and ask him to incriminate himself. i don t think because you re a state employee you lose any constitutional rights. reporter: the attorneys argued over the terms of the subpoenas, the law for state investigator said team christie s idea of a valid subpoena is no subpoena at all. i didn t hear anybody articulate what a valid subpoena would be in this case. nobody. because they don t want there to be a valid subpoena. with no decision issued today, the judge asked the lawyer representing the state super committee, the folks investigating this whole mess, the judge asked them for more information regarding their authority to grant immunity. kelly s attorney suggested granting her immunity would help loosen the release of those subpoenaed documents but questions remain what super powers the committee holds. the judge said she would issue a ruling on the subpoenas, quote, sooner than later. joining me is nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff and author of
conversation with bridget kelly since the e-mail came out. so she was not given the opportunity to explain to me why she lied. because it was so obvious that she had. a and i m quite frankly not interested in the explanation at the moment. well, everyone else is interested in that explanation. and chris christie should be interested in that explanation now. chris christie showed absolutely no curiosity about what anyone involved in the scandal knew until after that press conference. and now chris christie has hired his criminal lawyer, who has his criminal lawyer, asking new jersey officials including the mayors of hoboken and ft. lee to cooperate with what is now the govr office investigation. team christie s investigation seems so far to be aimed at people such as the mayors who have said things that are problems for the christie administration. today mark sokolich, the mayor of ft. lee rejected team
she lied. because it was so obvious that she had. and i m quite frankly not interested in the explanation at the moment. well, everyone else is interested in that explanation. and chris christie should be interested in that explanation now. chris christie showed absolutely no curiosity about what anyone involved in the scandal knew until after that press conference. and now chris christie has hired his criminal lawyer, who has his criminal lawyer, asking new jersey officials including the mayors of hoboken and ft. lee to cooperate with what is now the govr office investigation. team christie s investigation seems so far to be aimed at people such as the mayors who have said things that are problems for the christie administration. today mark sokolich, the mayor of ft. lee rejected team christie s request for an interview. the letter by mayor sokolich s lawyer says while the mayor has gone out of his way to be fair to all parties in this matter,
guilty or were convicted in his years. the key, though, is the people who he decided not to go after. and they are some of the most powerful power brokers in the state. and they became only more powerful because of the people he did go after. they were the ones left standing. and they literally got more turf under their control. and it s those people who have now been such key allies of his. ted strickland, talk to us about a governor s office. you ran your governor s office. you have a deputy chief of staff who has told someone,ee yat a big traffic jam on the busiest bridge in the world, which is in your state. that traffic jam goes on for days. it goes on for the better part of a week. it is highly controversial. given everything we know about the dimensions of the christie, team christie s model of what happened at the george washington bridge, and chris christie s response being, i knew absolutely nothing about it during while it was happening, before it was happening. and they
that traffic jam goes on for days. it goes on for the better part of a week. it is highly controversial. given everything we know about the dimensions of the christie, team christie s model of what happened at the george washington bridge, and chris christie s response being, i knew absolutely nothing about it during while it was happening, before it was happening. and they absolutely could not possibly have done it because i wanted them to. what are the odds of those elements being true? it s hard for me to believe, lawrence. i ve worked in the governor s office. my state is a large state, as is new jersey. i had a close knit group of people that i worked with on a daily basis, as did chris christie. now, during his two-hour press conference, he tried to deflect some responsibility, i think, by saying oh, i have 48,000 or, you know, several thousand state employees to look after. but we re talking about his five