september 2013. he knew about it before the media started to pick it up. first in a traffic column by the bergen record then in "the wall street journal" which was the first newspaper to link that mysterious days' long traffic jam to a political scheme that was aimed at winning political endorsements for chris christie. here's the amazing kicker in this story in terms of our democracy. as the bridgegate scandal that those papers broke, as the bridgegate scandal first went to trial, the bergen record, first paper to report anything about it, they were told by their corporate owner that their newsroom is getting gutted, cut nearly in half as bridgegate went to trial. this week as the bridgegate case went the jury, "the wall street journal" announced that it's gutting the greater new york section of the journal that broke the political side of bridgegate. the two papers that broke this story wide open both got gutted while it was in the courts. chris christie is still the head