christie responses. that s right. attacking the new york times, attacking msnbc, attacking anyone who brings up any information that they don t like. it was this very simple one-sentence line, simply saying answering a question that was raised yesterday by you and steve on the program. did chris christie talk to his close friend, jeff michaels, the lobbyist, who is obviously very close to chip michaels, the police officer who was there on the scene? and it is very easy to imagine that some kind of conversation like that has taken place. chris christie felt that that speculation was so hot and so important that he must specifically refute it with that one simple sentence that congratulations, brian, does not include an attack on you for some reason. hey, msnbc owes me one then. i think it s interesting. i think we have to be careful
as chip michaels was sending those updates to david wildstein, david wildstein was turning around and sending them to bridget kelly in trenton, the governor s deputy chief of staff. and that was happening the turnaround time was extremely fast. so that information was making its way to trenton from lieutenant michaels through david wildstein, almost instantaneously. well, brian, great work on putting the two chips together, who during the snow day began 200 pages apart. thank you. and chris christie s team obviously thinks what you ve discovered is important enough that it needs that direct response to it. and brian, tomorrow might be another snow day. i know. we keep getting that hunker down with those documents tomorrow. i will. thank you very much, lawrence. brian murphy, thank you very much for joining us again tonight. pleasure. thanks so much, lawrence. coming up, the democrats have a new campaign playbook for congressional campaigns. and bill nye the scienc
and unusual dreams. i had to quit smoking to keep up with this guy. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. well, let me just clear something up. okay? about my childhood friend david wildstein. it s been over a month since chris christie said that. and he has cleared up virtually nothing about david wildstein. but today he did try to clear up something about a couple of other old friends of his. the michaels brothers. chip michaels, the port authority police officer, and jeffrey michaels, the new jersey lobbyist. governor christie s office issued this written statement today. the governor has never had any conversations with either jeff or chip michaels on this topic. the topic was first raised by steve kornacki on this network
day on thursday. and i got very excited and sent steve an e-mail right away saying i figured out who chip is. then we figured out later on that chip is jeff michaels s brother, which is put it in a different stratosphere as far as the revelation goes. you and steve have provoked a new style of response from team christie today because it does not contain an attack on the messenger. unlike the previous team christie responses. that s right. attacking the new york times, attacking msnbc, attacking anyone who brings up any information that they don t like. it was this very simple one-sentence line, simply saying answering a question that was raised yesterday by you and steve on the program. did chris christie talk to his close friend, jeff michaels, the lobbyist, who is obviously very close to chip michaels, the
authority police lieutenant thomas chip michaels, who was apparently on the scene when the fort lee lanes were shut down. who drove david wildstein around as the traffic mounted. steve kornacki s report broke new ground in the investigation. according to the co-chair of the special legislative committee investigating the lane closures. is this something you were aware of before? has your committee encountered this in its investigation? well, not in the context you ve laid out. obviously, we ve all seen the e-mails that mention chip and mention people observing the traffic. but the detail to which you ve put this is something that the committee had not been aware of. after steve kornacki s report yesterday, the executive director of the port authority, patrick foye, asked the port authority s inspector general to investigate any involvement of port authority police officers in the lane closures at the george washington bridge.