her boss was aware of the closure of the george washington bridge. it was also the person who sent the infamous track problem. christie denied knowing anything before or during the backup. kelly and bill baroney pleaded not guilty. we have donald trump hitting the trails hard today. . this is where we look at the top tv mark. this is really interesting. both candidates have dolled out high dollar cash all in an effort to win your vote. look at the millions invested. [accountant] my job is to manage and grow businesses.
and at trial they are hinting they have more to say. let s get the back story here. we re talking about bridget kelly and bill maroney. infamous now we know. time for traffic troubles in fort lee. david wilestein is the recipient of that. he was on the other end and responded. got it. how does this stabbed up in saying yes, he knew and and con1350ird with the other two? i think that the attorneys for bridget kelly and bill baroney upped the ante and came out so strongly against wildstein and so insistent upon the fact that wildstein s account is fabricated that it raidses more questions, some fresh questions and, yet, again, we re not done with this story yet. sure. fresh questions.
mayor for refusing to endorse christie s election. winesteen is facing a max muff of 15 years in jail though will serve less time because of his cooperation with the government. the charges again kelly and baroney carry a maxim penalty of up to 86 years in prison all coming as chris christie prepares to make an announcement about running for president which could come as early as this month. christie s office says that today s news affirms that the governor had no involvement in or prior knowledge about this conspiracy. dale baroney and bridget kelly also maintain their innocence. it was evidenced that his committee uncovered which led to the u.s. attorney s criminal investigation and matt katz is a reporter here with wnyc in new york. assemblyman, let me start with you. sure. your panel looked into this last year and in your final report you could find nothing to
welcome back to hardball, in addition to the big story of criminal charges in the freddie gray case, weave got more breaking news tonight on the crime and punishment beat. this is the big one surrounding new jersey governor chris christie. david wildstein, one of kristie s top yishl appeared in a newark federal court to plead guilty to two counts of conspiracy and criminal misconduct in his role in the scheme to shut down the george washington bridge in the fall of 2013. in addition to the plea deal two other high-level members of christie s staff chief of staff kelly and bill baroney have been charged for their alleged role in the same conspiracy and cover-up. david wildstein told a federal judge he kelly and baroney shut down the bridge as an act of revenge targeting the ft. lee
there s more and more layers of the administration that seem to know about this. so the question is how long can you be insulated from this? what weigh don t know from the toumts is, you know, particularly the one you talked with about yesterday. did she talk about this with him? that is his incoming chief of staff. one of ten senior staff members. they had regular contact with the port authority. she was forwarded an e-mail where they expressed to the port authority staff member from new york he was so concerned about the bridge closure, said there were state and federal laws that were violated here. she was forwarded that e-mail from bill baroney. what does she do with that? we don t know that. there are still a lot of questions to be answered now, the most inner circle of his staff were aware of this. and that jumped out at me