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Form of political retaliation. at least thats what federal prosecutors succeeded in showing during the course of this six-week trial against two of governor christies really political operatives. now, both have been accused of conspiracy and fraud for allegedly manipulating lane traffic and creating four-day long gridlock at a very busy crossing, the george washington bridge, which connects new jersey into manhattan. federal prosecutors had said the two officials did it in order to punish a loca...

And brownstein, all testified against the governor, that in fact the governor did know about those lane closures. christie goes on and says, "let me be clear. i had no knowledge prior to or during these lane erealignments and no role in authorizing them." no evidence presented to contradict that fact. anything in court said is simply untrue. and his former deputy of staff said, yes, he did know and was told presumably because these closures were part of a traffic study. now, the prosecutor was a...

>> the two people on trial right now, whats their defense strategy and on the flip side, what have the prosecutors been saying? >> she didnt know it was elicit. she thought it was a legitimate traffic study and thats what the cooperating world trade center at the port authority, thats what he told her and she knew that there was nothing as far as she was concerned. bill said he was manipulated by the guy who has a history of dark arts and political operations in the state of new jersey and he th...

They say they knew that a major lane crossing closure would cause gridlock. the lane closures were an act of political retaliation against the new jersey mayor who did not endorse christie in his re-election bid for governor. the defense, however, denied the allegation and said they were part of a legitimate traffic study. the scandal has dogged christie and arguably impacted his race for the presidency in 2016. >> when i heard about the bridge scandal i was beyond horrified. >> reporter: and th...

The plot to close lanes and snarl traffic and negotiated a plea deal in which he testified against his alleged co-con spiritors. baroneys defense used its time to say nothing wildsteen said was credible and baroney believed what happened was part of a traffic study. kellys side will explain her side and deliberations will begin. top democrats are joining the clinton campaign demanding more information from the fbi director and questioning his release to the public this close to the election. �...

Details. >> reporter: time for some traffic problems, those words in an e-mail, a key piece of evidence in whats notoriously known as bridgegate and sent by a former top aide to new jersey governor chris christie to one of his closest associates. the e-mail led to controversial lane closures of the george washington bridge connecting new york and new jersey in 2013 which, since then, has dogged christie and landed his former aide bridget kelly on trial facing federal charges. kelly testified in ...

Two key things that she came out with today. >> wildsteins story here and to remember thats right this massive traffic jam happened wildsteins story is this was cooked up as political punishment for mayor sokolich who would not endorse christie. bridget ann kelly saying i thought it was a traffic study and the governor thought it was a traffic study. he knew about it and talked about it after it was happening. >> bridget kelly, we have to say when the prosecutor this is the defense attorney doin...

2013. which since then has dogged kristy and landed his former aid bridget kelly on trial facing federal charges. kelly testified in court the e-mail was sent to david wildstein one day after letting governor kristie know about a planned traffic study. something wild steen asked her explicitly to do, she says. she explained her words were meant to give the green light for that study. wildstooen has pleaded guilty to being the self described master mind behind the plot to close lanes which federa...

Stupidity that was shown here. >> in court today, christies former top aide bridget ann kelly contradicted christies claim that he had no knowledge about bridgegate. testifying she had a conversation with former port authority david wildstein. i spoke to wildstein today, the port authority had be doing a traffic study in fort lee. when are they doing this. wildsteen did say theres going to be tremendous traffic problems in fort lee. youve been following this closely. give us the basic lay of the...