retaliate when the port authority s chief threatened to shut down their scheme. then there is the second group we re looking at right now. the staffers being mentioned connected to the cover-up, the cover-up part of this thing. bill baroni who gave discredited testimony to lawmakers about the bogus traffic study that never existed. philip kwon, the port authority s general counsel, who spent five days apparently prepping or coaching baroni on what to say, making up this traffic study thing. bridget kelly, who said she was very happy with baroni s testimony, his performance, according to texts from wildstein. and then nicole frifo, who wildstein also mentions in texts. and mckenna who wildstein tells baroni you did great. melissa, this is fascinating, because this is a large web of people that were involved in coaching or saluting or praising
0 garden state. the first grabbing into its midst all those mentioned in the closing of the george washington bridge last september. the second net, the group of those engaged in what appears to be the cover-up, the alibi about the whole matter being caused by a traffic study. what is now clear there was no such thing. only the urgent need to find cover by those forced to now testify. and probes in new jersey and washington, the road is filled ahead with menace far worse than traffic cones. the investigators are calling witnesses, demanding evidence, capturing the truth by coming at it from all sides, forcing people to open their drawers and computers, if not their mouths, for fear that a colleague will beat them to it, leaving them stranded and exposed adds culprits themselves. all the while, an enterprising press is looking to further the truth of the chris christie story and the political world he championed before all this came to right, before the rock was lifted and we began to s
0 is always worse than whatever it is they re trying to cover up. that s definitely what they think. that s why they re going for this. the other thing is when bill baroni testified, he really irked a lot of people. people thought he was playing a game with them. now they got the subpoena power. why does governor christie keep saying, at least as late as he has talked about it that there may have been a traffic stop that turned into a political punishment job, or there might have been a political punishment job that turned into a traffic study. give me a surmise. why would he keep backing up. beats the heck out of me. we were surprised when he said it could have been a traffic study. the port authority already said there is no traffic study. we can t figure out why he went back. although he has been off his game lately. he also said he didn t know anything about a bill that he had signed the previous month. so he s got a lot on his mind, i guess. well, lawyers always tell you to
delight, simon hobbs,@the exchange and we ll be working through it for you. and we begin with isaac, winds at 75 miles an hour and new orleans is bracing for the big storm. we do have full team coverage with meteorologist, todd gross, tracking the storm and scott is there focusing on emergency preparations as well as the impact on the oil industry itself. we will begin with todd. what s the latest? reporter: sue, it has become a category 1 hurricane now. we waited all day for this to happen. when you look at the history books is when it did happen. you can see the organize coming together a little bit on the satellite photograph bit not quite there in terms of a super storm. the bad news it is moving towards new orleans with the worst part of the storm moving towards louisiana coast. taking a look at the winds right now, the winds you re seeing are wind gusts, so far fairly tame but the storm is still 90 miles away and won t be there until tonight. it s starting to cook. we
else in way that would make her attractive to a federal prosecutors? or does wildstein or neither? there s a bit of a competition between them now that s been set off. melissa, there s another part of the statement that is highly deeply ominous. i want to read this excerpt here. it says preemptive strike to isolate miss kelly and impugn her credibility isn t surprising. despite mr. mastro, christie s lawyer, despite mr. mastro s editorialized comments, miss kelly is not a liar, a single mother of four children who s deeply devoted and committed to her job at the office during her tenure. worked tirelessly to pursue the goals of the office during her tenure. one wonders, melissa, what those goals really were. sure. i mean, there s a lot of questions about whether or not bridget kelly was acting alone or getting orders from some sort of higher up. we done know the answers to that because we haven t heard from bridget kelly yet.