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Documents already. of course, we know these christie staffers, bill stepien and deputy chief of staff bridget kelly have both invoked their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination and are refusing to turn over anything. bridget kelly, of course, is the person who worked in the governors office who sent that e-mail that said "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." shes the one who then professed basically her delight at the havoc that was being caused in ft. lee when the traffic pro...

Campaign got one. in a radio interview, christie staid his own office got a subpoena. bridget kelly who wrote "time for some traffic problems if ft. lee" does not seem to have received a subpoena. federal prosecutors have not subpoenaed her. interesting. federal prosecutors started out saying theyd opened an inquiry into the closing of those toll lanes on that bridge back in september. since then, they have not subpoenaed the central figure in that scandal. at least not yet. they have, however, ...

Steves show on a saturday here on msnbc. the following day, the sunday thereafter, she says she met with lawyers from the u.s. attorneys office in newark. she says she gave them her diary and other documents offering evidence in support of her allegations. the next day, monday, fbi agents reportedly started questioning members of mayor zimmers staff. people who said they could possibly corroborate her story. then this past friday, the u.s. attorney issued a subpoena to the city of hoboken, itsel...

Danielides, paul nunziato, responded and turned in their documents already. of course, we know these christie staffers, bill stepien and deputy chief of staff bridget kelly have both invoked their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination and are refusing to turn over anything. bridget kelly, of course, is the person who worked in the governors office who sent that e-mail that said "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." shes the one who then professed basically her delight at the ha...

What i can promise you is wear going to do our best. >> new jersey governor chris christie making his first public kme comments on the bridge scandal tonight since nearly a month ago. that interview was live tonight as more breaking news in this story broke. third figure in the scandal invoked the fifth amendment and will not comply with the subpoena on the issue. following his campaign manager and a high school friend, beyond bill stepien and david wildstein. the third person invoking the amend...

Political process, all his people around him, stepien, his campaign manager at the time he is talking about it in the fall, his deputy chief of staff, the person he put on the bridge authority, everybody is taking the fifth amendment. everybody now formally thinks theyre in trouble. everybody is afraid of prosecution, perhaps afraid of prison. its likely. and yet he says i didnt know anything about this thing. its now almost at the edge of looks like a criminal offense here. and my question to y...

And that was the first time they got a sense that there might be some issue here. >> well, thats the statement of fact, which weve already had in our hands before of public record. "the wall street journal" covered that pat foye memo that basically bought this issue to light october 1. he is not admitting anything new here. >> no. he is effectively trying to get things back to -- well, he is right now denying something of which as he points out he has not been accused, which is that he knew in a...

Really talk about and then a concerted effort afterwards to come up with an explanation, a rational explanation as to why this happened. >> governor, tonight in a live radio interview went back to the traffic study idea. says he doesnt know if there was a traffic study or if it was a traffic study did it morph into a political vendetta or vice versa. do you have any reaction to the governor putting it in those terms? >> its clearly not a traffic study. i think any objective observer who looked a...

The george washington bridge scandal and other matters on a new jersey radio station. he didnt deny knowing about the traffic problems in september, and says it didnt rise to the gubernatorial level. however, he also said he didnt know it was an issue until some time in october. msnbc political analyst howard fineman is back with us, and were joined now by clarence page of the chicago tribune. howard, i thought it was interesting. they didnted a might anything we didnt know on the record already...

Chris christies two-time campaign manager, about to become the head of the new jersey republican party and widely expected to be the campaign manager for governor christie if he mounted a bid for president in 2016. bill stepien was the third person to lose his job during this scandal. the following morning after bill stepien lost his job, bridget kelly lost hers. fired by christie a day after the e-mail surfaced, "time for traffic problems in ft. lee." those are the first four christie allies or...