seeking to extend the subpoena power under thousands of pages of e-mails and text messages about the george washington bridge scandal. there's still no smoking gun, but among those documents is a forwarded e-mail that some say could be the key to the probe. joining me now, one reporter far ahead of the pack on this story and that's the "wall street journal's" heather hadden. welcome back. i'm glad you're here. we've been talking about this for a few weeks now. let's talk about what you have put out, an article about this very important e-mail that we have been discussing today. the port authority director sent this furious e-mail questioning the lane closures. that e-mail was then forwarded to regina egea, the governor's incoming chief of staff. explain to the viewers why this is so important. >> reporter: well, it is important, because all along the governor has asserted he only learned about this recently, he questioned his highest-most staff when he did find out about it. and no one said they had any additional details to add, other than this was a traffic study. now, that e-mail from patrick