others. but it s the witness accounts that really kind of bring home the horror of that moment. the witnesses tell thaws they saw his car kind of sitting there for a while. then they saw him back up and reposition his vehicle. and then he gunned the vehicle down this street, one witness told me he thought he was going at least 50 miles an hour as he headed toward that crowd just behind me here. john, just horrific accounts of the violence here of what the suspect allegedly did. we also have new information tonight, john, on the two people who died in the helicopter crash. they re identified by the virginia state police as lieutenant h.j. cullen, 48 years old and a pilot burke baits. he was to turn four 1 years old tomorrow, john. these are two state trooper who died in a helicopter crash. they are including those in a total of three people who died in connection with these protests today because they were operating a virginia state helicopter in service of support of the police in this
new jersey had seven half years of chris christie and we ve seen similar occasions where he dances like no one is watching and this is another case where he didn t think about optics of being on that beach. leland: let s break this down. dance like nobody s watching, that was advice at my high school graduation, but i could have it misplaced. even way, he had to know what the optics were going to look like. it s a closed state park, they were turned away, this wasn t his first rodeo, he knew what he was doing, he knew he was going to a beach that was closed to everybody else. he knew that the airspace is open, he knew that he was a governor and taking the new jersey state helicopter so he wouldn t be hard to track. he also knew that he has a brother who has a beach house a couple of towns away and could have gone they are. how much of this is thumbing his
fear being seen with the man from new jersey. mark halperin is the co-author of double down that wrote the great passage i mention, and howard fineman, both political msnbc analysts. the new jersey super committee investigating the bridge scandal has just threatened bridget kelly with contempt if she does not comply with their request to turn over documents. the committee is also warning bill stepien, the campaign manager, that he too could be held in contempt if he does not honor their subpoena. both kelly and stepien claim their documents are protected by the fifth amount, an argument which the committee says is invalid. more than a dozen new subpoenas, including demands for records of the use of governor christie s state helicopter. i want to start with howard on the news item. this is how the process is going. they re squeezing these people. yeah, they re being squeezed from two directions here, chris. the legislative super committee wants the documents, wants them to testify b
from new jersey. mark halperin is the co-author of double down that wrote the great passage i mention both political msnbc analysts. the new jersey super committee investigating the bridge scandal has just threatened bridget kelly with contempt if she does not comply with their request to turn over documents. the committee is also warning bill stepien, the campaign manager, that he too could be held in contempt if he does not honor their subpoena. both kelly and stepien claim their documents are protected by the fifth amount, an argument which the committee says is invalid. more than a dozen new subpoenas, including demands for records of the use of governor christie s state helicopter. i want to start with howard on the news item. this is how the process is going. they re squeezing these people. yeah, they re being squeezed from two directions here, chris. the legislative super committee wants the documents, wants them to testify before the