we can't say why bridgett kelly said that or who told her. told her. you want to shut it down. >> and you want to -- no. >> let's -- >> your mission is to protect the governor's office. >> and your mission is to try prove that the governor did something. >> i want to know why bridgett kelly sent the e-mail. you don't want to do know that. >> everybody wants to know that. but there's a very large possibility we will not find out. what in the judge comes back this week and says no, we doesn't have to testify. what do we do? >> we'll cross that bridge when we get to. >> there's another bridge rerns. i want to thank you all. >>> coming up, it is the finale of what we have been building towards all season long, the "up against the clock" tournament of champions. we'll crown a national champion. don't go anywhere. gotta get going. gotta be good. good? good. growth is the goal. how do we do that? i talked to ups. they'll help us out. new technology. smart advice. we focus on the business and they take care of the logistics. ups? good going. we get g

we have basically arrived at the point now with bridgette kelly and bill steppian. still talking to people. circumstances under which you might see bill steppian testify before the committee. only way they would testify before the committee itch the u.s. attorney has, completed, you know, every, gotten everything out of them. the u.s. attorney will get everything out of steppian, kelly, only people you will see testify are people i think in e some way, the u.s. attorney is okay with appearing there. it is, shows you, this is something the ball game is in newark in terms of getting to the bottom of this. >> dan french. now that the judge has clearly put this completely in the u.s. attorney any court here. what would you expect, as former u.s. attorney yourself. you are basically handed control of this kind of investigation. with the two witnesses who are pleading the fifth amendment, to the state legislature, what, what approach to them would you make? >> you know, what's interesting about today's decision is that, and i agree with what was just said. it really affir

does this change the calculation for whether or not for instance bridgette kelly might get immunity becausehe might be in even more jeopardy or worry? >> it's interesting there. bridget kelly and her lawyer put out a statement about a month ago where he all but asked for immunity. basically said she is in the position here where you have the governor's office saying one thing, david wildstein something else and she can break the tie. they've played that card they want the deal. the question is whatever it happening in the u.s. attorneys office how that meshz with what's happening in terms of the state legislative committee. this u.s. attorney's office, paul fishman for new jersey it's an opaque office, very hard to look into to see what's going on. for people who cover new jersey and the u.s. attorney there, that's a big difference when chris christie was there, we'd have a better sense of what's going on. we do know there is some type of communication that exists between people in fishman's office and people involved with the legislative committee. >> so they don't step on each other. >> a

i want to read the statement from bridgette kelly's attorney tonight, a new statement, they feel vindicated, and they say, for all the naysayers who criticize miss kelly for asserting her constitutional rights, judge jacobson's decision provides a free tutorial on the protections the fifth amendment aforesaid all citizens. and yet as we're reporting, that procedural step doesn't say anything about being in the clear. another interpretation of this is that the judge said to miss kelly, you get this protection because you're in so much hot water in a potential federal prosecution. >> that's right. and one of the questions that the judge goes into there is whether or not bridgette kelly was entitled to any protection, because she was a state employee, or whether she lost that when she became a state employee. whether or not she had to produce, and because she had been a state employee, she didn't really have the right to make a fifth amendment assertion. the judge says, absolutely not. she has that right, a person carries that into whatever employment they go into. but the broader question you

apparently sent an explicit word to the governor's office that dealt with them, the one headed by bridgette kellynot to rush to return the governor's phone call. someone in the governor's office was supposed to be hands off of. this was pretty much what we've been looking for. governor christie has been making noises that he can't understand how his people got the idea they were to be playing rough with political holdouts like the mayor of ft. lee, but when bridget kelly e-mailed david wildstein there were time for some traffic problems in ft. lee, she could, operating right off of that christie campaign mandatory directive. and how about the approved targets list sent out if january of 2013? it's precisely the hardball political guidance from the top the governor has been denying existed. well, it does exist and is now in evidence. so is christina renner's reference to that mandatory directive by the christie campaign to make life unpleasant for those who disagreed to hop aboard the chris christie bandwagon. all of this as the mist rises off the george washington bridge. that's "hardball" for no

bridgette davies "a night with janis joplin. foster, "violet." edina man zell, "if then." jesse mueller "beautiful." kelly a raisin in the sun. 12th night. the nominees for best revival of a musical are -- hezig and the angry inch. les mis. violet. >> the nominees for best play are -- act i by james la pine. all the way by robert shankin. casa valentina, mothers and sons by terrence mcnally and outside by john patrick shanley. the nominees for best musical are -- after midnight. aladen. beautiful, the carol king musical. and a gentleman's guide to love and murder. >> all right. jaime west, your take? surprises for you? >> there are a lot of surprises. gent gentleman's guide is up for a lot of nominations. denzel washington not nominated. tony winner. >> oscar winner. >> stallone and rocky, a low number of nominations for a high profile, flashy production. >> james franco not nominated or allen cummings or michelle williams for cabaret. >> good day for brian kran stcr. what a guy. what a workhorse. he's doing it all. >> i found myself saying i want to see that, that, that. >> this is good. broadway attenda