Bridget Anne Kelly

Last Friday, a jury convicted two of his former aides in the so-called Bridgegate trial.

Bridget Kelly, who served as his deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, exec, deputy executive director of the Port Authority, were found guilty on all counts.

One of Baroni's associates, David Wildstein, pleaded guilty months earlier and became the prosecution's star witness.

The three were accused in 2013 of conspiring to close access lanes leading up to the George Washington Bridge in a scheme of political retaliation.

What's your reaction to the verdict?

Well, Charlie, you know, my first reaction was that the jury confirmed what I thought on January 9th, 2014, nearly three years ago.

Um, I had 24 hours to make decisions back then, and I thought there were three people responsible: David Wildstein, Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly.

And now here we are, three investigations later, federal grand jury investigation, uh, investigation by a Democratic-led legislature, and what's the conclusion? The conclusion is that there were three people responsible.

He threw his whole staff under the bus.

You know, Bridget Kelly, who we got to know very well.

He played everything in return on her.

Hey, Larry, all of a

You know what? Since while we go to that, let's take a quick break.

On the other side, we'll get Larry's reaction to that.

He started talking about Bridget Kelly, who Larry and I over the remember the first Dawn show.

She was actually one of my first guests with Diane Allen.

Bill Stepien.

Isn't Bill Stepien the one who was all hot and heavy for Bridget Kelly? What was that all about? Bill Stepien.

All right.

Anyway, I'm glad this happened.

I mean, we've gotten to do so much over the years across so many different topics.

I think about my own coverage from being there when Menendez was found guilty finally in the second trial on 18 counts to looking at schools and the impact of covid closing on students and while brenda was looking at the health aspects i really got to talk to families and see what the impact was of those who had really just been left out with no avenue by the way myself included as a working mom of two kids at that time and trying to figure it all out on being there when schools were reopening and what that looked like and then when schools were not reopening and these kids were just falling behind and years of looking at the impact of that I think about talking to Bridget Ann Kelly, who was exonerated by the U.S. Supreme Court after her involvement in the Bridgegate scandal.

Just so many moments over the years of all the different things we've had the chance to tell, all the stories we've had the chance to tell.

Really special.

But David's going down swinging, and he has no intention of going down alone.

It's March 2014, and Bridget Kelly is still feeling punch drunk from the events of the last few months.

She's been fired and humiliated via press conference by Governor Christie, a man she'd sacrificed so much to work for.

And then David, someone she'd trusted and worked with for years, stabbed her in the back too.