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September 2013. he knew about it before the media started to pick it up. first in a traffic column by the bergen record then in "the wall street journal" which was the first newspaper to link that mysterious days' long traffic jam to a political scheme that was aimed at winning political endorsements for chris christie. here's the amazing kicker in this story in terms of our democracy. as the bridgegate scandal that those papers broke, as the bridgegate scandal first went to trial, the bergen record, first paper to report anything about it, they were told by their corporate owner that their ne...

Of 20 years in prison. chris christie is picking all the new top staffers for president trump. after the conviction on all counts today of christie's deputy chief of staff and one of his top appointees, now we'll be looking at sentencing, so we will see how much time they'll do. but christie himself may be taking the stand himself. christie in person. 2 1/2 weeks from now. in a related criminal complaint that was brought about in the bridgegate scheme. the timing means that if elected tuesday, chris christie will presumably be taking the stand two weeks later to talk about his own role in the ...

Legal efforts to block republican efforts to make voting harder by various means. today in kansas and in ohio and in arizona and in north carolina, democrats won legal battles over voting rights and voter intimidation in all of those states today. democrats basically ran the table in terms of their big legal fights in the state. we'll have updates on all those legal battles coming up later on in the show with one of the lawyers that has been spearheading that voter rights fight in the courts. the other battle that i think was a legitimate shock to the system at this late date in the race, the ...

These things that happen in the last days and weeks affect public opinion. it's difficult to measure public opinion when things are moving. best example was 2000, the fact that george w. bush had been arrested for a drunk driving charge in 1976 was released. some of bush's aides said they felt that that moved as many as 20 million votes away from him. votes that are hard to get by pollsters in the last few days. >> late breaking stories like that, we talk about them as october surprises. this year they're like november surprises. >> like the world series is in november now. >> that's exactly r...

Best example was two tho2000, t that george w. bush had been arrested for a drunk driving charge in 1976 was released. some of bush's aides said they felt that that moved as many as 20 million votes away from him. votes that are hard to get by pollsters in the last few days. >> late breaking stories like that, we talk about them as october surprises. this year they're like november surprises. >> like the world series is in november now. >> that's exactly right. we've seen the bridgegate story itself is a bit of a november surprise given the importance of chris christie and the trump ticket. >>...