she s telling a different story today. what did she say? she turned it back to the prosecution. first of all, she did say, yes, the governor said he was fine with the traffic study when she says she told him a month before it went down. it was david wildstein s idea, and he admitted to that. she said it was all his direction, as a matter of fact. then on that time for traffic problems e-mail that she sent to wildstein, saying, let s go with the project, well, she says she was parodying his words, words he used all the time. traffic problems. words he said would happen, that she said he did say there would be traffic problems during what he described as a legitimate traffic problem. those are the initial bombshells we heard from her. there was a lot more. how much time do you have for the rest of the story? tell us a little bit more. chris christie has denied any knowledge at any point trial to, what, january 2014, about any of
state ledge lay suregislature. it proved up the smoking gun that it was a deliberate and political act. smoking gun was an e-mail from chris christie s deputy chief of staff, bridget kelly. to a chris christie appointee at the agency who runs the bridge. an e-mail, in which kelly directed david wildstein to unleash traffic chaos. time for traffic problems in fort lee. the chris chriskrischristi appointee responded, got it. what unleashed was traffic armageddon. a planned traffic began that paralyzed fort lee for four days. before somebody stopped it when they figured out what was happening. today, the recipient of the time for traffic problems e-mail,
christie appointee at the agency who runs the bridge. an e-mail, in which kelly directed david wildstein to unleash traffic chaos. time for traffic problems in fort lee. then the chris christie appointee responded, got it. what unleashed was traffic armageddon. a planned orchestrated traffic jam that paralyzed fort lee for four days. before somebody stopped it when they figured out what was happening. today, the recipient of the time for traffic problems e-mail, david wildstein, pled guilty, to conspiring to orchestrate that traffic jam along with chris christie s chief of staff, along with another member named bill baroni. the three of them plotted to purposely cause the traffic jam on the george washington bridge in order to quote, punish the mayor of fort lee, democrat for
bridget kelly s time for traffic problems e-mail, when that batch was released that on day christie convened a meeting of his top advisers and one of the attendees was david samson. according to the memo outlining the christie interviewed, when samson arrived, the governor took him aside and asked if he knew anything about the lane realignment allegations. samson responded he did not. samson has since resigned and christie has repeatedly vouched for his integrity. joining us now is paul butler, a current professor of law at georgetown university. mr. butler, thanks for taking some time tonight with us. so i want to start with this whole question of transcripts for the interviews that christie s internal investigative team conducted. people are saying, okay, he put the report out. let s see the transcripts. lo and behold, there s no transcripts.
review. from those notes we learned today that on january 8th, that s the day that the stunning batch of documents that included bridget kelly s timing for traffic problems e-mail, when that batch was released that on day christie convened a meeting of his top adviser and one of the attendees was david samson. according to the memo outlining the christie interviewed, when samson arrived, the governor took him aside and asked if he knew anything about the lane realignment allegations. samson responded he did not. samson has since resigned and christie has repeatedly vouched for his integrity. joining us now is paul butler, a current professor of law at georgetown university. mr. butler, thanks for taking some time tonight with us. so i want to start with this whole question of transcripts for the interviews that christie s internal investigative team conducted. people are saying, okay, he put the report out. let s see the transcripts. lo and behold, there s no transcripts. just these me