governor chris christie s administration. the subpoena power due to expire tuesday, however the speaker-elect tells nbc he will call for a special session on thursday to consider extending it. since wednesday, the subpoena has unearthed thousands of pages of e-mails and text messages and other documents. and joining me now from trending with all the details is nbc news national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff. michael, take it away with this angle here, the call to extend the subpoena power. what is that telling you about the scope or ambitions of the assembly s investigation? reporter: well, first of all, it makes it very clear, this investigation is continuing, it s not going away. and if anything, it s expanding. i spoke a little while ago with john wisniewski, chairman of the panel conducting the probe. and says his investigation is widening in scope. there are more individuals he wants to hear he wants to hear, plans to subpoena. more e-mails, text messages. proba
have seen today, it is clear that that s not the entire story. his testimony can help fill in the blanks and answer a lot of questions. i would like to thank sheila oliver for her support and supporting the committee and having subpoena authority and i would like to thank speaker-elect who said today that he fully expects the investigation to continue. as i said time and time again as the investigation has unwound, that we still have much more to learn. the committee will continue to work to get these answers. with that i would be happy to take your questions. from what you have seen on these correspondents, what does it look like to you was the role of governor cristy in all of this. i have not seen e-mails that have the governor s name on it, but the e-mail has the deputy
most famous politician in the country not named bill clinton. a time poll, december of 1996, said a whopping 9% of americans wanted him to be president. 9%. the time at which he was most known by the american people was not only a time at which he was greatly disliked. he was also the stuff of nightmares, almost literally. in the same time magazine poll which i said was 1996, it was actually 1995, sorry. the same time magazine poll, 1995, 49% of americans chose the adjective scary to describe their feelings about newt gingrich. that actual word, scary. but now he s back. tomorrow night there is a $1,000 a head fund-raiser for gingrich in washington hosted by k. street lobbyists, one lobbyist, robert livingston who succeeded gingrich as speaker-elect and was forced to resign from a sex scandal a few weeks later.
said a whopping 9% of americans wanted him to be president. 9%. the time at which he was most known by the american people was not only a time at which he was greatly disliked. he was also the stuff of nightmares, almost literally. in the same time magazine poll which i said was 1996, it was actually 1995, sorry. the same time magazine poll, 1995, 49% of americans chose the adjective scary to describe their feelings about newt gingrich. that actual word, scary. but now he s back. tomorrow night there is a $1,000 a head fund-raiser for gingrich in washington hosted by k. street lobbyists, one lobbyist, robert livingston who succeeded gingrich as speaker-elect and was forced to resign from a sex scandal a few weeks later. he s a successful lobbyist. his house seat went on to david vitter, the hooker guy, got bob livingston s seat after his sex scandal who got newt gingrich s speakership after his scandal. hooker scandal guy is a senator
wanted him to be president. 9%. the time at which he was most known by the american people was not only a time at which he was greatly disliked. he was also the stuff of nightmares, almost literally. in the same time magazine poll which i said was 1996, it was actually 1995, sorry. the same time magazine poll, 1995, 49% of americans chose the adjective scary to describe their feelings about newt gingrich. that actual word, scary. but now he s back. tomorrow night there is a $1,000 a head fund-raiser for gingrich in washington hosted by k. street lobbyists, one lobbyist, robert livingston who succeeded gingrich as speaker-elect and was forced to resign from a sex scandal a few weeks later. he s a successful lobbyist. his house seat went on to david vitter, the hooker guy, got bob