they have, however, interviewed the mayor of hoboken and is a subpoenaed the city. does that mean in terms of the federal investigation here this is now less about the bridge and more about sandy aid? is the federal investigation less about if politics led to a traffic jam and more if politics have factored into the recovery from the worst storm to ever hit the east coast? joining us now, steve kornacki, host of "up with steve kornacki" on msnbc. covered new jersey politics for years including time working for david wildstein. great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> you've been out in front of the story for weeks now. what do you make of the u.s. attorney subpoenaing the city of hoboken but not bridget kelly who appears to have ordered the bridge lane shutdown? >> yeah, i mean, you're right. it's curious. and i'm not well sourced inside this u.s. attorney's office and not a lot of people are, by the way. >> nobody seems to be. >> that's a important thing to keep in mind here is this u.s. attorney is far different than his predecessor, chris christie. with ch

the question is -- i understand there are people in hoboken willing to come forward. they haven't gotten around to talking to there. there's also part of that. so i was telling people in trenton today, they weren't necessarily reading too much into this. they were saying their sense is still ultimately that this is -- the bridge closure is something u.s. attorney is going to be looking at and saying their expectation still is something like bridget kelly, you will see a subpoena there at some point in the near future. >> steve, one of the things you and i have talked about before, it we have a subpoena, the legislature, and the u.s. attorney looking into if not the same, at least similar allegations from a criminal federal perspective, what's the chance that the existence, the co-existence of the two investigations might be a way for potential witnesses, potential targets of those investigations, to sort of wheedle out of having to answer either or both of them? now that we've seen david wildstein invoke the fifth amendment in refusing to testify, even as he handed ov

i will start with you on the hoboken matter. we have the george washington bridge going on and all the david wildstein talk we had last hour. on the other hand, there is still this question of hoboken and the allegations from the mayor. since she sat in this show, she has talked to the u.s. attorney and they have talked to her staff. we see wolf and sampson's partnership with the rockefeller group is gone and now you have the u.s. attorney's office subpoenaing all these records from hoboken. >> this is a serious investigation that is moving along. >> the christie administration has been pushing back and trying to say that mayor zimmer is not telling the truth or she is misunderstanding what went on here. i think what you have uncovered with those e-mails, the coupling again with the rockefeller development project with the sandy aid and the flood control is just more evidence that she is telling the truth and that what she is saying is likely the case. it is disturbing to me for all the reasons we discussed. sandy aid is suppose

taking the hoboken mayor's allegations very seriously. how did the governor's internal investigation get from not even asking bridget kelly about why she did what she did, to now mayors around the state who have questioned governor christie getting the opportunity to have meetings with five former federal prosecutors at a time? this is a strange turn and a strange part of the story. where intimidation has been part of the alleged plot from the beginning, right? is intimidation also part of how this scandal resolves from here on out? watch this space. life could be hectic. as a working mom of two young boys angie's list saves me a lot of time. after reading all the reviews i know i'm making the right choice. online or on the phone, we help you hire right the first time. with honest reviews on over 720 local services. keeping up with these two is more than a full time job, and i don't have time for unreliable companies. angie's list definitely saves me time and money. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter

i watched the mayor of hoboken, ms. zimmer, dawn zimmer. she seemed to be very fluent on what went on between her and guadagno, the lieutenant governor. about them holding her up and saying if you don't support this real estate deal on the waterfront, you're not getting any help from us on funding. you're investigating sandy funding. this something you would like to know whether it was a strong-arm tactic used down there in hoboken by the lieutenant governor on behalf of the governor? >> chris, i have seen no evidence of any kind of strong-arm tactics or politics. i think this was just managerial incompetence. >> wait a minute. the charge for the mayor issue is caught on a parking lot on shoprite and told on the parking lot it shouldn't be this way, but the governor wants you to know that he is saying if you don't support this real estate deal, forget the money. you're not getting it. that's not about managerial incompetence. that's a charge to me of extortion. what do you take it as? it's not managerial incompetence. >> the situation with

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meanwhile, hoboken was 80% underneath water and they couldn't get the aid they needed? >> and it was the kind of thing that some of the opponents of that aid in washington said was going to happen. tom moran, thank you very much for coming in tonight. thank you for writing this. i understand both of them. i don't agree with the first one but i understand how you arrived at it. ari melber, thanks for joining us. >>> coming up, a college football player says he's gay and the football world goes absolutely crazy because the football world is crazy. and backward. and decades behind the times. >>> in "the rewrite," the crazy nfl's name for its washington team. and why the commissioner of the nfl is afraid to say that word. when he's talking about that name of that team. in golden breadcrumbs. with whipped mashed potatoes, topped with a thick homemade gravy. so she makes her country fried chicken to be eaten together. so they savor every last bite. marie callender's. so she makes her country fried chicken to be eaten together. ameriprise asked people a simple question: can yo

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mastro's team also utilized the new jersey open public records act to request documents from officials in hoboken and ft. lee detailing interactions with members of the media. these tactics fed suspicions that mastro's team might have something else in mind besides just getting to the bottom of the stories. >> i think what their message is, they're trying to sort of threaten people. not explicitly but saying, you know, we're going to go back after you if you come back after us. >> as we thought about all of this this week, we were struck by something, why hasn't christie's legal team been this publicly aggressive in seeking information of those accused by mayor zimmer or implicated in the lane shutdowns in ft. lee? so we sent an e-mail to randy

lee and hoboken as part of his review. ft. lee chose to respond by saying these documents are media requests for documents from ft. lee and certain communications that are relevant to the bridge closures and phone logs. >> requests from governor christie's attorney, he asked to meet with hoboken mayor don zimmer, they said no. asked to meet with ft. lee mayor mark sockeledge they said no. very specifically, a huge amount of this -- it's interesting that governor christie's attorney wanted ft. lee's records of them talking to the media, i'm not sure how that was germane to the investigation. >> democrats have raised questions about how this is part of their internal review. the internal review is to interview members of the christie administration about their own knowledge of this going on during when the lane closures were happening and afterwards, but he's broadened that review. the most interesting document for me in there was the handwritten log from the ft. lee police chief where he's recording his observations during the

lee, the mayor of hoboken, the people who are holding out against christie? are they holding out for the benefit of you guys on the investigative committee so you guys get the stuff before christie's people get at it? >> i can't speak for the mayor of hoboken because i have not been in contact with her, nor to my knowledge has our committee reached out to her. but certainly bridgegate, which is slightly different from the issues brought up in hoboken, the bridge issue directly affects the mayor of ft. lee. and i've been in touch with him for a very long time on the phone, having discussions about what took place here. the fact that they would reach out to the mayor of ft. lee five months after this happened, the governor had plenty of time when this was first publicized. if he didn't know about it in early september, it was -- i mean, in mid- to late september, it was certainly in the press often enough. but by october 1, that infamous e-mail from the executive director of the port authority, patrick foye, who called this whole lane closure almost illegal in

lee as well as talking to officials in hoboken. that's what we know about what's happening with the federal prosecutors side of this. what's happening with the state side of it? what's happening with the state legislative investigation into this scandal? joining us now is new jersey assemblyman john wisniewski, co-chair of the legislature select committee that's investigating the bridge closure and related matters. mr. chairman, nice to see you. >> rachel, good it be here. thank you. >> i know you are not involved at all in the federal prosecutor's investigation into what the u.s. attorney is doing, but do you have any comment on the fact or any reaction to mayor sokolich meeting with the u.s. attorney on friday it. >> i think what it says is the u.s. attorney's office is doing their due diligence. there have been lots of allegations swirling around what mayor sokolich said and what happened in ft. lee. so i think they're talking to the source. they're talking to the person who first raised the argument that this was being done for

lee, the mayor of hoboken, the people who are holding out against christie? are they holding out for the benefit of you guys on the investigative committee so you guys get the stuff before christie's people get at it? >> i can't speak for the mayor of hoboken because i have not been in contact with her, nor to my knowledge has our committee reached out to her. but certainly bridgegate, which is slightly different from the issues brought up in hoboken, the bridge issue directly affects the mayor of ft. lee. and i've been in touch with him for a very long time. on the phone, asking discussions about what took place here. the fact that they would reach out to the mayor of ft. lee five months after this happened, the governor had plenty of time when this was first publicized. if he didn't know about it in early september, it was -- i mean, in mid- to late september, it was certainly in the press often enough. but by october 1, that infamous e-mail from the executive director of the port authority, patrick foye, who called this whole lane closure almost illegal in

lee and the allegations in hoboken between the u.s. attorney's investigation and dozens of outstanding subpoenas issued by the new jersey joint committee, this is not going away. sooner or later, chris christie will have to address the allegations in hoboken head-on. he'll have to explain why he has not vouched so far for his lieutenant governor kim guadano and tell us why his deputy chief of staff sent out the now infamous e-mail for some traffic in ft. lee. chris christie doesn't seem inclined to give us those answers but really how long can this go on? joining me now, the majority leader of the new jersey state senator, loretta weinberg. democrat. co-chair of the joint state legislative committee that's investigating the lane closures at the george washington bridge. senator, thanks for joining us tonight. i wonder, when you look at the governor leaving the state like he did this week, like he did over the weekend, like he did in florida, with all these scandals swirling around him, is this causing a problem in new jersey for him? w

it's also what happened in hoboken. surely there are others who are letting the attorneys know this happened to me, that happened to me. so it's not just this one gwb portion of it. >> now, susan, the curious thing to me, let's say the governor is saying he didn't know. but we don't know when he knew. and therefore never took any action. and he then turns around, not knowing what happened or why, fires who did it, never asking them what they did and why. isn't that very strange? wouldn't you at least want to know why he said she lied to him, why she lied and what she lied about since you have an oath to uphold to the people of the state that had to deal with this inconvenience and it could have been much worse? >> well, yes, you would think so. and i think in general his behavior has been pretty erratic on this. this has been one of the most damaging things for him. if the fundamental charge against you is that you're a bully, you don't respond in a bullying manner. they sent out that e-mail on saturday saying -- accusi

administration on her green lighting a private development project in hoboken to which the governor's allies were connected. both of those things happened today. but what may end up being the most important development today in this story concerns this man. his name is bill stepien. he's chris christie's campaign manager. he was the new hampshire political director for the bush/cheney re-election campaign in 2004. in 2008, mr. stepien worked for the disastrous rudy giuliani presidential campaign. before leaving that failed effort to become national field director for the mccain/palin campaign. after that ended in 2008, well, that ended up being a convenient ending time because there was a republican candidate for governor who had to run in an off year election immediately after '08. he was running in 2009. and bill stepien was available and chris christie hired bill stepien to be his campaign manager when he first ran for governor in 2009. when he won the governorship, he brought bill stepien into the governor's office with him. he made him his deputy chief of staff. mr. stepien is re

who gives the okay to pressure hoboken mayorer? you say an independent official. someone who gave these orders across the board must be pretty far up. >> chris, i don't want to waste the time here defending the public service of the state of new jersey. what we have here involving governor christie sure somebody gave an order. it is an abuse of power. we don't have all the facts yet. we don't know them and we ought to be patient for that. it certainly seems that a group of people involving human beings in the governor's office and the port authority have gotten together and have done some specific acts. that's why when i was on the news show ten days ago i mentioned rico. and what it really is is a group of individuals, can be an enterprise, and the predicate acts can be state crimes, federal crimes. i'm not saying that this applies in this situation. i'm saying that we have to get the proof and we have to find out what exactly happened. this u.s. attorney is a very able guy with a lot of integrity. ehe is doing it exactly the right way. ehe is not having press co

he wasn't sending the mayor down hoboken to scare mayor zimmer, and saying you don't play ball on my real estate deal. he is denying this later yet realtime people are always talking in his name. >> right. that's right. >> in realtime, the lieutenant governor is saying the governor wants this done. in realtime, the bridge gets closed because somehow bridget kelly gets word it's time for a traffic problem. and wildstein gets the word, somehow obey what the governor's office wants done. so he is like a frankenstein. he creates this monster of activity that keeps going on all the time. and only when it looks bad or gets caught he says oh, i had nothing to do with that. who is the man behind the curtain? >> in some ways we're trying to figure out where is the perimeter in this office, right. who is going to be the person who knows what is going on and who is going to be able to tell us what christie knew and what christie ordered, right, and how deep christie was involved in this. because the sense that -- the sense that i get out of trenton is that there are three or four people who wor

there are the hoboken allegations which are being used. david samson had a china who was working on a poe lengsly big lucrative deal. the mayor of that town said she came under pressure by members of the christie administration to greenlight that development for the clients. she said they threatened her. if they did not okay it, they wouldn't get any relief funds from hurricane sandy. those are public funds for the public need. the mayor's office, the christie administration flatly and staunchly denied those funds would elengs being diverted for a private purpose. to try to make david samson's clients make money. and five people have left or lost their jobs in the bridge lane scandal in new jersey krus far. the governor's two manager, two people who worked at the port authority. do you know who still works there? david samson. he is still chairman, still casting votes. as of last night someone who has the unquestioning absolute and complete support of new jersey governor chris christie, no questions asked. >> your top port authority appoin

we did the hoboken story. the port authority, david samson was weeks away from formally being confirmed. but the port authority paid for this redevelopment study in hoboken. it came back and gave the recommendation that the developer represented by david samson's law firm hoped for. and then e-mails start coming to city officials in hoboken with david samson copied on them in his capacity as the head of this law firm trying to set up meetings, trying to set up conference calls so that people in this city who depend on the port authority, they're a port authority city, they're at the mercy of port authority for financial and transportation issue, they're at the mercy of david samson's port authority. now you have to talk to lawyer david samson representing this development interest who wants to build a tower in your city. and by the way, whose port authority paid for the study he wants to talk to you about. >> samson is a walking scandal all by himself. in any other environment. the only thing that's protecting

there are the hoboken allegations which are being used. david samson had a client who was working on a potentially big lucrative deal. the mayor of that town said she came under pressure by members of the christie administration to greenlight that development for the clients. she said they threatened her. if they did not okay it, they wouldn't get any relief funds from hurricane sandy. those are public funds for the public need. the mayor's office, the christie administration flatly and staunchly denied those funds would being diverted for a private purpose. to try to make david samson's clients make money. and five people have left or lost their jobs in the bridge lane scandal in new jersey thus far. the governor's two manager, two people who worked at the port authority. do you know who still works there? david samson. he is still chairman, still casting votes. as of last night someone who has the unquestioning absolute and complete support of new jersey governor chris christie, no questions asked. >> your top port authority appointee, d

that the christie administration was, you know, trading sandy money for approvals of developments in hoboken, you know, for other favors. and i think that they're an important part of getting to the truth. so keep the pressure on. >> well, you know, when you hear this, steve, and you know a layman, i'm not a lawyer, a layman's question is why would they not want to cooperate. and the fact that this is big news that they may be hit with contempt, how do you read this? >> i'm not a lawyer either -- >> but you have driven this story. >> well, yeah. >> you have. >> i'll be happy to take the compliment. one of the explanations that has been given is you sort of have this investigation proceeding on two tracks you. have you the legislature that is looking into this, and you have the u.s. attorney who is looking into this in some way. so take like bill stepien, for instance. bill stepien is subpoenaed by this legislative committee, but the christie reelection campaign has been subpoenaed by the u.s. attorney's office. so now bill stepien was the campaign manager for that reelection campaign. so as

the mayor of hoboken says she gets held up for not playing ball on a real estate deal. she says the lieutenant governor delivers the message from the governor which the lieutenant governor later denies. the governor also later denies. the governor's office puts out a memo trashing the man expected to be a star witness against him. a week later, late today, people around the governor put out word that governor, himself, had nothing to do with it. is this governor ever in his office when all this is going on in his name? or is his main job these days to deny he's doing anything at all that people find offensive? and that's "hardball." for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. it is friday night and we have a great show for you including the creator of "house of cards" and the front-runner for worst boss ever. >>> but first, we have breaking news tonight out of new jersey. okay. on wednesday we brought you news of startling data from fair share housing in new jersey that showed that nearl

. >> and yethen you look at the gravity of what took lace and now the mayor of hoboken, the mayor of fort lee talking about the retaliation against them. i mean in the case of hoboken, trying to get funds for a city that was so deeply affected by hurricane sandy that goes to the issue of climate change as well. but having to agree to local private development in order to get those funds and then fort lee, just being a democrat who was not supporting the governor. he wanted the news to be massive landslide with a lot of democratic support. but you talk about the port .uthority and governor christie the history of the port authority and its significance for those who may be listening well outside the range of the city? >> it is an interesting aspect of the story that the port authority itself has a long and established history that which controls the bridge, operates the bridge, runs the bridge, and which had ordered the lane closings. it also operates most of the hubs in the area. it was founded during the progressive area. interestingly, it was this belief we had to take certain func

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the first indication this is going beyond and outied of christie's office was a request to talk to hoboken's mayor. is than an attempt to intimidate? christie would say no. >> and to demand a request. all of the communication between that mayor and "the new york times," of all things. >> i think it's fair to ask whether dawn zimmer turned over the documents while accusing christie of what amounts to potentially wrong doing. that's a reasonable question to ask. and i think most people would say, it's likely that they knew she was going to turn us over. so what's the true intent of this letter. >> now here's this internal investigation, they've dpot a lieutenant governor who's accused by this mayor of having basically participated in an extortion move, and there's no indication whatsoever is there inside christie's own investigation that they're questioning the lieutenant governor about that. >> i asked randy about this myself repeatedly. and his response is with we're not going to talk about the internal review that we're conducting. now there's an interesting distinction to be drawn here abo

it came on this show a little more than one week after that press conference when hoboken mayor dawn zimmer charged that one senior christie administration official, l lieutenant governor kim guadagno linked her level of sandy aid to a project represented by the law firm of one of christie's top political allies, david samson. and that another christie cabinet official, richard constable, head of the department of community affairs, had intimated a similar quid pro quo. now true to his word christie did hire outside counsel, randy mastro from gibson dunn. this is pricey representation. mastro was charging $650 an hour for his services. and mastro has been very public in conducting this internal investigation for 0 christie. at least some of the time. this is the letter that he sent to mayor zimmer's lawyer on february 4. in it mastro states that the governor's office takes zimmer's allegations, quote, very seriously and requests a meeting to further our mandate from the governor's office to facilitate cooperation with the u.s. attorney's investigation and complete an internal review.

this sandy problem, related in certain ways because of the mayor's allegations from hoboken, about the way sandy aid was improperly used and threatened. this is a growing political problem for this governor. this is his signature accomplishment and it is not some kind of, like, lefty liberal msnbc conspiracy. we talk every week to the citizens of new jersey, some of whom are christie voters who are increasingly at wit's end about what is on with sandy recovery. >> yeah. what you saw today is they lost control of the sandy message. this was, as you said at the open, this is why he's here. he was mr. sandy, he was the guy in charge. he was down at the beach with the president with the fleece. and now you've got these front-page headlines, money is going to strange places, people are not getting the money, the money is not doled out fairly according to some reports. i think what you're seeing is he's really struggling to get that message back. to get back in control of that message and it's tough. and this is sort of the thing we all have sort of waited for. you know, and this is -- >> wh

a monumental chapter in a decades-old rivalry had bars from hoboken, to austin to columbus, opening before breakfast, because in russia, fans were anxious for a rematch 34 years after a little game deemed the miracle on ice. >> we have been waiting since 1980 for this day. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: call it epic, call it thrilling, even an instant classic. could you sense the americans who are there though? >> oh, yeah, absolutely, you could hear them. >> reporter: the raucous heavily russian crowd, including vladimir putin inside and russian viewing parties outside. faces telling the tale of 65 minutes of heart-pounding intensity. a 2-2 tie, overtime, and then it went to a sudden death shootout. what emotions are going through you at that moment? >> it's a roller coaster in the shoot-out, because obviously every shot that goes by the game can change. >> reporter: the pressure on both sides, massive. russia judging the success of these games on winning hockey gold and so much riding on the stick of t.j. oshie. have you ever felt more pressure than in those moments? >> i don't know. it's har

administration as using sandy aid funding as pressure to expedite a politically connected development in hoboken, chris christie has yet to take any questions from the press about the other major scandal his administration faces. the accusations piling up, the state has used sandy recovery money to reward political allies and punish political foes. in fact, there's a bunch of really straightforward questions about that money that nobody, not reporters or congressmen or our hardworking producers can seem to get a straight answer to. one of them is this. why exactly did the state of new jersey fire the company it had hired to manage $780 million in federal sandy funds? and why did they pay that company a $10.5 million settlement for termination of the contract? and why didn't they tell anyone why they did it? why on earth won't anyone from governor christie's administration give a straightforward answer to the questions? all these questions revolve around a company called hgi. that specializes if project management and government contracting. that's their chairman, ceo, larry oney. hgi is the chie

administration, ask them questions, ask them questions about what happened with the last round of aid involving hoboken. you know about those allegations. again, at this point i think the christie administration is trying to keep a very low profile while all of this is going on. it's been an active weekend, last week the governor may have thought all of this was going to go away, have a good time, not go away but quiet down and he thought he might enjoy himself-with the super bowl. but that has not been the case. as far as subpoena day here, in talking to the officials involved with the investigation they -- we understand that i think it's most people who have been subpoenaed have requested extensions. unclear how long those extensions are. probably weeks. remember, we're talking about requests for literally thousands upon thousands of pages of text messages, e-mails and documents related to the george washington bridge closures a couple months ago. a normal process, it was not unexpected that people would not ask for extensions, so this is going to go on for some time. this is the concern, obviously,

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i lived in hoboken. pretty sure i got brown water there. i'm not justifying what's been going on in sochi. it hasn't been the best olympics in terms of logistics. however, i think it only getting a sentated in this world of camera phones and twitter where everything negative will be blown up ten fold. >> what about the empty seats? in some venues we're seeing that? >> sochi is a very difficult place to get to. there are hardly any direct flights. it's on the black sea. plus, leading up to this olympics, we never heard so much about terrorism than we have going into an olympic games before. it was in vancouver four years ago. is there a terror threat at any sort of big event? yes. but particularly in sochi, considering where it is, i'm surprised the ioc went ahead and gave russia this bid considering all those factors and the fact that there was no infrastructure there before putin put $50 billion into it. >> lots more money on this one than -- what did you say? 7 billion in vancouver? >> yes. 43 billion more here in russia. and the per capi