he wants to talk to. he s right, it s going to be tested, that ee s right. it would be fatal to him in the event a different conclusion came out. that s why, to come out and be so confident as a former prosecutor, he has to have the confidence of what was in this report is correct because it s absolutely fatal to him otherwise. if there was another conclusion, it would be fatal to him now. right. if you say it now, you are done now. if you take a chance there s one more test this has to go through. he danced around it. that is, will all of the raw material that mastro got involved with, including the transcripts of the hours and hours be made available to your group and the u.s. attorney
mastro put out is he speculated. it s a report used by a lawyer in summation, but not a fact finding report of the rigor that you would expect the governor would have asked for here. so, yes, it is hard to believe that bridgette kelly, who is high up in the governor s office had no contact with anybody else about this other than david wildstein. there was the report did say bill stepien s role is concerning. that is as far as the report goes. it doesn t implicate him. liz, i want to get to you. your personal life intersected with your professional life in a way that sort of sounds familiar. it sounds similar to what bridgette kelly is going through right now. for people who don t know, can you take us through what you went through recently and if what bridgette kelly is going
to be memorable. that strikes me as a heavy handed passage. it s not saying the governor claims this. it s coming out and asserting and using confident language that the governor doesn t recall it. it wouldn t have registered with him. it s very heavy handed. well, it s more like i do a radio show at 5:00 on fridays and this was, as you can imagine, the topic. somebody says, well, this is like a confection. it s like a novel. it really is. it s the tone. it s the word that is are used. it s hard to take it seriously. as an objective report trying to get to the facts. i guess, i was surprised because i don t think anybody in trenton, new jersey, anybody on the planet expected this was going to do anything other than exonerate christie. i thought it would be dressed up more. i thought it would look like an independent investigation.
saying this question didn t register on his radar. how, if he didn t interview wildstein or the other people in the pictures how can the report do that? it s plausible nobody will ever interview wildstein, stepien or kelly because of fifth amendment issues. the one thing people are say sg christie waved his fifth amendment right. governor christie has been interviewed and given unfettered access to his iphone, personal e-mail, text messages. so, you know, there s a certain level of credibility you have to give him because, you know, 70 interviews, 250,000 with a lead team that was retained by his office paid by the taxpayers. then again, the legislative
service and his friendship. i look forward to discussing with governor cuomo, ushering in a new era at the port authority in light of the recent events, past history, and the recommendations laid out in the mastro report. the resignation of david samson was big news. it was also big news that the christie administration was clearly ready to handle, to choreograph, to announce and to explain. it s not the first time samson coordinated strategies with christie, beyond being top at the port authority. he led the governor s transition team after his very first election as governor, a trusted role for an old friend and mentor. that s also why it was awkward when david samson s name turned up in the subpoenaed documents detailing bridge-gate when david wildstein and bridget kelly discussed how, samson was helping us to retaliate. the claim at the time was samson was in on the payback against people at the port authority who were trying to stop that traffic scheme. scrutiny didn t serve s