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That favors an inculp ben who -- imculp bent. >> all the way up to august 19th, alaska, does that have significance nationally? >> absolutely. that is race that republicans can win and want to win if they're going to take control of the senate. you have a one-term democrat who is coming up for re-election. we know alaska leans republican. sometimes heavily. there are several republicans running in the primary. the current front runner is dan sullivan, a former cabinet official in the state of alaska and also worked in washington. that's going to be a close race just like six years ooh ago when...

Scandal but he was peppered with questions on wednesday. >> we're going through an internal investigation. all this stuff will koom out over the appropriate period of time. i'm not going to give in to the hysteria of questions that are given by folks who have information today that i didn't have at the time. >> reporter: the newly released texts and e-mails come from the committee investigating weather last summer's lane closures on the george washington bridge were political payback. the new exchange is important because it came august 19th, six days after kelly's infamous e-mail to wildstein...

First of all, there is no direct smoking gun on the governor yet. and we don't know if there is any. >> any closer or further away from the governor. >> but the tone, what the assemblywoman is talking about, the tone, the bantering. >> right. >> the like laughing at oh, i wish, referring to i wish i felt sorry for the kids, that throughout the documents? and how do you respond to the tone? >> what's interesting is that exchange, which you read about the rabbi in which kelly says we cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house and then wildstein talks about traffic, flights to tel aviv b...

On george washington bridge as revenge for the mayor who declined to support chris christie's reelection campaign. these new texts or newly revealed came days after the infamous traffic problems and the message from christie's then deputy of staff bridget kelly. here we have it on august 19th, wildstein sent a photo of a prominent rabbi to kelly with this message. and he really missed me off. we cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we? they report flights to tel aviv mysteriously delayed. he responds, perfect. months later, kelly was fire and governor christie said he did n...

National investigative correspondent michael isikoff. michael, you know, i don't know that there is that -- anything that ties chris christie to bridgegate in any of these, but what is apparent is that there was a culture, a short hand for enemies and punishment that was used frequently or comfortably by members of christie's inner circle. >> exactly. this kind of varies from the sort of sinister to perhaps more juvenile. in fact, that's the word that some women wisniewski used today in describing this that just shows the sort of cavalier juvenile attitude that bridget kelly and david wildstei...