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20 subpoenas today. what do you think is the importance of that to the story and this investigation overall? >> well, pretty clearly, they have thrown as wide a possible net as they can at this stage as they can justify. everything short of actually personally subpoenaing chris christie himself. every name of real meaning weve seen so far and come out has now gotten a demand to show a tremendous amount of information about what they might have known about this. and i think chairman wisniewski wa...

A staffer from the governors re-election campaign, nicole, said the same thing. good job! you did great. and maybe she did not know it was false testimony when she applauded it. maybe she thought what bill baroni was saying was true and she just liked bill baronis style when he delivered this testimony, or maybe she knew it was false like bridget did, since bridget appears to have ordered the shutdown in the first place. one more thing here. the other person who applauds bill baronis false testi...

This. the chairman was saying before and he said at a number of junctures, they are trying to build it for political reasons so they are not trying to damage a popular governor. what they are trying to do is establish the chain of command that led to the order in bridgette kellys e-mail. no one seems to believe that the initial statement that launched this traffic study or whatever they are calling it now was bridgette kelly firing off a vague e-mail that david wildstein new about immediately. i...

That long list of subpoenas from the assembly. as of right now we do not know and we are trying to find out. we do, however, have a different subpoena list, and its also new. we do today have the subpoena list from the new jersey state senate. theyve issued their first three subpoenas. its a really interesting short list. number one on the list is david sampson. david sampson headed up chris christies transition team when he first became governor of new jersey. here he is last june. the other tw...

Action. could have been so much worse. >> absolutely. all right. the report that he had a history of legal troubles, by the way, that included a felony theft conviction from martins supermarket. apparently he also had a history of drug problems. three years ago was sentenced to felony drug possession. sentenced to prison. he got out of the sentence by going to a psychiatric hospital. >> they are still trying to find motive here. one of the things they are looking into is whether or not he had ...

Conversation before to understand what it meant. >> yep. >> what was that conversation, and who was it with? thats what were going to try to find out. >> we talked about david sampson, he appears in the batch of e-mails in the first round of subpoenas. hes incredibly powerful and well respected person in new jersey politics, the chair of the entire port authority. i read reports and heard from people there was pressure not to subpoena david sampson. was there pressure not to subpoena david samps...

We need to look at. clearly, the response thats in the e-mails, that he was going to help retaliate, that pat foye, the executive directors playing in traffic. if this was a regular traffic study and somebody stopped it by mistake, i dont think you have that kind of response. it was an angry response. >> in the e-mails, whether he knew or not, he was fighting along with them. >> yes. >> i want to bring in michael powell whos been covering this closely. michael, im going to direct this to you bec...

Subpoena list, and its also new. we do today have the subpoena list from the new jersey state senate. theyve issued their first three subpoenas. its a really interesting short list. number one on the list is david sampson. david sampson headed up chris christ christies transition team when he first became governor of new jersey. here he is last june. the other two in the picture are david wildstein, who orchestrated the shutdown of the bridge. also bill baroni who lied to the state assembly abou...

Closures was to conduct a legitimate traffic study. i am also disturbed by the evidence showing that the port authoritys professional and engineering staff raised serious concerns about the lane closure plan. they explained that the closures would cause significant congestion and delays and would increase the risk of sideswipe crashes. its unconscionable that anyone would block commercial traffic and risk the safety of thousands on our interstate highway system in this way. steve, it looks to me...

Well, we now know from the senate commerce committee yesterday there is zero evidence that such a traffic study was taking place. so why did they maintain the cover story of the traffic study? what did people close to the governor know about that? and did they ask questions as to what was really going on? and why did they maintain the story? governor himself, remember, he had that news conference in december, and he ridiculed the whole idea that there was some legitimate story here, pretending, ...