but yesterday the report's author randy mastro was defiant when george stephanopoulos challenged him out the report's use of questionable evidence, including the outing of a personal relationship between bridget kelly and bill stepien. here is mastro. >> we had no incentive to do anything other than to get to the truth. and i have to say this. for skeptics out there, there are some who have a visceral reaction to this bridge controversy. it reminds me of the movie line "they can't handle the truth." we believe we got to the truth, george. >> yeah, didn't quite explain why he brought up a personal matter. kendall coffey is a u.s. attorney and heather haddon is a reporter for "the wall street journal." thank you so much. heather, our producers i have to credit around here went around and dug up interesting quotes. what you come across in the full report some of this tough guy stuff, if you will. i don't know if bullying is the right word in politics, but it shows where drewniak and stepien, these guys all close to the governor, even his press secretaries, his campaign manager talking ab

we need to know what randy mastro knows in preparing this report.d to know what the governor said as part of his interview with randy mastro. that may involve having the governor come before our committee. >> new jersey assemblyman john wisniewski, thank you very much for keeping us up to speed. nice to see you. >> good to see you, rachel. >> all right. we'll be right back. it says here that a woman's sex drive increases at the age of 80. helps reduce the risk of heart disease. keep heart-healthy. live long. eat the 100% goodness of post shredded wheat. doctors recommend it. crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol to a goal of under 100. way to go, crestor! yeah! getting to goal is a big deal, especially if you have high cholesterol plus any of these risk factors. because you could be at increased risk for plaque buildup in your arteries over time. so, when diet and exercise aren't enough to lower cholesterol, adding crestor can help. go, crestor! ♪ ♪ oh, yeah [ female announcer ] crestor is not right for everyone, like people with live

was he told by randy mastro and mastro's associates this is how it went down? which is coaching a witness. he's been offered as a defense witness. this isn't a -- >> to make that point, yes, he was -- we called constable, cabinet secretary in clinton -- clinton? excuse me. christie's office. said, do you want to come on? said, no. they basically helped arrange us to get in touch with matt dohert where. >> that's right. he offered up this independent democrat. he doesn't want to call dawn zimmer a liar. >> right. >> and the fact of the -- you know, he couldn't have heard. if he isn't sitting between them, he couldn't have heard -- it isn't possible that he could have -- that he could rule out anything -- >> everything he says, i don't believe she's fabricating anything. >> right. >> so if he's as confident as he says, they may have been whispering but they weren't. he's pretty confident. >> he'd like to have it both ways. what you saw in the interrview s a guy trying hard to walk this line where he supports what's in the report, reports dawn zimmer, reports chri

we need to know what randy mastro knows in preparing this report.e need to know what the governor said as part of his interview with randy mastro. that may involve having the governor come before our committee. >> new jersey assemblyman john wisniewski, thank you very much for keeping us up to speed. nice to see you. >> good to see you, rachel. >> all right. we'll be right back. >>> so i missed friday night's show. i had a thing to do. missed the show. it's great to have a day off. except if you work in the news business and your news show is at night and the day you get to take off is a friday. and the reason that's bad is because every freaking friday, it seems like, there is now a friday night news dump of some magnitude. including this past friday, when i was not here. after the close of business on friday night north carolina, the state government in north carolina dumped a huge trove of documents, 13,000 pages, 900 different documents, all released in response to public records requests, all posted online without comment after the close of bus

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. >> well, the documents that we have been requesting from randy mastro's office did arrive today in time. they've all been down loaded, and all they do is add to the fact that this report is not worth the paper it's written on. they didn't even interview one person in the port authority. apparently they didn't really want to find out what went on here. they didn't even call the executive director, pat foye, the man who reversed the infamous lane closings on the george washington bridge. so this report is 430-some-odd pages of more whitewash, is the kindest way -- >> i looked at that list. i didn't recognize hardly any of those 75 names. who are the people they did interview for the randy mastro report. >> staffers in the governor's office, second and third level staffers. people who talked to people. >> loyalists. >> it isn't even good -- it isn't even a good cover-up in my humble opinion. i' been saying that about this from the very beginning. how about asking somebody in the port authority about the so-called traffic study? the thing that the governor insisted right up through the

randy mastro, and gibson dunn decided not to put that into the report.portant is, anything could be useful to the state. >> and my key question, what did the governor say? he was not under oath, but he was vulnerable to a charge of not telling the truth. anything that might be coming out because of the testimony coming from wildstein, bridget kelly? against the guy we're looking at, the guy at the heart of this thing? >> well, they want bridget kelly to come forward. and the committee did meet today, and decided not to issue subpoenas today. they're going to give dunn until the end of the week. >> and who's paying for the transcripts? does the state own them? >> well, they said, if they don't get it by the end of the week, they're going to subpoena the governor's office or the law firm. >> well, it seems to me, you have to pay for these transcripts. the state of new jersey, maybe they didn't pay for them. maybe they took the report from randy mastro. >> if they're being paid, were hired by the christie administration, they're being paid for by the state

you know, so it's a lot bigger than randy mastro, the lawyer associated with associates of christie,'s really the point here. so the contribution doesn't look good, but the real problem with this report is that it was done by christie's lawyer. and it is in no sense an objective report, and, in fact, in doing the report, mastro and the gibson dunn investigators, didn't talk to any of the principles involved in the lane closings in the bridge because they wouldn't talk to them. so on the basis of no information, they declared christie innocent. that is really the scandal with the report. >> essentially because he said so and was very emotional when he said so. let's go back to you, john, the report isn't scoring points with new jersey voters either. only 36% in the latest polling think the report is legitimate. 56% think it's a whitewash. what are the odds even let's say christie escapes any legal action, that primary states in states like iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, will actually give christie a pass when his own residents in new jersey do not believe this report? >> well, j

>> as far as i know, through our lawyers talking to the -- the randy mastro lawyers that is the fact.pes. no transcripts. and i said after my original reading of this so-called report, that it sounded like a defense attorney summing up before a jury. it is so filled with gaps, with information missing, that i hardly -- as i said, there are some people who describe it as an investigation. i don't. >> yeah, it's -- it is kind of an astonishing document then to formally discover that no. when you hear there are no transcripts we did not actually record in any way what was said in any of these so-called interviews. that sound to me very clearly like, lawyers who were theoretically -- our client is chris christie personally. we have to make sure there is no record of what he said to us because he might need to change that story at some point in the future. >> well, in fact, there is no transcript, no tape, of what those interviews consisted of. according to, what our attorney told us. >> now, the judge said that the reason that -- that -- mr. steppian, and ms. kelly can invoke the 5th amen

the panel had given randy mastro up today to turn over documents or face new subpoenas.got a reprieve. the co-chair issued a statement reading we're in set of the list of those interviewed for its report. and have agreed to give the law firm up noon until noon to monday. joining me now is senator wineburg. some news today. you have the list of those 70 names. i'm wondering if you can give us in hint as to who may be on it. but beyond that, how much cooperation are you expecting? >> first of all, i call it the so-called invest gaer to report. we received a list today apparently 2actually of 75 name. au and let me correct something. there are no transcripts or recordings of any of their interviews. the only thing they have to turn offic over to us is their notes of the so-called interviews. so we have given them until noon on monday to turn those notes over to us. but what they seem to be is the mast on ro interpretation. that puts another layer of disbelief around this report. i'm curious about how this put in this whole alleged personal relationship between two of the ma

this is from christina renna's -- the memo given by randy mastro that was disclosed yesterday. one of the directors of the intergovernmental affairs in the christie administration. it's one of the most interesting memos in the entire stack. the portrait we get is there's a sort of culture of retribution. they would be mad at mayors and really wouldn't know why. bridget kelly often wouldn't tell her why. staffers knew enough not to ask questions beyond what information was given to them. they wrote a lot of stuff down. it wasn't just that they had a list of people to talk to in the court. they also thought there was a list available of people whose calls they shouldn't take. >> it was so patterned here. i want to go to kendall, the line you just raised here, brian, can we get a list of hands-off mayors? in other words, the ones being punished. no, we can't get it. it would just keep changing daily anyway. the frivolousness in which they talk about they're punishing the office. this guy is off-base today, radio silence for that guy, he's on the list there, right with phillip, the

we began to see some of this in the report issued last month by randy mastro, whose law if i were was hired by the governor's office to do an internal review of the governor. yesterday, that law firm released notes from 75 interviews they did for that internal report on the governor's office. those notes have more and in some ways, more unsettling detail that we didn't know before. for example, they interviewed a sandy regional director in the governor's office. this person served as a conduit between mayors and municipalities in the office of the governor, involving issues regarding to hurricane sandy, recovery from hurricane sandy. that staffer, in charge of that issue, recalled, according to these notes, that on issues related to hurricane sandy, bridge bridget kelly needed to check with the chris christie re-election campaign, quote, before approving certain things. he says he was told, for instance, not to bend over backwards to help hoboken mayor don zimmer, who also was not endorsing chris christie for re-election. that official says he treated the hoboken mayor just the same,

. >> they should be subpoenaing every single document that randy mastro has the. every record of every so-called interview with chris christie. mastro has never said they have transcripts of these things. there is no attorney-client privilege ledge. >> there is no transcript, audio or anything. >> thank you both for joining me. >> hillary clinton talks about running for president. mike huckabee may be creating the perfect opening for jeb bush. the republicans could use a sane candidate. and the congressman who yesterday said he wanted an fbi investigation about who leaked that security video of him in a romantic embrace with the married woman who is not married to him has now told the fbi never mind. and later, the people who are supposed to protect the life of the president of the united states are literally falling down drunk on the job. and worse. know what the experts at your ford dealer think? they think about tires. and what they've been through lately. polar vortexes, road construction, and gaping potholes. so with all that behind you, you might want to mak

it was the report released a few weeks ago by randy mastro.e's the lawyer whose firm was chosen by the office of chris christie to conduct an internal investigation into his administration. it's a report that is trying to exonerate the governor. it's a report paid for by new jersey taxpayers and did not include interviews with the principle players in the scandal swirling around the christie administration, which probably helps with the reaction the report is generating from the media. a majority of new jersey voters see the master report as a whitewash, and not the definitive independent exoneration that christie is trumpeting it as. they were also skeptical of the democratic lawmakers who were investigating the scandal. but they really don't seem to trust the internal investigation of the christie administration. partly because it was led by an attorney that the christie administration hired and also that they did not make any recordings or transcripts public. they tell us it's customary in internal investigations to summarize interviews rat

according to randy mastro's report, christie had no specific recollections of conversations with baroni wildstein, especially on the 11th when he said he talked to chris christie about bridgegate. but he remembers other things, including this, which defies explanation. before the 9/11 memorial event began, the governor recalled that mrs. christie asked to use a bathroom and david wildstein directed her to a large white port authority trailer. she went into the van and then exited saying that there was no bathroom in the trailer. a female port authority police department officer who was possibly baroni's driver, then took mrs. christie to the bathroom. otherwise, mrs. christie was with him for the entire event. how is it that you do remember about your wife being guided to the wrong ladies' room? >> i think the details on where mrs. christie went to the restroom is really an important thing. there were probably a thousand dollars of legal fees. >> just for that detail. >> just for that detail. this report is so weird. you conduct an investigation like this, where you do all of these inte

as we reported a lot over the past weeks, randy mastro conducted an investigation into the bridge scandalt taxpayer expense and issued a report that surprise, exonerated chris christie. well, new jerseyans aren't buying it. a quinnipiac poll asked people in that state whether the investigation was legitimate or a white wash. 56%, an unambiguous majority, say it was a white wash. that's in jersey. just 36% thought the report was a legitimate investigation. governor christie may have underestimated his own constituents, you might say they are too smart. joining us right now, chris cillizza and anna palmer, senior washington correspondent for politico. thank you, two. it's always interesting to see an entire state as a focus group, chris, and to watch and think how's he reacting. he's reacting the way most people would, it seems to me, this guy went out and paid $600,000 of state money to investigate at least his side of the story, and they presented his side of the story. and i think the voters are now saying when they are polled about it say, well, that's a white wash. i'm not sure it's a

we obviously endured the randy mastro investigation. it spent a lot of time calling david wildstein crazy and brid jell kelly emotional, but it did not seem to actually convince anybody that needed to be convincing that the governor had nothing to do with this and this was all the plot of two crazy aides. it's going to be interesting to see who else goes there. i would think they would be very interested in talking to blidget kelly and granting her immunity as well. we haven't seen that yet. >> what would prosecutors want to extract out of wildstein. what do you think are the things that he would need to cooperate and give in order for the prosecutors to give them a feeling they've got something for this immunity? >> well, reverend, we can reset the time machine and go back to watergate. that sound bite of what the president knew and when he knew it. ultimately, these prosecutors are going to want to know what mr. wildstein can tell them, if anything, about what governor christie knew and when he knew it. whether it was in connection wi

which is to say the randy mastro transcripts are now being demanded by john wisniewski who is chairingnvestigation. he has expressed doubt that's those transcripts even exist i wonder what you think about the taxpayer investigation that may have been an investigation really truly in name only. >> partly an effort by the democrats and new jersey to sort of kick the tires on this investigation that mastro did. if there is stuff in those transcripts that wasn't contained in their formal public report, again, it cast them in a bad light. it undermines the conclusions of that report. and as you say, if there were not any trans krimts, if there is nothing there it raises a further question. what were they doing all those weeks for all that money. >> that's a huge part of it. wisniewski says there it's no hard evidence, they don't get transcripts, that means this report is -- sorry, the tax-funded christie report is based on nothing more than his mental impressions of what people said. that is a classic definition of hearsay. i think it hurts christie even more than it possibly could have hem

and the problem they have, and you can see this in the way that randy mastro tried to deal with it at the press conference, dawn zimmer made a diary. dawn zimmer may have not talked about it until january, but she has a diary that was made almost near contemporaneous that includes an account of this. and the danger for them is that this week, i think tomorrow, the hoboken city, the local government authority in hoboken is going to release one of the town attorneys to speak to the u.s. attorney and i believe the assemblyman's committee as well. and the thinking is at some point mayor zimmer had a discussion with this attorney immediately after the encounter with the lieutenant governor of new jersey. and she told him about what happened. and now he is going to be free to talk about that in a way that he hasn't before. the problem for the administration here is that dawn zimmer's already gone and talked to the u.s. attorney. if she told the u.s. attorney the story that she has told everybody else, then either she is telling the truth or she has perjured herself. and that puts the admini

and i've said this before, and i'll say it right to randy mastro's face.name on this report is an embarrassment to the legal profession. >> new jersey state senator loretta weinberg. that's going to be tonight's last word on the chris christie situation. thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, jimmy fallon and stephen colbert have a new favorite candidate for united states senate, and she's in tonight's rewrite. ♪ geico motorcycle. see how much you could save. man: i don't know...i forget. it last time? scott: hello, neighbors. man: hey, scott... perfect timing. scott: feeding your lawn need not be so difficult. get a load of this bad boy. man: sweet! scott: this snap spreader system from scotts makes caring for your lawn snapcrackin' simple, guaranteed. just take the handy, no-mess bag, then snap, lock and go. to see a demo of the snap spreader, go to scotts.com. feed your lawn. feed it! anncr: visit scotts.com/goyard for the chance to win a $25,000 backyard makeover. >>> on this day in history, march 31st, 1776, john adams

terms of the smoking e-mail and what we have or don't have, how do you think randy mastro's report will figure into the line of questioning here? could that be used as almost a backboard in which to question some of these -- >> i think that is really important. i think what some witnesses may be worried about is whether the mastro report accurately reflects what happened. and no one wants to get caught in between two versions of the events. now, the mastro report is obviously -- it's a piece of advocacy for the governor. it uses the facts to advocate a position. we don't know what an independent investigation is going to find. i mean, it could parallel what mastro find but we just don't know yet. the u.s. attorney, paul fishman, is is in the process of looking at that. >> paul fishman, i think i referred to him as patrick fishman before. thank you for the correction, mary. hunter, the ryan lizza piece today is one of a string of stories that have traced the roots of chris christie's political career. you've done reporting on this and talked about his behavior and aks in high school forw

and i've said this before, and i'll say it right to randy mastro's face.ting your name on this report is an embarrassment to the legal profession. >> new jersey state senator loretta weinberg. that's going to be tonight's last word on the chris christie situation. thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, jimmy fallon and stephen colbert have a new favorite candidate for united states senate, and she's in tonight's rewrite. life's an adventure when you're with her. and it always has been. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe

out here, it will look like a continuation of the whitewash that we saw with the joke that was randy mastro'sll the raw materials from the mastro report confirmed that christie's governor's office was functionally operating as a political office. it was the worst of a mixture of keystone cops and tammany hall. my question to you is don't you think that the people of new jersey deserve to know really what was behind this list of 117 mayors? if the governor knew about it? two, especially, don't you think the citizens of new jersey and people that you represent, people in westfield. don't they deserve to know if the services they receive were affected or diminished somehow because of this hit list of 117 mayors? these are new questions. this goes beyond bridgegate. that was just the tip of the iceberg. >> we want john wisniewski and others to sign a confidentiality agreement, before you go on msnbc and go public with anything, have a vote, maybe 8-4 vote, we're happy to lose the vote but let's have the discussion before it becomes prosecutor on television. >> brian, you're reporting on this from