three lanes of the george washington bridge in new jersey were closed in fort lee, causing delays for emergency service vehicles and school buses making a lot of people late for work. first-responders, were reportedly delayed and getting help to a 91-year-old woman who later died. the tie-up supposedly intentionally caused in that political retribution effort because the democratic mayor of fort lee did not endorse christie s re-election bid for a second term. emails show the christie s deputy chief of staff, bridge get anne kelly. caused traffic problems and that is her on the right and gloating about the chaos. david weild stein a close high school friend of christie he appointed to. government post. wrote kelly i feel badly about the kids, meaning students stuck on buses. they are the children of voters, kelly responds referring to christie s voters, referring to the his opponent, democratic senator, barbara buono. he said in a statement yesterday, i m outraged to not only
0 he works. you got to love it. joe johns is filling in for jake tapper today on the lead. that starts right now. get used to it. spying on you and everyone else in the country is the new normal according to a judge. i m joe johns. this is the lead. the national lead. a few days after a judge ruled the other way, a different federal judge says the nsa s mass collection phone data program is legal because of 9/11. she s a young teen who has been declared brain-dead by doctors and a judge agrees but her family is still hoping and praying for a miracle and wants her moved. will the hospital that already considers it too late help them? the world lead. you thought breaking the ice with your in-laws was tough. the race to reach a ship frozen in place off the coast of antarctica hits a snag when a vessel made to crack the ice gets stuck in the ice. i m joe johns in for jake tapper. we begin with the money lead. if you still rely on the stock market to predict how americans view t
reacted to the shocking sex scandal that exploded eight days ago. we have our legal panel that weighs in. gregg: we begin with new tensions mounting over iran s nuclear ambitions. gop presidential candidates going head to head this weekend over that very topic hot on the heels of a stinging reported from the united nations nuclear agency claiming there is credible evidence that iran is pursuing the development of nuclear recipes. steve is live in washington. where do the republican candidates stand on what to do about iran? reporter: many of them took a hard-line stance on iran during the debate supporting military action if all else fails. here are some of the highlights. first of all, as maximum covert operations to block and disrupt the iranian program including taking out their scientists. including breaking up their systems, all of it covertly and all of it deniable. one thing you need to know if we re-elect barack obama iran will have a nuclear weapon. if you el
ago. we have our legal panel that weighs in. gregg: we begin with new tensions mounting over iran s nuclear ambitions. gop presidential candidates going head to head this weekend over that very topic hot on the heels of a stinging reported from the united nations nuclear agency claiming there is credible evidence that iran is pursuing the development of nuclear recipes. steve is live in washington. where do the republican candidates stand on what to do about iran? reporter: many of them took a hard-line stance on iran during the debate supporting military action if all else fails. here are some of the highlights. first of all, as maximum covert operations to block and disrupt the iranian program including taking out their scientists. including breaking up their systems, all of it covertly and all of it deniable. one thing you need to know if we re-elect barack obama iran will have a nuclear weapon. if you elect me they will not have a nuclear weapon. reporter: every
of what their sense the sense of what their plan is. bill: boehner says we ve got a lot of hard work to do to fix the house and do the peoples business job. we ll bring you back to the speaker-designate s comments as they get underway. in the meantime the transition team held the meeting with boehner last night, including lawmakers with a range of experience on the hill all eager to get to work as the new majority. i came in as a freshman, i didn t create this mess, but i like to say that i want to help clean it up and i want to make sure these republicans aren t going to the democrats what the democrats did to us. there are things in the process that were just wrong and we need to be above that, we need to be more open, transparent, effective, efficient, and working closely as best we can with the democrats. they, too, represent a constituency. nothing has been decided but we kind of talked about principles and what we need to do to restore that accountability and peopl