‘Cut the Commentary’: Christie Attacks Reporter During Q&A

‘You’re looking at this ... from the perspective of what you know today’

REPORTER: "All of these federal prosecutors were accepting really what was the word of a couple of snake-oil salesman about a traffic study --"
CHRISTIE: "That's colorful, Brian."
REPORTER: "Well --"
CHRISTIE: "Colorful. Why don't you just get to the question and cut the commentary back a little."
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REPORTER: "The top official --"
CHRISTIE: "Can you get to it already? I'll answer."
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CHRISTIE: "Nobody dropped the ball here, Brian. You're looking at this, both through your editorializing in the question and everything else, from the perspective of what you know today. Well, if I knew then what I know today, we would have done a lot of things differently. So we went, we asked the questions, we got what we believed to be satisfactory answers back from the folks that we put at the port authority.  And we believed that it was an operational issue at the port authority that they needed to deal with. And we told them to deal with it."

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