joining us now is reporter lisa brennan, a contributor to main justice. eported on chris christie since his time as a u.s. attorney in new jersey. just before midnight last night miss brennan broke the news that david wildstein has been meeting with the u.s. attorney's office in new jersey about the scandal. miss brennan, congratulations on this scoop. thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> you've reported that david wildstein spent time camped out in newark last week at the federal prosecutor's offices. does that necessarily mean that he is cooperating with them? should we -- is that reason to believe that he's been granted the immunity that he was seeking? >> there is reason to think that might be the case because his lawyer said that that would be the way that he would talk about the case. but i think so you can sort of jump to that conclusion. we don't know for sure. we know that he has a ton of information to provide. clearly they're interested in calling witnesses now before the grand jury. and so they want to get his information in order to be

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. >> i want to bring in lisa brenn brennan, who broke the story about patrick o'reilly. , so is nick. lisa, the name patrick o'reilly, tell us who he is, what his role is, and your understanding is of why he would have attracted attention from the manhattan district attorney? >> first of all, the manhattan district attorney probably has a source for this specific information about patrick o'reilly and the way he communicated with david samson, so they have a good source. and he is a young guy. he's probably now in his mid 30s. he got his start in new jersey politics back under jim mcgreevey. and he was brought in to, i think, serve as an assistant to mcgreevey's chief of staff, jamie fox. jamie moved to new jersey transit and commissioner of transportation, and patrick o'reilly went with him. and he got a very high-powered job at new jersey transit. he stayed in that role while at seton law school. he became a lawyer. after that he went to work at wolf and samson. you mentioned new jersey transit. new jersey transit plays a role in -- there's a new jersey trans trans tran