witness. this isn t a to make that point, yes, he was we called constable, cabinet secretary clinton clinton? excuse me. christie s office. said, do you want to come on? said, no. they basically helped arrange us to get in touch with matt doherty. that s right. he offered up this independent democrat. he doesn t want to call dawn zimmer a liar. right. and the fact of the you know, he couldn t have heard. if he isn t sitting between them, he couldn t have heard it isn t possible that he could have that he could rule out anything everything he says, i don t believe she s fabricating anything. right. so if he s as confident as he says, they may have been whispering but they weren t. he s pretty confident. he d like to have it both ways. what you saw in the interview is a guy trying hard to walk this line where he supports what s in the report, reports dawn zimmer, reports chris christie and richard constable and he s sitting on your show.
conversation, he reduced the likelihood that that happened. he narrowed it and narrowed it. i m saying to myself, so this guy has gone from in january telling a reporter, you know, i didn t hear anything. then getting where he was sitting on the stage. he gets that wrong in january. then he remembers it then gives this very increasingly, as the interview went on, confident assessment. this is the key eyewitness that this report is citing to say, dawn zimmer s full of it. this is randy mastro was picked by chris christie to be chris christie s lawyer to produce a report that, you know, by all reasonable accounts was going to, at the end of the day, exonerate chris christie. how you got from a to z was the question mark. the end point was never really in a tremendous amount of doubt. it would be really interesting to know how did he remember the details of this event? was he told by randy mastro and mastro s associates this is how it went down? which is coaching a witness. he s
then offered on air an account i found confusing and self-contradictory in which i believe seriously calls into question the credibility of the report we rely on him as a key witness. matt doherty, the man we re talking about, the democratic mayor of belmar, new jersey, a shore town ravaged by hurricane sandy. if you watched my show yesterday morning, you saw my interview with him. he reached out to us again with another statement, something that raises more questions, something we will get to in just a minute. first, we want to start with background on who matt doherty is and why he is so crucial to the credibility of christie s internal investigation. doherty features prominently in the report that was issued last week by randy mastro, the lawyer whose firm was hired by the christie administration to conduct that internal investigation into the various scandals that are now swirling. now, since that report was issued last thursday, since christie held his lengthy press conference o
decides who to back. i ll tell you another thing. i don t think he s going to back someone who is out of washington. i think he likes these governors. i think he actually likes christie. by the way, up until that occupied territories unforced error, christie probably had that room enraptured more than any of the other speakers. that s what i was going to ask you about. christie, the timing of the report being released, the press conference, he wanted to go out there and say i ve been vindicated. quickly take us through how he was received out there. you said he had the audience captivated. what were they talking about behind the scenes with him? it was interesting because christie spoke last in the morning. as you mentioned, he stayed up late, went to the two ncaa games and got on a plane very early. he was obviously tired by the time he got to las vegas, gave a speech about 11:15. he was the last speech of the morning. he was the most anticipated speech. he was by far the most com
hoboken s sandy aid unless she supported a private development project are not only unsubstantiated, they are demonstrably false in material respects. mayor zimmer s subjective perceptions do not match the objective reality reflected in the hard evidence that we uncovered during our investigation. in fact, they are contradicted by contemporaneous documents, witness accounts, and her own prior statements. dawn zimmer fired back after that saying, randy mastro could have written his report the day he was hired, saved taxpayers the millions of dollars in fees he billed in generating this one-sided whitewash of serious misconduct by the christie administration. now this is where matt doherty comes in. mastro s report. under the heading, an independent eyewitness contradicts mayor zimmer s account. specifically doherty was present