0 prosecuted and put in jail when we was u.s. attorney. do you know what he prosecuted him for? it was the ultimate only in jersey scandal. he was having a business dispute with his brother-in-law so he hired two prostitutes. he had one of them so deuce his brother-in-law, then he had a videotape sent to the brother-in-law's wife. i swear this is completely true. charles kushner did two years in jail for that and it was the kushner family that was totally and completely humiliated by chris christie. it was that family that david wildstein sold his new jersey website to. the idea that they have this close partnership that dates back decades, i don't buy it. this is also by the way the most significant development this week might have come later on thursday after christie's press conference when wildstein appeared before the sate assembly. he took the fifth. you probably know about that by now. but at the very end of the hearing his lawyer also dangled this in front of the committee. >> if the attorneys general for new jersey, new york and the united states were all to agree to clothe mr. wildstein with immunity i think you would find yourselves in a far different position with respect to information he could provide. >> that's your job. we just want answer to our questions. >> understood. i'm suggesting a way you can get there. >> so to be clear, wildstein is not a long-time christie protector and he is apparently looking for immunity. that's important to keep in mind. i worked for him for three years from 2002 to 2005. of all of the people involved in this i think he's the sharpest, i think he's the savviest and i think he is by far the most strategic thinker. he doesn't do anything about thinking ahead, without considering the possible outcomin outcom outcomes. maybe you're asking if wildstein and christie weren't that close, if wildstein sold his media operation to a family that despices chris christie, why would christie send him to the port authority in the first place. that's a good question. and the answer has to do with this man. this is bill ba roe any. he also resigned last month. he's the one who told a state assembly committee, this is not when with us under oath. he told the committee that the lanes had been closed because of a traffic study, a study that has never been produced and multiple port authority officials have said never existed. his e-mails and texts were also subpoenaed and released this week. he was a rising star in new jersey politics a few years ago. he's an lawyer who got elected to the state assembly. in 2007 he went on to get elected to the state senate and in 2009 he did something politically core ray jous. he cast the sole republican vote in the new jersey senate for gay marriage. it didn't pass back then and exposed him to a ton of heat from the right in his own party. so when christie came to power, he offered him the gig. and he took it. he told christie that he wanted to bring somebody with him. he wanted to bring his friend, david wildstein who had also been in politics before he'd started that website that i worked on for him. that's why wild stooep was at the port authority. and the question now is whether he's going to hear again from that assembly committee, if this time they're going to demand that he come back and testify under oath about that supposed traffic study that he talked about at the end of november. will they call him? will he take the fifth? those are the major questions about him right now. now we go to the fourth name. this is bill. until this week he was one of christie's closest most trusted and talented political lieutenants. he had managed christie's campaign in 2009 and reelection campaign in 2013. he was slated to become the state republican party chairman and serve as an advise tore the republican association. bill was also set to play a mayor role in the 2016 presidential campaign that everyone has been assuming that christie will run. but he pops up in those e-mails that came out wednesday too. one of them he ridicules the mayor as an idiot. there was nothing in those e-mails that showed he had any advanced knowledge or role in planning the traffic jam but christie threw him overboard too and here's why >> reading that it made me lose my confidence in bill's judgment. you cannot have someone at the top of your political operation who you do not have confidence in. >> now, talk to anyone in new jersey politics privately know and they'll they will you there's an awful lot of suspicion around bill. he's connected to the other players. his first big break came in 2003. ba ro any was the only nonincumbent republican who won a legislative race in new jersey that year. so that election made him a rising star and i also made steppian, who managed his campaign a rising star. so from there steppian went on to work for george w. bush's reelection campaign in 2004 for john mccain and then he got his real big break. he won christie's successful campaign for governor in 2009. it's the first time in 12 years that a republican had won a governor's race in new jersey. steppian is a start to understand bridgett kelly's role in all of this. it was during that 2009 race that he, who was then a relatively unknown aid to a relatively unknown politician, provided key held top the christie campaign and to steppian in particular in bergman county. they grew close in that experience. and when hi won the election, he brought her with him to trenton to join the administration. steppian's job in the first two years of that administration was the same job that kelly had until this week. he was christie's local enforcer. steppian earned a reputation for aggression, i for playing rough, for diving into seemingly petty political matters. when he left that job bridgett kelly took it over for him. bill steppian's character has now been challenged by chris christie on national television. his career trajectory. he was going to play a leading roll in the 2016 presidential campaign. that career trajectory has now been derailed. will he be subpoenaed? is his records? does he want to get anything out? there's also one more name to include in our wheel here. kevin 0 doud. hey's the chief of staff. and on thursday christie talked about how he leaned on kevin as the story began to gain steam. i put to all of them one simple challenge, if there is any information that you know about the decision to close these lanes in ft.lee, you have one hour to tell either my chief of staff, kevin were or my chief council charlie mckenna. >> but did he know anything himself in did christie interrogate him at all? he's the nominee fb the next attorney general. u under a cloud like this should christie's chief of staff be placed in a place of power? now democrats are saying wait a minute, the state senator judiciary committee was supposed to start the confirmation hearings next tuesday. now they've been postponed. that was the full wheel of key players in this. at least it was until the latest e-mails for dumped yesterday and pouring over them reveals two additional names here. one is david samson, he's somewhat of a grandfather figure. he's in his 70s. he's known and respected by a couple of generations. actually his respect has gone across party lines in the past and he was christie's choice to serve as the chairman of the port authority. what we're learning from the new e-mails is he aggressively pushed back against a withering critique of the lane closures at the port authority as they were playing out. the other new name in the mix is regina, christie's current pick to replace kevin as his chief of staff. but her job before this has been the director of what's been called christie's authorities unit. she's part of the governor's office. and in that role as the head of the authorities unit we know now she was forwarded on september 13th of last year a copy of that same withering critique of the lane closures that were written by new york officials. so we with now say that someone up side the governor's office was alerted to the sere yois concerns about the lane closures four full months ago and that someone is chris christie's current pick to be his next chief of staff. so that brings us now to seven characters at least for now who are most crucial to what comes next in story. there are connections between some of them. others connections are more recent. all of these people have legal worries, worries about their reputations right now. they are facing a raft of questions from the press, from the public, from everyone who's following this story in any way. there are now mechanisms in place, there are mechanisms in motion that could compel them to produce more information, more revelations to add more names to this mix to produce some of the answer to the key questions that now hang out there. the u.s. attorney for the state of new jersey is considering whether to launch an investigation. the u.s. senate commerce committee sniffing around. then there's the state assembly committee that's been looking into this brought those e-mails to light this week. that forced david wildstein to appear own thursday and expects bridgett kelly to do the same next week. to talk about where all this is going, in just a moment we're going to be joined by the man who is leading that state assembly committee. state assembly john. he joins us right after this. 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