there was a conspiracy or could they find a conspiracy if in fact there was no evidence that this was a form of punishment to this new jersey mayor. the judge came back and said yes, you can determine there was a conspiracy because what is at issue here is did these two conspire to misuse government resources. so now these two individuals, bridget kelly, bill barone, their lawyers asked for a mistrial and it is likely the two of them will appeal. kind of a blow to governor chris christie, who has denied any knowledge of this. but during this trial, at least five witnesses, some of them very loyal to the governor, actually said he was aware of these lane closures and that it was being done because of the actions of the mayor who refused to endorse him. so this continues. governor christie leading up donald trump s transition campaign should he become president. so deb, on that point because this is what people are asking, these two defendants found guilty. both defendants said actuall
saying if he becomes president, he will immediately convene a special session of congress to repeal the affordable care act. if president obama s signature law is not replaced, it will destroy health care forever. house speaker paul ryan revealing that he has already vote and cast an early ballot and voted for donald trump. he visits his home state later this evening. ryan said he would not appear with the nominee. jurors in the trial of two former allies of new jersey governor chris christie charged with plotting that lane closure at the george washington bridge. they sent several questions to the judge today. one of them asked request bill barone and bridget ann kelly can be convicted if they don t believe the closings were meant to punish the mayor and the judge told the jurors they could
pleasure of the governor, what are you going to do? you re going to do what the governor tells you. steve, you, sir, can be a port authority commissioner. i ve seen the benefits that come with that. i wouldn t mind working there. let me ask you, the other sfaz of this, this coming week was supposed to be originally another hearing new jersey legislative committee looking into it. the new witness the head of the after floor reese unit. bill barone any on the 13th of september when the closure came to a head and pat foy sent the e-mail saying federal and state laws are being broken, the person in the governor s office was regina, egea. it s been move to the 17th. what are you interested in hearing from egea? what i want to hear from all of these people, quite frankly, a dozen or so. but what you want to hear from them and i m not sure quite
frankly the committee is prepared to ask this question, even the democrats, i want to hear more about the culture of that office, because nobody has been able to show any kind of link, beforehand knowledge of governor christie with this decision made by barone and while stein and bridget kelly. i m not looking for that at this point. what i am looking for is to understand the workings of this office and how they politicized or continued the pollicization of the relationship between the governor s office and the port authority and how that was allowed to happen and whether or not she can shed light on that, that s what i think the committee has to nailed her on, if it s going to get anywhere on this thing. the headlines, 13 more subpoenas that went out a few weeks ago. pat foy from the new york side, he s supposed to come down. phillip kwan who perhaps helped
with bill barone, tells him that he s toast, but tells him also that he s going to get set up with a new job with another political consultant, i think christie is tying up a bunch of loose ends and preparing to wait out the clock for only a few more weeks until the subpoena power expires, then they think they re going to be scot-free. tell me about the reporting. what is the news value of today s testimony from the a.p. s point of view? i think first of all, this is the highest ranking christie official to testify. and so this is someone we hadn t heard from before. we had seen some of his interview notes in the mastro report. this is a chance to hear him up front, get him to answer questions firsthand. we learned also he said, like the others, he had no direct involvement in the lane closings or any knowledge of it. and he also answered another key question, or didn t answer