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Duhaime that both kelly and s p stepien had knowledge of the traffic study. he couldn't remember because of the high volume of duhaime's communications with stepien during that time. they were christie's top two and they cannot distinguish one call from another back in december. for that matter the memo says that duhaime was constantly in contact with the governor about many things and they spoke again on december 12th and twice on the morning of december 13th. december 13th is a key date because that's the day chris christie held the press conference where he denied that anyone on his team ha...

And privately, the schadenfreude expressed by some of them that a man who has never been shy about taking shots at others was suddenly on the receiving end. that was maggie haberman's comments today. he did get backing like michael grim of staten island and governor nikki haley of south carolina as well as former senate scott broun of massachusetts. but the defenders are few and far between. mark halperin is co-author of "double down" and eugene robinson a columnist for "the washington post" and an msnbc political contributor. you know, let me ask you about too broad a defense here. it's sort ...

By the conduct of some of the people on my team. there is no doubt in my mind that the conduct that they exhibited is completely unacceptable and showed a lack of respect for the appropriate role of government and for the people that we're trusted to serve. >> the bridge authority and of course he said campaign manager, mr. stepien, of course, bridget anne kelly, who is going to be quite names now. here is christie announcing his top deputy bridget kelly lied to him about her involvement in this matter and would have to go. she is the chief deputy the -- deputy chief of staff. that's her title...

>> yeah. why did all the people around him act a certain way in collusion without thinking wait a minute, the governor wouldn't want this done. while didn't wildstein or baroni or stepien or kelly say the governor doesn't want us to be doing this. >> why just one line? time for traffic problems in ft. lee? one line was enough to trigger the whole thing, as if it was kind of oh, yeah, we know what to do. that was kind of weird. >> anyway, nbc's kasie hunt asked senator lindsey graham of south carolina today about chris christie's scandal. and the south carolina republican said, quote, it reinfo...

>> where do you see -- do you see crim criminality? >> i don't know. the director said federal and state laws were broken. i'll leave that to the law enforcement agencies to look at. clearly there was an abuse of power here and an attempt to cover up the abuse of power. what we need to get to the bottom is who abused the power, how did they cover it up, and how do we make sure it doesn't happen again. >> are you members of the assembly going to subpoena bridget kelly next week? or how soon? >> we're going to issue a subpoena for bridget kelly, and we're going to issue a subpoena for other memb...