side, i m telling you this right, someone on your side, and partisan-wise, knows why they came out. i don t know if it s mayor sokolic. someone knows what this is really about. i m serious. it was not about this endorsement. new jersey state senator raymond lezniak. valerie huttle. we re not finished with our coverage of the bridge scandal. coming up, we try to figure out where the chris christie scandal ranks among political scandals nationally. and a competition, who has the most corrupt state in the nation? our guests will make the case for their home states. don t want to miss that. [ male announcer ] winter olympian ted ligety
launched by the occupational safety and health administration and the u.s. attorneys office. more on that in a moment. bull west virginia s governor democrat earl ray tomblin went out of his way at a press conference to not blame the incident on the coal industry. let me just make it very clear that this was not a coal company incident. this was a chemical company. it s used in processing coal, as i understand it. but obviously it is not a coal company. it was a chemical company that let the breach and the tanks that s holding this particular chemical. clethe point is the incident happened at a chemical company. happened at a chemical plant. don t blame the coal industry. senator manchin was trying to get that same message out when i spoke with him today. the citizens of west virginia understand the centrality of coal to the economy. they know there s coal extraction. they know there are risks that
mayor fullops name was the top name on the so-called list. what does that mean? that s what we re trying to find out. got it? got what? there has to be a code, a message, that more than two beam, i thibea people, i think, that got it. do you think this is about mayor sokolich? one thing persuasive to me, i feel what we re going to learn is whatever it was, i m convinced it wasn t about mayor sokolich not endorsing him. i don t know why they had it out for mayor sokolich if it was him, who they were trying to get, whether it s you who represents ft. lee, state senator weinberg, i don t know. i m convinced, the one thing i found convincing is both christie and the mayor don t seem to think it s about this endorsement. let s find out. be honest. what do you think? let s find out. i think we need i think there s so many questions we need answers to and we re in that process right now. it could be any reason. the fact of the matter is it happened. and it was clear and people s
forwarding it to david samson, saying general, as in former attorney general, can i call you on this now? right there, i have a question. what was that phone call? they re on a war footing. they always are in team christie. so the notion you would have one man, particularly samson at the top, who s, you know, sort of stroking his chin and wondering, again, credulity. that s key. one of the things you get from this, a huge bulk of this has to do with what a freak-out, a flipout was happening in ft. lee and how much it was blowing up through ft. lee politics and through new jersey politics and into the governor s office and into the press and through the port authority where people are writing in saying, it takes me half an hour usually, took me 2 n 1/2 hours to get to work yesterday, 2 hours yesterday. what is going on? you have christie operatives saying don t talk to the press about this and didn t even alert the ft. lee police? i mean, it s utter madness. another christie ass