account of the first day, of the first minutes of the opening moments of this. and who david wildstein apparently chooses to be the person to go survey the scene. yeah, however that came about, right, david wildstein, it s not just that he s there and seeing this, he s riding around with david wildstein, giving his impressions and probably getting david wildstein s first impressions about, as you see in the texts what a mess is being created here. he texts at one point that he has some idea of how we can make this better. totally unclear what that means. does that mean he s totally innocent, was not in the planning, just horrified by this and has ideas how to make it better or, like, hey, this scheme you re working on, i have ideas that s the great ambiguity. is he not in on plot? is he being told this is a traffic study and seeing this with his jaw, he s like oh my god, this is a nightmare, i have ideas to make it better as in, open the lanes, buddy. that raises the other po
right? to blow this thing all up. there was outrage, in fact, indignant outrage from the jersey operatives on the side of this being like we re pushing back, getting david samson. you guys reported this. is this report still stands, right? you stand by this reporting. we do. so you you reported out and you had evidence this was talked about in the conversation, you stand by that. it has been denied by christie and sort of denied or waved away by cuomo. yeah, we stand by it. and, but one thing i just want to add on what you re saying before about the power struggle and, you know, governor cuomo s role in the agency is new jersey s lost some big guns at the port authority now. lost david wildstein and lost bill baroni. they re in a much more weakened position going forward. going to be interesting how that effects future deals. there s a lot of things on the table. about to get rolled by the new york side on everything. do you suspect that we will see were you surprised by th
input, that it would be david wildstein who would go and make the phone call to trenton. whether he s talking to christie, himself, or somebody, he would be he was the eyes and ears. right. it raises the question to me, a guy like chip michaels who knows christie better than your average port authority cop who might know wildstein from livingston better than your average port authority cop. what i d be interested in asking him, isn t your impression that governor christie wanted to happen? is it your impression he knows about this? right, you re going to want no know as this fight is happening, as this fight is escalating and christie, himself, said the life in this agency is basically a universe of unceasing warfare between new york and new jersey. that is what life inside the port authority is. it s a bizarre agency. there s lots of money on the line. and the two sides are fighting each other tooth and nail every day. as this thing s erupting, you re going to want to know on
right. no, and so that s the surprising thing, as i say, bill baroni technically should have been in the position where everybody would assume he s the point of contact. the impression that everybody, or most people in the port authority had, though, was that david wildstein was the point of contact. that s why i just say, with michaels, knowing christie, you know, himself, knowing probably through his brother, christie that well, i d be curious to ask him. we put in a request for a comment. i d be curious to ask him, was it your impression when david wildstein was telling you this that this was david wildstein speaking for the governor? right. now, have you gotten response, christie folks have basically said, we never had a conversation about this. no conversation with chip, no conversation with jeff about this. right. and have you gotten responses from chip and jeff? no. the michaels brothers. have not heard from either of them. heather, this story in which you guys r
right? to blow this thing all up. there was outrage, in fact, indignant outrage from the jersey operatives on the side of this being like we re pushing back, getting david samson. you guys reported this. is this report still stands, right? you stand by this reporting. we do. so you you reported out and you had evidence this was talked about in the conversation, you stand by that. it has been denied by christie and sort of denied or waved away by cuomo. yeah, we stand by it. and, but one thing i just want to add on what you re saying before about the power struggle and, you know, governor cuomo s role in the agency is new jersey s lost some big guns at the port authority now. lost david wildstein and lost bill baroni. they re in a much more weakened position going forward. going to be interesting how that effects future deals. there s a lot of things on the table. about to get rolled by the new york side on everything. do you suspect that we will see were you surprised by th