. >> mr. baroni and miss kelly abused their positions in the government, used government resources, to settle a petty political score. and they showed a callous disregard for the welfare for the people they were suppose to be serving. >> reporter: now both kelly and baroni are free on bail while they are appealing their convictions, former u.s. attorney paul fishman whose office tried this case says just because governor christie was not charged doesn't mean he was not involved. >>> and governor christie met with president trump at the white house and trump tapped christie to head a special commission to head the opioid abuse commission. christie says he will focus on increased law enforcement and addiction treatment. >>> a contracted school worker is under arrest in upper darby after it was discovered he had a gun on school grounds and had 40 rounds of ammunition. that dominique jordan dropped a bullet in the bathroom of the middle school and jordan came to the office looking for his bull and

wildstein and mr. baroni to do this alleged traffic study and close lanes, but it sure seems to me that it was done on his beha behalf when the mayor did not support him when he was running for the election. >> wait, you think it is -- you have worked with this governor, you're a re-elected representative in the state assembly. >> yes. >> you think it's plausible that chris christie, or chris christie's confederates would do something like this? >> well, when this first came to light and the legislature asked questions as to what is going on here, at first, there was no response. then they came up with this traffic study because it favored ft. lee residents, which made no sense at all, and mr. baroni came to the hearing with this large graphic depicting the lanes that were being shut down, and this particular entrance was set aside for ft. lee residents back in the 1930s, but there's no contract, nothing in writing about that, by the way, and there's no signage that says ft. lee residents only, so we k

a close christie ally helping to prep mr. baroni for parts of four to five days before mr. baroni claimed the ft. lee lane closures were part of legitimate traffic study. meanwhile former port authority official david wildstein having leveled the charge that evans exists that christie knew of the lane closures during the time of the lane closures is a target of an attack from governor christie. we'll dive into that momentarily as well. it's something you would normally expect in a political campaign against a political opponent. governor christie's office also today sent supporters a virtual bucketful of information suggesting the latest big accusation is really the media's fault. begins with criticism of the original "new york times" headline from friday, includes edstorials, interviews, tweetss espousing the idea "the new york times" headline was sloppily and misleading. all this surfacing before whatever mountain of new information may soon come out from documents right now are either being collected or making their way to the new jersey investigative committee in respon

and bill baroni is not so great either. the letter charges the lane changes were directed by mr. wildstein. as for mr. baroni's testimony -- >> this traffic here -- >> no, i understand. >> was flowing into the bridge. >> the port authority claims they had nothing to do with it. >> excellent point. >> it's a convenient narrative since both have resigned in disgrace. back in trenton, both sides are lawyering up. assemble democrats have hired the guy who put blagojevich behind bars. and today christie announced he would be hiring an entire legal team headed by a former federal prosecutor under rudy guiliani, currently representing chevron in a multibillion dollar pollution case. the flurry of lawyers, a sign of things to come. here come the subpoenas. the assembly's special committee indicated today that 20 subpoenas would be issued from the assembly for 17 individuals and three organizations. then the new jersey state senate began its investigation today. >> senator weinberg. >> state senator loretta weinberg said she planned to ask for documents from three other christie officials

of the port authority and mr. wildstein, who is his boyhood friend, who was described as his eyes and ears at the port authority, they resign under pressure. he never asks them what did you know? who did you talk to in my office? why was this done? an e-mail was released from the executive director of the port authority, patrick foy, which said, not only were the processes at the port authority not followed, but in fact laws might have been broken here. he never called patrick foy and said, what laws might have been broken? did any of my people do anything wrong? then we fast forward, suldly when the e-mail appears right from his own front office, his deputy executive director, an e-mail that says time to create traffic. obviously that e-mail wasn't done in a vacuum. there had to have been discussions prior to it, maybe correspondence or texts, anybody's guess. but he fired her, never asked her why did you do this? that is so beyond belief from mr. hands on, i'm responsible for everything in new jersey, the buck s

when it blows up and mr. baroni testifies and said it was some traffic study, there are no results and traffic studies nowadays are done by computers. at that point he should have been talking to baroni to say, why did you do this and did anybody tell you to do this if in fact he has nothing to do with it. there's a lot more to come out here and a lot more answers that the governor will have to deliver. >> senator, give us a sense, what's your experience been like in the past working with governor christie? >> well, not too many legislators work with governor christie. he doesn't interact with legislators. what i've seen and heard he can be very vin did tif. if you don't go along with me, i'm going to get retribution from you -- >> he just won re-election but huge landslide margins, doesn't he have a broad coalition of support? >> well, let's talk about that. you're talking about he's involved with democratic power brokers not members of the legislature. they deliver him votes, simple as that. in my opinion t

from what i know at this point mr. baroni and mr. wildstein's position is lanes were closed to do a traffic study. and i've heard nothing from them that changes their position. i now see e-mails which indicate that there is a political overtone to what went on. i don't know what the situation is. i don't know whether -- i think i answered this before, i don't know whether this was some type of rogue political operation that morphed into a traffic study, or traffic study that morphed into an additional rogue political operative. i don't know. well, listen, as best i can, but, you know, mr. wildstein is scheduled to testify at the legislature. not like he's available for interview. as i said in response to a question over here, i'm not going to get in the middle of the legislative process with people that they've already noticed to be witnesses. i think that would be inappropriate. let them do their job. because if i did then i'd be accused of trying to play around with testimony, which i'm not going to get involved in. marsha. [ inaud

the scandal derailed mr christie's presidential ambitions. in washington, the politicalfocus remains on the investigations into russian involvement in the us election, and whether the trump campaign was involved. the chairman of a senate intelligence committee looking into the matter says they have asked 20 people to be questioned. among them, the president's son—in—law, jared kushner, who has acknowledged meetings with russian officials during the transition. the top democrat on that same committee says there is no question about russia's motives. russia's goal, vladimir putin's goal, is a weaker united states, wea ker goal, is a weaker united states, weaker economically, weaker globally, and that should be a concern of all americans regardless of party affiliation. science and the environment has had a tough week, with the news on tuesday that president trump signed an order rolling back some of his predecessor's environmental policies. experts say that will take the us back a step in meeting global targets. so, what is the scientific c

the scandal derailed mr christie's presidential ambitions. severe weather is continuing to reek havoc in the australian state of queensland, with further evacuations ordered. the storm which cut off several towns two days ago has moved south and flood warnings have been issued down the coast. hundreds of schools have been closed. the armed forces have been deployed to help towns already cut off by the conditions. a us senate intelligence committee has pledged to get to the bottom of russia's interference in the 2016 election, as it prepares to begin public hearings later. the committee will question 20 people, including president donald trump's son—in—law. the top democrat on the committee says there is no question that russia's motives. russia's goal, vladimir putin's goal, is a weaker united states, wea ker goal, is a weaker united states, weaker economically, weaker globally — and they should be a concern to all americans regardless of political affiliation. laura bicker has the latest from washington. there were two separate investi

the scandal derailed mr christie's presidential ambitions. severe weather is continuing to reek havoc in the australian state the politicalfocus in washington remains on the investigations into russian involvement in the us election, and whether the trump campaign was involved. the chairman of a senate intelligence committee looking into the matter says they have asked 20 people to be questioned. among them, the president's son—in—lanared kushner. the top democrat on that same committee says there is no question about russia's motives. russia's goal, vladimir putin's goal, is a weaker united states, weaker economically, weaker globally — and they should be a concern to all americans regardless of political affiliation. laura bicker has the latest from washington. there were two separate investigations going on in the two political chambers in congress. one's already going on in the house but this is the upper chamber, almost the big boys, so to speak, and both the democrats and republicans very importantly stood side—by—side in that

you and mr. baroni bragging?"i "yes, it was our one constituent. i was pleasing my one constituent, and i was happy that he was happy." the meeting took place on day three of a traffic jam like no other. two lanes ordered closed by the port authority, creating near- total gridlock and widespread frustration. wildstein has admitted to coming up with the idea. to the prosecution alleges the plan was meant as political paybackic against a democratic mayor who wouldn't endorse christie, a christie has repeatedly denied any knowledge of the lanean closures. >> i've made it very clear to everybody on my senior staff that if anyone had any about this, that they needed to come forward to me and tell me about it, and they've all c assured me that they don't. >> reporter: governor christie is not on trial, but two of his lieutenants are, on charges ranging from conspiracy to fraud.om scott, david wildstein has already pled guilty. >> pelley: don dahler at the courthouse for us.u don, thank you. in syria's civil war, the assad regime is tightening the noose a

they met was in 2009 at wimbledon. >>> well, elon musk has an underground idea to ease traffic and mr. trump's reported voter fraud story. those are some of the headlines on the "morning news" stand. "the new york times" relates an anecdote mr. trump told to lawmakers to justify investigation of voter fraud. he claimed noted golfer bernhard langer he was blocked from voting in florida but saw three natives of latin american countries cast ballots. however, langer is a german sit zan and cannot vote in the u.s. and his daughter said langer and the president are not friends. t"the san francisco chronicle" says fake news may be changed. featured items will be chosen from multiple sources known to be credible. the change could widen the scope of information users see instead of just topics that reinforce what they may have already heard or read elsewhere. >>> the "los angeles times" raises questions about elon's musk proposal to ease traffic in the city. the spacex founder tweeted that he would build a machine to dig a tunnel. the "times" note that getting permits and money for the projec

i never got an answer from mr. baroni. and i kept my mouth closed until yesterday. it was time now for us to speak out because it affects so many other people. there is a culture in trenton, there is a culture which is unfolding which should have unfolded before the last gubernatorial election. this governor has been dually elected. he deserves to be sworn-in. but the truth shall be known by everybody. it won't matter what statue of life, what status of life you're in, what party you belong to, this is going to be a big deal, wolf. i guarantee you. >> and will it directly involve the governor? >> well, that remains to be seen. we'll watch it unfold. but who would have thought a month ago when we were dismissed as simply people trying to bring some partisan politics to an election that already happened, we know about that in washington as you know. who would have thought we'd be here today listening to a gentleman who resigned as mr. baroni take the fifth amendment on what you would call and i would call inane questions. there is something beyond bridget kelly. if yo

there are only three people who are invited, the government, mr. baroni or miss kelly. charlie: one of them called you as a witness. chris: if i had i would have come. charlie: you would have relished coming? chris: i don't know about that. charlie: you said you had been waiting for three years to make your case, and this would have been in front of everybody under oath to make your case. chris: i have made my case under oath privately. charlie: what does that mean? chris: at the u.s. attorney's office. under oath. for hours. and i would have been happy to go to court and testify. and then there would not have -- would have been seven people who said she was lying. charlie: so in your career back to the question, do you intend to run for office again? chris: we will see. right now i do not. but you never say never in this life. i am 54 years old. i am term limited as governor so my term here will end on january 18 of 2018. will i ever run for anything again is a decision i will make in the future. i will not preclude it. charlie: there are those who will argue like chri

the jury found she was responsible as was mr. baroni. charlie: you do not know motivation. chris: i do not. i have never spoken to them. i can only tell you what they said in the trial. charlie: it is not just her. david said he told you about it at the 9/11 memorial. chris: that is not what he said, by the way. said was that bill baroni told me. what?- they told me said to me is that there was traffic at the george washington bridge and his -- the mayor was not getting his phone calls returned. any ofno recollection of them saying anything like that. let's be clear. -- you: even if they had are saying you had no recollection. saying chris: if they would have told me that we are creating traffic at the george washington bridge in order to punish the mayor for not endorsing you, i would have her member that. they never said that. charlie: bridget kelly said she understood it to be a traffic study. chris: that is what she understood it to be. in the course of my administration that have been over 1000 traffic studies done, not one of them has ever been brought to me to ask me

he has been likened by the governor himself according to baroni's lawyer to mr. wolf from pulpal fiction. do you remember harvey - my character to clean up the car that vincent was driving when they accidentally blew the brain off of the guy while going over a bum. according to michael, baroni's lawyer, that is exactly what governor christie has said in the past about wildenstein. a person like that at the port authority they're saying he was there for a reason. the governor new falwell who they were going to the port authority. by the way, the evidence is going to show that is exactly while he sent that. that event seems to say that wildenstein was there to make trouble and that kelly and perrone were there on the sideline. i know that you know bill baroni, i know him to. way back from 2,006,006 when he was in the state legislature. according to his lawyer that was also a period of time when he was cooperating with the fbi as an undercover informant for four years between 2006 - 2010 assisting on corruption cases and bringing information about lobbyists. this do

questions have been raised by who prepared mr. baroni to appear before the committee. and the portrait that emerges shows a shrewd politician who creatively used his legal and political power to forge key alliances while carefully shaping his image. i'm joined by paul butler, a former federal prosecutor and bert ross, the former mayor of f ft. lee. thanks to you both for joining me. bert, i want to start with you and talk a little bit about christie, the prosecutor. i think one of the things we learned in this "new republic" piece is that he very wisely figured out to use carrots and sticks, if you will, in the negotiations on various cases he was working on. does that surprise you? >> well, it did come as a revelation. i, like a lot of people, thought he spoke with straight tongue. what we're finding is that he's a fraud. his entire image self-created was of a reform are and he's anything but. he looks more and more like a machine politician unfortunately. >> new jersey politics, let's be honest, has something of a reputation. you as being pretty tough and you yoursel

but clearly mr. wildstein played a major role in it, whether it was his idea of anyboinitiation senator baroni testified. time will tell. clearly there was knowledge of this action, whatever it was, prior to the beginning of it with bridget kelly. and that was something that i said in direct answer to angie's question a few weeks ago was not the case. that's what we were told after repeated questioning of all the people around here. and i was lied to. and for that, she's been terminated. angie? >> governor -- >> that's new jersey governor chris christie, press conference that has gone on for more than an hour now. if you want to continue to watch it it is streaming on cnbc.com. again, to recap some of the headlines. the governor saying he was blind sighted, embarrassed, stunned, humiliated, heartbroken, had no knowledge of this alleged plot to close lanes for political retribution. fired his top aide bridget kelly, saying he will go to fort lee to apologize to the play may your there, cutting ties wi

. >> the indictment alleges and mr. wildstein has admitted that he and baroni and kelly he can cute add plan to suddenly and without warning drastic cheery duty number of local access lanes to the bridge knowing full well and intending that this maneuver would gridlock fort lee lee. >> i never ordered or conspired with david wildstein to close or realign lanes of the bridge for any reason. much less for retribution. >> kelly speaking alongside her attorney late this afternoon. kelly and baroni will be in court monday to face charges u.s. attorney says based on current evidence no other charges in bridge gate key words based on evidence. dawn. >> all right thank you jeff. >>> two of philadelphia's fallen heroes immortalized outside a city landmark. geno' steaks honoring fire lieutenant joyce craig and police sergeant robert wilson iii today. both police and fire officials on hand for this special plaque ceremonies they're names added to the memorial recognizing those who gave their lives in the line of duty. it's a geno'

there was no traffic study and in fact it was a coaching job by mr. kwon of mr. baroni. and that's what they're looking at in terms of these subpoenas. that's what they're going after. >> well, you know, the cover-up is always worse than whatever it is they're trying to cover up. that's definitely what they think. that's why they're going for this. the other thing is when bill baroni testified, he really irked a lot of people. people thought he was playing a game with them. now they got the subpoena power. >> why does governor christie keep saying, at least as late as he has talked about it that there may have been a traffic stop that turned into a political punishment job, or there might have been a political punishment job that turned into a traffic study. give me a surmise. why would he keep backing up. >> beats the heck out of me. we were surprised when he said it could have been a traffic study. the port authority already said there is no traffic study. we can't figure out why he went back. although he has been off his game lately. he also said he didn't know anythi

mr. greenwald, thank you, sir for joining us. we haven't had you on before. i want to know what you thought of that performance by the governor in the context of what has happened and what we know so far. >> well, i think the governor's performance today was a little stale, to be honest with you, compared to what we're used to seeing, some of the bombastic comments and bravado that he has brought to the state of the states in previous years. but i think in the introit was very well said. bridgegate defines him. it doesn't define us as a state. it defines him and his actions. and while he did not focus much on it today, and i actually think that was appropriate, because we have to get to the business of the state, the truth of the matter is the governor keeps apologizing to the people for his staff betraying him. it's time for the governor to apologize to the people of the state of new jersey and the inconvenience that his leadership and the culture that he created caused the people of ft.

and let me say a little gratuitously, mr. mastro with his high hourly salary didn't do a very good report. he issues a report without knowing the motive, without being able to speak to many of the main people in this. and then throwing in the gratuitous remarks about this so-called personal relationship is really -- because they describe david wildstein as the man with the crazy ideas. that man with the crazy ideas was hired to be the governor's eyes and ears at the port authority. and then they depict -- how are they depicting bridget kelly here? that somehow she was a woman scorned and therefore kind of gone wild on herself? >> dodgy. not to be believed. >> that's the woman he hired in his office. >> and by the way, worked less than 100 feet across the office. let me go back to brian about this. here is the one i thought was interesting. wildstein has said he told the governor about this when it was happening. now this report that cost all this money, $600,000 bucks, whatever, doesn't even say whether the governor had a con

baroni, do you believe the governor was behind this? >> this is the thing, and this is why a day before this happened, there was a ruling made by the judge about the instructions to the jury. and the judge basically said to a question that the jury asked, you did not have to believe that bridget kelly and bill baroni were aware this was a payback scheme as they were carrying out. they didn't have to know all of the details of the nature of this. you just have to know that they were understood, they understood this was not on the up-and-up, what they were doing. the judge when they made the determination, said, you just found them guilty. set the bar so low, that the jury -- the strategy of the defense was that they hoped in the jurors' room, the jurors looked at this and say, why isn't christie the one on trial. why are we getting the underlings? >> let me ask you a logic question. why would they do this if it wasn't for the political purposes of their boss? they're not getting five cents out of this. not any personal gain. nothing out

he said he asked mr. baroni what happened here. it does raise the question, after two people at the port authority resigned, wouldn't you as governor start asking questions? >> willful ignorance keeps coming back to me as a motivation for christie. but the other thing i think just to keep in mind here is we may be at a moment when the political and media culture in new jersey is changing in a way it hasn't since the moment chris christie was inaugurated. >> how? >> chris christie has been the most intimidating governor that new jersey has had, that new jersey politicians have had to deal with and the new jersey press has had to deal with since tom kean about 30 years ago, because of his popularity. his enormous public popularity and skills behind the scenes. he's had alliances with key democrats in the state that have helped him get major legislative things through and the question is, does that all break up now, do the democrats start turning on him and do the media start paying attention to stories they have not pursued because c

baroni and ms. kelly used their positions in the government, used government resources to settle a petty, political score. bridget kelly, former christie aide today has been obviously a very difficult day for me and for my children but i want to assure my kids and everyone else that this fight is far from over. i will not allow myself to be the scapegoat in this case. kelly plans to appeal. governor chris christie was never charged in the case...although some people came forwardto testify that he 'did' know about the lane closures. but the political fall-out has dogged his career ever since...steve and pam? ( pam ) chelsea clinton says... she will not be running for political office anytime soon. rumors had been circulating she might be up for a congressional seat in new york. clinton has been more active recently on social media ... when it comes to addressing political issues. given her blood line, some thought a run might be in her future. but she says, she has no interest. however, she adds, if

they called mr. baroni's successor who testified that that was the arrangement. justice: this is a bistate agency. why would new jersey agree to an arrangement like that where there are always in the second seat, at least nominally? is that the brick brother across the river, -- the big brother across the river, is that it? >> i don't know the answer to that except that the structure within the port authority, that was the case. it was understood that within the port authority the deputy executive director had equal authority. the vice-chairman testified but about these parallel chains of command, particularly for decisions made within new jersey . it was understood that would fall within the deputy executive director's scope of authority. justice: i think one of the government's main arguments on the efficiency of -- on the sufficiency of the evidence which was clearly pro-government, was that mr. whils wildsteen had to lie to te port authority employees about the executive director knowing about the lane change. if in fact the reality of the situation was that

baroni had said i'm giving you no reason at all, or suppose mr. baroni had said we're going to do a traffic study, but it's going to be a sham traffic study. would you still have had authority? >> certainly the first one. he certainly had at any point that discretion to say, as somebody had done very early on in creating these three traffic lanes, there were not required but anything, at any point in time couldn't said i think they should have a fourth or think they should have only two or only one here that was fully within his authority. as the government argued and proved his case below, that was their summation, was he abused e the authority was entrusted with. >> and the second, recorded a sham traffic study? >> i think he can do that. i think as a functional of the matter, who knows what actually results from that but just he has the authority to say were going to do a traffic study because i want to do this thing, and for public reasons, it's easier to do a traffic study. >> you said this is not a sufficiency question. but what is it if it'

baroni had preliminary authority over the operations of the port authority. and mr. wildstein asked, when he was asked why did you come up with the traffic study his first answer was for purposes of the media and for purposes of explaining it to local officials, when pressed by the government, he said, also to give a rope -- a reason for the officials but the fact he -- that he chooses to tale lie to career officials to make this go over more smoothly in the same way that a public official wouldn't tell the world that they're doing something for a political reason. >> but would you spent a moment on the traffic study. >> certainly, your honor. the government has conceded that if mr. -- again, this is new in this court. all of these concessions. that if mr. baroni has authority to order a terrific study he could do so even with the intention of causing traffic in fort lee, and they concede he had the authority order a traffic study. all of that is conceded. what they say is he lied but the existence of a terrific study and there was no lie about the existence of a tra

baroni had said, i'm giving you no reason at all. or suppose mr. baroni had said we're going to do a traffic study but it's going to be a sham traffic study. would he still have had authority. >> certainly the first one. he certainly had at any point the discretion to say, as somebody had done very early on in creating these three traffic lanes, they weren't required by anything, at any point in time could have said, i think they should have a fourth or i think they should have only two or only one and that was fully within his authority and as the government argued and proved this case below, that was their point. that was their summation was he abused the authority he was entrusted. >> and the second? we're going to do a sham traffic study. >> i think he can do that. i think as a functional matter. who knows what actually results from that. but, yes, he has the authority to say we're going to do a traffic study because i want to do this thing and for public reasons, it's easier to do a traffic study. >> you said this was not a sufficiency questio

mr. hanna's question was -- >> okay, yeah. i may have -- >> growth industries, clearly there probably is relationship between which industries you're seeing contributing to the labor participation rate. i think that's what he's trying to get to. not a policy issue, more of an insight. >> insight, yeah. okay, so we can look into that for you. that's something that we -- we do track flowings. so i think we can do that -- flows. so i think we can do that. >> thank you. representative delainey. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and, commissioner, welcome. and i want to tie my comments into some of the comments my friend, mr. hanna, just made. could you expand upon this disaggregation of the employment statistics around low, middle and high skilled workers, what trends we've observed in the last year and perhaps in the last several years with respect to those categories? >> hmm. all right. let's see what i want to look at. um, okay. take a quick look by education rank, yes. i'm going to look at -- w

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they arraigned former deputy chief of staff, briget spsz ann kelly and mr. baroni. they were charged for causing the jam. >> i would never risk my career my job, my reputation for something like this. >> former christie ally david wildstein pleaded guilty on friday to two counts of conspiracy and admitted that he helped plot the lane closures. christie is not implicated and says he did not know anything about it. >>> believe it or not, hurricane season is less than a month away now and storm specialists say now is the time to get ready. "nbc 10" had a chance to go inside a hurricane hunter plane at the atlantic city international airport yesterday. hurricane hunters are the planes that fly into storms to gauge conditions and gather data for weather forecasters. the plane came to the jersey shore yesterday as part of a tour to help people get ready for hurricane season. >> any hurricane season can bring just one storm or hurricane to your community and make it a bad year. i can't tell you it won't be this year. >> for the first time this year get this the national hu