to which david wildstein responded, they're the children of buono voter.overnor came out and held what may have been one of the longest and most bizarre press conferences in modern american politics. >> all of the people who were affected by this conduct deserve this apology and that's why i'm giving it to them. >> he said he was blind sided by the revrevelation, that he knew nothing about the scheme to cause the gridlock and he fired bridgette kelly. >> major -- the mayor was never on my radar screen. i wouldn't have been able to pick him out of a lineup. even as tchristie was talking, the mayor of ft. lee said he would rather not receive the governor today. >> he certainly would not be shunned but if ft. lee has built up enough capital at this point to be granted one request, we would ask that this visit come once this investigation is either over or all of the material facts have surfaced. >> but apologies may not be enough here. today, david wildstein who resigned several weeks ago as this scandal was gathering steam refused to answer questions in fron

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and then they are the children of buono voters. [audience reacts] >> jon: okay that makes them evil. [laughter] did probable presidential favorite chris christie personally order this traffic hit? i don't know. but i do know one thing about the effects of this burgeoning scandal, you can probably now see paul ryan's boner from space. whoa that is -- i don't know what that is. [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] all right. looks like wisconsin has a tusk but i don't -- now we have he has an up-pie lnch will chris christie respond? >> not only was a mislead by a member of my staff but this inappropriate conduct was made without my knowledge. >> jon: and i'm sorry. sorry? >> one thing is clear i will not tolerate it because the people of new jersey deserve better. >> jon: which makes me sorry. i'm very sorry. this is not representative of me or my administration in anyway and people will be held responsible for their actions. >> jon: what? [laughter] while clearly somebody is getting thrown under the bus here. fortunately for them the

they were almost gleeful when they talked about don't worry about the children, the children of buono voters. i mean, such an arrogance. that, i did find, somewhat shocking. >> if you knew something like this was happening and it was some sort of a retaliatory strike potentially, why not do something more? you had the eyes of the new jersey media on you, running for governor, he did win over you, but how come you didn't try to use the spotlight you had at that time to expose this? >> believe me, i did. there is a culture of fear in trenton and the senate president was working hand-in-hand with the governor. i got very little help with the democratic party, and the senate president is the lieutenant of one of the unelected political bosses in new jersey, george norcross. >> why didn't you try to approach governor cuomo then? this is a bridge that is shared by both new york and new jersey. governor cuomo is a democrat. the appointment there of patrick foye is the person who lifted the lane closures. >> thank god for patrick foye. >> did you think to contact governor cuomo to bring him u

they're the children of buono voters. >> you mean that people voted for you against governor christieject disregard, callous disregard for the people of new jersey. >> now, by what you know of him having known him four years and had to work with him, do you think that it is possible that all of this could have happened and no one mentioned anything to him? >> it's so absurd. i can't even find the adjectives to say how absurd that is. this is a guy who runs his administration like a paramilitary operation. it's very, very structured, very disciplined. the orders come from the top down. these kids don't go to the bathroom unless they ask chris christie's permission. so to suggest that his chief of staff did something without asking him, to suggest that michael drewniak, his top communication guy for years didn't talk to him about this is just absurd. and that's why we need a federal investigation into it. >> senator, obviously the whole world is looking at this. this is front page in croatia. you're the head of the senate judiciary committee in the state. what do you want to see happen

the idea that you could punish exclusively the children of buono voters on that school bus. that there were no christie voters on that school bus? i haven't been able to get the name of the 91-year-old woman who was delayed medical treatment that day because of this traffic jam. and eventually died. when we don't know whether she died because of a delay in treatment. but in politics, that's not the way they play this game. in politic, she, when we have her name, is going to become the willy horton of chris christie's presidential campaign. they're going to pin that name on him. this woman is dead because of action taken by the christie administration. >> the plumbers in watergate, that was very -- >> stupidity all the way through. >> in any case, this breaks through. people don't understand about the struggle to lift education standards. they don't understand about state budgets and jobs come and go. but they do understand this kind of story. it breaks through all politics. it breaks through the kind of people who only tune in to this kind of network. and it reaches into the

he texted had his reply of buono voters. here is barbara bouono reacting. >> these e-mails reveal a tangled web of deceit and subtro fuj and pay back. i have a hard time believing the governor knew nothing about it. what surprised me and blew me away is the abject -- they department care. they just didn't care about the impact on regular people and on the children. it was so glib. >> again, governor christie said he was blindsided and that was the messages that he did not know of any link between the staff and the lane closures on the george washington bridge. let me bring in another voice. you know her as one of the conservative hosts of crossfire. nice to have ow. >> thanks. >> there is no love lot of among a number of conservatives. take a look as one example. this is outside of the cnn calling them fact and furious. you watched. >> i did. yesterday i was one of i think a lot of people who were skeptical at the idea of a notion that chris christie had no knowledge or involvement. about the lane closure pay back scandal. w

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buono being the opponent of governor christie. there's a reference here to barbara buono. this appears very insensitive and i would say very much in line with the theory that has been put out by a lot of democrats in jersey, this is retribution. >> it's insensitive and it's callous. the majority leader just mentioned how it was the first or second day of cool had this happened. people were stuck in traffic for three or four hours. there's a story about how children were basically trapped on school buses for all of that time trying to get to school. you know, i think the reason why this resonates, reverend al is several reasons is governor christie and he has national ambitions and is -- >> he's leading in some polls the republican field right now for 2016. >> right for 2016 but also as someone noted me earlier today that this is also a big deal because it's traffic and if you want to really anger people anywhere in the country, mess with traffic. mess with their normal traffic patterns. that's why one of the many reasons why this is -- this story will have legs but it also

and as senator buono correctly pointed out, there are two options here.r this is a man who is not in control of his own senior staff or he's not telling the truth. this is an important issue and the fact of the matter is that while we've been talking about this for probably two weeks, this governor strenuously and mockingly denied any involvement in this for months. and now it's come back that people in his office plotted it, used the apparatus of his office to try to cover it up. it's an abuse of power, it's a cover-up of the abuse of power, and this governor ought to be true to his words in his long apology and be very cooperative in making sure every document is turned over, so that my committee and the legislature can look at this thoroughly and decide for itself what his involvement was. look. there may not be direct involvement from him, but what it does show is a man not in control of his own staff. he can't run a bridge, how does he want to run a country? >> john wisniewski, assemblyman from new jersey, thank you very much, barbara buono, thank yo

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the aide's response, they are the children of buono voters. state senator barbara buono was christie's democratic opponent at the time. >> i'm done remaining silent. we need apologies. we need explanations. >> reporter: and in a statement this afternoon, an apology. governor christie says what he saw today is unacceptable. he is outraged and saddened. he was misled, he says, by a member of his staff. and while the governor says he won't tolerate it, he did not announce any firings today. diane? >> all right, jim. it's hard to believe today. thank you so much. >>> and tonight, a u.s. navy helicopter has crashed off the coast of virginia beach, plunging the five service members onboard into the 42-degree waters below. three crew members were rescued. one was killed. a search is under way for the fifth, who is still missing. and this news comes 24 hours after that other u.s. military helicopter, also on a routine training mission, crashed in england. the four u.s. service members onboard that one died. >>> and the president, today, marked a miles

on the other hand the democrat who ran against chris christie for governor, state senator barbara buono called on the u.s. department of justice for further investigation. >> governor christy's administration is run like a paramilitary organization. it's extremely disciplined. there are no leaks. it is a very disciplined organization. it is run top down, and he knows everything that goes on. people do not sneeze without asking chris christie's permission. to say that his closest advisors, one of his chief of staff, his campaign manager who, you know, if you have a campaign, you know that you are the alter eager of your campaign manager, who was mentioned in the emails as being part of this whole debacle. his long-time communications director. it's straining ceduality to think that a governor like this, a micromanager is trying to distance himself so that he has no culpability. i don't buy it. >> i get the impression that you think this is deeper, that it goes much further and that the governor was definitely involved. am i wrong about that? >> i do. i know how the governor operates, how

the aides' response, they are the children of buono voters. buono was chris christie's opponent at the time. >> we need apologies, we need explanations. >> jim avala reporting for abc news. a statement today in an apology, governor christie said what he saw today is unacceptable. he was outraged and saddenned. he was misled, he said, by a member of his staff. while the governor said he will not tolerate it, he did not announce any firings, at least not yet. >>> today was the third anniversary of the deadly shooting in arizona that critically wounded gabby giffords. a moment of silence outside the university of arizona medical center where the injured were treated. a bell was rung 19 times, one for each of the victims shot. giffords was one of 13 injured when jared lee loughner opened fire at a public event that she hosted on january 8, 2011. six people were killed. meanwhile, gabby giffords marked the day by skydiving. she landed safely this afternoon at a skydiving site between phoenix and tucson. after completing her landing, giffords blew k

then, wildstein responds, they are the children of buono voters, barbara buono was christie's democraticent. the idea of revenge against people that are not on the christie side. >> this was the first day of school. the buses were all showing up late. there were also first responders, who said they were having trouble responding to their emergencies. there was radio silence. those are the actual words in some of these e-mails when there was a request. what's being said when the mayor reaches out and tries to get an answer from you at the port authority. radio silence as though that is sort of a badge of honor. this is very, very trouble willing. >> the mayor of fort lee, new jersey, calls in. bridget anne kelly asks if anybody got back to him. his name comes after mayor, i believe his name is fulop, that mayor is a democratic mayor of jersey city who refused to endorse republican governor chris christie in his re-election bid. that mayor said there was a lot of revenge against him for refusing to endorse christie. he didn't say specifically christi christie had anything to do with it. he

david wildstein responds, they are the children of buono voters, meaning, barbara buono. the democratic candidate who ran against chris christie for governor when he ran for re-election this past year. do not worry about the harm we are deliberately causing the children of this community. we'll make them pay. the traffic study excuse that was invented to explain what happened, that was made up. the traffic jam was deliberately created on orders from the governor's office directly. it was recognized as something that would cause harm. it was intended to cause harm it was causing harm and local officials were complaining about that harm, it was recognized in realtime and celebrated those officials were getting no explanation for what was happening to them. and it was motivated by partisan politics. because governor christie's employees discussed it in those terms. we do not know what caused governor christie's office to unleash this hell on the town of fort lee. it's been previously suggested that the mayor of fort lee refused to endorse his bid for re-election. was the may

they are the children ever buono voters wildstein wrote making a reference to barbara buono the democratic candidate for governor who lost to christie in a landslide. other news organizations have reported same conversation word for word. but it's not clear who said what in this conversation but they are all reporting the same conversation. howard, this is the kind of thing where all those weeks going up until today in his usual big way, the governor was saying there's nothing to this. we'll go through all the quotes. the denial after denial, the sarcasm, the ribbing of the reporters, making light it, making fun of the reporters for asking the question. any time he might have asked we don't even know if there's anything to this. let's go on. >> the political import of this, chris, is that people have been willing to give chris christie a look if not a break because he seems like a bull injuries an honest bully and a guy who was going to knock over the parts of politics in a good way. but he's all too typical of a politician and we're not sure if he's telling the truth. his story is contrad

they are the children of buono voters. as in barbara buono, who lost this past election to christie. wildstein e-mails kelly, angered the traffic wasn't worse, the new york side gave fort lee back all three lanes this morning, we are appropriately going nuts, samson helping us to resail yat. david sam sorngs another christie appointee to the authority. after being forwarded an e-mail, one of his deputy chiefs of staff, it will be a tough november. it's fine. the mayor's an idiot. fort lee's mayor is croatian not serbian. when chris christie was asked about the lane closures in december, he scoffed at the allegations. >> i worked the cones, actually, mack. unbeknownst to everybody, i was the guy out there, i was in overalls and a hat, but i actually was the guy working the cones out there, you really are not serious with that question? >> but then he went on to express his displeasure, not about the lanes being closed but that fort lee has three lanes. >> i didn't know fort lee got three dedicated lanes until all this stuff

one of his most vocal skeptics is barbara buono. i had to say yesterday to my colleague thomas roberts. >> look. it's one of two things. the governor is lying or he's incompetent. my prediction is this. he will be leaving before his term is up but it won't be because he's running for president. >> author of "the swing vote: the untapped power of in pendant pendants." christina beltran who's sew yacht professor of social and cultural naps of new york university and author of "the trouble with unity." and former special assistance to george w. bush thank you all for being here. i want to come to you as jersey guy and law professor in part because we have here a clear statement from governor christie saying i had nothing to do with it but we have these fifth amendment invocations that always feel unfair because you're always able to in evoke the fifth. >> the think that i think is important here you can't say i don't feel like answering, i plead the fifth. there's got to be a possibility of a legal conviction. there is absolutely some

. >> david wildstein responds, quote, they are the children of bouno voters, meaning barbara buono. >there are times we need to get along and just get things done. >> i know that the christie administration is connecting the sandy funds to this rockefeller problem. >> the lieutenant governor came and very directly said to me that these two things are connected. >> she delivers a very clear message. >> don't forget, when the lieutenant governor of the state of new jersey pulls you aside in a parking lot -- >> and then there was sandy. >> we have survived the worst natural disaster in our state's history and we have worked together to restore, renew, and rebuild the state that we love. >> but the storm that helped make christie's national profile -- >> i will governor with the spirit of sandy. >> -- now threatens to bring him down. >> this is black and white. and if it is found that this happened, lights out. >> today, chris christie gave a good, if not great, political performance. but there's now a u.s. attorney looking into possible criminal behavior from the administration and 20 ou

. >> senator buono, let me read you the text, ach the traffic jams and kids being late for school, one of the identified persons texted is it wrong i'm smiling no another unidentified person replied. i feel bad about the kids i guess. they are the children of buono voters responded the second, referring of course to you, the then democratic opponent. how did you react to that? >> i have to tell you, i was shocked. even though i knew that there is this web of underhanded sub tri fuj and political pay back that would lead to chris christie, the tone and tenor of these e-mails shocked the conscience, not just as a mother hearing this woman say it doesn't matter, they don't matter because they are going to vote for christie's opponent, but as a public official, i've been in public life for 20 years. i6 work i have worked very, very hard every day to gain the public's trust that i'm there to do the right thing and protect their interest. what this indicates is a shattering of that trust. it really is a bigger issue. it's an issue of bridge closure and public safety issues that arose out of

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. >> reporter: even christie's 2013 democratic opponent, barbara buono, said, "good dawn zimmer came forward, but why did she wait until she smelled blood in the water?" zimmer sounded uncertain two weeks ago as to whether sandy funds were when would as political payback. >> with 20/20 hindsight, you can always look back and say, was it retribution? probably all mayors are reflecting right now and thinking about it. but, you know, i really hope that that's not the case. >> reporter: in interviews this weekend, zimmer says she didn't mention the sandy threat before because she feared nobody would believe her and she was still in the process of deciding to come forward. christie's camp called her claims categorically false. hoboken got $70 million for sandy recovery on par with other communities, and the $100 million zimmer requested was for future flood control, not sandy relief, and the amount was over one-third of all state resources for a city that is only two square miles. state lawmakers investigating the george washington traffic jam say they are empowered to investigate these n

the response, they are the children of buono voters, christie's then democratic opponent in the gubernatorial election that the governor won handily in november. the incoming speaker of the new jersey state assembly released a statement. "upon becoming speaker next week, i plan to seek guidance on how best to proceed but i fully expect this investigation to continue into the next legislative session." joining me is the man leading that investigation, assembly deputy speaker and transportation public works and independent authorities committee chair, john wis now ski. thanks for being here. christie's opponent, barbara buono, has ree acted to the storytelling salon.com, there's not even a scintilla of doubt christie is behind this. but beyond the suspicion, do you have any evidence that christie had anything to do with this or even knew about it? >> well, this is an administration that runs a very tight ship, and there are almost no decisions that are made of any consequence that do not run directly through the front office. no one there is known for having their own portfolio or being a free

then they are the children of buono voters.e and john heilemann are still with us. joining the table we have with us the transportation reporter for "the wall street journal" ted mann. thank you for coming in. >> ted is a great place to start but do we want to do a quick read at the top? >> i think so. >> so let's get it set up really quickly. then we have been -- john and i have been peppering him already. remarkable about the redactions. >> we will set the scene. governor chris christie's image as a front-runner some say in jeopardy this morning after new e-mails link a growing scandal to at least one of his high ranking staff members. in september, three lanes on the george washington bridge were closed backing up traffic and impacting the town of ft. lee, new jersey. since then, there have been accusations that it was political retribution against ft. lease' democratic mayor who refused to bat christie's re-election. now new e-mails show in late august christie's deputy chief of staff bridget anne kelly e-mailed time for tr

joining me now is as i mentioned, david mellow and former democratic ticket barbara buono. i understand you have been in contact with the office. >> i have been in contact with the city of hoboken, i will meet with them next week. >> you have been instructed to not get into the details, the conversation you had with mayor zimmer. >> yeah, i have been instructed that it's best at this time to no longer rehash the details that i have already released to some members of the press. >> but you are on record having broadly corroborated at least her telling of a contemporaneous account of a meeting. >> i stand with what i said by the press. i don't want to rehash it at this point. i want to take the opportunity. i'm looking forward to speak to the u.s. attorney's office about it. >> the issue now, separating out what mayor zimmer has said on our air and to others about retaliation and a kind of quid pro quo on sandy, one of the issues that's happened now is the governor's office is pushing back saying hoboken has tons of help, $70 million in federal money. we deconstructed that, a

. >> barbara buono is the democratic new jersey state senator who faced off against christie in lastear's gubernatorial election. and steve kornacki, a guru of sorts when it comes to garden state politics. let me start with you. you've spent a lot of years covering jersey politics. you've been covering this scandal as it's unfolded here over the last week or so, closer than most. the big question is still why. walk us through some of the competing theories for why this bridge was closed. let's start there. >> yeah. i mean, there's competing -- there's a million and one theories out there. i think the reason why the question is still being asked by so many people, when you look at the level of the people who so far we know were involved in this thing, and then you look at how petty it was, and you look for -- you're really kind of reaching when you start looking at the motive that's been put out there so far, which is okay, the mayor of the town of 35,000 people in one of the endorsement, they sort of half asked for the endorsement through a low level campaign person in april or may.

>> well, that really isn't the issue what barbara buono accepts. the fact is, people were put at risk, abuse of authority, may have been some crimes that were committed. and that's why i think it is my responsibility, and i owe it to the people of new jersey, i would think you agree with that and the people of the united states of america to call upon the federal prosecutor to determine whether or not there were crimes committed. >> okay. john king, you were at this news conference today. i want to play part of your exchange with christie, then we'll talk. >> so, i'm just asking, what do you ask yourself? they either thought this is what the boss wanted, or as a group, they were willing to go rogue and do this and cover it up and lie to you? >> listen. i'm obviously -- i said earlier, john, i'm heartbroken about it. and i'm incredibly disappointed. i don't think i've gotten to the angry stage yet. but i'm sure i'll get there. but i'm just stunned. and what does it make me ask about me? it makes me ask about me what did i do wrong to have these folk

. >> reporter: even christie's 2013 democratic opponent barbara buono took a swipe tweeting. zimmer sounded uncertain whether sandy funds had been withheld as political payback. >> with 2020 hindsight and the context we're in now, you can look back and say, okay, it is retribution, but i think probably all mayors are reflecting now and thinking about it. but, you know, i really hope that that's not the case. >> reporter: in interviews this weekend, zimmer said she didn't mention the sandy threat before because she feared nobody would believe her and was still in the process of deciding whether to come forward. christie aides called zimmer's charges categorically false. they say hoboken got $70 million in funding for sandy recovery, on par with other communities and said the $100 million zimmer requested was for future flood control, not for sandy relief. and that the amount was over one-third of all state resources for a city that is only two square miles. >> and that was nbc's michael isikoff reporting there. >>> to russia, increased threats are surfacing 17 days away from t

they are the children of buono voters, his opponent in the gubernatorial race. first of all, why are they redacting names? who is that person? who is it that is so high up there that it needs redacting? this is not about national security implication ors anything that would be damaging to the ability of government to do its job. all of the questionses that he tried to answer today, this is a big looming question. who is this person that was redacted? >> obviously, this isn't going away for a couple reasons. one is you have a lot of democrats who aren't going to let this go away, in the sense that even democrats in new jersey who had a deal with chris christie for a long time, now they're going to try to incur favor with hillary clinton more than anything else. so they're going to keep this alive. second thing that you have to understand, this was not necessarily a chris christie scandal. this was a christie administration scandal. it could have been isolated people. they did lie to him, and he fired them. and i got to be honest with you, there will be a lot of p

. >> reporter: that's a reference >> reporter: that's a reference to barbara buono, the democrat who lost to christie in november. new york officials came to the rescue, ordering the lane reopened. the disclosures come just weeks after governor christie said his senior staff denied any involvement. >> i've made it very clear to everybody on my senior staff that if anyone had any knowledge about this that they needed to come forward to me and tell me about it and they've assured me they don't. >> reporter: fort lee mayor mark sokolich. what do you think these closures are about? >> i was punished because i didn't -- i guess i didn't support the governor in his reelection bid. >> reporter: sokolich said the closures caused days of gridlock in his city, delaying emergency vehicles and putting residents at risk. >> it's completely inexcusable to me and i think it's a culture that's been established that i just don't think people think they'll ever get caught and they can do what they want to do and it's not the way it works. >> reporter: late this afternoon, governor christie released a

christie took 60% of the vote in november's election over bash bah buono. christie will take the office in trenton. the inauguration will continue as planned in the wake of the gw bridge closure scandal. later tonight christie will attend a $5,000 ticket party on ellis island. >>> in the meantime, new jersey's lieutenant governor is denying new claims of political retribution from the christie camp. over the weekend, she was told she would only get sandy relief funds if she supported a billion-dollar redevelopment plan that governor christie wanted. christie also denied those allegations. >>> it is 4:49. let's go to molette green following a story from philadelphia. >> police right now in suburban philadelphia are looking for the person who shot a college student at widner university. i just checked the school's website and awe is a message posted telling folks there's no active shooter or threat of the active shooter, but students are told to stay indoors until 6:00 a.m. this morning. take a look at the video from the scene. that's about 14 miles south of

the response, they are the children of buono voters, a reference to barbara buono, christie's then democratic opponent in the gubernatorial election that the governor won handily in november. we still have many unanswered questions even with the governor's comments and his statement earlier today, just a few minutes ago, rather. first of all, what we don't know is when governor christie says he was misled by a member of his staff, is is he referring to deputy chief of staff bridget ann kelly? was she the one to blame? because the statement does not say that he has sought her resignation or anyone's resignation. it does not say that that person is no longer working for the state of new jersey. there's still much we do not know about this situation even though according to governor christie he did not know about it and he is outraged as well. >> he says he wants those who were responsible, his words, to be held responsible for their actions. does that mean criminally responsible, politically responsible? we don't know what he means by that. >> we still don't know. and we don't know, for instanc