美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-01-17

 Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper, welcome to the 360 podcast. New revolutions in New Jersey¹, bridge traffic scandal, also a neural² scientist get the shock of his life when brain scan showed that he is the brain of psychopath. Let's get started. 

 

Here begin. Bridge traffic scandal and the breaking news about the political motive³ for the whole mess. There's a new stack of documents out that suggests  some of the players knew they were inflicting⁴ pain and took step to shield themselves from any blowback. The documents come from the state assembly committee that's investigating this affair more than 2000 pages of emails, letters and in other correspondance, it's a lot to go through. No smoking gun right now, perhaps, but clear indications at this point that Chris Christine's top appointee to the agency as well as another Christie appointee were aware that closing several lanes of traffic leading to the George Washington bridge could cause political fallout. They also reveal that state officals remained aware that the traffic was potentially affecting public safety. Again though, no smoking gun like the one that touched off the scandal in the first place. Christie aide Bridge and Kelly's email to Christie appointee David Willstein saying time for some traffic problems at Ford⁵ Lee. His reply got it.  Willstein is gone from his job taking the xx when asking about the affair, Governor Christie fired Kelly yesterday as you know, she may soon be called to give testimony⁶, and that could be interesting, of course. 

A source telling CNN's xxx " It's widely held in Trenton that this, meaning the traffic mess, wasn't her order." So the question is whose order was it?

More now on Kelly the scandal and the documents have to say from Joe Johns who's been carefully weighing through them. Joe.

 

Anderson, there's a question already about whether there was an attempted conceal⁷ what was going on from public discussion. An email exchanges dated September 13th, Patrick Foxx who is a top port authority offcial essentially⁸ terminated the lane closures. He said he's gonna get to the bottom of whatever happen. Bill Baroni, a Christine appointed port authority offical who resigned in December over the controversy⁹ replied to the email saying he was on his way to the office to discuss and there could be no public discourse¹⁰ on the controversy. In response Foxx wrote Bill that's precisely¹¹ the problem. There's been no public discourse on this. Now this papertrail also shows at least one other member of Governor Christie's senior staff who hasn't been named publicly was forwarded an email detailing the extend of the problems on the bridge. However, we don't know whether that staff actually read that document, really know indication she was involved in any political retribution, Anderson. 

 

This appears to be, go ahead, Joe. 

 

No,no, the other thing I just want to mention is, you know, the mayor queston is  a huge question, Anderson. I know a lot of people have been interested in that, the mayor of Fort Lee, telling people he was being blamed for the problem with the bridge, and he wrote that the port authority police were blaming him. 

 

So, I mean, it does appear to be a political vendetta¹² against the mayor Fort Lee, the democrat¹³ who endorse¹⁴ Christie's opponent in last year's xxx election. You've actually found an interesting document related to the mayor talking about who was being blamed for the traffic nightmare. 

 

Yeah, well, this was actually a letter that was written by the mayor. And he wrote it to the top port authority offical Bill Baroni that I talked about earlier who's already resighed. The mayor was sort of drawing the conclusion on his own that this has been done to make him look bad. He said there were punitive¹⁵ overtones associated with it. So the mayor obviously had some real concerns about that, Anderson.

1 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

2 neural   

adj.神经的，神经系统的

参考例句：

• The neural network can preferably solve the non- linear problem.利用神经网络建模可以较好地解决非线性问题。
• The information transmission in neural system depends on neurotransmitters.信息传递的神经途径有赖于神经递质。

3 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

4 inflicting   

把…强加给，使承受，遭受( inflict的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He was charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. 他被控蓄意严重伤害他人身体。
• It's impossible to do research without inflicting some pain on animals. 搞研究不让动物遭点罪是不可能的。

5 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

6 testimony   

n.证词；见证，证明

参考例句：

• The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
• He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。

7 conceal   

v.隐藏，隐瞒，隐蔽

参考例句：

• He had to conceal his identity to escape the police.为了躲避警方，他只好隐瞒身份。
• He could hardly conceal his joy at his departure.他几乎掩饰不住临行时的喜悦。

8 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

9 controversy   

n.争论，辩论，争吵

参考例句：

• That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
• We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。

10 discourse   

n.论文，演说；谈话；话语；vi.讲述，著述

参考例句：

• We'll discourse on the subject tonight.我们今晚要谈论这个问题。
• He fell into discourse with the customers who were drinking at the counter.他和站在柜台旁的酒客谈了起来。

11 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

12 vendetta   

n.世仇，宿怨

参考例句：

• For years he pursued a vendetta against the Morris family.多年来他一直在寻求向莫里斯家族报世仇。
• She conducted a personal vendetta against me.她对我有宿仇。

13 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

14 endorse   

vt.(支票、汇票等)背书，背署；批注；同意

参考例句：

• No one is foolish enough to endorse it.没有哪个人会傻得赞成它。
• I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.我完全拥护你对此课题的主张。

15 punitive   

adj.惩罚的，刑罚的

参考例句：

• They took punitive measures against the whole gang.他们对整帮人采取惩罚性措施。
• The punitive tariff was imposed to discourage tire imports from China.该惩罚性关税的征收是用以限制中国轮胎进口的措施。