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They are lashing out at wildstein calling him a liar. if wildstein and the feds are alleging are true it would mean boroni told investigators that they had all simply been appart of a traffic study. >> this case will serve as a wakeup call and warning to those public servants who might consider abusing their official positions for their personal benefit or the benefit of others. >> and joining me now is new jersey state assemblyman, the democratic kor chair of the joint panel. and another member of that committee. so, let me start with you, you know assemblymen, you looked into this you've bee...

Quietly and i wouldn't have to come on the show. >> what is the defense then? you're offering you're a character defense -- what's. >> the defense is he didn't do it. he participated as a staff member on a traffic city. as far as i can read from the papers i'm getting as much information as you are. i'm not a lawyer and him and i haven't talked about the details of the case. we have an excerpt from a memo here and there. we all know ambitious prosecutors have to come down with indictments. >> that sounds key then, the idea that the defense here could be that he believed this was -- he knew thi...

Basically you have a federal prosecutor saying there was a three-person conspiracy wildstein, kelly and baroni to shut down these lanes for not endorsing chris christie's re-election and coming up with a bogus idea of a traffic study to cover their tracks when the public caught wind of it. that's what wildstein said in court today. that's what prosecutors are buying. now you've got bill baroni's attorneys saying david wildstein is a habitual liar. wildstein and baroni personally very, very close relationship there up until this all started. really best friends. >> they seem to have relied a lo...

The town and that would be retribution for mark sock lich's refusal to endorse chris christie for his re-election and the second part is that the conspiracy extended for months after that into a cover-up. a cover-up that involved a trumped up story, you remember this about there being a traffic study to keep the true purpose and intent of the lane closures from the public's knowledge. >> steve, you've got a big show coming up this weekend, "up with steve kornacki" at 8:00 a.m. thank you, sir, appreciate it. coming up next we'll have more live on the streets from baltimore as we continue to get...

But tell that to the motorists stuck in the lane closure nightmare last september. in january, we learned the closures were part of a traffic study which smelled like dirty politics aimed at fort lee's mayor who dissed governor chris christie in the last election. number nine, you mean that elevator video? baltimore ravens running back ray rice knocked out his fiancee on an elevator. the surveillance video published by tmz sports. but the nfl claimed for months it hadn't seen all the video. oh, and was the league watching the games on tv when players were getting multiple concussions? number e...