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>> i dont know. i dont know. i mean, listen, up to this point in time, up to the e-mails released yesterday it was senator baronis testimony that mr. wildstein initiated it at his approval -- with his approval. now, you know, i dont know given some of the e-mails that i saw yesterday. but clearly mr. wildstein played a major role in it, whether it was his idea initiation of senator baroni testify i guess time will tell. but clearly there was knowledge of this action whatever it was prior to the ...

Staff. here with me is the host of "up." youve been watching this long press conference. your reaction? >> good theater, a question about whether he did himself good by going on for 1:45. he put himself in a situation where hes making absolutely clear he was lied to by the people around him and no knowledge of this. hes still not sure if it was a traffic study, anything like that. the problem here i think is -- potential problem is this. ive seen this happen before. three years ago. he fired som...

Such as -- governors office, traffic study, funding, without getting prior approval from you or your senior staff? or did she just read [ inaudible ] >> listen, i dont believe bridget had policy authority on any issue. bridgets job was to interact with the other governmental agencies and to have interaction with members of the legislature. and that was her job. so my understanding of her authority was that she had no authority on policy. that policy issues had to be run through the chief of staf...

Ive heard nothing from them that changes their position. i now see e-mails which indicate that there is a political overtone to what went on. i dont know what the situation is. i dont know whether -- like i said, i think i answered this before, i dont know whether this was some type of rogue political operation that morphed into a traffic study or traffic study that morphed into an additional rogue -- >> as best i can. mr. wildstein is scheduled to testify at the legislature. so not like hes ava...

Thats it. if i had to have gotten to the underlying conduct, there was plenty there to fire her on there. but i didnt need to get there. question one was, do you know anything about this? did you have any involvement in it? the answer was no and e-mail is evidence that the should have been yes. i need to go no further than that in terms of making a determination about her future employment with me. >> governor christie, one of the things in terms of compliance standpoint, the very person who has...

Commentary, wasnt it? >> you said you got very little if any sleep last night, did you ever at any moment entertaining the idea of -- [ inaudible question ] >> oh, god no. brian, listen, i know youre asking. you know, i am. i heard in the back thats a crazy question, man. im telling you, i had nothing to do with this. so, you know, no, i never gave any thought to doing that at all, nor would i. what was i thinking about last night when i couldnt go to sleep? how did this happen? thats what i was...

Question, youre fired. thats it. now, if i had to have gotten to the underlying conduct, there was plenty underlying conduct to fire her onto, but i didnt even get there. because question one was, do you know anything about this? did you have any involvement in it? the answer was no. the e-mails evidence that the answer should have been yes. i need to go no further than that in terms of making a determination about her future employment with me. >> governor christie, in terms of a client standpo...

With this person that when he saw these e-mails he had her fired. and, you know, its obvious that hes getting some legal advice that he should not get involved in the whys. >> we should know christies onto something here assuming everything he said today is true, hes onto something here when he said he had no idea why there would be this vendetta. >> exactly. >> and hes not saying -- hes not giving any credibility to the idea this had anything to do with an endorsement. >> right. just the opposi...

Being walled off from this and maybe that was his attorneys who were doing it is, why did bridget anne kelly -- why did she decide that this was a good, smart thing to do from the governors office? >> out of political vengeance allegedly to go ahead and disrupt traffic in this town of ft. lee because the mayor supposedly had not endorsed his re-election. >> and the closest christie got to answering that question was he said why would this be a political vendetta? i did not know this man. i did n...

Position is lanes were closed to do a traffic study. and ive heard nothing from them that changes their position. i now see e-mails which indicate that there is a political overtone to what went on. i dont know what the situation is. i dont know whether -- i think i answered this before, i dont know whether this was some type of rogue political operation that morphed into a traffic study, or traffic study that morphed into an additional rogue political operative. i dont know. well, listen, as be...