i m the governor. i m ultimately responsible for all that happens on my watch, both good and bad. and without a doubt, we will cooperate with all appropriate inquiries to ensure that this breach of trust does not happen again. new jersey governor chris christie s mea culpa today. probably not the way he wanted to start his state-of-the-state address. joining me now democrat bill pass tell from new jersey and republican michael grimm from new york. welcome to both of you. if i may congressman pascrell. do you accept if chris christie is being sincere and honest and genuinely knew nothing about this bridge gate affair that he has done all he could possibly be expected to do? since it all blew up? well, this is a self-inflicted wound, piers.
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that s why everybody is piling on now because they re afraid of the results his leadership is getting. congressman pascrell, apparently it s a minor blip in an otherwise terrific story. well, it s not a minor blip at all. we have 7.8% unemployment. how can anybody call that a great record? we still have the highest property some of the highest property taxes in the country. i can t blame that all on the governor, of course. but you know, when one thing happens then it mirrors everything else. i hope in this situation that the governor did not know, but there was planning in this. the e-mails reflect that. this was laid out very carefully, very consciously. this wasn t a mistake that just happened. this is a big mistake when they were planning to shut down those one lanes out of three. this is a very serious situation. people s lives are put in jeopardy. you re not going to smooth this over. this is something that the new
the results his leadership is getting. congressman pascrell, apparently it s a minor blip in an otherwise terrific story. well, it s not a minor blip at all. we have 7.8% unemployment. how can anybody call that a great record? we still have the highest property some of the highest property taxes in the country. i can t blame that all on the governor, of course. but you know, when one thing happens then it mirrors everything else. i hope in this situation that the governor did not know, but there was planning in this. the e-mails reflect that. this was laid out very carefully, very consciously. this wasn t a mistake that just happened. this is a big mistake when they were planning to shut down those one lanes out of three. this is a very serious situation. people s lives are put in jeopardy. you re not going to smooth this over. this is something that the new jersey folks and people around
congressm congressman pascrell, this is a weird kind of narcissism. i don t care if he is disheartened, i don t care if he is sad. who does? nobody cares. they want to know what he did. how did he signal to all these people around him, his campaign manager, the chief of staff, the two paid guys at the port authority, all think he is into this skulduggery, and all this young woman had to do is deliver a five or six-word e-mail and they go to work for what they thought was the governor. and yet the governor says i don t know anything about this. that s the problem i have. i don t know anything about this thing. well, you have two hours of explaining. when you re explaining, you re losing. there is no question about that. this is not about e-mails. this is not about moving cones here and there. this is not a joking matter. the governor attempted to make himself the victim tonight today. the victims are the folks who live in ft. lee, new jersey.
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