two key things that she came out with today. wildstein s story here and to remember that s right this massive traffic jam happened wildstein s story is this was cooked up as political punishment for mayor sokolich who would not endorse christie. bridget ann kelly saying i thought it was a traffic study and the governor thought it was a traffic study. he knew about it and talked about it after it was happening. bridget kelly, we have to say when the prosecutor this is the defense attorney doing the testifying the prosecutor will get a chance at her she s vulnerable on a few fronts we should point out because during the shutdown she was told that the mayor o the town that was being affected was furious, baffled, trying to get explanations, told of the problems he s facing. she has an e-mail that says good. this was coming to a head in september of 2013 and christie sat his staff down for explanations. she saw to it that this e-mail got deleted. so if you re looking for a gray area he
we did, boss. she was corroborating what wildstein said there. two key things that she came out with today. wildstein s story here and to remember that s right this massive traffic jam happened wildstein s story is this was cooked up as political punishment for mayor sokolich who would not endorse christie. bridget ann kelly saying i thought it was a traffic study and the governor thought it was a traffic study. he knew about it and talked about it after it was happening. bridget kelly, we have to say when the prosecutor this is the defense attorney doing the testifying the prosecutor will get a chance at her she s vulnerable on a few fronts we should point out because during the shutdown she was told that the mayor o the town that was being affected was furious, baffled, trying to get explanations, told of the problems he s facing. she has an e-mail that says good. this was coming to a head in september of 2013 and christie sat his staff down for explanations. she saw to it that
pack to the political world and to what could be a bomb shell development in the so-called bridgegate trial in new jersey. bridget ann kelly, chris christie s former deputy chief of staff, took the stand in federal court and said she told the governor about plans to close the lanes on the george washington bridge a month before they actually were closed. in september of 2013. kelly and her fellow department bill baroni are orchestrated for the closings against a mayor who wouldn t re-endorse christie s election bid. christie denied any knowledge of the plan. let s get more from brian thompson, outside of the federal courthouse in newark where the trial is playing out. brian, people remember this. if they don t know the name bridget ann kelly, they remember the e-mail. time for traffic problems in fort lee. this looked like the smoking gun that implicates here.
see if they can do something about this devastating conflict. now after the announcement the white house quickly pushed back against the claim to the president broke a no boots on the ground pledge, take a listen. in september of 2013, the suspect was receiving questions about what the yauts was prepared to do given the indistance that president al assad had to go. but the president said that he was not prepared to put boots on the ground to take down the assad regime. we have heard that assertion many times that we wouldn t put boots on ground in syria. you have read one quote which takes it out of context. the situation that the president has described is a description of the kind of men and women that assad will have in their isil campaign. blasted the president s syria
devastation. and refugee camps. migration affects all over. joining me now at the top of the hour from the white house, nbc s ron allen, from the pentagon nbc s jim miklaszewski. good to have both of you with us. i know you both were watching that and we re listening to josh earnest and a question seemed to keep coming up again and again. our own kristen welker tried to get clarify kay multiple times with the statement of the president in september of 2013 an he said, i will not put boots on did ground in syria. and yet, what we re seeing today for many folks it is tough not to categorize the news that less than 50 special ops forces going in to train, advise and assist and tough to see how that does not equal boots on the ground. ron, how did he leave it? reporter: well, what they mean by boots on the ground, they would say, is a large-scale, long-term offensive