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Under what context that is happening in, and if the councilman knew back in the summer that this was going on, why was that not brought to the council? why were we not told? he's trained as an attorney? what did he tell the mayor and how to respond to that? so these are questions that i think the mick has a right to know especially given there were decisions made in the interim in that time frame that were, you know, the citizens of hoboken made a decision to make a vote it to do. >> steve, the mayor has gone on in the press the past week and made clear why she didn't come forward earlier. to ...

From hoboken mayor to what about sandy money. typically when people come up to express the governor's will and, by the way, there would be a very long line through a long line of history in new jersey about people saying, hey, the governor would like this and if it's not offered up, people will ask. the position is so powerful in the state. well, where is the governor on this? it was inevitable that would come up in some way, in some fashion. that's the way it works in new jersey. >> congressman, you represent monmouth county. she's from your home turf politically. what do you make of kim guad...

Appropriate. i've worked in upper saddle river going to law school in the summer. it is much further up land. it is way far away from the coast and it's not dealing with the same situation. it's not about whether hoboken received equitable treatment. it's whether hoboken received treatment it deserves given its proximity to the hudson river and given the flooding we experienced. a more important issue is the hazard mitigation grant program, $100 million crafted so to be eligible for it, you had to have a shore home. now my parents have had a shore home on long beach island since the '80s. the ...

To the authority, they started asking about the money for the a.r.c. tunnel. this was many months before christie came and said i was shocked to learn of these cost overruns and i'm putting a 30-day moratorium on the project. by the way, a little side note, david samson was actually named by christie, nominated, to head the port authority just a few days before the moratorium was put on the a.r.c. tunnel funding. this was a case where the port authority was going to solve his budget headache and he was going to not have to raise the gas tax which would have been terrible for someone looking at...

Hazard mitigation funding with expediting a private development project. i stand by my word and remain willing to testify under oath and continue to answer any questions asked of me. this after she did testify to them yesterday for several hours. chuck todd, nbc news political director and charlie cook, msnbc political analyst and editor of the cook political report. let's get to some of the specifics, michael isikoff has reported that dawn zimmer reiterated all she got from state provided sandy relief money and flood mitigation money was the $342,000 that there was other federal money. so the...