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yesterday. the name jeff michaels may not mean much to you but if you live in the small and insular world of new jersey politics, then you definitely do know that name. he s a powerful new jersey republican whose family had long and close ties to chris christie. someone who has parlayed that connection into a wildly successful lobbying practice and has invested tens of thousands of dollars of his own money in christie s political future. and it is his brother, jeff michaels brother, port authority police lieutenant thomas chip michaels, who was apparently on the scene when the fort lee lanes were shut down. who drove david wildstein around as the traffic mounted. steve kornacki s report broke new ground in the investigation. according to the co-chair of the special legislative committee investigating the lane closures. is this something you were aware of before? has your committee encountered this in its investigation? well, not in the context you ve laid out. obviously, we
redevelopment area. it does. that making it worse thing. or making it better, as you would put it. and it s important to note that he was saying in that note, he was saying that to wildstein, wasn t it? i have an idea about how to make this better. right. and let s remember that wildstein was told by chris christie s office, his deputy chief of staff, time for some traffic problems in fort lee. yes. so within that context better means time to make the traffic problems even better, meaning from the christie perspective, team christie perspective, which is to say much worse for the people of fort lee. entirely possible. and it seems that might have been actually what happened. and we also know that the message is that lieutenant michaels sent to david wildstein that morning, wildstein, he was sending him updates on what traffic was like in the borough and where how traffic was on the main thoroughfare, the i-95 feeder to the george washington bridge.
and he has cleared up virtually nothing about david wildstein. but today he did try to clear up something about a couple of other old friends of his. the michaels brothers. chip michaels, the port authority police officer, and jeffrey michaels, the new jersey lobbyist. governor christie s office issued this written statement today. the governor has never had any conversations with either jeff or chip michaels on this topic. the topic was first raised by steve kornacki on this network yesterday. the name jeff michaels may not mean much to you but if you live in the small and insular world of new jersey politics, then you definitely do know that name. he s a powerful new jersey republican whose family had long and close ties to chris christie. someone who has parlayed that connection into a wildly successful lobbying practice and has invested tens of thousands of dollars of his own money in christie s political future. and it is his brother, jeff michaels brother, port
from the christie perspective, team christie perspective, which is to say much worse for the people of fort lee. entirely possible. and it seems that might have been actually what happened. and we also know that the message is that lieutenant michaels sent to david wildstein that morning, wildstein, he was sending him updates on what traffic was like in the borough and where how traffic was on the main thoroughfare, the i-95 feeder to the george washington bridge. as chip michaels was sending those updates to david wildstein, david wildstein was turning around and sending them to bridget kelly in trenton, the governor s deputy chief of staff. and that was happening the turnaround time was extremely fast. so that information was making its way to trenton from lieutenant michaels through david wildstein, almost instantaneously. well, brian, great work on putting the two chips together, who during the snow day began 200 pages apart. thank you. and chris christie s team
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