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Legislation. >> got a huge laugh in that meeting two tuesdays ago. >> because this is about much larger issues. and to democrats and republican, it is about in part the fact that running government can be about short term cr to short term cr to short term cr. and if you talk to against hade hawks, many democrats, that is the concern that they have. they want long term spending. the other issue that is much bigger than earmarks to democrats is daca. because you are talking about 800,000 people who are now on the gambit because they don't know if they can stay or go. so earmarks and road project...

Long finished. and there was an equal, equal, equal distribution of funds from new jersey transit, the port authority of the state of new york and new jersey and the federal government. and essentially what happened is that $6 billion or $5 billion of funds, when this tunnel was pulled went to new jersey road projects, which were unfunded at the time. >> and take us back to that decision. because it was read several different ways in 2010. christie was new as governor. he was suddenly getting all this national attention. people were already starting to talk about him as running as a presidenti...

Some of the states not so receptive to the idea. in california, the planning commission denied a permit to turn a nursing home into a shelter for 96 children. they passed resolution banning the shelters for the children before anyone suggested opening them there. the nation's governor's furious over the failure to come up with a spending plan for america's highways and bridges. calling on lawmakers to come up with a long term solution to update the infrastructure. many calling for an increase in the gas tax. right now, the federal government lacks the funds needed for road projects. fighting i...

>> secretary fox called the bridge the worst he's seen. turning it from this to this will take work. >> o-dot plans to repave this freeway, but that project and others could be put on hold. the problem -- there are no more federal funds to pay for road projects. >> these are real problems. this has nothing to do with bailouts, handouts. we are talking about the roads and bridges that we drive our children across that people need repaired. >> that's right. >> we are talking about necessity here. >> we are also talking about, you know, roads businesses need to get their goods to market. keep us ...

Tunnel which was this tunnel canceled in october of 2010, he takes this money that was supposed to be set aside for that project from the port authority and diverts it to those road projects, the biggest of which is the pulaski skyway. in the course of the legal wrangling, "the bergen record" did a great story on this months ago, pointed out the lincoln tunnel is something they could build access roads to legally under the mandate. the problem in this case the highland tunnel is a more reasonable connection. that actually predates the -- >> they don't have the legal authority. right. and just ...