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Authority executive to move forward with that study. now this whole trial, federal prosecutors allege that gridlock was an act of political retribution and the blame goes all the way to the top to christie himself. lane closures planned are denied as political retaliation against former new jersey mayor mark socolovich who at the time didnt endorse christie in his reelection bid. also weve heard testimony from other formerly in christies camp who contradict what he said in december 2013 news con...

January of 2014. shes now on trial. she said nothing in the two and a half years. her lawyer hinted in that time that when she finally spoke and took the stand, more context would be shed on that e-mail and it would look different. whats she saying? she is saying a couple of things. she said she had a conversation with david wildstein. the port authority official, the christie appointee. you see it on the screen there. pleaded guilty in the case. now testifying against bridget kelly. she said da...

Over the bridgegate scandal. kelly testified in her criminal tile today that she told christie, the governor, about a traffic study on the george washington bridge before sending an e-mail that it was, quote, time for some traffic problems. kelly said shed cleared a plan with christie on august 12th, 2013, a month before the lanes were closed for the supposed traffic study. prosecutors say it was political retribution for the mayor of ft. lee, new jersey, who refused to endorse christie in his r...

Of new vehicles the car service can add to meet high demand. in return uber agreed to participate in a traffic study and release detailed trip data. city officials still said they might seek a cap at a later time. lets go to wall street. investors are digesting a slew of new earnings report. the latest from mandy drury. >> theres a number of positives and negatives, a push and pull going on. on the positive side, you had greece passing another hurdle with the greek parliament approving reforms...

We have a senior editor for politics, she has been covering the investigation from the very beginning. sheaf was in newark yesterday. let me start with we had bill baronis friend on a little while ago. he was suggesting to me the defense are likely to hear from bill baroni in all this. its look the prosecutors are alleging and wildstein is admitting to a fake traffic study. the fake traffic study was the pretense for the shutdown and it was how they were going to cover it up. baroni is going to ...

They are lashing out at wildstein calling him a liar. if wildstein and the feds are alleging are true it would mean boroni told investigators that they had all simply been appart of a traffic study. >> this case will serve as a wakeup call and warning to those public servants who might consider abusing their official positions for their personal benefit or the benefit of others. >> and joining me now is new jersey state assemblyman, the democratic kor chair of the joint panel. and another member...

Quietly and i wouldnt have to come on the show. >> what is the defense then? youre offering youre a character defense -- whats. >> the defense is he didnt do it. he participated as a staff member on a traffic city. as far as i can read from the papers im getting as much information as you are. im not a lawyer and him and i havent talked about the details of the case. we have an excerpt from a memo here and there. we all know ambitious prosecutors have to come down with indictments. >> that sound...

Basically you have a federal prosecutor saying there was a three-person conspiracy wildstein, kelly and baroni to shut down these lanes for not endorsing chris christies re-election and coming up with a bogus idea of a traffic study to cover their tracks when the public caught wind of it. thats what wildstein said in court today. thats what prosecutors are buying. now youve got bill baronis attorneys saying david wildstein is a habitual liar. wildstein and baroni personally very, very close rela...

The town and that would be retribution for mark sock lichs refusal to endorse chris christie for his re-election and the second part is that the conspiracy extended for months after that into a cover-up. a cover-up that involved a trumped up story, you remember this about there being a traffic study to keep the true purpose and intent of the lane closures from the publics knowledge. >> steve, youve got a big show coming up this weekend, "up with steve kornacki" at 8:00 a.m. thank you, sir, appre...

But tell that to the motorists stuck in the lane closure nightmare last september. in january, we learned the closures were part of a traffic study which smelled like dirty politics aimed at fort lees mayor who dissed governor chris christie in the last election. number nine, you mean that elevator video? baltimore ravens running back ray rice knocked out his fiancee on an elevator. the surveillance video published by tmz sports. but the nfl claimed for months it hadnt seen all the video. oh, an...