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Despite all of the testimony to the contrary at the trial. keep in mind at the trial both the defense and the prosecution said that governor christie knew about the lane closure scheme while it was happening in 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. ...

Broke the political side of bridgegate. the two papers that broke this story wide open both got gutted while it was in the courts. chris christie is still the head of the trump transition team, at least for now. tonight christie called off his trump appearances in new hampshire this weekend. but four of chris christie's aides and appointees are federal convicts now. chris christie's own political career is likely toast because of all this. all that happened because of smart, local beat reporters, not pundits, local beat reporters working for newspapers following leads, digging up dirt, not tak...

Down to the very end, in a close race getting down to the very end, we're getting a lot of dramatic news. today was a lot of dramatic legal news. actually today down the line uniformly was a good day of legal news for the democrats. 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 r...

>> what about chris christie? chris christie on the flip side, on the trump side, we know he's heading up the transition team and returning to the campaign trail tomorrow, dana, in new hampshire amid the fact that it's just crossed today that two of his former allies were convicted in the bridgegate trial. is that a smart move for the trump campaign to have the governor out tomorrow? >> is it a smart move? i think if we've seen from the history of donald trump whether it was when corey lewandowski was a campaign manager and he was in trouble donald trump stuck by him and that won't be any diff...

Thank you, joy reid. and thank you, jonathan with the philadelphia enquirer. join me for a special two-hour edition of "hardball" starting at 6:00 eastern, hillary clinton, bill clinton, the president, the first lady and chelsea clinton are holding their. the big five are coming to the city of the big five. we're talking basketball. coming up, days after fbi director james comey sent word that the bureau was investigating new e-mails, trump supporter rudy giuliani promised a couple surprises would change the race. when we return, i'll ask the mayor about how'd he know it was coming. plus, ...