e-mail. but i did speak to john which is knew ski, who says she is now absolutely a candidate for subpoena. they ll want to see her e-mails, text messages. they want to see a whole slew of top aides to current top aides to christie. they want to see their they re going to oh subpoena their e-mail messages and text messages, all documents. and we just got word from the speaker-elect of the assembly saying he was going to call a special session on thursday to renew subpoena power for the committee investigating this. michael, you re saying that. i just want to read in detail what exactly you re talking about. the new jersey speaker assembly. the documents related to the george washington bridge situation clearly show the need for a continued thorough investigation by the new jersey assembly. many questions remain unanswered about this threat to public safety and abuse of power. and what you said, michael, he
expects to call the assembly into special session thursday. so the investigation can continue. can i ask you about this e-mail from patrick foy? because here we have the executive director of a major interstate agency worrying aloud we have federal laws that have been broken. does it appear anyone, michael, has followed up on his concerns? well, look, we now know that e-mail went directly to christie s office. so i think that s the question that the governor s people are going to have to answer. and regina egia is going to have to answer. one point the assembly democrats are making, the governor said during his press conference he asked every member of his staff a month ago to let him know within the hour what they knew about this. and he was assured that they knew nothing. now when he learns that bridget kelly, deputy chief of staff, from the e-mails obviously was directly implicated in this, he fired her.
bold face across trenton s front page. and on the upcoming cover of the new yorker magazine. christie created this atmosphere where people i guess feel okay or think, hey, this is how we do things in the christie administration. you don t mess with us. reporter: christie has no public appearances scheduled this weekend, and made none friday. i have absolutely nothing to hide. reporter: letting reaction to his thursday marathon news conference and his repeated apologies play out. this is a bad time for governor christie. but he s going to have an opportunity to show his mettle, to show what he s made of. reporter: this bridge traffic scandal put much of the 2016 speculation on pause. i am absolutely nowhere near beginning that consideration process. i haven t even been sworn in for my second term yet. reporter: christie s political rivals see an opening and want more investigation. i think that people of new jersey deserve more answers. there are an awful lot of ques
dramatically over the last 24 hours. as a result of these new disclosures. it s now, you know there are more names added to the list of people who the committee is going to want to hear from. so, yeah. i mean, this becomes a very open-ended investigation. i told you, i talked to wisnewski. he says we have an enemies list, a reference to the jersey city mayor who had meetings cancelled after he refused to endorse christie. so he wants a widening scope of the investigation. there are a lot of ominous signs for the governor right now. and his efforts to put closure to this, you know, seem very far away at the moment. yep. michael isikoff, many thanks for your reporting. appreciate that. let s bring in msnbc host steve kornacki and yamesh.
governor chris christie s administration. the subpoena power due to expire tuesday, however the speaker-elect tells nbc he will call for a special session on thursday to consider extending it. since wednesday, the subpoena has unearthed thousands of pages of e-mails and text messages and other documents. and joining me now from trending with all the details is nbc news national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff. michael, take it away with this angle here, the call to extend the subpoena power. what is that telling you about the scope or ambitions of the assembly s investigation? reporter: well, first of all, it makes it very clear, this investigation is continuing, it s not going away. and if anything, it s expanding. i spoke a little while ago with john wisniewski, chairman of the panel conducting the probe. and says his investigation is widening in scope. there are more individuals he wants to hear he wants to hear, plans to subpoena. more e-mails, text messages. proba