essentially, the trouble with bridgegate is is not just the mayor of ft. lee, but it s that the port authority was being used in a way that served governor christie perhaps more than it served to do what it s supposed to do, which is increase port activity in new york and new jersey. in terms of those political incentives might have led to this decision to not do the tunnel, if it was about getting chris christie s hands, new jersey s hands on that money, it really feels in a layman s sense, it feels wrong to take the tunnel money and apply it to something that s totally unrelated. is it illegal? is there a question of whether using those funds were illegal? i haven t heard anybody say it was a crime, but what is concerning to watchdogs is that this is not the way this money is supposed to be used. it s supposed to be used for the region. and that there s a concern that this agency became very politicized to benefit chris christie and new jersey in a way that it hadn t been prior t
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already been spent starting to build it, but the case he made for what was wrong with the project was not a true case. and then he kept the money. seriously. not only did he resist paying back any of new jersey s share of the money that had already been spent, he kept billions of dollars that had been earmarked for the tunnel and didn t spend them on the tunnel. he took them for new jersey to use on other stuff. new jersey has a really low gas tax, so he was out of money to do road and bridge repair work which he always said it would be fund with gas taxes. he just took billions of dollars of the tunnel money and spent that on the repair work instead and thus avoided having to raise gas taxes because he said he wouldn t. see, we don t need to use tax money. i ve got this other money that i found over here. it was somebody else s money, but i m going to take it. fiscal conservatism. the same kind of fiscal conservatism that led famous individuals in our history to
tho using those funds were illegal? i haven t heard anybody say it was a crime, but what is concerning to watchdogs is that this is not the way this money is supposed to be used. it s supposed to be used for the region. and that there s a concern that this agency became very politicized to benefit chris christie and new jersey in a way that it hadn t been prior to this. and that s we re talking billions of dollars. we re not just talking about little pots of money here and there being sfrinkled among friends. we re talking $2 billion going to a roadway. and that is what is of great concern. and that s why the committee is looking into this, because of that concern. and that concern about issues like this tunnel and all these other related issues is how they got subpoena authority in the first place, which is how we got the time for some traffic problems in ft. lee e-mail, which is how we got the bridge scandal, which is how we ended
billions of dollars. we re not just talking about little pots of money here and there being sfrinkled among friends. we re talking $2 billion going to a roadway. and that is what is of great concern. and that s why the committee is looking into this, because of that concern. and that concern about issues like this tunnel and all these other related issues is how they got subpoena authority in the first place, which is how we got the time for some traffic problems in ft. lee e-mail, which is how we got the bridge scandal, which is how we ended up surprised when the subpoenas went back to the original story. it doesn t b smell right. and now there s a chance to perhaps get to the bottom of it. i ve been following your online dispatches from the very beginning. it s really nice to have you here. it s wonderful to be here. we ll be right back. spokesperson: we decided to settle this.