again tonight he unequivocally did not know about the traffic debacle that erupted and didn t authorize it. just a short time ago he was on a program on new jersey 101.5. he denied any knowledge that lanes were deliberately closed to punish the mayor of ft. lee. evidence exists that christie knew this was happening, here s some of what christie said a short time ago on the radio program. i ll be dammed if i m going to let anything get in the way of me doing my job. i took an oath a couple weeks ago, what the people of new jersey need to know is two things about this, one more time. first, i had nothing to do with this. no knowledge, no authorization, no planning, nothing to do with this before this decision was made to close these lanes by the port authority.
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his wife, their kids, while he sought re-election. the timing of this could not be worst for christie. democrats announced new committees to investigate the traffic debacle on the gw bridge apparently orchestrated by aides close to christie. the governor did apologize and fired two aides who were implicated. these new developments may indicate his new trouble may only have just gubegun. let s bring in our investigative correspondent. they re now looking into another controversy of christie s, has to do with federal taxpayer money for hurricane sandy relief. when hurricane sandy hit new jersey, chris christie led from the trenches. and his skillful response to the devastating superstorm rocketed him into political superstardom. but a new federal investigation into how the new jersey governor spent some of the sandy relief money could threaten to wash away the foundation of his
for. bill baroni then responds to that e-mail, port authority official appointed by goer in chris christie who resigned in the wake of the scandal but not before responding to foye with this e-mail. on way to office to discuss. can be no public discourse. while all of this was playing out over e-mail people here in new jersey were sitting in gridlock for four days back in september. at the time ft. lee s mayor was trying to find a fix to this problem but he says he was actually being blamed for the problem. that s in the documents as well. here s his e-mail to bill baroni. he writes, quote, many members of the public have indicated to me that the port authority police officers are advising commuters in response to their complaints that this recent traffic debacle is the result of a decision i as mayor recently made. that s from sokolich there. nowhere in these 2,000 pages do we see any evidence that would connect governor chris christie to this alleged plot. governor christi did hold a
stepien corresponded with david wildstein via e-mail over the lane closings. so far four of those people have resigned, been fire order punished politically. and the investigations are just getting started. joining me now is new jersey assemblyman gordon johnson and star ledger reporter sal rizzo live from the state capitol. thank you both for being here. thank you, reverend sharpton for allowing us to be here today. assemblyman, let me go to you first. did bridget kelly order these lane closings all on her own? i find it hard to believe that ms. kelly, working in the shadow of chris christie, in his office, in his inner circle would initiate an action, this action that would cause this traffic debacle. cal, you know there are a lot of questions remain about