bridget ann kelly, david wildstein, and now the resigned david samson. all of those -- well, on the sidelines and not part of the report, which the governor says exonerates him. david lee miller is outside the state capital in trenton, new jersey, an interesting afternoon. >> indeed it was, shep averaged perhaps if this was a major motion picture you could call it the three faces of governor christie. at times he was humble, apologetic, and also at times very, very combative with some of the reporters. he said that this has been an unpleasant situation and then he add, it continues to be so. the big story of the afternoon, though, as you mentioned, the resignation of david samson. he is 74 years old. he has expressed an interest in stepping down to pursue other things in the past. the governor said he wanted him to stay on until after this re-election, but now it appears that he is going to step down. the governor has accepted his resignation about two hours ago. in terms of what else came out of the news conference, essentially an affirmation of the fin

they report that bridget ann kelly has just arrived for her court appearance today. former deputy chief of staff for governor chris christie, one of the key figures in the george washington bridge scandal. she has rarely been seen in public since the scandal. that's her in the pink jacket there. when the news first broke in january. she was the staffer who wrote that infamous e-mail who said time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. whether kelly should be forced to comply with a subpoena and turn over all the documents, including even more text messages, et cetera. kelly's lawyer tells nbc news that the fifth amendment should protect his client from having to turn over those documents and all those text messages. also an attorney for bill stepien, governor christie's former campaign manager and

i think the incentive now is on bridget anne kelly and wildstein to cooperate.e so than prior than it was. this basically puts them squarely at fault for all of the events. it basically exonerates governor christie entirely. i was struck about bridget anne kel kelly. >> why wouldn't they mention it -- let me ask maybe they do and i didn't find it. why didn't they mention it as stepien had relationship with bridget anne kelly and stepien or something caused her her to be emotional and why is it always focused on the woman and the woman's inability to keep herself together? if there is a relationship causing problem, the man is involved in that relationship too and the focus is on him and whatever vicious behavior he is putting on this woman and putting her in a terrible position or vice versa. >> that's what we are saying. i think bridget anne kelly will emerge from this probably feeling she should participate with -- >> oh, man, i would if i were her. >> an odd report that she is this jilted woman. >> really? >> he broke up the relationship with her and she is t

the report pins the plot on former christie age on bridget ann kelly and david wildstein. somehow tying their relationship to the lane closure, although the report doesn't explain how. christie critics are not buying it. friends of ms. kelly are calling the report sexist, saying it doubles down on a strategy of portraying ms. kelly as due police to us and ze pending on men for approval and stability. if you believe an emotional and stupid jilted woman caused bridgegate, i've got a bridge to sell you. steve carnanke has been extensively covering the bridgegate scandal. co-author of chris -- joan, i will go to you first, because you wrote what was in my brain and i love it when somebody who is an excellent writer can sort of encapsule lakap sul lacap sl. the crihristie attorney or the w firm hired by the governor's office is not just to blame his former allies but to shame them. >> it's a very weird strategy, we have seen it all along, she couldn't leave david wildstein alone. with this, this is like they took every sexist misogynistic cliche in the world and spewed it in th

two central figures step in and bridget anne kelly are refusing to turn over documents. >> kelly wrotehe infamous e-mail. >> fighting for her right to remain silent this is a pivotal point. >> obviously, miss kelly is critical to what occurred. >> if we don't get the documents, we may never learn what was behind the e-mail time for traffic problems at ft. lee. >> this has great political implications for chris christie. >> his approval rating has evaporated. >> there is still no direct tie to the governor. >> his political life is hinging on this court hearing today and what follows. >> there has got to be something tie him to that and why they are resisting this so hard. >> he hasn't answered any questions about this publicly since january 19th. >> the subpoenas are -- >> got awful winter that i wish would end yesterday. >> time for some web traffic problems? it seems the denial ain't just a river in egypt but maybe one in new york that runs underneath the george washington bridge. denial, denial, denial, was the name of the game today for the attorney in court today representing brid

this is a statement from the attorney of bridget anne kelly. bridget anne kelly is, of course, the person at the center of bridge-gate. she's governor christie's former deputy chief of staff. she was the person who sent the e-mail "time for some traffic problems. with the "and she along with david wildstein is the person who's essentially being blamed for everything now. she was fired. she's been called a liar by governor christie and his attorneys. governor christie called her actions inexplicably stupid. that's a quote. her personal life has been dragged into the middle of all this by those very lawyers that chris christie hired, his office hired, without explaining why it could possibly be relevant to their investigation. in their report exonerating governor, they wrote bridget kelly had a personal relationship with governor christie's former campaign manager. and that he basically dumped her. they alluded to this multiple times in that report out yesterday. making basically an indirect case that having that relationship end might have led h

state and federal investigations are still under way, and tonight a lawyer for bridget anne kelly is disputing how she was characterized and the conclusions in the christie administration internal review, saying kelly would cooperate with the u.s. attorney if given immunity. brian? >> kelly o'donnell at the state capitol in trenton tonight. kelly, thanks. >>> more trouble at gm tonight. word the company is greatly expanding a recall involving those faulty ignition switches. and there is a separate problem the company has just disclosed. nbc's anne thompson has more on all of this for us in our newsroom. anne, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. first, let's talk about that expanded recall. it involves the same models of cars that were recalled, those 1.6 million cars that were recalled last month by gm. but these are just newer versions of those cars. these cars were built from 2008 to 2011. and the vehicles include the chevy cobalt and hhr, the pontiac g5 and solstice and the saturn ion and sky. unlike the older vehicles, no deaths have officially been linked to these mo

. >> you say besides bridget anne kelly, the one who sent the e-mail saying "time for traffic problemsidence that anybody else in the governor's office knew about this idea. but that is not the same way of saying no one knew about it in advance. you found no evidence of it. but the critics say that doesn't mean anything because you couldn't talk to david wildstein, or bridget anne kelly. >> here is the rub, certain people who are the focus of the investigation like kelly, like wildstein, they have taken their fifth amendment. they're not talking to me or the legislator or the u.s. attorney. >> did you get to see their e-mails? >> but, we saw many of their e-mails and we saw the private e-mails and texts of the governor. lieutenant governor, his current -- >> did he hand over his iphone to you? >> absolutely. and let me tell you this, megyn, the fact of the matter is we look at the hard evidence. we look to see what the documents show. and the hard evidence shows studethe governor had no role in this whatsoever, and knew nothing about it. >> the other thing i want fto gt to, the one pie

tomorrow, bridget anne kelly, who's seen here today in exclusive nbc news footage, bridget anne kelly who was the deputy chief of staff to chris christie when she sent that e-mail that said "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee," bridget anne kelly who has not been seen and made no public statements other than through her lawyer since the scandal broke, she is expected in person, in court, tomorrow along with governor christie's former campaign manager bill stepien. both bill stepien and bridget kelly invoked fifth amendment rights to argue they should not have to hand over documents to the legislature for their investigation. tomorrow, those fifth amendment claims will be tested in court and they'll both be there in person. start time is 10:00 a.m. and that will be fascinating for those two key figures in this scandal. right? it will be fascinate in terms of how bill stepien and bridget kelly make their case. the legal question. the strategic question of whether they really will be able to avoid telling what they know in this scandal. this hearing tomorrow is also going to deter

they are bridge et ann kelly, bill stepien and also david wildstein. wisniewski told the "star-ledger," "it does not include information from ms. kelly. it can't be a complete investigation." assembly man wisniewski is absolutely right. there's no way christie can be cleared without bridget kelly's testimony. she was the key person who orchestrated the closures. meanwhile, christie's investigation also cleared him of any wrongdoing in allegations that he used hoboken's sandy aid as a bargaining chip for a development project. >> we find that mayor zimmer's allegations, that members of the christie administration, delivered a message from the governor to her threatening hoboken's sandy aid unless she supported a private development project. r not only unsubstantiated they are demonstrably false in material respects. mayor zimmer's subjective perceptions do not match the objective reality reflected in the hard evidence that we uncovered during our investigation. >> well, how about that. everything is just magically working out for our good old buddy chris

former poet art authority david willed steen and bridget ann kelly carried it all out.ource of that judgment has critics howling now because it was paid for by the governor himself. >> why should the taxpayers be paying for this report? >> these are not my lawyers. they have their own personal reputation. they are not going to watch anything for me. they make a decision on 2016 a year from now wants anything to do with what happens the past ten weeks. what happened in the past ten weeks i think will ultimately make me a better leader whether it's governor of new jersey or in any other job i might take in the public or private sector. >> federal authorities as well as state lawmakers are investigating this scandal. >> 6 million people have enrolled for healthcare it is short of the goal of 7 million. we don't know how many paid into the system. according to a fox news poll 40 percent of registered voters polled said they are confident enough they will sign up to make the healthcare exchange ses successful. 50 percent of the people surveyed say it would be easier to go ba

and the governor's now fired top aide bridget anne kelly. both wildstein and kelly have taken the fifth and did not cooperate. the report shows a new allegation, claiming that kelly lied to her bosses and after the deleted e-mails, kelly responded good, after the fort lee mayor complained about the mess. >> you ask me what i take from that? i take somebody who did wrong is trying to cover it up from the chief of staff and the governor. >> reporter: taking on another issue, the review dismissed claims made by hoboken mayor dawn zimmer that christie's administration had threatened to deny sandy relief money unless the mayor backed a commercial development. today mayor zimmer responded calling the review sadly predictable and a one-sided whitewash. today's findings will eventually be judged against conclusions reached by other investigations still under way. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, washington. >>> overseas today, a historic meeting at the vatican between pope francis and president obama. the two men talked for just under an hour, discussing a

it tries to turn bridget and kelly -- bridget anne kelly into a fall girl. up with an ones unhappy.ing it seem as if she is the one doing something that no one else would know about, i see that ball person here in terms of the christie people. >> are they making her the fall person? >> this is an example of what the left is trying to do with chris christie is what the rights try to do with benghazi. frankly don't see this sticking to chris christie either. we can talk about the credibility. the issue is not the report. of sessions the less with chris christie and their of session with trying to take him down. i think that is the big issue. the left of session with chris bsession -- o with chris christie. >> let me turn to edward snowden. the issue of parting in him --- him has come up. >> of that is ridiculous. this person has been an enemy of the state. i think even to consider the notion that we might pardon him is absolutely a testament to where our country is going. >> i would throw have to book at him. there are things we knew wants -- we want to know from him. what does he hav

>>> the strong words from bridgette ann kelly after the christie administration report. >>> what would you do? the tale of a teenager who suddenly discovered tens of thousands of dollars in his bank account. what did he do? >>> good morning. welcome to weekends with alex witt. here is what's happening now. we have brand-new clues in the hunt for missing malaysian airline flight 370. an aircraft just spotted three suspicious objects in the new search zone over southern indian ocean. they are described as red and orange. unclear if they belong to the missing jet liner. they have shifted 700 miles northeast after new analysis of radar data showed the plane was traveling much faster and burned more fuel than originally thought. new zealand and the australian air force found debris. an australian pilot says the object seen by chinese officials have been marked with buoys to ships can find them. >>> the transport minister met with relatives of the missing plane. kier simmons is going to join us from kuala lumpur. what came out of the meting today? >> reporter: scrutiny in particular from the

include interviews with the most important known players at the center of the scandal, bridget anne kelly, the author of the e-mail "time for some traffic problems in fort lee." david wildstein, the enthusiastic recipient of that e-mail, and bill stepien, chris christie's former campaign manager. christie of course could have saved the state of new jersey a million dollars by simply asking bridget kelly one question. >> i have -- i have not had a conversation with bridget kelly since the e-mail came out. and so she was not given the opportunity to explain to me why she lied. because it was so obvious that she had. and i'm quite frankly not interested in the explanation at the moment. >> joining me now, matt katz, who covers chris christie for public radio's wnyc and writes for the blog "the christie tracker." matt, big surprise. million dollars sent to a pal's law firm to do a report which no one has seen, but the christie administration knows says that chris christie did absolutely nothing wrong. >> it's a little complicated how all this went down today. "the new york times" actually got

the report cast wildstein and bridget anne kelly, christie's former deputy chief of staff and author of that infamous e-mail, "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee," as most responsible for the lane closures suggesting they were seeking to punish ft. lee mayor mark sokolich though not necessarily because he wouldn't endorse christie for re-election as has been publicly suggested. the report goes so far as to suggest that kelly's actions may have been related to her having been jilted by former christie campaign manager bill stepien. a lawyer for stepien told the "washington post" today the two had briefly dated but the, "gratuitous presence of the relationship in this christie report was only done for the purpose of creating alternative headlines." more than half the report is also dedicated to debunking the claims by hoboken mayor dawn zimmer who has said the christie administration threatened to withhold hurricane sandy funding if she didn't back a really key redevelopment project. the report called her claims, "demonstrably false and said they do not match objective reality."

it tries to turn bridget anne kelly into the total fall girl saying that she unnecessarily said she hadationship with one the people. she was broken up with and was unhappy. making it seem as if she is the one doing something that no one else would know about. i see that fall person here in terms of the christie people. >> are they making her the fall person? >> this is an example of what the left is trying to do with chris christie is what the rights tried to do with benghazi. benghazi hasn't stuck to secretary clinton. i frankly don't see this sticking to chris christie either. we can talk about the credibility. the issue is not the report. the issue is the left's obsession with chris christie and their obsession with trying to take him down. they realize that he is going to be a strong candidate for 2016. i think that is the bigger issue. the left's obsession with chris christie and this bridge issue. i think a lot of this passes by the time we get to the election. >> let me turn to edward snowden. jimmy carter raised the notion of pardoning him. >> insane. the notion they would cons

lee, the person who wrote that e-mail, chris christie's former deputy chief of staff, bridget anne kelly, who was fired by the governor, savaged in an internal report released yesterday and called a liar by christie again today has responded tonight with a rocket of a statement from her attorney which says kelly will talk if given, "appropriate procedural safeguards by the u.s. attorney's office." if that happens, kelly's lawyer says she will be fully cooperative and provide truthful and complete answers to any questions asked of her by the appropriate law enforcement authorities. this is a potentially huge development that comes on the heels of christie today holding his first news conference since january. follows the release of a 360 page internal report that found the governor was not involved in the seemingly politically motivated decision to close access lanes on the george washington bridge in september, leading to four days of traffic gridlock. christie spoke to the press for more than an hour today before the release of bridget anne kelly's statement and carried himself like a m

the focuses on david wildstein and bridget anne kelly. it says that wildstein seemed to be the instigator of this plan comparing it to so many other crazy ones that never got off the ground. it says that bill sptep eyen wa aware of the screen. it says the governor's version of the event rings true. wildstein says he discussed the lane closures with christie during a september 11th event which christie denies. >> david wildstein has said at a 9/11 event, he talked to you about traffic, a little ambiguous. did he? >> i don't have any recollection of that, diane. david was one of hundreds of people i spoke to. we stood around and spoke briefly i don't have a recollection of him saying anything. he didn't say, hey, by the way, governor, i'm closing down some lanes in the george washington bridge to stick it to the mayor. is that okay? that, i would remember. >> even if wildstein did bring it up, it would not have been meaningful or memborable to the governor. christie is described over and over as being emotional with these meetings trying to

report, it goes after one of the former key players, the former deputy chief of staff, bridget anne kelly, saying she cracked. she was unpredictable. she was volatile. her lawyers file back saying the report is venomous, and has the sexist remarks, has no place in what is supposed to be an independent report. might they in trying to clean it up, have created a bit of a mess? >> i think this report is a strange mistake on christie's part. he didn't have to commission the report. it was a lose/lose, if the report came out looking good for him as he tried to do, it was going to be dismissed. if it came out looking bad it would be oh, my gosh, it is a bad report. instead it takes a story that was starting to die out a little bit on its own and revives it and puts it back in the news. and there were the attacks, very personal depiction of somebody who didn't even speak to the investigators, being seen accessist by a lot of people. now she is coming out of the wood work saying she will cooperate. >> if you have three key people at the port authority and your campaign manager, they have yet to t

one man asked why the firing of bridgette ann kelly seemed to be more about her lie than the bridge closures herself. >> don't take from the fact that i fired her because she lied. if she had told me the truth she would have got fired, too, because of what she did, but i never had the chance to hear the truth, and the offense, the offense first and foremost is not being honest with the person you're working for. the secondary offense was, if she had been honest and told me, yeah, she would have been fired anyway. i don't approve of what happened. i didn't approve of what happened. and i'm doing everything i can right now to make sure that something like that never happens again. >> governor christie will field questions on sandy relief money next tuesday when he's scheduled to host a town hall in the shoreline town of bellmawr, new jersey. expect fireworks there. >>> a new ruling could bring renewed focus on how the military handles its sexual misconduct cases. brigadier general will avoid jail after being accused of intimidating and sexually assaulting a junior officer. he pleaded guilty to

mayor of fort lee complained about the traffic, christie's now fired deputy chief of staff bridget anne kelly texted transportation official david wildstein. "it is wrong that i'll smiling? i feel bad about the kids, i guess." official says nobodies we life was in danger, but people in emergencies had to wait. multiple members of governor christie's staff have been suspended. but nothing so far links back to the governor directly. christie says he was in the dark until the story broke in the press. his political future may depend on whether or not the voters believe him. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >>> kerry kennedy, the daughter of rfk and ethel kennedy was found not guilty today on the charge of driving while drugged. she was arrested in 2012 after swerving her car into a tractor-trailer. she testified that she accidentally took a sleeping pill instead of her daily thyroid medication, then got behind the wheel. >>> we are back in a moment to remember a man who helped inspire one of this year's oscar favorites. >>> we want to show you this spectacular scene that occurred in nature la

the report also says that bridge get anne kelly, fired former deputy chief of staff carried this out.does not make clear the role, if any of bill stepien, christie's former campaign manager but basically blames both wildstein and bridge get anne kelly carrying this out. we list ren to randy mastro. and allegations from mayor zimmer are false. let's listen to randy msatro. head of the massive investigation. >> our findings after this -week of professional investigation. this is team of former federal prosecutors with more than 50 years of government experience and many, many internal investigations as part of our backgrounds. 10 weeks ago we set about to do this investigation. we've since conducted over 70 interviews. we reviewed more than 250,000 documents. and at the same time we have facilitated cooperation with other ongoing investigations. and i'm here today to tell you our bottom line findings and then to answer your questions. we probably won't be able to get to everything today. you will probably have many more questions as you read our 345-page report which we consider to have

. >> you are not concerned there is an e-mail that is going to surface between bridget ann kelly andll come up and you will say we didn't have that? >> i am not absolutely not because we had access to personal texts even. i want to ask you something about bridget ann kelly and the suggestion there was a romantic relationship between her and bill and she was emotional. one of the talks this morning is this report is trying to make david wildstein look like a crazy guy and she was unstable almost and emotional and dealing with personal relationship issues. >> let's be crystal clear. that fact, the short period of the personal relationship, and then when it cooled and the lack of communication where they were not speaking in the first week of august, is a relative fact because this decision of kelly greenlighting the proposal to close the lanes occurs in a now in an e-mail on august 13th -- time for traffic problems in fort lee. that is after they are esstranged and not communicates. they continued to communicate and consult about politically sensitive issues. they seized doing that by

a judge will decide today whether the governor's former deputy chief of staff bridget ann kelly has toand over records to a state panel investigating the controversy. a former christie campaign manager william stipend is expected to be there, too. in the past the two aids took the 5th. both accused of closing lanes on the george washington bridge to get back at the mayor of fort lee for not endorsing christie for reel lek. >> three weeks before the deadline to sign up for obamacare. big problems face the healthcare law. >>> a number of changes to run through here. let's start first of all with cms. this is a report out of the bwal street journal the centers for medicaid and medicare services dropped at least for now to cover certain drugs including anti-depressants. as far as obamacare is concerned one of the companies associated with disastrous rollout of healthcare.gov is getting another big contract extension with the federal government. the deal was supposed to end this month. it just got a four-month extension bringing its share to $58 million. despite all of the changes to obamac

. >> briget ann kelly will back up your story when she's under. ♪ >> -- oath? >> i have no idea.f she's telling the truth she is, because we never had no conversation about this ever. >> there's not going to be any phone calls, any e-mails, establishing that you know about this? >> no, because i didn't. >> it makes the strategy of undermining her credibility all the more. >> this is really par for the course. they went with the obvious sexism route to undermine her credibility so that anything she says in the future is discounted, coming from this fairy tale of hysterical women, who apparently nobody noticed she was not qualified to get the very important job she held in the government, two spots below the office of the governor. i'm just tired of this. looking long term, is this the strategy that you think is going to be a winning strategy against hillary clinton, to go full tilt sexist against a former staffer? i think it's really unacceptable. >> paul, this is the strategy, we saw this from that first press conference where after he had fired her and he called her stupid and h

. >> also today an attorney for bridget anne kelly the former aide hinted that kelly does have information will only give to federal investigators. remember you can always follow what's going on here on twitter. tweet me at wolf blitzer. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> next breaking news at this moment four search ships arriving at the possible crash site of flight 370. we have a live update from the commander of the search team. new information about the captain and co-pilot. hear the captain speak in his own words. >>> more breaking news tonight a tense phone call between president obama and vladimir putin. will obama's warnings stop russia from invading ukraine. let's go. >>> good evening i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight on this friday we begin with the breaking news, search ships at this moment arriving at the possible crash

and bridget ann kelly who did carry it out and then it says she lied about it to the people in the officen she tried to cover it up. while the attorneys did talk with governor christie, they were not able to talk to both wildstein and kelly because those two ain't talking, so. >> they've asked for immunity and they would give up what they do know. >> wildstein has done that and that would involve the u.s. attorney's investigation and that could put you in jail? >> what are democrats saying. >> there's critical of the report. the two co-chairs who are democrats of the state assembly issued a statement, quote: lawyers hired by and paid by the christie administration itself to investigate the governor's office who say the governor and most of his office did nothing wrong, will not be the final word in this matter. the people of new jersey need a full accounting of what happened. this review had deficiencies that raises questions about a lack of objectivity and thoroughness. >>> and the report talked about allegations from the hoboken mayor claiming the christie administration withheld funds

right, bridget anne kelly came off as very emotional, almost as if she hatched this whole scheme becausehe had her heart broken in this relationship. that was the tone and theme of it. chris christie said that the reason why there wasn't a more personal window into what kelly was scheming, but they didn't have any documentation to that effect. in a lot of republicans' minds, even main stream republicans, a party of one. there's always been this sort of whispering campaign around him. remember the speech he gave in 2012? a lot of people said why didn't he talk about mitt romney? i think you're seeing that all over the place with republicans thinking that he's damaged goods in some ways and that's why you're hearing all of this stuff now about jeb bush who possibly could make that argument that chris christie had made all along, which is that jeb bush could possibly appeal to women and latinos and african-americans. >> the party of one theme that you bring up is actually important. because even in new jersey, which is remarkable, you don't even see a rallying of new jersey republicans arou

. >> the guy that received the memo from bridget ann kelly -- >> who says the governor knows more than letting on -- >> let me stop you, because i got to get michael in and then i want you to respond. michael shure what are your thoughts? >> well, i -- you know, everything that was just said is true. going back through my retrosp t retrospectroscope as the governor sited, it is easy to have a press conference like that when you have organized the investigation -- >> his words are not the final word. >> that's exactly right. although they are the words we listen to. >> yes. >> he comes out and says, quote, i'm not going to game out the politics here. well this is the most gaming out of politics you can imagine. people are eating it up, though, and that's what he is doing. but people's minds in some respects are made up about governor christy because of the way he behaved in this press conference. i did not watch it, but i heard him getting after an editorializing journalist -- >> yes. >> those are going to stand in the way of the ascension of chris christie -- >> it is tone and style, r

two central figures step in and bridget anne kelly are refusing to turn over documents. >> kelly wrotes e-mail. >> fighting for her right to remain silent this is a pivotal point. >> obviously, miss kelly i

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it says fired christie chief of staff bridget ann kelly carried it out. wildsteen suggested he did talk to the governor during the closings with you he says christie does not remember such a conversation with wildsteen or kelly. >> the governor, as our report reflects, does not recall the specifics of that conversation. >> reporter: democratic co-chairs of the legislative committee investigating are critical. quote, lawyers hired by and paid by the christie administration itself to investigate the governor's office who then say the governor and most of his office did nothing wrong will not be the final word on this matter. the report also claims hoboken mayor don zimmer's allegations the citee administration held up superstorm sandy funds in exchange for her support for a construction project were fashlgs but zimmer blasted, that calling the report a, quote, one-sided whitewash. critics also point out both wildsteen and kelly refuse to talk, so what they would say about governor christie remains unknown. chris in. >> eric, thank you. >>> up next, a pro-gu

. >>> the fate of bridgett ann kelly is in the terms of the new jersey state superior court.her the former governor christi aid should be forced to turn over more e-mail and text messages. in a hearing on tuesday he invoked her fifth amendment right and insisted she's not guilty of any wrongdoing. joining me now is heather. good morning. one of the most interesting things to come out of this court appearance, as you know, kelly's lawyer would not admit that she sent the infamous time for traffic problems e-mail. isn't that irrefutable? >> her lawyer basically said he's not saying either way, whether it was true or not. but he is acting in her best defense and just saying that this has not been verified by a third party and has not been authenticated. and until that is true whether by a judge or another entity that could authenticate it he's not verifying it. >> do you get any indication from the judge's question on which way this is leaning? >> judge jacobson, she's interesting. she's had a lot of tough cases in new jersey. she was the one who allowed for gay marriage to go f

stepian's brief dating relationship with bridget anne kelly, which began after he left the governor's office ended before the lane closure debacle began, it took place at a time when both he and kelly were single, is a regrettable distraction that has no place in this report. predictably that has become a tabloid headline masking the injustice done to stepian and distracting the public from those aspects of the report that would otherwise have demanded its attention. i think, andrea, stepian has a point there. >> one thing is certainly clear. this amp on the new york post website, the headline was they had a relationship. they really captured -- >> today you're going, i wonder what the post headline will be. will it have anything to do with the dating thing? >> there was a lot of criticism that she was being slut shamed. she was somehow being made to look back because of her relationship, or not credible. it does lay the ground work if at some point she comes and presents evidence against any of these people that, oh, somehow she was the woman scorned, so why should we listen to her?

stepien's brief dating relationship with bridget anne kelly which began after he left the governor's ffice, ended before the lane closure debacle began and took place when he and ms. kelly were single is a regrettable distraction that has no place in this report." it's true there's no purported explanation for the repeated references in the report to bridget kelly and bill stepien having a relationship. governor christie's lawyers just assert three separate times in the report and then brought it up again today at the press conference. they just assert that that relationship existed and that maybe that explains bridget kelly's involvement in the bridge lane closures. it's inexplicable but repeated and emphatic assertion made in this report and now at least one of the people made is being part of that relationship is calling bull pucky on it. perhaps i should not be as surprised. we'll be right back. [ male anno. she loves to shop online with her debit card. and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts, and stole her hard-earned money. unfo

. >> do you think bridget anne kelly will back up your story when she is under oath? >> i have no idea. but all i can tell you is it is the truth. and certainly, if she is tell the truth she will, because we never had any conversations about this, ever. >> so there will be no e-mails, tape recordings, phone calls that establish you knew about this? >> no, because i did not. >> wow. let me ask you this. you have gone through a lot and we all watch thundis unfold. what did you learn about yourself? >> well, i think you begin to learn how much stress you can take in a particular day. i think for me, i've done a lot of soul searching in the last 11 weeks about my life and about what i really want to do with my life and what is really most important to me. i'm spending a lot more time at home than i did before that. by choice. because that is where i want to be. and i kind of put things -- i think it is a little bit better priority order in the last 11 weeks. >> does that affect your willingness or your consideration about running for president. if you want to spend more t

lee, despite the fact we have a third party who's provided it to us in an e-mail from bridget anne kelly with particularity highlights the absurdity of the situation. if everyone can hold everything until someone provides an affidavit that says this is authentic, nobody will ever get anything in a subpoena. >> joining me steve kornacki and matt katz who created the blog the christie chronicles. steve, good arguments on both sides today. >> it's interesting. schar also tells the government they received information -- remember they put out two dozen subpoenas in total. it's not just kelly we're talking about here. schar was also saying the committee has received in response to the subpoenas more information that suggests that kelly, more similar to that like wildstein supplied suggests there's a basis for subpoenas. and now we're left in a situation where i think they're given until the end of next week to make that case to the judge based on some of the further information they've gotten from the subpoenas that the subpoenas to kelly and stepien ought to be obeyed. i think this has been