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Theyre seeking documents, the investigators are, on the george washington bridge closures according to two lawyers for those political organization. you know, jonathan, were going to be talk about in the next segment about how people on the side of christie who are simply partisans, fair enough, thats what partisans do, are basically saying this is a media hype. its a liberal hype, its a democratic hype. and yet the creeping evidence that the legal proceedings are moving ahead, that witnesses ar...

Schar, who is this top flight guy coming in from the fitzgerald case -- or actually the blagojevich case out in illinois which he won that prosecution. let me go to stan brand. does this look like an important development that theyve combined their legislative forces here? >> big-time. because you know, chris, from working in the congress, when you have competition and rivalries between two chambers investigative committees you have problems. its much better for them to try to coordinate and get...

Witness, at least those who are not in office, and there is a lot of them right now, theyre going to take the same step wildstein took which is to invoke their fifth amendment privileges. were not going to get live testimony. >> what do you get bridget kelly thinking her own gmail or aol account would somehow protect her from subpoena. michael, it seems to me if thats a continual problem within these people, youre going to see a lot of e-mail reaching the jury here. >> well, actually, weve seen ...

Government official or anybody who wants to keep something from me or a journalist, all they have to do is go to their yahoo! account from 1995 or whatever. no, turns out they dont. others were under that impression, too. >> theres an element no one has talked about david wildstein in his previous life as wally edge has 15 years of e-mails. i mean, it could go way beyond this bridge thing. hes prepared to turn some of that stuff over to the u.s. attorney. it could be maybe not crimes but a lot o...

Transportation spending only is spent, its empty. lets say in the meantime, joe l. suspects someone else has gotten into that lockbox. neil, you were dead right to focus on the lockbox. what a crock. social security is supposed to be a locked box. you look at the box, all you find is ious. i have my belly full of these liars. tom, whenever youre driving on a highway late at night in new jersey and you pass the guys working construction at 1:00 a.m., just remember theyre getting paid double overt...

I say no. life is unfair, but the government rescues are really unfair. now, as were clawing back, theyre unwise and unnecessarily costly. diane e-mails, youre right. you should never be able to buy a house without at least putting one third down, or well be back to 2008 and my house will be down by one third again. well, i dont think it has to be one third down, diane, but i do think it should be substantial enough that the borrower has a clear stake and the lender has a clear incentive to find...

Believe, for people to see. >> yeah. im with you on all fronts there. nischelle turner, we will talk a lot tonight as weve been mentioning, all the special coverage throughout the evening at the golden globes. nischelle, thanks so much. well, the iphone breaking into a brand-new market starting tomorrow. so where in the world will apple have access to twice as many new customers as the population of the u.s.? were going to tell you right after a break. first, if youre looking for a new job o...

What more do you need? three and a half years ago and the rollout come out how that and the website was a night player. it was an aol dial-up website at some point. it took two months to at least get working will. >> can anyone make that sound? remember that? why is he wrong? >> of all the ways to embarrass me, i wont embarrass myself that way. >> why is he wrong? >> it is too predictable. it is too obvious. weve spent the whole year talking about health care. i for one am tired of it. the websi...

About two years old back then and had really taken off in political circles, the guy who ran it had great sources and unmatched institutional knowledge. now he wanted to go main stream and wanted a real reporter, someone with a real name to put on the site to do real reporting, to be accountable in real life. i had my interview there, i was staying with my aunt and uncle. my little cousin helped me set up aol messenger, he offered me the job, it paid almost nothing, there were no benefits, and i...

Letters came in, but i didnt even get them. in 2004, there were a million political news sites out there. remember, this was 2002, the idea was exotic. the listing came with an aol address, i was curious, excited, desperate. i wrote a long e-mail and poured out my heart, pretty much, explaining how interested i was in politics, how badly i wanted to write about it for a career. how much this opportunity would mean to me. the ad was vague, i didnt know who was on the other end of the e-mail. the ...