belmar. he is cited in in the report commissioned by governor chris christie s administration as a key witness to the conversation between dawn zimmer and christie cabinet official richard constable. this morning we received a statement just after that interview from hoboken mayor dawn zimmer responding to mayor doherty s remarks. thank you to mayor doherty for publicly acknowledging today that his account in the mastro report was mischaracterized. mr. mastro in his report claim mayor toert affirmatively testified the conversation i related it not occur. mayor doherty acknowledged that he did not hear the entirety of the conversation. contrary to mr. mastro s report. mr. mastro s deliberate attempt to distort the facts is not surprising given that governor christie spent well over $1 million to compensate himself for doing that. i call on mr. mastro to release the full transcripts of both the questions and answers contained in the interviews conducted so the public can determine just h
you talk about bridget kelly. we talked about it on the show yesterday. a lot of controversy about how the report portrayed bridget kelly. there s also how mayor zimmer is portrayed and part of that is what you read about mayor doherty. let s pick that up. we have to squeeze a break in here. a little bit more on what mayor doherty said and the subpoena in hoboken. [ male announcer ] if you re taking multiple medications, does your mouth often feel dry? a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications
at the beginning of the hoboken report, which is lengthy, there s a description of all of the characters starting with mayor zimmer and it notes things she taught english in japan, all of the other people that she alleges involved in the conspiracy, were former federal prosecutors, as if somehow what the former federal prosecutors always say is necessarily truthful. it doesn t say things about mayor zimmer, she was appointed to a president s panel on climate change. the only elected official from our region on that panel, that she is nationally recognized in the area of climate change, which is what we re talking about here. we re talking about preparing hoboken to survive future storms. so i think there s a lot of this, and as the assemblywoman was mentioning, the same thing with bridget kelly, that she was emotional. there are references to the fact she was not perhaps as prepared for her job as bill stepien was.
i said i wanted to talk about this news, joe maraziti, being subpoenaed by the u.s. attorney s office. andrea, we can talk about the idea we re being told he talks to mayor zimmer but all these e-mails from wolf & samson law firm. he s a central player in the whole david samson part. david samson was a sevcentra player in both bridgegate and hoboken and he was not interviewed or acknowledged about 150 pages. the fact he would accept that he would speak to him is troubling to people who want to know everything that happened here. david samson resigned from the port authority. governor christie exonerated him. there are many questions i would like to ask david samson and i m
site with all of these people and then we have a reporter in the new york times yesterday that they spent a long time in this air-conditioned place sequestered from everyone else. we don t know what conversations took place. it is entirely possible chris christie had nothing to do with it. some general fairness and objectivity when you re looking at allegations because any of us, any of us, if we were subject to allegations, constant media attention with no corroboration on many of these things, you just want fairness. when you put out a report like this, we have to squeeze a break in here. we have to squeeze a break in here. we will get you in after this. andrea in after this. and i do want to get back to this news out of hoboken because it s not just about chris christie. i think this news out of hoboken may suggest something about another major figure, david samson. i know you ve been reporting on that. well, there s a connection to