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mike duhaime became the top political strategist for chris christie.ill stepien then went on to become chris christie's campaign manager. the rudy giuliani for president deputy communications chief was a woman named maria comella, went on to become communications chief for chris christie. and when chris christie picked a lawyer to do a supposedly impartial and independent investigation of whether chris christie did anything wrong when those lanes on the world's busiest bridge for shut down on orders from at least one person working in his own office, chris christie picked a lawyer who happens to have been a deputy mayor to rudy giuliani. and then this weekend, mayor giuliani once again stood up for chris christie and stood up for his former deputy mayor's report saying that that gushing over the top total exoneration of governor christie which most other people are treating as suspect if not a laughingstock, he rudy giuliani says he sees that report as something that should be gone over in great detail because he says it can give you a tremendous amoun

and so you have a memo about an interview in which it's related that mike duhaims interviewed the governorildstein's statement that he and bill stepien knew about the lane closures. yet hours after that, the governor came out and said no one in my administration knew anything about this. those two things don't match. and they both can't be accurate. so our job is to find out exactly who knew what when. i want to make it clear. this is about fixing the problem at the port authority. and fixing the abuse of power. we're following it wherever it may lead. >> thank you both for being here. >> up next, a perfect example about how not to teach people about train safety. this is "hardball." the place for politics. [ thunder crashes ] [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. >> back time for the side show. the 136th annual easter egg roll. activities included reading wit

and so you have a memo about an interview in which it's related that mike duhaims interviewed the governor bill stepien knew about the lane closures. yet hours after that, the governor came out and said no one in my administration knew anything about this. those two things don't match. and they both can't be accurate. so our job is to find out exactly who knew what when. i want to make it clear. this is about fixing the problem at the port authority. and fixing the abuse of power. we're following it wherever it may lead. . >> thank you both for being here. >> up next, a perfect example about how not to teach people about train safety. this is "hardball." the place for politics. ♪ [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn't fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today...and tomorrow. so let's see what we can do about that... remodel. motorcycle. [ female announcer ] som

that means that he disregarded the information that mike duhaime gave to the administration.ports stemming from that the report that vindicate the governor that we need to continue asking these questions. >> at a certain point, the goal of this was to clean up what might have been some sort of a corrupt office. on that point, the fact that the governor is appointing a specific ombudsman, you're kind of smiling here. >> well, there is a need for an ethics ombudsman, absolutely. p.a. pat hobbs say fine attorney and well respected but i think the fact of the officer himself appointing somebody to look over him, a university that he was not only an alum of, but also directed benefits to from bristol-myers squib raised question. >> is seton hall the most ethical law school in history? because governor christie keeps going back to his alma mater when had comes to picking people out to run ethics investigations? >> i'm an alum of seton hall. but i point is this, if the governor really wants to be transparent on ethics and an ombudsman, then have somebody else make the choice. that's

>> and then this july conversation where christie's campaign manager bill stepien writes to mike duhaimequote, we're approaching a point in time where we have the so what it's going to be conversation with hoboken mayor dawn zimmer and jersey city mayor steve fulop. the argument that there was no evidence that the governor was after the marry or ready to push him there is there now. we have it. >> randy mastro has said with this report they're draw nothing conclusions as to why mark sokolich, the mayor of fort lee was argued the. but democrats have talked to today, you know, they've certainly made note of that target list. and i think this is something that they're going to be pursuing and questioning if and when they start calling in people to testify and take testimony. why was it developed and what role does it have in fort lee. >> you know, kendall, it took decades for those of us who dug up a lot of this stuff in the archives to find out richard nixon's role in watergate. there has never been any evidence he ordered that particular break-in. but he ordered so many other break-ins of