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Governor's deputy chief of staff orders "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee" and chris christie ally at the port authority david wildstein says "got it." one week before that, someone is trying to set up a meeting between samson and chris christie. submitted that conversation trying to set up the meeting to the assembly as documentation somehow relevant to shutting the lanes down on the bridge and gridlocking ft. lee. why is that? and how will we know? >> i sat and met for two hours yesterday with mr. samson. general samson. and, again, i'm confident that he had no knowledge of this. >>...

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...

Problems in ft. lee" and chris christie ally at the port authority david wildstein says "got it." one week before that, someone is trying to set up a meeting between samson and chris christie. submitted that conversation trying to set up the meeting to the assembly as documentation somehow relevant to shutting the lanes down on the bridge and gridlocking ft. lee. why is that? and how will we know? >> i sat and met for two hours yesterday with mr. samson. general samson. and, again, i'm confident that he had no knowledge of this. >> why are you confident of that? here's the other thing to know ...

The day before the bergen record published the e-mail from the deputy chief of staff that said time for traffic problems in ft. lee, the day for that e-mail and the rest of the documents came out, which showed governor christie's campaign manager e-mailing the guy who shut down the bridge and calling the mayor of ft. lee an idiot, the day before those e-mails came out, chris christie's came pan manager bill stepien was put forward as the new executive director of the new jersey republican party. on thursday, that was over. chris christie announcing he had lost faith in his judgment, and he was...