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Wondering is this the guy that has higher ambitions and can move ahead and become a republican presidential candidate, a serious one, and maybe a nominee. well see how he handles this crisis. theres a lot of questions even if he didnt know specifically about the detail as, as jake points out, was there an atmosphere or climate within the senior staff that resulted in this political vendetta against the mayor in fort lee, new jersey. that democratic mayor did what democrats are supposed to do, en...

People which so far we havent seen. hes got to answer the question, really, about how they thought they could do this and did they do this to please him because thats the culture in chris christies office? why did they think that something like this would make the boss happy? not just acceptable but please him. >> will he explain what happened, all of a sudden three days they had cones put out there. they closed three lanes of the george washington bridge, busiest bridge in the world, between ne...

What does it say, joe? >> its a new headache from the chris christie administration. a letter from the emergency medical services coordinator in fort lee, new jersey, he ticks off four times when they were delayed responding to calls apparently due to the change in traffic patterns in the fort lee area. were talking about a vehicle accident with injuries involving four patients, a woman in cardiac arrest who was pronounced at a local hospital and a couple cases of people experiencing chest pains...

Is when this happened. . when the port authority which runs the bridge, put out a statement saying, the week long traffic jam that gridlocks the town of fort lee, that traffic jam was because of a secret traffic study. as soon as they said that, and the traffic columnist called around and asked for comment from local officials on that statement, the police chief in fort lee and the mayor in fort lee immediately called bull puckey on that claim. its not true, i asked the port for an explanation, ...

Apparently due to the change in traffic patterns in the fort lee area. were talking about a vehicle accident with injuries involving four patients, a woman in cardiac arrest who was pronounced at a local hospital and a couple cases of people experiencing chest pains. the letter was dated september 10th of last year. this shows why the evidence of intentionally created delays on the george washington bridge are so serious for the governors office. >> reporter: first, there was snarled traffic on ...

During the time period in question. were talking about a vehicle accident with injuries involving four patients and also and perhaps most importantly, he reports a woman was in cardiac arrest and says she was later pronounced at inglewood hospital, generally in the parlance, pronounced means pronounced dead. there are a couple other details in the letter that favia ticks off of people suffering chest pains. this letter is not political, it was dated september 10th of last year. the only recommen...

Going to be the bigger story because this will be a drip, drip, drip. he needs to explain -- he said he didnt know. >> yes. >> hes implying that he was lied to. >> right. >> who is this text messager -- >> no, we have a lot more to learn. >> from the documents that have been released. why was this culture created in the governors office where something like this was acceptable? because obviously this was condoned. >> if it turns out that he lied, thats going to be a bad day for christie. >> mayb...

Just within new jersey, this is very few things could provoke more sort of popular widespread outrage than the idea of messing with peoples commutes in the morning, making them late for work, messing with the entire traffic patterns in a town, popular anger just the fact of that could unleash is significant, but more broadly like you say, it gets the question of honesty. thats huge not just in new jersey, but nationally. >> theres more to come with this, "up with steve kornacki," thanks, you can...

Ft. lee, why they shut down their access to the bridge. this was the written statement -- "the port authority has conducted a week of study at the george washington bridge of traffic safety patterns. we will now review those results and determine the best traffic patterns at the bridge." but if closing two of the three lanes on to the bridge was part of a study, why did the director of the agency write a blistering letter saying hed never heard of this study? if this was a study of traffic on th...

Shooters and she said that as you heard there there is an excess -- they could not be too cautious there was surveillance footage and eyewitness accounts and there was an alert for a white male and an african male in their upper 50s -- 40s and 50s and one point one was clears and they have not found that african male but they said neither is under suspicion on this alert and tomorrow the city will be open, the traffic patterns will be open. the city is not on lock down. but it will be some time ...