bridge-related e-mails following the bridge scandal. his lawyer on friday requested that the legislative subpoena which seeks a wide array of documents from him including e-mails, well, he wants it withdrawn. bridget anne kelly. in late january, the former deputy chief of staff who christie famously said he fire fordeliing to him changed lawyers. her original lawyer was known to be in governor christie s orbit. not the new one. joining me is loretta weinberg who was co-chair of the legislative select committee investigating the george washington lane closures, and bob ingle who writes about politics and is co-author of chris christie: the inside story of his rise to power. when you re up there in jersey, imagine all these people out there lawyered up now, especially wildstein, and of course i imagine bridget kelly s got a top flight lawyer, and bill stepien. they re all trying to avoid trouble legally for themselves, which might include prison time. we don t know what the charges
looms before us, and looms before governor christie as he watches programs like this. thank you very much, state senator loretta weinberg. continue your good efforts. and thank you, bob ingle. continue your smartness. more on chris christie s future nationally, coming up, because this guy was the kingpin. now i m reading that huckabee is number one. this is hardball, the place for politics. i will light up every room i walk into. [ female announcer ] olay presents the new regenerist luminous collection. renews surface cells to even skin tone. in just two weeks, see pearlescent, luminous skin. new regenerist luminous.
politics has played absolutely no role in disaster recovery. but new jersey s largest paper, the newark star ledger said christie used sandy money as a political slush fund, and says, quote, this was about politics and that is simply wrong. sandy victims everywhere should be furious. joining me now is bob ingle. he is author of chris christie: the inside story of his rise to power. bob, first, thanks for being here tonight. glad to be here, rev. how serious are all of these questions about the sandy relief funds? i think it s very serious. but one thing you have to keep in mind, you know how federal regulations are, you get a stack about that high. and within that, the locals are given a lot of leeway to do things as they want to do. sure. now what the administration has said and what you just repeated is there is no politics
0 joining us. as a legal method, it smart to go after this guy and say we re going after your whatever, even when you re a teenager, we re going after you because this is the game you re playing, because you ve dared to talk about there being evidence against the governor, we re going to destroy you. it seems like that s the strategy. i don t think it s much of a legal strategy. first of all, prosecutors were thinking about whether or not to grant immunity to a particular witness. they know about this kind of stuff already. and by the way, prosecutors deal with witnesses, cooperating witnesses all the time who have got more baggage than pond scum. that makes somebody like david wildstein look like a saint. so that s not a message to prosecutors. and it s irrelevant in a court of law. but here is where the message might get some traction. is it going to keep somebody from cooperating with the government if they are facing potential criminal charges? no. if you got really serious thing
0 he read it in the wall street journal. here is the article published october 1, several weeks after the closing. but today the wall street journal says christie s own office contradicts that claim. the journal says, quote, mr. christie s administration said over the weekend that one of those articles, a column in the record on september 13 is how mr. christie first learned what was occurring. september 13th, what happened to october 1? in early december, christie said, quote, the first i ever heard of the issue was when it was reported in the press. which i think was in the aftermath of the leaking of mr. foye s e-mail. that e-mail leak happened on october 1. but in january, christie said he learned about the closures before that story with the leaked e-mail. no, i think it was it wasn t pat foye s e-mails, but i think there was an earlier story about that. i don t remember exactly. something about the traffic, yeah. it s not a game of gotcha. it s about getting the fac