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Conversations with wildstein, did he make any reference to his decision having to have political purpose? >> so, just to be clear, ive had no conversations with wildstein. ive spoken with deputy executive director bill baroni and the answer to your question is no. >> and, so you accepted that their statement, their -- their rationale that they put people at risk and spent money and created tremendous upheaval solely for the purpose of a traffic study? >> i dont. >> you dont? why do you think the...

Did it start as political shenanigans that became a traffic study? >> governor chris christie of new jersey taking questions tonight about the bridge scandal for the first time in more than three weeks. again insisting he had nothing to do with it and, unexpectedly, still sticking with the idea that maybe it was all about some sort of traffic study. the governors former deputy chief of staff bridget kelly tonight asserting her fifth amendment rights, saying she will not comply with the subpoena ...

This happened. >> governor, tonight in a live radio interview went back to the traffic study idea. says he doesnt know if there was a traffic study or if it was a traffic study did it morph into a political vendetta or vice versa. do you have any reaction to the governor putting it in those terms? >> its clearly not a traffic study. i think any objective observer who looked at these documents know that it wasnt. and if it was, then why did bridget kelly send an e-mail saying theres time for some...

Effort in that first week to not really talk about and then a concerted effort afterwards to come up with an explanation, a rational explanation as to why this happened. >> governor, tonight in a live radio interview went back to the traffic study idea. says he doesnt know if there was a traffic study or if it was a traffic study did it morph into a political vendetta or vice versa. do you have any reaction to the governor putting it in those terms? >> its clearly not a traffic study. i think an...

Closures, testimony that is now known to have been untrue and misleading. joining us now is the co-chair of the new jersey assembly select committees investigation into this matter, assemblyman john wisniewski. thanks for being here. >> good to be back. >> bill baroni gave you two hours of testimony on the closure of those bridge lanes. i reread all of that testimony today and looked back at some of that tape. he said it was all to do with a traffic study. is it clear to you that was inaccurate ...

Departmental relgations as i jut mentioned resigned from the governors office effective this past friday. thats one. the other big untruth that has been exposed as a lie since this scandal broke open is the two hours of testimony before the new jersey legislature which said that those lanes on that bridge were closed because of a traffic study. the new jersey official who told that elaborate false story to the legislature is bill baroni. governor chris christies number two appointee at the port ...

>> what im saying, is did that start as a traffic study but morph into political shen nan gans -- >> there was no traffic study. the executive director said as much in december. why does he keep saying that? >> it might be a game of semantics here. maybe there was a traffic study technically that caused the traffic jam but never intended to be a traffic study. christie is base beingally reinforcing his case he doesnt know anything about this. he said he never talked to bridget kelly after he rea...

>> so, just to be clear, ive had no conversations with wildstein. ive spoken with deputy executive director bill baroni and the answer to your question is no. >> and, so you accepted that their statement, their -- their rationale that they put people at risk and spent money and created tremendous upheaval solely for the purpose of a traffic study? >> i dont. >> you dont? why do you think they did it? >> im not aware of any traffic study. i dont know why it was done. >> thank you. >> thats the ex...

All this is taking a toll on him and thats what the poll numbers show, pinning him against hillary clinton in 2016, you can see from all these numbers, bottom line back in december he was up against clinton, now hes slighting down. when you look at the other potential republican contenders in november 2013, christie was leading the pack, now he is in the middle of the pack. >> what a change, huh? >> it is a big change, but it is significant. later this week, christie is taking up his role as the...

Mentioned resigned from the governors office effective this past friday. thats one. the other big untruth that has been exposed as a lie since this scandal broke open is the two hours of testimony before the new jersey legislature which said that those lanes on that bridge were closed because of a traffic study. the new jersey official who told that elaborate false story to the legislature is bill baroni. governor chris christies number two appointee at the port authority. himself a former new j...