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Tomorrow. it is the beginning of our political coverage today. heres nbcs steve kornacki. >> reporter: imagine a world where this -- >> new jerseys governor chris christie won reelection in a landslide, setting the stage for a possible run for president in 2016. >> -- was immediately followed by this. >> newly obtained e-mails for the first time to lane closures on the george washington bridge last fall. it reads, time for some traffic problems in fort lee. >> reporter: its hard to imagine now, ...

Who knows if that grows to 17. but thats where we stand right now with our handy save the date calendar for the 2016 gop -- >> this is summer and booked up until the 21st of july. francis, thanks so much. in 2012 chris christie looked like a savior in the republican party. today, hes polling in the very low single digits. so what went wrong? in a word bridgegate. steve kornacki explains. >> reporter: imagine a world where this -- >> new jersey governor chris christie won a landslide setting a ...

Setting the stage for a possible run for president in 2016. wasnt immediately followed by this. >> newly obtained e-mails for the first time link new jersey governor, chris christies office to lane closures on the george washington bridge last fall. it reads, "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." >> its hard to imagine now, but before there was bridge gate if there was one candidate who looked like he could win back the white house for republicans in 2016 it was chris christie. he had all...

Payback. whats the latest outside district court in new jersey? >> reporter: there were two not guilty please in federal court in newark. the lane closures on the george washington bridge not only caused traffic tie-ups for days but poll ratings for governor chris christie plummeted in the garden state. his fired deputy chief of staff bridget ann kelly appeared in court. she was the form he official who wrote that infamous e-mail "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." charged with nine cou...

The governors office. she has been wronged. and shes not going to go down quietly. >> remember shes the one who wrote the infamous traffic problems report. she said yesterday it was a failed attempt at sarcasm and hugh more in a long e-mail chain, but that was what was pulled out. and this whole thing has been pinned on her. the indictments that she said yesterday was one-sided for wildstein and she just called a liar of the port authority, and shes had to sit now for well over a year and hear h...

Christie appointee at the agency who runs the bridge. an e-mail, in which kelly directed david wildstein to unleash traffic chaos. time for traffic problems in fort lee. then the chris christie appointee responded, got it. what unleashed was traffic armageddon. a planned orchestrated traffic jam that paralyzed fort lee for four days. before somebody stopped it when they figured out what was happening. today, the recipient of the time for traffic problems e-mail, david wildstein, pled guilty, to ...

Arraigned. those are two instrumental figures. bridget anne kelly that sent the original text message about time to close down -- what was the language? >> time for some traffic problems in fort lee. by the way, the documents show they purposely picked the first day of school to make it worse. >> reporter: all right bob. thank you for helping me remember the exact wording there. i appreciate it. good luck with the launch of the new website this weekend. >> thank you. >> thank you sir. well be ba...

The other thing i think you heard in her statement there, she said the idea that i as an aide would have been able to do this on my own is crazy. the idea that nobody else would have known about the nature of these shutdowns, that would be crazy, too. thats another aspect of this defense youre going to hear. when you know these players, and where she comes from in new jersey politics, shes somebody who was never in chris christies inner circle. she was not part of the team that got him elected i...

That david will seen who was a top authority at the port authority is set to plead guilty for his role in causing traffic jams. it was his e-mail exchange with another top staffer about traffic problems that put the scandal in the national spotlight. the report suggests he is cooperating with federal prosecutors in their investigation and could reveal more about how the plot unfolded. this potential development as the governor reprepares a final decision on twlor seek the presidency. he said he ...

57% who say that they couldnt. christie still has time to undo this damage of course and he does have real skill as an off-the-cuff communicator. so maybe you get him on the debate stage with the other republican candidates. its possible hell have one of those breakthrough moments. but to pull off a comeback like that, if hes going to be able to do that christie first needs to break free once and for all from bridgegate. for more than a year now, we have heard his denials, denying first that the...