there s this guy, now he s in the 2020 reelection campaign in a big way working with the campaign manager. it s another 180, if you will. absolutely. i mean, you think back, it s been four, five years ago, but that scandal, remember, 2013. chris christie is running for reelection as governor of new jersey. everybody thinks it s the prelude to the presidential campaign in 2016 where he may enter as the prufront runner. the whole christie idea in 2013 was to run up a massive margin in blue state new jersey, win with these conservative groups. the campaign manager was bill steppian. it was the aftermath of that campaign that the whole bridge scandal broke. and steppian, one of the folks there, you know, david wildsteen who the fed said had master minded the plot, he said he told bill steppian contemporaneously about this plan as he was hatching it. steppian denies having foreknowledge of it.
they say they knew that a major lane crossing closure would cause gridlock. the lane closures were an act of political retaliation against the new jersey mayor who did not endorse christie in his re-election bid for governor. the defense, however, denied the allegation and said they were part of a legitimate traffic study. the scandal has dogged christie and arguably impacted his race for the presidency in 2016. when i heard about the bridge scandal i was beyond horrified. reporter: and throughout the trial his credibility has come into question as former members of his staff and those involved with the port authority testified. however, a spokesman for christie still maintains the governor had no knowledge that lane closures were part of the traffic study, something the governor has said since january 2014. the key prosecution witness is a former port authority director, david wildsteen. he pled guilty to his role in
pendulum is going to swing back in the direction of being more aggressive. that s the key thing i just heard you say. of course we will. of course we will. interesting comments there by general hayden. newly released documents raising more questions surrounding the scandal of chris christie. redacted documents. david wildsteen then a top executive at the port authority to a top aide to christie. wait a minute, why? along with the photo, a note came saying, kelly s response, clearly. we cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we? wildstein says flights to tel aviv all mysteriously delayed. here s why this is important. six days earlier kelly is the one who sent the now infamous e-mail to wildstein. time for some traffic problems in fort lee. joining me now, political
very much on the governor s radar screen and top staff. remember what was in that patrick foye e-mail. it was pretty serious. it said public safety had been in danger and federal and state laws had been broken. or may have been broken. that s a pretty serious allegation in that e-mail from patrick foye and now we know from the governors statement last week, last night, that it was that had it come to his attention on october 2nd. that s also the day, october 2nd that both bill ma roenny and david wildsteen were meeting with the governor s top aides, there s an reference that baroni going in to see bridget kelly, then the deputy chief of staff. go ahead. i was going to ask you, mentioned bridget kelly, the former deputy chief of staff
hardly knew the guy. david and i were not friends in high school. we were not even acquaintances in high school, didn t travel in the same circles in high school. i was the class president and athlete, i don t know what david was doing during that period of time. aaron blake has written on the topic. we have one guy who set at the cool table at lunch and one who did not. explain how christie cannot know the guy very well but his office can know about wildstein s relationship with his social security teacher? i don t know if they are based on press reports about wildstein s past. he was mayor at one point so perhaps there was writings about his background back then. i thought it was unusual that they would point out he was once an anonymous blogger and registered websites under other people s names without telling them about it. if this is the worst kind of