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And prepared too further alter traffic patterns in the event of an emergency. >> not true. we now have peoples voices on those 911 calls proving, again, that that is not true. and he was not the only chris christie ally advancing that untrue story about how nothing that happened on the bridge that week affected public safety. the head of the police union and close ally of governor chris christie, he defended the lane closures, quote, was there any ambulance delay? no police service delay? no. ye...

>> so the head of the port authority pba raised this? >> that is correct. >> i love the reporter laughing at this. when reporters asked about baronis comments he backed up saying i support traffic patterns. we have yet to see documented evidence of the fact and despite a subpoena. says it was garbage to say otherwise. im protecting the governor here. dont ask me for papers because i have been subpoenaed twice and im not participating. he didnt just try to back up baronis alibi and took aim at pa...

He showed up at the bridge that morning to see what the impact was of shutting down the lanes from ft. lee, at 7:30 that morning, he sent this e-mail saying he was going for a ride around with chip. thanks to steve kornackis reporting, we believe that was david wildstein taking a ride around with port authority police lieutenant whose name is chip michaels. he turns up in a few other places in the documents that have been released publicly so far. we have previously reported, we broke the news o...

Study, an important part of his alibi was the port authority police union saying it was his idea to look at fort lee traffic lanes. >> at some point in late july members of the port authority police spoke to david wildstein. so it was triggered by a conversation late july. >> who were these police officers that raised the issue that we ought to look at this? >> the leadership of the port authority police. >> names? >> so the head of the port authority pba raised this? >> that is correct. >> i lo...

Thanks to steve kornackis reporting, we believe that was david wildstein taking a ride around with port authority police lieutenant whose name is chip michaels. he turns up in a few other places in the documents that have been released publicly so far. we have previously reported, we broke the news on this show about how david wildstein did the work over a period of a couple weeks of planning the bridge shutdown before he put it into effect. what was fascinating about that, is that he got some o...

Days before the election that he had had a drunk driving arrest and weirdly enough, for driving too slowly home from maine. in any event, okay, who broke that story? and it hurt him. that story hurt george bush in the 2000 presidential election. who broke it? fox news. >> whats your point? >> my point is, youre never going to get a scandal against a democrat broken by msnbc. you are never going to get an articulate conservative on msnbc. its just not a closed set of only liberals. youre allowed ...

Republican presidential candidate you werent here then but when george bush first ran came out a matter of days before the election he had had a drunk driving arrest weirdly enough for driving too slowly up in maine home from a country club one time with his parents in the car. in any event, okay, who broke that story? and it hurt him. they looked at the polls. that story hurt george bush in the 2000 presidential election. who broke it? fox news. >> whats your point? >> my point is, youre never ...

Told the legislature that untrue thing, he knew when he said it it wasnt true. bill baroni has been notified the first day of the shutdown that ft. lee police and medical responders were already having difficulty responding to emergencies because of the traffic. that e-mail was sent to bill baroni, so he knew. we also know mr. baroni was sent a letter from the mayor of ft. lee on thursday of the shutdown, telling him, quote, our emergency service vehicles are experiencing tremendous response tim...

To make sure no emergency vehicles were having any trouble, we stood ready to change any traffic patterns as need be, if emergency vehicles were having any problems, when he said that to the legislature in late november, it was not true and he knew that it was not true. so, yeah, bill baroni was one of the first people who had to resign in this scandal and now hes been subpoenaed and hes been told to hand over his cell phone and all the rest. yeah, thats what happened to bill baroni, but, but, l...

>> at all times during the week of the study, the port authority police department monitored traffic on the george washington bridge. they were alert for any emergency vehicles in the area and prepared to further alter traffic patterns -- excuse me -- in the event of an emergency. >> that is not true. emergency vehicles had a ton of trouble, actually, because of the bridge lane shutdown. we know that because of ems chief in ft. lee writing to the mayor in that town during the traffic jam, on the...