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The line of authority. thats whats significant. we know people were inconvenienced by the traffic. the issue is finding out how high this went. looking at some of these new wo reports, theres a meeting between the port authority chairman a week before the traffic problems. this is where the timeline is going to be compared to what the governor told us yesterday, craig. >> reporter: that is what folks are trying to do right now. the chairman of the transportation committee who conducted the heari...

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 who the governor just announced today that he has fired. the e-mail says, look on august 13th, 2013 at 7:34 a.m., bridget anne kelly wrote, "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." why anyone? why then? this appears to be t...

Something almost unprecedented in new jersey. yanking the tenure of a state supreme court justice who he liked. that was an angry chris christie furious with senate democrats at a hastily called press conference that took place late in the day on tuesday august 12th, 2013. tuesday, august 12th, 2013. late in the day. the governor blows up at senate democrats. yanks the judgeship of a supreme court justice and calls the senate democrats animals. its not just a justice he admires and a republican ...

Supreme court justice who he liked. that was an angry chris christie furious with senate democrats at a hastily called press conference that took place late in the day on tuesday august 12th, 2013. tuesday, august 12th, 2013. late in the day. the governor blows up at senate democrats. yanks the judgeship of a supreme court justice and calls the senate democrats animals. its not just a justice he admires and a republican on the state supreme court. it is the wife of one of his key staffers. he is...

>> well, the governor has bullied people who have come to his town hall meetings to ask reasonable questions about his policies. the governor has bullied members of the legislature. the governor has bullied municipalities. and so time and time again we see a governor who when he doesnt get his way or he thinks that youre challenging his authority, he uses his bluster, he uses his scare tactics to try to get his way. and so its not hard to imagine that people who work for him see that and they sa...

Statements about supervising his employees. >> people will look at was there a pattern of this sort of bullying. he says he didnt do it. his staff did it. but somebody did it. lets look for other examples and see if this sort of thing has taken place before. what i found fascinating about the whole thing was that one little line -- time for some traffic problems in fort lee -- thats all it took to set this whole thing in motion. it was as if it was part of a playbook that everybody understood or...

And he left open this question of whether -- what the culture is like in his cabinet. >> yeah. why did all the people around him act a certain way in collusion without thinking wait a minute, the governor wouldnt want this done. while didnt wildstein or baroni or stepien or kelly say the governor doesnt want us to be doing this. >> why just one line? time for traffic problems in ft. lee? one line was enough to trigger the whole thing, as if it was kind of oh, yeah, we know what to do. that was k...

The words, im sorry. >> i come out today to apologize to the people of new jersey. >> reporter: it was chris christie in rare retreat. >> i am embarrassed and humiliated. >> reporter: the tough-talking governor of new jersey was talking softly. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or its execution. >> reporter: but e-mails link some of the governors top associates with this partial shutdown of the george washington bridge, the nations busiest, for four days in sept...

And which way it will end up cutting for him. i think a month from now most people get about this whole thing unless there is more there there. they might say there was some bridge thing i remember. but was the takeaway, juan, about whether hes brash, whether hes a bully, whether his staff is too heady perhaps about their power. talk about that. >> thats the heart and soul of it. yesterday he said he is strong and he knows politics is not bean bags to quote him. the question is the director his ...

By the conduct of some of the people on my team. there is no doubt in my mind that the conduct that they exhibited is completely unacceptable and showed a lack of respect for the appropriate role of government and for the people that were trusted to serve. >> the bridge authority and of course he said campaign manager, mr. stepien, of course, bridget anne kelly, who is going to be quite names now. here is christie announcing his top deputy bridget kelly lied to him about her involvement in this ...