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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140112:14:19:00

authority as something that kind of professionalizes this process and these assets like the lincoln tunnel and the george washington bridge. but they don t take the politics out of it. the politics gets intensified in many ways. well, the other thing there we play christie we played baroni, both giving this sort of story they are concerned that ft. lee has dedicated ft. lee only lanes. and you know this and you can speak to this a little bit, the reality of the lanes and who uses the lanes is overwhelmingly not this is to ease traffic in north jersey to the george washington bridge. so when i hear those explanations, again, there could be a lot of red herrings here and a lot we don t know but it sounds like bogus explanations put out there in place of something else. whatever that something else is, we don t know. but those do not seem like reasonable explanations. that s exactly right. that s exactly correct. you look at the physical

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140112:14:12:00

e-mail. we know that meeting apparently happened because of text messages subpoenaed from david wildstein, told to turn over records that are relevant to the lane closure. so by turning over those texts, he is suggesting that the christie/samson meeting had something to do with the closures. again, there are far more questions than answers here. even if undermining sokolich s prize redevelopment program was part of the scheme, we don t know why he was targeted or if there was someone else, someone bigger at stake at the heart of this. weigh still don t know who would have been involved. documents haven t told us that story. we do know the biggest project ever undertake nen ft. lee, that had huge economic ramifications was affected by the closures. was on so can kolich s mind during the closures and could have been significantly altered if those closures had remained in place for good. this affected more than just the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140112:14:03:00

make reference to that in interviews. we thought we would take a closer look and here is a closer story. this for decades, what you re looking at, was perhaps the most coveted slice of real estate in all of new jersey, a priceless patch of 16 empty acres situated at the edge of the george washington bridge, the gateway to new york city, smack in the middle of ft. lee. 16 acres of land that has a rich and tortured history. nearly 40 years ago a previous mayor of ft. lee, burt ross, pictured on the right on the screen there, he was approached by allegedly mob-linked developers and he was made an offer that was awfully hard to refu refuse. give them the rights to slap a high rise on that land, those 16 acres, and he would give them a million dollars. burt ross didn t want that money but he did wear a wire for the feds and those crooked developers went to jail. a book was even written about this called the bribe.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140112:13:02:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140112:13:13:00

a phony story about a traffic study no one could believe. low an lo and behold the morning we found out it was a phony story he found out. what he found out was that we found out. and you had been calling for a federal investigation, the u.s. attorney for new jersey announced last week they are preliminarily starting to look into this to see if there s a case. my thought when i saw the news was, wow, if chris christie was still the u.s. attorney for new jersey, a democratic governor in a situation like this, we all know chris christie would be subpoenas would be flying by this point. what is your read? what is your read on that situation? do you expect him to pursue this with any kind of the same aggression christie would have? no. he is much more cautious. much more reasonable and, quite frankly, more responsible public official. i will pursue it but it will take time. in the meantime, the assembly

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