hey, kelly! hey, man! kelly, where have you been? i hear you're still trying to get to houston. they won't let us go without a coach. you still looking for a pitcher? i got one for you. why, you going to play? play with you turkeys? you're kidding. then who's the pitcher? yeah. who is this guy? what's his name? carmen ronzonni. you guys can do it. you got rhythm. just move a little bit more. come on, the race ain't over yet. way to go, rudi! all right! you got to move a little bit. nice-looking bunch of boys. come here for a second. hey, guys, this is carmen. why don't you come over here for a minute? played baseball back east. yeah, heavy action back east, man. by way of introduction, i'm what you call your basic versatile ball thrower. all you guys heard of catfish hunter, right? well, ok, then, here's the cat. man on first. watch the head movement. back like this, and in. catfish hunter. you want louie tiant? you got this. louie tiant, a real sharp pitcher. that's basically where i'm coming from. he's just a cruddy pitcher that throws air balls. tanner, come on. cool it. come

one of governor christie's staffers who reported to bridget kelly forwarded that request to bridget kelly. bridget kelly responded, should we do this if light of the mayor? and the other staffer responded, eh, i guess not. it is a good chamber, though. bridget kelly then asked, i assume the mayor would go? meaning the mayor would go to the event. the staffer responded, not necessarily. if we don't tell him. to which kelly responded, correct, good call. that apparently was the basis on which they allowed the lieutenant governor to go do that event. so another instance in which governor christie's office is maneuvering to try to keep political assets essentially away from ft. lee. away from the ft. lee mayor as some sort of punishment against him that is still not explained. that's new. here's the last thing. and the most important thing. and if anything, this may end up being however inadvertently sort of a smoking gun in this report. and it is this. day three of those bridge lanes being shut down was september 11th. september 11th, 2013. and on that day, these pictures were taken at the c

not -- but we haven't seen is stepien to kelly or kelly to stepien during the relevant period.ut guess what? what we found was that whatever personal relationship, brief, stepien and kelly had, and ended by the first week of august 2013. and they largely stopped speaking. so i don't expect we know it from our witness interviews. and it was confirmed on multiple interviews. let me just finish. let me just finish. let me just finish. we shouldn't be yelling out but let me just finish. we don't expect necessarily to see anything more come from that. but we have seen so much. we've seen so much hard evidence, and after all this time one would expect with all of that hard evidence, all of those private communications that we have access to come and we've seen, some of which you've seen, some more of which you get to see now because the governor's office decided that we should publish this report. we believe based on that hard evidence that we can make the fines we have, and there is not a shred, not a shred of hard evidence that the governor did anything other than what he has publi

kelly were single. but obviously bill stephian is upset got this too, they have now made a third person really angry. >> i think the report characterized stephien's -- they couldn't find any evidence that he was directly involved or anything. i suspect one of the things that might be at work here, is that we know through his lawyer explicitly. we strongly sup that brilgt kelly is tries to cut some kind of deal as well. this report, one way you can read the insinuations about bridget kelly. they're trying to impeach these -- >> before hand. >> these potential witnesses for the prosecution. they're basically sending a message out here, that, hey, if you're going to rely on -- potentially rely on bridget kelly or david wildstein, there's something to go back on. >> that is why, i think, joan, this does read as the opening argument for the defense, that you do have, as steve just pointed out, a kind of preimpeachment, a prebrutal of anything kelly might say. it does read like anyone who could potentially gi

sexist remarks concerning miss kelly." christie's internal report speculated that kelly's role in the scandal may have been part of an emotional reaction following a breakup with former christie chief of staff bill stepien. in response to a question today about whether the report was fair to kelly, christie cast it as simply reflecting reality. >> i think the report laid out the facts as the investigators found them. and however anybody wants to interpret those is up to your particular interpretation. >> joining me now, my msnbc colleague, steve kornacki, host of "up" and mel lisissa hayes, statehouse reporter for "the record." steve, he me start with you. i hesitate to use the word bombshell, but it's kind of a bombshell in terms of developments in and around the christie case. this statement from bridget kelly to me is the clearest indication that she is willing to sing if she is granted immunity. how did you read it? >> yeah. well, it means there's a bit of a competition going on right now because for a while david wild

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. he 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 he

kelly. thank you. >> good morning, your honor, kevin moreno and with me is my partner. >> thank you. this matter arises out of two verified complaints and orders to show cause that have been filed by the plaintiff, the new jersey legislative select committee on investigations, and against both william stepien and bridget kelly. subpoenas were issued to each of them and by the committee, which is investigating the bridgegate controversy that involves the closure of multiple traffic lanes leading to the george washington bridge in ft. lee. after the defendants were unresponsive, the committee moved to compel the production of the documents, but defendants have maintained their refusal to comply. citing their privilege against self incrimination and the fourth amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. and so the committee has initiated this action to obtain a declaratory judgment that defendants have failed to comply with the subpoenas without justification and also a

one is we know that they didn't talk to bridget kelly. that they didn't talk to bill stepien. now, if you call around you know in new jersey political world people, it's sort of common knowledge that everybody says yeah, they had some kind of relationship. but it's one of those things that is hearsay. it's a rumor. it's speculation in new jersey politics. but this report just asserts it as fact. and i wonder where a report like this could -- how a report like this could have served something like that as a fact without talking to kelly and stepien,the two people who are in this relationship. and the other thing is yeah, it's a little surprising to me that the language you just quoted really seems to be implying that, hey, bridget kelly was essentially dumped by bill stepien. and in her emotional anguish, for some reason turned to david wildstein and concocted this plan for some purpose having to do with the breakup with stepien. all of these suggestions in here about bridget kelly not just in terms of this relationship supposedly, but thr

kelly for approval. >> why? >> we're not able to answer every question today. >> everyone is asking questions like what did you know and when did you know it? >> please let me answer this question first. we're not going to interrupt each other. >> this is not a federal investigation or a legislate i have investigation. >> this is chris christie's lawyer. >> this is from the governor's office. >> this was somebody chosen by christie. >> why? governor chris christie explain. >> the defense made its opening case today in the case of the people versus chris christie, the people who do not believe that chris christie is telling the truth about what happened at the george washington bridge. 42% of new jersey voters do not believe that chris christie is telling the truth. and 63% of nationwide voters do not believe that chris christie is telling the truth. if you are one of the 42% of new jersey voters who do not believe chris christie, the over $1 million of your money that he spent on his lawyer's opening statement t

who ordered bridget kelly? there's a sense in the state house that she didn't have the power to go ahead and do something like this. so the tantalizing question is who ordered it? was it the governor? was it somebody else? did she come up with it? these are huge questions in this scandal, go right up to the governor's office. that's why today was so significant and so interesting. >> it's -- steve kornacki, the immunity question looms large here if bridget kelly had immunity she would not actually be able to refuse to answer and refuse to respond to these things. but the legislative committee is not in a position to give immunity for the u.s. attorney's criminal investigation. >> exactly. that's why i think you can understand, i think, certainly strategically what she and her lawyer are up to here. and that is the deal they are interested in cutting i think would be with the u.s. attorney. it's the same way from the very beginning of this we've been looking at david wildstein's attorney saying, look, if the u.s

she recalls the complaints to the iga and reporting it back to kelly and she recalls kelly writing back later that night good that they potentially incriminating e-mail and what does bridget kelly do knowing that kevin o'dowd, the chief off staff has been detailed by the governor to find out the facts about bridget kelly, what does she say? she says could you delete that e-mail i sent you that said good? that somebody trying to cover up their misconduct, coverage from the chief of staff and the governor and then what happens the next day? the next day kevin o dowd is in her office because he was dealing with her by phone on the 12th. he is in her office demanding that she go through her e-mails and see what she can find and guess what she does to cover it up? from the chief of staff and the governor what does she do? she prints out just the e-mails that reflect the complaints and cuts off the trail. she only gives them the e-mails that say he complained that week which of course by her account yet he complained that week but it wasn't that significant at the time i didn't recall it so h

i'm kelly. kelly. me. i'm kelly. [ japanese continues ] kelly. [ speaking japanese ] wait ?ues ] [ japanese continues ] get out ! get out ! [ snoring ] ahmad. nervous ? big game tomorrow, huh ? well, have no fear. marvin's here. what's the matter ? maybe i'm just tired of your hustlin'. it's tough in my line of work, you know. you gotta go out and hustle, or else you go nowhere. if you were some real big shot, you'd still be nowhere. what do you mean by that ? man, you were-- people like you were made to be nowhere. - got you a game, didn't i ? - you got us a freak show. - what do you mean, freak show ? - and dragging my brother like he's some puppy dog. - i'm sick of that too. - i happen to like your brother. what you like is a cute, little puppy with a big smile... who don't mind you stickin' a camera in his face. you got no cause to talk to me like that. you hurt me when you talk to me like that. oh, you ain't hurt. you ain't never been hurt. hey, louis. marvin. [ chuckles ] what are you doing in tokyo ? i wouldn't miss your big moment for the world. you wouldn't, huh ? h

bridget kelly and david wildestein have asked for immunity. the accusation has been that those are the ones who would know, they and david samson are the ones who would know exactly who knew what, when and where, and none of those people have spoken to any of the authorities about which we have mention today. 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 steppi

>>> kelly versus christie. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. late today in a trenton conference room, chris christie reentered the media arena. in his version of facing the lions, the only things missing as he intimidate and taunted members of the press corps were a chair and a whip. all the rest was on display as he poked and derided the capitol reports, invited them to ask about his million defense report he used today as both his shield and weapon. unfortunately, he may not have gotten all that the taxpayers of new jersey paid for. the report released yesterday by christie administration lawyers proclaimed in no uncertain terms that christie has been exonerated. but there are plenty of skeptics out there. nearly every major newspaper in christie's backyard harshly questioned the report. "the new york times" editorial report writes, quote, this glossy political answer losing cost the taxpayers more than a million dollars in legal fees. this report is an expensive whitewas white

there was no exit interview with richard kelly -- with bridget kelly. when thesen was made revelations, which came as a shock to the governor and other senior staff about rigid kelly's role, that she should be fired y's role bridget kelly w and that she should be fired. one can understand exactly why that decision was made so no one could suggest there was any interviewing bridget kelly to do anything in effect with a future investigation with her. spent -- you have >> i appreciate the question. we have to let other people have questions. let me finish with the follow-up. would i have liked to confront bridget kelly? what a like -- what a lot of people in the governor's office been able to -- would a lot of people in the governor's office like to have confronted her? the governor fired her. he made a decision because he believed she had to be fired because she had lied to him and his chief of staff and others in the governor's office, and i respect that decision. >> the small group of people that you describe, whose motives you don't know, what does thi

i want to no what miss kelly knows. us to know it is at the heart of this scandal. that's "hardball" for this and for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. three days since it first disappeared, there is still no trace tonight of the missing malaysian airlines flight mh-370. the mystery has only deepened and the apparent tragedy is serving as a reminder that even in this hyper-connected age, it's still possible for a jumbo jet to vanish from the night sky without a trace. >> the plane was flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. two hours into the flight, malaysia airlines lost contact with the plane.

now bridget kelly is emotional, and she is unbalanced. they're creating the atmosphere so they can say, you know, these two people are just talking to save their own skin. they're unbalanced. you can't trust them. and that's what this is all about. i have no doubt about it at all. >> now, liz, you talked about the governor being a bully, a known for being a bully. >> right. >> his tone was definitely different today than it was the humble kind of laid back person we saw 76 days ago when he did a press conference. he was repeatedly combative with reporters. listen to this. >> stop. you have to get the facts right if you're going to ask me a question. it's nice that you eventually got to the question. but premise of the question is so infirmed that i'm not answering it. why don't you get to the question and cut the commentary back. i don't know whether you can't take notes or you're not listening. i would love to say i missed you, but i didn't. >> i mean, does this sound like the man that the report said was welling up with tears when he wa

bridget kelly breaking her silence. on the eve of a pivotal court hearing, nbc has obtained exclusive new video of kelly, the former christie aide who sent the e-mail "time for some traffic problems in fort lee." nbc's michael isikoff caught up with bridget kelly and her lawyer. >> bridget? hi. mike isikoff with nbc news. >> excuse me. >> i just want to ask a few questions. how you holding up? >> i'm okay, thank you. >> can you tell us how difficult an experience this has been for you? >> i'm not going to comment. >> would you say that there is more to the story that people haven't heard? ? . >> also today we learned the federal investigation into the bridge scandal is expanding to include one of governor christie's closest political allies. federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the records of david samson, the chairman of the port authority, the agency in charge of the george washington bridge. investigators are reportedly looking for potential conflict of interests involving samson's role at the agency and his prominent

anything else, kelly? >> i was actually going to ask about japan, but i feel like that's just opening a whole other can of worms. >> yeah, we don't have that much time. >> let me put it this way. if the tax hike happens in a matter of days here with regard to japan, how much of a problem? can you put it in 140 characters? >> it's all a question of how quickly the boj responds with the easing and how effective the fiscal stimulus is at offsetting the falling consumption. >> all right. #goodjob. >> thank you. >> thanks for joining us. heading toward the close. i wouldn't call it a rally, but we're back in positive territory for the dow. up 4 1/2 points. the nasdaq is coming back, still minus signs right now. >> and after the close, microsoft's new ceo unveiling windows office for the ipad. will it be a big boost for the company's bottom line? if so, why is microsoft stock down today? stay with us. that story when we come right back. back. announcer: where can an investor be a name and not a number? scottrade

isolating miss kelly is not surprising.elly is not a liar and if she is granted immunity, she will provide complete answers to the investigation. back to talk about all of this is wnbc reporter, brian thompson, liz smith who worked on jon corzine's 2009 campaign and in houston, brian weis, a friend of the show. brian thompson, i'll start with you. this really got interesting yesterday when the statement from bridgette kelly came out. david wildstein's lawyer has been out there pleading for a deal with the feds. now there's a competition here with bridge el kelly saying you have the report. i can break the tie. i can tell you who is telling the truth or not. one of the questions is in the trenton world. does anybody believe the idea that this was wildstein acting with kelly's approval and no one else would have been involved? how credible is that idea? >> it's not totally credible. the belief, if there had to be somebody else involved in the chain. not necessarily, the governor, i have to say. there is no evidence that the g

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

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

. >> reporter: kelly wood is alive in spite of two bullets to the head. she speak s in spite of a shattered jaw >> catch the guy who did this to me. >> reporter: catch the guy who did this to me is the message from the mother of three. she wants the man caught. and this video released by the police department shows a man entering a spotsylvania fas mart saturday. when kelly turned her back, he fired at close range, and grabbed a display of medicine and left. and somehow she called 911. her husband tells us that he has his ideas of what should happen to the gunman when he is caught. >> in honest opinion, i like eye for an eye. >> reporter: kelly just wants the see the man behind bars. >> i want this guy to be put in jail. >> reporter: back at the fas mart, this shooting is a prime topic of conversation. >> i come in here all of the time, and i know that girl who was shot. >> yeah, i come in here a lot, too. and we are putting together an event for her. >> reporter: and rita rose is turning the horror into action. she has gotten the blessing and the help of

i love that, kelly. sure. some media names that i own, for instance lionsgate, madison square garden, and 20th century fox. these three stocks have not enjoyed the rally up to this year-to-date returns. however, when you look at what analysts are projecting for their growth rate, they're really, really astonishingly cheap when you look on say a peg basis, you know, the price to earnings divided by the earnings growth rate. it's names like that. i'd also say this, fundamentally just think of it intuitively, kelly. when you're looking at stocks like that, those are media stocks, i think that all of us, including all of us on this program right now, will realize we're not going to skimp on getting information, and when you have that thesis, stocks like this are just a natural buy. >> kenny, are you ignoring fundamentals? >> well, listen, technically i just think the market is overdone. i'm not necessarily saying long term i'm not an optimist and a bull. i absolutely wham. i think you have to be in the markets. we

kelly. and this picture showing tanks joining up with armed forces, another amateur video showing what appears to be military assets on the move, a long convoy of tanks and covered vehicles spotted traveling along the road. again, we could not independently vet this material, but it appears to support the intel about what is happening in the region, and the sheer number of troops, over 80,000 now far exceeds the number needed for any kind of drill. and the question is, is the russian bear waking from a two-decade slumber? ready to grab back portions of the soviet union and if so what are we to do about it. he wrote to the president voicing his concerns along with a number of other lawmakers. good of you to be here, congressman. in this letter, you say russia's war on ukraine has already started and that europe would unite behind the russian leadership if only we would demonstrate it. what would you have him do to stop of this? >> well, we're very concerned because if you look at the number o

you want to talk to bridget kelly, they didn't talk to bridget kelly -- >> she was a hard get. >> not a hard get when he fired her. >> but don't you think at that point he was already be advised that would be a complicating conversation -- >> that's what he was saying. he's fired other staff members before and talked to them before hand. but it's -- the report itself there's a couple of interesting things in here. one that i just spotted a minute ago, this is something not been publicly reported before now. there's an insinuation they say that events in kelly's personal life may have had some bearing on her subjective motivations and state of mind and go on to say, that she been having a personal relationship with bill stepien, and that her first known communication to wildstein about the lane realignment occurred around the time her personal relationship with stepien cooled and stepien and kelly had largely stopped speaking. there's an insinuation this is a woman scorned coming up with some kind of scheme to -- >> has that shown up on your reporting -- >> the idea of their being a pe

here now to explain mismegyn kelly and kelly file after the factor.> but this time there are charges that there are politics involved? >> i can't keep track of this. how many delays have there been? >> actually there is the number. this is the 31st. >> 31st day. >> president obama says the law is working fine just as it should now. 31st delay but this one is blatantly political. you know the fix, started losing their health care plan contrary to the president's promise lie of the year? he postponed he said for a year insurance companies don't cancel those people if you can find it in your heart not to do it. the president said please don't. so now he said please don't for two years in addition to the year. >> not going to be fined by the irs if you keep your old shabby insurance plan? >> that's exactly right. and coint did he wantly this will now move the extension of those crappy plans from one month before the midterm elections where they would have had to send the cancellations to two more years later. >> democrats all know they are in trouble. >>

now, here is what bridget kelly's attorney said about that e-mail. >> everybody says my god, this does it. this ask the document. reduce the lanes. okay. so when i look at this document, i look, on its face, on its face, does it regard the george washington bridge? nope. on its face, does it regard the reduction of three lanes to one, access lanes to the george washington bridge? no. >> i mean, is this stretching the argument to the breaking point, paul? i mean, he won't even concede the e-mail is about the lane closings. >> well, reverend, it's his job to represent bridget kelly to the best of his ability. and he's really got a decent argument. you know, the fifth amendment says you can't be the agent of your own destruction. you can't be forced by the government to testify against yourself. normally, it doesn't apply to things like text messages and e-mails. but what he is saying is if my client has to go through all of her texts and say, well, this applies to bridgegate, this doesn't, that's kind of like testifying. and i have a constitutional rig

. >> there's a lot of blame for bridget kelly. >> bridget kelly lied to her colleagues. >> the main focus of the report is going to be quite critical of mayor don zimmer. >> mayor zimmer's allegations are not only unsubstantiated. they are demonstrably false. >> law firm hired by the new jersey governor. >> mounting a new defense. >> 1999, the number of days since two access lanes to the george washington bridge were closed. >> this is not the final word. >> an act of personal or political animus, a breach of the public trust, deceptive and vindictive. but governor chris christie had nothing to do with it. that was the finding of an internal review released today by a team hired by the governor's office to investigate the george washington bridge lane closures last september. for governor cristy's purposes, it was taxpayer money well spent. >> there not a shred of evidence that the governor did anything other than what he said before, he had no knowledge before hand and no role in the decision to implement it or in the implementation of it. >> indeed, the shreds of hard evidence, all of t

we further found no evidence that anyone in the governor's office besides bridget kelly knew of thisdea in advance or played any role in the decision or the implementation of it. what we did find was that after the decision to implement the lane realignment, while it was going on, and in its aftermath, the members of the governor's office, some of them, became aware of the lane realignment, inquired of port authority representatives and were told this was a legitimate stud,and appropriate issue for the port authority to deal with. we further found as the controversy continued, as there were rumors about the governor's involvement, appropriate steps were taken to try to determine if anyone else in the governor's office, anyone in the governor's office was involved in the lane realignment decision. a when those appropriate inquiries were made, bridget kelly lied to her colleagues, even reached out to a subordinate and asked them to destroy a potentially incriminating document. we further found it was not until january 8th, 2014, when documents had been subpoenaed were first revealed th

bill and kelly? >> jane, thanks very much.ore now on the read of the retail investor right now. >> yes, probably no one better to ask than vanguard founder jack bogle who is often known as the godfather of those index funds and joins us now. jack, it is great to see you. >> welcome back, mr. b. >> is there any truth to the fact -- >> great to be with you both. >> -- that when retail investors start to get involved is when we should get worried or is it an important plank of any bull market? >> at the depends on the time period. in january, for example, mutual fund investors, and that's probably the best example we have of the retail investor, actually took money out of u.s. stocks. they put some in to international stocks, probably emerging markets, which i look at as being a more speculative sector of the market. so i don't see big cash flows. i haven't seen the february data yet. but i don't see big cash flows pouring into equities through mutual funds, and i think the investor maybe is better balanced than we all think he i

bridget kelly was scorned so she caused a traffic jam. dawn zimmer was yawning, and the yawning was her defense that she wasn't threatened. i found that to be incredible. >> but these lawyers are smart guys. and there must be some women in that report, in that legal team. you're right. it just blew me away that they would go after a woman's private life without any connecting of it to what happened here. they can't give us a motive for why the bridge was closed down for all those weeks. but they can give us some sort of tantalizing personal life story about bridget kelly and the fact that she was having a relationship with somebody else in this matter and was dumped by this guy. what relevance do they think they could even argue? the governor late today defended that salacious attack on her personally, i thought. that was pretty bad. your thoughts? >> again, there was no relevance to that. you know, is the governor said he wans to get to the bottom of it. he wants to get to the truth. the only thing this report did, which we're calling a

he was in court today for the kelly/stepien hearing., thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> on the question of immunity which i did not expect today's court proceedings to be about as much as they were, what was that argument about? was that -- was that argument about whether or not the legislature can indemnify these people from prosecution? people who don't want to hand over documents or don't want to testify, thus potentially opening up an avenue to get them to talk? >> yeah, that's part of it. part of the question here is does this committee -- it's a legislative committee. these are lawmakers who are elected officials. do they have the authority to grant immunity to someone who agrees to talk to them and provide documents? you heard a little bit of a disagreement today. you know, miss kelly's lawyer said you could do it with a snap. on the other side was reid schar who said it's not quite clear. remember, what we're talking about is immunity from both the state and federal prosecution. this is a committee that doesn't have prosec

and then they depict -- how are they depicting bridget kelly here? that somehow she was a woman scorned and therefore kind of gone wild on herself? >> dodgy. not to be believed. >> that's the woman he hired in his office. >> and by the way, worked less than 100 feet across the office. let me go back to brian about this. here is the one i thought was interesting. wildstein has said he told the governor about this when it was happening. now this report that cost all this money, $600,000 bucks, whatever, doesn't even say whether the governor had a conversation with wildstein or not during the course of the bridge closures. it does, however, even though it says it doesn't know whether they had the conversation characterize it as saying well, it obviously left no impression on the governor. how can they not know whether there was a conversation, these lawyers, and at the same time characterize it as not being provocative enough to have grabbed the attention of the governor? one thing or the other happened. they had the conversation or they didn't visit. i

neither kelly, wild steam or kelly's legend boyfriend.the report sounds gender biased to you, you are not the only one. kelly's lawyer said -- pressrter at the conference asked governor christie about he thought the way the report treated kelly. >> i think the report laid out the facts as the investigators found them. however everybody wants to interpret those is up to your particular interpretation. >> christie's offensive against kelly may not be the best strategy. her lawyer has said if given certain legal protections by the u.s. attorney, kelly will cooperate with his investigation. her testimony can either corroborate christie's version or david wild steam's. it could be critical to identifying competing versions. they toterday, mr. christie flew las vegas to woo sheldon adelson. he made a gaffe and described the west bank as occupied territories. the israeli government and mr. ailsa and would not consider those regions to be occupied. christie apologized and adelson accepted. nothing like a little bridge gate to give you foot and mo

stepien and miss kelly, or between them, on this very topic.e're aware they have communications responsive and relevant to the subpoena. >> one of the many pressing legal issues raised today is whether key witnesses could use their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination to refuse to comply with a request for documents in their possession. judge jacobson asked for further legal analysis to be submitted. joining me, criminal defense attorney brian wice, a former special prosecutor. that's the first question. maybe i was naive or uninformed. i guess i didn't realize the fifth amendment covered document production. >> no, if we think, chris, for a new york minute that the privilege of self-incrimination protects us against things that incriminate us, we'd be wrong. that does not mean e-mails, text messages, post-it notes or cocktail napkins. the framers of the constitution probably didn't realize in the 21st century more people would find themselves jammed up as a result of things they say via e-mail, text, or any other communication. i t

lawmakers warn of urgency alarm and gave concern, welcome to the kelly file tens of thousands of russian troops on the move towards ukraine. this amateur video said to show tanks joining with us ground forces so we cannot verify the area here. a long convoy of tanks and covered vehicles spotted covering down the road we cannot vet this footage but aprilers what is happening the region. kremlin calling it a training exercise the number of troops, almost 100,000 over 80,000 now, far exceeds the number needed for a drill the question, now, is the russian bear waking from a two decade slumber ready to grab back parts of the soviet union? if so, what are we prepared to do about it? ohio congressman michael turner wrote to the president voicing his concerns along with a fum of other lawmakers good of you to be here, congressman. >> thank you. you say russia's war on ukraine already started and europe would unite behind leadership if only we'd demonstrate it but what would you have him to do stop this? >> we're very concerned about you look at the number of troops amassing it's an invasion-type

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