is someone who was appointed to a very, very senior position in the christie administration in the port authority by the christie administration. he was the director of interstate capital projects. he was in charge of billions of dollars. so maybe they shouldn t have given him that job if he was unstable, which they went out of their way. i mean, i think one of the things interesting about the report is it found no problem with, for example, internal controls. maybe something went wrong in the governor s office, if as the governor says, this was not something he authorized, condoned or even sent any signals that he encouraged, why then was it able to happen? what went wrong? and the only answer was, well, they hid it from us. but maybe that s a suggestion that something was awry in the governor s office. and the i consistencies with christie. some things changed. in the past he said, you know, i never talked about it with anything. and now they ve got him in here in december having t
washington and the irs and here in washington. i want to say. this is the one where i think there is a cross agreement this. the president has said it s outrageous. you have democrats on the hill it s outrageous, needless to say republicans and tea party says it s outrageous. it s clear that the president did not know anything about this and had nothing to do what was going on inside the irs on the information we have now. the hope that i have because there is such unanimity and agreement there will get a correction in the tax exempt organization apparatus at the irs which clearly was malfunctioning. so far, there is no indication so far that the president ordered, condoned or knew or any advance of this stuff. bret: we know whether it went beyond the irs, we don t know.
2 of the 11 were supervisors, it is wrong. there s no way it can be explained, condoned, excused in any way. it s wrong. it has to be a zero tolerance policy for this in the future. i m confident director sullivan wants that as well. we have to look into the entire matter. i can t emphasize that the key issue was the foreign nationals and what these supervisorsç we thinking, especially the supervisors, what they were thinking is beyond me. that is everyone s responsibility but especially the supervisor s responsibility. the president a week ago reacted to this. really the only thing he said about it directly, this is what he said in colombia last sunday. if it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course i ll be angry. chairman issa, depending on what you find here, what do you want the president to do at the end of this? i think i want the president to do what chairman king and i are doing. leave it to the professional
2 of the 11 were supervisors, it is wrong. there s no way it can be explained, condoned, excused in any way. it s wrong. it has to be a zero tolerance policy for this in the future. i m confident director sullivan wants that as well. we have to look into the entire matter. i can t emphasize that the key issue was the foreign nationals and what these supervisorsç we thinking, especially the supervisors, what they were thinking is beyond me. that is everyone s responsibility but especially the supervisor s responsibility. the president a week ago reacted to this. really the only thing he said about it directly, this is what he said in colombia last sunday. if it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course i ll be angry. chairman issa, depending on what you find here, what do you want the president to do at the end of this? i think i want the president to do what chairman king and i are doing. leave it to the professional
that has to be the question. chairman issa said the key thing is not that they were prostitutes. that makes it good for the tabloids. the fact that foreign nationals were brought back into a security area on the eve of the trip of the president of the united states goes against everything the secret service stands for and the fact that there was supervisors involved, 2 of the 11 were supervisors, it is wrong. there s no way it can be explained, condoned, excused in any way. it s wrong. it has to be a zero tolerance policy for this in the future. i m confident director sullivan wants that as well. we have to look into the entire matter. i can t emphasize that the key issue was the foreign nationals and what these supervisors were thinking, especially the supervisors, what they were thinking is beyond me. that is everyone s responsibility but especially the supervisor s responsibility. the president a week ago reacted to this. really the only thing he said about it directly, this is