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Good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. chris christie and bridge kelly are playing some serious defense over the bridgegate scandal. shes his former deputy chief of staff who wrote in a message, time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. it snowballed from there. new jersey democrats have issued subpoenas for kelly to turn over her documents and her electronic devices. one goal is to find out if governor christie was involved with the lane closures. on monday, her lawyer s...

>> new jersey governor chris christie making his first public 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 amendment is the former deputy chief of staff who appears to h...

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...

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 at these documents know that it wasnt. and if it was, then why did bridget kelly send an e-mail saying theres time for some...

Effort in that first week to not 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 an...

Kornacki has been following whether other things happened with sandy money that shows there is political motivation in a lot of the decision that are made out of the governors office. again, it all looks bad but do we have any answers? im not defending him. im just saying the calm down advice is very good. sam? >> i agree. first of all, i agree that people need to step back. i think two questions here, though. one, was there political motivation and have we found it is in the question is no, we ...

He said we have traffic problems every day. this helps to somewhat restore his images as the hands-on governor. >> yeah, but lets go back by saying the four-hour traffic stoppage, you just stopped the traffic on a major highway in this country going from state to state and you stop it, and for four or five days he doesnt know about it, he doesnt know there is somebody up to something here, he didnt smell trouble? thats always been my question, the strange lack of curiosity about what had the ear...

And weve hired a law firm to come in and do that internal investigation. theyre working really hard. theyre working diligently. and i cant wait for them to be finished so that i can get the full story here. >> he is curious. so am i. but here is what im curious about. why didnt governor christie ask a top aide, bridget kelly, when he had the chance, when he fired her? she is the former aide who wrote that it was time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. if he was so curious about all of this, w...

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 you, clarence, is he credible? and thats the problem. he didnt know anything about it, but everybody else was involved and all around him were involved in i...

Handled federal disaster money sent to the state after hurricane sandy and whether or not the administration divvied that money up fairly or whether there were politics in play. were going to be taking a dive into some of those questions tomorrow night on that with our own steve kornacki. steve kornacki has been reporting on that subject that you will not hear anywhere else. you are not going to want to miss it. thats tomorrow night right here. but right now its time for "the last word with lawr...