course of port authority meetings. although he does so less nowadays. there used to be huddles at the back of the meeting room after every regular discussion, and chairman samson was always a regular participant. then they moved those discussion into a kind of conference room adjacent to the meeting room and actually he has not been one of the regular participants. that s generally left to pat foye, used to be bill baroni. he has not been aversed to talking, but i have not found him real accessible in terms of trying to call him up and try to talk to him. i tried to talk to him about this. i tried to e-mail him about this. as we know, we ve got his and some other people s e-mail addresses now. and he was not forthcoming with me. he released a couple statements today. there were a couple of stories suggesting citing mostly
zm does i not like to talk to reporters generally? he will talk to reporters in the port authority meetings. there used to be huddles at the back of the meeting room, and chairman samson was always a regular participant. then they moved those discussion into a conference room adjacent to the meeting room, he s not been one of the regular participants. that s generally left to pat foy and bill baroni. he s not been adverse to talking, but i have not found him real accessible in terms of people able to call limb up and trying to talk to him. i tried to talk to him about this. i tried to e-mail him about this, we have his and some other people s e-mail addresses now, he was not forthcoming with me.
state senate will also be launching its own investigating committee which will also have subpoena power. senate committee will be headed by the democratic majority leader loretta weinberg who has been on this issue since the very beginning, going to port authority meetings since the crisis trying to figure out what went wrong here. and who represents a district that includes ft. lee, new jersey. new jersey senate majority leader loretta weinberg, thanks very being here. thank you, rachel. governor christie addressed the controversy at the beginning of his state of the state speech today saying he will cooperate but essentially he wants to move on. as you re taking this new leadership role investigating this, what do you want from the governor? the truth. we would like the gaps in the story filled in. i don t think anybody in new jersey politics, anybody who has any peripheral knowledge of this thinks that bridget anne kelly sat in her office one day and said, i m going to create
as you are starting this new investigation, obviously you have worked closely with and seem to have a good relationship with wisniewski who has been running this investigation on the assembly side. now you will both with running parallel investigations. how do you expect to use that to maximum benefit and not get in each other s way? wells we haven t gotten in each other s way thus far. yeah. when i started going to the port authority meetings, i actually brought up with them, if, since you re not forthcoming, i m going to ask for subpoena power. and having forgotten that the assembly transportation committee, as you well pointed out, had subpoena power from a prior it actually came from the toll hikes. so when assemblyman wisniewski and i talked about this, he said, i have subpoena power. i said, use it, let s get moving and see what the new legislative session brings. i hope i have full confidence that we are going to coordinate. we ll try to coordinate our
investigative committee, which will also have subpoena power. the senate committee will be headed by the majority leader lorretta weinberg, she has been on this issue since the beginning, going to port authority meetings since the crisis, to figure out what went wrong here and who represents the district. lorretta weinberg, thank you very much for being here. thank you, rachel. governor christie addressed the controversy at the state of the state speech saying he will cooperate, essentially he wants to move on. as you are taking this new leadership role investigating this, what do you want from the governor? the truth, we would like the gaps in the story filled in. i don t think anybody in new jersey politic, anybody who has any personal knowledge of this thinks that bridget anne kelly sat in her office one day and said i m going to create a traffic jam in ft. lee. that came in the context of