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Quite good and that in fact you were in the governor's office, not meeting with the governor but meeting with some of his officials as late as last thursday. so the relationship is still okay? s . >> well, actually, they were in my office. there was one representative from the governor's office. there was new jersey transit. a rebuild by design team, an international design team and we were talking about this plan, this competition that we're a part of under hud secretary donovan. it is an excellent competition that we're working on a comprehensive plan to really protect hoboken and really hop...

Mayor's claims. >> the mayor for the first time tied governor christie to the threats of retaliation. she said her funds held hostage until she pushed through a project by the rockefeller group. this is a real estate group with ties to chris christie. in may the governor kim guadagno came to her with a message sent from christie himself. lets listen to how she skid this on cnn's state of the union. >> he made a direct threat to me. the lieutenant governor pulled me aside and said you've got to move forward with the rockefeller project. this project is really important to the governor. she said...

Connect sandy funding, hoboken sandy funding to the rockefeller project. they did. i'm coming forward sharing my story. i'm sharing my journal, offering to testify under oath. what are they doing? hiding behind spokespeople. the mayor reached directly by the bergen journal and she wouldn't comment. i believe if she is asked to testify under oath will truth will come out. you have the christie administration to use their authority to try and get something. i don't know what they were trying to do in bridgegate but i do know hoboken. they were holding our sandy funds to push through the rockefel...

We'll be cut out. >> since may, which i have recorded in your diary, you have complemented the mayor. we've seen you several months later say in a tweet, i'm so glad that chris christie is our governor. so can you square that for me? as you know, coming at this point, what the governor's office says had this is just politics. why can this not be seen through a political lens? >> that's part of the reason that this was so hard because i do have a really -- i did have a really good relationship so i couldn't believe that they were doing this. the bottom line is that the christie administration's...

Were trying to get in hoboken, they were holding our sandy funds hostage in order to push through and expedite the rockefeller project. >> i did speak to someone inside the governor's office this morning, and they said, listen, our first pot was $300 million. the request from hoboken was $100 million. they got $70 million. and they said when you look across the state of new jersey, all of these places were hurting and needed more money at that point, obviously, than they had. that $70 million out of a $300 million pot at that point is pretty good. it's almost a third of the funds. >> well, act...