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Michaels or his brother, jeff michaels who is a powerful lobbyist in new jersey who was also mentioned in steve's report. the executive director of the port authority has now asked the port authority inspector general and the port authority police chief to investigate the role of at least that one port authority police officer who apparently drove around david wildstein on the first morning of the closures. other reporting tonight suggests that the new internal port authority investigation may be broader than just that one officer, that it may be a wider look at the role of port authority poli...

Washington bridge. traffic study which was used as a cover story to obscure the real reasons the lanes on that bridge were shut down. joining us now, sean of the "bergen record." prestigious george polk journalism award for his excellent and groundbreaking coverage of the bridge lane closings. congratulations on that polk . t >> i appreciate it. >> couple things that have broken. one is the news substantiating the early claims from the ft. lee mayor that port authority police told people who were stuck in the traffic jam they ought to blame the mayor. why is that an important development? >> w...

Real reasons the lanes on that bridge were shut down. joining us now, sean of the "bergen record." prestigious george polk journalism award for his excellent and groundbreaking coverage of the bridge lane closings. congratulations on that polk. >> i appreciate it. >> couple things that have broken. one is the news substantiating the early claims from the ft. lee mayor that port authority police told people who were stuck in the traffic jam they ought to blame the mayor. why is that an important development? >> well, significant because on its face, it doesn't quite make sense. the mayor of ft....

Reporting, that's a text message from chip michaels. in the context of other comments that seem to relish the traffic problems occurring in ft. lee, that looks similar in content. >> it's at least -- it is at least a statement of fact. we know it was a ft. lee traffic disast disaster. in context, was that expressing relish over that or if that was the goal? we still don't know. >> right. >> what about the fact that among the ways that chip michaels turns up in the documents we've seen thus far, it seems like he and several other port authority police officials knew about the shutdown in advanc...

People are missing work. it's been four days now. you have to stop this. and he said this, specifically, as to why it might be happening. the mayor wrote this, quote, many members of the public indicated to me the port authority police officers are advising commuters in response to their complaints that this recent traffic debacle is the result of a decision that i as mayor recently made. according to the mayor, he says he found out even as the bridge lane shutdown was still in effect, he says that port authority police were telling people stuck in the traffic jam that the traffic jam was the ...