sink the new jersey governor. according to esquire magazine the federal prosecutor in the garden state targeted four top aides to christie with the intention of getting one to nail the governor himself. charges could include intentional interference of interstate commerce and obstruction of justice in covering it up. this refers to last septembers s jamming up traffic on the george washington bridge which connects new jersey with new york. another charge could be the alleged shake down of dawn zimmer for failure to back a waterfront development project the governor favored. still another charge could involve the alleged legal diversion of port authority fundses to projects many new jersey which could involve securities fraud. tonight, we study this new look into the criminal investigation that now heads toward the governor s office in trenton. joining me scott robb of esquire who broke the story, and brian murphy, an msnbc contributor and former managing editor at politics ne
mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: mr. president, i the presiding officer: may we have order, please? the senator from oklahoma is recognized. mr. inhofe: which senator from oklahoma? okay. senator leahy is somewhere around here, but since he is not on the floor, i will go ahead and present this. this is a leahy-inhofe amendment, and it s two almost unrelated things, but the leahy portion of the amendment extends the public safety officer program to benefits to six to ten families whose loved ones died in voluntary services. it s fully offset for ten years. but the important part of this amendment is mine, and that is if i could have your attention over here, and i m speaking to republicans now we have been trying to do this for a number of years, and senator leahy and i agreed to this. those of us who have been pilots and i have been for 55 years have been involved in a lot of humanitarian missions. the presid