td11 wrote:

When a reporter followed up on the remark later in the press conference, Christie agreed that it was a "mistake" to say he had a sleepless two nights.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/c ... two-nights

lol

jerseyhoya wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:

drsmooth wrote:surprised CC isn't building in hedges against info that will come out in the investigations to come. There are certainly documented exchanges between him & his now-fired staff about political activity pertinent to this incident that will come out, that he will be called on to clarify/exlain/brush off, etc.

He's painting himself into a corner by not embroidering this "I knew nothing until yesterday morning" line

Yeah, I'm perfectly willing to believe he had no knowledge of this before or as it happened. But when it hit the press, it's much harder to believe he wouldn't call in those implicated and demand a straight accounting. And that they would stand up to him and not give it. Still could have gone down that way, but I only see it happening through carefully protecting his ignorance, which is not that far from engineering a coverup.

He explained what happened from his perspective anyway back in December before he denied people from his administration were involved at the press conference today.

This morning I've terminated the employment of Bridget Kelly, effective immediately. I've terminated her employment because she lied to me. I brought my senior staff together I think about four weeks ago tomorrow. And I put to all of them one simple challenge: If there is any information that you know about the decision to close these lanes in Fort Lee, you have one hour to tell either my chief of staff, Kevin O'Dowd, or my chief counsel, Charlie McKenna.

And I told them that in an hour I was going to go out in a press conference. And if no one gave me other information to the contrary that I was going to say that no one on my staff was involved in this matter.

Over the course of the next hour, Kevin and Charlie interviewed each member of my senior staff, came back and reported to me that they all reported that there was no information other than what we already knew that had been testified to by Senator Baroni regarding this incident. I then questioned Kevin O'Dowd and Charlie McKenna directly, since they are the only two who report directly to me, and they assured me that they had no information that would change my ability to be able to say that no one, in response to Angie's question, on my staff was involved in this matter.

That was obviously a lie. And the emails that I saw for the first time yesterday morning, when they broken in I believe the Bergen Record story, proved that that was a lie. There's no justification for that behavior. There's no justification for ever lying to a governor or a person in authority in this government. And as a result, I've terminated Bridget's employment immediately this morning.

drsmooth wrote:add following keywords to CC office email search:

Weinberg
Hoens

Maddow rounded up enough dots to make a more interesting, more plausible, maybe more consequential revenge story

jerseyhoya wrote:Yeah Weinberg is definitely more confrontational that Sweeney, and Christie, um, has some history with her, though Lesniak is the real culprit on the Supreme Court stuff I think.

I dunno, it's still a long way from being true, but it actually makes sense so might be real. The previous #$!&@ didn't make sense.

jerseyhoya wrote:The funny (other people might choose a different word than funny) thing is if this is what actually happened, him closing the bridge lanes to punish her for blocking conservatives from going on the NJ Supreme Court, he might've been better off kind of admitting it from the start once news leaked. The crazy base would've loved him.

What stage is this...bargaining?

JFLNYC wrote:There has to be more backstory here. No way Kelly just says, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," and everyone knows exactly what she's talking about and what to do.

Doll Is Mine wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:There has to be more backstory here. No way Kelly just says, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," and everyone knows exactly what she's talking about and what to do.

"Got it."

I'd be like "bitch, what'chu talkin' 'bout?'