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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. >> the transition director. >> we've got the fbi intervention which is -- turns the out to be not just one story but sort of an ongoing story. is there a way to look at historical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcome of an election and which end up being trivia? >> the problem is that when it happens this clos...

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 criminal bridgegate scheme. while he is simultaneously serving as the head of ...

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. >> the transition director. >> we've got the fbi intervention which is -- turns the out to be not just one story but sort of an ongoing story. is there a way to look at historical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcome of an election and which end up being trivia? >> the problem is that when it happens this close to an election, it's very hard to separate what is important from what i...

In all these various states there's been various legal fights to stop voter intimidation tactics by the republican party and by the trump campaign. also there have been a lot of 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 th...

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 newsroom is getting gutted, cut nearly in half as bridgegate went to trial. this week as the bridgegate case went the jury, "the wall s...