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i command the chief for not waiting a few days. his department will not conduct the investigation. it was important to get out there and say that. the facts that he knows them and get to rest that they will do a cover up or anything more with this. the state and division of the state department of justice will be conducted in the investigation in accordance with the wisconsin law and no member of the mad police department can participate in the investigation. from that standpoint i think that he is trying to get out in front of a narrative of anything worse than what actually already happened and that s bad enough. sure. well tom your perspective is always enlightening to us. thank you for being here. thank you christie, have a great day. you too. the may wror of ferguson, mississippi speaks.
york police members, that the may wror should make a public apology to the police department. what do you think? well, i think that s an interesting line i thought it was interesting too, but i don t know if it s actually going do be done. i m not sure it s going to be done. i think there are actions he can take that prove he can reach out to the police and he can embrace them and their agenda and his relationship with them. i mean, david makes an excellent point that he should wrap himself around commissioner bratton. i think if he can be seen as taking effective and progressive steps to start a different kind of dialogue with the police, that s not based on stereotypes, you know, he came into office basically opposing most of the status quo in new york. true. aggressively. he built some of that popularity among the voting population based on stereotypes that are actually un difficult stereotypes they may not be working too well now. exactly, they may not be
stardom, uses the unapologetically rhetoric that andrew cuomo made his career avoiding, how is this going to work out? in the beginning there were smiles, pronouncements of friendship. they were going to try to make it work. we use the word, friend, in politics often, and sometimes casually, but the new may wror new york truly is a friend. in the deepest sense of the word. we go way back. we work together on a professional level. personally, we re friends. they may be friends in the deepest sense of the word, but it s increasingly clear they are not allies. bill deblasio signature pledge was on universal pre-k. in ordered to raise taxes, he needs approval from albany. cuomo has made is clear that is not going to happen. he s countered deblasio s pledge. cuomo almost immediately called the plan chaotic.
see what they say. the mayor, himself, writes back to his friendly text message buddy, bill baroni to try to reschedule. he waits 2 1/2 weeks and writes again to bill baroni to reschedule. he gets a port authority official to help him reschedule with bill baroni. he writes to a new official just taking office at the port authority to meet with her about jersey city. she s new. maybe she doesn t know about this black ball on the second largest city in the state. initially he gets a positive response from the new official at the port authority, but then, like all the rest, nothing. no response. radio silence. remember during the bridge shutdown when governor christie s staff and appointees were gleeful over how they weren t responding to the increasingly panicked and urgent messages from ft. lee s mayor? did the may wror get a call back after he left that urgent message? david wildstein responded that the mayor of ft. lee would not be getting his calls returned. radio silence.