the people that i would like to hear from and probably we would like to hear from, aren t going to be able to appear before that committee that the new jersey legislature has right now. so we re getting to some i don t want to demean pat schuber, but we re getting a b-list of witnesses right now, because all the a-list people are with the feds in newark. what we re learning is that the control of the port authority was tightly held. it s not an effective the board isn t really providing effective oversight. so it s back to the executive director and the chairman and bill barony and david wilestein, the people around chris christie and andrew cuomo, and what we know is they re in regular contract with chris christie s office, with the governor and the governor s top staff. in some ways, we didn t learn a lot about bridgegate today specifically. we learned the way the place functions makes it, again, extremely unlikely that we would
and the new york staffers. so again, that was another issue that played out with regard to that, and i just didn t want to be part of that either. dismiss it and ignore it, it s the playbook which the governor used himself. five investigations are under way right now. this isn t going away any time soon. brian murphy is an msnbc contributor. senator, thank you so much. what did you make of this guy, schuber, he s on the commission, it s his job to oversee the george washington bridge and what goes on there. but he seems to think his title is an honorary title. i don t understand how a guy can take a salary and say i didn t want to get involved in it.
believe that he wouldn t have known something about what was going on or wouldn t have many opportunities to learn about what was going on. this guy schuber is like a mini me of the governor. he doesn t want to know anything. schuber told you today that he checked in with the ft. lee maye your at your request and that s the most anyone looked into the matter. here s more from today. i frankly, you know, maybe more could be done, but the fact of the matter, i think i m the only one that reached out to nibble on this issue at all, quite frankly. was he responsive to you in real-time, senator? no, absolutely not. he s never responded to my letter. in fact, he seemed to indicate that he just didn t seem to realize that he needed to respond to my letter. i spoke at four different port authority committee meetings, and i addressed him directly.