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With bill barone, tells him that he s toast, but tells him also that he s going to get set up with a new job with another political consultant, i think christie is tying up a bunch of loose ends and preparing to wait out the clock for only a few more weeks until the subpoena power expires, then they think they re going to be scot-free. tell me about the reporting. what is the news value of today s testimony from the a.p. s point of view? i think first of all, this is the highest ranking christie official to testify. and so this is someone we hadn t heard from before. we had seen some of his interview notes in the mastro report. this is a chance to hear him up front, get him to answer questions firsthand. we learned also he said, like the others, he had no direct involvement in the lane closings or any knowledge of it. and he also answered another key question, or didn t answer ....
Out, walks in on this meeting at the governor s mansion with bill stepien, asks bridget kelly, gets a denial, has a meeting with bill barone, tells him that he s toast, but tells him also that he s going to get set up with a new job with another political consultant, i think christie is tying up a bunch of loose ends and preparing to wait out the clock for only a few more weeks until the subpoena power expires, then they think they re going to be scot-free. tell me about the reporting. what is the news value of today s testimony from the a.p. s point of view? i think first of all, this is the highest ranking christie official to testify. and so this is someone we hadn t heard from before. we had seen some of his interview notes in the mastro report. this is a chance to hear him up front, get him to answer questions firsthand. we learned also he said, like the others, he had no direct involvement in the lane closings ....
How significant is that in your view? you know, it came at the end of a day when we had already learned there was a lot going on. on the day of that press conference that you mentioned, that s on the 13th of december. the day before that, we learned about a lot of activity that s going on in the governor s mansion in trenton relating to this story. so i think, you know, this mastro report paid for by taxpayer dollars that exonerated the governor is dieing a death of 1,000 cuts. after a whole day of testimony, we get this issue with o dowd saying that, you know, he gave this e-mail to christie and it was right before christie went out and did that press conference. a press conference where the governor said he didn t know of anything on the staff, yet ....
Was reopening the possibility that he did not hear the conversation. when we reached out to constable s office to get constable on, they replied he wasn t available but helped us arrange an interview with doherty instead. that s where we left things the end of last month. this key witness in the mastro report. a democratic mayor friendly with the christie administration telling us he doesn t think dawn zimmer is lying about her conversation with richard constable, but also that nothing like she says was said was actually said. now we have learned more information that only raises more doubt about mastro s report and how doherty was used in it. mastro released memos outlining the 75 interviews they used in their report. a few things jumped out at us. ralph larossa, who runs the largest new jersey gas and ....