spouse of one recent president and the brother and son of two recent presidents. what will it look like to historians and those who read history, i have to wonder, to see such bunching of these familiar family names around the turn of the 21st century. was the country so enamor to have had clintons and the bushes as our country s top leaders that they couldn t quite resist them? well, enamored of course is not the general attitude. ask most people about bill clinton, for example, and you ll get a knowing smile that nose all, certainly expects all things about him and comes out in the main on his side. but let s face it, only in the main. when all facets are examined and added, ultimately and after reflection, yeah, he was a pretty good president, all considered. on the bushes, the need for reflective consent has taken longer. george sr. does incredibly well in recent polls. people seem to like his handling of the deficit, even as he paid a price for raising taxes. they like h
building it s inconceivable that you would be able to do this for four weeks. i just don t see how. are they crazy? when pat foye finds out about it on thursday, or early friday morning, thursday night, it is shut down by friday morning, right. i don t know how they ever thought they would keep him from finding that out for weeks and weeks on end. they told me they wanted to do it long enough to get this guy s attention. they re saying all the time no radio contact. radio silence meaning he is going to call and beg for help here. let s make sure he really comes through and really begs and gives what s we want apparently. and they want him to think that it s going to go on for four weeks, right? that s the important thing. you need to make him think this is going to go on forever, and that he ll never get an answer to those calls. well, heather, i don t know how your reporting stacks up with that, but does that does make in this crazy world some kind of sense. at least there
placed police authority or bridge authority police officer, the one who drove david wildstein around that day knew exactly what was going on, knew it was some kind of bridge study or traffic study. a four-week jam-up of traffic of the busiest bridge anywhere and it was all a traffic study. what this adds is a plan to jam up the traffic and blame on it a month-long traffic study was known to the christie appointees, the union chief and the same port authority police officer chip michaels who told the ft. lee chief of police that day that the jam-up was going to last a month. every day we re learning that more and more people knew about this plot, including key people in christie s own office. everyone we are to believe, i suppose, but the man in whose name they were doing all this. from the port authority to the governor s office people knew no one was to take a phone call from the ft. lee mayor. they were to maintain radio silence for as long as the traffic jam-up lasted. tha
when george stephanopoulos challenged him about the report s use of questionable evidence, including the outing of a personal relationship between bridget kelly and bill stepien. here is mastro. we had no incentive to do anything other than to get to the truth. and i have to say this. for skeptics out there, there are some who have a visceral reaction to this bridge controversy. it reminds me of the movie line they can t handle the truth. we believe we got to the truth, george. yeah, didn t quite explain why he brought up a personal matter. kendall coffey is a u.s. attorney and heather hatton is a reporter for the wall street journal. thank you so much. heather, our producers i have to credit around here went around and dug up interesting quotes. what you come across in the full report some of this tough guy stuff, if you will. i don t know if bullying is the right word in politics, but it shows where drewniak and stepien, these guys all close to the governor, even his press se
traffic jam-up lasted. that could be a month. there were several traffic accidents caused by this bridge scheme, delays of emergency vehicles, and at least four cases where ambulances were held up, all for the purpose of putting some punishing squeeze apparently on the mayor of ft. lee, a squeeze that lasted only four full days, but was planned as we know now to go four weeks. if that s what it took for the man in ft. lee to get whatever message was being sent. you have to wonder about the basic iq of the people involved. they were going to carry out this crazy campaign, this battle of ft. lee, if you will, for week after week after week after week until what? heather hatton is a report were the wall street journal and brian murphy was a report were politics nj.com, is now a professor at baruch college in new york. let me ask you about the development. this month-long plan we re hearing about today. it seems to me that suggests, if you try to figure out political calculation, they mu