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Samson's significance the past few months may be severely challenged. >> the role of the chairman of the port authority is not an operational role, it's a policy role. i wouldn't expect david to be involved in day-to-day operational issue like a traffic study. >> i want to bring in lisa brenn brennan, who broke the story about patrick o'reilly. and brian thompson with wnbc is still with us, so is nick. lisa, the name patrick o'reilly, tell us who he is, what his role is, and your understanding is of why he would have attracted attention from the manhattan district attorney? >> first of all, th...

Duhaime that both kelly and s p stepien had knowledge of the traffic study. he couldn't remember because of the high volume of duhaime's communications with stepien during that time. they were christie's top two and they cannot distinguish one call from another back in december. for that matter the memo says that duhaime was constantly in contact with the governor about many things and they spoke again on december 12th and twice on the morning of december 13th. december 13th is a key date because that's the day chris christie held the press conference where he denied that anyone on his team ha...

Wildstein said he would have not have done the traffic study without him knowing about it. it's a short reference to christie's office. they spoke and wildstein told duhaime specifically that kelly and stepien knew about the traffic study beforehand. and some time after that duhaime discussed this with stepien and that he knew about traffic study before him because wildstein had come to him about this particular study about the traffic study. but he he told wildstein to take the idea to trenton because stepien no longer worked in state government. on december 11th of last year, the moem me say...

Is charlie mckenna, governor christie's chief council. he secretly met with fishman's office back in january. he knows the attorney's office well, he spent 18 years there as a federal prosecutor. that was before joining christie's administration as director of homeland security. that's the position he was in last fall when governor christie says that mckenna was among the two people he asked to look into the lane closures. the internal christie administration investigation into the lane closures he took part in preparing bill baroni for testimony before the committee last november. that's the ...

The probe? >> well, you could think that that might be a possibility. he's got a lawyer who was a former prosecutor and it'sprose. and it's very good lawyering to get in front of a case right away. so from his point of view he didn't want to get buried by the traffic study cover-up. he doesn't -- you know, he just was asked to investigate it by the governor. so he's trying to figure out where the prosecutors are headed so that he can plan his own strategy. >> how big of a deal is it that the u.s. attorney in manhattan has started working, as you've reported, on its own inquiry into the port au...