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important that these documents not only these documents, but anything else related to the investigation. >> according to reports this weekend, governor christie didn't know than memo attacking david wildstein. he also said he didn't know about the lane closing. david wildstein or the ft. lee mayor. listen to this. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue. in its planning or its execution. i think some of the stories impute like an emotional relationship and closeness between me and david that doesn't exist. mayor sokolich was never on my radar screen. i have to tell you, until i saw his picture last night on television, i wouldn't have been able to pick him out of a lineup. >> he didn't know sokolich, he didn't know wildstein well, he didn't know anything. supposedly we come back with the helicopter record saying that he flew over the gorge washington
don't believe an ap article earlier this week that suggested the opposite. what you need to know is the national republican party is doubling down on the parties in the states. interesting timing. in the sunday "new york times" this week, the mayor of ft. lee, new jersey, mark sokolich did interview, explained how and when he was asked by the chris christie re-election campaign if he would please endorse chris christie for re-election. he said the request happened last spring, it was not a high-pressure pitch. he didn't want to tell the "times" exactly who the chris christie staffer was who asked for the endorsement. the same day, though, the "wall street journal" named the guy. turns out, reportedly, it was a guy named matt mowers according to the "wall street journal" the christie campaign official responsible for calling ft. lee mayor mark sokolich and other democratic mayors across new jersey trying to talk them into endorsing chris christie. now we know what happens when you say no.
counsel on their investigation of the bridge scandal. we thought that announcement might come today. we learned the announcement could come as early as tomorrow but certainly by the end of the week. meanwhile, it's expected the nexts round of subpoenas from the assembly investigation, those subpoenas could go out as early as tomorrow as well. they could include the person most directly at the center of this scandal, chris christie's former deputy chef of staff who appears to have ordered "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee" back in august of last year. will bridget anne kelly be issued a subpoena? could that happen tomorrow? joining us now, the newly elected speaker of the new jersey assembly. mr. speaker, thank you very much for being with us. >> great to be here. >> why was reid char selected as special counsel for this body? >> well, we wanted to pick best person qualified for it and the people that i've spoke to, reid was the person that made the most sense to help us and guide
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 september in ft. lee. he e-mailed the vice chairman of the port authority after an article about the backup came out in the "wall street journal." david samson's complaint was the executive director of the port
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. >> why are you confident of that? here's the other thing to know here, today is january 15th, which means today is the deadline for the port authority to respond to a list of questions that have been put to them about this scandal from the u.s. senate committee that oversees the port authority as an agency.
that may not be parts of the george washington bridge and entire city of ft. lee were shut down for four days in september, but it's definitely how jersey city lost all that help they were due to get from the state of new jersey this past year. stay no to the endorsement, lose everything we were going to give you. in any case, now that matt mowers has been named in a key role in the huge scandal that wrapped around the new jersey governor's office like a giant squid, what's happening to old matt mowers? interesting story it turns out. the day of chris christie was in fact re-elected as governor of new jersey, the very next day matt mowers got a new job, appointed executive director of the republican party in new hampshire. not new jersey. new hampshire. hmm. why would a chris christie campaign guy want to be working in new hampshire heading into the next campaign cycle? since it became clear matt mowers was right in the middle of the bridge-gate scandal, the new hampshire press and
george washington bridge and entire city of ft. lee were shut down for four days in september, but it's definitely how jersey city lost all that help they were due to get from the state of new jersey this past year. stay no to the endorsement, lose everything we were going to give you. in any case, now that matt mowers has been named in a key role in the huge scandal that wrapped around the new jersey governor's office like a giant squid, what's happening to old matt mowers? interesting story it turns out. the day of chris christie was in fact re-elected as governor of new jersey, the very next day matt mowers got a new job, appointed executive director of the republican party in new hampshire. not new jersey. new hampshire. hmm. why would a chris christie campaign guy want to be working in new hampshire heading into the next campaign cycle? since it became clear matt mowers was right in the middle of the bridge-gate scandal, the new hampshire hn press and politicos have been in an uproar over his being the new executive
director of their republican party. state democratic spokesman says "matt mowers spent years working under disgraced aides of chris christie and what dirty tricks they taught him and what plans he has to use them in new hampshire. so far the republican party responded to statements defending matt mowers in a general sense, not mentioning the fact he used to work for chris christie. does matt mowers hold on to that political job in the new hampshire republican party? probably depends on whether his name surfaces again in a more damning way in more subpoenaed documents we expect to get once the assembly investigation moves forward. that's not the only state republican party reeling from the scandal. new jersey, itself, they already lost their new party chairman for the republican party in new jersey. the day before the "bergen record" published the e-mail for governor christie's governor chief of staff that said "time for traffic problems in ft. lee," the day before that e-mail and the rest of the documents came out which showed governor
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for traffic problems in ft. lee," the day before that e-mail and the rest of the documents came out which showed governor christie campaign manager e-mailing got i who shut down the bridge and calling the mayor of ft. lee an idiot, chris christie's campaign manager bill stepien had been put forward as the next chairman of the new jersey republican party. that was on a tuesday. e-mails came out on a wednesday. on thursday, that was over. governor christie announcing he was separating himself from bill stepien, he lost faith in his judgment and asking him to withdraw his name from consideration for leading the new jersey republican party. so the bridge scandal in new jersey has already claimed the head of one state republican party and causing big trouble for the new executive director of another state republican party in a really politically important state. and now the national republican party announced a new strategy for funneling at least some additional help from d.c. headquarters to the state parties. hey, how about that? when new jersey has trouble because of the chris christie