estate deal, which is a privately funded money making operation, if you don t do this, because i want it done because of my pals, you re not going to get the money you normally should get from the government, that to you a strong arm or simply hardball ? is that fair game? that is strong arm. i mean, i was a mayor. and if someone had threatened me with that, i would have told them to go jump in the passaic river. well, that s what i think would be a nice thing to do. thank you robert gordon for coming on the show and bob ingle about your wisdom about the way things work up there. coming up, bully pulpit. it seems to be the christie administration s m.o., say something critical, ask the wrong question or write a negative story and they go at you personally. the latest target, a conservative favorite, the new york times. plus, the health care law has come a long way since the days of the botched roll-out. but that s not stopping republicans from keeping the heat and the hatred
i can tell you permitted, okay. in the corzine administration, members of the governor s office did testify before legislative committees. so there is no precedent for this kind of executive privilege, if you will, denying your i mean, you re the oversight body. in any government, you re the legislature. you re supposed to do oversight. that s how democracy works. right. how can it work if the legislators who are elected by the people can t oversee the works of the executive branch which is the way our governments perform in this republic. this is all about checks and balances. yes. we re exercising our constitutional obligation to provide oversight over the executive branch, which in the case of the sandy recovery money for the people who have experienced losses to their homes, this program appears to be a major screw-up. well, let me go to bob ingle, we ve had him on before, to get the culture here. you have written about this. is this another bully exercise w
down lanes on a bridge that put people at risk, that s something totally different. and you ve crossed the line with that. well, what about going to a mayor and saying if you don t back my buddies and all the people that work for me that are now lawyers for this operation, this rockefeller institute deal, if you don t back this real estate deal, which is a privately funded money making operation, if you don t do this, because i want it done because of my pals, you re not going to get the money you normally should get from the government, that to you a strong arm or simply hardball ? is that fair game? that is strong arm. i mean, i was a mayor. and if someone had threatened me with that, i would have told them to go jump in the passaic river. well, that s what i think would be a nice thing to do. thank you robert gordon for coming on the show and bob ingle about your wisdom about the way things work up there. coming up, bully pulpit. it seems to be the christie administration s
get the information we need. but you re not going to get it from the governor s staff people? probably not. not unless we decide to exercise additional powers. let me go back to bob ingle. here is the problem. it seems to me we ve seen this before. you know how politicians say i m totally responsible, but i m not guilty. mistakes were made, all that blah blah blah, both parties do this left and right as a way of sort of skirting away from responsibility, but somehow seeming noble. in this case, i want to show i want to watch this for our memory here. january 9th or january 14th in his state of the state where christie again said i m going to cooperate with everybody here in getting all the information. then we re getting this first seed of information here last night. oh, yeah, i m going to help. but by the way, don t count on any of my staff people coming over to the legislature to testify on anything. let s watch. i m the governor. and i m ultimately responsible for all tha
committees, even those digs into the scandal involving the deliberate jamming up of traffic on the george washington bridge? while a spokesman for christie denies this is his claim, would this be christie s ultimate move to protect himself, by claiming his right to keep his top staff people, especially his chief of staff and counsel from answering questions from the democrats investigating him in trenton, to resort to richard nixon s defense that even in a case involving possible criminal charges that the papers and communications of top government officials are beyond the reach of the law. well, tonight we look at chris christie s latest gambit. his administration s declaration of independence from those in trenton, even those investigating the infamous bridge scandal. new jersey state senator robert gordon is the democrat who chairs the oversight committee. and bob ingle is a reporter for the asbury park press and the co-author of chris christie: the inside story of his rise to po