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Vacant. and as a result, you saw one of the key players in this, david wildstein, the other day invoke his fifth amendment rights. now, one can expect that other, certainly, former christie aides, including bridget kelly, who wrote that very damning e-mail that kind of caused all this to erupt, saying time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. that when they are called to testify, they will likely take the same route, invoke their fifth amendment rights, because any lawyer would tell them when t...

Contempt the chris christie official who refused to testify yesterday. he refused to testify. everybodys got their fifth amendment right, but it is contempt when you refuse. if this committee did not have subpoena authority, we would have never seen not only all this stuff, we would have never seen the testimony of all the witnesses and never seen that time for traffic problems in ft. lee e-mail. we would have never seen any of this. governor christie would be dismissing the story and attacking ...

Of four worked for chris christie since 2010 and was appointed his deputy chief of staff in april. about five months later she sent a career-ending message "time for some traffic problems in fort lee." the e-mail certainly seems incriminating. but those who know kelly say they doubt the dedicated staffer could have orchestrated this on her own. >> i think a lot of people find it hard to believe that she was acting as a rogue political operative conducting this operation regarding the bridge sole...

Now its rush hour to find out more about her. the answer tonight from erin mcpike. >> reporter: the divorced mother of four worked for chris christie since 2010 and was appointed his deputy chief of staff in april. about five months later she sent a career-ending message "time for some traffic problems in fort lee." the e-mail certainly seems incriminating. but those who know kelly say they doubt the dedicated staffer could have orchestrated this on her own. >> i think a lot of people find it ha...

This will be an interesting discussion. i cant seem to get rid of ben ferguson. were bringing him back. also with me is brett larson. edward low is the editor in chief on the phone. and adrian moore, the vice president of the reason foundation. how valuable would this kind of data be to say insurance companies, retailers, cities that want to fix traffic problems, could your data be up for grabs and sold to the highest bidder? >> absolutely. data especially, our personal data is very valuable. yo...

The lane closure was simply done to make him look bad. and after it cleared up there was an active wall to stone wall media. >> reporter: nearly 2,000 pages of documents released by a committee of state lawmakers come as the committee continues to hone in on why travel was snarled back in september. chris christies former deputy chief of staff who he fired. sources they want to question kelly. time for traffic problems in ft. lee was made public this week. >> on the advice of counsel, i assert m...

Jersey legislature has been investigating this scandal. and a specific part of the new jersey legislature, the transportation committee in the assembly, has subpoena power. which is how they could compel the release of these documents and how they could hold to contempt the chris christie official from the port authority who refused to testify yesterday. he refused to testify and everybodys got their fifth amendment rights, but it is contempt when you refuse questions in response to a subpoena l...

Precise, has said that he wasnt aware that there was -- there were plans to do this as a vendetta. not that he wasnt aware that there was a traffic study, not that he wasnt aware that there were traffic problems, not that he wasnt aware that there was damage control and spin control after it. i dont know what you can say about his management style based on this episode other than if he did not know the top aides were doing this, why do they feel that it was acceptable? thats a question that they...

Didnt get their towns blown up for a week. if every one of those non-endorsements from democratic non-endorsers of chris christie all over the state had warranted the kind of revenge attack that was unleashed on ft. lee for a solid week back in september, you know what, the whole state of new jersey would still be a smoking hulk of wreckage today. maybe it wasnt about the endorsement. maybe it was something else special about ft. lee. this is the e-mail from the governors deputy chief of staff w...

Of that may be true. the governor took responsibility, he fired his campaign manager, his top political adviser, fired the deputy chief of staff within 24 hours of the e-mails. >> i know that. >> thats a lot of action. >> i agree with that. but he didnt answer my questions and neither did you. and im saying a crisis manager would say to a client and alan dershowitz -- >> i want to talk to alan. >> you better be out front. >> it appears here from what youre saying, lanny, is he appears to be asle...