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He received at least one subpoena from the state legislature which he was due to respond to today unless he got an extension. is bill baroni paying for his own legal representation or is the port authority going to represent him legally or pay his legal bills? the port authority is not paying the legal bills of the other official from that agency who resigned because of this scandal. both bill baroni and david wildstein asked the port authority to pay for their legal representation. the answer t...

Hmm. its one thing for a false story to have been concocted and sold as a cover-up for why those bridge lanes were actually shut down, right? it would be one thing if the two guys who resigned in this scandal could be blamed alone for having cooked up that cover story, themselves, that was supposed to hide what the governors office, specifically then-deputy chief of staff bridget kelly actually explicitly ordered to happen on that bridge. be one thing if it was those two guys, but if it wasnt ju...

E-mail has resigned. she is now the fifth chris christie staffer or appointee or close ally who has resigned or been fired since the bridge lane scandal broke. the first two people to pre-resign, bill baroni and david wildstein. see baroni there. the circle on the left. you see wildstein next to christie. wildstein and baroni both resigned. baroni was governor christies number two appointee at the port authority. he resigned in december as did david wildstein. david wildstein is a person bill ba...

Way theyre palpably evidently close. and things his social studies teacher and as a teenager to try to cast out, its not like i dont expect them to two after somebody like david wildstein. i guess i expected them to do it in a way that was less laughable. are they unexpectedly bad at this? i dont understand. >> theyre good at attacking people. this was based mostly on one profile that was written about david wildstein about a year and a half ago. the issue with david wildstein, this is a guy who...

Of cryptic letter from the attorney for david wildstein. the port authority official whos at the center of the lane closings. the one who seems to have actually arranged them. "the new york times" got ahold of this letter in which mr. wildsteins attorney mostly makes the case to a lawyer at the port authority that the port authority should pay mr. wildsteins legal fees. also in this letter mr. wildsteins attorney wrote a strange passive tense sentence that brought front-page headlines across the...

Said actually exonerated governor christie, corroborated what he said all along. it was a strange reaction, publicly, but not that notable in terms of its substance. privately, though, it was a whole different story. on saturday, politico.com was first to publish an e-mail that they say governor christies office sent to, "friends and allies." this was so weird i actually had to wonder if i was getting punked when i first saw it. i couldnt believe this was a real thing. nobodys contesting the acc...

This on friday. to hide clips of the reporter who wrote the story, really, point-by-point went after them. this was not an angry chris christie tonight. he was still somewhat on the defensive which i thought was interesting. so youre seeing him present a somewhat contrite, a little bit on the defensive where his people more subtly and behind the scenes are going on the offense. and i wonder if thats a tone were going to continue to see for a while, or if thats going to shift a bit at some point....

It had no job description. they created the job for him. the port authority has no resume on file for mr. wildstein which means he didnt exactly have to apply and jump through hoops in order to get it. when asked why david wildstein had this $150,000 a year job with no job description and no resume on file at the port authority, governor christies spokesman defended the decision to hire mr. wildstein. look, david wildstein is "there in that job because hes well suited to the task of playing a ro...

For her leaving. she said, instead, shed been considering leaving the governors office anyway for a long time since maybe back to the election but decided she would go now. she decided specifically that her last day would be the day that david wildstein made the allegation that governor christie knew about the lane closures on the bridge while they were still under way. the governor denies that, but his staff definitely did know. and that e-mail from september 12th from christina renna not only ...

So maybe they were forced to go back to high school and, you know, build a character sketch of them that would be unflattering. and, you know, this is sort of the way they operate. i mean, they are extremely effusive in their praise of people that they are propping up. nominees. political allies. but if you get on their wrong side, theyre going to, you know, bring out the knives. and thats what were seeing here. but, you know, to be honest, wildstein is also bringing out the knives. i mean, wild...