for. bill baroni then responds to that e-mail, port authority official appointed by goer in chris christie who resigned in the wake of the scandal but not before responding to foye with this e-mail. on way to office to discuss. can be no public discourse. while all of this was playing out over e-mail people here in new jersey were sitting in gridlock for four days back in september. at the time ft. lee s mayor was trying to find a fix to this problem but he says he was actually being blamed for the problem. that s in the documents as well. here s his e-mail to bill baroni. he writes, quote, many members of the public have indicated to me that the port authority police officers are advising commuters in response to their complaints that this recent traffic debacle is the result of a decision i as mayor recently made. that s from sokolich there. nowhere in these 2,000 pages do we see any evidence that would connect governor chris christie to this alleged plot. governor christi did hold a
new incoming chief of staff, his director of communications, spokesperson. this is his tight knit senior staff. so i agree with ben. p the president was held accountable for these things that happened in his administration. the governor should be held accountable for what he didn t know or what he did know or what he didn t have the curiosity to dig about. that s what s odd here. let me come to you, ben. final thoughts. does this disqualify governor christie from the nomination of 2016? absolutely not. i mean, it s almost laughable to me that people are acting as if this somehow should disqualify him if his staff lied him and there s no e-mail connecting him to any of this and/or a cover-up. what else do you want him to do? there are people that are using this solely for political reasons. he came out sally? he fired them. one at a time, ben. let me get an answer from sally. sally? ben would sure like the president to be hung out to dry for far less.
understand how the new jersey governor s office works. and the other names that are in all of these e-mail, regina, michael other seen yol officials in his administration. it really strains credibility that all of these senior officials starting on the day the lanes were closed had been involved in either discussing the press strategy or the spin or the cover-up, that they were involved and the governor had absolutely no knowledge? i mean, this regina who is in the one of the e-mails is slated to become the governor s new chief of staff. it strains believability the goer in s incoming chief of staff who must have a lot of trusz with the governor never had a discussion with him? so to find out if the governor actually knew about this, david weinstein this week, in front of the committee, he pleaded the fifth. and his attorney at one point said, well, if he is afforded immunity, then he will have a story to tell. do you think it s worth giving him the immunity that he is
against senate democrats for possibly holding up the tenure of a member of the court there and that angry statement we heard from the governor was on the 12th. 13th we heard that the ft. lee traffic is held up in the district of the leader of the senate democrats. right. well, i think anything is possible. one thing s clear. the anger that was displayed by pat foye and bill barone know and other people in the governor s circle, after the lane closure was terminated on friday the 13th, rises to the level of why are they so angry and why are they so mad at this process being shut down? because if it was really a traffic study, if it was really legitimate government operation, you don t express the kind of anger that for instance the chairman of the port authority wrote that in an e-mail that pat foye is playing in traffic or the other e-mail that said dave sampson is going to help us retaliate. so they were mad about
two-hour press conference earlier this week saying he had no knowledge and no part in any of this. he apologized to people and later came here to ft. lee to deliver that apology in person. cnn s alexander field for us in ft. lee. joining us, the man leading the investigation into the scandal, new jersey state assembly man, a democrat, head of new jersey s transportation committee and released the 2,000 pages of documents. john, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. i have to ask you, you ve gone through these documents. we released them. is there anything that you found that directly links governor christie to knowing about the bridge closures or participating in a political way? no, there s no document that has governor christie s name on it. there s no e-mail to the governor or from the governor on anything we ve looked at so far. but there s still a lot of documents we haven t gotten. we would like to see. i also think you have to