0 unless he was offered immunity for his role in the closures. that is the man who is now claiming tl claiming through a letter from his lawyer that governor christie knew about the closures while they were happening. and wildstein's attorney says there is proof. in a letter sent yesterday requesting that the port authority pay wildstein's legal fees, his attorney wrote, quote, evidence exists tying mr. kristi to having knowledge of the lane closures during the period when the lanes were closed contrary to what the governor stated publicly he gave immediately before mr. wildstein was scheduled to appear before the transportation committee. mr. wildstein contests the accuracy of the statements the governor made about him. at this point they are just that, claims. we have not seen the evidence that wildstein's attorney reports exists. and in his press conference on the ninth, governor christie vehemently denied knowing about the lane closures. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning, or its execution. 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. i had no knowledge of this, of the planning, the execution, or anything about it. and then i first found out about it after it was over. and even then what i was told was that it was a traffic study. >> yesterday after wildstein's letter was made public, governor christie's office put out a statement. quote, mr. wildstein's lawyer confirms what the governor has said all along. he had absolutely no prior knowledge of the lane closures before they happened. whatever mr. wildstein's motivations were for closing them to begin with. as the governor said in the december 13th press conference, he only first learned lanes were closed when it was reported by the press. as he said in his january 9th conference, had no indication have to get your arms around. well, if that sounded technical, wait until we get into the bylaws of the port authority. that's what this letter is about. the bylaws state if you are in legal trouble for acting within the scope of deployment, you will have your defense and your legal fees basically probably covered even if you're a former employee. but then they have this other piece. this is whae the fight is about. it also says that to get that lawyer fee covered, you'd have to have the full cooperation of the person in this case wildstein in the defense of the action at issue. well, we know that well behind this letter on the phone and in whatever discussions they're having, that goes to the heart of this. is this someone who's actually going to turn and not defend whatever it was that occurred or didn't occur, act or omission is the way they talk about it in the law. that is the predicate for this dispute. what we are seeing here even if you didn't understand that or don't care about the bylaws, imagine that he's the kind of person that thought he might be in a position where he is going -- a position like this. this is the kind of guy who saves documents, who saves e-mails. the thing i remind people of is think about his role in new jersey politics. when i knew him and people in new jersey knew him, he was the anonymous editor of the premiere state source for state political news. he cultivated sources, high-level sources on both sides of the aisle. he was very good at doing that anonymously. he has 15 years of e-mails from people way up the ranks in new jersey politics who were spilling their souls to him. i'm sure he could take my e-mails alone and humiliate me with them. that's the kind of stuff he has. >> all right. stick with us. we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, i want to talk more about fresh reporting steve did this morning on another political impact on chris christie in new jersey. going to get into that next. ♪ we're gonna be late. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, are we early? 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