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Along issuing subpoenas and looking at evidence. the new development here, the real new development here, credit to abc for getting the scoop, the new thing here is that the grand jury sitting in newark that was already looking into this matter, that grand jury has moved on to a new phase of the investigation in which they are hearing testimony. witnesses are being compelled to testify before them. we do not know if michael druniak, the governor's spokesman was the first witness who had to testify or if there were other witnesses before him that we never found out about it. the u.s. attorney l...

His whole presidential ambitions on this idea that he's got this bipartisanship. if it turns out it was coerced, that it was coerced through a series of carrots and sticks he was using against democrats, he wasn't just naturally somebody african-americans and urban voters were for but it really was coerced, that undermines his being a candidate in 2016, apart from the legal matter. >> the standard, you get fired by chris christie if he doesn't like the tone of your e-mail, which is why he fired the campaign manager. he read the e-mails of michael druniak, the press secretary on this showing la...

Subpoenas is expected to land on the desk of key members of christie's inner circle. that could happen any time today. the assemblyman leading the investigation plans to demand documents from christie's fired department chief of staff, bridget anne kelly and spokesman michael druniak. the question topping everyone's minds, what did the governor know? when did he know it? was he telling the truth when he told reporters last week he had no involvement in a plan to close lanes on the george washington bridge to exact political revenge? >> i think we've got a really smart person in chris christie ...

However, she did have a hand on it. and her hands are not clean. she is accountable. and she should be held accountable, i should say. >> is your committee intend to call other people, and if so who will you subpoena? the governor? >> well, as our chairman today after the committee hearing stated, we are interested in subpoenaing the individuals that were mentioned in the e-mails and in the text messages and the documents that were supplied to us of which ms. kelly is one. there is mention of mr. steppian. there is also mention of michael druniak as well, who is the governor's press release go...

Let's continue our coverage of the breaking news from new jersey. joining us now john wrightmyer, the statehouse reporter for the bergen record who has been doing excellent reporting on this. one of the key questions i have, since your paper really broke the story of all of these e-mails. did your paper call the governor's office for comment before you went to press, before you posted all this information on your website? >> we did. my colleague shawn boovert broke that story. and up with of the first calls he made was to michael druniak to try to get a comment to some of the e-mails which cle...