$ 0 0 Gov. Chris Christie made his first comments on the Bridgegate scandal after his former associates were found guilty. TRENTON -- Speaking for the first time on the scandal that rocked his political career and could send two of his former associates to federal prison for years, Gov. Chris Christie said Monday the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal trial confirmed what he always knew. "There were three people responsible," Christie said in an interview with Charlie Rose on Sunday that aired for the first time Monday morning. "My first reaction was that the jury confirmed what I thought on Jan. 9, 2014," he said. The three people Christie referred to were the admitted architect of the political revenge scheme, David Wildstein, Christie's former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, and Bill Baroni, Christie's top appointee at the Port Authority. A jury found Baroni and Kelly guilty on Friday of all counts prosecutors charged them with after Kelly's now-infamous "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" email was revealed on Jan. 9, 2014. Wildstein already pleaded guilty. "I don't think it says anything about me," Christie insisted in the interview. Christie: Trump never offered VP slot He added, referring to Kelly, "I think it says something about that one person." The governor also fought back against allegations in the trial that Baroni told him about the closures at a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in 2013, at the same time the closures were creating massive gridlock in Fort Lee. Gov. Chris Christie.Mel Evans/AP photo "I don't remember any of it," Christie said, disputing Wildstein's testimony that Baroni told Christie about the closures that day. "I have no recollection," he said. Only a portion of Christie's sit down with Rose was aired on "CBS This Morning." The rest of the interview is scheduled to air Monday night. But despite Christie's insistence that the verdict against Baroni and Kelly cleared him of any wrongdoing, the governor has yet to address how testimony from some of his former and current close associates contradicted what the governor said about when he learned of the Bridgegate scandal. "I had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or it execution, and I am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here," Christie said on Jan. 9, 2014, a day after Kelly's email surfaced. But Michael DuHaime, Christie's longtime political adviser, testified he told the governor that Kelly and Christie's former political guru, Bill Stepien, were involved in the closures a month before Christie made that statement. DuHaime testified he told the governor "it was not just Bridget Kelly we were talking about, it was Bridget Kelly and Bill Stepien" on a Dec. 11, 2013, phone call. Two days later, Christie held a press conference where he told reporters no one on his staff knew about the closures. "I've made it very clear to everybody on my senior staff that if anyone had any knowledge about this that they needed to come forward to me and tell me about it, and they've all assured me that they don't," Christie said at the time. "I've spoken to Mr. Stepien, who's the person in charge of the campaign, and he has assured me the same thing." But, according to DuHaime, Christie knew otherwise. "He knew I had information different from the information he gave," DuHaime testified. Similarly, Christie's former press secretary, Michael Drewniak, testified he also told Christie in December 2013 that he learned from Wildstein that Baroni and Kelly were involved. Despite Christie's insistence the verdicts against Baroni and Kelly cleared him, jurors in the trial felt otherwise. Virginia Huffman, 50, of Chatham, told NJ Advance Media on Friday that Christie should have been one of the defendants in the case. In a seven-week trial that saw their own words used against them, Baroni and Kelly were convicted of helping orchestrate massive traffic tie-ups at the George Washington Bridge in September 2013. The plot was hatched to send a pointed message to Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, after he stepped back from his earlier public support of Christie. Matt Arco may be reached at marco@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewArco or on Facebook. Follow NJ.com Politics on Facebook.