nobody has proved christie has been involved. the slow process of the investigation has taken a toll in the polls. can he turn it around for 2016 even if he s cleared. it s interesting you characterize this as bad news because i m not so sure it s bad news. the nature of our political process is to build up candidates, tear them down and build them back up again. if these subpoenas should bear fruit and if someone should uncover a particular document or a witness that shows that chris christie wasn t truthful in that marathon press conference, then he s finished. but at some point, so many individuals are subpoenaed, and there s no yield, i think the pendulum swings back in his favor, he gets to play the victim card and that will play very well particularly among hardened republicans. because people say oh, look this was a pile on, they tried and tried and tried.
sent it out. according to people familiar with the matter. let me bring in white house support fore the washington post and staff writer for the hill newspaper, elise. with a welcome to you both. david, i will start with you. another brynncle here in the christie story. is it plausible that the governor did not know about that wildstein memo before it went out? it might be plausible but it doesn t make a lot of sense. the governor, after the initial allegations about the bridge closings came out, he had the long press conference, marathon press conference. he said he didn t know anything about the bridge closings ahead of time. he was disappointed in his staff and said he would pledge without it not happen again. you are getting a story that s basically says as they his aides went to attack david wide stein who himself said he had more evidence to tie christie to the direct knowledge of these bridge closings and they are trying to leak this memo that sort of cast doubt on david wi
politician trying to stay above the fray. i ll be dammed if i m going to let anything get in the way of me doing my job. i am determined to fix it. trying to come across as a politician scorned. i ll tell you something, i m not warranteeing anything anymore after what happened. now the governor was speaking. while he was speaking, his former aide bridge et anne kelly is invoking here right not to speak. kelly was the aide that christie fired after learning she sent that e-mail saying, time for some traffic in fort lee. he was tough on kelly in the marathon press conference. he softened quite a bit yesterday.
p keep me from doing my job. i m disappointed by what happened here. i m determined to fix it. trying to come across as a politician scorned. i ll tell you something, i m not warranting anything anymore after what happened. now while the governor was on the air, he got word his former aid bridget anne kelly is taking the fifth and won t give the committee that s investigating documents they want from her. kelly is a key player on this. she was the aid that christie fired after learning she sent an e-mail saying it s time for traffic in fort lee. christie was tough on kelly in the marathon press conference last month. she s softened sayings he s not going to be critical of somebody exercising their constitutional rights. there s a but there. when he said i won t warranty anything my staffer does after this. i thought that was a big admission for him that could go to criticism of leadership style
evidence exists. a charge christie continues to deny. even the democrat leading the new jersey legislature s investigation was skeptical. the use of the words evidence exists as opposed to saying i have documents or i have an e-mail is a curious choice of words. it raises questions about what does he have and why doesn t the committee have it? reporter: high-profile republicans defended christie saying there s no reason why he should stop helping his colleagues as chair of the republican governor s association. i don t think he should step down. reporter: while others say he should be impeached from his day job we don t have enough facts to get to that conversation. reporter: now we haven t heard the governor take real sustained questions since that marathon press conference 25 days ago but tonight at 7:00 he will. during his monthly ask the governor session on a new jersey radio station and we ll see more of him on the political circuit