hands. in terms i m curious about the timetable and brian was sketching out a sar toshcenario get indictments in january and talk about starting to go to trial and some people pleading out or whatever, this is basically something that would stretch into the next year, january 2016. obviously right around the time of the caucuses. is this something we can pretty much count on being a cloud for all of 2015 over chris christie? i think so. there s no exact timetable. did paul fishman know there s an election coming up and governor christie might be a candidate? of course he knows that. under the department of justice guidelines he s supposed to act like he doesn t know, ignore that, not consider the politics, just consider whether he thinks governor christie committed a crime. brian wice, if you re with chris christie s people, is there anything you can do? can you go to the u.s. attorney,
is not good news for him. brian weiss, the report from brian thompson, he s saying at least six indictments potentially coming. he says former christie staff members, current and former port authority members. we ve talked on the show and people who follow this know the names of the principle characters, bridget kelly, bill baroni. if you re representing one of those palestinian players in a story like this comes out in the news, what is reyour reaction to it? i was shocked to see that as many as half a dozen indictments were in the pipeline, steve. we know who the usual suspects are, the names you just alluded to, that great flow chart that you had long ago as a year ago in december when the story first broke. if i m representing one of the target defendants, i want to know if it s too late for me to get paul fishman on his cell phone over the weekend to see what we can do about cutting a deal. the problem is my good friend
to get inside u.s. attorney s office to figure out what s going on with the bridge-gate thing and now we have what seems like really credible reporting from brian thompson. what s the decision usually behind that? what is happening inside for something like that to get out? well, it s unusual. federal prosecutors are usually a lot more discreet than state prosecutors because they are not elected officials. they are appointed by the president. this report is incredible though because we ve always thought that bridge-gate has never been clear exactly what the crime is. sandy-gate, how the sandy funds were allocated that seems a more traditional public corruption prosecution but these indictments are most unwelcome development for governor christie. what s going on is pyramid prosecution, working your way up to the top. it sounds like these indictments will be little fish and bigger fish but not the big fish. the big fish is christie. i think he s kind of again, this