we see her there meeting students, discussing, chatting with students there. so it s a very, very symbolic place. the president, though, saying tonight that their work will continue and that this attack and the loss of the two members of staff flies in the face of everything that they and their students wish for afghanistan. milissa? thank you. the christie investigation heats up. a new jersey mayor says two senior members of governor christie s administration warned her her city would be starved of hurricane relief money unless she approved a redevelopment plan favored by the gvt. dawn zimmer spoke with steve kornacki this morning. take a look. why come forward now and not before now? i probably should have come forward then. this is probably the hardest thing i ve ever done. so i probably should have come forward. but i literally feel like i have
brought out in their own investigation is that this money that could have been used, you know, for sandy relief. i still have a lot of homeowners and businesses who haven t gotten their money to rebuild or raze their homes. the fact of the matter is it was the difference between the low bid which was not chosen, which was not going to include chris christie and his family, and the bid that was chosen, which was about $2.2 million more expensive. and so this is one of the things that i m asking the inspector general to look into. whether there was impropriety in choosing a higher bidder for more cost just because chris christie was going to be in the ad during the campaign season. well, speaking of hurricane relief, the name michelle brown comes to mind here right now, bob ingle. he is the person the head of the development fund. she was knocked out of his office when he was uu.s. attorney for taking a $46,000 loan from her boss which is an awful lot of money to get from somebody who
the fact of the matter is it was the difference between the low bid which was not chosen, which was not going to include chris christie and his family, and the bid that was chosen, which was about $2.2 million more expensive. and so this is one of the things that i m asking the inspector general to look into. whether there was impropriety in choosing a higher bidder for more cost just because chris christie was going to be in the ad during the campaign season. well, speaking of hurricane relief, the name michelle brown comes to mind here right now, bob ingle. he is the person the head of the development fund. she was knocked out of his office when he was u.s. attorney for taking a $46,000 loan from her boss which is an awful lot of money to get from somebody who is also a public servant. and then came back in as the head of the development corporation. a fancy way to make the governor look good. $25 million in this case. so the money keeps going up from a $46,000 loan to a $250,000
christie, the governor, who remains the republican party s best shot at taking on hillary clinton in 2016, he wanted to show his muscle by running up the score in last year s governor s race, even if that meant strong arming his way to a big win. well, democratic congressman frank pallone in new jersey is with us right now. also bob ingle who is with the asbury park press, author of chris christie: the inside story of his rise to power. congressman pallone, tell us about this story, how you smelled it out, you thought it was fishy. i do think it is odd we have a $25 million ad makes the guy look gorgeous, has his wife narrating it. when it looks like a political ad that should be paid for by private funds, not by hurricane relief money. chris, i think the main thing here as the asbury park press brought out in their own investigation is that this money that could have been used, you know, for sandy relief. i still have a lot of homeowners and businesses who haven t gotten their mon
lanes to punish a mayor for not giving the governor a political endorsement. in this atmosphere, christie may not get the benefit of the doubt. well, it all feeds a growing narrative, if you will, that christie, the governor, who remains the republican party s best shot at taking on hillary clinton in 2016, he wanted to show his muscle by running up the score in last year s governor s race, even if that meant strong arming his way to a big win. well, democratic congressman frank pallone in new jersey is with us right now. also bob ingle who is with the asbury park press, author of chris christie: the inside story of his rise to power. congressman pallone, tell us about this story, how you smelled it out, you thought it was fishy. i do think it is odd we have a $25 million ad makes the guy look gorgeous, has his wife narrating it. when it looks like a political ad that should be paid for by private funds, not by hurricane relief money. chris, i think the main thing here as the asbur