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So there are many, many questions. there are so many things we dont know. we dont know, for example, why it was time for traffic problems in ft. lee. we dont know anything about previous communications. so perhaps theres something that governor christie knows that he hasnt shared with us that hasnt now been shared with us through this report. but i think one thing is clear, yesterday many things were a mystery. today theyre still, unfortunately, a mystery. >> joy, this is the best ive got. this ...

Time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. they give us that information and then assure us that the endorsement had nothing to do with it. report also tells us for the first time, and this is brand new information that we never even had an allusion to before, this report also tells us shortly after the call to check on the mayors endorsement, before the bridge lane is actually shut down, on august 22nd, two staffers in governor christies office engaged in what amounts to another act of politica...

We also know even though the governor said publicly on december 19th that he wasnt asking any questions about the bridge issue, he wasnt looking it, he said if youre asking me if ive done independent investigation, the answer is no. the governor was not telling the truth. a week earlier he had, in fact, started investigating. independently. what his staff knew and when they knew it. morning of december 12th, 2013, governor christie, himself, asked bill stepien, campaign manager, what, if anythin...

Almost and emotional and dealing with personal relationship issues. >> lets be crystal clear. that fact, the short period of the personal relationship, and then when it cooled and the lack of communication where they were not speaking in the first week of august, is a relative fact because this decision of kelly greenlighting the proposal to close the lanes occurs in a now in an e-mail on august 13th -- time for traffic problems in fort lee. that is after they are esstranged and not communicates...

Mayor of ft. lee, new jersey. bridget kelly, the night before she sent that e-mail, called a campaign staffer and asked whether mayor sokolich of ft. lee was going to endorse governor christie. the staffer responded that the mayor was not going to endorse governor christie. kelly responded in some more substance that that was all she needed to know. then 12 hours later, she sent that e-mail, "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." so that kind of makes it seem like, hmm, maybe it was the en...

For governor cristys purposes, it was taxpayer money well spent. >> there not a shred of evidence that the governor did anything other than what he said before, he had no knowledge before hand and no role in the decision to implement it or in the implementation of it. >> indeed, the shreds of hard evidence, all of them, according to the christie commissioned internal review, the shreds of hard evidence all pile up around basically two people -- david wildstein, cristys port authority point man w...

And it writes up what we already knew and what was already in the public domain. but it writes even documents i notice that dont seem credible to me and didnt seem credible are laundered through this report without any question, right, as if they are -- as if thats the story because its in the paperwork. and it doesnt really do much work to dignity deeper into that, or do any real scrutiny of what was already discovered by senator weinbergs committee. >> youre right. senator weinberg, i got to g...

D dunn. heres what we currently know. the firm that chris christie hired to investigate his own administration cleared his administration of any wrongdoing. heres what we currently dont know. why traffic problems in ft. lee were ordered in the first place. joining me now, paul butler, professor of law at georgetown university law center. former federal prosecutor with the u.s. doj where he specialized if public corruption. all right. youre a former prosecutor. chris christie, former prosecutor. ...

When e-mails first leaked linking his aides to the traffic in ft. lee, the governor, himself, requested to meet with two top lawyers at the firm. deborah wong yang and randy mast row. miss yang has described christie as a very dear form and as a former bush appointed u.s. attorney just like chris christie. randy maestro with a deputy to former new york city governor rj religion. hes now at least the eighth giuliani staffer to join team christie over the years. while gibson, dunn may be highlight...

Unseen report, which does not include interviews with the most important known players at the center of the scandal, bridget anne kelly, the author of the e-mail "time for some traffic problems in fort lee." david wildstein, the enthusiastic recipient of that e-mail, and bill stepien, chris christies former campaign manager. christie of course could have saved the state of new jersey a million dollars by simply asking bridget kelly one question. >> i have -- i have not had a conversation with br...