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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...

We did, boss. >> she was corroborating what wildstein said there. 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...

Traffic study. kelly isnt the only one on trial. her co-defendant, bill ba rowny, a former port authority executive also testified this week and like kelly, he maintains he was aware of the traffic study but knew nothing about lane closures as an act of political retaliation. separately, christie will appear next month in a municipal court following a citizen complaint about those lane closures. it alleges christie was negligent while witnessing the days of gridlock on the george washington brid...

Being the self-described mastermind behind the plot to close lanes which federal prosecutors argue caused major gridlock and were an act of political retribution by governor christie against the ft. lee new jersey mayor. christie has not been charged in the case, and consistently denies any involvement. kellys testimony contradicts what christie said in a 2013 news conference that a senior staff did not know lane closures would be a part of the traffic study. kelly isnt the only one on trial. he...

Yesterday? tell me about a water bottle incident. >> yeah. more damaging testimony, as you suggested. here is yet another person saying they told christy face-to-face about the lane closures, bridget kelly, his deputy chief of staff saying in august, a month before the lane closures, she told him there would be this traffic study. they would close the lanes. he said okay. she said governor, theres going to be a tremendous amount of traffic. he said its fine. he wanted two things, his chief of st...

Former boss about the lane closures one month before it happened, and he was fine with it. a direct contradiction to what christie claimed? >> kristis he testified he had in authorizing them, and kelly told a packed courtroom that a senior official in the port authority was the master mine behind the traffic study that snarled traffic. he is now the governments key witness. kelly and codefendant plead not guilty to nine felony counts. she also testified that governor christie was aware of the no...

August 12th of that year, he sent kellyanne e-mail and said he said -- governor christie could get up after the traffic and saying he was the one that ended the horrible traffic we had for years at the george washington bridge. he told the governor again and he said it was fine. thats typical winestein. the next day she sent that infamous e-mail. she told the governor that she did not want the governor to come back and say are we doing the traffic study and that she did not told winestein.

Shes telling a different story today. what did she say? >> she turned it back to the prosecution. first of all, she did say, yes, the governor said he was fine with the traffic study when she says she told him a month before it went down. it was david wildsteins idea, and he admitted to that. she said it was all his direction, as a matter of fact. then on that time for traffic problems e-mail that she sent to wildstein, saying, lets go with the project, well, she says she was parodying his words...

Presumably the governor of new jersey would be interested in if he could claim credit for easing traffic. she said wildstein told her cryptically about the idea for a traffic study that it would have an upside potentially of easing congestion, a down side while the study was going out of causing massive traffic problems in fort lee where the bridge runs through. bridget kelly said she ran the idea at david wildsteins request and the governor said the traffic study would be fine. she said thats w...

Christie spoke about bridge traffic study that he approved it weeks before it happened. so its significant. what was said and when it was said. >> exactly. and brigette kelly is a name, remember that name, shes been long entrenched this this story. shes governor christies former deputy chief of staff and said she wrote that infamousp e-mail over traffic problems. what did that e-mail mean. she spoke publicly for the first time testifying what it meant and conversations she had with christie rega...