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Form of political retaliation. at least that's what federal prosecutors succeeded in showing during the course of this six-week trial against two of governor christie's really political operatives. now, both have been accused of conspiracy and fraud for allegedly manipulating lane traffic and creating four-day long gridlock at a very busy crossing, the george washington bridge, which connects new jersey into manhattan. federal prosecutors had said the two officials did it in order to punish a local mayor who essentially had refused to endorse chris christie for his re-election campaign. lawyer...

And brownstein, all testified against the governor, that in fact the governor did know about those lane closures. christie goes on and says, "let me be clear. i had no knowledge prior to or during these lane erealignments and no role in authorizing them." no evidence presented to contradict that fact. anything in court said is simply untrue. and his former deputy of staff said, yes, he did know and was told presumably because these closures were part of a traffic study. now, the prosecutor was asked by reporters if you're indicting, if all of these people in our being found guilty that are so ...

>> the two people on trial right now, what's their defense strategy and on the flip side, what have the prosecutors been saying? >> she didn't know it was elicit. she thought it was a legitimate traffic study and that's what the cooperating world trade center at the port authority, that's what he told her and she knew that there was nothing as far as she was concerned. bill said he was manipulated by the guy who has a history of dark arts and political operations in the state of new jersey and he thought it was a legitimate traffic study. they are both claiming they did not know it was retalia...

They say they knew that a major lane crossing closure would cause gridlock. the lane closures were an act of political retaliation against the new jersey mayor who did not endorse christie in his re-election bid for governor. the defense, however, denied the allegation and said they were part of a legitimate traffic study. the scandal has dogged christie and arguably impacted his race for the presidency in 2016. >> when i heard about the bridge scandal i was beyond horrified. >> reporter: and throughout the trial his credibility has come into question as former members of his staff and those i...