this whole matter. you know, chris, normally when if you re going to resign at the beginning of a second term, you do it before the inauguration, you don t do it a week or two after the inauguration. so it s a little unusual to be resigning just after he is sworn in for a second term. that s just my experience with people who don t want to serve in a second administration. but let s talk about some related developments. the superstorm sandy relief money, if you will. what s happening on that front? because there are separate investigations under way there. reporter: well, that s right, wolf. and i just talked with the sandy relief czar, the guy in charge of sandy recovery for governor christie, a guy by the name of mark ferxan, will talk to reporters today and talk about $1.4 billion, a second stream of funding coming into the state. and he s going to take about how they plan to do it. they make the point that the first round of funding, about $1.8 billion, was to help
federal relief funds given to help new jersey recover from sandy. i think this extra money that was spent on the ads to put him on the air during the campaign, that could be used for other purposes for sandy relief. reporter: federal auditors are probing those allegations, though christie s office dismissed the revelation as conveniently timed and added the obama administration approved the effort. another possible incident of retribution, jersey city mayor, steve fullop. over the next two days, christie appointees cancelled upcoming meetings with him, leading fulloppose to write an e-mail to bill baroni, who has since resigned. in the e-mail he wrote, in part, i am not sure if it is a coincidence that your office cancelled a meeting several weeks back that seemed to be simultaneous to other political conversations elsewhere that were happening. prior to that, you were always very responsive, and i sincerely
know, kenny made a bad decision, as i say others did. i can t speak for them, and day did get compensated, although not by the government shouldn t you as his agent be recommending what i m recommending, that you just basically don t take the money or that you give it all to charity? i m not in the position it s his money. okay. listen, i appreciate you coming in, kenny. i know it s been a tough ordeal for you and i know you wish you hadn t done it. and at least you had the guts to come in here and face the music. i appreciate that. thank you. thanks for having me. when we come back, another big man who s facing big troubles tonight, from bridgegate to the investigation of his sandy ad, chris christie is under fire. i ll talk to two people who are leading the charge against new jersey s governor. no matter how busy your morning you can always do something better for yourself.
you know, there are incidents after incidents of this. and i could tell you during the political campaign, when i was trying to raise money, i would call people up, and they would say, you know what, i can t contribute above the $300 threshold, where it would be reported publicly, because i m afraid if i m on that list, this governor will seek retribution against me. okay. well, john wisniewski, what s interesting about this is that in new jersey, his approval rating has definitely taken a hit. so you now have an approval rating of 47%, compared to back in january when he was the most popular governor in history. but conversely, the national polls are not really moving. people really don t seem to care nationally about this. what do you think is going to happen with this investigation and, indeed, the political career of chris christie? piers, this is not about polls. we started looking at the efficiency and operations of the port authority in an important bistate agency. and the m
york times, apparently, had someone there on the ground and they were interviewing people who were apparently participating in the attack and that came out a year after this happened. and we re just now finding out. how long have eyewitnesss been held back by the state department? i think it s a perfectly legitimate valid to ask these questions, but yet we don t want to talk about that. so you can t say that we have talked about benghazi endlessly, because we haven t. we are still learning information about it. so, i think it s perfectly okay, let me bring in ryan. ryan, i want to ask you just about the other big thing that broke today on the christie story, which is that the feds are investigating whether he misused money raised from the sandy hurricane relief fund. i ve got to say, i can t get too exorcised about this at the moment. am i right to see this as a bit of a side show or not? yeah, i think the question here is look, i ve been talking to new jersey politicians all