tuesday s story we just mentioned. kate, i want to get these details in a minute and there s so much here to talk about. the first thing i want to put up, show this on the screen. we talk about these call logs, david sampson, top christie authority, resign a couple of months ago. all of these calls came out. there s one thing in particular that jumps out, september 9th, the first night of the lane closures, these are david sampson s calls that night. bill baroni, one of the top appoint ees and david wild stein and the head of the authorities unit, overseeing authorities like the port authority for the governor s office. there s extensive contact with these principle players in the closures and david samson on day this happens and detail on that same night, mark sokolich had
committee investigating all of this, including mayor of fort lee, mark sokolich. on top of this, the new york times also reported this week that the christie administration is being investigated for possible violations of securities law. violations stemming from money they allegedly rerouted from the port authority to a highway project in new jersey. the issue is that the port authority lawyers had told the administration it was legally prohibited from using port authority funds for the project. according to the times, they went ahead and did it anyway. in the last week governor christie campaigned in new hampshire and played charity softball at yankee stadium and took questions where he promised to veto a so-called millionaires tax in his state. he s been unable to put the scandal behind him. joining me now to discuss all of this, we have paul butler who teaches at georgetown law school and kate zurich, co-author of
which you have reported so much on and bridge gate. they have a lot on their plate to investigate. i do think the manhattan da could turn this around faster. we ll look at that one first and all of the other ones at the same time. my thanks to paul butler and new york times kate, how the gop is destroying itself from within. the infighting has only gotten worse after the shocking death of a key figure in the race s biggest scandal. all of the new details are next.
been reaching out to bill baroni and he gets a text message from david wildstein, 911, please call me. we don t know what s said in these phone conversations, kate, the timing on this certainly raises eyebrows. this is what everyone has said. we re at a point in the scandal, six months in, there s not going to be blue dress. there s not going to be another bridget kelly e-mail time for traffic problems, nothing that revealing. the way the case is going to be pieced together is by phone calls and not just these phone calls but there s a crucial period in december where there are a phone calls with christie staff members and 111 minutes talking before the governor gives the press conference. i think what people know what happened in this case are saying that this is always how it s going to be pieced together. look at who s talking to whom and what prompts the phone calls. you re right, there vice
blunt and direct language than anyone is used to hearing from him. many papers this morning including the new york times, picking up on how the president ripped into republicans in a speech in minneapolis for opposing his economic agenda that aims to help the middle class. the remarks were billed by the white house as an economic address, being talked about this morning not for its policy content, but as obama s bu bullworth movement. they don t do anything but block me and call me names. and it can t be that much fun. it would be so much more fun if they said let s do something together. if they were more interested in growing the economic for you and the issues that you re talking about instead of trying to mess with me and obama isn t letting up in the weekly radio address, he discusses one of the women he met in minnesota yesterday and rips into the republicans in congress for all he says they are not doing for middle class families. republicans in congress keep