that new committee that will investigate who is really responsible for what happened at the george washington bridgeswers into the closure of lanes on the george washington bridge. >> storm has not passed. >> state subpoenas and investigative committee. >> chris christie's crisis isn't going away anytime soon. >> a federal audit. also more national headlines. >> thousands and thousands of documents have been revealed. >> this sort of drip, drip, drip of information. >> and not one single link to chris christie has been found. >> but it gets to a culture in his office that is problematic. >> former deputy chiefst

that new committee that will investigate who is really responsible for what happened at the george washington bridgeanswers into the closure of lanes on the george washington bridge. >> storm has not passed. >> state subpoenas and investigative committee. >> chris christie's crisis isn't going away anytime soon. >> a federal audit. also more national he

. >> lane closure controversy on the george washington bridge. >> the george washington bridge. >> controversial lane closures. >> newly obtained e-mails. >> members of christie's staff -- >> a top aide to christie. >> how will chris christie respond? >> i come out here today to apologize to the people of new jersey. >> chris christie's response to allegations of political retribution vournding the closing of the nation's busiest bridge. >> i had no, ma'am knowledge or involvement. >> he's fired a top aide. >> i've terminated bridget's employment. >> he said she lied to me. there's no evidence that he ordered the lane closings in question. i was stunned. i was blind sided yesterday morning. >> a whole slew of things are suddenly in motion here. >> a port authority official has been testifying now. >> i respectfully assert my right to remain silent. >> commerce committee has already launched its own inquiry. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in its plan organize its execution. >> this story is going to continue for weeks and maybe months ahead. >>> chris christie talked and talked and talked s

speedy access to the george washington bridge. that conclusion was used in a brochure that one of the developers put out like basically a brochure for, hey, you want to come be a part of this? one of the top selling points on the brochure was the proximity to the george washington bridge. >> okay. is there any evidence or reason to believe the christie administration would be opposed to this project on its merits? would like to gum up the works? or is just knowing that this project is so important to mark sokolich reason enough to see it as a potential target if you wanted to hurt the mayor for some other reason? >> yeah. it does tell us a couple things. one is how disingenuous christie is when he sits there and said, i wouldn't know the mayor of ft. lee, i couldn't pick him out of a lineup. he's a mayor of a town of -- there's 566 municipalities in new jersey. of the 566 municipalities in new jersey, tell me how many of them have mayors sitting on tom of $1 billion redevelopment plans. >> right. >> that's a hugely significant eco

holding up traffic on the george washington bridge was a step that furtered the governor's political dge authority took orders to stop the traffic from someone in the governor's office, why he did so just because she sent an e-mail saying it was time to start traffic problems for ft. lee. all this was going on without the governor's knowledge, that's "hardball." thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right nostarts right now. >>> good evening, from new york. i'm chris hayes. two new jersey officials have been fired and the governor of that state is now in full-on defense mode. as the george washington bridge political retribution scandal continues to gain momentum. a total of four people have now lost their jobs as governor christie announced today in an epic press conference that he has fired his deputy chiefs of

that new committee that will investigate who is really responsible for what happened at the george washington bridge. >> new jersey lawmakers press forrar more answers into the closure of lanes on the george washington bridge. >> storm has not passed. >> state subpoenas and investigative committee. >> chris christie's crisis isn't going away anytime soon. >> a federal audit. also more national headlines. >> thousands and thousands of documents have been revealed. >> this sort of drip, drip, drip of information. >> and not one single link to chris christie has been found. >> but it gets to a culture in his office that is problematic. >> former deputy chief of staff bridget kelly. >> deputy chief of staff bridget kelly gave the order. >> let's call it an ill-advised decision. >> pof these lanes closed. >> we also don't really know why it happened. >> why did she order these lanes closed? >> the biggest unanswered question is how much christie knew. >> the assembly has the ability to do articles of wim paecht. >> john wisniewski's mentioned the i word there. >> we're way ahead of that. >> not one singl

this is the george washington bridge. it is america's busiest bridge and a problem seemed to clear when fort lee's ems coordinator noticed that traffic was moving smoothly on the bridge but that traffic here in fort lee was nightmarish. a day after the lane closures went into effect he wrote a letter saying already he was noticing that emergency response times were taking too long. calls that should have taken a matter of minutes were taking as much as three times that long. he announced that when he was called to respond to a car accident involving four people who needed to be taken to the hospital the traffic was so bad he had to jump a curb just to get to the scene. we also know now know when a 19-year-old woman had a heart attack, paramedics were not able to get to the scene because of traffic. instead they had to meet her en route to the hospital where she later died. it is not yet clear whether that del nay treatment may have led to her death. after four incidents of delayed responses, favia took it upon himself to w

it's not that big a deal. >> lane closure controversy on the george washington bridge. >> the george

the real traffic mayhem started on september 9th. >> wreaking havoc at the george washington bridge. >> reporter: the next day, ft. lee's coordinator wrote a letter to the mayor. over the past two days, we have had delayed response times due to the traffic. he describes several cases including a car accident with multiple injuries. favia says he was forced to jump the curb in order to avoid the stand still traffic. school children got caught up in the mess, too, the first day back from summer vacation. some did not reach the classrooms until noon. >> out of the blue, it took me two hours to get into work. other staff member, it took them a long time. students were impacted because they were late going to class in the first day. >> reporter: today the u.s. attorney in new jersey announced the opening of an inquiry into whether or not federal law was broken, while in the plaza diner just at the foot of the bridge, some of the regulars watched their governor explain and apologize for nearly two hours. >> he tells it like it is. >> reporter: did you find him believable? >> no. >> reporte

this shows why the evidence of intentionally created delays on the george washington bridge are so serious the governor's office. >> reporter: first, there was snarled traffic on the george washington bridge and now newly exposed e-mail traffic from members of governor chris christie's inner circle raise questions over whether the gridlock was intentional and politically motivated pay back. the closest thing from a smoking gun is time for traffic problems in fort lee. the reason was a traffic study. problem is, the town that felt most of the pain was fort lee, new jersey, whose democratic mayor had endors endorsed chris opponent. >> they felt they needed to subject retribution. >> i was the guy working the koengs. you are not serious with that question. >> reporter: that was in december. today the governor releasing a statement calling the e-mails unacceptable and saying he's outraged that he was misled by a member of his staff and that the completely inappropriate and unsanctioned conduct was made without his knowledge. >> may not be the end of it. the other headache for governor christie

the reply to that order, "got it" he works for the agency that runs the george washington bridge. who said it's time for traffic problems and she worked for chris christie as deputy chief of staff. the chief of staff throughout the bridge crisis from the time of that august e-mail and continuing today is a man named kevin odowd. we should make it clear that mr. o'dowd has in no way been accused in this scandal. beyond his current role as reach of staff, though, chris christie nominated him to become the next attorney general of the state of new jersey. to become new jersey's top law enforcement official. now, of course, with governor christie saying he's been blind sided about the but revelations, reports want to know now if anything about the plan for kevin o'dowd's next job might be changing. >> oh, absolutely not. kevin's confirmation hear willing go forward on tuesday, and i expect, you know, heel billion vigorously questioned like any candidate for attorney general should be, and i expect that he'll get swift and certain confirmation because he deserves it. >> no problem, gov

emails suggest chris christie's top staffers were involved in closing access lanes to the george washington bridge in september, causing massive traffic delays for days. as david shuster reports, it could hurt chris christie's presidential ambitions >> emails released shows a top aide to chris christie instigated lane closures at the approach to the george washington bridge, one of the busiest in the united states, to punish a democratic mayor who refused to endorse chris christie: >> the email went to a david wildstein, a friend of chris christie's appointed to an agency overseeing bridges and tunnels: >> one month later the agency closed several lanes as part of what it called a traffic study. for several days the amount of time it took to cross the bridge stretched to four hours. in a text message about the traffic jams another chris christie aide expressed delight: >> two weeks ago chris christie insisted the lane closures had nothing to do with his office. >> because press runs around and writes about it here and nationally, i know why it is, and so do you. >> the prospect of christy's team s

. >>> moments ago, thousands of pages of documents related to george washington bridge lane closures were released including ones submitted by chris christie port authority appointee, david wildste wildstein. there's now a class-action lawsuit in the works filed by jersey residents who were stuck

christie says he knew nothing about the lane closings into the george washington bridge last september. the closures led to major delays on what is the busiest bridge in the world. the scandal plans to undermine possible presidential plans governor chris christie may have. he was asked if he would consider resigning considering what happened. >> that's a crazy question, ma'am. i'm telling you i had nothing to do with this. so, no, i never gave any thought of doing that at all, nor would i. >> marlie hall is here in new york with more. good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. thousands of documents relate to the scandal are scheduled to be released today. governor chris christie said he knew nothing of the payback. one thing he says for sure is that he's sorry. >> i come out here today to apologize to the people of new jersey. >> new jersey governor chris christie apologized dozens of times during a nearly two-hour news conference. he said he's embarrassed some of his most trusted aids constructed a four-day traffic jam on the george washington bridge. >> a person dloes me betrayed me

we'll take a bridge, the george washington bridge, to the republican side of 2016. next, the scariest thing facing governor chris christie. >>> welcome back. in the "crossfire" tonight paul begala and tom delay. sorry. >> thank you. >> more bad news for chris christie. late this afternoon 17 people and three organizations were subpoenaed in the bridge scandal. so much for the governor's two-hour news conference putting this issue to rest. today we also learned that the governor's office is lawyering up. the taxpayers of new jersey, not chris christie himself, will be paying those legal bills. so after infuriating voters by forcing them to sit in traffic, he's now sticking them with the bill. so let's dive into this issue. tom delay, not belay, sorry about that, you know personally how these things can spin out of control. these investigations can be very difficult. this is a guy who is trying to put together a presidential campaign. he's trying to run the republican governors association. and hopefully he's still trying to govern in new jersey but he's got this inve

they let the bridge manager on the george washington bridge know as well. i will be at the bridge early monday morning to see this in action. this thing i have told you to do, i will be there to see it happen when we put it into effect. monday morning rolls around. ft. lee has no access to the bridge, the whole thing is under way, another e-mail from david wildstein, gonna take a ride with chip and see how it looks. going to go tour my work. of course, we know how it looks. see the guy out of his car? he hasn't moved in a long time. it's safe to get out, you are in gridlock. it's disaster, like it was designed to be. before 9:00 a.m., before the shutdown, the police department reporting heavy bridge volume and delays on local streets. right, local streets. of course the local street traffic in ft. lee can no longer get on the bridge, 8:53 a.m. less than 20 minutes later, they are e-mailing david wildstein, again. the police chief is not happy about the traffic pattern. he's upset no one from the bridge had the courtesy or neighborly intent to call about test

now lacking more like this, george washington bridge scandal could harm chris christie in the 2016 presidentialtie's rise in 2016 star in peril as bridge controversy grows. and my personal favorite, forget about it. gee, i wonder where are that came from, which makes one of the key questions in all of this, what do republicans outside new jersey, republicans in those key early primary and caucus states who will decide whether christie is the candidate in 2016, what do they make of all of this? well, actually a lot of them right now seem to be supportive, the chairwoman of the new hampshire republican party saying in part, quote, i think that it's unlikely this is going to have a significant influence in 2016. i think he handled it very well. i think that he's shown leadership. he held people accountable. in south carolina he chimed, quote, it's a long way until 2016. i don't think governor christie's reputation has been diminished. in fact, it might be increased following the press conference. it's refreshing to see a leader step up and take responsibility. these interviews and more are all par

lee is a major city in new jersey there right on the -- at the george washington bridge. and the governor says he wouldn't have been able to pick out the mayor, didn't know the mayor, pick him out of a lineup. that was a little surprising to me that he was insisting that he had no -- may have met him over the years once or twice but really didn't know him. and certainly was not anxious to win his endorsement for his re-election. just one of the sidebars in all of this. all right, standby, john. brian stelter is joining us. our senior media correspondent, the host of "reliable sources." brian, this is quite a media spectacle we're now observing as well. >> you can say that again. and it's been very interesting to watch reaction to conservative media outlets. before today this story was very muted. there was scant coverage of this. on fox news for example compared to cnn and msnbc. today we saw dramatic change in tone, almost as soon as the press conference started what we started hearing from conservatives on twitter and on television and all over the web was that chris ch

that's the george washington bridge. it's famous now for the chris christie bridge scandal. but it's also a landmark in its own right. right? the busiest bridge for vehicular traffic in the entire world. the george washington bridge up there at the top of your screen, that is not the only way to cross the river from new jersey into new york. below the george washington bridge, your next option is a tunnel. the lincoln tunnel. below the lincoln tunnel your next option is another tunnel. the holland tunnel. below that, you have three bridge options all of which go from new jersey not to manhattan but rather to staten island. first you get to the baon bridge. beyond that, the goethals bridge and there's an outer bridge crossing. holds a romantic place in my family because my partner, susan, was born under the bridge in perth amboy. something really bad happened on the outer bridge, it was a huge screwup, and it got people really mad. >> port authority says staffing shortages are to blame for the massive backup for staten island residents trying to get home on easter sunday. driv

thousands of people got caught in the grid lock because of lane closures on the george washington bridge was shut down, and those shut downs were apparently ordered from political reasons. is recent cold blast may have cost the u.s. economy $5 billion, because of thousands of people who are forced to stay home instead of work. but experts say the figure isn't as bad as it sounds. the obama administration announced five regions to be 23 focus of the federal government today. the promise zones where san antonio, los angeles, the nation of oklahoma, and southern kentucky. federal funding will go to those areas to help things with education and housing. anybody in the country that works hard should have a fair shot. doesn't matter where they come from, what they look like, what their last name is, they should be able to succeed. we will then them succeed. not with a handout, but as partners. request them, every step of the way. >> and we will make sure it works. tonight in one of the five zones is our jonathan martin. term us why the administration chose this area. >> when you look around he

he was linked to the controversy over a planned traffic jam at the george washington bridge.bout another official who was involved in the e-mails and his personal comments against the mayor. >> we have david wall steen who said it will be a tough november for this little serbian. you got a response to that? david wallsteen deserves an ass kicking. sorry. there, i said it. >> two more house democrats are retiring. they are congresswoman carolyn mccarthy of new york and mark mcintyre of north carolina. florida congressman apologized to the conference and discussed his return to the house of representatives after his cocaine arrest and rehab. >> it was really nice to go in and have a lot of handshakes and hugs and a lot of support of people would reached out and said that they're here for me. and i've been moved by that. it's been really nice. >>> new this morning on msnbc.com, good signs for the health care law. a new report says that despite the complaints about the health care website and exchanges, enroll. including young people is right on track. >>> controversial toronto m

the documents related to the george washington bridge situation clearly show the need for a continued thorough investigation by the new jersey assembly. many questions remain unanswered about this threat to public safety and abuse of power. and what you said, michael, he expects to call the assembly into special session thursday. so the investigation can continue. can i ask you about this e-mail from patrick foy? because here we have the executive director of a major interstate agency worrying aloud we have federal laws that have been broken. does it appear anyone, michael, has followed up on his concerns? >> well, look, we now know that e-mail went directly to christie's office. so i think that's the question that the governor's people are going to have to answer. and regina egia is going to have to answer. one point the assembly democrats are making, the governor said during his press conference he asked every member of his staff a month ago to let him know within the hour what they knew about this. and he was assured that they knew nothing. now when he learns that bridget kelly, de

. >>> more than 2,000 documents related to the scandal of the george washington bridge scandal. >>> will a polar vortex chill the economy? surprising numbers. >> my conversation with kathie lee gif ford. she helds me how she and hoda came to be. good morning and welcome to weekends with alex witt. here's what's happening out there. the new jersey state assembly released thousands of pages of e-mails, text messages and documents related to the traffic jam on the george washington bridge. it's the biggest scandal of governor chris christie's tenure. they demand the lanes be reopened. he wrote he was worried state and federal laws had been broken. the documents revealed governor christie, appointee david wildstein showed up to witness the traffic jam in person. we are going to michael isikoff who has the report for us. michael? >> reporter: good morning, alex. these e-mails are rife with details about the hardships created by the lane closures on the george washington bridge in september. the executive director of the port authority is furious about this, calls them abusive, a threat to pub

much time on that scandal as we have devoted to what chris christie's team was up to at the george washington bridgee scandal. but the christie version involves not just any bridge. it involves arguably the most important bridge in the world. and definitely the busiest bridge in the world. and that bridge touches on one end the capital city of the american news media. indeed, a significant chunk of the national news media uses that bridge to get to work every day. so you are tampering with their bridge when you tamper with the george washington bridge. and chris christie is not butch otter. who's butch otter? butch otter is the governor of idaho who i'm sure you've all heard of but i had never heard of until today when i went searching for the name of a governor i had never heard of just to help make this point. and the point is that chris christie is politically and only politically the most important in america. which i guess from the american perspective, of course, makes him the most politically important governor in the world. i actually think jerry brown and andrew cuomo are way more important

david wildstein lets the bridge manager on the george washington bridge know as well. he says i personally will be at the bridge early monday morning to see this in action. this thing that i have told you guys to do, i will be there to see it happen when we put it into effect. and then monday morning rolls around, and ft. lee has no access to the bridge. the whole thing is under way. and we got another e-mail from david wildstein to the bridge manager, "going to take a ride with chip and see how it looks." going to go tour my work. of course, we know how it looks. see the guy out of his car there? that's because he hasn't moved in a long time. it's safe to get out of your vehicle. you're in gridlock. we know how it looks. it's disaster just like it was designed to be. before 9:00 a.m. on that monday morning the first day of the shutdown, the port authority police department reporting just heavy -- not just heavy bridge volume, but also delays on local streets. right. local streets because, of course, the local street traffic in ft. lee can no longer get on to the bridge

was the individual who is being the one who directly ordered the lanes be closed on the george washington bridge. subpoenaed documents that came out later suggested that david wildstein himself gave the authorities to hey, the bridge or close the lanes of the bridge. and then later, in the same document badge suggested that folks within the administration gave the okay. >> we can fill in even more of the blanks. wasn't david wildstein who received the e-mail from the deputy chief of staff bridget ann kelly saying time for some traffic trouble in new jersey? >> right, right. at fort lee, correct. >> fort lee. so that is david wildstein what you suggesting is that david wildstein was in a position to actually order the lane closures, correct? into right. the evidence suggested that he was the one that the port authority officials that actually implemented the lane closures were taking orders from david wildstein. he was the higher up port authority official who said yes, we are going to be closing all lanes for you know later said to be a traffic -- >> as we walk through this, david wildstein actu

the scandal which ties at least one of chris christie's top aides to lane closures on the george washington bridgeo sound smart today, tell your friends in 2012, nearly 50 million new york bound vehicles crossed the bridge. in addition to port authorities of new jersey and new york, a company which operates the bridge, has a budget. get this, that is larger than 26 states in this country. >>> let's go to lewis and the cooler. >> hey, brian. there are a couple big winners at the people's choice awards. sandra bullock won for awards. ellen degeneres was named favorite day time tv host for the 14th time. >> just yesterday i was talking to this lovely african-american woman and she told me she was single and she works 80 hours a week to get by. and she looks forward to coming home every single night and watching me. and that woman's name is oprah winfrey. and i think i'm doing something right. >> nice shoutout to oprah there. >> justin tim letter lake claimed the top prize for favorite album for the 2020 experience. he also won the favorite male artist and favorite r&b artist. it was the post awards p

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new evidence directly links a massive traffic shutdown on the george washington bridge to governor chris christie's top aides. now the questions are getting more serious. did christie know about this and will this become a scandal that undoes his chances to run for the white house? >>> and a new book by former defense secretary robert gates also causing a political and foreign policy sensation. what's the book tell us about president obama, hillary clinton and some other key players that we need to know about? after all the sacrifice, are we actually losing in afghanistan and iraq? oh, my gosh. all those stories and much more coming up on "the kudlow report" beginning right now. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." we are here live, 7:00 p.m. eastern, 4:00 p.m. pacific. okay. 50 years ago tonight, president lyndon johnson declared a government war on poverty, yet in the past two generations, the poverty rate has moved very little, dropping from 19% to 15%, where it has remained now for three consecutive years. get this. the number of americans living

the george washington bridge connects new york and new jersey.t is a possible crossing of state lines when you tie up traffic if this was for some sort of political vendetta. all very early to say. other legal experts say there's a better fit in state charges, conspiracy to harass, or cause problems. remember, you have school kids trapped on school buses for hours and dialysis patients who couldn't get to treatments they needed and questions whether this 91-year-old woman didn't get an ambulance in time. all of this is out there. right now it appears the new jersey u.s. attorney's office and new jersey fbi will take a lead. we also know the u.s. attorney's office in new york and fbi in new york is standing by in case because we know chris christie, it's his former job, is there any conflict of his old office now looking at something that directly involves his people. so that is sort of where things stand. no official criminal investigation underway. but certainly u.s. attorney federal prosecutors taking a look to see if they need to open a formal

lee had some kind of private road to the george washington bridge. they had dedicated lanes that were only for ft. lee residents. that is an absolute untruth. and all of us knew it a minute after those words came out of bill baroni's mouth. there are no private roads. there are no dedicated lanes. and if anybody else didn't know it, then they really don't know their jobs. >> okay. thank you very much, senator weinberg and assemblyman, majority leader louis greenwald. thank you both. please come back on the show again. >>> coming up, the apparent vind dickiveness that has led to the bridge scandal has prompted other politicians in new jersey to say they too were victims of the governor's bullying. tonight a former prosecutor who says his firing was politically motivated. >>> also, president obama tries to balance privacy concerns with the needs to protect the country from terrorists. today he pulled in the reins on part of the nsa's controversial phone surveillance program. >>> and here is a bit of good news in the voter id front, something we care ab

opposition new jersey public radio had a one-on-one confrontation over the george washington bridge affair just a few weeks ago. >> i work the tones, and you really aren't serious with that question. >> some of that is endearing, because he comes across as a real person. if he gets a question that he doesn't like, he says he doesn't like it, and he's often funny about it, even if it comes across as somewhat insulting. >> now the governor has fired key personnel and says that he's embarrassed by the whole affair. >> the fact is that mistakes were made, and i'm responsible for those mistakes. >> but will that be enough to help an edgy governor who is now sitting on the front row of the ticket to the white house for 2016. >> i'll answer the next question, what's your choice. >> overbearing, petty, those are the words that people are going to remember i'm afraid. and we wouldn't be talking about this today in the man wasn't literally the person most be the one to go head-to-head against hillary clinton in text 2006 if she runs. and now it's all being put on the line. everything. it's far from

here's governor christie being dogged with questions about that george washington bridge mess and whether it was a vendetta against the mayor of fort lee. in various press conferences all this happened. on december 2nd the bergen record -- christie was asked if he had anything to do with the lane closures. here's christie's response back then. >> i worked the cones, actually on that, unbeknownst to everybody i was actually the guy out there. i was in overalls and a hat but i was the guy working the cones out there. you really are not serious with that question. >> sarcasm. the bergen record timeline shows on december 13th christie was asked whether the lane closures were related to the fort lee mayor and political retaliation. christie replied he meaning the fort lee was not somebody that was on my radar screen in any way politically, professionally or in any other way until these stories came out. he had nothing to do with this lane closure effort to embarrass that local mayor. on december 19th christie said his national profile was keeping the bridge story alive. in other words, he's so

they said that there was in order to close the lanes on the george washington bridge. he said that evidence exists tying christie to the incident. he does not say what the evidence is. during aemember two-hour long press conference, governor christie said he had no knowledge of the lane closures. they occurred after the mayor failed to endorse chris christie . here's a bit from the press conference. >> i'm humiliated by the fact that i did not know this. and i was deceived. that is an awful way to feel. this is really the first indication that christie did, in fact, know about the lane closure. it comes from a one close ally. that chris christie mi

the focus is the george washington bridge. >> will a traffic jam derail chris christie's white house hopes. >> scandal surrounding 0 chris christie. >> that it was political retribution. >> and now talk of maybe federal indictments. >> some federal laws broken were the bridge act, state laws. >> at the center of it all, the man some called republicans' best hope, a tough-talking new jersey governor known for getting in people's faces. all that could be up in the air today and we're all overred today and why the main treatstream media seems suddenly to interested in this and only this today, and why north, surprisingly, the left is so darn giddy today. >> underhanded trickery and vengeance taking. >> a bully, mean spirited. >> hard to imagine he didn't know. >> why would they want somebody like that at president. >> why some on the far right are giddier. >> the point of the story -- this is payback you don't give him what he wants, he'll pay you back. >> christie will learn a lesson here that the rinos have not come to his defense. >> why he argues self-inflicted wound does not always

get to your traffic on the ones. [ laughter ] if you are coming to new york city on the george washington bridge -- [laughter] -- and it's last september. [ laughter ] you may have noticed that the traffic congestion has shifted from its normal hellish congestion to a sort of soul crushing vortex of exhaust and honking where you and your vehicle merge into one stationary amalgam of steel, fumes and broken dreams and an ez-pass. you may have thought to yourself in september at this bridge as you sat unmoving for hours -- huh, is godzilla on the other side of this bridge destroying the town? and if so, could i take the lower level of the bridge? [laughter] anyway, the traffic on the fort lee side of that bridge was so unusual that it had to be looked into. >> the allegation is that this was in retaliation by the christie administration because the mayor of fort lee did not endorse governor chris christie. [ laughter ] >> jon: that is the most as -- christie had a 24-point lead over his opponent democrat who knows barbara buono. the idea that christie was so mad at a mayor for not endorsing him he

on two parcels of land in fort lee near the lanes that were blocked on the george washington bridge-- billion-dollar retail and apartment project called 'hudson lights' is being developed. this project has been a huge part of sokolich's tenure. any problem with those access-lanes to the bridge could hurt that development. we're learning more today about the retired tampa police officer now charged with killing a man after arguing at a movie theater, over texting. 71-year-old curtis reeves is charged with second- degree murder.accused of shooting 43-year-old chad oulson. the two were arguing apparently over texting during the previews on monday. that's when reeves allegedly opened fire. we've learned during his time with tampa police, reeves was credited for his leadership skills and training on gun safety. but the sheriff says quote, "it didn't matter what he had done previously in his life." j-p morgan chase credit and debit card holders will be getting a new card in the mail. they say they will be replacing two-million credit and debit cards in the wake of the massive breach at they

subpoenas are expected for chris christie's aids after that traffic plot on the george washington bridge. could there be a criminal investigation now, as well? abc's gio benitez tonight. >> reporter: two of chris christie's aides at the center of the bridgegate scandal may be served with those legislative subpoenas as early as monday. lawmakers demanding documents and testimony as the world weighs in on that massive four-day traffic jam on the george washington bridge. right here on abc's "this week," republican rudy giuliani on chris christie. >> he's handled it the best way you can possibly handle it. he's held a press conference. he's flatly denied it. >> reporter: but there's a big if. >> if it turns out that there's some evidence that he knew about it, he's taken the complete risk that his political career is over. >> reporter: there's no evidence governor christie had any involvement in the traffic lane shutdown last september. but e-mails show christie's own aides participated, perhaps for political payback. a democratic assemblyman investigating the incident says this may be a cr

and -- >> interstate commerce was affected between new jersey and new york across the george washington bridge. do you believe the federal government should investigate? >> i do. absolutely. absolutely. it's -- there are millions of cars that traverse that bridge. there has to be an investigation. it is that important. it is that important. there's a letter over my right shoulderer from the governor's office congratulating on us doing a great job bag host community for the george washington bridge. interesting. interesting. i gsz we didn't do that good enough of a job. >> one of the reasons there's so much interest nationally in chris christie, the popular governor of your home state of new jersey, just re-elected in a landslide, he's considered a likely presidential candidate, someone who might run for the republican presidential nomination in 2016. what from your perspective, and we e know you're a democrat, what is the impact of what is just coming out now have on his potential run for the white house? >> well, i think it can't be positive. it's got to be negative. you know, there are diffe

person within the christie administration communicated the order that certain lanes on the george washington bridge were to be closed and evidence exists as well tieing mr. christie to having knowledge of the lane closures during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference he gave immediately before wildstein was to appear before the transportation committee. mr. wildstein can prove the inaccuracy of some. first, kate to you, do we have what that evidence is? have the lawyer or lawyers for wildstein explained what they say that evidence is? >> no. the lawyer for wildstein has not responded to follow up for request what the evidence is. what we know -- wildstein has already turned over a bunch of documents. wildstein turned over the documents that showed the e-mail from christie's office saying time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. in those documents that were turned over by wildstein in december, released in january, there's a whole bunch of redacted it statements. so he and someone else at the port authority and bridget k