Sadness that i was betrayed by a member of my staff. Sadness that i had people who i entrusted with important jobs who acted completely inappropriately, sad that that had lead the people of new jersey to have less confidence in the people i have selected. The emotion i have been displaying in private is sad. And as i said earlier, i dont know what the stages of grief are, but i know anger gets there at some point, im sure ill have that too. But the fact is right now im sad. Reporter [ inaudible ]. Let me just clear something up about my childhood friend david. It is true that i met david in 1977 in high school. He is a year older than me. David and i were not friends in high school. We were not even acquaintances in high school. I had a high school in livingston, a threeyear high school that had 1800 students in a threeyear high school in the late 70s, early 1980s. I met david on the tom kaine for Governor Campaign in 1977. He was a Youth Volunteer and so was i. Really, after that time
Have done some soulsearching, you bet i have. Ryan. The mayor is quoted as saying the day he declined to endorse you, as many as 10 appointments between state officials and city officials were canceled. How do you explain that in context of what you now know about some of your staff . All i know is i dont know ryan, is the first answer. What ill also say is, the mayor has disagreements with lots of people, me, Senate President , and others. Theres going to be back and forth. Theres going to be meetings canceled. Theres going to be public disagreements. But the fact of the matter is we have continued to work with jersey city over the course of time since hes been mayor. In the last year i think we have approved about 190 million in e. P. A. Financing for projects in jersey city. The d. E. P. Deputy commissioner was just meeting yesterday with mayor philip and his staff on issues to try to buy properties affected by sandy. We continue to work with him. I dont know about specific meetings
Day has turned into a big, National Political scandal. Dagen there are emails and Text Messages that reveal exactly what went on. Youve been reciting the line of orange over again, time for some traffic problems in fort lee. Connell that was in the mail. In actual political scandal the implications for 2016. The presumption is he is considering to run for president joining us for little bit of that. Reporter buy it. And the number of questions we have to answer and we want answered, first off, was he that vindictive, did you really know for months of this was going on and whether or not something he played a role in our did he know shortly thereafter in the early part of september. The second part is if he did not know, why did the event of . This is a former u. S. Prosecutor , someone who is known for morning in the organization as a prosecutor. Out come when you have a major traffic jam over the course of four days on the major artery that takes people to and from your state why you
Reform. The rest are conservative or hardline. How did they view us . It seems to me that they might come to the view that we are , aed of war and as a result more aggressive approach to us might be in order. The other question goes to in interesting aspect of the run, the use of drugs and the source of drugs. If yous very high straight of heroin, for example. One of the highest in the world. They are increasingly a source for methamphetamine. Did you see in the streets or hear from any of the people that you spoke with concern about the use of drugs in iran . The first thing to say is everyone you encounter any row and has got a brother, somebody in the u. S. That has done spectacularly well. The idea of america is a place is a they have prospered very powerful idea and they look and makepeople go money and generally have good lives. We have taken down their two biggest adversaries, their Biggest National security problem was Saddam Hussein in iraq. They fought and inconclusive eight
Is awful to hear. All i can do is apologize for the conduct of people who worked for me. I cannot reverse time. If i could i would im just going to apologize. I believe that is all you can do. Lines,rnor, along the you have said you are focused on regaining the people in new jersey. The first couple of years as governor, you traveled all over the state. Any thought of possibly trying to do Something Like that again . Suspended town halls during the campaign because of our concern that folks may raise of assue of in the midst campaign blurring the line between what would be a town hall of that and a Campaign Event. We made the determination we own hallt do tal meetings. I had no plans to do it during the transition. We could not do them during the second term we will hopefully try to do as many as we did in the first term. Is, i dont believe i have lost the people of trust the trust of people in new jersey. They are looking at how their leader is going to react. That when they see me ta