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They did it. and we know the governor's office not only called for it in the first place on august 13th, but we know that that same deputy chief of staff in the governor's office was told the weekend before the traffic jam started that it was teed up for monday. the governor's deputy chief of staff saying great when she learns from david wildstein she's going to get updates on him on the fate of poor old ft. lee once they put their plan into action on monday morning. must have been an exciting weekend to know that little town had no idea what you were about to hit them with. you knew it was co...

Obviously, we didn't get answers because he wouldn't answer those questions. the committee needs to look at that. >> do you need to subpoena documents ability something else or in a different time frame that would shed more light on what the political vendetta was about? is the relevant time frame for figuring out why they did it and who had the motive to do it around august 13th when the order was given rather than september 9th when it happened? >> we asked for documents from august 1 forward. i'm starting to think july or june would have been a good time frame. we need documents from bridge...

Of the answers they're going to get. >> do you have a sense in your mind of when chris christie knew about this in. >> well, i know that his senior staff, bridgett kelly knew about it august 13th. but during that week when the traffic jam started and there was all the press inquiries and the attempt to cover it up and spin it, clearly his senior staff knew and his senior staff don't do a lot of things in this administration without checking in with the governor. and so i believe that the governor had some knowledge of what was going on during that week. >> no. that's the part i'm having troubl...

Didn't get their towns blown up for a week. if every one of those non-endorsements from democratic non-endorsers of chris christie all over the state had warranted the kind of revenge attack that was unleashed on ft. lee for a solid week back in september, you know what, the whole state of new jersey would still be a smoking hulk of wreckage today. maybe it wasn't about the endorsement. maybe it was something else special about ft. lee. this is the e-mail from the governor's deputy chief of staff who the governor just announced today that he has fired. the e-mail says, look on august 13th, 201...

Why did his deputy chief of staff, bridget kelly, wake up on august 13th and send this e-mail to the port authority at 7:30 in the morning? quote, time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. that's the e-mail that led to her dismissal. >> i've terminated the employment of bridget kelly effective immediately. i terminated her employment because she lied to me. i am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here. >> but now many are wondering if bridget kelly really did all this on her own. the bergen record says those who know her describe her as a, quote, hard-working conscientious, and di...