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Clearly there were these lane closures that the e-mails that have been released suggest they're done for other reasons other than a traffic study. time for traffic problems in ft. lee. the key player, bridget kelly, former deputy chief of staff to christie. bill step pan, david wildstein have all taken the fifth. wildstein has turned over documents. what the legislative committee wants is to see the e-mails from bridget kelly and stepien, they're refused, invoking their fifth amendment rights. but they went to court to enforce that subpoena to require them to turn over the documents. this is g...

Christie administration about their own knowledge of this going on during when the lane closures were happening and afterwards, but he's broadened that review. the most interesting document for me in there was the handwritten log from the ft. lee police chief where he's recording his observations during the lane closures and his calls and what he knew about it at the time. and the first recording in that log, he says that chip michaels, the lieutenant we referred to before had told him on the first day of the closures, they were part of a month long traffic study about traffic to the bridge. t...

And the first recording in that log, he says that chip michaels, the lieutenant we referred to before had told him on the first day of the closures, they were part of a month long traffic study about traffic to the bridge. that's the first time from our understanding that they've ever indicated a month long traffic study. that's really long. from there he goes on to record the traffic, it backed all the way up to cliffside park, which is a neighboring community to ft. lee. road rage was a response that he got from passengers caught in the closure. and he documents calls made to the port author...

It was all a joke to him then. >> right. so let me finish this line of thought. he has this innocent explanation where he believed it was a traffic study and that he had believed he had been duped and was a victim of his own staff. now, many people find that incredulo incredulous, because you have an investigative -- an investigation that's been started by the legislature in late september, early october. you have the head of the port authority saying the lane closure was illegal, and you have resignations of two senior appointees. now, if these documents that we're talking about that the legi...

Defending so-called traffic study. then calling it garbage, the whistleblower here on the director of the bridge commission said there is no traffic study. why do we have the police union so intricately involved in covering for the governor? >> it is a huge question we are trying to get an answer to. there has been a lot said about this police union being the groupt that enforced christie early on. as you mentioned keeping them in control of patrolling the world trade center and cited not letting the police officers, boots on the ground so to speak be replaced with technology. there is definit...