we need to speak to. we ve subpoenaed pretty much everybody under the sun at this point. we have 30 subpoenas that are currently pending. ....
Socklich, telling commuters, if you re upset, you should call the mayor. now there has been further reporting in the last week where some commuters were tracked down and they corroborated that story. they said that port authority police officers were seeking them out, basically, hey, roll down your window, i want to tell you something. and then telling them, hey, if you don t like this traffic, you need to let the mayor know. now it raises the question, not just a question about chip michaels, it s a question about the port authority police department. that s the police union at the abort authority, the one police union in all of new jersey that actually has a very good relationship with chris christie. the rest of them refused to endorse him last year, think he really gave a bad deal on pensions. that deal did not apply to the port authority cops. they have done very well under christie. so now directs some scrutiny over there. steve kornacki. up with steve kornacki, extensive rep ....
Akpaebing wildstein. why is he making if suggestions about traffic. you know, why are there suggestions that somehow the port authority police are sending message to the crowd that this is the mayor of ft. lee who did this? this is like some kind of private security force in some kind of, you know, to tall tearian state. this isn t the way the police force is supposed to operate. there s supposed to be a chain of demand. why are they involved? why are friend of the governor actually accompanying wildstein and making suggestioning? i don t buy it. i think it s another example of abuse of power with this little codery of the governor and his friends increasingly involved in bridge gate and it s very disconcerting. well, there s a lot to try to sort through here. we say broadry speaking the port authority police. there s individual questions about nunziato and chip michaels and others. we ll try to understand that ....
Little nuggets keep coming out, one you reported on this morning. another possible tie, if you will, between the port authority police, someone who was possibly there when the lane closure was going on, has a pretty close tie to the governor. explain that. yeah. there s lieutenant michaelmi port authority police chip michaels was on the scene when david wildstein who oversaw the bridge closures. lieutenant michaels was on the scene when that happened and then drove around wildstein, around the area, to survey the mounting traffic. and then he exchanged texts with wildstein over the first two days of this. who is chip michaels? grew up in livingston, new jersey, a few years younger than chris christie. but there is ties between christie and the michaels family through the brothers. the brothers sort of all knew each other growing up. sort of stayed in touch through the years, as recently as 2010, chip michaels was describing a friendly relationship with the new governor, coaching hi ....