the rockefeller group hired the jersey law firm wolf and sampson to represent them. sampson as in david sampson, christie s top port authority appoint appointee, close adviser and man whose name pops up numerous time in the fort lee traffic scandal e-mails. less than one week after zimmer wrote asking for more money and the city voted against the rockefeller development deal, zimmer met with lieutenant governor at a local grocery store. revealing zimmer s account of that meeting this past weekend. zimmer told us guadano delivered a message to her. if want that sandy money you need to get that rockefeller project meev ioving, because it very important to the governor. reporter: zimmer documented the incident in this journal writing that guadano said to her, i don t know all the details but with with the governor friday night. the imsuppression you are
make sure that it existed, particularly given the reputation he has cultivated and what he was originally elected on was the fact he was a hard-charging former united states attorney. that makes sense and a question that a lot of people wanted asked. if you, governor christie, believed this was a legitimate traffic study being conducted by the port authority and not some political extortion being committed on a local mayor who refused to endorse you, then why didn t you say to your staff, all right if it was a legitimate traffic study, let s see the study. and christie was asked about that today, and basically said i m still not sure about the study. but, he did point out that this guy who since resigned, bill berone, who was once a state senator in new jersey and then the top port authority official, resigned in december in the wake of this controversy. he did point out that senator
stores nationwide. sleep number. comfort individualized. new jersey governor chris christie has just announced the resignation of new jersey s top port authority figure bill baroni. as the controversy is swirlingarding allegations that politics played a role in a traffic study that jammed up several lanes of george washington bridge. now, to talk about all this, to sort it out is jake tapper. first of all, i want to explain this to our viewers here because clearly it sounds initially on the face a local story, but it has national implications. tell us why.
particularly given the reputation he has cultivated and what he was originally elected on was the fact he was a hard-charging former united states attorney. that makes sense and a question that a lot of people wanted asked. if you, governor christie, believed this was a legitimate traffic study being conducted by the port authority and not some political extortion being committed on a local mayor who refused to endorse you, then why didn t you say to your staff, all right if it was a legitimate traffic study, let s see the study. and christie was asked about that today, and basically said i m still not sure about the study. but, he did point out that this guy who since resigned, bill berone, who was once a state senator in new jersey and then the top port authority official, resigned in december in the wake of this controversy. he did point out that senator