well, today a superior court judge in new jersey agreed with bill stepien and bridget anne kelly and said, in fact, they do not have to comply with the subpoenas from the legislature. they do not have to hand over any documents. the judge ruled that their fifth amendment claims, basically, were legitimate, because it is reasonable, she said, for them to fear that they may face criminal prosecution related to their roles in the bridge lane closures. the judge in her ruling today said they could, feasibly, be criminally liable under new jersey's official misconduct law. and according to the judge, quote, it is reasonable for mr. stepien and miss kelly to fear that they currently face the hazard of prosecution in the federal investigation into these matters. and that is the whoa basis of invoking your fifth amendment rights, right? pleading the fifth. if there is a reasonable likelihood that you could be criminally charged and prosecuted for something that you did. the government can't force you to say things or hand over things that will incriminate you. so, on the one hand, this is re

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down lanes on former port authority official david wildstein and christie's former top aide bridget anne kelly>> they said, quote, this is about bridget kelly. she seemed emotional. she was habitually concerned about how she was perceived by the governor. a boyfriend had ended a relationship for portraying ms. kelly as weeping, and comment on men for approval and stability. >> it's clear why the official report was titled "bitches be crazy", right? >> as hard ads as it is to speak their names in the same sentence, it's recently apparent that ted cruz of texas is trying to liken himself to the greatest man of the 20th century, winston churchill. this time the senator showed off the fake tattoo in the form of the british prime minister as an april fool joke. take a look. >> i'm proud to stand with winston churchill. and i've got say my wife was fairly astonished. >> you have a tattoo of winston churchill? i can smell that cigar from here. >> oh my god. of course, that ink, if you will, is more like a blot than a tribute. anyway, this is the first time that cruz has tried to model himself after c

. >> two weeks before the monster traffic jam, the chief of staff, bridget anne kelly, e-mailed the transportation head, time for some traffic problems. >> he is far from the perfect candidate, i will tell you why. >>> i'm not saying i agree with clive bundy, what i'm saying is the way it was handled is really suspicious. when the heck do we send the federal government with arms to collect a bill? when do we do that? >> well, people who break or suspect themselves of breaking the law find themselves staring at law enforcement officials every single day in the country. but the better question i think is when is it that people take up arms against the state government or federal government and point their arms at the government and face for consequences for that? the answer is hardly ever. watching the bundy incident unfold, i couldn't help think about this, in 1985 a group called move had bunkered themselves in a row house, police didn't back off, eventually a bomb was dropped on the house which included 11 people, including five children. needless to say, the right wing media was not exactly rushi

the office once held by campaign manager bill stepien and former deputy of staff bridget anne kelly. who did not talk to lawyers. as early as this week as it calls its first witness in for testimony. joining me now is democratic assemblyman john wisniewski. i'm excited to have you here. thanks for coming on. let me start with the subpoenas. you have opened the door that you may subpoena governor christie. can you give us any more details on that possibility? >> precisely what i said, we're not going to rule anybody out. it's far too early in the process to say a person, no matter what office they hold, is off limits. we do have a number of people interested in calling and it's based on thousands of documents we've received. a lot of people have made much out of the two subpoenas thwarted by the court. >> stepien and bridget kelly? >> correct, correct. so we now have a lot of material that we now have questions to ask people. >> and there seem to be quite a few questions out there. one in particular, the transcripts -- >> the lack of transcripts -- >> yeah, the sort of watercolor impr

battle to compel document production from two of the people that are at the center of this, bridget anne kelly, of course, who wrote the infamous "time for traffic problems in ft. lee," if there's anyone that knows the motive, it's her. >> you would think. >> and bill stepien, who's a campaign manager and adviser to governor christie, who's since been fired. the two of them have contested that on fifth amendment grounds. a court recently found in their favor. what is the next step and where do you go from here? >> well, the judge ruled three things. she said that the subpoena was overbrought. so we can clearly narrow the scope of the subpoena and that might work. the judge also said that the committee has very broad immunization powers. and so that if we really wanted the documents in the format we asked, we could immunize those individuals. but we still have a variety of documents that we're still going through and individuals that we still need to bring in for testimony. and so while two of the 28 subpoenas that we issued ran into challenges, 26 of the 28 did not. and there's thousands of pa