that top christie appointees orchestrated traffic jams on the george washington bridge last year in ft. lee to punish the town s mayor for not endorsing christie s re-election. chr chris frates has been digging into this for us. lawmakers have issued 18 new subpoenas wideping their investigation. as we pored through dozens of these pages it appears they have questions about a testimony of a top christie official. even as chris christie raised money for the gop and fought the record snowfall in his state, tweeting about snowmen and school closings, he s not been able to fend off an avalanche of new subpoenas in the widening probe of the bridgegte scandal. does the gw bridge situation impact your ability to execute on those priorities for the state? actually, i m shocked you brought that up. cnn has obtained copies of 18 subpoenas issued by the legislative committee
actually read the document and there s no indication she was involved in any political retribution. there s also a document that says the mayor of fort lee, new jersey, felt the lane closing on the bridge was done to make him look bad and after the traffic mess was cleared up, there was an active attempt to stone wall media questions about what happened. the more than 2,000 pages of documents released by state lawmakers come as the committee continues to hone in on why traffic was snarled back in september. chris christie s former deputy chief of staff, who he fired thursday, may be the next person subpoenaed to testify in the widening probe. sources tell cnn, lawmakers want to question bridgette kelly about her involved in closing two lanes of traffic under the george washington bridge. kelly s e-mail, time for some traffic problems in fort lee was made public this week. certainly have the right to remain silent. on thursday, the port authority official that kelly sent that e-mail
that staffer actually read the document a he there s no indication that she was involved in any alleged political retribution. cuomo appointee was expressing outraged, calling it ill-advised and abusive. the nearly 2,000 documents released within the last few hours come as the committee continues to hone in on why traffic was snarled back in september. today we learned that the chief of staff whom he fired on thursday may be the next person subpoenaed to testify in the widening probe. sources tell cnn lawmakers want to question bridget kelly about her involvement in closing two lanes of traffic onto the george washington bridge. kelly s e-mail, time for some traffic problems in ft. lee, was made public this week. on the advice of counsel, i
well, despite the witch hunt. that witch hunt, of course, refers to special council robert mueller s investigation. a widening probe that includes whether trump attempted to obstruct justice by interfering with the fbi s possible collusion. you just heard from a member of trump s legal team who is making the sunday news show rounds defending his client as the federal investigations heat up. joining me now is civil rights attorney, and business and political marketing consultant, none of whom i could actually hear right now. so i m going to go ahead and let david start off. and david if you could just walk us through what the defense as you understand it is so far from the white house. well, this is a key point. when you re the subject of an fbi investigation, you don t always know. they don t call up and say, by
it appears the special council s probe could broaden to include the president s firing of fbi director james comey and whether that was an obstruction of justice. cnn s jeremy dimon is live at the white house. what are you learning about what s going on at the justice department and is the white house reacting at all about this news? rene, tensions are building inside the justice department as the special investigation is widening and looking at whether or not the president may interfered into that meddling into the 2016 campaign. that investigation looking into whether there were ties between trump campaign associates and russian officials. all of this widening probe has led to questions about whether the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, may need to recuse himself from this matter. as you know, rosenstein