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BRIDGEGATE TRIAL

Wildstein
spills more
secrets of plot
in testimony

SPARKS FLY AT
FIRST DEBATE

PETER J. SAMPSON AND PAUL BERGER

STAFF WRITERS

NEWARK - New revelations linking Gov. Chris

Christies former campaign manager and an ex-Bergen
County executive to the Bridgegate scandal spilled out
Monday as the governments star witness took jurors
inside the politically motivated plot to paralyze Fort
Lee with traffic in 2013.
Weeks before he set the scheme in motion, David
Wildstein testified, he alerted William Pat Schuber, a
commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey, of the plan to create gridlock by closing
access lanes to the George Washington Bridge.
I viewed Mr. Schuber as a loyal member of Gov.
Christies team, Wildstein told the jury.
Wildstein said he met Schuber, a Republican who
had been Bergens second county executive, for breakfast at a diner they frequented. In a couple of weeks,
theres going to be some significant traffic in Fort Lee,
Wildstein said he told Schuber.
Wildstein explained that the instructions came

Presidential hopefuls tangle over taxes, jobs, race

See TRIAL, Page 7A

SIMON & SCHUSTER

EPA

The cover photo of Bruce Springsteen's book Born to Run.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton shake hands at the start of their first debate, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.

Springsteen book
shares roots at
the Jersey Shore

JULIE PACE AND JILL COLVIN ASSOCIATED PRESS

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - In a combative opening debate, Hillary Clinton emphatically denounced Donald Trump Monday night for keeping his personal tax
returns and business dealings secret from voters and
peddling a racist lie about President Barack Obama. Businessman Trump repeatedly cast Clinton as a
typical politician as he sought to capitalize on
Americans frustration with Washington.
Locked in an exceedingly close White House race,
the presidential rivals tangled for 90 minutes over
their vastly different visions for the nations future.
Clinton called for lowering taxes for the middle class,
while Trump focused more on renegotiating trade
deals that he said have caused companies to move
jobs out of the U.S. The Republican backed the controversial stop-and-frisk policing tactic as a way to
bring down crime, while the Democrat said the policy

CHRIS JORDAN @CHRISFHJORDAN

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There are, not surprisingly, a lot of highways in

Bruce Springsteen excellent new autobiography, Born
to Run.
There are family trips to the Manasquan Inlet; a couple of early band trips to the West Coast (turn back, we
forgot manager Carl Tinker Wests dog!); cross-country road trips with buddies and furtive drives on the
dark highways that surround the Boss hometown of
Freehold Borough.
Springsteen was not Born to Run, he was born to
search. The root of these trips is a longing for stardom, for self-awareness and for happiness with family.
Fans can be thankful that his detailing of these
searches is eminently readable and engaging. Springsteen was also born to write. He has an active, energetic
style that is part Jack Kerouac and part Instagram post:
I hail from the exotic land of ... THINGS THE WAY I

conversation.

See SPRINGSTEEN, Page 2A

SETH HARRISON/THE JOURNAL NEWS

Hofstra University students Sarah Dowd and Ryan Czelada

watch the first presidential debate at a watch party.

See DEBATE, Page 8A

INSIDE
Election is a ready-made civics lesson
on a silver platter. STORY, PAGE 5A
Monmouth University presidential
poll indicates Never Clinton faction
is big but Never Trump is bigger.
STORY, PAGE 10A

ROUND ONE: How the

candidates performed in
the first presidential debate, and what comes
next. Pages 1-2B

Who won? Go to APP.com,

ANALYSIS

Debate does little to change minds

BOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP

Americans have told pollsters they dont like their

presidential choices and Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump dont like each other. Their first debate meeting Monday night did little to offer voters a different
view.
Democrat Clinton struck an optimistic chord
early, saying the central question in this election is
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really what kind of country we want to be and what

kind of future we want to build together. But she and
Republican Trump spent most of their 90 minutes engaging in personal attacks.
Trump, no match for Clinton on policy details,
needed this night at Hofstra University in New York
to demonstrate that hes presidential. Better luck
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