governor chris christie s biggest headache in the bridge scandal is an immunity seeking david wildstein. now it turns out wildstein may be more dangerous to christie than we previously thought. new york times reporter kate zarnicky reports today that wildstein s sources when he wrote for the blog politics nj include the same players at the center of this bridge scandal, including christie himself. quote, wildstein s sources, including the u.s. attorney at the time, chris christie, plied him with tips and poured out their souls in e-mails and instant message conversations at all hours, knowing little more about him than an e-mail address. bridget anne kelly, quote, was one of wally edge s best source. bill stepien, quote, was one of the young operatives whose career he nurtured. in other words, david wildstein knows where the bodies are buried in jersey. and that store of knowledge could become a very dangerous weapon against governor christie in the weeks ahead. brian murphy was the
in that times article where i should say i m quoted and steve kornacki is also quoted. the one thing i also noticed working for wally edge, working for david wildstein who i called wally edge at the time. back when he was unknown. you were like charlie s angels, weren t you? you weren t charlie s angels. i didn t know who it was. i never had to lie to a source. and that was easy. there was a better way for me to do the job. and so when governor christie was talking to you guys, talking to wildstein the editor to this, the wally edge is his name, all this was going on and they didn t and the governor in other words was talking, didn t know he was talking to wildstein. so he knew wildstein better than he admitted because he didn t know he was talking to him all the time. isn t that weird? yeah. i didn t know him since high school, but i was feeding him stuff for his online column all these months. i m not sure whether christie knew wally s true identity at the time. he ce
new york times article is that one of the things about working for wally edge was you knew, and he befriended people who were junior staff on campaigns. that s how he met me. he liked staff. and one of the rules was you never go after staff, right. because? principles are responsible for the actions of their staff. that s my value. i worked in politics for a long time. you don t know me. i worked a long time in politics. and every time some staffer gets blamed, i say wait a minute, the fish rises from the top. you can t assume that that person wasn t carrying out their duties. even scooter libby with the vice president. thanks, brian murphy. thanks for coming on. we have all this news tonight. i didn t think we would have all this piling on tonight of news which we got so much of tonight. coming up next, so long to a friend. yeah. jay leno, what a night last night was. very emotional, and very genuine for a good guy. this is hardball, the place for politics. getting your veg
kevin o dowd and mckenna. and stepien. they can t lie. they don t have a client. they re government officials. so how do they protect he likes to say only two reports, a you like to say. right. but wildstein here, look at this guy. it s in his face. i m not going to get screwed, that face says to me. exactly. i m not your fall guy, mr. governor. and i did go to high school with you. and stop calling me a zero or a nerd in this stuff. if i were wildstein, i would be getting a little mad and say stop putting trash talk on me. here comes a week later somebody around the governor says we better disown that trash talk against this guy because he is going to be perhaps the star witness. and chris, have you noticed in that times article where i should say i m quote and steve kornacki is also quoted. the one thing i also noticed working for wally edge, working for david wildstein who i called wally edge at the time. you were like charlie s angels, weren t you? you weren t