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>> i don't know. i don't know. i mean, listen, up to this point in time, up to the e-mail's released yesterday it was senator baroni's testimony that mr. wildstein initiated it at his approval -- with his approval. now, you know, i don't know given some of the e-mails that i saw yesterday. but clearly mr. wildstein played a major role in it, whether it was his idea initiation of senator baroni testify i guess time will tell. but clearly there was knowledge of this action whatever it was prior to the beginning of it with bridget kelly. and that was something i sit and direct answer to angie's q...

Staff. here with me is the host of "up." you've been watching this long press conference. your reaction? >> good theater, a question about whether he did himself good by going on for 1:45. he put himself in a situation where he's making absolutely clear he was lied to by the people around him and no knowledge of this. he's still not sure if it was a traffic study, anything like that. the problem here i think is -- potential problem is this. i've seen this happen before. three years ago. he fired somebody else, education commissioner and the reason for this was the educational commissioner lied...

Such as -- governor's office, traffic study, funding, without getting prior approval from you or your senior staff? or did she just read [ inaudible ] >> listen, i don't believe bridget had policy authority on any issue. bridget's job was to interact with the other governmental agencies and to have interaction with members of the legislature. and that was her job. so my understanding of her authority was that she had no authority on policy. that policy issues had to be run through the chief of staff's office. and so, no. now, again, i know there are certain suppositions in that question, but m...

I've heard nothing from them that changes their position. i now see e-mails which indicate that there is a political overtone to what went on. i don't know what the situation is. i don't know whether -- like i said, i think i answered this before, i don't know whether this was some type of rogue political operation that morphed into a traffic study or traffic study that morphed into an additional rogue -- >> as best i can. mr. wildstein is scheduled to testify at the legislature. so not like he's available for interview. so you know, i'm not going -- as i said in response to a question over he...

That's it. if i had to have gotten to the underlying conduct, there was plenty there to fire her on there. but i didn't need to get there. question one was, do you know anything about this? did you have any involvement in it? the answer was no and e-mail is evidence that the should have been yes. i need to go no further than that in terms of making a determination about her future employment with me. >> governor christie, one of the things in terms of compliance standpoint, the very person who has the most information about why should did this is the very person you caught up communication wit...