with us. we begin with damage control in new jersey. governor chris christie scrambling to contain bridge date gate as we await internal documents. he fired a top aid who ordered rush hour lane closures on the george washington bridge as political pay back. this as the fbi and the state attorney s office are launching an investigation as well. marianne rafferty is live with the governor s apology and what happens next. new jersey governor chris christie heartbroken saying he was blind sided by some of his top aids. i come out here to apologize to the people of new jersey. i am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team. the mayor mark socolich is
then, suddenly, without any notice, during a september rush hour, two of the three lanes from ft. lee to the george washington bridge were shut down. they stayed closed for days, and they led to a traffic nightmare. you can only imagine. even for paramedics, they couldn t get to people in trouble. there are even questions this morning over whether this contributed to the death of a 91-year-old woman. now, governor christi he has lo denied any connection to what happened, even saying that no one in his office knew about it, but now, two of his appointees at the agency that runs the bridge have resigned, and now, e-mails show that a top aide in christie s office wrote to one of those appointees with now an infamous quote which said time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. that was a month before the shutdown. the mayor of ft. lee, mark
bridge connects new jersey to new york, into a parking lot. there was no notice or cause given for the closures, but mark socolich, the democratic mayor of ft. lee, had an idea as to why. he believed the lanes were closed in political retribution for refusing to endorse christie for governor. the port authority said the lane closures were due to a traffic study. the new jersey legislature decided to investigate. at a november hearing, christie s top port authority appointee testified that the order to close the lanes came directly from christie s high school buddy, dave wildstein, another port authority appointee. less than two weeks later, wildstein resigned, calling the ft. lee scandal a distraction. three days later, bridge officials testified that they were also told the lane closures were part of a traffic study and, oh, yeah, also not to tell anyone. i was told to not discuss
but get this, the executive director of the port authority, which runs the george washington bridge, testified there was no traffic study at all. it didn t exist. i m not aware of any traffic study. i don t know why it was done. on friday, christie announced a second port authority appointee of his was resigning. under fire and under pressure, governor christie accepts the resignation of a top appointee to the port authority. so far, chris christie s response has been to blame democrats. democrats will make an issue about everything about me, so get used to the new world, everybody. we re not in kansas anymore, dorothy. of course, christie can put this scandal to an end today. he can give the answer to a very simple question why were two entrance lanes to the george washington bridge closed in september for four days? today, we don t know the answer. now, we don t know if chris christie ordered the lanes closed to get back at a mayor or knew that his close friend did, b
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