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Stoppage, you just stopped the traffic on a major highway in this country going from state to state and you stop it, and for four or five days he doesn't know about it, he doesn't know there is somebody up to something here, he didn't smell trouble? that's always been my question, the strange lack of curiosity about what had the earmarks of mayhem here. >> and initially, the tone and the emphasis of what he said was hey, didn't know anything about this until i read about it in the paper. >> right. >> that's essentially what he said at the beginning. >> tonight. >> but what he is saying well, i...

In september. >> if i read that or someone said something to me about traffic issues up there, it wouldn't have been meaningful to me. because i didn't know there was any problem up there. >> christie said the first time he remembers hearing about the problem was when he read this october 1st "wall street journal" article about the port authority executive director calling lane closings abusive. but what may have been most note worthy about this radio appearance was what christie did not say. no attacks on david wildstein like in this memo christie supporters sent around this weekend, attackin...

Either read that or someone said something to me about traffic issues up about, it wouldn't have been meaningful to me because i didn't know that there was any problem up there because i didn't know that we had actually closed lanes up there before that. so my dispute is twofold. first, to make clear to everybody in the midst of, you know, all the things that were reported that nobody has said that i knew anything about this before it happened. and i think that's the most important question. secondly, that when this first became an issue for me -- because let's face it, eric. there's traffic e...

There were press accounts about traffic issues up there. and if someone, you know -- if i either read that or someone said to me about traffic issues up there, it wouldn't have been meaningful to me because i didn't know that there was any problem up there. you know, because i didn't know that we had actually closed lanes up there before that. so my dispute is twofold. first, to make clear to everybody in the midst of, you know, all the things that were reported over the weekend that nobody has said that i knew anything about this before it happened. and i think that's the most important quest...

>> who brought that to your attention? >> news accounts. >> you read them personally? >> i read it in the "wall street journal." and it was that day, then, when i read that that pat was saying i didn't know about this. it wasn't cleared through me, whatever else it said in the e-mail. that is when i asked my chief of staff and chief counsel would you look into this and see what is going on here. now, if prior to that -- i know prior to that there were press accounts about traffic issues. and if i either read that or someone said something to me about traffic issues up there it wouldn't have be...