, who redacted them, what was the basis for the redactions?r to having answer. >> the "star-ledger" is reporting on a text message they say was not in the unredacted material that was announced publicly. seems to me, the way they're describing it, it must be one of the lines that was redacted from the series of text messages we saw between david wildstein and bill baroni after he gave his cover-up testimony. according to the "star-ledger's" reporting, they haven't published a primary document of any kind -- >> sure. >> -- they say that text message they've seen refers to state senator kevin o'toole who is on your committee that's investigating these issues. about him having a statement ready to go as soon as that testimony was over concerning the traffic study cover-up. how are you going to deal with that as a committee? >> well, two things. the members of the committee are appointed by the presiding officers, so senator weinberg and i, we serve on the committee at the appointment of the presiding officers. it's not our call. i mean, i think t

the redacted version on the top and opportunity redacted version on the bottom. new line, what did the general want? apparently referencing the form he attorney general david samson. here again, here's another one between bill barrone and david wildstein. this is right after bill gave his false testimony to the legislate you are with that testimony about a traffic study. right after that we get this new line today that we didn't used to have. kevin o'toole did put out a statement right after the testimony that backed whaum mr. barone said after that. senator o'toole maybe ironically or maybe just weirdly happens to also be the state senator who the republicans assigned to be on the legislative committee investigating bridge gate even though he himself is tangentially involve in the scandal. we had heard there was a reference but now we can see it. even though he is on the committee, the co-chairs of the legislative committee investigating this issue say that senator o'toole may actually face questioning on this issue. which would probably mean that he would have

he made those redactions. so he basically was redacting material he was asserting was not responsive to the subpoena. so if it's the redacted e-mails and texts, wildstein may have some culpability here on his own. not just for ordering the lane closures in the first place, but for covering up and obstructing the assemblyman's investigation by concealing the content of those e-mails and texts. >> mr. wisniewski, what do you make of that? you said a moment ago he may not have been forthcoming in the evidence he had. he may know. i'm not defending mr. wildstein or his attorney's behavior here. >> right. >> but he may say i know somebody who has e-mails to those effect. i don't have them in my possession. i do know about somebody else. how broad a subpoena did you issue to wildstein to collect everything like this that he now says he's got? >> chris, the thing everybody has to understand, when we were asking for the documents we had no idea this was going to lead into the governor's office. so we were looking very

with his redactions. there's a small number of documents. we're looking at them to make sure the argument was made. these are outside the timeframe, these are not relevant to the subject matter. so we want to make sure that if that's really the case or were there things that were unintentionally or intentionally kept from the committee we should have been made aware of? so far we haven't come across anything that seems to speak to the issue that was raised by wildstein's attorney in today's letter. >> one last question for you briefly. i know you're about to get -- unless everybody pleads the fifth, you're about to get thousands of documents starting on monday. >> possible. >> in response to the subpoenas. will they be publicly released? when will the decision be made? >> they won't be publicly released initially because we won't know exactly how complete they are, if they've complied. so the first step, his staff will review them. there will be a determination for completeness. then, what we did in the p

and also had lots of redactions in those e-mails. >> right. >> and texts. which raised a lot of eyebrows at the time. the supposition, one inference might be that there's something in those redacted e-mails and texts that implicates the governor. but remember, it was wildstein, himself, who made the redactions and texts, so if there is something he had that he did not turn over, he is potentially libel for obstruction and covering up this evidence. that's one thing to keep in mind here. is it something he has, himself, and can prove, or is it some evidence that he's heard about? >> right. >> we just don't know. >> and the key phrase is "evidence exists." right? >> right. >> now, given wildstein's role in this, steve, you know wildstein, you were his employee, you were working for him at a point when you didn't know who the man was, it was david wildstein. what is he doing? this guy is backed into a corner and sending signals, i will roll if i get immunity. how do you interpret this? >> this is fourth signal he and his lawyer sent that he wants a deal. in te

he made those redactions. so he basically was redacting material he was asserting was not responsive to the subpoena. so if it's the redacted e-mails and texts, wildstein may have some culpability here on his own. not just for ordering the lane closures in the first place, but for covering up and obstructing the assemblyman's investigation by concealing the content of those e-mails and texts. >> mr. wisniewski, what do you make of that? you said a moment ago he may not have been forth coming in the evidence he had. he may know. i'm not defending mr. wildstein or his attorney's behavior here. >> right. >> but he said he knows somebody has e-mails. i don't have them in my possession. i do know about somebody else. how broad a subpoena did you issue to wildstein to collect everything like this that he now says he''s got? >> chris, the thing everybody has to understand, when we were asking for the documents we had no idea this was going to lead into the governor's office. so we were looking very narrowly at the po

the identity of the person he's interacting with is redacted, redacted by wildstein's attorney. look. the unidentified person texts wildstein at 6:52 in the morning and asks to meet in the park in lot. wildstein says, no, the person should come inside the lobby where, quote, i'm with bob. presumably bob durando, the general manager of the bridge, whose testimony we just played. of the next message comes at 7:09 a.m. want me to pick you up? it's messed up here, except we can't say the word really used there. it's messed up out here. wildstein responds, around 7:30. and now here is where the puzzle starts to come together because there is something is else that appears 200 pages earlier in wildstein's subpoenaed documents. it's an e-mail sent from wildstein at 7:28 that morning to durando informing him he's, quote, going to take a ride with chip and see how it looks. so we wonder, is this person, chip, the same person wildstein was texting with? the same police lieutenant durando testified gave wildstein a tour of the area? it appears likely that it is. it's a little tricky becaus

we would all like to know what were in those redacted portions.u have a bunch of people pleading the fifth that was rejected yesterday, which was in the midst of issuing the subpoenas, they rejected the idea of i believe two people that could legitimately plead the fifth in this case. there are lots of fascinating aspects to this that we haven't seen play out yet. >> it has come, call after wildstein came out saying he had evidence that christie and then christie's team can't with a press release saying that is a 16-year-old kid, he sued a local school board election, publicly accused by his high school social studies teacher of deceptive behavior. >> it doesn't get more than thed-y schoolyard. we are literally back in the schoolyard. it got really comical. when you're in politics, you don't necessarily want to be the butt of late-night jokes. >> and yethen you look at the gravity of what took lace and now the mayor of hoboken, the mayor of fort lee talking about the retaliation against them. i mean in the case of hoboken, trying to get funds for

destroy them immediately and get them to the -- and that is reda redacted.al watch said, this means that they were trying to cover up the fact they wanted some photos destroyed which would be the violation of the law if they're not preserving those photoses. this is tom fintop from the group judicial watch and what he says about this. >> the troubling part is there was a lawsuit, many requests for these document, and he's giving his people the option to destroy them. that isn't the way the law is supposed to be and certainly if the records were classified as the government suggest these were. there were other rules that may have been broken. >> tom fitton saying under the pre dom of information act you have an obligation to at least preserve these documents and not destroy them. no comments on any of this. we'll work that for later. >> brian todd, thanks very much. i know we'll have more coming up later today. that's if for me this hour. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. there's new developments happening in that trial in florida, ashleigh banfield is standing

wildstein's attorney that while many of the redactions make sense from the standpoint that they're eithere of material the committee sought or outside subject matter the committee sought, there are a number of documents we believe should be part of the committee's record, and we're in discussions with mr. wildstein's council. we're hopeful that we'll get those documents, that he'll agree to voluntarily turn them over. so i don't want to prejudge exactly what is going to happen there. but i think the dialogue is productive, and we're hopeful that we'll get those documents as part of our record very soon. >> david wildstein will talk with the immunity he says. where does that stand? >> well, it's been pointed out, and pointed out by mr. wildstein's attorney that his concern was what federal investigators may take a position on or perhaps what the state attorney general may take a position on. so his concern was not so much with regard to the committee, but with regard to other investigatory agencies. i'm sure that he is having discussions. i'm not aware of them. but i think that is somethin

but today many of those redactions have been lifted. now read the paper, giving us a much clearer picture of just how malicious some of christie's top staffers really are and were. some of the documents reveal never before seen interactions. we see kelly, that's bridget kelly and david wildstein joking about how they could punish the port authority's chaplain, a rabbi. wildstein says he has officially blanked me off. kelly says clearly we can't cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we? to which wildstein replies flights to tel aviv all mysteriously delayed. bridget kelly's response to that was "perfect" in a case where something malicious was said we now know who said it. it was bill stepien who unloaded on patrick foye who put a stop to their fun and games. stepien wrote to wildstein, holy -- we can fill that word in. who does he think he is, captain america? to which replied bad guy, welcome to our world. bridget kelly was enjoying the panic it created by shutting down the lanes on the bridge after learning that the ft. le

it's hard to redact it.not meant -- it was not add vert ent and you've got to allow information to get out. i guess what i'm trying to say is that doesn't mean what glen grownwald did was wrong. we have to trust the media where to draw the line. jon: you say that you talk about the fact that the identities of operatives are supposed to be secret. there's a law that, you know, protects them but having seen this massive disclosure of information from edward snowden apparently, do you see any rush from the government to try to enforce the law here? >> i think it's always the option of the prosecutors, justice department to enforce the law or not. obama administration has chosen not to enforce the law. i'm sure they'll have their explanations that will satisfy some but i emphasize that bipartisan group of everybody from die san feinstein to mike rogers to peter king and others have all said, this is a serious threat to the country, what snowden and greenwald are doing. eric holder and the justice department and

over these allegations began in earnest today out into her training has gone from the hobart and redacted he said. with scant regard to potential damage to the car at. the i think many of the former statesman and his party would be appalled by the cavity and aptitude is taken to on going issue kona things to me is made to move series vacations without tweaking to establish the truth or otherwise of. he was demonstrated each and every chart for a few close calls he said the hobart and seemed unaware allegations from mars the cave had been desperate but uniform and go to the minister said. no apology to the god of disorder or either of the charge that mr sharon has met the host government and opposition would have to agree to disagree it seems that i appreciate that different members of the house they perceive as fast as different. it's unfortunate that perceptions our cottage. all too frequently by political differences. the new boy leader and sister go to lunch at his presentation was self serving in this meeting why it is heading up the affair of beautiful approach was to be a fresh inqu

we have to get the redactions out of there. i wrote a letter on september 13th.le were put in jeopardy. you have homeland security issues. you have people's lives at stake and you are telling me you can't get your act together and tell us what happened now. when we find out later, it will be far worse for you. this is what the mentality is that they should have. >> politically, the consequences of anything more coming out about chris christie knowing, politically, it is catastrophic. legally, how does it get worse? >> in trenton, what is the expectation. take us through what next week will look like. everybody in the public wants to know. we saw the wild stein records. are we going to see what this committee gets back. are they going to keep it to themselves? the u.s. attorney is involved a little bit. how much are we going to see. the first thing is, they are not going to get all of the material that they asked for. it will be delayed somewhat. after they get this stuff, they are going to go looking through there and decide what they want to release. they may fi

is there any pressure when you're developing chips to have the redacted to protect data? >> we see this as a big issue and an important issue. what we are doing is trying to create technology in our designs to allow encryptions to occur in an energy-efficient way. we are seeing there is a lot that needs to be done between technology companies with governments to work out a framework for how privacy and data is going to get protected. we don't want to over regulate things because that is going to slow down innovation. at the same time we believe innovation -- individuals should have some say. >> you have a role to play. >> i think we have a role to play in helping but the fundamentals into the chip that allows data is to be secured. >> what about competition? we have heard intel is going to start designing its chips. is that healthy, or are you a bit concerned? investors toed for be concerned? >> we think competition is a good thing. competition is good. space,into the mobile that is a relatively new entrant. what we are doing is working on technology. we're working very c

conclusions comes ashore i think $6 million compared to the taxpayers doesn't make the appropriate redaction but at the same time it relieves the cia rebuttal for people so inclined to read the whole thing but short i think if it's not released until a new it's going to get leaked so let's release of this. >> host: one of the reasons i can see it not being released is that someone in the government that has the power to say so is it will damage the relationships overseas because for one thing iit relied on the relationships with other countries who house these prisons and promises that it should remain secret. however, as you know, the european council, the council of europe ancouncil ofeurope and ot overseas have been investigating this and there are several countries whose names are repeated about the fact that they have these were they probably did have these. you have been inside and watched these revelations about other countries come out and isn't it true over time they prepare themselves quickly because they have a national interest in working with them? >> guest: i think that's right

release it, make the redaction, and release the cia rebuttal and people can read the whole thing. i think, dam mitt, -- if it's not released it will be leaked. >> host: one reason to see it not be released is someone in the government could say it would damage our relationships overseas, because the secret prisons for one thing relied on relationships with other countries who house these prisons and promises that this would remain secret. however, as you know, the european council -- the council of europe, other governments overseas have been investigating this, several countries whose names or repeated about the fact they probably had these oar did have -- had these or did have these. you have watched these revelations about other countries come out, and isn't it true that over time, these relationships usually repair themselves pretty quickly? because those countries still have a national interest in working with us? >> guest: yes, yes. i think that's right. i think -- i mean, we can see it now in the context of the snowden leaks and revelations, that the foreign governments are

and a lot of these documents are redacted.he had quite a few breakfasts at the white house where we don't know who she met with or what was discussed. so a lot of uncertainty. >> and secretary sebelius claimed the president was in the dark? >> that's right. and he said the same thing. >> so i don't know what they were talking about during those 18 meetings. but whatever. anyway, jonathan, thank you. great article. >>> and dr. carson says president obama and secretary a sebelius did not discuss it, they are grossly incompetent tent. good evening, sir. >> good evening. . >> so they find out 18 times they were together over the course of a year and yet secretary a besebelius claims president obama was in the dark about the problem. >> of course they say there were many things considered and therefore they had to discuss all of those things. so maybe they didn't get around to that one. like a neurosurgeon saying into do a case and saying there are so many complexities that we just forgot about that, so that's why the patient dead.

. >> the documents you wrote about in the times a lot was redacted. there were e-mails that wildstein provided between he and bridgett kelly. has he provided unredacted documents? >> his lawyer said he will turn them over. the legislature says they haven't gotten them yet. that is what makes this interesting is that what we know so far we know from david wildstein. we know it was bridget kelly who sent the e-mail saying time for traffic problems in fort lee. the possibility that david wildstein has more information is very real. >> you said christie might be able to weather this politicly as long as it is shown he didn't know about this advance or order the lane closurers. we kboent know whether that is the case. >> i think they are very great for him. if this letter proves to be accurate, contrary to what we heard earlier i read it as directly contradicting what the governor said in two press conferences. he said he didn't know anything about the lane closings until the episode was over. he said he knew there was evidence tying him to knowing the lan

last month they released these super redacted documents handed over to them from david wildstein, that'sow we found out about time for some traffic problems in ft. lee, got it. before he turned over these documents, david wildstein and/or his lawyer sharpied out huge portions of text, making it hard to understand what the documents meant in most cases. and who was saying what to who? we are learning tonight that david wildstein has turned over the unredablgted names and e-mails to the panel that's leading this investigation, and the unredacted copies are expected to be released to the public early tomorrow. again, that is what we are expecting right now, when it comes to this story and new jersey, a pretty good rule of thumb is to expect the unexpected. we shall see. watch this space. i must begin my journey, which will cause me to miss the end of the game. the x1 entertainment operating system lets your watch live tv anywhere. can i watch it in butterfly valley? sure. can i watch it in glimmering lake? yep. here, too. what about the dark castle? you call that defense?! come on! [ female

> i want to follow up on that point you just raised, steve, about the text messages we're seeing redactedarts for the first time. i'm going to read two of the texts that we're seeing, this is in relation to bridget kelly, david wildstein talking about traffic problems for a local rabbi, kelly says, we cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we? david wildstein says flights to tel aviv all mysteriously delayed? these are being cast as joking text messages but what do they say about the broader culture within the christie administration, the texts prior to the actual bridgegate incident? >> i wouldn't read too much in terms of the relevance exactly to the -- of the rabbi, for instance, to -- i don't think he has any real significance when it comes to bridge closures. what i think is most significant about that text message exchange is the date. it was august 19th and it shows you that was six days after we had already knew about bridget kelly's time for traffic problems for ft. lee order from august 13th. this is six days later and just sort of in casualkacasual conve where

they eventually dropped all matters and have now redacted nearly all my files? the expected star witness, the justice department barbara bosserman, a political donor in charge of the investigation, did not appear. deputy james cole sent this letter citing long-standing policy is to decline to provide congress with non-public information about a criminal investigation. cole wrote, quote, it also is founded upon our commitment to avoiding any perception that our law enforcement efforts are subject to undue influence from elected officials. jordan openly questioned bosserman's credibility. >> a lady with a financial stake in a specific outcome is heading the investigation. a lady who has invested in the president's success is heading the investigation and the president could potentially be a target of that investigation, and we're supposed to believe that this investigation is credible. >> reporter: a democrat defended her. >> it is the policy of congress that employees should be encouraged to exercise fully, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal and to th

hey have now redacted nearly all my files. >> a lot of focus about barbara wasserman who gave more thanestion whether she can be impartial, democrat defended her. >> it is the policy of congress that employees should be encouraged to exercise fully, freely, and without fear of penalty or reprizal,, -- preprical, and to extent nose prohibited by law, their right to participate or reef train from participating in the political processes of this nation. >> oneñrñr wet -- witness testid that the irs scandal is continuing today and calls the justice department investigation a sham. >> mike, thank you very much. you like that show "the biggest losers"? the biggest loser may have lost too much. that's what some fans are saying about the reality show where contestants compete to see who can lose the most pounds. this is the biggest loser before. we will show you the biggest loser after. we'll report. you. [ male announcer ] this is betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboar

not talking about redactions which you know classified information.ings, all information about investigation. >> witnesses? >> names of witnesses, names of targets. selective leaks. which make it even worse. leaks for example given person target has done something and that person cannot step forward. his lawyers. >> is the judge -- i mane, first of all the whole idea i don't like secret proceedings number one. is the judge trying to keep this fair? you are suing him. >> it's interesting as being reported i have to be careful of course all the decisions under seal has been reported that this judge we sued quashed a number of subpoenas, which is a good thing but he refused the number of judges have refused to curtail the whole investigation. it's not about subpoenas. i will will give you a simple example. this has effectively benched the entire center and right of center political groups in wisconsin. they are not raising money. they are not spending money, they are just not engaged in. give you an arecent example. governor walker proposed a 500-million

there were some redactions which raised a lot of questions by people that have now seen the unredacted versions of those, that there's no smoking gun there, there's nothing that's going to implicate governor christie in this. so it appears to be evidence that david wildstein does not actually have. so that does raise a question, what it is, who has it -- >> not quite to the smoking gun point. but this letter, is this a case of he's just trying to cover himself legally? should we make much of this letter? >> two possible readings. there's a little bit to both of them. this is officially a letter to the port authority denying his request to pay for his legal bills. he's trying to get them to reconsider that decision. but i also read this as sort of the fourth attempt, public or not so thinly veiled attempt by he and his lawyers to make themselves available for an immunity deal. his lawyer explicitly said that. he said, if you can cloak my client in immunity, he'll have something interesting to say. he repeated the same message to "the wall street journal." if you look at the redactions,

then it was revealed this past week by the ber again record that wildstein had redacted a reference to documents. this was from a text exchange between wildstein and bill baroni. again, bill baroni is one of the other point men at the port just after baroni's testimony last november before the state assembly transportation committee. it was in that testimony that baroni insisted not under oath that the closures had been part of a traffic test and adamantly maintained the access lanes in ft. lee had been closed represented some kind of unfair perk for that town. both claims have since been discredited by lack numbers. in his exchange baroni followed the testimony we learned this week from those documents obtained by the record, wildstein wrote, quote, o'toole's statement ready. and sure enough the next morning an op-ed from o'toole ran in "the bergen record" slamming them as an attempt and attack ft. lee for that supposed sweetheart deal it had with the access lanes. baroni's testimony, the testimony that o'toole defended apparently in coordination with wildstein, is now regarded as a j

they eventually dropped all matters and have redacted nearly all my files. all of these incursions into my affairs began after filing applications for tax exemption. there is no other remarkable event. there's no other reason to explain how for decades i went unnoticed but now find myself on the receiving end of interagency coordination into and against all facets of my life, both personal and private. bear in mind, distinguished ladies and gentlemen of this subcommittee, these events were occurring while the irs was sun jekting me with multiple rounds of abusive inquiries, asking about facebook and twitter, questions about my political aspirations and demands to know the names of groups i had spoken with, the content of what i said and everywhere i intended to speak. the answer to these sorts of questions are not of interest to the typical irs analysts but certainly of interest to a political machine that would put its own survival against the civil liberties for a private citizen. this government attacked me because of my political beliefs, but i refused t

watch is suing in federal courts for talking points documents and recently received these heavily redacted e-mails. >> you have to wonder what he was thinking at the time he was deleting the talking points in a way that benefitted the obama sdwragz and hillary personally. >> richard burr is one of the six on the committee who signed the addendum. republicans and democrats diss agreed on whether the talking points were altered for political advantage. >> i think mike morrell has had a distinguished political career, but many of the comments he's made about especially in the last decade at the agency, are inconsistent with most of what he said while he was a cia representative and coming before the committee. >> now a private citizen in an interview with 60 minutes, morrell seemed to distance himself from his years at the cia under president bush and from the water boarding of 9/11 suspect khalid sheikh mohammed. >> my view is that the coercive techniques were the wrong thing to do. my view was that those techniques were inconsistent with american values. and for that reason, i don't think t

here is one 911 emergency call with details redacted by the city of ft.ee. >> 911, where is your emergency? >> medical and personal identification information. >> i don't know. i just got here. >> okay, is she warm when you touch her? >> medical and personal identification information. >> okay. and you're the home health aide? >> yes. hold on one second. hey, gary, that's the building to our house and the person has chest pains. so we need medics and the fire department. >> all right. let me get an ambulance and an officer right there. >> thank you. >> now, we don't know if there were delays reaching that particular woman suffering from chest pains. but these recordings do reveal obvious frustrations from callers to 911. >> 911, where is your emergency? >> hello, 911. i'm calling back because i called about an hour, almost an hour -- hour and 15 minutes ago to say my car was stuck on a highway, and you were going to send a tow truck. and i'm just wondering if it's coming. >> now, in that case, it was just a car in need of a tow. other callers complaining

are there privilege issues that they've raised or are there redactions that might be in the documents want to check into? so we won't know until we're further down the road. but it's a very time consuming process. there's literally thousands of pages of documents. some which may be of interest and some which clearly are responsive because they mention george washington bridge. they mention ft. lee. but other than that, really have no bearing on the investigation. >> so how do you manage, as co-chair of the investigation, how do you manage the work flow? do you read stuff as they come in? as things come in? does the special counsel sort of organize the reading of it and show you things that you ought to see? how does it work? >> i'm pretty particular about how this happens, and so i know the u.s. -- i know reid schar is looking at the documents. i make sure i look at them all so i have a firsthand understanding of what's going on, what's coming in, what's not yet in which is probably just as important. >> on the matter of david samson, specifically, you told "star-ledger" after reviewi

lawyers are disputing ing redactions. >> wildstein's lawyer says he has a story to tell. is this that story? >> one would think. again, when i interviewed him earlier in the month, he did not say what it was. he said it would be in the public's interest to put the story out. again, this is very unusual. it's common for lawyers to ask for immunity, but they usually do it behind closed doors. he's taken a very aggressive and particular approach to representing his client. that's what he's looking for, immunity to tell the story. >> heather, what you want to bet you are on next weekend again. thank you so much. appreciate it. let's go from there to the weather. residents in chicago are bracing for more snow. up to ten inches expected by tonight. we are seeing new pictures of the snow left behind by a storm in, get this, hawaii. yeah, this is the summit of the volcano. a new york hiker became stranded near the summit during the storm. he was eventually rescued. in the new york area, it's practically balmy for the super bowl. dylan is here with the forecast. good morning, dyla

last month they released these super redacted documents handed over to them from david wildstein, that'sund out about time for some traffic problems in ft. lee, got it. before he turned over these documents, david wildstein and/or his lawyer sharpied out huge portions of text, making it hard to understand what the documents meant in most cases. and who was saying what to who? we are learning tonight that david wildstein has turned over the unredacted names and e-mails to the panel that's leading this investigation, and the unredacted copies are expected to be released to the public early tomorrow. again, that is what we are expecting right now, when it comes to this story and new jersey, a pretty good rule of thumb is to expect the unexpected. we shall see. watch this space. when you order the works you want everything. an expert ford technician knows your car's health depends on a full, complete checkup. the works. because when it comes to feeling safe behind the wheel, going the distance and saving at the pump you want it all. get our multi-point inspection with a a synthetic blend oil

redacted documents.en then a top executive at the port authority to a top aide to christie. wait a minute, why? along with the photo, a note came saying, kelly's response, clearly. we cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we? wildstein says flights to tel aviv all mysteriously delayed. here's why this is important. six days earlier kelly is the one who sent the now infamous e-mail to wildstein. time for some traffic problems in fort lee. joining me now, political analyst, steve. wow. this shows this was not a one-time thing. this was an ongoing thing. you would make light about and joke about and put it on many times. >> yeah. look, it is embarrassing. it's humiliating and the part that really gets me and should get any person who cares about people who are put in powerful positions whether you're the deputy chief of staff or the person at the port authority that is how you get across the bridge. >> the busiest bridgei in the united states. >> you're putting people at risk and innocent

many of those redactions have been revealed, exposing christie aides joking about abusing power. and we have names to go with statements that had been anonymous. a notorious example was the response by an unnamed person to complaints from the ft. lee mayor about children who couldn't get to school. quote, is it wrong that i'm smiling? someone wrote, before adding i feel badly about the kids, i guess. today we learned those comments came from bridget kelly, who is christie's deputy chief of staff and sent the "time for traffic problems" e-mail. and today we know who responded, ""they are the children buono voters." it was david wildstein. weeks before the closings, wildstein and kelly joked about punishing a local rabbi. in mid-august, wildstein texted a photo of the rabbi possessing with house speaker john boehner, and then wrote "he has officially pissed me off." kelly responded "we cannot cause problems in front of his house, can we?" and then wildstein joked "flights to tel aviv mysteriously delayed." kelly wrote back, "perfect." he had no idea why he was the subject of these

legislature's special committee investigating the george washington bridge scandal released previously redacted messages from david wildstein today. they include exchanges between wildstein and bridget anne kelly six days after kelly sent the famous maesage, time for traffic problems in ft. lee. in the newly unredacted exchange, david wildstein sends a picture of a new jersey rabbi with john boehner to kelly and wildstein says, he has officially pissed me off. kelly replies clearly. we cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we? wildstein flights to tel aviv all mysteriously delayed. >> kelly, p kelly, perfect. four days after the lane closings in the george washington bridge, wildstein and kelly were worried about press inquiries. wildstein, wall street journal just called my cell so i need to speak with you. kelly, i'm calling your office. no answer. kelly, i spoke to mike. we also now know that david wildstein and the port authority deputy director bill baroni were worried enough about what happened at the george washington bridge on november 12, 2013, baroni asks, are we be

anything that came out today, not anything that came out yesterday with the -- more of the wild steep redactions, it's that there are so many wheels in motion right now in different levels, the legislative investigative committee, the u.s. attorney's office, this internal investigation that christie claims he is conducting himself, all sorts of document requests, all sorts of different media entities, individuals, groups, organization have put out. so there are so many different sources of potential revelations in the next couple of weeks, in the next couple of months. and i think, again, it all comes back to this really exact corner that christie has put himself in, where before january 8th, christie says, i had absolutely no inkling of any of. this he has got it clear, all that stuff is still gonna come out for him to -- that position to maintain its integrity, it can be tough. >> you know, michael steel, you were a lieutenant governor. you know about public service. and a huge part of public service is trust in elected officials. >> yeah. >> and you know, those tapes are important, i think, b

the bergen record reports that david wildstein, the former port authority top official redacted states message to another former aide, bill maroney. the text came right after ba row knee testified in front of the assembly transportation committee that the lane closures were part of traffic study. the paper reports that the text said, "o'toole's statement ready." that's in reference to a statement to toole released attacking democrats and questioning the need for ft. lee's dedicated lanes to the george washington bridge. msnbc has reached out to senator to toole. we have not heard back just yet. he has also not responded to the newspaper's request for comment. meanwhile, the investigative panel is asking a judge to force two former christie aides to turn over documents about the lane closures. bridget kelly and bill stepien are refusing to

mystery character that was emerging in the documents that david wildstein had released with all those redactionshat make them tough to work with was this character named chip. there were these referenced to chip. how did you figure out who chip is? >> i -- i've been going through these documents a little bit -- i don't want to say obsessively. >> go ahead, say obsessively. it's understandable. >> i thought there was something there and if i just kept reading them enough it would jump out. and i started making a big excel spreadsheet to make a timeline. and the chip reference in the text messages are about 200 pages apart. but on the timeline they're right next to each other. and i realized chip is the person who's sending these text messages. and that happened during a snow day on thursday. and i got very excited and sent steve an e-mail right away saying i figured out who chip is. then we figured out later on that chip is jeff michaels's brother, which is -- put it in a different stratosphere as far as the revelation goes. >> you and steve have provoked a new style of response from team christi