bill baroni marks priority high and sends it to regina egea in the governor's office. subpoena her records and if you actually get those records, you find out, what did she do at 10:44 in the morning on september 13th, when she finds this information? does she write to somebody? does she forward it? those are the kinds of questions we can get answers to. >> steve kornacki, the hardest working guy in the building on this story. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> lots more to come tonight on this story and on something unrelated and spooky that is happening in washington as we speak. stay with us. >> i want to make it clear. i didn't want to be in the governor's office looking at who sent e-mails. the e-mails that we got because we were looking at the port authority led us there. and so it would be really a dereliction of our responsibility if now that we know somebody in the governor's office sent an e-mail to close lanes and we walk away from it. somebody would say that would be partisan. it would be negligent. >> an important part of that story that may be breaking o

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documents add a previously unknown link to governor christie's inner circle, his next chief of staff, regina egea. >> regina has done an extraordinary job. >> reporter: that same day, christie said this about his team. >> in this job, you're only as good as people around you. >> reporter: christie maintains he knew nothing about the mess. >> i knew nothing about this until it started to be reported in the papers about the closure, but even then i was told this was a traffic study. >> reporter: that new link, the importance high e-mail was simply forwarded to regina egea. from former port authority executive bill baroni, who has since resigned, significant because it contained a blistering complaint from the top port authority official, patrick foye, who blasted the lane closure saying i will get to the bottom of this decision. no evidence emerged that christie's aide ever read that harsh rebuke or told the governor about it. democratic lawmakers raised the specter of impeachment. >> using the george washington public bridge to exact a political vendetta is a crime. having people use their officia

bill baroni marks priority high and sends it to regina egea in the governor's office.oena her records and if you actually get those records, you find out, what did she do at 10:44 in the morning on september 13th, when she finds this information? does she write to somebody? does she forward it? those are the kinds of questions we can get answers to. >> steve kornacki, the hardest working guy in the building on this story. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> lots more to come tonight on this story and on something unrelated and spooky that is happening in washington as we speak. stay with us. you use tide pods? yeah! that little guy cleans, brightens and fights stains. so now i can focus on more pressing matters. wow! isn't it beautiful? your sweet peppers aren't next to your hot peppers. [ gasps ] [ sarah ] that's my tide. what's yours? [ everyone's favorite flavors, different at red lobster? new table for two. with two salads... two entrees... plus an appetizer or dessert to share, all just $29.99. offer ends soon! so come to red lobster and sea food differently. to p

also being served regina egea, governor christie's incoming chief of staff, and someone whose name appeared in documentress leased last week. of note, early this morning we learned the christie administration hired legal counsel in the name of assisting the investigation. and today a fast-moving development is clear the states are rapidly increasing. who else will be subpoenaed? will we get some answers soon? joining me live from outside the new jersey state house is assemblyman gordon johnson, who is on the special investigation committee, and former u.s. attorney kendall coffey. assemblyman, this is a wide sko scope. what can you tell us tonight? >> only that we have begun our second phase, or the second part of this investigation. adds we stated before, wherever this investigation leads us, that's where we're going to go. so as we go forward and these subpoenas will be i guess delivered to these individuals probably tomorrow, we will then take up the information they bring us and go from is there. >> will these go to the port authority, to people in the governor's office? >> it's a varie

. >> next on weinberg's list, regina egea, christie's brand new chief of staff. we know at the very least, egea was aware officials were angry about the traffic jam. >> regina egea, who has been selected to be the chief of staff, she's forwarded that memo as well. >> next, william pat schuber, another christie appointee and former jersey politician. he was sent a letter with governor cc, inquiring about the closure on september 19th. weinberg said he vows to investigate, then nothing. if the last round of subpoenas produced time for traffic problems, they are the children -- just imagine what this latest round will bring. >> joining me now john wisniewsky. i understand you are not going to disclose who has been subpoenaed until they've been served, which makes sense. but explain the logic by which the committee decided who to subpoena. >> there was a lot of material the committee received from the subpoenas to wildstein baroni and others. we saw on your screen some of the e-mails that we looked at, but all of those e-mails have connections to other people and oth

and he sent that directly to regina egea friday. that is very early. >> that's september, right? >> yeah, september 13th that she was sent. so what we don't know at this point is what she then did with that e-mail. there is no follow-up correspondence. did she -- she didn't remark on it. did she forward to someone else, pick up the phone, text someone? that we don't know. but it does show she was aware. and she is one of the governor's ten senior-most staff. >> yeah. okay, now, you're telling me all this. especially on the heels of one of your articles on thursday, which called governor christie's administration exceptionally centralized. explain that and how hands-on he is. >> new jersey is known nationally for having a very powerful executive and governor christie is one of the most powerful in new jersey's history. so he's a very small cadre of senior staff, relies on them. he trusts them. he talked about that during the press conference, that he sees this staff like family. and that's why in part this was such a portrayal to him

he says this to bill baroni and bill baroni we see in this forwards it to regina egea. that chris christie didn't have any inkling of this until with about ten days ago. >> well, it would suggest e g ea is guilty of malpractice or the political equivalent. what's striking to me as these are metastasizing you have the u.s. attorney doing whatever he is doing. so many of those e-mails are private e-mails and we've learned that in new york and new jersey, you know, official business is pretty much connected on a gmail account. people may have been lulled into the misconception those would never be opened, never obtained under the freedom of information laws. nobody sort of seems to have anticipated subpoenas. now that subpoenas are on the table, all over the place, coming soon to a mailbox near you, i think the odds if the governor knew any of these things somebody is going to have said so in an e-mail or text or something. >> when will they learn not to put things like this in e-mail? you had a lawyer on yesterday who said the "e" in e-mail stands for evidence. it's one o

the governor's soon to be chief of staff, regina egea got that e-mail on the last morning of the shutdownings as the lanes were finally reopened. the mayor's spokesman stays after if shutdown, fielding inquiries from reporters starting to call about it. with ten christie appointees at the port authority start to freak out about the press, this is how it goes, david wildstein texts bill baroni, hey, the "wall street journal" called my cell phone. he responds, jesus, less than a minute later, call drewniac. the chief of staff, top to authorities and aide to the governor the governor's director of departmental relations, they are all in the loop on this crisis while it is still under way and immediately thereafter. >> there was nobody on my staff who had any knowledge of this issue until after the issue was already done. >> that is not true. provedly not true. today remarkably the gods of timing blessed us with this. governor christie had to give his state of the state address today, it is the start of a new legislative session. his first words of in the state of the state address are about the

but the two things, one, as we say, regina egea, the fact this went to his office three hours after thatat foy thing went out in september, you have to believe she did not raise this with him for four plus months. and david wildstein in his whilings, twhil filings, the subpoena said they were records directly related to the lane closures. he submitted text message records that indicate a meeting between chris christie and dave samson, his appointee of the transportation authority, a meeting for the week before. his lawyer says at the end of that hearing basically give us some immunity, there's a lot more we can tell you. that raises a lot of red flags. >> there were also some of the e-mails where he had forwarded some of the e-mail from his official account to his personal account, which always suggests to me you're trying to sort of take it off line so you've got it in your back pocket for later. i want to talk about the stonewalling. we have the e-mail where he tells patrick we can't have public discourse. can i talk to you? well, it can't be public. then we have radio silence when we'

that the new jersey seat that you're skeptical about, david samson, of the port authority, and regina egea who is next in line to be the governor's chief of staff. if they're going to put this thing and slow ball it, steve, why are they going ahead and bringing in these hot witnesses? >> no, the question being asked by democrats is you have these parallel investigations going on. does it create an opening for christie administration to go to court and say you're subpoenaing the same people. each committee is subpoenaing the same person. each person is asking for documents from the same person. well need a court to step in and say the legislature should be acting as one. that is the concern when i talk to democrats down in trenton. that's the concern that i hear. >> assembly woman, are you worried about -- is anybody able to hear me? can you hear me up there? >> yes, i can. >> i'm sorry. i'm trying to moderate this discussion. assemblywoman, are you concerned what steve's concerns are, that there might be a conflict between the purposes, the ultimate purposes of truth getting between your h

he 46-what regina egea did after that, who she might have e-mailed, who she might have talked torsionbut that is why wisniewski wants to see her e-mails and other e-mails from inside the governor's office. it will be very interesting to see whether christie tries to invoke executive privilege here which other new jersey governors have done in the past when they got subpoenas for e-mails. if governor christie will fully cooperate, it's clear we'll see a lot more e-mails and text messages. >> okay, michael, thanks. >>> four days without tap water. there is growing frustration after a chemical spill that now appears worse than first thought. can't take a sick day tomorrow. [ coughs ] [ male announcer ] so he can't let a cold keep him up tonight. vicks nyquil. powerful nighttime 6 symptom cold and flu relief. ♪ ♪ ♪ purina dog chow light & healthy is a deliciously tender and crunchy kibble blend. with 20% fewer calories than purina dog chow. isn't it time you discovered the lighter side of dog chow. >>> residents in nine west skra have a counties are trying to cope for a fourth day without

the chairman of the agency who runs the bridge, william schuber, commissioner of that agency and regina egea christie's incoming chief of staff. what exactly are you hoping to find out from these documents? >> well, that's a beginning for us. and it reflects my very early involvement with this. i wrote to commissioner schuber on december 19th. he promised me he was going to get to the bottom of it. i chose him because he is a former bergen county executive. he is somebody from the other side of the aisle, by the way, whom i voted for so that he could become a commissioner. and i knew he knew bergen county well. >> so you wrote schuber about the traffic jam. >> yes. on september 19th. with copies to chairman samson and to the governor himself. and when commissioner schuber called and promised he would get to the bottom of this in some of the subpoena documents i've seen, what he did is go to the very same david wildstein to ask him to compose a reply to me. and i want to know what all of these people did from the time it became public, from the time they found out about it, and i know they fo

now, new documents released on friday reveal that christie's next chief of staff, regina egea, a seniorember of the staff at the time, was forwarded an angry e-mail from a port authority chief from the new york side, patrick foye. he called the lane closures abusive and said, i believe this hasty and ill-advised decision violates federal law and the laws of both states. again, foye is andrew cuomo's appointee to the new york-new jersey port authority. don't expect questions about why christie didn't know of this sooner, if he did not, to go away anytime either. another democratic mayor, who did not endorse christie, is raising questions about how she was treated over hurricane relief money. she said she received $300,000 of the $100 million they requested. >> with 20/20 hindsight, by the context we're in right now, you can look back and say, okay, it was retribution, so i think probably all mayors are reflecting right now, and thinking about it. you know, i really hope that that's not the case. >> yet another problem he faces now in hindsight, a whole bunch of mayors like mayor zimmer t

regina egea, incoming chief of staff, michael drewniak, christie's spokesperson.s truly contradicting what the governor said. >> it's interesting listening first to state senator and then to e.j. about this. there really are two separate issues that the governor is facing. one is really what the people of new jersey through their representatives will be concerned about. and that is what actually happened, was there actual wrongdoing, and was any of that wrongdoing illegal, and was any of it at the feet of the governor, right. and those are the very specific things that ultimately can't be decided yet, but will be decided in the context of this process. but as e.j. points out, certainly happening alongside that process, but almost irrelevant to it at this point is the politics and particularly the kind of visual politics that are occurring now. because this governor who was being upheld as the republican who could win in a blue state, who was seen as the guy who stood for his people and embraced the president, even during a difficult partisan presidential campaign,

next chief of staff, in addition to bridget kelly, who was with him in seaside heights that day, regina egea on september 13th, she was copied on patrick foye's angry e-mail to bill baroni. and in that e-mail, foye says point-blank i believe laws were broken in both states and federal law. so that's an issue that also raises the question, you know, if one of the top aides to the governor who is in charge of supervising authority for him isn't alerting him to this very, very explosive situation, you know, who was informed in the governor's office, you know? who was in charge of digesting this information and responding? >> now, david, today governor christie said he would cooperate with all investigations, richard. >> yep. >> listen to this. >> i'm the governor. and i'm ultimately responsible for all that happens on my watch, both good and bad. and without a doubt, we will cooperate with all appropriate inquiries to ensure that this breach of trust does not happen again. >> what will you be watching, richard? >> all appropriate inquiries. the problem here is that we're now looking based on th

you're talking about a woman named regina egea. she is somebody chris christie would like to be his chief of staff. on the 13th of september last year, when the new york side on the port authority issued a memo, a scathing memo that said hey, possibly federal and state laws are being broken here, that memo was forwarded to her on last september 13th. and at that time, she was running governor chris christie's authority unit. that means she was in his office. she was forwarded that e-mail. she had it last september 13th. that raise as ton of questions what did she do when she got that e-mail. did she talk to chris christie about it? and what did he do when he found out? all we have right now are some texts and some e-mails that involve wildstein and baroni with hints of people in the christie administration. when you start getting subpoenas involving records from people inside the christie administration, thing is a potential for this thing to get a lot wider, a lot fast. >> let's bring in one of the people. you're talking about the

regina egea, christie's designated new chief of staff. and mikeful drewniak, press secretary. maria kanell. for his reelection campaign, and evan ridley, another christie aid. phillipe danielides. christina lado. and paul nunziato, the port authority police yoon authority. also nicole davidman who worked on fundraising for the christie cam mean. colin reed, and the entity christie for governor incorporated. and the office of the governor itself. let me go to assembly leader lewis greenwald, sir. give us a sense of what you think the widespread of subpoenas tells about the nature of the investigation now being under taken. >> well, chris, we have cast this net on the advice of counsel from the original e-mails that were turned over. and a scan of those e-mails and investigative review of those e-mails to see where the points of connection were. these subpoenas are, really, they are a discovery tool. they are nothing more than that. they are not to cast blame or take anything from that as to allegations of what role these people may have played. but from being a part of the e-ma

so, again, regina egea. the senior staff, more subpoenas will be issued as soon as monday.l they take the fifth again like david wildstein? what i want to know now is, you know, what is david wildstein going to say? his lawyer said if he's given immunity from state and federal prosecutors he has things to sha share. >> that jumped out at me as the most amazing part of the testimony at the very end. senator, because you've seen a number of political investigations in new jersey, veteran new jersey politics. you are a veteran of watching the new jersey political investigations. when you see david wildstein and his attorney say i want immunity and you might learn a lot more, do you think we might be going down the road where he gets immunized and we might learn more? >> when i heard that i said, wow, it's over. there are going to be other people who say, wait a second? he's going to go in first? no, i want to go in first. and not only was the lane closure recklessly endangering lives a crime, but the cover-up can be obstruction of justice and that happened within the governor'

is guarded you can see from bill baroni three hours after that memo goes out it's forwarded to regina egeahis current choice to be his next chief of staff top to believe that chris christie was not told about this by her for four months, that part i'm really having trouble getting my head around. the willful ignorance things i'm starting to doubt myself. eleanor, watching this from outside new jersey, watching this national political figurer 'em broild in a national scandal, how do you make sense of what you're seeing. >> vi a brother who lives in new jersey. >> everyone has a relative in new jersey. >> and watching the cast of characters develop it also reminds me of the iran contra hearings in washington and they issued book lets. this has the potential to really grip the political imagination outside of new jersey and new york. it's abuse of power. while i think barbara bruno some of her language is strong, she's suggesting he can be impeached. if more information comes out that shows that he really was in the chain of custody in some way, i mean i think he is in serious legal trouble a