everything and stealing your choice at healthcare. they're pro choice except kamala harris would take away your choice of healthcare. we'll be fair and balanced. tweet us your question, hannity.com. let not your heart be troubled. laura, i have to hit the post, laura ingraham. >> laura: hannity do you know when i got you baby was released? and who wrote it? did sonny write it or did cher write it? i know i'm the bridge between two generations of fox, i get, i'm the old guy, i've been here sins day old, but i'm not old and i don't care about cher. >> laura: they say our love won't pay the rent. then what's the next line? i have no clue. do you think i listen to cher? do you think i listen to that? >> laura: it's iconic. before it's earned our money's all been spent. how do you not know this? what were you doing? >> sean: have you lost your

mind? >> laura: i like mixing it up. mueller, mueller, mueller, show down, shut down, we have to focus on fun stuff every once in awhile. >> sean: tomorrow i'll bring you my five favorite all time anthem songs. it will surprise you. some are by liberals. >> laura: anthem songs? you are always, always big into the bang he wills, i remember, walking on sunshine. alright. that wasn't the bang he wills, that was bell linda carlyle, thank you very much. this is the "ingraham angle" from washington. chris christie will be here live in the second half of the show. two segments. he's done a lot of the interviews but guess what? he hasn't laid out how trump can win in 2020 and whether in fact he might just end up eventually having a roll back with president trump, either in a campaign or who knows, the white house? i'm going to press it.

plus a new segment on the show coming up, this is your country on liberalism. the frigid city of portland mane overrun by asylum seekers. former governor paul lapage was called racist when he was governor. he's here tonight to react and maybe say, see i told you so. but first, trump versus the party of death. that's the focus of tonight's angle. democrats seem awfully cocky lately. sins winning the house in november and forcing trump's hand on the shut down they feel like they're on a glide path to 2020. every other day it's a litany of smugness from the resistance. 21 months out, from the election, of course, they're practically calling the race already. they hope that the sheer volume of negative headlines of mueller

and show downs with pelosi and schumer, they're all going to take their toll. objective reporting is the last thing to their minds, that would require focus on the smashing success of the trump economy which is far and away the strongest in the world. so what is their goal? to december moral lies trump's base. the "washington post" gives dower headlines like this. the walls around trump are crumbling, evangelicals may be his last resort. you can assign a flack to right headlines like this, white evangelical support for trump slips in the midst of a government shut down. think about it, while the president's approval numbers may have taken a hit during the shutdown, the president's numbers were identical before and after the shutdown unlike pelosi who lost support during

the shutdown battle. my prediction? the more full of themselves the democrats get, the more voters learn about this new breed of radical zealots, the left are going to want to roll the dice with this crowd and the more they'll start to appreciate president trump. if by the way the bright in lights of the bunted at this time class, they're suffering from delusions of electoral beganed cure. the democrats have completely misread what happened in november. they captured one house of congress, and handily, of course. this doesn't mean the american people are willing to ditch capitalism for socialism or they've abandoned their core humanity for cold convenience. but i'll tell you, many democrats have. like virginia state delegate kathy tran, pressed here by house majority leader in virginia, about her latest abortion bill. >> where it's obvious that a

woman is about to give birth, she has physical signs she's about to give birth, would that still be a point at which she could request an abortion if she was so certified? she's dilating. mr. chairman, that would be a, you know, a decision that the doctor, the physician and the woman would make at that point. >> i understand that, i'm asking if your bill allows that? my bill would allow that, yes >> laura: absolutely barbaric, and sick. now tran is a co. sponsor of the repeal act, which would eliminate all restrictions on late term abortion. here is virginia governor ralph nor thumb. he's also a pediatric neurologist, by the way, which is extra sick, en be doorsing this disgusting bill if a mother is in labor, i can tell you will exactly what would happen. the infant would be delivered.

the infant would be kept comfortable. the infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. >> laura: dr. mangela would be proud. you would be arrested if you did any of that to a dog by the way. the instant at this side movement disguised as reproductive health. it's spreading. it was given a standing ovation in albany just last week the bill is passed. [ applause ] [ cheers ] . [ applause ] [ cheers ] . >> laura: and now rhode island is jumping on the carnage express. a roman catholic says she'll sign a pro partial birth

abortion law into bill. she was sworn in for a second term and pledged to be a beacon of hope. more like harbinger of death. again this isn't america. this is the donald trump party decomposing for all to see. while a good chunk of trump voters might get tired of some of his tweets, i get it. or they want him to dial back the drama -- characters, it's really hard to see how independents in any way shape or form are going to cozy up to this democrat party do you agree that it is possible for men to both be friends with some women, and treat other women badly? i'll do whatever the committee wants. >> i've heard you say that, i've not heard you answer a very specific question that's been asked. they don't -- >> i don't want to debate with you how they do their business. i the plan to.

>> thank you. >> laura: alright. well that was the kavanaugh hearing. she the kept interrupting, incredibly rude to now the associate justice of the supreme court and she totally inflamed out. that was her big audition for the big top. well, they do not, the american people, want to do things like tear down history in the middle of the night either, any more than they want to blame men for things that happened 30 years ago that no one is witness to. they don't want to ban fossil falls, they don't want medicare for all, rationed care and raising taxes you've come you with this well tax idea which has not -- which doesn't have a history in the u.s. unlike the top marginal rate no, this is brand new. >> laura: they don't want traditional religious organizations to be branded as hate groups which kamala harris tried to do a full weeks ago,

she chided brian for being a member of the catholic nights of columbus. and who can forget this moment? >> the dog ma lives loudly within you. >> laura: that was a gem. no, this is not the democrat party of jfk. he actually believed in religious liberty, and he believed in low taxes. and a robust military, et cetera, et cetera. so my friends next time someone tells you it's all over for trump, just remember, the full effects and the stark costs of the democrat agenda are just now coming to light for many americans. they say that there are two sure things in life, death and taxes. but do you really want to be a party that advocates for both? and that's the angle. joining me now with reaction to the war on religion in the democrat party is bill donahue, president of the catholic

league. bill why do you think the democrat party today is so hell bent on removing all limitations on abortion something it used to be safe, legal and rare. but now it's full on embraced of infanticide and many roman catholic politicians i might add, advocating for it secular militants run the donald trump party. it started off 68 and it's now in full force. now you have in new york a situation where oh die trifts and dentists and op tom rivers and chiropractors are now allowed to perform late term abortions in new york under governor cuomo. in virginia you have a man who is justifying infant at this side. the american people by the way do not know what is happening. i live in new york. they didn't tell everybody here in new york what was happening. the way they poechd it was saying this is going to codify roe v wade

no, no, no, you're talking about partial birth abortion, allowing a child to die on a table, if he survives a botched abortion and non-physicians performing abortions, we know which women they will be? they will be black and hispanic poor woman. every white woman who gets her abortion in new york i guarantee you, will have a doctor. >> laura: bill i want to get to what the president reacted to in this virginia news, the sound bite from governor nor thumb is just -- i can't even speak when i see that because it's so outrageous but it reminded me that he predicted this in a way, didn't he? this is what he said in the big debate in 2016 if you go with what hillary is saying in the 9th month you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother. just prior to the birth of the baby. you can take the baby and rip

the baby out of the womb, in the 9th month. on the final day. and that's not acceptable. >> laura: well that is not what happens in these cases. >> laura: that's not what happens in these cases. trump was right. and all of us were watching it at the time, were cheering on what he said because he spoke the truth. he is speaking more truth there than frankly, i know you're pals with dolan but he's speaking more forthrightly, bill than dolan on this issue. this is dolan on sirius xm radio earlier today the far right is criticizing me, they said that dolan ought to get rid of the governor, he ought to ex communicate him. that would be completely counter productive. i don't have much clout. they got votes, folks. >> laura: cannon 916 or canyon 1364p her let cal, automatic ex

communication from the church for advocating grave sin or for a person percent veering in grave sin of a public nature. if what cuomo and is nor thumb roman catholic? i think he is. what these guys are doing, i don't get it. white doesn't the catholic church do something? if there's no penalty you can't blame.kids for thinking it's no big deal i'm not a candidate, but another candidate deals specifically with abortion, you have to be engaged in performing this ugly procedure. i know that cuomo would like to be ex communicated then he can claim march tir dom status. the question is why are we allowing in this country a debate -- why not have a debate about taking scissors and jamming it into the skull of a child who is partially born? then if he survives you don't have to attend to him. this idea in virginia what the

governor said, it's up to the mother and the physician to decide. >> laura: keep the baby comfortable. we'll keep the infant comfortable until we kill the infant. anyone watching this in the commonwealth of virginia, i don't care if you're religious or not, how can we take this as a people? this is today's democrat party. it is shocking, not in the first three months of pregnancy, a lot of people think things are okay then. if you're catholic you're not supposed to. a lot of people do. that's not it. this is a fully formed human being in the womb getting no protection everybody knows at least in the third trimester the child feels pain, no question about it. nick the governor of virginia is wrong. it's not up to the mother and physician, you have an inalienable right to life. that's not up for debate, it's not up for a poll. >> laura: it's also murder. i'm sorry, the virginia statute, they have the change the

statute, if they don't want it, they have to change the statute, we have to change a lot of statutes, bill thank you for joining us thank you >> laura: how badly have the latest moves by the left damaged them ahead of 2020? the green agenda, medicare for all, bringing in more illegal immigrants, we all have to pay the tab. they win one house chamber and they want to turn the country into mad max meets cuba, venezuela, do democratic leaders really feel like centrist americans? ending private health insurance, begun confiscation, cutting the military in half sharks where we are today? dan bongino and former aid to senator chuck schumer, chris hahn, are you worried about your party going over the edge until forget going over the skis, going to the dark side of death. you heard that bite, i want you to react specifically to it.

i'm or identified by it first of all the northam bite has to be out of context, if it's note, there's something wrong with him. >> laura: it's not once the baby is born, the baby is born. i'm not going to go down that road. i read a lot of stories about this in prepreparing for the interview, i didn't read anything or hear anything like that. it has to be out of context. i don't believe the governor of virginia wants to kill babies once they're born alive. >> laura: i didn't bring you on the show to play a cute little edited thing. we have new york that is doing this, this is infant at this side, fully formed babies in the womb. hillary clinton at that debate with trump scoffed at the notion, everyone was laughing at trump when he said that except for evangelicals the spot that you played, the baby was out of the womb, the baby was alive. >> laura: didn't you hear him? we'll keep the infant comfortable i heard --

>> laura: can on i heard him. >> laura: so if the bite is real you don't agree with it? i don't know if he knew what he was talking about. >> laura: then he of shouldn't be governor of the great commonwealth, thomas jefferson in virginia. one and done. dan, i've got to say, we can talk medicare for all, all these green agenda, this is something that should be beyond debate. we would be pete at that chaining themselves to houses if they did this to a puppy or a cat. you do this to a little baby and suddenly the planned parent hood throws you money or you get a standing ovation in albany or -- what happens to our country god help us all. chrissy know you off the air, i know you better than this. this is a black and white moment. this isn't a joke, this isn't a cutesy debate, let me talk for a

minute, i'm not here to attack you on this. laura did not manipulate that. that was the governor of one of the most powerful states in the union arguing that an infant, a breathing child should be made comfortable while a decision is made. what decision are you suggesting? this is the governor of virginia. the man is a medical doctor. this is not a stupid man. chris i'm serious, you're a friend of mine off the air. this is a time for moral clarity t i am pro-life, wait, chris, life, conception until natural death. even if you are pro abortion, this is savage brutality. and someone like you should come out on this network and say this is just wrong, period, full stop hey dan, let me respond to you. look i am pro choice. but once the baby is born there is no choice, it's a baby, it's alive. we should take care of that baby. i don't know what he was saying, what he was referring to. if he understood the question

asked him, we'll have to see. that he will have to respond to what that is. but i don't think there's a person, you know, i don't think there's a person in america who is sane who would say a living breathing baby there's a choice to be made whether or not you want to kill it or not >> laura: we could spend a whole hour on this guys. whether the baby is actually out of the mother's womb or is a millie meter out of the mother's womb this is a fully formed human being. babies have an 80% chance of surviving in six months, let's alone nine months, right? we've all met beautiful preemie babies that are inventing things, that are amazing volunteers that do great things in the country. which of them shouldn't be here today? sometimes it's beyond our ability to decide these things. these are people with their own unique dna, person hood, ability to be. no one is advocating for them. that's why i'm doing the show. people say this sufficient doesn't rate on t.v. i don't care, this is who we are as a people.

it's who we are as a people. if we allow this to happen we might is as well forget the conversation about tax reform because it doesn't matter. we'll move on to another question the bill in question here is about the health of the mother. and. >> laura: mental health no, no, all those decisions should be between the woman and her doctor, not between -- >> laura: that's not the money? that's not right. laura, chris knows. that there is -- you talk to a professional ob-gyn they will tell you, my brother-in-law is a perry in a the to gos. if you have any medical condition that requires an abortion in the 9th month of pregnancy. come on chris, you know. that don't come on here with nonsense like that. again, doctor and mother. >> laura: paul bag gal la who is a smart guy he was assessing where the democrat party is today. we all know they're all resisting trump. but he said this, let's watch i think it's going to be

difficult to analyze the democratic primary in a right left continuum. there's not that much between the moderate and liberal democrat. we're looking for charisma, talent, brains, heart. >> laura: chris? hey if the election was held today, kamala harris would be elected president. if schultz got in the race, donald trump would come in third. i think the democratic party has moved to the left and i think that's a good thing. >> laura: okay and i think that there's a lot of overreaction on the right to some things that are very popular in this country like healthcare, like education, >> laura: rationed care there are things people want. >> laura: dan they're not popular, chris. medicare for all is only popular until you tell people what the price tag is, doubling their taxes. then you know what happens? it craters to 37%. that's not popular, only using

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this is your brain on drugs. any questions? . >> laura: yeah, i love that old commercial back in the 70s. well this is liberalism. of this is your country on liberalism. it kind of has the same effect, fries it all up. i don't think the left realized what impact their insane policies are having on the real middle class working americans. they just want to get up in the morning, make a decent living, and get home, maybe crack open a beer. take for instance portland maine, it's pretty far from the border. so they shouldn't be impacted by the illegal immigration crisis. well, wrong. the wall street journal is reporting that the city is being over run by asylum seekers to the point where they're taking up 90% of portland's family shelters, and city assistance

for them is drying up. 75% of all population growth they saw between 2011 and 2016. went from foreign born individuals. this is why would. for anyone who spent any time up in portland, and it's cold up there tonight, that is wild. former governor paul will he page warned about this years ago and he was called every nasty names under the sun, racist, xenophobic, blah blah blah, he joins me now. governor, how does this influx of asylum seekers, some from central america, also refugees from africa to different status, but how does this affect every day citizens as i like to call them, the maniacs in portland? laura what it does, it takes away from the disabled, the elderly, people with intellectual disabilities are pushed aside, put on waiting lists, and the money goes to

asylum seeingers and undocumented citizens that come to -- people that come to the state of maine. that's been going on for years. when i was governor we had litigation against the city of portland for that exact reason. i -- when the economy started getting better i removed all the wait lists, there was 4200 people on the wait list, we budgeted for it, totally balanced budget, paid for it. the democrats i am ka in, took the money and put the people back on a wait list and they're still there now on a wait list, people who have lived their lives in maine are now without services in their aging years, or with their disabilities, and particularly, the one that is the most upsetting is intellectual disabilities have gone by the wayside. they've closed hospitals >> laura: mental health issues and so forth, a lot of people after the great recession, 2008,

they still haven't gotten a leg up even with the improved economy, and maine has always had some struggles in that area, obviously. i want to play something from you from just, this is back in a town hall you did in 2018, and the reaction from the crowd. watch. 201, sorry illegals or i call them asylum seekers, i think the biggest problem in our state. >> shame. shame. >> laura: shame on you, they were screaming oh i recall. i recall. i think the speaker of the house was there that evening >> laura: yeah, well what are they saying now? look at this. i mean we have a situation, according to the statistics today in portland, 65 to 70% of a thousand people now receiving general assistance are non-citizens. everyone hear that? 65 to 70% of the people

receiving government assistance are non-citizens. another, the city budgets of about $200,000 annually to fill in gaps for a soil lump seekers who don't qualify for general assistance, such as those who haven't yet filed an application. so you haven't filed and they're reaching out to give you have the money in portland. this is the democrat the party, though. this is a state that is now democrat control, democrat, right, the state legislature still run by democrats that's correct. and the governor, and the incumbent governor invited them, said, when she's governor elect she said i will invite asylum seekers to come to maine and i will give them services. well if you invite, they will come. >> laura: when i think of all these other cities that are considering more generous policies toward both asylum seekers, refugees, again a

different story, what do you say to them, given maine's own experience? i would say if you have the resources, and you feel compassionate, for these folks, go ahead and do it. but if you're going to be taking resources, very, very important resources for your citizens, then you are making a big mistake. >> laura: well again, 90% of the people living in portland's city run family shelter, an overflow shelter, are people who are asylum seekers, overwhelmingly i guess still from africa, correct? that is correct from africa. >> laura: i don't get the africa, somalis went to minnesota and then maine. the two climates, by the way, i don't get that at all exactly. >> laura: that's a place everybody goes? what is that? i don't know. but i will say this.

the one thing that nobody is talking about right now, they're talking about the resources being eaten up by temporary housing. i'll tell you when they get into housing you should see the disgraceful housing that these people are being put into, in the city of portland. i visited this housing. it was housing that i was brought up in, which i -- gives me nightmares, my whole entire life. it's terrible. >> laura: well governor, you're seeing a total transformation of new england cities and lawrence massachusetts, another one, and this is happening all across new england, but portland brought it on itself and people are going to have to pick up the pieces. governor thank you so much. in a somewhat related story of how liberalism does damage under the guise of compassion, it's i will liberal and we'll take you to the state of florida. the sub shine state is teaming

with new immigrant children that not only need to be educated but need to learn the english language in the process. but to combat this issue they aren't establishing more rigorous requirements to graduate but are considering, quote, alternate pathways for immigrants to get their high school diplomas, i was always told to raise the bar, now they're trying to lower the bar because you have a big influx of immigrants. a democrat from tampa has even proposed to establish test scores subs you suited for students who cannot pass any of the versions currently allowed. i wish they had that when i was a kid. in other words the objective standard by which american the students are assess-have been deemed unfair because some of the kids can't keep up with the material. we've heard that from teachers in the past. a couple nights ago we defended tom brokaw against the unfair pile on he received following

his suggestion that immigrant communities better assimilate into u.s. communities, like the brokaw critics the florida law makers fail to recognize the immigrant communities they wish to serve are hamstrung, held back by lowering standards and you're insulting their abilities and limiting them in the process. immigrants should be challenged in america, given the opportunities to do so but not given a diploma for staying down. coming up chris christie is here live for the rest of the show. this is going to be fun. so does the former new jersey governor really think he would be a better president than trump is it well his thoughts and the latest interview by the president and the letter lindsey graham sent the fbi about roger stone and the raid. stay there.

♪ ♪ . >> laura: alright we're very happy to have my next guest live for the remainder of the show. his new book is tight would "let me the finish" in book stores everywhere. governor chris christie, congrats on the new book. you've been on every show except farm tools weekly. that's alright. i have questions i can't believe i'm not on farm tools weekly. how did i miss that? >> get that pr person on it, chris let's go, move, move.

[ laughter ] >> laura: i want to start with something you said on colbert last night. if you don't come on my show i'm going to have to be mean to you that's alright. >> laura: let's take a look listen >> laura: do you regret helping donald trump get elected no, i made a decision at the time that at this thought he was going to win the nomination after i dropped out and i preferred him to hillary clinton. that's why i made the decision. it wasn't a whole lot more complicated than that. i still agree with what his policies are more than i agree with hillary clinton, he has turned the republican party into something different than it was when a started to run for president. >> laura: would you consider that something different good or bad ultimately for the gop, governor? in some ways good, in some ways bad from my perspective. the good ways he's turned, his toughness on china has been something the party needed for quite some time. i think his continued efforts in that regard, his continued

efforts in trade in general i think are good good and he's gotten a much better deal with canada and mexico than we had before. i think he'll achieve the same things with the eu and japan. i think he's been better for us in terms of our regulatory policy, and has put much more of a focus than we were putting on when we controlled congress and could have done more too on regulatory issues. i think there are times in foreign policy where he acts impulsively, whether discussions about syria, i think he should take a more deliberative approach. i think he is now taking a more deliberative approach. in the main i think he's made the party better because he won. he beat hillary clinton >> laura: okay. yeah. i mean do you think, you know i've been a big fan of yours for a long time. everyone listens to the interviews on the radio with you, no. that do you think you could have beaten hillary clinton in ohio,

pennsylvania, wisconsin, all those states? yes. i absolutely do it. sure, i absolutely do. >> laura: because of your positions on trade? oh. >> laura: immigration, things that motivated those voters to turn out. obviously he had the money raised, too there's no question i think that hillary clinton was an extraordinarily flawed candidate and the she needed someone who was going to be direct and go at her and call her out on all the things that they she had done as secretary of state and the things she was proposing and how p prepot of troughs they were. the way we would lose to hillary clinton is if we had a candidate who was not direct, not blunt, who was part of the old guard, whether jeb bush or marco rubio or scott walker. i don't know that those guys would have been able to pull it off because they would have been more. c. >> laura: they weren't in tune to the party, i'm getting you caught in a prosecutorial rap.

you don't even need it? >> look at you. >> laura: i asked you whether the party went in a good or bad direction and you said the old guard wouldn't have beaten hillary, you're absolutely right. they have the couldn't win their home state, they couldn't win florida, their key states, mitt rom any couldn't win michigan when he was up against obama. so the new guy comes in and says look i think all your policies have been wrong on trade. he thinks the foreign policy was too intervention any of the in iraq and other parts of the middle east. we've upset the apple cart there and that got their attention. people are very war weary, whether syria, be they're very war weary, we have 2,000 troops in syria, everyone wants to knock the crap out of isis and trump is like, well okay, why exactly are our guys still getting killed there? i think ultimately he's probably going to be more cautious. but the party's turn was in the right direction under trump and i think you were closer to that

than other guys that's what i said, in the main i think it was important because the biggest thing ed was win. in those years on foreign policy where i've disagreed with him at times and i maybe was more aggressive than he was, i don't think that would have determined a loss in the election to me when contrasted up against hillary clinton, but it doesn't matter. he was the nominee. i was the first person to go out and support him. you were telling me i should do that. i went out and i did it. and i think that represented a big moment in the campaign, when someone who had been seen at least as part of the mainstream, because i was a governor, even though a very different kind of governor in a blue state, you know, i think that was a big turning point in the primary campaign, which i believed he was going to win. and even more important for the general election. >> laura: we're going to get into more of what might be in your future down the road. but i want to play something from today, or yesterday maybe.

this is chuck schumer talking about these border negotiations that are ongoing. perhaps to avert another government shut down. let's watch we've come to big agreements before for example on budgets in russian sanctions, what was the common theme? when the president stays out of the negotiations we almost always succeed. when he mixes in, it's a formula for failure. so i would ask president trump, let congress deal with it on its own. >> laura: what about schumer your old nemesis listen, the reason he doesn't want donald trump involved is because he wants to try to roll over congressional republicans and i think the idea, their use did to be, i used to have a saying in trenton there are three important numbers in trenton, 41, 21, 1, 41 in the lower house, 21 in the upper house and one which was the signature of the governor, it's the same thing with different numbers in the congress. if you don't have the president

involved you're not going to come to a solution. so the idea that he wants to keep the president out i think is very mack ka veilian on his part. he doesn't want the toughest guy in the room at the table. he wants to try to roll some people. quite frankly i think the president has to be involved. any negotiation is doomed for failure because he won't agree. >> laura: i thought it was ludicrous. when someone has their glasses down on their nose they are a lot more credible and believable. i stopped and listened. governor stay with us. when we come back what does governor christie think trump needs to win reelection in 2020, he's going to tell us, and the importance of the 9th circuit nominees who were announced today by the white house. up next. (vo) this is the avery's. this is the avery's trying the hottest new bistro. wait...and the hottest taqueria? and the hottest...what are those? oh, pierogis? and this is the avery's wondering if eating out is eating into saving for their first home.

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♪ ♪ . >> laura: back with me now is chris christie. i want to start with your appearance on colbert again last night. an interesting comment you made on your book tour. let's watch join me on this one. >> now -- good question. here we go. >> would you have been a better president than trump? yes. [ cheers ]

[ applause ]. >> i like that. >> laura: okay. so a lot of modesty, a lot of tequila, i like it. obviously some fun with colbert last night yeah. >> laura: what does trump need to do to win in 2020? and are the democrats, i started the show by talking about the lu lurj to the left, and the democratic party. are they helping trump now? they're significantly helping him bite continuing to move to the left, by putting people like alexandria ocasio-cortez out in front, and being a spokes woman for the party. talking about a 70% tax rate. talking kamala harris talking about eliminating all health insurance companies and having insurance for all. let's not forget our friend howard schultz. i'm going to get a t-shirt up that says run howard run. let's go howard. get in there, run as an independent, all of those things

are process things that are helping to shape the landscape, to make the contrast even better. what you want in an election politically is a great contrast. you had a great contrast between hillary clinton and donald trump. that's what we want again. we don't want immediate to muddle things up in the middle. do you want a socialist country or capitalist country? do you want a society that pths success and opportunity for everybody or where government controls everything? donald trump has to be able to draw that picture very starkly and clearly. the democrats are doing what they're doing are going to help him. he needs better people around him. so many of the mistakes in the first two years of the administration and i write about this in the book, have been unforced errors, unnecessary errors by people who don't have the experience in washington, d.c. it's great to be a disrupter. i was a disrupter but i need

people around me, he needs people around him. me as a former prosecutor, him as i businessman that understands the politics of the capitol. it's hard to avoid the unforced errors. >> laura: governor, i think you were making the case for you to be the chief of staff. now i know, everybody knows i pushed for you to be chief of staff. i talked about it on raid yes, tweeted about it, and i am other not getting into kushner or the dad. i think that's all pointless to talk about. everyone has hit that to death and i think it's boring for my viewers. my viewers want to know, chris christie is no nonsense, you've known trump all these areas, you are no nonsense and you can take criticism because i've seen it and i've given it to you and you actually listen to people. would you consider going into the white house in a -- as a chief of staff or even managing the 2020 reelection campaign for

this president? i've always told the president when he calls i will answer the phone and listen to what he has to offer, and i always have and i always will, for two reasons, i love my country. i can't imagine a country governed by the liberal democrats out there running it. two he's my friend and i'm loyal to my friends. >> laura: even though you don't feel like he was loyal to you? no he wasn't. >> laura: that's in the book. i've read it all yeah. it is what it is. >> laura: it's a lesson in humility, though. you're a big personality but you had to humble yourself. we've all gone through those moments, but that's in the book the book talks about the ups and downs of my life. when you get knocked down, it's about getting up. and fighting for the things that you believe in. in your heart. whether it's your family, whether it's a cause that you believe in. a philanthropic cause or your country. all those things are things worth fighting for. it's never a straight lineup,

laura. it hasn't been for me. >> laura: not for me not for you. you know for us, we're fighters, and i'm gonna fight. if the president asks me to fight for him, i will always listen to a request to fight for my president and my country. >> laura: did the book get in the way of you becoming chief of staff? that would have been kind of awkward? listen, no. if i had accepted chief of staff at the time, the book would not come out. that was part of the deal. >> laura: governor i want to talk about a report that bubbled up that the white house counsel was cutting a secret deal with the democrats that would have ensured they would have gotten a liberal pick as a compromise on the 9th circuit. well we the learned today, and i learned today, that this was all complete, you know, bull you know what yeah. >> laura: tonight it was confirmed that the president announced his intention to nominate these stars to the 9th circuit. daniel collins, daniel bress and

kenneth lee. why is it so important -- the president has done well on judges. why is it so important that this 9th circuit is not allowed to become a runaway injunction train that's going to run over the president's policies that's what it is right now, laura. it is a runaway injunction train. everybody runs to the 9th circuit and the lower district courts in the 9th circuit to challenge the president's actions because they know the 9th circuit is the most activist ultra liberal of all of the circuits. that's why the nominations are so important. donald trump promised to tran form the federal courts, and he has done great work at the supreme court and the circuit courts but he has not been able to crack the code in the 9th circuit. he goes in with lindsey graham, pushes these nominations through and fights, it's going to make a big difference for the last two years. >> laura: governor, congrats on

the book, we appreciate you spending time. good luck on farm weekly. they text did i'm rushing there now. >> laura: final thoughts are next thanks laura. or any hotel, .. just don't get carried away with the wild west thing. hey guys. get the best price on homes, hotels and so much more. booking.com, booking.yeah

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