20 subpoenas today. what do you think is the importance of that to the story and this investigation overall? well, pretty clearly, they have thrown as wide a possible net as they can at this stage as they can justify. everything short of actually personally subpoenaing chris christie himself. every name of real meaning we ve seen so far and come out has now gotten a demand to show a tremendous amount of information about what they might have known about this. and i think chairman wisniewski was saying this before, and he said it a number of juncture, they re trying to build this deliberately, partly for political reasons so they can t be accused of being on a fishing expedition or a wish hunt trying to damage a very popular republican governor, but what they re really trying to do is establish wh this chain of demand was that led to the apparent order in bridget kelly s e-mail. no one seems to believe that the initial statement that launched this traffic study or whatever
steve kornacki is reporting on that story exclusively. he s going to have that story tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern and he is going to have the mayor herself here to comment on it in her only television interview. steve kornacki made his bones covering new jersey politics and he is always great, no matter what he s talking about, but i ve got to tell you, steve is must-see tv on this story right now. and that scoop that he s got on this big story is breaking tomorrow morning, 8:00 a.m. eastern, here on msnbc. i asked steve yesterday, when i knew he was working on this, i said, if you are going to be able to do it, could i please let my audience know ahead of that saturday show, that that scoop was coming on saturday morning, and steve gave me permission to tell you, to let you know that it s on its way. so now you know. it s 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, okay? we ll be right back. in the nation, we reward safe driving. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance
to make sure no emergency vehicles were having any trouble, we stood ready to change any traffic patterns as need be, if emergency vehicles were having any problems, when he said that to the legislature in late november, it was not true and he knew that it was not true. so, yeah, bill baroni was one of the first people who had to resign in this scandal and now he s been subpoenaed and he s been told to hand over his cell phone and all the rest. yeah, that s what happened to bill baroni, but, but, look at this. as soon as bill baroni finished his testimony that day, his untrue testimony that concealed the real story of why those bridge lanes were shut down, as soon as his false testimony was over at the legislature, at noon on november 25th, he sent this text to david wildstein. trenton feedback? david wildstein responds, good. then the next line is blacked out. then bill baroni responds, just
christie s chief counsel, who is also subpoenaed today. after bill baroni delivered false testimony to the legislature, making up a story about a traffic story, a traffic study, a traffic study that could only have been intended to cover up what they re really doing, quote, charlie says you did great, great in all caps. the investigation is to find out about abuse of government power and efforts to conceal abuse of government power. everyone known to be involved in the shutdown, and now the governor s re-election campaign, as an entity, have been asked to turn over documents on that, as has the governor s office itself. one question is, is the cover-up worse than the crime? does the way that this goes into all these other entities, does it follow the chain of people who knew that the cover-up, the whole traffic study bunk, was nuts and who took some part in cooking up that story and applauding it once it s delivered. is that the way that this rises?
in late november, it was not true and he knew that it was not true. so, yeah, bill baroni was one of the first people who had to resign in this scandal and now he s been subpoenaed and he s been told to hand over his cell phone and all the rest. yeah, that s what happened to bill baroni, but, but, look at this. as soon as bill baroni finished his testimony that day, his untrue testimony that concealed the real story of why those bridge lanes were shut down, as soon as his false testimony was over at the legislature, at noon on november 25th, he sent this text to david wildstein. trenton feedback? david wildstein responds, good. then the next line is blacked out. then bill baroni responds, just good? then he swears. that s not actually a redaction. that s actually us blacking out his curse word. a minute ladder david wildstein responds, no, i have only texted