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With respect to the conversations she had with the lieutenant governor. >> just quickly, this is a question i'm curious and haven't asked you of it, which issue to you is more troubling in terms of finding out what really happened, the bridge or the sandy aid? >> well, i think all of them are very important to the people of new jersey. sandy aid are important to people who needed it and also from the bridgegate controversy, because that's a tremendous abuse of power and we can't have our government officials participating in such schemes. i've even heard of a third one, as well, going forward....

The senate or the assembly are bumping into each other by having one supercommittee? >> that's secret. and initially we had the two committees i believe. that's part of our process in new jersey. and after some thorough discussions at the leadership level within the state legislature, it was determined that it should be a combined committee, and that's what came out today in a public statement. >> steve, that is part of what people were very concerned about, whether you would have a subpoena from the senate and the same person getting the subpoena from the assembly. and this clears all that up...

And this was a new mayor. incoming mayor. he'd never held citywide office for him. this was the keys for him to understand state government. department of transportation, economic development, the commissioner who oversaw sandy aid and reconstruction for the state. and these meetings were all lined up for him and this would have been a big deal and they were canceled. >> let's look at christie last week talking about kevin o'dowd. >> kevin's, you know, confirmation hearing will go forward on tuesday. and i expect he'll be vigorously questioned like any candidate for attorney general should be,...

Information on where just a fraction of it all went, and of that money, only 36.9% went to the people christie promised he'd give it to. the whereabouts of the rest of the billions of dollars remains a total mystery. we do, however, know where an additional $25 million in sandy aid went, to a very well-produced ad campaign. in fact, a whopping $4.7 million federal dollars paid for this one commercial. ♪ 'cause we're stronger than the storm, whoa ♪ >> turns out, the firm hired to run the campaign had been chosen over an advertising firm that had bid 40% less but did not propose using the go...

>> fair share housing center, an advocate group says they're frustrated, and talks of the failure to provide the most basic documents, on why thousands of families have been denied the most basic necessaries since sandy. >> the christie administration has released no information on how the money is being spent. what we do know came out of a lawsuit that alleged that the christie administration is improperly holding data on the use of the funds, in response to that, they released documents on where the money went. 36.9% of that money went to the people christie promised he would give it to. the...