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This year theyre like november surprises. >> like the world series is in november now. >> thats exactly right. weve seen the bridgegate story itself is a bit of a november surprise given the importance of chris christie and the trump ticket. >> the transition director. >> weve got the fbi intervention which is -- turns the out to be not just one story but sort of an ongoing story. is there a way to look at historical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcom...

President trump. after the conviction on all counts today of christies deputy chief of staff and one of his top appointees, now well be looking at sentencing, so we will see how much time theyll do. but christie himself may be taking the stand himself. christie in person. 2 1/2 weeks from now. in a related criminal complaint that was brought about in the bridgegate scheme. the timing means that if elected tuesday, chris christie will presumably be taking the stand two weeks later to talk about h...

November now. >> thats exactly right. weve seen the bridgegate story itself is a bit of a november surprise given the importance of chris christie and the trump ticket. >> the transition director. >> weve got the fbi intervention which is -- turns the out to be not just one story but sort of an ongoing story. is there a way to look at historical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcome of an election and which end up being trivia? >> the problem is that wh...

In all these various states theres been various legal fights to stop voter intimidation tactics by the republican party and by the trump campaign. also there have been a lot of legal efforts to block republican efforts to make voting harder by various means. today in kansas and in ohio and in arizona and in north carolina, democrats won legal battles over voting rights and voter intimidation in all of those states today. democrats basically ran the table in terms of their big legal fights in the...

Wall street journal" which was the first newspaper to link that mysterious days long traffic jam to a political scheme that was aimed at winning political endorsements for chris christie. heres the amazing kicker in this story in terms of our democracy. as the bridgegate scandal that those papers broke, as the bridgegate scandal first went to trial, the bergen record, first paper to report anything about it, they were told by their corporate owner that their newsroom is getting gutted, cut nearl...

Despite all of the testimony to the contrary at the trial. keep in mind at the trial both the defense and the prosecution said that governor christie knew about the lane closure scheme while it was happening in september 2013. he knew about it before the media started to pick it up. first in a traffic column by the bergen record then in "the wall street journal" which was the first newspaper to link that mysterious days long traffic jam to a political scheme that was aimed at winning political e...

Broke the political side of bridgegate. the two papers that broke this story wide open both got gutted while it was in the courts. chris christie is still the head of the trump transition team, at least for now. tonight christie called off his trump appearances in new hampshire this weekend. but four of chris christies aides and appointees are federal convicts now. chris christies own political career is likely toast because of all this. all that happened because of smart, local beat reporters, ...

Down to the very end, in a close race getting down to the very end, were getting a lot of dramatic news. today was a lot of dramatic legal news. actually today down the line uniformly was a good day of legal news for the democrats. in all these various states theres been various legal fights to stop voter intimidation tactics by the republican party and by the trump campaign. also there have been a lot of legal efforts to block republican efforts to make voting harder by various means. today in ...

>> what about chris christie? chris christie on the flip side, on the trump side, we know hes heading up the transition team and returning to the campaign trail tomorrow, dana, in new hampshire amid the fact that its just crossed today that two of his former allies were convicted in the bridgegate trial. is that a smart move for the trump campaign to have the governor out tomorrow? >> is it a smart move? i think if weve seen from the history of donald trump whether it was when corey lewandowski ...

Thank you, joy reid. and thank you, jonathan with the philadelphia enquirer. join me for a special two-hour edition of "hardball" starting at 6:00 eastern, hillary clinton, bill clinton, the president, the first lady and chelsea clinton are holding their. the big five are coming to the city of the big five. were talking basketball. coming up, days after fbi director james comey sent word that the bureau was investigating new e-mails, trump supporter rudy giuliani promised a couple surprises wo...