01:00:02.540 --> 01:00:06.010
(light pulsating music)

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(gavel tapping)

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- [Senator] The Senate will come to order.

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Senator Weinberg, why do you rise?

01:00:11.820 --> 01:00:15.210
- New Jersey women make 79 cents

01:00:15.210 --> 01:00:18.090
for every dollar made by men.

01:00:18.090 --> 01:00:19.860
And even worse,

01:00:19.860 --> 01:00:22.560
African-American women in New Jersey

01:00:22.560 --> 01:00:26.070
make just 58 cents for every dollar

01:00:26.070 --> 01:00:30.250
made by their white male counterparts.

01:00:30.250 --> 01:00:31.580
- You said it!

01:00:31.580 --> 01:00:35.430
You said "men," you said "white men."

01:00:35.430 --> 01:00:37.710
Just because I'm a
member of a certain group

01:00:37.710 --> 01:00:41.250
doesn't mean that I could be
denigrated over and over again.

01:00:41.250 --> 01:00:45.420
- I have no intention of
denigrating white men.

01:00:45.420 --> 01:00:48.270
I was actually married to a white man,

01:00:48.270 --> 01:00:51.450
and I have a grandson who's a white man.

01:00:51.450 --> 01:00:55.710
And hopefully, that grandson
will grow up in a society

01:00:55.710 --> 01:00:57.540
that will recognize

01:00:57.540 --> 01:01:00.630
when women or other people

01:01:00.630 --> 01:01:02.710
are treated unequally.

01:01:02.710 --> 01:01:05.550
(energetic music)

01:01:08.070 --> 01:01:10.810
- [Francine] Then say who you are to me.

01:01:10.810 --> 01:01:14.760
- Okay, I am state
Senator Loretta Weinberg,

01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:16.830
and among other things in my life,

01:01:16.830 --> 01:01:18.840
I am the mother of two children.

01:01:18.840 --> 01:01:22.580
- Oh my God, mom, just say, okay, simple.

01:01:22.580 --> 01:01:23.670
(energetic music)

01:01:23.670 --> 01:01:24.780
I always knew

01:01:24.780 --> 01:01:27.330
my mother was a different kind of mother.

01:01:28.740 --> 01:01:32.570
She's been obsessed with
politics my entire life.

01:01:32.570 --> 01:01:37.570
(energetic music)
(phone rings)

01:01:37.770 --> 01:01:40.080
- [Loretta] I became active
with the peace movement.

01:01:40.080 --> 01:01:41.700
Henry Helstoski was one of the first

01:01:41.700 --> 01:01:43.410
to stand up on the floor of Congress

01:01:43.410 --> 01:01:45.480
and oppose the Vietnam War.

01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:47.880
We had a campaign headquarters

01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:50.700
with a couple of single light
bulbs hanging from the ceiling

01:01:50.700 --> 01:01:52.680
and if you plugged the
electric typewriter in,

01:01:52.680 --> 01:01:55.800
the light bulb went out.
(pensive music)

01:01:55.800 --> 01:01:58.640
(energetic music)

01:01:59.820 --> 01:02:02.820
(people chattering)

01:02:03.930 --> 01:02:06.930
- Loretta Weinberg has
always been a record breaker,

01:02:06.930 --> 01:02:11.280
glass ceiling breaker,
name taker, history maker.

01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:12.510
I mean, she is somebody

01:02:12.510 --> 01:02:15.990
that is always found a way outta no way,

01:02:15.990 --> 01:02:17.510
which has always inspired me.

01:02:17.510 --> 01:02:19.350
(attendees applauding)

01:02:19.350 --> 01:02:23.330
- Another one of my bills that
he's not mentioning my name.

01:02:23.330 --> 01:02:24.170
- You know, the old saying,

01:02:24.170 --> 01:02:26.660
"Comfort the disturbed and
disturb the comfortable."

01:02:27.810 --> 01:02:28.830
She definitely is a person

01:02:28.830 --> 01:02:30.890
that disturbed a lot
of comfortable people.

01:02:30.890 --> 01:02:33.720
(energetic music)

01:02:37.980 --> 01:02:40.350
- When people ask me about that longevity,

01:02:40.350 --> 01:02:43.200
I say it is a combination of vitamin C

01:02:43.200 --> 01:02:45.360
and a little hostility.

01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:48.480
- [Francine] It wasn't always
easy having her as a mother,

01:02:48.480 --> 01:02:50.490
but somewhere along the way,

01:02:50.490 --> 01:02:53.370
her career became bigger
than the both of us.

01:02:55.500 --> 01:02:57.570
- New Jersey politics
is tough. It's rough.

01:02:57.570 --> 01:03:01.260
- Can you guys please take
the bat out on her for once?

01:03:01.260 --> 01:03:03.840
- She's this adorable 78-year-old lady,

01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:05.250
State Senator from New Jersey.

01:03:05.250 --> 01:03:07.320
Turns out Chris Christie
once said to the press,

01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:10.050
"You guys ought to take a bat to her."

01:03:10.050 --> 01:03:14.220
- Few people responded to insults

01:03:14.220 --> 01:03:15.720
better than Senator Weinberg.

01:03:15.720 --> 01:03:18.240
- I have enough energy and enough spirit

01:03:18.240 --> 01:03:21.300
to tell Chris Christie
he's not gonna bully me

01:03:21.300 --> 01:03:24.360
and he's not gonna bully
the people that I represent

01:03:24.360 --> 01:03:27.090
in the New Jersey State legislature.

01:03:27.090 --> 01:03:28.950
- [Journalist] Chris
Christie's political ambitions

01:03:28.950 --> 01:03:30.780
inspired the Bridgegate scandal.

01:03:30.780 --> 01:03:32.220
- [Reporter] Weinberg,
she represents a district.

01:03:32.220 --> 01:03:34.920
- [Francine] I always
knew she was different,

01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:39.030
but the world would soon find
out how different she was.

01:03:39.030 --> 01:03:42.240
- Just because John Wisniewski
is obsessed with this

01:03:42.240 --> 01:03:43.380
and Loretta Weinberg,

01:03:44.340 --> 01:03:47.130
it just shows you they
really had nothing to do.

01:03:47.130 --> 01:03:48.570
- She's not gonna let go.

01:03:48.570 --> 01:03:50.400
She had her teeth into their ankle.

01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:53.250
- Are you that mad at
Wisniewski and Loretta Weinberg

01:03:53.250 --> 01:03:55.110
because they cost you the VP slot

01:03:55.110 --> 01:03:56.750
and could cost you the
attorney general slot

01:03:56.750 --> 01:03:59.370
in the Trump administration
because of Bridgegate?

01:03:59.370 --> 01:04:01.710
- [Francine] My mother
was almost 80-years-old

01:04:01.710 --> 01:04:05.370
when she battled with the most
popular New Jersey governor

01:04:05.370 --> 01:04:09.150
who was presumably on his
way to the White House.

01:04:09.150 --> 01:04:12.360
- It was set right from
the governor's desk,

01:04:12.360 --> 01:04:14.030
and this is the result.

01:04:14.030 --> 01:04:16.860
(energetic music)

01:04:24.530 --> 01:04:28.200
(energetic music continues)

01:04:30.040 --> 01:04:30.960
(audience clapping)

01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:34.050
- Tonight, a college
professor, a state senator,

01:04:34.050 --> 01:04:35.910
and a county sheriff face off,

01:04:35.910 --> 01:04:38.710
all hoping to be New Jersey's
first Lieutenant Governor.

01:04:41.010 --> 01:04:43.070
Do you think Chris Christie is fat?

01:04:43.070 --> 01:04:45.910
(audience laughs)

01:04:53.230 --> 01:04:57.070
(audience continues laughing)

01:04:58.590 --> 01:04:59.940
- I'll answer!

01:04:59.940 --> 01:05:01.320
- You know what? You know what?

01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:04.020
I don't think that there are
too many of us in this race

01:05:04.020 --> 01:05:07.110
who could make it into the
finalists of "The Bachelor"

01:05:07.110 --> 01:05:09.390
or "The Bachelorette"
program on television.

01:05:09.390 --> 01:05:10.230
(audience laughs, claps)
So...

01:05:12.100 --> 01:05:15.660
Part of this is a competitive sport,

01:05:15.660 --> 01:05:18.420
so it kind of appeals to that little,

01:05:18.420 --> 01:05:21.570
you know, crazy part of my personality.

01:05:21.570 --> 01:05:24.070
- [Crowd] Four more
years! Four more years!

01:05:24.070 --> 01:05:25.740
Four more years!

01:05:25.740 --> 01:05:28.230
- What's striking, I think,
most about the 2009 campaign

01:05:28.230 --> 01:05:31.440
is Chris Christie, you
know, burst onto the scene

01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:33.660
and was a rare political talent.

01:05:33.660 --> 01:05:36.930
- I enthusiastically declare my candidacy

01:05:36.930 --> 01:05:38.750
for governor of the state of New Jersey.

01:05:38.750 --> 01:05:39.930
(crowd applauds)

01:05:39.930 --> 01:05:42.000
- There's lots of talk
about how New Jersey has

01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:44.280
the most powerful governor in the country.

01:05:44.280 --> 01:05:47.040
The governor is the only
person elected statewide.

01:05:47.040 --> 01:05:48.300
The governor appoints everyone,

01:05:48.300 --> 01:05:50.190
the attorney general, all the prosecutors,

01:05:50.190 --> 01:05:52.350
all the judges, all these commissions,

01:05:52.350 --> 01:05:53.850
the Port Authority, for example.

01:05:53.850 --> 01:05:56.820
- Aggressive use of the line item veto

01:05:56.820 --> 01:05:58.620
to get state spending under control.

01:05:58.620 --> 01:06:00.600
- [Tom] We pay the fifth
highest combined state

01:06:00.600 --> 01:06:02.520
and local taxes in the country,

01:06:02.520 --> 01:06:04.470
the highest property taxes.

01:06:04.470 --> 01:06:06.510
And people are furious about that.

01:06:06.510 --> 01:06:08.340
- Without demanding accountability.

01:06:08.340 --> 01:06:10.560
- Chris Christie was
just highly effective,

01:06:10.560 --> 01:06:13.390
I think, in promoting that cause.

01:06:13.390 --> 01:06:14.220
(crowd cheering)

01:06:14.220 --> 01:06:17.460
- There was a major political bust.

01:06:17.460 --> 01:06:20.910
Dozens of public officials

01:06:20.910 --> 01:06:25.910
and others were arrested
in this complicated scheme

01:06:26.640 --> 01:06:31.320
that involved selling
kidneys on the black market,

01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:34.770
but also payoffs for developers.

01:06:34.770 --> 01:06:37.830
This investigation had
begun in Christie's office

01:06:37.830 --> 01:06:39.480
when he was US Attorney,

01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:42.240
and it culminated while he
was running for election.

01:06:43.230 --> 01:06:45.000
- At the 11th hour,

01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:48.660
they had to find somebody to
run for Lieutenant Governor

01:06:48.660 --> 01:06:51.390
who had not been involved in scandals

01:06:51.390 --> 01:06:53.190
or threatened with indictment,

01:06:54.030 --> 01:06:58.020
and apparently I had very
little competition in that area,

01:06:58.020 --> 01:07:00.090
so I got chosen.

01:07:00.090 --> 01:07:01.560
- An incorruptible, pro-reform,

01:07:01.560 --> 01:07:04.240
highly progressive Jewish grandmother.

01:07:04.240 --> 01:07:09.240
(audience roars)
(rhythmic music)

01:07:09.720 --> 01:07:11.280
- So now it's time to get to work.

01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:14.650
(audience roars)
(rhythmic music)

01:07:14.650 --> 01:07:24.020
♪ I was born a queen, born a queen ♪

01:07:24.020 --> 01:07:26.370
- [Francine] How are you feeling today?

01:07:26.370 --> 01:07:29.730
- Nervous is how I'm feeling.

01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:32.490
Butterfly-e.

01:07:32.490 --> 01:07:33.860
- [Francine] Are you gonna win?

01:07:34.860 --> 01:07:35.690
- Thumbs up.

01:07:35.690 --> 01:07:37.540
♪ Haters gonna hate 'cause I'm focused ♪

01:07:37.540 --> 01:07:39.950
♪ Been through a lot but I'm not broken ♪

01:07:39.950 --> 01:07:42.880
- [Francine] Can you give her
a nice little head massage?

01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:44.040
- Yeah. To relax her?

01:07:44.040 --> 01:07:45.460
- [Francine] She needs it.

01:07:45.460 --> 01:07:49.290
- I have to make a little
speech. (indistinct)

01:07:49.290 --> 01:07:53.590
♪ But you know you gotta earn my royalty ♪

01:07:53.590 --> 01:07:55.540
- [Crowd] Corzine! Corzine!

01:07:55.540 --> 01:07:57.200
Corzine! Corzine! (cheers)
- It's time!

01:07:57.200 --> 01:08:01.860
(crowd roaring)
(rhythmic music)

01:08:01.860 --> 01:08:06.860
(people chattering)
♪ I was born a queen ♪

01:08:07.160 --> 01:08:09.930
[Loretta] Just look at
our president Barack Obama

01:08:09.930 --> 01:08:12.160
(crowd roaring)

01:08:12.160 --> 01:08:14.840
[Loretta] Now there's good
change and then there's...

01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:17.120
- And then bad change

01:08:17.120 --> 01:08:18.620
- A guy by the name of Chris Christie.

01:08:18.620 --> 01:08:20.730
(audience booing)

01:08:20.730 --> 01:08:22.320
[Loretta] Now running around the arena

01:08:22.320 --> 01:08:25.800
in little lights moving
said, "Corzine, Weinberg,

01:08:25.800 --> 01:08:27.570
Corzine, Weinberg."
(crowd cheers)

01:08:27.570 --> 01:08:31.440
I was acutely aware as I
watched this going around

01:08:31.440 --> 01:08:34.020
that I was probably never ever going

01:08:34.020 --> 01:08:38.040
to see my name up in lights
before 30,000 people.

01:08:38.040 --> 01:08:38.950
(crowd murmuring)

01:08:38.950 --> 01:08:41.240
But this is New Jersey and talk is cheap

01:08:41.240 --> 01:08:44.190
Since I'm not a basketball
player or a ballerina.

01:08:44.190 --> 01:08:47.090
We'll get it done for our President.

01:08:47.090 --> 01:08:49.860
We'll get it done for our
governor, Jon Corzine.

01:08:49.860 --> 01:08:52.720
And then I will be there as
first lieutenant governor-

01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:55.350
In the State of New Jersey.

01:08:56.860 --> 01:08:59.640
Thank You! (crowd roars)

01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:00.850
- Oh, thank you! Thank you!

01:09:00.850 --> 01:09:02.490
(crowd roars)

01:09:02.490 --> 01:09:03.930
It's good to be back in Jersey.

01:09:03.930 --> 01:09:06.430
(crowd roars)

01:09:08.910 --> 01:09:10.150
Cory Booker's in the house!

01:09:10.150 --> 01:09:11.630
(crowd roars)

01:09:11.630 --> 01:09:14.850
and Jon Corzine's partner

01:09:14.850 --> 01:09:18.420
who's gonna help lead this
state to additional prosperity,

01:09:18.420 --> 01:09:19.610
Loretta Weinberg!

01:09:19.610 --> 01:09:20.800
(crowd roars)

01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:21.630
Is in the house!

01:09:21.630 --> 01:09:26.630
(stately music)
(crowd cheering)

01:09:31.480 --> 01:09:36.230
(stately music continues )
(crowd continues cheering)

01:09:36.230 --> 01:09:38.230
- [Francine] How are you feeling, bride?

01:09:39.150 --> 01:09:40.530
- Well, it's very tight.

01:09:40.530 --> 01:09:44.880
The Democratic Governor's
Conference that's tracking this

01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:46.890
says according to their tracking,

01:09:46.890 --> 01:09:47.910
I don't know how they do it,

01:09:47.910 --> 01:09:51.410
we're like six tenths of a point ahead.

01:09:51.410 --> 01:09:53.670
(crowd cheering)

01:09:53.670 --> 01:09:55.350
- I don't think it hinged at all

01:09:55.350 --> 01:09:58.230
on the position of Lieutenant
Governor or Loretta's role.

01:09:59.070 --> 01:10:00.730
It was more the top of the ticket.

01:10:00.730 --> 01:10:04.170
(people chattering)

01:10:04.170 --> 01:10:05.010
- When I was in high school,

01:10:05.010 --> 01:10:06.600
all I wanted to do is
become an elected official

01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:07.430
and be like you.

01:10:08.430 --> 01:10:10.410
- He started as an intern with us.

01:10:11.400 --> 01:10:13.950
- We love you, Senator.
I hope you know that.

01:10:13.950 --> 01:10:15.540
We adore you.
- Thank you.

01:10:15.540 --> 01:10:17.520
- [Francine] Losing was a setback,

01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:19.800
but my mother moved on quickly.

01:10:19.800 --> 01:10:22.560
There was a lot to get done
in the lame duck session

01:10:22.560 --> 01:10:25.650
and Chris Christie was about
to take a hard right turn.

01:10:26.820 --> 01:10:30.000
- A major issue that had been left undone

01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:31.620
was Marriage Equality.

01:10:31.620 --> 01:10:34.560
We got a couple more months
of governing for you to do.

01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:36.140
- Absolutely.

01:10:36.140 --> 01:10:36.970
And-

01:10:36.970 --> 01:10:37.810
- And a couple of big things to get done.

01:10:37.810 --> 01:10:39.630
- A couple of big things to get done.

01:10:39.630 --> 01:10:40.460
(group cheering)

01:10:40.460 --> 01:10:42.960
We knew that when
Christie became governor,

01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:46.020
we would stand no chance
of getting that passed

01:10:46.020 --> 01:10:48.150
because he would veto it.

01:10:48.150 --> 01:10:51.560
We also knew Jon Corzine would sign it.

01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:52.390
(people chattering)

01:10:52.390 --> 01:10:54.870
So in that lame duck session,

01:10:54.870 --> 01:10:59.800
we made an attempt to
pass Marriage Equality.

01:10:59.800 --> 01:11:01.860
(pensive music)

01:11:01.860 --> 01:11:03.510
- I would read and hear news reports

01:11:03.510 --> 01:11:06.960
describing Loretta as
a Jewish grandmother.

01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:08.580
The articles made it sound like

01:11:08.580 --> 01:11:11.040
this sweet pinch your cheeks person.

01:11:11.940 --> 01:11:13.950
I and everybody else knew Loretta

01:11:13.950 --> 01:11:17.100
as this tough as nails,

01:11:17.100 --> 01:11:19.740
steely powerhouse

01:11:19.740 --> 01:11:22.290
who gave us not just the acceptance

01:11:22.290 --> 01:11:24.180
but the instant embrace.

01:11:25.110 --> 01:11:26.640
- Sue was in the hospital once

01:11:26.640 --> 01:11:29.310
right after Zoe was born

01:11:29.310 --> 01:11:31.320
and we went to the emergency room

01:11:31.320 --> 01:11:33.060
and I was freaking out

01:11:33.060 --> 01:11:34.830
and the doctor finally goes,

01:11:34.830 --> 01:11:36.320
"Who are you?"

01:11:37.530 --> 01:11:40.080
- Talking to gay couples

01:11:40.080 --> 01:11:42.600
who had been in a committed relationship

01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:46.200
for 20 years and 30 years and beyond,

01:11:46.200 --> 01:11:50.190
I remember when dad was so sick,

01:11:50.190 --> 01:11:53.460
listening to couples who
were denied the same rights,

01:11:53.460 --> 01:11:57.600
the same rights and privileges
and responsibilities

01:11:57.600 --> 01:11:59.310
and love,

01:11:59.310 --> 01:12:03.420
made me so uncomfortable

01:12:03.420 --> 01:12:06.840
to know that people
that were really like me

01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:09.660
in like circumstances,

01:12:09.660 --> 01:12:12.780
were treated so differently.

01:12:12.780 --> 01:12:15.210
It was painful.
(reflective music)

01:12:15.210 --> 01:12:17.730
- I founded New Jersey's
gay rights organization,

01:12:17.730 --> 01:12:18.990
Garden State Equality.

01:12:19.950 --> 01:12:22.650
We grew it to 150,000 members.

01:12:23.870 --> 01:12:28.870
150,000 people in New Jersey
consider Loretta their mother.

01:12:29.380 --> 01:12:32.740
- I want her there when
this becomes the law.

01:12:32.740 --> 01:12:35.430
- Our connection to Loretta is so deep

01:12:35.430 --> 01:12:37.090
and it's so emotional

01:12:38.070 --> 01:12:41.670
as it inspires us to work even harder.

01:12:43.320 --> 01:12:46.980
I've never seen another
politician like this in my life.

01:12:46.980 --> 01:12:50.190
- Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome our guardian angel,

01:12:50.190 --> 01:12:51.270
Loretta Weinberg.

01:12:51.270 --> 01:12:53.810
(crowd cheering)

01:12:53.810 --> 01:12:55.620
- You know it's an awesome responsibility

01:12:55.620 --> 01:12:57.330
to be somebody's guardian angel.

01:12:57.330 --> 01:12:58.160
- [Camera Person] You bet.

01:12:58.160 --> 01:13:01.440
- Or to be a whole group
of people's guardian angel.

01:13:01.440 --> 01:13:02.270
- [Camera Person] Oh my God.

01:13:02.270 --> 01:13:04.380
- This is still a fight.

01:13:04.380 --> 01:13:06.180
So you've just gotta keep out there.

01:13:06.180 --> 01:13:08.070
Keep after your own legislators.

01:13:08.070 --> 01:13:09.120
Keep your calls.

01:13:09.120 --> 01:13:10.650
Keep your discussions.

01:13:11.490 --> 01:13:13.830
I'm not guaranteeing anything here,

01:13:13.830 --> 01:13:17.550
but I think that we are going to,

01:13:17.550 --> 01:13:18.390
this is winnable.

01:13:18.390 --> 01:13:21.100
- [Crowd] Now, now,
now, now, now, now, now!

01:13:23.850 --> 01:13:27.690
- So much of my legislative
life is intertwined

01:13:27.690 --> 01:13:30.320
with my personal life.

01:13:30.320 --> 01:13:31.200
(swanky upbeat music)

01:13:31.200 --> 01:13:32.820
- Where are we starting, Regina?

01:13:33.990 --> 01:13:35.460
- [Francine] It was 1998.

01:13:36.360 --> 01:13:39.360
I had been working as a writer
and producer in Hollywood

01:13:39.360 --> 01:13:42.210
and went back to New
Jersey to follow my mother

01:13:42.210 --> 01:13:45.030
who was running for county executive.

01:13:45.030 --> 01:13:45.860
- [Regina] Regina O'Neill

01:13:45.860 --> 01:13:46.690
how are you?

01:13:46.690 --> 01:13:49.380
- Regina and I have been out
there fighting for tenants

01:13:49.380 --> 01:13:51.870
in every place that we can and we're not-

01:13:51.870 --> 01:13:54.280
- [Landlord] You said the
wrong word to me. (laughing)

01:13:54.280 --> 01:13:55.230
- And you're the landlord.

01:13:55.230 --> 01:13:58.750
(group laughing, chattering)

01:13:58.750 --> 01:14:00.600
- We believe in equal
opportunity for landlords, too.

01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:02.730
- So do I (group laughing, chattering)

01:14:02.730 --> 01:14:06.130
- [Francine] I grew up in
campaigns just like this.

01:14:06.130 --> 01:14:11.130
(bagpipe music)
(people chattering)

01:14:13.440 --> 01:14:16.800
Stuck in stale, moldy
Democratic headquarters

01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:20.210
while my mom fought for
some underdog candidate.

01:14:20.210 --> 01:14:25.210
(jazz music)
(people chattering)

01:14:25.440 --> 01:14:28.260
It was everything I hated about politics

01:14:28.260 --> 01:14:30.270
and everything she loved.

01:14:30.270 --> 01:14:31.550
- Hi.
- How are you?

01:14:31.550 --> 01:14:32.610
- Good.
- [Announcer] Anybody? 314?

01:14:32.610 --> 01:14:34.270
- Who's got 314?

01:14:34.270 --> 01:14:35.790
Oh! Hooray.

01:14:35.790 --> 01:14:37.950
I brought you good luck!

01:14:37.950 --> 01:14:39.720
- [Francine] The tougher the campaign,

01:14:39.720 --> 01:14:41.490
the more it energized her.

01:14:41.490 --> 01:14:42.750
- Hi, I'm Loretta Weinberg, candidate for-

01:14:42.750 --> 01:14:45.330
- [Francine] But now she was the underdog.

01:14:45.330 --> 01:14:46.810
(Loretta laughing)

01:14:46.810 --> 01:14:49.970
♪ And crown thy good with brotherhood ♪

01:14:49.970 --> 01:14:54.060
♪ From sea to shining sea ♪

01:14:54.060 --> 01:14:55.930
- What a pair we'd make.

01:14:55.930 --> 01:14:56.760
(crowd cheering)

01:14:56.760 --> 01:14:58.950
Tell your father I found
another Korean War veteran

01:14:58.950 --> 01:15:00.150
to run away with.

01:15:00.150 --> 01:15:03.030
(group laughing)

01:15:03.030 --> 01:15:03.870
(tense music)

01:15:03.870 --> 01:15:08.130
- I learned sometimes
happily, sometimes unhappily,

01:15:08.130 --> 01:15:10.680
where things needed to be changed

01:15:10.680 --> 01:15:12.950
by having lived through them.

01:15:12.950 --> 01:15:14.850
(tense music)
(people chattering)

01:15:14.850 --> 01:15:15.800
- Didn't feel well.

01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:18.120
Unfortunately. I picked the wrong time.

01:15:18.120 --> 01:15:19.890
We were moving and your mom just declared

01:15:19.890 --> 01:15:23.580
the run for county
executive and I got sick.

01:15:23.580 --> 01:15:25.710
Doctor put me right into the hospital

01:15:25.710 --> 01:15:27.360
and then they started to do tests

01:15:27.360 --> 01:15:29.910
and said that I had lymphoma.

01:15:30.990 --> 01:15:34.140
And all that time that
I was in the hospital,

01:15:34.140 --> 01:15:36.180
your mom was there every day,

01:15:36.180 --> 01:15:38.490
while she should have been campaigning,

01:15:38.490 --> 01:15:40.920
but she gave it up for her husband,

01:15:41.880 --> 01:15:43.200
which was a big help to me

01:15:43.200 --> 01:15:45.110
'cause that was the time I needed her.

01:15:45.110 --> 01:15:46.650
- This is Loretta Weinberg.

01:15:46.650 --> 01:15:49.860
We all know property taxes
are too high in Bergen County.

01:15:49.860 --> 01:15:51.630
If we get rid of the wasteful spending,

01:15:51.630 --> 01:15:53.550
we can cut property taxes.

01:15:53.550 --> 01:15:55.410
- [Irwin] But now she's trying to catch up

01:15:55.410 --> 01:15:56.240
and it's not easy.

01:15:56.240 --> 01:15:58.500
- [Loretta] That's my
plan for Bergen County.

01:15:58.500 --> 01:15:59.800
- It's a lot of hard work.

01:16:00.780 --> 01:16:03.720
She enjoys it so she's not a martyr

01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:04.800
when it comes to politics.

01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:05.630
She loves it.

01:16:07.170 --> 01:16:09.000
- [Francine] You think she's
got a little bit of an ego?

01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:11.220
- But most politicians,
I think, have egos,

01:16:11.220 --> 01:16:12.360
some more than others.

01:16:12.360 --> 01:16:15.370
But the difference is
your mom is dedicated

01:16:16.380 --> 01:16:19.020
and besides having a small ego,

01:16:19.020 --> 01:16:21.120
if I'll put it that way...

01:16:21.120 --> 01:16:22.890
- [Francine] You're not gonna
say anything bad about her?

01:16:22.890 --> 01:16:24.840
- [Irwin] Sometimes, I like her to make

01:16:25.750 --> 01:16:26.910
a cup of coffee in the morning,

01:16:26.910 --> 01:16:29.790
but she's a busy lady!

01:16:33.030 --> 01:16:34.320
- [Loretta] Turn left
there. You have to do that.

01:16:34.320 --> 01:16:35.310
- [Chief Of Staff] Where
it says, "No left turn?"

01:16:35.310 --> 01:16:36.900
- Yeah, right where it
says, "No left turn,"

01:16:36.900 --> 01:16:37.730
turn left.

01:16:37.730 --> 01:16:39.230
You're in Hackensack.
- [Chief Of Staff] Okay.

01:16:40.860 --> 01:16:43.890
- Right. Right.
(door creaks)

01:16:43.890 --> 01:16:44.720
Hmm hmm.

01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:46.510
- Sure. You want me to send her up?

01:16:46.510 --> 01:16:48.090
Okay. All right, bye bye.

01:16:48.090 --> 01:16:52.710
- Then I have to go to
give a presentation.

01:16:52.710 --> 01:16:57.420
My father was in politics during
the old Tammany Hall days,

01:16:57.420 --> 01:17:01.230
so I learned early what it
was like to work a room.

01:17:01.230 --> 01:17:02.650
- Mrs. Weinberg?
- Yes?

01:17:02.650 --> 01:17:03.490
- Hi.
- Hi.

01:17:04.790 --> 01:17:07.350
- I don't know if he had a
title in the Democratic Party,

01:17:07.350 --> 01:17:09.900
but he was a influential person.

01:17:10.920 --> 01:17:12.750
He worked for Carmen DeSapio.

01:17:12.750 --> 01:17:14.940
(bright music)

01:17:14.940 --> 01:17:17.160
After I started dating
your mom for a while,

01:17:17.160 --> 01:17:19.350
he started to invite us up into the Bronx,

01:17:19.350 --> 01:17:21.570
to all these great political fundraisers.

01:17:22.860 --> 01:17:24.240
We used to sit at the table

01:17:24.240 --> 01:17:27.540
after everybody would
sit down to start eating

01:17:27.540 --> 01:17:30.850
and your grandpa would get
up in about ten seconds

01:17:30.850 --> 01:17:32.370
and he and your mom would go walking

01:17:32.370 --> 01:17:34.310
around meeting all the politicians,

01:17:34.310 --> 01:17:37.050
and I would walk right to the buffet table

01:17:37.050 --> 01:17:42.050
and go around and around and
around and eat all the food.

01:17:42.150 --> 01:17:43.770
He was the ultimate politician.

01:17:45.330 --> 01:17:47.220
- In fact, when married,

01:17:47.220 --> 01:17:49.080
we turned around from the rabbi

01:17:49.080 --> 01:17:51.750
and the first thing Pops
said to my new husband,

01:17:51.750 --> 01:17:54.090
his new son-in-Law was,

01:17:54.090 --> 01:17:55.830
"Just remember, now that
you're in the family,

01:17:55.830 --> 01:17:57.810
you vote Democratic."

01:17:57.810 --> 01:17:59.500
- I was too excited, getting married.

01:17:59.500 --> 01:18:01.470
What did I wanna know about politics?

01:18:01.470 --> 01:18:03.960
I was not a politician like your mom.

01:18:06.450 --> 01:18:08.840
- [Francine] So talk about
what's going on with dad.

01:18:10.170 --> 01:18:12.210
- Well, yesterday he had to go

01:18:12.210 --> 01:18:13.890
to the doctor for a blood test.

01:18:13.890 --> 01:18:17.280
He had some signs of a
little internal bleeding,

01:18:17.280 --> 01:18:19.680
which is not a great sign.

01:18:21.270 --> 01:18:23.490
And I don't know exactly
what triggered it,

01:18:23.490 --> 01:18:24.660
but he rested yesterday,

01:18:24.660 --> 01:18:27.630
went back today and it
seemed to be better.

01:18:27.630 --> 01:18:29.040
- [Francine] How do you sort of

01:18:29.040 --> 01:18:31.080
turn all that off while you're-

01:18:31.080 --> 01:18:31.910
- I don't.

01:18:33.030 --> 01:18:33.890
It's always...

01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:37.740
At the tip of my mind.

01:18:39.260 --> 01:18:42.340
(suspenseful music)

01:18:45.390 --> 01:18:46.960
- [Producer] Can you
step aside for a second?

01:18:46.960 --> 01:18:47.790
- [Person On Set] Oh, sorry.

01:18:47.790 --> 01:18:51.330
- My opponent has chosen
to adopt the arguments

01:18:51.330 --> 01:18:53.370
of the union leadership of the hospital,

01:18:53.370 --> 01:18:54.540
in particular the nurses union.

01:18:54.540 --> 01:18:58.590
- We had this big
expensive county hospital

01:18:58.590 --> 01:19:02.070
that ministered to the people
that nobody else wanted,

01:19:02.070 --> 01:19:03.930
psychiatric patients,

01:19:03.930 --> 01:19:07.770
drug rehabilitation, poor people.

01:19:07.770 --> 01:19:10.830
Pat Schuber wanted to privatize.

01:19:11.670 --> 01:19:16.670
I fought tooth and nail to
keep it a public institution.

01:19:16.890 --> 01:19:20.130
I'm proud to have the nurses
of Bergen County supporting me

01:19:20.130 --> 01:19:23.550
because they are the ones
that provide the patient care

01:19:23.550 --> 01:19:25.290
and they are the ones that know

01:19:25.290 --> 01:19:27.870
what is going on at the
hospital as they are forced-

01:19:27.870 --> 01:19:29.380
- Has the quality of
patient care has suffered.

01:19:29.380 --> 01:19:30.480
- Absolutely.

01:19:30.480 --> 01:19:33.300
- Maybe we set the record
straight, maybe we didn't.

01:19:33.300 --> 01:19:35.010
- You know, she's the challenger-

01:19:35.010 --> 01:19:35.840
- Yeah. (laughing)

01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:37.530
(panel indistinctly chattering)

01:19:37.530 --> 01:19:39.570
- The big issue against me,
liberal, liberal, liberal.

01:19:39.570 --> 01:19:42.330
I'm really surprised at
those Newt Gingrich tactics

01:19:42.330 --> 01:19:43.940
from somebody as nice as you are.

01:19:43.940 --> 01:19:46.590
(opponent laughing)

01:19:46.590 --> 01:19:48.930
- "Liberal Loretta voted
no on cutting welfare,

01:19:48.930 --> 01:19:50.280
did not support Megan's Law,

01:19:50.280 --> 01:19:52.050
favors reduced state school aid

01:19:52.050 --> 01:19:54.180
to wealthy Bergen County towns.

01:19:54.180 --> 01:19:55.290
A staunch liberal."

01:19:55.290 --> 01:19:56.580
The record newspaper.

01:19:56.580 --> 01:19:58.590
"Too liberal for Bergen County.

01:19:58.590 --> 01:19:59.670
(phone ringing)

01:19:59.670 --> 01:20:01.610
- [Assistant] Weinberg
for County Executive.

01:20:02.460 --> 01:20:03.920
- Right over here.

01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:06.030
(children) Trick or treat!

01:20:06.030 --> 01:20:06.870
- Okay.

01:20:07.720 --> 01:20:09.120
There's a lot of candy.

01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:12.630
- Let's go. Let's go right now!

01:20:12.630 --> 01:20:14.460
- [Loretta] You don't know
what your blood count was?

01:20:14.460 --> 01:20:15.510
- [Irwin] Six, nine.

01:20:15.510 --> 01:20:17.330
- [Francine] The other
day, it was like up to 20.

01:20:17.330 --> 01:20:18.330
- I know, that's.

01:20:18.330 --> 01:20:19.690
I thought it was so high.

01:20:19.690 --> 01:20:21.180
- Well, if they were very concerned,

01:20:21.180 --> 01:20:22.380
they would've asked you to come in today.

01:20:22.380 --> 01:20:25.320
- Yeah, well, they took my
blood pressure, it's normal.

01:20:26.220 --> 01:20:27.900
I don't understand.

01:20:27.900 --> 01:20:29.430
- [Francine] Mom, you know what?

01:20:29.430 --> 01:20:32.610
Ann Twomey is arranging
to have all the nurses

01:20:32.610 --> 01:20:36.070
on a rotating basis come
over to give dad his shot.

01:20:36.070 --> 01:20:39.650
(Loretta sighs)
(gentle music)

01:20:39.650 --> 01:20:40.880
- [Irwin] Another sweet woman.

01:20:42.120 --> 01:20:44.450
- Are they something
or are they something?

01:20:44.450 --> 01:20:45.450
- [Irwin] You're on the right side.

01:20:45.450 --> 01:20:48.040
- [Loretta] These are the
people they wanna criticize.

01:20:50.300 --> 01:20:52.470
- [Irwin] Good people.

01:20:52.470 --> 01:20:53.810
It's not fair in life.

01:20:53.810 --> 01:20:58.630
- No, life is not fair.
(gentle music)

01:21:00.680 --> 01:21:01.520
- Hi.
- Hi.

01:21:02.550 --> 01:21:03.380
- Thank you.

01:21:04.370 --> 01:21:06.720
Look at that page, I
never miss an election.

01:21:07.610 --> 01:21:08.630
Thank you.

01:21:08.630 --> 01:21:10.940
(gentle music)

01:21:10.940 --> 01:21:14.400
Oh, don't tell anybody I couldn't
find the booth. (laughing)

01:21:14.400 --> 01:21:16.530
(people chattering)

01:21:16.530 --> 01:21:17.360
- Thanks.

01:21:17.360 --> 01:21:20.030
(gentle music)

01:21:22.800 --> 01:21:24.110
- [Person Off Screen] Who'd you vote for?

01:21:24.110 --> 01:21:28.790
- That was a lot of thought
I had to give to this, so.

01:21:28.790 --> 01:21:30.930
(people loudly chattering)

01:21:30.930 --> 01:21:31.760
- [Attendee] There's quite a few districts

01:21:31.760 --> 01:21:33.370
I think has to come in yet.

01:21:33.370 --> 01:21:36.960
(people loudly chattering)

01:21:41.300 --> 01:21:42.520
- [Attendee] A lot of gratitude.

01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:44.890
(people loudly chattering)

01:21:44.890 --> 01:21:46.180
- Let's go up on the stage.

01:21:46.180 --> 01:21:47.740
(people loudly chattering)

01:21:47.740 --> 01:21:48.710
- Excuse me.

01:21:48.710 --> 01:21:51.460
(crowd cheering)

01:21:55.480 --> 01:21:58.140
(crowd roaring)

01:22:04.680 --> 01:22:06.080
- Loretta had a very tough race,

01:22:06.080 --> 01:22:08.790
but she was the best possible candidate

01:22:08.790 --> 01:22:10.500
that our party had to offer.

01:22:10.500 --> 01:22:11.330
- [Member] That's for sure.

01:22:11.330 --> 01:22:13.980
- And if good things happens
for Democrats tonight,

01:22:13.980 --> 01:22:16.660
we can thank Loretta Weinberg
for doing more than her share.

01:22:16.660 --> 01:22:19.410
(crowd cheering)

01:22:23.750 --> 01:22:25.350
- I really owe a great deal of thanks.

01:22:25.350 --> 01:22:26.850
Let me say something.

01:22:26.850 --> 01:22:31.710
I had enough good luck today
to last me for a long time.

01:22:31.710 --> 01:22:33.150
Some of you know that my husband

01:22:33.150 --> 01:22:36.570
was rushed back into the
hospital again yesterday.

01:22:36.570 --> 01:22:39.020
This has been a very
bumpy road (voice shakes),

01:22:43.020 --> 01:22:45.840
but I got a good report on him today.

01:22:45.840 --> 01:22:49.770
Thank God.
(crowd clapping)

01:22:49.770 --> 01:22:50.970
- [Francine] You know, most
people would've walked away

01:22:50.970 --> 01:22:55.230
from politics or said to
their spouses, "No more."

01:22:55.230 --> 01:22:58.490
- I would've said to my
spouse, "No more", as I did.

01:22:58.490 --> 01:22:59.880
But your mom didn't buy it.

01:22:59.880 --> 01:23:01.320
- [Francine] And how come you've let her?

01:23:01.320 --> 01:23:03.290
You haven't put your foot down.

01:23:03.290 --> 01:23:05.280
- I gave up. (laughing)

01:23:05.280 --> 01:23:06.510
I can't win anymore.

01:23:07.350 --> 01:23:08.550
I'm very happy being with her.

01:23:08.550 --> 01:23:10.800
We go out, we enjoy each other,

01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:13.390
and she enjoys doing what she likes.

01:23:13.390 --> 01:23:17.190
- [Francine] What do you think
her legacy is going to be?

01:23:17.190 --> 01:23:19.410
- Well, I don't know
what the legacy will be

01:23:19.410 --> 01:23:20.240
with the people.

01:23:20.240 --> 01:23:21.390
I think people forget,

01:23:22.380 --> 01:23:23.210
but I think,

01:23:25.200 --> 01:23:27.740
there's a legacy to her family.

01:23:27.740 --> 01:23:32.740
♪ I carry your heart with me ♪

01:23:34.510 --> 01:23:39.510
♪ I carry it in my heart ♪

01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:43.930
♪ I am never without it ♪

01:23:43.930 --> 01:23:46.730
♪ Anywhere I go ♪

01:23:46.730 --> 01:23:49.360
♪ You go, my dear ♪

01:23:49.360 --> 01:23:53.530
- Just was gonna say, she
was a great woman to me.

01:23:55.360 --> 01:23:56.690
That's it, so...

01:23:58.200 --> 01:24:00.110
- [Francine] And what's
your legacy gonna be?

01:24:00.110 --> 01:24:01.750
- My legacy is that

01:24:03.570 --> 01:24:04.950
I had a good time in life

01:24:04.950 --> 01:24:08.580
and I'm lucky I had good
children and a great wife.

01:24:11.520 --> 01:24:13.540
And I'm still happy to
be around (laughing),

01:24:15.390 --> 01:24:16.220
for a while.

01:24:17.180 --> 01:24:19.340
♪ My true ♪

01:24:21.480 --> 01:24:23.910
- [Francine] Six weeks after the election,

01:24:23.910 --> 01:24:26.730
we found out his cancer had spread.

01:24:26.730 --> 01:24:29.870
♪ Has always meant ♪

01:24:29.870 --> 01:24:34.870
♪ And whatever a sun will always sing ♪

01:24:34.870 --> 01:24:36.950
♪ Is you ♪

01:24:37.800 --> 01:24:38.730
(dreamy reflective music)

01:24:38.730 --> 01:24:43.670
- After dad died, really
work was a great help to me.

01:24:44.690 --> 01:24:48.940
♪ It will begin ♪

01:24:48.940 --> 01:24:51.750
- [Francine] A year and a
half after my father died,

01:24:51.750 --> 01:24:52.780
I got married.

01:24:52.780 --> 01:24:56.940
(foot stomps)
(crowd cheers)

01:24:56.940 --> 01:24:58.530
- This has been

01:24:58.530 --> 01:25:01.860
somewhat of a long time
in coming. (chuckles)

01:25:01.860 --> 01:25:05.340
I'm gonna give Jon the
advice that my father gave

01:25:05.340 --> 01:25:07.110
to my husband right after I was married,

01:25:07.110 --> 01:25:09.900
when he said to my new husband,

01:25:09.900 --> 01:25:11.280
"Just remember.

01:25:11.280 --> 01:25:13.880
Now that you're in the
family, you vote Democratic."

01:25:13.880 --> 01:25:18.880
(crowd laughing, cheering)
(gentle music)

01:25:24.130 --> 01:25:26.220
♪ My dear, my dear ♪

01:25:26.220 --> 01:25:28.380
- [Francine] My mother was
still fighting for the people

01:25:28.380 --> 01:25:32.100
who didn't have the same
rights to marry as I did.

01:25:32.100 --> 01:25:33.750
- [Journalist] Senators
headed into the chamber

01:25:33.750 --> 01:25:35.190
to begin voting on an issue

01:25:35.190 --> 01:25:39.120
that has dominated at the
State House, gay marriage.

01:25:39.120 --> 01:25:43.200
- Men and women don't
have exclusive rights

01:25:43.200 --> 01:25:46.620
to relationships built on trust,

01:25:46.620 --> 01:25:49.320
love, compassion,

01:25:49.320 --> 01:25:53.340
and everything else that
bonds two people together.

01:25:55.320 --> 01:25:57.210
- It's almost like there's a place,

01:25:57.210 --> 01:25:59.700
a place called marriage.

01:25:59.700 --> 01:26:02.310
Right now, New Jersey's government stands

01:26:02.310 --> 01:26:03.140
in front of the place

01:26:03.140 --> 01:26:05.400
and decides who gets to go in

01:26:05.400 --> 01:26:06.230
and who doesn't.

01:26:06.230 --> 01:26:09.720
- There was one Republican,
Senator Bill Baroni,

01:26:09.720 --> 01:26:13.530
who stood up on behalf
of Marriage Equality

01:26:13.530 --> 01:26:16.290
and I admired his courage

01:26:16.290 --> 01:26:20.150
to be willing to try to
influence his colleagues.

01:26:20.150 --> 01:26:21.330
(people chattering)

01:26:21.330 --> 01:26:23.310
- [Journalist] Hundreds of
activists lined the hallways

01:26:23.310 --> 01:26:26.220
outside Senate chambers waiting
for the anticipated vote.

01:26:27.300 --> 01:26:30.030
- We put the bill up in lame duck

01:26:30.030 --> 01:26:34.560
knowing full well that we
didn't have the 21 votes,

01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:38.820
but we thought it was time
for everybody to be counted

01:26:38.820 --> 01:26:42.460
and not be able to
sneak off into the dark.

01:26:42.460 --> 01:26:45.130
(pensive music)

01:26:46.680 --> 01:26:50.280
- [Announcer] All right. Bill is defeated.

01:26:50.280 --> 01:26:51.110
Thank you very much.

01:26:51.110 --> 01:26:54.470
- Hallelujah! (clapping)
(part of crowd cheering)

01:26:58.560 --> 01:27:00.760
- Shame on you.
- Shame!

01:27:00.760 --> 01:27:03.360
(woman crying)
(pensive music)

01:27:03.360 --> 01:27:05.620
- [Loretta] So it was a big moment.

01:27:05.620 --> 01:27:08.370
(pensive music)

01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:13.650
- I was devastated.

01:27:13.650 --> 01:27:15.300
I can't get married

01:27:15.300 --> 01:27:20.300
and my life is right into the
second class trash bin again.

01:27:20.940 --> 01:27:22.860
And, okay (hands clap), stop!

01:27:22.860 --> 01:27:24.870
We're moving forward. We're going forward.

01:27:24.870 --> 01:27:26.890
Loretta could go from

01:27:28.320 --> 01:27:31.200
upset to the speed of sound

01:27:31.200 --> 01:27:34.380
in formulating new legislative
strategy in five seconds.

01:27:34.380 --> 01:27:35.790
It's head spinning.

01:27:35.790 --> 01:27:37.500
- This was really the last chance

01:27:37.500 --> 01:27:40.140
to get this done
legislatively in New Jersey

01:27:40.140 --> 01:27:42.600
because incoming Governor
Chris Christie, Republican,

01:27:42.600 --> 01:27:44.490
has said that he will not sign...

01:27:44.490 --> 01:27:47.060
- [Loretta] Some people
looked upon that as a failure.

01:27:47.060 --> 01:27:47.890
(crowd cheering)

01:27:47.890 --> 01:27:49.650
To me, it was a step forward

01:27:49.650 --> 01:27:51.720
that we could actually get a bill posted.

01:27:53.010 --> 01:27:55.140
- Dr. King, when it came to the question

01:27:55.140 --> 01:27:56.820
of interracial marriage,

01:27:56.820 --> 01:28:01.740
he was said, "Racists don't
fall in love and get married.

01:28:01.740 --> 01:28:04.800
Individuals fall in love and get married."

01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:07.050
If two men wanna fall
in love and get married,

01:28:07.050 --> 01:28:09.000
or two women, it's their business!

01:28:10.020 --> 01:28:11.880
It's not the role of
the federal government

01:28:11.880 --> 01:28:14.520
or the state government to intervene.

01:28:15.570 --> 01:28:17.430
It's a question of human dignity,

01:28:17.430 --> 01:28:19.260
a question of human rights.

01:28:20.220 --> 01:28:22.350
Thank you so much for your leadership,

01:28:22.350 --> 01:28:23.760
each and every one of you all.

01:28:23.760 --> 01:28:24.870
(crowd, members clapping)

01:28:24.870 --> 01:28:26.570
- Thank you, Representative Lewis.

01:28:29.280 --> 01:28:31.920
- [Journalist] Two years ago,
the New Jersey State Senate

01:28:31.920 --> 01:28:35.730
voted down a bill that would
legalize same-sex marriage.

01:28:35.730 --> 01:28:38.910
Today, senators reconvened
on the same measure.

01:28:40.230 --> 01:28:41.910
My mother brings Marriage Equality

01:28:41.910 --> 01:28:45.120
up for a vote again in the State Senate.

01:28:45.120 --> 01:28:47.820
- If you don't believe in gay marriage,

01:28:47.820 --> 01:28:50.340
don't enter into a gay marriage.

01:28:50.340 --> 01:28:53.400
It's really as simple as that.

01:28:54.870 --> 01:28:58.050
- 24 votes in the affirmative,
16 in the negative.

01:28:58.050 --> 01:29:01.080
I declare pass and take your
usual course of pass bills.

01:29:01.080 --> 01:29:02.100
Bills on third reading.

01:29:02.100 --> 01:29:04.060
Senate Bill number 454...

01:29:04.060 --> 01:29:06.510
(crowd cheering)

01:29:06.510 --> 01:29:08.070
- Loretta had the weight

01:29:08.070 --> 01:29:11.670
of a million hearts on her shoulders,

01:29:11.670 --> 01:29:15.060
a million LGBTQ people in New Jersey

01:29:15.060 --> 01:29:17.490
who wanted the right to marry

01:29:17.490 --> 01:29:21.990
and finally be first class
equal citizens, at last.

01:29:23.010 --> 01:29:24.180
She felt it.

01:29:24.180 --> 01:29:27.750
I felt it, but I felt it on her shoulders.

01:29:27.750 --> 01:29:30.210
I felt it in the speeches she made

01:29:30.210 --> 01:29:33.510
that were just so emotional.

01:29:33.510 --> 01:29:38.430
It was when politics became so personal.

01:29:38.430 --> 01:29:43.110
And for Loretta, the
politics is the personal.

01:29:44.460 --> 01:29:46.530
- I love the fact that
she and I had this synergy

01:29:46.530 --> 01:29:49.710
on a lot of issues that weren't popular,

01:29:49.710 --> 01:29:51.930
that we were going against the grain

01:29:51.930 --> 01:29:53.910
and yet they were righteous.

01:29:53.910 --> 01:29:57.120
And history has proven
her time and time again,

01:29:57.120 --> 01:29:59.700
right as they've caught up to where she is

01:29:59.700 --> 01:30:02.580
and these things have come
to fruition in our state.

01:30:02.580 --> 01:30:03.660
(people chattering)

01:30:03.660 --> 01:30:06.480
- (laughing) Good to see you, my friend.

01:30:06.480 --> 01:30:09.240
- Senator Weinberg was
the kind of politician

01:30:09.240 --> 01:30:11.610
who was able to thread the needle

01:30:11.610 --> 01:30:13.230
between maintaining power

01:30:13.230 --> 01:30:17.250
amidst the various factions
within her own party,

01:30:17.250 --> 01:30:20.610
and then amidst the fighting that happens,

01:30:20.610 --> 01:30:23.340
obviously with the
other side of the aisle.

01:30:23.340 --> 01:30:27.270
She knew how to play the inside game

01:30:27.270 --> 01:30:30.580
without being beholden to the

01:30:32.370 --> 01:30:35.250
political power brokers that control

01:30:35.250 --> 01:30:36.780
the insiders in Trenton.

01:30:37.620 --> 01:30:39.870
- [Journalist] The Democratic
party's top power broker

01:30:39.870 --> 01:30:42.930
in South Jersey and the top
elected Republican in the state,

01:30:42.930 --> 01:30:45.840
Governor Christie, stood
together for an announcement.

01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:47.250
- The more conservative Democrats

01:30:47.250 --> 01:30:49.620
and the Republicans together

01:30:49.620 --> 01:30:52.050
made a majority that Chris
Christie used over and over,

01:30:52.050 --> 01:30:55.830
tax cap, reform of the way
contracts are negotiated

01:30:55.830 --> 01:30:57.420
with police and firefighters

01:30:57.420 --> 01:30:59.700
to sort of strengthen
the hand of taxpayers.

01:30:59.700 --> 01:31:01.110
The pension and health reforms,

01:31:01.110 --> 01:31:02.910
- Firefighters, teachers

01:31:02.910 --> 01:31:04.650
who committed themselves to public service

01:31:04.650 --> 01:31:05.760
who have earned a pension.

01:31:05.760 --> 01:31:07.830
- Really it was the only
time I've seen a governor

01:31:07.830 --> 01:31:11.370
in New Jersey rule the
roost with such authority.

01:31:11.370 --> 01:31:13.530
That lasted his first two or three years.

01:31:14.850 --> 01:31:16.440
- [Francine] In that time span,

01:31:16.440 --> 01:31:18.750
my mother got crucial bills passed.

01:31:18.750 --> 01:31:19.590
(pensive music)

01:31:19.590 --> 01:31:21.880
Christie vetoed all of them.

01:31:21.880 --> 01:31:24.630
(pensive music)

01:31:24.630 --> 01:31:27.300
- The first governor to ever
speak at a pro-life rally

01:31:27.300 --> 01:31:28.830
on the steps of the
State House in New Jersey

01:31:28.830 --> 01:31:33.830
and vetoed Planned
Parenthood funding five times

01:31:33.840 --> 01:31:35.170
out of the New Jersey budget.

01:31:35.170 --> 01:31:36.040
(crowd cheering)

01:31:36.040 --> 01:31:38.820
- [Francine] And the issue
that made her the angriest

01:31:38.820 --> 01:31:41.220
was his refusal to support women's health.

01:31:41.220 --> 01:31:43.710
- Senator Weinberg, thank you so much.

01:31:43.710 --> 01:31:45.900
(crowd cheers)

01:31:45.900 --> 01:31:48.060
- I know it's the year 2017.

01:31:49.510 --> 01:31:51.370
(crowd laughs)

01:31:51.370 --> 01:31:53.280
I have to remind myself.

01:31:53.280 --> 01:31:57.630
For eight years, I put
in the bill to restore

01:31:57.630 --> 01:32:00.660
the dollars for Planned Parenthood.

01:32:00.660 --> 01:32:02.550
For eight years,

01:32:02.550 --> 01:32:07.550
we had a governor who
vetoed that legislation

01:32:07.710 --> 01:32:12.360
and for eight years we
lost important funding

01:32:12.360 --> 01:32:16.410
for women's access to healthcare.

01:32:16.410 --> 01:32:19.740
It took a new Governor, Murphy,

01:32:19.740 --> 01:32:21.390
who I think it was either the first

01:32:21.390 --> 01:32:23.670
or second bill you signed

01:32:23.670 --> 01:32:27.280
when you came, the first,
thank you for the reminder.

01:32:27.280 --> 01:32:29.200
- Starting pitcher, Loretta Weinberg

01:32:29.200 --> 01:32:30.560
(crowd cheering)

01:32:30.560 --> 01:32:32.800
- I should check the pen I have.

01:32:32.800 --> 01:32:34.490
(crowd cheering)

01:32:34.490 --> 01:32:37.800
- So there were real
ideological differences,

01:32:37.800 --> 01:32:40.200
but I think the big thing for Christie was

01:32:40.200 --> 01:32:42.780
he saw that correctly,

01:32:42.780 --> 01:32:47.240
that she was a huge threat
to him over Bridgegate.

01:32:47.240 --> 01:32:49.290
(pensive music)

01:32:49.290 --> 01:32:54.290
- Senator Weinberg was very
persistent very early on.

01:32:54.450 --> 01:32:57.960
She made it quite clear that
she was not going to let go

01:32:57.960 --> 01:32:59.310
until she got answers.

01:32:59.310 --> 01:33:02.580
And I think that that played
a role in convincing people

01:33:02.580 --> 01:33:04.050
who were at the Port Authority

01:33:04.050 --> 01:33:06.660
and who eventually got entangled in this,

01:33:06.660 --> 01:33:09.110
that they had to come
forward and tell the truth.

01:33:10.200 --> 01:33:11.970
- She was a big shot by then.

01:33:11.970 --> 01:33:14.400
By 2013 when the lanes were closed

01:33:14.400 --> 01:33:15.900
and it was a mystery at first,

01:33:15.900 --> 01:33:18.330
"Why this six hour traffic jam?

01:33:18.330 --> 01:33:20.550
Why ambulances can't get across town

01:33:20.550 --> 01:33:22.170
to treat a heart attack?

01:33:22.170 --> 01:33:23.310
What is going on here?

01:33:23.310 --> 01:33:25.860
Why did the Port Authority
deliberately close this lane

01:33:25.860 --> 01:33:28.410
and cause this kind of chaos?"

01:33:28.410 --> 01:33:31.410
- We started to get constituent complaints

01:33:31.410 --> 01:33:35.010
about a traffic jam around
the George Washington Bridge.

01:33:36.270 --> 01:33:39.750
I then read a column
written by the Road Warrior

01:33:39.750 --> 01:33:42.090
about the traffic at the bridge.

01:33:42.090 --> 01:33:44.280
- [Operator] 911, where's your emergency?

01:33:44.280 --> 01:33:46.140
- I got an email from a woman.

01:33:46.140 --> 01:33:48.870
She's a teacher in New York

01:33:48.870 --> 01:33:52.140
waiting in traffic for a long
time, couldn't get through.

01:33:52.140 --> 01:33:53.700
Ends up being late for work.

01:33:53.700 --> 01:33:55.470
When that happens in the
New York school system,

01:33:55.470 --> 01:33:57.780
I didn't know this, they dock your pay.

01:33:57.780 --> 01:33:58.610
I mean, very upset there.

01:33:58.610 --> 01:34:01.080
There's traffic on the
George Washington Bridge.

01:34:02.070 --> 01:34:04.800
By the following day,
there were more complaints.

01:34:04.800 --> 01:34:06.420
Even people who weren't caught in it,

01:34:06.420 --> 01:34:08.730
but were up in the high rises in Fort Lee,

01:34:08.730 --> 01:34:10.050
who were looking down at it saying,

01:34:10.050 --> 01:34:11.780
"Whoa, this is the worst I've ever seen."

01:34:11.780 --> 01:34:13.170
- [Reporter] Not the kind of gridlock

01:34:13.170 --> 01:34:14.580
that occurred when several lanes

01:34:14.580 --> 01:34:17.070
leading to the span were
closed with no warning.

01:34:17.070 --> 01:34:19.680
- We talked to the mayor
and the mayor says,

01:34:19.680 --> 01:34:23.210
"You know, maybe it's
something that I did wrong."

01:34:24.360 --> 01:34:25.950
- Fort Lee, Mayor Mark Sokolich

01:34:25.950 --> 01:34:28.110
rejects this was allegedly
political payback

01:34:28.110 --> 01:34:29.220
because he's a Democrat

01:34:29.220 --> 01:34:31.740
who has not officially
endorsed Governor Christie.

01:34:31.740 --> 01:34:36.330
- This was a modus operandi
of the Christie administration

01:34:36.330 --> 01:34:40.890
to offer carrots to politicians

01:34:40.890 --> 01:34:42.450
who were helping them

01:34:42.450 --> 01:34:46.470
and to use a stick to
hurt elected officials

01:34:46.470 --> 01:34:47.880
who weren't helping them.

01:34:47.880 --> 01:34:49.710
- [Reporter] Port Authority
cops move the cones

01:34:49.710 --> 01:34:51.840
September 9th, the first day of school,

01:34:51.840 --> 01:34:54.510
cutting Fort Lee's access to the GWB

01:34:54.510 --> 01:34:56.250
down from three lanes to one.

01:34:56.250 --> 01:34:57.210
Traffic and motor...

01:34:57.210 --> 01:34:59.920
- Usually, I'm able to get
through to the Port Authority

01:34:59.920 --> 01:35:00.750
of New York and New Jersey,

01:35:00.750 --> 01:35:02.940
which runs this bridge, very easily.

01:35:02.940 --> 01:35:05.430
Phone call after phone call, nothing.

01:35:06.540 --> 01:35:08.220
- There was something
about this whole thing

01:35:08.220 --> 01:35:12.240
that somehow raised an
antenna in my brain.

01:35:12.240 --> 01:35:13.950
I'm not even sure why.

01:35:14.880 --> 01:35:18.360
It was almost really a
throwaway line to my staff.

01:35:18.360 --> 01:35:20.660
"Why don't we go to a
Port Authority meeting?"

01:35:22.020 --> 01:35:25.500
- Loretta was relentless in this,

01:35:25.500 --> 01:35:27.420
despite being a big shot at this point.

01:35:27.420 --> 01:35:29.420
And how old is she in 2013?

01:35:29.420 --> 01:35:30.510
She's probably 80-years-old.

01:35:30.510 --> 01:35:31.800
She's the chairman of committees.

01:35:31.800 --> 01:35:33.240
She's in the leadership.

01:35:33.240 --> 01:35:35.880
She's going to these public
meetings of the Port Authority

01:35:35.880 --> 01:35:38.250
to try to get to the
bottom of this herself.

01:35:39.120 --> 01:35:41.910
And the Port Authority
at the time, especially,

01:35:41.910 --> 01:35:45.570
was a secretive group that
didn't like any oversight

01:35:45.570 --> 01:35:47.220
or any public input.

01:35:47.220 --> 01:35:49.260
So they would do things like
hold their public meetings

01:35:49.260 --> 01:35:51.360
at two o'clock on a Tuesday

01:35:51.360 --> 01:35:53.700
in some warehouse with
metal folding chairs

01:35:53.700 --> 01:35:54.780
and a leaky ceiling.

01:35:55.950 --> 01:35:57.870
- [Shawn] She sat with the public.

01:35:57.870 --> 01:36:00.360
She stood up during the
public comment period

01:36:00.360 --> 01:36:03.180
and asked questions of the commissioners.

01:36:03.180 --> 01:36:04.440
She wanted accountability.

01:36:04.440 --> 01:36:06.150
She wanted transparency.

01:36:06.150 --> 01:36:10.020
And her questions were met with silence.

01:36:10.020 --> 01:36:13.170
- I walked into the subcommittee meeting

01:36:13.170 --> 01:36:17.040
chaired by Port Authority
Commissioner Pat Schuber.

01:36:17.040 --> 01:36:18.810
And Bill Baroni was there

01:36:18.810 --> 01:36:22.410
now working for the Port Authority.

01:36:22.410 --> 01:36:24.870
He would always greet me very warmly.

01:36:24.870 --> 01:36:26.820
We had a very nice relationship

01:36:26.820 --> 01:36:28.620
through the Marriage Equality issue.

01:36:29.790 --> 01:36:32.460
He kept his head down,
couldn't look at me.

01:36:34.200 --> 01:36:35.030
My -

01:36:35.030 --> 01:36:36.480
I raised two adolescents.

01:36:36.480 --> 01:36:37.830
Antenna went up.

01:36:37.830 --> 01:36:40.740
And I walked out of that committee meeting

01:36:40.740 --> 01:36:43.740
with my eye on Bill Baroni

01:36:43.740 --> 01:36:47.040
and then I had never met
him before to my knowledge,

01:36:47.040 --> 01:36:48.270
David Wildstein.

01:36:49.260 --> 01:36:50.930
And the two of them were busy...

01:36:52.680 --> 01:36:55.170
Probably texting each other.

01:36:55.170 --> 01:36:58.860
I knew there was something
very big going on here.

01:37:00.120 --> 01:37:02.970
I know that you're all
happy to see me back here.

01:37:02.970 --> 01:37:04.110
- [Shawn] Shortly after this happened,

01:37:04.110 --> 01:37:06.450
she started coming to
these monthly meetings.

01:37:06.450 --> 01:37:08.280
- Operation, no, I'm not finished.

01:37:08.280 --> 01:37:11.220
I'm just thanking them for taking care

01:37:11.220 --> 01:37:13.680
of the 16 ceiling leaks.

01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:16.200
- After about the fourth monthly meeting,

01:37:16.200 --> 01:37:19.020
she approached the executive director

01:37:19.020 --> 01:37:21.270
and very politely said,

01:37:21.270 --> 01:37:22.680
"You know, Mr. Foye,

01:37:22.680 --> 01:37:26.010
can you provide a timeline
of what happened here?

01:37:26.010 --> 01:37:27.870
We're just trying to understand."

01:37:27.870 --> 01:37:29.460
And he said, "You know, I'm sorry.

01:37:29.460 --> 01:37:33.600
I can't say much more than
I've already said publicly."

01:37:33.600 --> 01:37:35.520
And Senator Weinberg's response was,

01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:38.100
"Okay, well, I'll see you next month."

01:37:38.100 --> 01:37:40.050
And it, you know, I think it was a signal

01:37:40.050 --> 01:37:41.700
that she wasn't going away.

01:37:43.530 --> 01:37:47.340
- Tell the governor, I am
not backing off on this.

01:37:47.340 --> 01:37:50.830
And it really is time for him
to get to the bottom of it.

01:37:50.830 --> 01:37:55.320
(horns honking)
(curious music)

01:37:55.320 --> 01:37:57.300
- It's not that big a deal.

01:37:57.300 --> 01:37:59.010
Just because press runs around

01:37:59.010 --> 01:38:01.230
and writes about it both
here and nationally,

01:38:01.230 --> 01:38:03.390
I know why that is and so do you.

01:38:03.390 --> 01:38:04.830
Let's not pretend that it's because

01:38:04.830 --> 01:38:06.900
of the gravity of the issue.

01:38:06.900 --> 01:38:09.540
It's because I am a national figure and-

01:38:09.540 --> 01:38:11.520
- Even if the Christie administration

01:38:11.520 --> 01:38:13.740
did not know the details beforehand,

01:38:13.740 --> 01:38:16.140
they showed very little interest

01:38:16.140 --> 01:38:19.530
either during or shortly after the scandal

01:38:19.530 --> 01:38:22.200
as questions arose, to
get to the bottom of it.

01:38:22.200 --> 01:38:24.480
- I know you guys are obsessed with this.

01:38:24.480 --> 01:38:25.310
I'm not.

01:38:26.280 --> 01:38:31.280
- The Port authority was
key to Christie's objective

01:38:31.290 --> 01:38:35.010
to say that he was not
going to raise taxes,

01:38:35.010 --> 01:38:37.860
which would be a key selling
point in a presidential run.

01:38:39.030 --> 01:38:41.910
- I was not encouraged by my leadership

01:38:41.910 --> 01:38:44.220
to get further involved

01:38:44.220 --> 01:38:47.520
because Chris Christie
was still the governor,

01:38:47.520 --> 01:38:49.890
still the most powerful governor.

01:38:49.890 --> 01:38:51.960
- I want you to be less aggravated,

01:38:51.960 --> 01:38:53.310
if that's possible,
(crowd laughs)

01:38:53.310 --> 01:38:54.140
in New Jersey.

01:38:54.140 --> 01:38:57.300
- And still with White House dreams.

01:38:58.650 --> 01:38:59.970
- She went to all these meetings

01:38:59.970 --> 01:39:03.000
and they eventually realized,
she's not gonna let go.

01:39:03.000 --> 01:39:04.860
She had her teeth into that ankle.

01:39:06.030 --> 01:39:09.060
- This might have been the
third Port Authority meeting.

01:39:09.060 --> 01:39:10.080
John Wisniewski,

01:39:10.080 --> 01:39:13.290
who chaired the Assembly
Transportation Committee,

01:39:13.290 --> 01:39:15.120
came with us.

01:39:15.120 --> 01:39:18.180
When the meeting was
finished, he said to me,

01:39:18.180 --> 01:39:20.910
"I do have subpoena power,

01:39:20.910 --> 01:39:23.880
but I don't wanna step on your toes."

01:39:23.880 --> 01:39:27.030
I said to him, "Step away."

01:39:27.030 --> 01:39:30.060
- [John] We'd like all three days numbers.

01:39:30.060 --> 01:39:32.460
We could make that
determination for ourselves.

01:39:32.460 --> 01:39:34.050
- Sure. I'll talk to the folks,

01:39:34.050 --> 01:39:35.880
but I don't think the data is gonna-

01:39:35.880 --> 01:39:36.710
No problem.

01:39:36.710 --> 01:39:37.890
I'll say, I'll be very clear.

01:39:37.890 --> 01:39:39.410
I don't, I mean the data is sort of,

01:39:39.410 --> 01:39:41.490
it, it, it's, it's, well first of all,

01:39:41.490 --> 01:39:43.140
it shows that there's counts going.

01:39:43.140 --> 01:39:45.870
- [John] How were the counts conducted?

01:39:45.870 --> 01:39:47.040
- All right, the main line,

01:39:47.040 --> 01:39:48.810
traffic from everywhere else goes down.

01:39:48.810 --> 01:39:49.710
The wait time goes down.

01:39:49.710 --> 01:39:51.900
Traffic from Fort Lee went up.

01:39:51.900 --> 01:39:53.610
It just did, right.

01:39:53.610 --> 01:39:57.310
But it still leads back
to the policy question.

01:39:57.310 --> 01:39:58.140
- [John] I understand the policy question.

01:39:58.140 --> 01:39:59.010
- Is it fair?

01:39:59.010 --> 01:40:01.770
- I have to compliment you
on trying to change the topic

01:40:01.770 --> 01:40:04.080
and you've done an admirable job

01:40:04.080 --> 01:40:05.060
in trying to change the topic.

01:40:05.060 --> 01:40:05.890
- [Bill] I'm not trying to-

01:40:05.890 --> 01:40:07.110
- When I first heard it,

01:40:07.110 --> 01:40:09.510
I called the mayor of Fort Lee and said,

01:40:09.510 --> 01:40:12.000
"Do you have some kind of a private road

01:40:12.000 --> 01:40:17.000
that goes over to the GW Bridge
that I don't know about?"

01:40:17.340 --> 01:40:19.350
And his answer to me was,

01:40:19.350 --> 01:40:21.390
"I don't know what you are talking about."

01:40:21.390 --> 01:40:24.000
So I said, then listen to the testimony.

01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:25.200
- Mr. Chairman!

01:40:25.200 --> 01:40:27.000
Even you would not ask for a special lane

01:40:27.000 --> 01:40:29.550
for Perth Amboy, for your own district.

01:40:29.550 --> 01:40:32.100
- What does my instincts tell me?

01:40:32.100 --> 01:40:34.770
Mr. Baroni was a former state senator.

01:40:34.770 --> 01:40:37.590
He knows a little bit about
the state of New Jersey.

01:40:37.590 --> 01:40:38.970
He's probably even driven

01:40:38.970 --> 01:40:41.640
over the George Washington
Bridge a few times.

01:40:41.640 --> 01:40:45.240
So I suspect that he knew

01:40:45.240 --> 01:40:48.840
that he wasn't exactly giving
a very truthful account.

01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:50.790
- Every day because of the-

01:40:50.790 --> 01:40:52.680
- [Francine] Despite
my mother's interviews,

01:40:52.680 --> 01:40:54.210
the spin was spun.

01:40:54.210 --> 01:40:57.600
- One town has three
lanes dedicated to it?

01:40:59.070 --> 01:41:00.540
That kind of gets me sauced.

01:41:00.540 --> 01:41:05.540
- There are no lanes over
the George Washington Bridge

01:41:06.090 --> 01:41:07.890
for Fort Lee residents only.

01:41:07.890 --> 01:41:12.690
I have repeated that quite
(chuckles), almost weekly.

01:41:12.690 --> 01:41:14.490
- Fort Lee was getting a favor?

01:41:14.490 --> 01:41:17.370
- The George Washington
Bridge is in Fort Lee.

01:41:17.370 --> 01:41:18.200
- [Journalist] Right.

01:41:18.200 --> 01:41:19.300
- Let's start out with that.

01:41:19.300 --> 01:41:20.140
- [Journalist] Right.

01:41:20.140 --> 01:41:20.970
- Is there any chance

01:41:20.970 --> 01:41:22.590
that there may have been a traffic study?

01:41:24.600 --> 01:41:26.100
- Yeah. On what?

01:41:26.100 --> 01:41:29.250
All these people have to get
stuck on the main highways

01:41:29.250 --> 01:41:31.230
while Fort Lee has these lanes

01:41:31.230 --> 01:41:33.510
that you just zip right through.

01:41:33.510 --> 01:41:36.150
That's the basis of their study.

01:41:36.150 --> 01:41:39.390
If those roadways don't exist,

01:41:39.390 --> 01:41:41.460
what could they have been studying?

01:41:41.460 --> 01:41:44.280
- The story about this
being a traffic study,

01:41:44.280 --> 01:41:47.850
you scratch the surface a tiny bit

01:41:47.850 --> 01:41:50.190
and that story begins to fall apart.

01:41:50.190 --> 01:41:54.430
- This crazy coverup story,
which wasn't even good.

01:41:54.430 --> 01:41:55.260
(Loretta laughs)

01:41:55.260 --> 01:41:56.400
If you're gonna come up with a coverup,

01:41:56.400 --> 01:41:59.010
at least try to make it sound reasonable.

01:41:59.010 --> 01:42:00.660
- Decision was made
finally on September 5th-

01:42:00.660 --> 01:42:02.490
- [Bill] Mr. Wildstein. Hold on.

01:42:02.490 --> 01:42:05.010
- The lane closure on the ninth.

01:42:05.010 --> 01:42:06.180
- [Bill] Requested the one week study

01:42:06.180 --> 01:42:07.590
be conducted starting the ninth, correct.

01:42:07.590 --> 01:42:09.090
- So you knew on the fifth?

01:42:09.090 --> 01:42:12.510
- Uh, no, I think I knew
at some point that weekend.

01:42:12.510 --> 01:42:14.630
- Why didn't you make a
call out to the mayor?

01:42:14.630 --> 01:42:16.280
- [Bill] Communication
failure. Absolutely.

01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:18.500
- You forgot to call?

01:42:18.500 --> 01:42:22.200
- It was very curious what
was happening at this moment

01:42:22.200 --> 01:42:26.100
'cause we wanted to know what
the governor's involvement was

01:42:26.100 --> 01:42:27.900
after the lane closures

01:42:27.900 --> 01:42:30.420
in terms of suppressing

01:42:30.420 --> 01:42:32.730
the true story of what happened.

01:42:32.730 --> 01:42:35.820
- Senator Baroni has
characterized this as a mistake.

01:42:35.820 --> 01:42:36.780
I am not curious.

01:42:36.780 --> 01:42:38.340
Believe me, I've heard more about this

01:42:38.340 --> 01:42:39.600
than I ever wanted to hear.

01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:42.300
So if you think my
curiosity isn't satiated,

01:42:42.300 --> 01:42:44.010
my curiosity is more than satiated

01:42:44.010 --> 01:42:46.050
at the moment on this topic.

01:42:46.050 --> 01:42:50.730
- I've used this term since the beginning.

01:42:50.730 --> 01:42:54.960
I'm always curious about everybody
else's lack of curiosity.

01:42:55.800 --> 01:42:57.450
- This was my first press conference

01:42:57.450 --> 01:42:59.970
with Christie as a radio reporter.

01:42:59.970 --> 01:43:02.220
I said, "Did you close the lanes

01:43:02.220 --> 01:43:03.930
to the busiest bridge in the world

01:43:03.930 --> 01:43:07.650
in order to get back at a
mayor for not endorsing you

01:43:07.650 --> 01:43:09.390
for your reelection

01:43:09.390 --> 01:43:11.490
in the hopes of causing a traffic jam

01:43:11.490 --> 01:43:14.430
that would destroy the mayor politically?"

01:43:14.430 --> 01:43:16.720
- I worked the cones, actually, Matt.

01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:17.560
(crowd laughs)

01:43:17.560 --> 01:43:18.390
Unbeknownst to everybody,

01:43:18.390 --> 01:43:19.590
I was actually the guy out there.

01:43:19.590 --> 01:43:22.080
I was overalls and a hat, so I wasn't...

01:43:22.080 --> 01:43:24.690
But I actually was the guy
working the cones out there.

01:43:24.690 --> 01:43:28.110
You really are not serious
with that question.

01:43:28.110 --> 01:43:32.160
- His lack of curiosity, I find curious.

01:43:32.160 --> 01:43:37.160
But we will find out as we go
on and read these documents.

01:43:37.320 --> 01:43:38.150
I knew...

01:43:38.150 --> 01:43:42.110
- [Francine] His lack of
curiosity inspired a parody.

01:43:42.110 --> 01:43:46.190
♪ In the day we sweated
out on the streets ♪

01:43:46.190 --> 01:43:48.750
♪ Stuck in traffic on the GWB ♪

01:43:48.750 --> 01:43:52.320
- And it was that subpoena
that broke the whole thing open

01:43:52.320 --> 01:43:53.150
that revealed the email of one
of Chris Christie's top aides

01:43:55.530 --> 01:43:57.660
Bridget Kelly, saying to another top aide,

01:43:57.660 --> 01:44:00.340
"Time for some traffic
problems in Fort Lee."

01:44:00.340 --> 01:44:03.190
♪ This Bridgegate was just pay back ♪

01:44:03.190 --> 01:44:06.600
♪ It's a bitch slap to
the state Democrats ♪

01:44:06.600 --> 01:44:07.500
(people chattering)

01:44:07.500 --> 01:44:08.790
- [Journalist] This is what Chris Christie

01:44:08.790 --> 01:44:10.350
woke up to this morning.

01:44:10.350 --> 01:44:13.590
From "Ignorance" to
"Pathetic" in the tabloids,

01:44:13.590 --> 01:44:17.400
"Bully" to "Scandal" to
"Sorry" in the national papers

01:44:17.400 --> 01:44:20.850
and just a kid playing in
traffic from The New Yorker.

01:44:20.850 --> 01:44:24.030
When Christie walked out for
his two hour contrition fest.

01:44:24.030 --> 01:44:25.020
- I apologize. (echoes)

01:44:25.020 --> 01:44:27.120
- [Journalist] He said,
"apologize" 22 times.

01:44:27.120 --> 01:44:27.960
- I apologize to them.

01:44:27.960 --> 01:44:29.490
I am responsible.

01:44:29.490 --> 01:44:31.440
- [Journalist] "Responsible," 19.

01:44:31.440 --> 01:44:33.750
- He didn't know any of
this until yesterday.

01:44:33.750 --> 01:44:36.510
And then he had so little curiosity

01:44:36.510 --> 01:44:39.330
that he never asked Bridget Kelly.

01:44:39.330 --> 01:44:41.010
"You were sitting in your office one day

01:44:41.010 --> 01:44:45.180
and you decided to create
a traffic jam in Fort Lee?"

01:44:45.180 --> 01:44:46.200
- [Francine] My mother was chosen

01:44:46.200 --> 01:44:47.910
along with John Wisniewski,

01:44:47.910 --> 01:44:49.500
to co-chair a select committee

01:44:49.500 --> 01:44:51.720
to investigate the lane closures.

01:44:52.830 --> 01:44:55.710
- So we are focused on the
George Washington Bridge

01:44:55.710 --> 01:44:58.020
and on the issues that have arisen

01:44:58.020 --> 01:44:59.670
around the Port Authority.

01:44:59.670 --> 01:45:01.410
- [Francine] To understand Bridgegate,

01:45:01.410 --> 01:45:02.580
you need to understand

01:45:02.580 --> 01:45:06.450
the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

01:45:06.450 --> 01:45:08.700
- Punishing an elected official

01:45:08.700 --> 01:45:13.020
for not supporting the
governor was not a bug.

01:45:13.020 --> 01:45:15.870
It was a feature of the
Christie administration.

01:45:15.870 --> 01:45:18.540
- We're not changing, I
don't care what happens.

01:45:18.540 --> 01:45:20.910
- They had this department
in the governor's office

01:45:20.910 --> 01:45:22.950
called Intergovernmental Affairs,

01:45:22.950 --> 01:45:25.230
supposedly in charge of interacting

01:45:25.230 --> 01:45:27.330
between the governor's office

01:45:27.330 --> 01:45:31.980
and the many local mayors and
council members in the state.

01:45:33.720 --> 01:45:37.710
- What constituted tier one
and what constituted tier two?

01:45:38.580 --> 01:45:40.820
- It's like a wedding invitation list.

01:45:40.820 --> 01:45:43.350
If someone from tier one
isn't able to attend,

01:45:43.350 --> 01:45:45.240
you sometimes go to
tier two to invite them.

01:45:45.240 --> 01:45:47.460
- Were they divided by friends, relatives,

01:45:47.460 --> 01:45:51.030
like you divide wedding invitations?

01:45:51.030 --> 01:45:54.840
- Um, you know, this is a bipartisan list.

01:45:54.840 --> 01:45:56.790
Republicans, Democrats,
large municipalities,

01:45:56.790 --> 01:45:59.400
small municipalities, um.

01:45:59.400 --> 01:46:00.810
- [Loretta] If I may interrupt you.

01:46:00.810 --> 01:46:01.930
- [Matt Mowers] Sure.

01:46:01.930 --> 01:46:03.450
- You're referring to
it as a bipartisan list.

01:46:03.450 --> 01:46:05.130
But there's only one Republican on it.

01:46:05.130 --> 01:46:07.410
All the rest are Democrats.

01:46:07.410 --> 01:46:09.810
- County Executive Donovan
is also a Republican.

01:46:10.740 --> 01:46:13.320
- [Loretta] Two
Republicans, I take it back.

01:46:13.320 --> 01:46:14.540
- Um.

01:46:14.540 --> 01:46:16.380
- And one, two, three, four, five,

01:46:16.380 --> 01:46:19.230
six, seven, eight, nine, 10 Democrats.

01:46:19.230 --> 01:46:20.550
- Well, this is a list that I put together

01:46:20.550 --> 01:46:21.770
two and a half years-

01:46:21.770 --> 01:46:22.600
- Part of what they were doing

01:46:22.600 --> 01:46:27.440
was documenting politician's
fealty to Chris Christie.

01:46:28.350 --> 01:46:30.750
Who was loyal and who wasn't.

01:46:30.750 --> 01:46:32.100
So one of the things they had,

01:46:32.100 --> 01:46:35.880
for example, was a T-100 lists.

01:46:35.880 --> 01:46:39.420
And it was based on what
the vote margins were

01:46:39.420 --> 01:46:43.590
and whatever other formula
his campaign manager

01:46:43.590 --> 01:46:44.940
turned deputy chief of staff,

01:46:44.940 --> 01:46:48.330
turned campaign manager Bill Stepien,

01:46:48.330 --> 01:46:51.480
who would eventually go on to
run Donald Trump's campaign.

01:46:51.480 --> 01:46:52.310
These were the towns

01:46:52.310 --> 01:46:55.110
that the governor needed
to concentrate on.

01:46:55.110 --> 01:46:55.940
- There were a couple of things

01:46:55.940 --> 01:46:57.990
that were really
important to set the table

01:46:57.990 --> 01:47:00.000
for a presidential run,

01:47:00.000 --> 01:47:03.780
proving that Christie could
have crossover appeal,

01:47:03.780 --> 01:47:07.140
not only a governor who
could govern effectively,

01:47:07.140 --> 01:47:09.270
but could also get endorsements

01:47:09.270 --> 01:47:12.480
from Democratic politicians
across the state.

01:47:12.480 --> 01:47:15.270
- The mayors whose endorsements he wanted

01:47:15.270 --> 01:47:17.310
would get certain perks

01:47:17.310 --> 01:47:20.340
and often those perks would come

01:47:20.340 --> 01:47:22.080
from the Port Authority.

01:47:22.080 --> 01:47:24.780
- You had a flag drop off

01:47:24.780 --> 01:47:27.390
with North Arlington Mayor Pete Massa.

01:47:27.390 --> 01:47:28.830
- They run Ground Zero.

01:47:28.830 --> 01:47:30.750
Port Authority police patrol it.

01:47:30.750 --> 01:47:33.090
So they have access to certain things.

01:47:33.090 --> 01:47:35.600
- [Loretta] First of all, where
did these flags come from?

01:47:36.690 --> 01:47:37.890
- These were flags that were flown

01:47:37.890 --> 01:47:39.630
over the World Trade Center site

01:47:39.630 --> 01:47:43.210
on the 10th anniversary
of September 11th attacks.

01:47:43.210 --> 01:47:44.610
(gentle music)

01:47:44.610 --> 01:47:46.230
- Were those deliveries based upon

01:47:46.230 --> 01:47:49.200
whether they were tier
one or tier two towns?

01:47:49.200 --> 01:47:51.360
- No, actually, Senator, it was, you know,

01:47:51.360 --> 01:47:52.810
generally based upon,

01:47:52.810 --> 01:47:54.270
or to the best of my understanding,

01:47:54.270 --> 01:47:57.600
based upon the number of casualties

01:47:57.600 --> 01:47:59.580
that occurred in these municipalities

01:47:59.580 --> 01:48:01.410
as a way of commemorating
and memorializing

01:48:01.410 --> 01:48:03.010
those who were lost on that day.

01:48:03.010 --> 01:48:03.960
(gentle music)

01:48:03.960 --> 01:48:05.100
- Coming from Bergen County,

01:48:05.100 --> 01:48:09.660
I'm well aware of how many
casualties that we had.

01:48:09.660 --> 01:48:11.080
- [Matt Mowers] I think we all are, yes.

01:48:11.080 --> 01:48:11.910
- At the World Trade Center.

01:48:11.910 --> 01:48:15.570
As to so many other people
throughout our Tri-state area.

01:48:16.770 --> 01:48:18.420
In a work email,

01:48:18.420 --> 01:48:21.510
while you were delivering a flag

01:48:21.510 --> 01:48:24.180
that flew over the World Trade Center,

01:48:24.180 --> 01:48:28.830
based upon how many
casualties each town had,

01:48:28.830 --> 01:48:31.020
where did the idea of an endorsement

01:48:31.020 --> 01:48:36.020
or why was that part of
your thinking process

01:48:36.150 --> 01:48:39.000
as a government employee

01:48:39.000 --> 01:48:42.090
who was doing a rather somber duty?

01:48:44.090 --> 01:48:47.130
- Senator, if I recall,
and to be candid with you,

01:48:47.130 --> 01:48:50.700
I don't recall this interaction
with the mayor clearly.

01:48:51.600 --> 01:48:53.190
- Okay.

01:48:53.190 --> 01:48:58.190
- Mayors on the T-100 list
would get tours of Ground Zero,

01:48:58.680 --> 01:49:00.930
private VIP tours.

01:49:00.930 --> 01:49:05.930
They would get burnt steel
from the wreckage of 9/11

01:49:06.150 --> 01:49:10.170
delivered to their town hall for display.

01:49:11.250 --> 01:49:13.890
The town of Fort Lee
was on the T-100 list.

01:49:13.890 --> 01:49:17.280
The Port Authority gave tours

01:49:17.280 --> 01:49:20.430
to Mark Sokolich's family from Croatia

01:49:20.430 --> 01:49:22.680
when they came to visit

01:49:22.680 --> 01:49:25.260
and so on taxpayer funded time,

01:49:25.260 --> 01:49:29.700
IGA staffers asked the mayor
of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich,

01:49:29.700 --> 01:49:32.430
if he'd endorsed the
governor for reelection.

01:49:32.430 --> 01:49:33.840
- We're adjourning the meeting,

01:49:33.840 --> 01:49:38.160
- The IGA using the juice
that the Port Authority had

01:49:38.160 --> 01:49:43.160
consistently worked political
targets for Chris Christie.

01:49:43.620 --> 01:49:46.170
- From the government office email

01:49:46.170 --> 01:49:48.090
to themselves, to their personal emails

01:49:48.090 --> 01:49:50.850
and then they get emails
to their personal emails

01:49:50.850 --> 01:49:53.340
and it just goes up and down the line.

01:49:53.340 --> 01:49:55.800
They kind of interchange the two.

01:49:55.800 --> 01:49:58.410
Is there a policy that
you might have in place?

01:49:58.410 --> 01:50:00.990
- There is a policy now.

01:50:00.990 --> 01:50:04.290
- Was this policy in place
back in September of 2013?

01:50:04.290 --> 01:50:05.670
- It was not.

01:50:05.670 --> 01:50:08.100
- I used them interchangeably,

01:50:08.100 --> 01:50:10.440
especially if I would
be leaving the office.

01:50:10.440 --> 01:50:11.790
I would forward it to this

01:50:11.790 --> 01:50:15.030
so I can use this to communicate with.

01:50:15.030 --> 01:50:17.340
- And do you have access
to both your state

01:50:17.340 --> 01:50:19.440
and personal email account on that?

01:50:19.440 --> 01:50:21.420
- No, just my Gmail.

01:50:21.420 --> 01:50:24.060
- These email addresses were opaque

01:50:24.060 --> 01:50:26.280
to the press and to the public

01:50:26.280 --> 01:50:29.730
because we couldn't make
a request to see emails

01:50:29.730 --> 01:50:32.640
of addresses we didn't
know existed. (laughing)

01:50:32.640 --> 01:50:35.670
- Tonight, as a former federal prosecutor,

01:50:35.670 --> 01:50:37.680
I welcome the opportunity

01:50:37.680 --> 01:50:40.080
to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable

01:50:40.080 --> 01:50:42.060
for her performance and her character.

01:50:42.060 --> 01:50:42.950
(crowd cheering)

01:50:42.950 --> 01:50:44.880
- Surely the fact that Chris Christie's

01:50:44.880 --> 01:50:47.010
Republican Governor's office

01:50:47.010 --> 01:50:48.960
used personal email addresses

01:50:48.960 --> 01:50:53.160
for political and governmental activities

01:50:53.160 --> 01:50:55.560
did not get the same kind of attention

01:50:55.560 --> 01:50:58.560
that Hillary Clinton's use of emails did.

01:50:58.560 --> 01:51:03.530
(crowd chanting) Lock her
up! Lock her up! Lock her up!

01:51:06.360 --> 01:51:07.410
(tense music)

01:51:07.410 --> 01:51:09.600
- The committee calls William Pat-

01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:11.730
- [Francine] In an ironic twist of fate,

01:51:11.730 --> 01:51:13.560
Pat Schuber was called to testify

01:51:13.560 --> 01:51:15.180
in front of my mother,

01:51:15.180 --> 01:51:19.290
the same Pat Schuber that
she ran against in 1998.

01:51:21.150 --> 01:51:22.170
- It's interesting that you're doing this

01:51:22.170 --> 01:51:23.010
the day before Halloween,

01:51:23.010 --> 01:51:24.600
because I've been accusing my opponent

01:51:24.600 --> 01:51:27.620
of scaring senior citizens
all throughout this campaign.

01:51:27.620 --> 01:51:29.510
- [Loretta] I wrote him a letter.

01:51:29.510 --> 01:51:31.500
"Could you please look into this?

01:51:31.500 --> 01:51:32.600
What is going on?"

01:51:32.600 --> 01:51:34.920
And I copied the governor,

01:51:34.920 --> 01:51:39.210
and the Chair of the Port
Authority, David Samson.

01:51:39.210 --> 01:51:41.100
- Start at the bottom with respect

01:51:41.100 --> 01:51:45.840
to what Mr. Samson's email says.

01:51:45.840 --> 01:51:47.370
- You sent me an email that said,

01:51:47.370 --> 01:51:50.100
"Pat, I received a copy
of Loretta's 9/19 letter

01:51:50.100 --> 01:51:52.380
to you about her being
disappointed on a personal level.

01:51:52.380 --> 01:51:53.580
What a jerk.

01:51:53.580 --> 01:51:55.290
Do you want me to do anything? D"

01:51:55.290 --> 01:51:57.890
- Can you please read to us
your response to Mrs. Samson?

01:51:57.890 --> 01:51:59.100
- Sure.

01:51:59.100 --> 01:52:00.990
"I, David, that's kind of
you, but no, it's okay.

01:52:00.990 --> 01:52:03.060
I decided to surprise
her with a direct call

01:52:03.060 --> 01:52:05.040
and tell her I was disappointed
she had made it personal.

01:52:05.040 --> 01:52:06.120
I don't think she expected that.

01:52:06.120 --> 01:52:08.520
I think she has never
gotten over our 1998 race.

01:52:08.520 --> 01:52:09.740
Best wishes. Pat."

01:52:10.830 --> 01:52:13.920
- I've been called a jerk
by bigger men than he.

01:52:13.920 --> 01:52:16.040
So no, I kind of laughed at that.

01:52:16.040 --> 01:52:17.940
It was sort of a benign comment

01:52:17.940 --> 01:52:21.060
and people say things like that in emails.

01:52:21.060 --> 01:52:23.520
I didn't take that seriously at all so.

01:52:23.520 --> 01:52:25.710
- [Journalist] What about the
second part of that statement?

01:52:25.710 --> 01:52:26.790
- Well I found that-

01:52:26.790 --> 01:52:27.920
- [Journalist] He was retaliating.

01:52:27.920 --> 01:52:31.620
- I found so outrageous
that I wrote a letter

01:52:31.620 --> 01:52:34.290
to find out on behalf of the constituents

01:52:34.290 --> 01:52:36.600
that both Pat Schuber and I represent,

01:52:37.470 --> 01:52:41.190
because of an election
that happened 15 years ago?

01:52:41.190 --> 01:52:44.640
I mean, I guess I must
be another scorned woman.

01:52:44.640 --> 01:52:47.220
I can join the Bridget Kelly Group.

01:52:47.220 --> 01:52:48.180
(cameras clicking)

01:52:48.180 --> 01:52:51.330
- [Francine] A report issued
by the Christie administration

01:52:51.330 --> 01:52:54.330
revealed that Bridget Kelly
had a romantic relationship

01:52:54.330 --> 01:52:57.900
with Bill Stepien and he
had broken up with her.

01:52:57.900 --> 01:52:59.970
The report insinuated the breakup

01:52:59.970 --> 01:53:02.670
may have affected her state of mind,

01:53:02.670 --> 01:53:06.030
causing her to set the lane
closure plot into motion.

01:53:06.970 --> 01:53:08.250
- I had asked you about
one part of the report.

01:53:08.250 --> 01:53:11.520
There seemed to be gratuitous
mentions of Bridget Kelly

01:53:11.520 --> 01:53:13.350
and her personal life in there.

01:53:13.350 --> 01:53:14.460
Was that necessary?

01:53:14.460 --> 01:53:16.050
- I don't wanna mention
what the facts are,

01:53:16.050 --> 01:53:18.030
but they apparently were
having some kind of fight

01:53:18.030 --> 01:53:19.650
and they weren't talking to each other.

01:53:19.650 --> 01:53:22.230
So if I were doing that investigation,

01:53:22.230 --> 01:53:24.000
I'd have to give an explanation to that.

01:53:24.000 --> 01:53:26.460
Otherwise, you'd all start attacking me.

01:53:26.460 --> 01:53:30.630
- How did they know who broke
up a personal relationship?

01:53:30.630 --> 01:53:35.190
That gratuitous, sexist language

01:53:35.190 --> 01:53:37.830
in that report is infuriating.

01:53:37.830 --> 01:53:40.140
And anybody who put
their name on that report

01:53:40.140 --> 01:53:41.880
should be ashamed of themselves.

01:53:43.710 --> 01:53:46.800
- The indictment alleges and
Mr. Weinstein has admitted

01:53:46.800 --> 01:53:50.520
that he and Baroni and
Kelly executed a plan

01:53:50.520 --> 01:53:53.640
to suddenly and without
warning, drastically reduce...

01:53:53.640 --> 01:53:57.330
- Bill Baroni and Bridget
Anne Kelly were convicted

01:53:57.330 --> 01:54:00.150
and they were convicted
under a federal law

01:54:00.150 --> 01:54:03.540
that typically covers bribery.

01:54:03.540 --> 01:54:06.270
If the federal government
gives more than $10,000

01:54:06.270 --> 01:54:08.760
to a government agency,

01:54:08.760 --> 01:54:13.610
if you misuse that in a way
that is to your benefit,

01:54:13.610 --> 01:54:16.290
then you're committing fraud.

01:54:16.290 --> 01:54:19.050
US Attorney Paul Fishman, at the time,

01:54:19.050 --> 01:54:21.120
made this federal case

01:54:21.120 --> 01:54:24.690
using the statute in a really novel way,

01:54:24.690 --> 01:54:27.150
hadn't been used previously.

01:54:27.150 --> 01:54:29.250
And it got appealed several times

01:54:29.250 --> 01:54:32.700
and the Supreme Court
ultimately decided it.

01:54:32.700 --> 01:54:34.950
They were unanimous in overturning it.

01:54:36.030 --> 01:54:38.970
This clearly was an abuse of power

01:54:38.970 --> 01:54:41.070
and they use those very words.

01:54:41.070 --> 01:54:44.550
But the application of this
particular law, it said,

01:54:44.550 --> 01:54:47.410
might not have been
appropriate in this case.

01:54:47.410 --> 01:54:49.980
(suspenseful music)

01:54:49.980 --> 01:54:52.710
- If there's a major
scandal like Bridgegate,

01:54:52.710 --> 01:54:55.140
you know, in most states,
in most functioning states,

01:54:55.140 --> 01:54:57.390
the Attorney general might
open an investigation

01:54:57.390 --> 01:54:59.370
to see what happened here.

01:54:59.370 --> 01:55:02.310
In New Jersey, that's not the case

01:55:02.310 --> 01:55:06.690
because Christie appointed
all of the attorneys general

01:55:06.690 --> 01:55:08.400
that served during his term.

01:55:08.400 --> 01:55:10.140
They were political appointees.

01:55:11.280 --> 01:55:15.120
It turned out there was
no federal crime here.

01:55:15.120 --> 01:55:16.890
Yeah, this was corrupt.

01:55:16.890 --> 01:55:18.420
This was dirty.

01:55:18.420 --> 01:55:22.530
This was clearly done for f-ed up reasons.

01:55:22.530 --> 01:55:23.730
That's not what the court said.

01:55:23.730 --> 01:55:26.790
They used more court language.

01:55:26.790 --> 01:55:29.190
But under state law,

01:55:29.190 --> 01:55:32.700
there's an official misconduct clause.

01:55:32.700 --> 01:55:34.500
People in the governor's office

01:55:34.500 --> 01:55:35.520
and at the Port Authority

01:55:35.520 --> 01:55:39.750
can't use their office for
clearly political means.

01:55:39.750 --> 01:55:43.500
That case was never pursued
though by the Attorney General

01:55:43.500 --> 01:55:45.810
who of course was appointed
by Chris Christie.

01:55:47.280 --> 01:55:50.850
Everything is legal,
therefore, in New Jersey,

01:55:51.780 --> 01:55:53.550
- [Journalist] After a sixth place finish

01:55:53.550 --> 01:55:54.960
in the New Hampshire primary,

01:55:54.960 --> 01:55:58.050
Christie ultimately decided
to end his presidential bid

01:55:58.050 --> 01:56:00.420
and endorse Donald Trump.

01:56:00.420 --> 01:56:03.210
- Chris Christie obviously was damaged.

01:56:03.210 --> 01:56:06.000
He was seen as a front runner,

01:56:06.000 --> 01:56:08.880
and I think this probably contributed

01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:12.450
to his presidential hopes being dashed.

01:56:12.450 --> 01:56:13.920
- [Journalist] According
to the New York Post,

01:56:13.920 --> 01:56:17.940
Trump initially offered Christie
the much coveted VP slot,

01:56:17.940 --> 01:56:21.030
but then yanked the offer,
reportedly afraid, quote,

01:56:21.030 --> 01:56:24.250
"Christie's Bridgegate troubles
would sink the campaign."

01:56:24.250 --> 01:56:27.250
(mysterious music)

01:56:28.890 --> 01:56:33.180
- Creating an atmosphere that
said the public be damned,

01:56:33.180 --> 01:56:35.430
we're going to show you if
you don't do what we want,

01:56:35.430 --> 01:56:38.100
we're gonna find a way to punish you.

01:56:38.100 --> 01:56:40.920
This kind of work can be exhausting,

01:56:40.920 --> 01:56:43.410
but you can't get distracted from it

01:56:43.410 --> 01:56:45.960
because that's what the
other side always wants.

01:56:45.960 --> 01:56:48.900
Eventually, she will go away.

01:56:49.740 --> 01:56:51.120
- [Francine] My mother set out to pass

01:56:51.120 --> 01:56:52.980
a Port Authority reform bill

01:56:52.980 --> 01:56:55.140
so that this could never happen again.

01:56:56.310 --> 01:56:59.760
- [Shawn] There was tons of
spirited debate and momentum.

01:56:59.760 --> 01:57:04.760
Legislatures in both New Jersey
and New York passed bills.

01:57:04.770 --> 01:57:08.370
- And to get a 600-to-nothing
vote in two states,

01:57:08.370 --> 01:57:12.690
that's that, I'm willing, I'm
almost willing to make a bet

01:57:12.690 --> 01:57:14.880
that that's never happened anywhere.

01:57:14.880 --> 01:57:18.330
- These reforms could
never have come into place

01:57:18.330 --> 01:57:20.670
without there being a
crisis like Bridgegate.

01:57:20.670 --> 01:57:22.920
It's like a herculean effort.

01:57:22.920 --> 01:57:26.190
- [Loretta] It was a major heavy lift.

01:57:26.190 --> 01:57:28.470
And guess what happened?

01:57:28.470 --> 01:57:31.470
- What happens on a Saturday

01:57:31.470 --> 01:57:34.530
between Christmas and New Year's?

01:57:34.530 --> 01:57:36.420
Both the governors of both states,

01:57:36.420 --> 01:57:38.610
Chris Christie and Andrew
Cuomo from New York.

01:57:38.610 --> 01:57:40.680
- These are the same two people

01:57:40.680 --> 01:57:42.510
who manipulated the toll hikes.

01:57:42.510 --> 01:57:43.680
- The Port Authority is controlled

01:57:43.680 --> 01:57:45.150
by the two governors jointly.

01:57:46.170 --> 01:57:48.930
And this partnership
between Governor Cuomo and I

01:57:48.930 --> 01:57:50.670
has been more of an equal partnership

01:57:50.670 --> 01:57:53.850
than any that we've seen
in recent regional history.

01:57:53.850 --> 01:57:56.340
- [Loretta] These two guys became friends.

01:57:56.340 --> 01:57:58.920
- They vetoed these reforms,

01:57:58.920 --> 01:58:01.260
measures that would've allowed the public

01:58:01.260 --> 01:58:03.630
to know more about what was happening

01:58:03.630 --> 01:58:05.580
with their toll dollars.

01:58:05.580 --> 01:58:10.580
Eight, 12, 15, they would know
what happens with that money

01:58:11.160 --> 01:58:13.200
and those reforms were killed.

01:58:14.310 --> 01:58:17.550
- This is not about a gold
star for the governor,

01:58:17.550 --> 01:58:19.710
that he's never been overridden.

01:58:19.710 --> 01:58:21.180
What is that about?

01:58:21.180 --> 01:58:25.590
This is about the substance of this bill.

01:58:25.590 --> 01:58:27.810
This is a good bill.

01:58:27.810 --> 01:58:29.580
Let's get to it.

01:58:29.580 --> 01:58:33.180
(people chattering)

01:58:33.180 --> 01:58:36.900
He bragged about, "I have
never been overridden."

01:58:36.900 --> 01:58:38.910
So again, I got so angry

01:58:38.910 --> 01:58:42.420
'cause nobody cared about
what the subject was.

01:58:42.420 --> 01:58:45.000
- Chris Christie had an incredible amount

01:58:45.000 --> 01:58:47.460
of control over the Republican party.

01:58:47.460 --> 01:58:50.910
He couldn't have anybody stray.

01:58:50.910 --> 01:58:53.040
There couldn't be any sense

01:58:53.040 --> 01:58:56.250
that you were able to go off on your own

01:58:56.250 --> 01:58:57.420
in any other direction

01:58:57.420 --> 01:59:00.020
other than what the governor
wanted as a Republican.

01:59:02.490 --> 01:59:06.450
- We've been in sort of a
different political era.

01:59:06.450 --> 01:59:11.100
Bullying has become sort of the norm.

01:59:11.100 --> 01:59:13.200
The Port Authority and Chris Christie

01:59:13.200 --> 01:59:15.980
were sort of precursor to that.

01:59:15.980 --> 01:59:18.210
(upbeat music)

01:59:18.210 --> 01:59:20.100
- No, I don't think another politician

01:59:20.100 --> 01:59:23.820
will try to close a road in
order to cause a traffic jam

01:59:23.820 --> 01:59:28.410
in order to punish a politician
who didn't endorse them.

01:59:28.410 --> 01:59:31.200
But I certainly think other politicians

01:59:31.200 --> 01:59:34.170
will use the levers of government

01:59:34.170 --> 01:59:37.020
in whatever ways they or
their political operatives

01:59:37.020 --> 01:59:40.110
can dream up,
(horns honking)

01:59:40.110 --> 01:59:40.980
to hurt people.

01:59:45.170 --> 01:59:50.170
(gentle music)
(people chattering)

01:59:50.370 --> 01:59:55.020
- [Loretta] New Jersey politics
requires steely discipline

01:59:55.020 --> 01:59:59.370
and a thick skin.
(people chattering)

01:59:59.370 --> 02:00:02.040
- [Francine] I thought I knew
everything about my mother

02:00:02.040 --> 02:00:04.470
until Christine Blasey Ford testified

02:00:04.470 --> 02:00:06.570
at the Brett Kavanaugh hearings

02:00:06.570 --> 02:00:08.310
and my mother revealed a secret

02:00:08.310 --> 02:00:10.590
she had held onto for decades.

02:00:12.080 --> 02:00:13.620
(hands clap)

02:00:13.620 --> 02:00:15.880
- For some reason I was
sitting all by myself

02:00:16.740 --> 02:00:18.870
and I wrote the story.

02:00:18.870 --> 02:00:20.430
People were sharing and I thought,

02:00:20.430 --> 02:00:24.930
well I'm an 80-year-old woman.

02:00:24.930 --> 02:00:26.430
- You were 83 at the time.

02:00:26.430 --> 02:00:27.880
So it's time for me to share.

02:00:29.370 --> 02:00:32.230
- I am here today, not
because I want to be.

02:00:32.230 --> 02:00:34.320
I am terrified.

02:00:34.320 --> 02:00:37.350
I am here because I
believe it is my civic duty

02:00:37.350 --> 02:00:39.360
to tell you what happened to me

02:00:39.360 --> 02:00:41.880
while Brett Kavanaugh and
I were in high school.

02:00:42.720 --> 02:00:44.790
Thousands and thousands of people

02:00:44.790 --> 02:00:47.010
who have had their lives
dramatically altered

02:00:47.010 --> 02:00:48.630
by sexual violence,

02:00:48.630 --> 02:00:50.850
have reached out to share their experience

02:00:50.850 --> 02:00:52.950
and have thanked me for coming forward.

02:00:54.780 --> 02:00:56.400
- I pushed send.

02:00:56.400 --> 02:00:59.220
- [Journalist] Senator Loretta
Weinberg revealed on Facebook

02:00:59.220 --> 02:01:02.640
that she was groped and
forcibly kissed at the age of 13

02:01:02.640 --> 02:01:06.390
by a middle-aged man who was a
visitor to her family's home.

02:01:06.390 --> 02:01:10.110
She remembers the exact
moment exactly where I was

02:01:10.110 --> 02:01:12.150
and "No, I am not confused.

02:01:12.150 --> 02:01:15.090
And yes, that was a long time ago."

02:01:15.090 --> 02:01:17.250
- I was shocked!

02:01:17.250 --> 02:01:18.840
Mom, it went viral.

02:01:18.840 --> 02:01:19.990
It was even in the Daily Mail.

02:01:19.990 --> 02:01:21.120
- What's The Daily Mail?

02:01:21.120 --> 02:01:22.860
- [Francine] It's a British tabloid.

02:01:22.860 --> 02:01:24.470
- [Loretta] Oh, okay.

02:01:24.470 --> 02:01:27.090
(somber music)

02:01:27.090 --> 02:01:28.710
Well, I was among many others,

02:01:28.710 --> 02:01:31.100
so I guess the more famous people-

02:01:31.100 --> 02:01:31.980
- No.
- No?

02:01:31.980 --> 02:01:34.410
- Because you were in your eighties.

02:01:34.410 --> 02:01:35.250
- Ah, okay.

02:01:35.250 --> 02:01:38.400
- What made it so surprising for everybody

02:01:38.400 --> 02:01:40.530
was the fact that
someone could internalize

02:01:40.530 --> 02:01:43.770
an experience like that for 70 years

02:01:43.770 --> 02:01:47.310
and still go about it as
if nothing had happened.

02:01:47.310 --> 02:01:49.920
It was the fuel in the
car that kept you going

02:01:49.920 --> 02:01:54.330
and let you do so much
without it stopping you.

02:01:54.330 --> 02:01:56.910
(gentle music)

02:01:59.920 --> 02:02:02.020
(people chattering)

02:02:02.020 --> 02:02:06.090
- I was at home, working after
hours as I usually am, right?

02:02:06.090 --> 02:02:08.100
But I was just sitting
comfortably in my bed.

02:02:08.100 --> 02:02:09.330
Half in and out of everything

02:02:09.330 --> 02:02:12.120
when in my newsfeed
comes a public disclosure

02:02:12.120 --> 02:02:14.250
from Senator Weinberg
about a victimization

02:02:14.250 --> 02:02:16.290
that she endured as a young woman.

02:02:16.290 --> 02:02:17.400
And then the next thing I know,

02:02:17.400 --> 02:02:21.060
my entire newsfeed was filled
with people commenting,

02:02:21.060 --> 02:02:24.780
sharing, echoing what I was feeling,

02:02:24.780 --> 02:02:27.420
which was a sense of appreciation

02:02:27.420 --> 02:02:30.320
and then also sort of a,

02:02:30.320 --> 02:02:32.340
"Oh God, I can't believe
we make women do this,

02:02:32.340 --> 02:02:35.160
that we make the Senate Majority Leader

02:02:35.160 --> 02:02:36.750
feel so compelled

02:02:36.750 --> 02:02:38.460
to put a personal face on this issue

02:02:38.460 --> 02:02:41.580
for all women to get access to justice,

02:02:41.580 --> 02:02:43.920
that this is what she
does at, I don't know,

02:02:43.920 --> 02:02:46.170
nine o'clock at night on a weeknight.

02:02:47.460 --> 02:02:49.560
For the Senator to add herself

02:02:49.560 --> 02:02:52.710
to the #MeToo movement
in such a public way

02:02:52.710 --> 02:02:54.870
just affirms what I've
always thought of her,

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that she's the true badass
warrior of the legislature.

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(gentle music)

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- Senator Weinberg, will
you approach the roster?

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Hey listen, I gotta make
it as easy as possible.

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I, state your name.

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- I, Loretta Weinberg...

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- [Francine] After being
elected to the Town Council,

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State Assembly, State Senate,

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and then serving 10 years as
the Senate majority leader,

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I've realized,

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my mother belongs to her
causes and constituents

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as much as she belongs to me.

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- I got there

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.

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(crowd cheering)

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- I had a group hug with my daughter

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'cause it's sometime the daughters

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who have to bear the brunt
of the time and effort

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that many of us spend in public office.

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(bright music)

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- Oh, it's warm out!

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- Yeah, it is warm.

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It's much warmer than it was yesterday.

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- I think we have everybody.

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Senator, you have the floor.

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- (sighs) Okay.

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Good afternoon, everybody.

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I called this press conference today

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to announce publicly
that for the first time

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in over 30 years,

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I will not be running for reelection.

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My husband, Irwin
Weinberg, if he were here,

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would be cheering louder

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than any of my adversaries for this day.

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- Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said

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that Loretta Weinberg is easily

02:04:30.510 --> 02:04:33.330
one of the most consequential legislatures

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in New Jersey political history.

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- She has proudly worn the mantle

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of New Jersey's unofficial
"Jewish Grandmother."

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(staff laughing)

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- At the core is love.

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For her to persist and succeed in politics

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and never altering that
fundamental passion

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and caring and empathy
and concern for others,

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you can't lead the people if
you don't love the people.

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She never stopped being
driven by that core value.

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- [Francine] Her final bill,

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codifying abortion into the
New Jersey Constitution,

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gets signed into law.
(crowd cheering)

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- [Journalist] Supporters cheered

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as Governor Murphy waived the new statute,

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codifying legal abortion as a
protected constitutional right

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in New Jersey,

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independent of state Supreme
Court rulings and case law.

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- Yes, I will be acting
as an advocate should.

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I will be annoying, nagging,

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and sometimes obnoxious,
but I'll be there.

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(crowd clapping)

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- [Francine] So where
are we going, ladies?

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- To the municipal building.

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- [Francine] To do what?

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- To have a demonstration, a rally.

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- [Francine] Tell me what happened today.

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- The Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade.

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Now please, let's go.

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- Roughly half the country,

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abortion is as of now
or soon will be illegal.

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This is the first time the Supreme Court

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has ever granted a constitutional right,

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which it did so when
Roe was decided in 1973

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and then took it away.

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- What Senator Weinberg is about

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is not always making friends,
get along and backslapping,

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but she's calling questions
and she ruffles feathers

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and she causes trouble,
causing good trouble.

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John Lewis talked about that a lot.

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So yeah, we need more people

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who understand that we all
have a personal responsibility

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to be more ethically evolved

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than the culture or society
in which we grew up.

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- [Speaker] And I just got
goosebumps even saying that.

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It is not gonna happen.

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Please join us Loretta

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(crowd cheering, chattering)

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- Thank you very much.

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So many of the issues

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that I have devoted my public life to,

02:06:49.890 --> 02:06:54.420
I've sat by and now watched them unravel.

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As sad as that made me,

02:06:58.740 --> 02:07:00.600
it made me even angrier.

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We are not going back.

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(crowd cheering)
- [Crowd] No!

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(crowd clapping)

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- [Crowd] We won't go back.

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We won't go back!

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- We took turns picketing the supermarkets

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and it was our turn to
picket the supermarket.

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Where is it now?

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- [Francine] Right here.

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We need a million more people like you.

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And I'm so grateful that
I got to witness it all.

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- [Loretta] Well, I think as my daughter

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you have an understanding
of the good, the bad.

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- [Francine] Yes.

02:07:44.180 --> 02:07:46.140
- [Loretta] And the wonderful.

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- Here, look at it again.

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See, I thought it was going this way

02:07:50.010 --> 02:07:51.860
because I thought we were at the end.

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- No, I think what you see in the back

02:07:55.170 --> 02:07:58.050
is the pointed roof of that house, see?

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- Do you think we're
at the very end there?

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- Every time a door opened,

02:08:02.910 --> 02:08:06.870
I somehow had the courage
to put my foot through it,

02:08:06.870 --> 02:08:10.050
take a step forward, push
it open a little more.

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It wasn't about being in office,

02:08:14.490 --> 02:08:18.990
it was about the places
where I could affect

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the kind of changes that I
wanted to see in the world.

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That building and those trees

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that look like it's in the background.

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I would hope that beside
the issues I've embraced

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and the legislation I've helped pass,

02:08:34.720 --> 02:08:39.720
that I served as somewhat of a
roadmap for other young women

02:08:42.600 --> 02:08:45.540
that you can come into politics,

02:08:45.540 --> 02:08:48.750
take on the establishment and win.

02:08:50.350 --> 02:08:55.350
♪ That I have ever known ♪

02:08:56.690 --> 02:09:00.600
♪ Your light shines bright ♪

02:09:00.600 --> 02:09:04.680
♪ And guides the way ♪

02:09:04.680 --> 02:09:07.780
♪ And always ♪

02:09:07.780 --> 02:09:10.440
♪ Leads me home ♪

02:09:12.240 --> 02:09:15.070
(rhythmic music)

02:09:17.030 --> 02:09:27.400
♪ I was born a queen, born a queen ♪

02:09:27.400 --> 02:09:30.330
♪ Most valuable piece in the game ♪

02:09:30.330 --> 02:09:32.510
♪ Crown on my head skip the fame ♪

02:09:32.510 --> 02:09:34.590
♪ Lummani put respect on my name ♪

02:09:34.590 --> 02:09:36.360
- And now we're ready to
play "Date My Daughter."

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- And here's our host, Jim Lange!

02:09:39.500 --> 02:09:41.400
(audience cheering)

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- Mom, From Teaneck, New Jersey,

02:09:43.560 --> 02:09:47.100
she kvells at the thought of
finding her daughter a date.

02:09:47.100 --> 02:09:48.600
- [Loretta] I have to teach
you how to pronounce that.

02:09:48.600 --> 02:09:50.270
- Please welcome, Loretta Weinberg.

02:09:50.270 --> 02:09:51.100
(audience cheering)

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We gotta do one thing here.

02:09:51.940 --> 02:09:53.070
We gotta throw the dating kiss.

02:09:53.070 --> 02:09:54.120
Turn to the left, right hand.

02:09:54.120 --> 02:09:55.520
Everybody. Here it goes.

02:09:55.520 --> 02:09:57.160
- [All] Muah!
(upbeat music)

02:09:57.160 --> 02:09:58.850
♪ I was born a queen, born a queen ♪

02:09:58.850 --> 02:10:00.950
♪ I was born a queen ♪

02:10:00.950 --> 02:10:03.530
(upbeat music)

02:10:04.550 --> 02:10:07.550
♪ Hail to the queen ♪