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My family. >> the long and short of it is i think vladimir putin and the russian government will be very lucky if they get through the olympics without an incident. >> i never promised and mr. williams and his company never received any government benefit of any kind from me or from my administration. >> the major question is, did they connect sandy funding -- hoe bochy sandy funding to the rockefeller project. the fact is, that is what they did. >> any suggestion sandy funds were tied to the approval of any project in new jersey is completely false. >> it's pretty clear he was going to do wha...

Forward. >> the fact is that the lieutenant governor came to hoboken, she pulled me aside in the parking lot, and she said, i know it's not right, i know this thing should not be connected, but they are, and if you tell anyone, i'll deny it. >> and the lieutenant governor was not the only christie official who directly linked sandy money to approving the rockefeller development deal, according to zimmer. that same week, zimmer attended a public event where she sat on stage with this man, richard n constab constable, a member of christie's cabinet. zimmer wrote in her journal that constable sai...

Sent them a letter and clearly said you can't connect the two and it's not fair to connect the. two that's part of the conversation that we had. i said you know -- after she said to me, you have to move ahead with the rockefeller project. i said is any other town being asked to do development in exchange for help with the flooding? and her answer was the shore brings them $38 billion. she was the one -- she very clearly was connecting the development with the sandy aid in our conversation. and it's ironic she is saying that when now i sent a letter on april 23rd saying these two things should ...

Shared with us. and here is how she describes the threat guadagno made in an entry in that diary, dated may 17th. quoting from it, at the end of a big tour of shoprite, she pulls me aside with no one else around and tells me i need to move forward with the rockefeller project. it is very important to the governor. the word is you are against it and you need to move it forward or we are not going to be able to help you. i know it's not right, these things should not be connected, but they are, she says. if you tell anyone i said that, i will deny it. this is what the mayor of hoboken says chris...

Aid for sandy. are you saying this letter disproves that? >> that's the first time i'm hearing that. i didn't realize that she -- she didn't actually say that directly today, but i mean this letter makes it clear that i was the one on april 23rd, sent them a letter, and very clearly said, you can't connect the two, and it's not fair to connect the two. and that was part of the conversation that we had. i said, you know, are you saying after she said to me, you know, that you have to move ahead with the rockefeller project, i said, is any other town being asked to do development in exchange for...