governor christie s deputy chief of staff. joining us now is steve, reporter covering the port authority for new jersey star ledger newspaper. thank you for being here. thanks for having me, rachel. you are more informed on these matters. you ve been covering the port authority for a long time. you seem to be doing pretty well. having covered the backup when it happened, did i screw anything up there? is it pretty much how it happened? you got both the ft. lee backup and the goethals pretty on the mark. excellent. tell me what you think people should understand about david samson, about his role in this agency but also his role in new jersey politics? samson is a longtime player in new jersey politics. not only on the republican side with christie, but he was named attorney general originally by a democrat, jim mcgreevey. he s a partner in a prominent law firm.
may be leaving the port authority real early. it s been an open secret that he will leave long before his six-year term expires. the talk now he s going to leave probably even before the next meeting of the agency. the immediate question is whether or not he s going to get a subpoena in the meantime. steve strunsky, star ledger reporter, reporting on the outer bridge crossing and goethals backup, i relied on totally to get this righten to. thanks for being here. thank you. we have more ahead on this story and many others tonight. stay with us. one, two, three, four. highways jammed with pissed off drivers with no place left to go and the press conference went on and on it was longer than one of my own damn shows
states. michael dworniak got an e-mail from the new jersey star ledger reporter steve strenski asking him is the governor aware of any plan last month to close the george washington bridge access lanes in retribution for mayor sokolichtion failure to endorse the governor for re-election? his response was no, for goodness sake, the governor of new jersey does not involve himself in traffic studies. he then forwarded that e-mail exchange to himself at his private g-mail address and from his private g-mail address he forward the entire e-mail to david wildstein in wild stooep s private e-mail address and in the e-mail said such a f-ing mutt. it is a bit unclear who the mutt is, whether it is steve
strunsky, the reporter, or mayor sokolich, but we do know that tone did not get dworniak fired. chris christie says he fired his campaign manager for calling the mayor an idiot but his press secretary is still on the job after calling the mayor an f-ing mutt and doing it in his private e-mail account, an, an account dworniak uses for his official christie gang business as opposed to his official government business. david wildstein also used his private g male account to forward an e-mail to dworniak s private e-mail account about receiving a call from the star lidger editorial board wanting comment about their upcoming editorial calling on the state to issue subpoenas. michael dworniak s response to wildstein about the caller from the star ledger was f him and the star ledger. but that tone was not offensive enough to chris christie to get
his response was no, for goodness sake, the governor of new jersey does not involve himself in traffic studies. he then forwarded that e-mail exchange to himself at his private g-mail address and from his private g-mail address he forward the entire e-mail to david wildstein in wild stooep s private e-mail address and in the e-mail said such a f-ing mutt. it is a bit unclear who the mutt is, whether it is steve strunsky, the reporter, or mayor sokolich, but we do know that tone did not get drewniak fired. chris christie says he fired his campaign manager for calling the mayor an idiot but his press secretary is still on the job after calling the mayor an f-ing mutt and doing it in his private e-mail account, an, an account