0 he s upset no one from the bridge had the courtesy or neighborly intent to call about testing a new traffic pattern. the police chief asked how he goes about ending this miserable failure. that same first day, two more hours down the road, two more hours into the commute. now, it s not just angry cops. now it s getting very serious. e-mail from one of the head communications people to david wildstein and his boss, another chris christie appointee at the port authority. how did she know they were the guys to get in touch with. wanlted you both to have a heads up. the increased volume and congestion throughout the burrow with the bridge. she mentioned there were two incidents that ft. lee police and emergency vehicles had a problem responding to, a missing child and cardiac arrest. how did she know to e-mail them about that? the chris christie appointees knew directly, they were advised on the first morning the plan was in effect, that it was putting lives at risk. are we going to st
to that apparent order by saying got it. that was the most important thing that we knew before today. for color, before today, we also had mr. wildstein and somebody else unknown texting back and forth about their glee, their delight, that ft. lee, new jersey, had been turned into traffic hell for a week. that school buses were trapped in the gridlock and kids could not get to school on the first day of classes. they are the children of barbara buono voters. don t feel bad. they re the children of democrats. it is not wrong that you are smiling at the suffering that we have caused them. we had that before today. today, with release of more than 2,000 pages of documents, which the legislature obtained under subpoena in their investigation of the bridge shutdown, today we learned quite a bit more. after that mid-august instruction from governor christie s office that it was time to cook up something terrible for ft. lee in the form of traffic problems, we now know that within
point of view. what the government did to our little group in alabama is unamerican. many of the agencies and agents of the federal government do not understand that they are servants of the people. they think they are our masters, and they are mistaken. i m not interested in scoring politica points. i want to protect and preserve the america that i grew up in, the america that people cross oceans and risk their lives to become a part of, and i m tariffed it is slipping terrified it is slipping away. as she pointed out, these are not large groups, eric. they re small groups often relying on small dollar donations. all of these groups were under the threat of perjury whether or not they provided the proper information. it s a scary, scary thing what they went through, and it seems like no one in the administration seems to carry. eric: who are your interns? did they ever plan on running for government office? how do they know these things? like you point out, they re und
0 that was in the audience, any potential speeches they could be giving, future comments they could be making, all under the threat that they could be thrown in jail if they answered the question improperly. dana: to add to that, the books that they had read and any of their book clubs as well as promises that they wld not prost in future places, one in particular was a promise that you will never proat the tim prt of a planne planned parenthood u get ur tax-exempt status. the administration itself said it was outrageous. president obama came out to the east room, very unprecedented for him to come to the east room on this issue, an said this i outrageous. we should hold him to it. one of the ways to make the government react is to put a face to the story. that s what happened today. finally we had a place, a hearing where all of these victims, the ones that were chosen to give testimony, represented the thousands that were victimized by the irs. that was powerful, and it will target
point of view. what the government did to our little group in alabama is unamerican. many of the agencies and agents of the federal government do not understand that they are servants of the people. they think they are our masters, and they are mistaken. i m not interested in scoring politicalpoints. i want to protect and preserve the america that i grew up in, the america that people cross oceans and risk their lives to become a part of, and i m tariffed it is slipping terrified it is slipping away. as she pointed out, these are not large groups, eric. they re small groups often relying on small dollar donations. all of these groups were under the threat of perjury whether or not they provided the proper information. it s a scary, scary thing what they went through, and it seems like no one in the administration seems to carry. eric: who are your interns? did they ever plan on running for government office? how do they know these things? like you point out, they re und