TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie sought to turn the tables on his longtime political antagonists Tuesday and called for a state probe of Bridgegate investigative committee co-chairs Sen. Loretta Weinberg and Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, suggesting they may have used state resources for political attacks on him.

Christie's comments were made in the aftermath of the hack of the Democratic National Committee's emails. On Monday, Wikileaks published hacked emails that showed that Weinberg (D-Bergen) had used DNC-crafted language to attack Christie's decision to become GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's transition planning chief.

The governor expressed fury on Tuesday, suggesting that Democrats may have used state resources to pursue a politically motivated investigation of him in the wake of the 2013 lane closures at the George Washington Bridge.

"I was outraged to see that stuff that Wikileaks put out and I think there are some things that need to be done," Christie said during a Statehouse news conference.

"I think Senator Weinberg gets a free pass from you people day after day," he told reporters. "I think it's outrageous."

Christie called for an investigation by state law enforcement, saying he cannot use the state's Open Public Records Act to get information from the state Legislature.

"I think there has to be a full investigation of this" adding that "an appropriate authority" should "compel them to produce those emails."

He declined to say whether the state's newly appointed attorney general, Chris Porrino, should investigate.

"I'm not a law enforcement guy anymore," the governor said.

Both Democratic lawmakers returned fire on Tuesday, saying that Christie was off base

"Regardless of how many tantrums the governor throws behind a podium, I am not going to back down from my criticism of his policies or of his treatment of the residents of the state as a backdrop to his campaigns for national office," Weinberg said in a statement.

Early in Christie's second term, the pair of Democratic lawmakers co-chaired a legislative committee with subpoena power to investigate the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal.

The committee's investigation into the traffic jams led to the release of the infamous "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" email about the politically motivated closure of lanes on the George Washington Bridge. It also conducted months of hearings.

Ex-Christie Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni, ex-deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, are charged with orchestrating the lane closures , causing massive traffic tie-ups, as political retribution for Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich's decision to not endorse Christie's re-election. Their federal trial begins next month.

David Wildstein, another former Port Authority executive, pleaded guilty last year to his role in the lane closures.

On Tuesday afternoon, Wisniewski, said he couldn't recall if he'd had sent or received any emails from the DNC during the committee's investigation but didn't believe he had.

"I never coordinated with anybody at the DNC with whatever I did on Bridgegate," Wisniewski said in an interview with NJ Advance Media on Tuesday.

"I tried to keep a very meticulous separation between the investigation and any politics," he added.

Wisniewski, a former chairman of the state Democratic party, said he would have "his computer folks" check to see if his work computers had any such emails, and that he would release them if they did, "probably" later this week.

But the assemblyman also argued that even if there were any such emails, they were unlikely to have violated any state or federal laws. He said political parties behaving in a partisan fashion is not illegal.

While Christie declined to say Tuesday whether he'd ask the state's attorney general to investigate, he nonetheless argued that "someone should."

Wisniewski noted that during the height of the Bridgegate investigation, the Office of the Attorney General was largely mute.

"It's ironic, throughout Bridgegate, the A.G. was rendered silent -- not a peep," he said, "and now because there's an email in which Senator Weinberg had a communication with the DNC, now there's an investigation? It's crazy."

Half an hour after speaking with NJ Advance Media on Tuesday, a spokesman for the assemblyman emailed a statement insisting "this was never a political investigation, and no political organization had any say in how it was conducted."

Weinberg said she found it "kind of peculiar that during the entire Bridgegate scandal, from the day it happened to now, the governor never asked the Attorney General or any member of law enforcement to look into it. But he is now calling for an investigation into a press release."

She said the DNC did ask her in May to issue a statement on Christie. She said she did not agree with the initial DNC statements, but decided to make one concerning his travel in support of Trump because she previously criticized the governor for campaigning across the country as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

"I issued a press release on my campaign stationery that was paid for by my election fund and listed my personal cell phone number as the contact," Weinberg said.

The senator said she asked the nonpartisan arm of the Legislature to search her emails since January 2014 for communications with the DNC. She said it included emails concerning an invitation to an event about the presidential race, an inquiry about a New Jersey voting rights bill and two emails regarding Hanukkah parties in 2015 and 2015.

A request for comment from the state's attorney general was not immediately returned.

Claude Brodesser-Akner may be reached at cbrodesser@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @ClaudeBrodesser. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.