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New jersey committee investigating chris christie has announced it will be holding more hearings on last years lane closures, and that means more subpoenas. >> weve gotten to that point where weve assessed enough material that we can start asking questions to witnesses. and weve lined up potentially four individuals we think were going to bring in. so i could see there being four subpoenas going out to individuals. what youve uncovered, what weve uncovered through these interviews has opened up ...

We dont really know. but what we do know is the interview notes that weve been given really forces us to accept whoever wrote it version of what happened. we dont know exactly what was said. we take somebody elses synthesis of that. and thats troubling. >> you have been enmeshed in a legal battle to compel document production from two of the people that are at the center of this, bridget anne kelly, of course, who wrote the infamous "time for traffic problems in ft. lee," if theres anyone that k...

Welcome to the modern world. esurance. backed by allstate. click or call. all right. i want to tell you about some potentially big news about the port authority of newark, new jersey, which is the agency that operates much of the regions transportation infrastructure, including the george washington bridge, where those access lanes were closed off last september to create the now-infamous traffic problems in ft. lee. and if youre anything like me, you were pretty skeptical about

>> am i correct, by the taxpayers of new jersey? >> by the taxpayers of the state of new jersey. so its really questionable what the true mission here was. was the mission here to defend the governors office or was the mission here to get at the truth at any price? we dont really know. but what we do know is the interview notes that weve been given really forces us to accept whoever wrote it version of what happened. we dont know exactly what was said. we take somebody elses synthesis of that. a...

Governor christie needs in order to revive his national political career. i dont particularly care. but i am willing to guess that what he needs in order to revive his national political career is not more man-made traffic problems. especially in a situation where the transportation commissioner was begging a chris christie staffer named bridget kelly to please let him meet with the local mayor to avert the traffic crisis. especially not when that same christie staffer that the transportation co...

To revive his national political career. i dont particularly care. but i am willing to guess that what he needs in order to revive his national political career is not more man-made traffic problems. especially in a situation where the transportation commissioner was begging a chris christie staffer named bridget kelly to please let him meet with the local mayor to avert the traffic crisis. especially not when that same christie staffer that the transportation commissioner was begging is the sam...

Administration lawyers conducted with one of christies top staffers, his campaign apparently sent an explicit word to the governors office that dealt with them, the one headed by bridgette kelly, not to rush to return the governors phone call. someone in the governors office was supposed to be hands off of. this was pretty much what weve been looking for. governor christie has been making noises that he cant understand how his people got the idea they were to be playing rough with political hold...

Like valjean, the impoverished immigrant is reduced by economic forces beyond his control to find extreme measures to feed his family. not suggesting poor people should be forgiven for committing crime because theyre poor, even though rich people on wall street are routinely forgiven for crimes that hurt millions, but i digress. a core question here is in what circumstances are some crimes understandable? who among us would not do whatever it took to feed our family in a time of extreme economic...

Center of the bridgegate issues. former christie campaign manager, bill steppian, whom christie said he fired for his tone, not for involvement in these lane closings, and bridgette ann kelly, christies former deputy chief of staff. kelly, of course, had a direct link to the lane closings, because of that infamous e-mail, quote, time for some traffic problems in ft. lee, to which david wildstein replied, got it. the legislature has seen testimony and documents from both of them, and wildstein in...

Hundreds of pages of documents that had been turned over to his committee from the port authority and he was the one who found that e-mail, late at night, on the 26th, alone in his office, the one that said, "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee," that e-mail from governor christies deputy chief of staff. and he saw the response from the man inside the port authority, "got it." the legislature and its investigation how anybody learned that what happened here wasnt just some traffic screwup....