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Since her e-mail account became a national spectacle. 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 the career-ending message, time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. the e-mail certainly seems incriminating but those who know kelly doubt she 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 cond...

Client an testify. thats something not in the purview of the committee or legislature. he has to deal with the u.s. attorneys and attorneys general in both states. >> the damning and memorable e-mail says, time for traffic problems in ft. lee. that was from a woman named bridget anne kelly. the governor at the press conference said he never spoke with miss kelly after that e-mail surfaced. he ner do you intend to subpoena bridget kelly to get answers to the questions. >> we intend to subpoena br...

I am embarrassed and humiliated 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 hi...

Deputies on christies senior staff, writes the following e-mail to christie appointee david willstein at the port authority that runs the bridge. "time for traffic problems in fort lee" she writes. the reply from will willstein "got it". we dont know who texted this to willstein. is it wrong that im smiling? no, the person responds. i feel badly about the unknown kids talking about the kids going to school stuck on school buses. i guess comes the reply from willstein. quote they are the children...

Shutting down several lanes of the george washington bridge for several dates in september. the mayor of that town had refused to endorse christie. at the time, christies office denied. >> i actually was the guy working the cones out there. you really are not serious with that question. >> cnn received texts and e-mails that proved otherwise. time for traffic problems in fort lee. that e-mail was sent from bring jet ann kelly. god it, he -- got it, he replied. when the mayor of fort lee called a...

>> as to whether its political retribution, its either gross incompetence or political incompetence by people who thought they could get away with something like this in broad daylight. either way, it stinks. >> the new jersey assembly man who has been at the center of the scandal from the beginning is john wisniewski. hes had the subpoena power to compel testimony and compel the release of documents in this case, those documents include the e-mails released today in which governor chris christi...

>> theres morning enough evidence to warrant an investigation to determine what, you know, what we immediate to know what this governor knew and when he knew it oyp now this. new revelation it is christie aides may have put lives in danger. with ems crews unable to reach people in need of emergency care. wednesday afternoon, christie leased a written statement. he did not apologize but blamed the problems on his staff. i am outraged and deeply saddened to learn that not only was i misled by a me...

In an apparent retaliation, the democratic mayor refused to endorse christies re-election bid for governor. christie had previously laughed off the allegations. >> i worked the cones, actually. >> but in explosive documents obtained by the bergen record, it appears christies inner circle was engaged in a stunning nixonian abuse of power, heres what happened. on august 13th, bridget ann kelly writes to david wildstein, a christie childhood friend. time for some traffic problems in fort lee. wilds...

Hi, everybody. i am thomas roberts. we way for chris christie to step up to that mike. those e-mails and the texts that have been released showed that aides to fort lee for north endorsing his run for reelection. the e-mails. in it brit and kelly wrote time for some traffic problems in fort lee. he replied wildstein, got it. it turned the town of fort lee back into a parking lot for four days, slowing emergency response time, including ambulances, perhaps contributing to 9 death of a 91-year-old...

Resigned, and now e-mails show a top aide in christies office wrote to one of those appointees in the weeks before the bridge shut down, writing "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." the mayor of ft. lee is furious. >> you cannot close down the busiest bridge in the world for political retribution. its not something thats possible. you have intentionally put people in harms way. you knew that before you did it, you knew that when ft. lee called 20, 30, 40 times, you knew that when i kept ...