punish the mayor of fort lee. christie denies these allegations. the closures began the first monday of school and end had the friday. it caused hours of traffic on the nation s busiest crossing. he ll be sentenced the august 6th. he was asked about future charges for other individuals, but he would only say this. based on evidence that is currently available to us, we re not going to charge anybody else in this scheme. reporter: i m joined by bob engle, co author of chris christie. congrats on the website coming up. let s talk first about david wildstein. he has ties to christie going back to high school. chris christie distanced himself from him when questioned about
christie s allies pled guilty no the bridgegate scandal. steve kornacki is in newark. what did wildstein admit to today? reporter: david wildstein was in court this morning and pled guilty to two charges, what he told the judge this morning and what federal prosecutors are trying to prove is that he and two others bridget kelly, one of chris christie s deputy chiefs of staff, the author of the e-mail a lot of people remember time for traffic problems in ft. lee. wildstein is seeing he along with bridget kelly and bill baroni, one of the top appointees of chris christie the three engaged in a conspiracy. they planned and executed the closure of those access lanes to the george washington bridge in september of 2013 for the purpose of creating a traffic jam in the town that would reflect poorly on the mayor of
verizon. welcome back everybody. we are live here on the streets of baltimore following all developments the freddie gray case. we re following the procedures happening to our north in new jersey today. you re looking and we re going to show you a live news conference happening now where they re talking about this. it regards governor chris christie s bridgegate problems which grew this morning. a christie appointee to the authority that oversees the bridge plead guilty to two counts of conspiracy in a new jersey federal courtroom. david wild stein pleaded guilty. he imp dated two other allies. he said it was a conspiracy to
tuesday s story we just mentioned. kate, i want to get these details in a minute and there s so much here to talk about. the first thing i want to put up, show this on the screen. we talk about these call logs, david sampson, top christie authority, resign a couple of months ago. all of these calls came out. there s one thing in particular that jumps out, september 9th, the first night of the lane closures, these are david sampson s calls that night. bill baroni, one of the top appoint ees and david wild stein and the head of the authorities unit, overseeing authorities like the port authority for the governor s office. there s extensive contact with these principle players in the closures and david samson on day this happens and detail on that same night, mark sokolich had
in the run-up to and during and in the wake of those lane closures last september. the logs don t show what the calls were about but do show as the scandal built traction, they spoke several times a week and phone logs show during the week of the ft. lee traffic jam, sampson had conversations with david wildstein and bill baroni and in fact the contacts with mildsteen increased in weeks to the closures. we don t know what was discussed in these phone calls and some or all of them might have been related to bridge gate. sampson refused to speak about what happened last fall. but the level of contact between the appointees and top aides is more significant than previously believed. it was followed up on the news by noungsing they plan to call 13 new people before the special