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Built for business. the investigation in trenton into chris christie's office continues to gather momentum. last month, we turn testimony from one of christie's cam taken staffers laying out a compelling sequence of events. on the night of august 12, christie's deputy chief of staff, bridget kelly calls the campaign and learns that ft. lee mayor mark sokolich is not endorsing christie's re-election bid. the next morn sheg gives what looks like clear orders for political payback when she tells david wildstein at the port authority, quote, time for some traffic problems in ft. lee.

Of new jersey legislature select committee. matt mauers is 24-year-old former aide to governor chris christie's re-election campaign last year, who was charged with cultivating mayoral endorsements. he testified the christie re-election campaign was pursuing ft. lee mayor, mark sock lidge's endorsement last year. in fact, briggette kelly at the time called mauers on august 12'd. >> she just called to check in and said, if i recall correctly, and you know, some of this is going to be paraphrasing from recollection, he said, is mayor sokolich endorsing? i said, no, you know, he's not. he's defin...

Now, finally, we have come much, much closer to solving that mystery, thanks to new testimony from the ongoing investigation of new jersey legislature select committee. matt mauers is 24-year-old former aide to governor chris christie's re-election campaign last year, who was charged with cultivating mayoral endorsements. he testified the christie re-election campaign was pursuing ft. lee mayor, mark sock lidge's endorsement last year. in fact, briggette kelly at the time called mauers on august 12'd. >> she just called to check in and said, if i recall correctly, and you know, some of this is...

Matt mauers is 24-year-old former aide to governor chris christie's re-election campaign last year, who was charged with cultivating mayoral endorsements. he testified the christie re-election campaign was pursuing ft. lee mayor, mark sock lidge's endorsement last year. in fact, briggette kelly at the time called mauers on august 12'd. >> she just called to check in and said, if i recall correctly, and you know, some of this is going to be paraphrasing from recollection, he said, is mayor sokolich endorsing? i said, no, you know, he's not. he's definitely not endorsing, right, not going to hap...

On the gw bridge but governor chris christie is trying to move beyond the scandal. >> without a doubt we will cooperate with inquiries to ensure that this breach of trust does not happen again. >> reporter: as two investigations ramp up three theories emerged. the most prominent was that it was political retribution for not endorsing christie in the reelection bid. the problem -- >> i don't recall a specific request to endorse. >> reporter: another involves this woman. fort lee is in her district. they had been in a bitter political fight with christie over their blocking of his state supreme ...