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After a spring rock bid scandal, new jersey governor chris christie seemed to be getting back to normal. even taking time yesterday to play in a charity baseball game at yankee stadium. but governor christie's troubles may not be over. today a front page story in the new york times. a second bridge inquiry said to be linked to christie. it centers on whether the christie administration broke securities law by using port authority funds instead of state money to pay for repairs on another bridge. the polaski skyway. remember the port authority is the same agency whose officials ordered the clos...

Cost overruns here, they came in to the port authority literally two months after christie was elected and said, we basically need money, can we use this money, is it possible to direct it to the polaski skyway which is a road in new jersey coming out of the holland tunnel. and they needed to do that because they realized the transportation trust fund, which has all the money to pay for roads, was empty and the only way to fix roads would have been to raise the gas tax which is something that christie did not want to do going into a potential republican election. >> thinking about, just thinki...

Was part of an effort by governor christie to use the port authority of new york and new jersey, a giant bistate agency, really as an additional arm of this government and a political wing to solve his political problems. so what happened during the tunnel, and we've learned some of this since bridge-gate is the same individuals, david wildstein, bill baroni, the ones who directed the lane closures, were also orchestrating from very early on, from way before christie publicly said there are cost overruns here, they came in to the port authority literally two months after christie was elected a...

This traffic tie-up on the george washington bridge probably would have helped him position himself for a 2016 campaign. >> andrea, elaborate what kind of projects that the port authority was able to do with david wildstein and others' guidance that helped specifically chris christie and helped new jersey specifically. >> well, for example, there was a project lifting up the bayonne bridge. i think the key issue was it had a big supporter for the labor union twho then endorsed him for reelection. then that group turned around and made giant contributions to the governor's association which chr...

Bridge. i think the key issue was it had a wig suppo a big supporter for the labor union twho then endorsed him for reelection. then that group turned around and made giant contributions to the governor's association which chris christie chaired. there was also billions of dollars that went into the polaski skyway, which is a road leading out of the lincoln tunnel in -- excuse me, the holland tunnel in new york city. now, this seems like a mundane project, but the key thing about it is that it meant that chris christie didn't have to spend new jersey funds. so it solved a big budget headache. ...