now you have hutchinson, desantis, chris christie and still the likes of glenn youngkin and chris sununu the former governor nikki haley of south carolina as well. steve, let's break down some of the numbers. we look at what republicans think of chris christie right now. as you note, he may face the steepest uphill climb of all the gop candidates. >> yeah. i think there's two questions here when it comes to this candidacy. looking at the numbers, where are the numbers? this is a poll yesterday. they asked republican voters, who do you want to be your party's nominee in 2024? you see 0% volunteered the name of chris christie. trump well in the lead here. desantis in second. notably, if you went back monmouth did this at the end of last year as well. notably, desantis dropped 20 points in the poll. trump has climbed nearly 20 points. in neither poll did chris christie even register. when you are just asking republican voters now about him as a nominee, that's not where their minds are. when you ask this basic question, do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of these republicans, from

chris christie can speak the northeastern tough guy language. and they have such a history. tory with christie going in first for donald trump after he dropped from the race back in 2016 then this pretty huge break that they haven't mended. so to watch chris christie go full frontal with donald trump, i can't wait and i'm going to get some popcorn. >> christie said in new hampshire he was a voter there and they made a strategic error by not directing their fire at donald trump because they thought they were going to outlast the other guy. he said if he were to jump in the race, which it's looking like he's going to do, he wouldn't make that same mistake again. >> he learns. elise, vaughn, thank you both. >>> it might look like chicago on st. patrick's day, but actually, it's venice's grand canal. what caused the unusual and mysterious neon green patch to appear in the water? the latest on the investigation, next. e latest on the investigat, next - psst! susan! with paycom, employees do their own payroll. - what's paycom? a magic payroll genie? - it's a payroll app. - payroll

what is chris christie doing?ghting a stickbut the process he could be very powerful. i was joking on twitter the first debate will be an august. and if trump shows up, and chris christie is there, i will send a moderator one of those guy dog training gloves because christie will just go for trump's throat. and he is the one guy who can kind of -- you know, his bombast is trump level. so, it's a fair fight. the other candidates may not love the distraction. but it will be a problem for the donald. >> i guess i wonder -- because christie has said pretty publicly and vehemently he is not here to be a stick of dynamite. this is a quote from politico. i am not paid assassin. when you are waking up for your 45th morning at the hilton garden inn in manchester, new hampshire, you better think you can win, because that walk from the bed to the shower, if you don't think you can win, it is hard. he is saying this earnestly, apparently. and yet, the washington reports that 70% of likely republican voters will not consider s

that's where chris christie who finished in sixth place with just 15%, below the likes of john kasichthis a second go. a source tells me he's going to launch this bid formally in manchester, new hampshire, at a town hall this upcoming tuesday. i want to let you hear from chris christie, though, two months ago, when he was answering a voter's question about essentially what would make this go around any different for him compared to 2016 when he and other republicans notably didn't take donald trump head on in the early primary months. take a listen. >> part of what happened in 2016, i'll be honest with you, we all made a strategic error. we did. look, i'm happy to own my mistakes. i made plenty of them. i was one of them. we all kind of thought, all right, don't go after him now. because once i get past jeb and marco and john and carly and ted and, you know, then i'll have trump one on one and then i'll take him on. never of us ever got there. it was over quick. so that was a strategic error. >> reporter: and while chris christie is pulling at 0%, 1%, 2% in polls nationally, jose, wha

chris christie calls donald trump a loser. he calleds him lord valtimor from the harry potter series. he's not the appropriate candidate. chris christie is a tough guy. he will take on a lot of people, surprise a lot of people. we'll see how it goes. >> trace: others would disagree with you. the "washington post" had an article. the reasons we're stuck with trump and biden. american politics rewards name recognition. and second, people like voting for people that remind for themselves. the two old white candidates have two important political skills. not despite their age, but because of it. that's alone voice in the wilderness, david. your thoughts. >> the enthusiasm geraldo had makes me think he's going to vote in our primary and become a republican. quite an enthusiastic -- >> i am a republican. >> where are we in this primary? we know that. trump and we know that ron desantis are going to be passed the fox debate come august. the question is in the next 2 1/2 months, who can get enough attention and do well enough on that

also for chris christie. chris christie is coming in os the tonya harding.b is shank donald trump and bring him down. what's interesting about both their potential entries to the race is this does help donald trump. it does dilute the field. but in a way, it also hurts significantly ron desantis, because their entries into the race is saying that ron desantis has not scared anybody off. donald trump has certainly not scared them off, and you're going to have a pile-on, a complete effort here where all of these dogs are now going to be trained on trump. in a way, that's going to be problematic. but we have to be realistic. look at the polling. compared to 2016 -- and this may be a shocking thought for your viewers to understand -- donald trump is in a much, much stronger position today in 2023 to win the republican nomination than he was in 2016. >> okay, juanita, though, i'm going to push back on what he said, which is i personally am more worried about a ron desantis presidency than about the possibility of donald trump winning the oval office again. my con

chris christie formally launching the presidential campaign in the critical state of new hampshire. s omar jimenez is following this for us. what are you hearing about christie's plans? >> rahel, multiple sources have told me that former new jersey governor chris christie is expected to announce his bid for the presidency in the 2024 race on tuesday. this is expected to happen in a town hall format in new hampshire at st. anselm college and previous folks have said that he has been talking to shareholders to tray to decide whether to jump into this race and it does seem he's gotten to that point. over recent days, allies have launched a super pac that gives an indication for supporters of where he sort of fits into this race and the person who runs that super pac put out a statement that reads governor christie has proven he's unafraid to tell it like it is and he's willing to con front the hard truths that threaten the future of the republican party. now more than ever we have players, who doesn't want what i want to hear, but what i need to hear. over the months, former governor ch

you can get chris christie, and maybe donald trump would be the most obvious, but chris christie is aa different strategy for what he thinks needs to happen in order for somebody to beat donald trump, and he said that's to go right after him, and he's been doing that the past few months despite not doing that for a few years. in terms of the president, the former president, he's called him a coward. he thinks he's a puppet of putin, he said. he said that having the january 6th choir at your rally is inappropriate for somebody who wants to be the president, again. what is our expectation, dasha, for house chris christie is going to comport himself as a presidential candidate this time around? >> i've got a feeling, katy, it's going to be a whole lot more of that. i think he's watching this increasingly crowded gop field full of candidates who are really pulling their punches when it comes to the former president. you've got haley, scott, asia hutchinson. and has started to sharpen his attacks but not full force in the way that christie has before. jumping into the race, i think he is r

where does chris christie win? one of the other problems and challenges he's going to face is folks from the trump wing of the party are going to be very critical and skeptical of him given that he's now decided to become a top critic of former president trump, and then i think many of those in the sort of never trump wing of the party, those who are skeptical of donald trump's leadership of the party, remember that he was a very big supporter of donald trump. so where he fits into the sort of landscape of all the other candidates that are trying to sort of wrestle the nomination from the front runner, donald trump, it's really hard to tell just yet. i think when he gets in, he's going to have to make a case for that. >> he has a tough row to hoe or a tall mountain to climb. chris christie only has a 21% favorability rating right now. 47% think of him unfavorably. do you see him being able to overcome that? >> no, no, that's not a great place to start and i'm not certain that chris christie is exactly in this to wi

omar, what are you learning about this new chris christie campaign?rter: multiple sources have told me that chris christie plans to announce husis candida in new hampshire. folks in his camp tells me he'd been talking things over with stake holders about whether to jump into this race and clearly it seems he has gotten to that point. that said, polling does suggest he has an uphill battle ahead of him. just looking at a cnn poll conducted less than two weeks ago, polling republican and republican-leaning voters, trump and desantis polling at the top and chris christie multiple spots down below and at just 2% based on this polling but then also critically among republican and republican-leaning voters, we polled them on who they would never support and chris christie right at the top of that list, 60% of the republican and republican-leaning voters that were polled said that there. so clearly some work to do on that front. and he's joining an already crowded gop field, but chris christie has not been shy about attacking former president donald trump sa

let's pick up with chris christie.eems like he has expended an inordinate amount of energy lately eking out this position for himself as a never trumper, calling the former president all kinds of names, everything have from a coward to a putin puppet. take a look at this latest real clear politics average, gives him one, just one percent of the g.o.p. vote. and then monmouth yesterday gives him a 47% unfavorability rating among republicans. kind of begs the question: is he a serious candidate? is he running because he thinks he can somehow clinch the primary nomination or is this just a platform for him to continue to hammer trump? >> politicians have a way of thinking that they should be president and can be president. so he is going to take his shot, i guess. i got say, gillian, that this republican field is growing so big now that if they have a debate they might have to hold it in a stadium not to accommodate the crowd but to accommodate the candidates. it's going to be fun to see how that works out. i hope it does

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chris christie wants it to be a voyful campaign.w independents, hey, switch back to the republican party to vote in your state's primary? are you trying to reactivate a nascent part of people still registered as republicans but are like, i don't really know what's going on here, and say the there is still a home for you? those seem to be the lanes if you tie trump to vladimir putin, if going to focus on january 6th and trying to overturn, you know, a democratically elected election. that is not a brand that is synonymous with an appeal to the base. but christie's bet, i think, is that there are actually still a lot of republicans or voters who lean republican who are more attracted to his message but they need an alternative to rally around. it is a long shot. it is not an easy path. >> it's also just so interesting to see him running through, that's what he is gonna do, trump when he was the first really establishment republican to legitimize trump in 2016. quite a shift. thank you, margaret. >> thanks. >>> overnight the spacex cap

pence if he runs, chris christie, if he runs. those would probably be my top choices. there are democrats i have liked , but someone has to choose to run. in the general election if biden and trump are the candidates, i will not vote for trump or biden. i will pick a third-party or independent candidate, libertarian or joe manchin or someone else. support someone else in the general election. host: tell us why you cannot support either biden or trump in the upcoming election. caller: well, they are both kind of men that i do not want to be a part of seeing that shaped part of making president. or president again. my concern with biden is not his age. i am a little disappointed that people talk so much you know, the people who could be opposing biden for more physical reasons are talking about his age, it may be a problem. but i did not approve of biden -- i remember the first time he ran for president, he withdrew after a sort of scandal and i remember that. i am disappointed other people do not seem to remember. it had to do is making a speech in which she lied about

and i'm confident we'll have better choices. >> reporter: and now former new jersey governor chris christie is planning to announce he's running, two sources tell nbc news. christie slammed other republicans for not hitting the former president hard enough. >> you can't beat donald trump by playing bumper pool and hitting it off three cushions and hope that it goes in the hole. that's not the way it works. >> reporter: trump's big lead in the polls not scaring away the competition. tonight the man seen as his toughest opponent, florida governor, ron desantis, on his first official campaign swing across iowa stepping up attacks on the former president. >> we chose freedom over fauciism, and we are getter off for having done that. >> reporter: and responding to new criticism from trump. >> even cuomo did better. >> reporter: who suggested new york's former democratic governor andrew cuomo handled covid better than desantis did in florida. >> six months ago he would have never said that, right? he used to say how great florida was. hell, his whole family moved to florida under my governorship.

he ended up here wehere sources say chris christi will launch his bid on tuesday.ent poling suggests he's got an uphill battle. in the last two weeks a cnn poll of republican leaning voters show him poling at 2%. you see how much ground is between him and the former president who polled at 53% among that group. within that same group when we asked who they would never support for the gop nomination, chris christi polled at 60%. a lot of work to be done, but take a listen to what he said at a recent town hall indicating that he wants to make clear he's not a never trumper jumping into the race, but someone who worked with him. take a listen. >> you're talking to somebody and hearing from someone who believed i could help make him better, wanted him to do what was best for the country and he failed me even worse than he failed you. i'm not going to stand around and let this happen. now, if i decide to run, i'll be able to try to do something directly about it. >> reporter: that gives insight to some of the initial strategy here. he saw the former president up close a

former new jersey governor chris christie reportedly stepping into the race for the white house and willounce next week in new hampshire. >> steve: as donald trump will campaign today in iowa, just a day after ron desantis kicked off his comeback tour in des moines, where he said interesting stuff. >> ainsley: and trump will have a town hall tomorrow night here on fox. the boxing gloves are coming out. >> sure is. we are 525 days until the general election day and this news, courtesy of axios scooping that christie will enter the race next tuesday a college we are all familiar with in a town hall. his campaign manager maria camilla will be a familiar face. christie made no bones about his dislike for donald trump, which he was a supporter in the early days. this will get interesting. christie skipping iowa, which is where everybody starts their campaigns, including ron desantis, who said yesterday in iowa, by the way, trailing 30 points nationally, but wasted no time diving into the issues much watch this. >> i'm frustrated on things like the border. i've been talking to politicians talk

chris christie might run, very aggressive.ho is running, aggressive. but then you have ron desantis and nikki haley, both of them saying not really for me to weigh in, i haven't really been paying attention, et cetera. >> and mike pence. >> mike pence, he said -- he never saw -- >> he never saw it. he should talk to alyssa farah griffin who said she reported an incident to mark meadows chief of staff because of donald trump being inappropriate with a woman at the white house. >> what this tha tells us is th. there are several republican rivals who are afraid of him and they're trying to court his voters and they believe there is no path for them if they get cross ways with the voters. but if they learned any lessons from 2016, as chris christie knows, he believes you have to take him on front on. he calls it a frontal attack. so i thought that the comments from asa hutchinson, he said i respect the jury. long time prosecutor, and really at odds with -- >> also, by the way, he was also one of the house members that went after b

chris christie, the former new jersey governor.oing to be announcing his presidential campaign, his second try for the white house next week in a town hall in new hampshire. and the north dakota governor doug bergham is poised to get into this race next week as well. so it is getting crowded. that tells us that donald trump and ron desantis haven't scared off everyone else. those two frontrunners, though, are in iowa today. desantis did his first official event last night in iowa. donald trump coming on the heels of that. take a look at this campaign schedule. if you look at the map, you're going to see a whole slew of candidates back in iowa over the weekend on saturday because joni ernst is hosting her roast and ride event. so, this is a field that is getting bigger and a campaign that is intensifying. >> and it is not even june. david chalian, stay with us. i want to bring in abby phillip and gloria borger. cnn learning exclusively that sources say that federal prosecutors are in possession of an audiotape of former president tr

charlie: and chris christie. margaret: who is not in the race, but i left him out. does anyone stand a chance if he remains in the contest? charlie: there are a couple of known unknowns. how many indictments will there be? margaret: don't they help him? charlie: they might. it's 2016 all over again. the only way you can conceive a scenario where he is defeated is if there is a strong one-on-one who becomes the embodiment of the not trump votes. as much as i admire what asa hutchinson has been sayg and agree with what chris christie is saying, they have no shot. the republican party is never going to go with somebody who is perceived to be that anti-trump. the formula is to be non-trump without antagonizing the trump base. there are eight or nine candidates on the field going into the primary season. margaret: if there is a winnowing of the field early, is any one of them better than donald trump? charlie: every single one of them is better, but having said that, there is one caveat. we'll donald trump allow anyone elseo be the nominee? donald trump has made it clear

or if it continues to be those top three tickets whether someone like tim scott or chris christie oraley can kind of come in there and do better than expected. again, we're talking about the expectations game. they need to show that they can do better than people are expecting in order to get that vote of confidence and claim some momentum moving forward. so we'll see who comes in and make a strong showing and tim scot scott has a big war chest and nikki haley has done a lot in the past several weeks. so we'll see how they do. >> brianne, you spoke to voters and you spoke to trump voters, what have they been telling you? >> yeah. we hear from a lot of iowa republicans who have voted for president donald trump before. they is supported him. they like a lot of his policies, but they're looking at these other candidates and we hear that a lot at these desantis events. republicans who say they want similar policies and a lot less baggage. they're tired of the chaos. they want someone who can win. we heard governor desantis say that none of these policies matter if you can't actually get

now you have got tim scott, chris christie.a sense that there's more room here than perhaps we thought before. a lot of affection for tim scott. i grew up in north charleston as he did and have a lot of respect for him as a candidate. at the same time, i think we are all just short of circling waiting here to see the two big dogs to go after each other. we want to see ronny and donnie get into the ring and actually have some blows there. until that is joined, i think we are. >> bret: we will call him former president and governor here but do you what you do. winners and losers? winner first. >> chanel parker, new democratic mayor for philadelphia. she is a moderate, pro-police, tough on crime candidate. and i think if you think of her in the mode of eric adams, the mayor of new york, and even mayor of cleveland, you think oh my gosh there are some african-americans who are moderate centrist and, again, i think she is the winner of the week. >> bret: loser. >> loser is clearly ron desantis. he got punched out here by mickey mous

oh, marco. >> -- a bit about it earlier, but allies of former new jersey governor chris christie have will be looking to see whether any announcement for an actual presidency -- >> look, it is hard to, no but we are in the danger zone so to speak. we will keep an eye out. it could be at any moment. we will have to see. >> fantastic, thank you very much. elena? >> senate races, similar vibes here. ohio, congressman warren davidson announced today that he would not be running for ohio, and he is one of the big contenders there that a lot of people are looking for the conservative tax group wanting to endorse them. but i will say it is a big boom to the -- senate establishment group that did not want him to run, they wanted several people in ohio. so i think this is the time they're going to see a lot of the senate races take center stage, even though it is 2020, for everyone is looking at president senate races are also huge, thing for us to be watching. >> all right thank you very much. >> i'm looking for the announcement of an arrest of -- a republican council member in new jersey, th

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that is chris christie talking there.as a potential candidate and also as a former prosecutor. that was a former prosecutor talking about when he has the facts on his side, he feels like he can get a verdict. i would just note that presidential primaries and debates, whether or not they're on fox or other networks, debates will be a lot different than a court of law. we know that donald trump likes the debates and he likes a chance to punch back. >> neil: just being a good debater does not secure a win for you or make you a president. hans nichols, great seeing you. we're following what's going on with china getting bellicose, a economic sense. that is the fear. the boomerang on us after this. ♪ but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ it's a little pill with a big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance, ♪ ♪ at each day's staaart. ♪ ♪ as time went on it was easy to seee ♪ ♪ i'm lowering my a1c. ♪ jardiance works 24/7 in your body to flush out some sugar! and for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, jardiance can

>> well, anytime a bull goes in a china shop, it changes the dynamic of the china shop, so, chris christie republican primary. i don't give him much chance because the republican party doesn't seem to want to go to someone like chris christie who is doing the things and said the things he has to say. but he definitely will. seems to be the only one that will take on donald trump personally and it is one of those ones, if chris christie is in the race, i cannot wait to watch a republican primary debate and watch what happens at the debate. i don't think he has a long -- he has a long shot at winning, but he'll definitely change the dynamic because he'll go toe to toe with donald trump. >> i am with you on that. i'm guessing dasha is too. we want to see that debate. dasha burns, matthew dowd, thank you very much. >>> reaching into the heart of russia, drones strike moscow in the first attack to hit a civilian area in the capital. how will putin respond? we're live in ukraine. >>> a woman rescued 24 hours after a building collapsed in iowa, how she was found in the nick of time before demolit

we just learned that governor chris christie, the former governor of new jersey, is going to enter this race. he will announce his candidacy again at a speech next week in new hampshire. christie ran in 2016. dropped out. endorsed trump. turned into one of his more vocal critics. last night dean tis kicked off his campaign tour in west des moines. his pitch to voters? republicans need to end the culture of losing a shot to former president trump. desantis argued that the next republican president needs two consecutive terms to restrain the federal government. trump would only get one. >> the bureaucracy is so entrenched i think we could bring george washington back, i don't think he could fix it in one single four year term. >> reporter: trump will also be in iowa today for a radio interview tomorrow for campaign stops and a town hall with sean hannity. he ripped desantis over covid lockdowns, border, among other issues. the florida governor took questions from reporters after the announcement. he said trump attacking him has been bizarre. >> i am going to respond to attacks. if you say

on the sideline like new hampshire governor chris so new new, and former new jersey governor chris christie. at the top of that list, it's florida governor ron desantis, the far-right culture warrior against abortion rights, the lgbt community, and disney. one of his states largest employers. desantis has said his term as governor will serve as a, quote, blueprint in his quest to remake america and florida's image. that would be more impressive if you were not losing an all out war with a cartoon mouse, but more on that later. donald trump may be a disgrace to twice impeached criminally indicted former president who fermented insurrection, and was recently found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and is currently the subject of several federal and state investigations. but a new harvard capitalist poll shows none of that has hurt his standing with the republican base. joining me now, david jolly, the former republican congressman from florida who left the party in 2018, and michael steele, former chairman of the rnc, msnbc political analyst, and host of the michael steele podcast. gent

perhaps chris christie the former new jersey governor. guy, your thoughts?e most part, the trump campaign and trump himself very comfortable with that reality. their message to the republican field at large has been come on, in the water is fine unless you are ron desantis. that is just a mathematical proposition for him. the more people in the race the more they are chopping up the pie and harder it might be for someone else. i think they have made clear who that person might be. it would be harder for him to consolidate some non-trump support. i think that if more people get into the race, you will probably see some relatively warm statements from the former president. maybe with the exception of mike pence for various reasons. i guess we will see. make mike or if chris christie takes the fight to him directly. >> he will take the fight to him directly. chris christie that's his purpose in life to be a kind of heat seeking missile against donald trump although i think he has absolutely no chance of getting the nomination. he is not afraid to take him on. >

which would be a bold move because right now the new hampshire primary poll has chris christie at 2%is right under rabies and they spelled his name wrong too. you probably don't remember chris christie ran for president in 2016 but he doesn't have much in the way of name recognition nationally. and he would also probably have to face mike pence, who is expected to announce in the coming weeks. he is also polling at around 2% which is not good. i wonder if even mike pence has the recognition to become president. so to find out we went to hollywood boulevard to ask people strolling by who is this man and this is what we learned. >> do you know do this man is? >> he looks familiar but i cannot tell you his name off the top of my head. >> do you know who this man is? >> no. >> do you know who this man is? >> i don't. >> who is this man? >> i don't know. simon cowell? >> do you know who this guy is? >> yeah. >> who is he? >> he is the former vice president. >> what's his name? >> ron paul? >> what you think he calls his wife? >> darling. something deep and oldish in the nicest way possibl

"abc news" has learned that former new jersey governor chris christie will announce that he's running president and the event in new hampshire next tuesday and mike pence will make his announcement that he's running next wednesday. >> david: chris christie, mike pence joining the race. jon karl tonight, john thank you. as we know we've been reporting on artificial intelligence, ai, what can already do but also the major risks on the horizon and might hear the dire warning from hundreds of leaders in technology and business about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. it got our attention. in there one sentence statement, they warned ai could pose a "risk of extinction on par with pandemics and nuclear war." the group including the top scientists who have developed ai are calling for global regulation mounts before they said gets out of hand. the concern only growing since the release of chatgpt in november. when we come back on this wednesday night, the breaking news coming in, the verdict just in involving actor danny masterson of "that 70s show" and the race to rescue a n

maybe the reason chris christie is running against him is to make trump look thin.er former trumper, who is likely to run against his former boss, is mike pence and a federal judge today ordered mother little helper to testify about conversations he had with trump leading up to the riot at the capitol on january 6th. one of the things he could be questioned about is whether it's true trump called him the p word for not doing his bidding to help steal the election. i would do anything to be a fly on his head when that happens. at this point the only person who hasn't been ordered to testify against donald trump is donald trump himself. meanwhile joe biden is bouncing merry along and revving up the old campaign caboosey. he has some extra pep in his step and squirt of positively dent under his teeth because starting today the president is traveling the country a three-week invest in america tour. he's visiting over 20 states to remind us he's been getting stuff done. the president is very excited about this trip and you can feel that excitement in this video he releas

chris christie just sent a tweet out. he's seriously considering running. we did not talk about what the former president said about ukraine and russia detail, and what chris christie said, donald trump says he would end the war in ukraine in 24 hours, he says despite how ridiculous this is, i suspect he would do it by turning over ukraine to putin and russia, putin's puppet. >> let's go to anderson in new york. anderson? >> take with me here cynical commentators and sample come davis from across the partisan spectrum, van jones, kristen anderson, david axelrod, alyssa farah griffin, and also joining us, for the republican congressman and trump supporter, donald -- 's david axelrod, can you tell us on what we saw? >> look, in one way, my thoughts were summarized by the previous panel. but i will say, anyone who has been paying attention and expected donald trump to be anything, other than what he was tonight, really has not the situation. that is who he is. and, you know, that is a core of his appeal to his base. i said earlier, there is no r on his gearshi

what are you hearing about chris christie's plans?> reporter: yeah, so multiple sources have told me that he plans to make this announcement on tuesday in a town hall format in new hampshire. now, this has obviously been a decision he's been mulling for a long time now based on our reporting and from what we understand, again, town hall format. and this is after his allies recently formed a super pac to help support any presidential bid. and that gave an indication that this was actually going to happen, that that ground work started to be laid. over recent weeks folks in his camp told me that he had been talking to stakeholders and people that matter to him most to try to make this final step and it does appear that he's gotten to this decision. up to this point he hasn't been shy about saying that donald trump failed the country and he feels that he is the best candidate out of the many announced at this point to take on donald trump directly and then after it, appeal to enough independents to take on president biden. but of course

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there's been a lot of talk about chris christie jumping in, and chris christie has been vocal about what that's to go after him directly. do you think folks might be waiting for somebody like christie to go in there and do the dirty work for them? >> there's already a don and a ron, i'm not sure a john will be running. there are any number of candidates ready to go in. we know mike pence is on the verge of getting in. there's been a super pac established to pave the way for that, so the great expectation is he's going to get in from new hampshire, or simply could be taking his moment to get some attention for himself. to brendan's point earlier, no one has been dissuaded by the performance of ron desantis so far, and what that means is, you know, anybody who thought that they might run this time is going to run, and anybody who was waiting to see has waited to see and determined that desantis, chris christie, another one who's right on the precipice of potentially running. >> john and brendan, thank you, guys, very much. and coming up next, what the fbi did in 1983 to save queen elizabet

so, what's interesting here is you're a former governor, chris christie's also a former governor.s for rape, incest, the life of the mother. you're open to certain gun control measures. you said the 2020 election wasn't stolen. i guess, at least, we still have to mention that, but that's important for the republican party base. you said the party needs to move on from trump. all of these are things that the two of you happen to share. we're learning christy sees himself as the only serious republican challenger. >> chris christie is a friend. he was a fellow governor there in new jersey while i was governor of arkansas. and we've both been federal prosecutors. so there's a lot of similarity there. but i've been out there. i announced about a month ago. we have a great response in iowa. and i think the difference in our potential campaigns is that i will focus on iowa, i will look at new hampshire and be there as i will be tomorrow. and so we're prepared to run a nationwide campaign looking at super tuesday. and i believe as a governor of arkansas, a conservative state, that i will

what credibility chris christie has. stuart, it was reported this week that milliner larry ellison spends plant spent tens of million dollars on tim scott's presidential campaign. scott has a miniscule chance of winning, so in practice, isn't this just going to keep a doa candidate in the race longer. and again, give a bigger advantage to trump? >> yeah. you know, my answer to that is that's not enough money. it was like when i was asked to help with sarah palin's debate prep, my response was i'm not good enough. you know, it takes a message, otherwise you're just turning up noise louder when you spend more money. you know, that's the problem here. campaigns rarely and with the way people walloped and, they and because they either run out of money which is the main reason, or they just run out of time. so they'll hang in there. but listen, i think what david jolly said is really important, i've said this before, donald trump could not change the party he revealed the party. and he is what the party wants to be. and there

chris christie, former republican governor of new jersey, is really going after him big time.ake a look at these christie ads that have just come out and you see some of the things he is saying. >> so, you know, chris christie, asa hutchinson, they are lonely voices out there. the reality is that as many in the republican party elected officials seem to be willing to look the other way, i mean, to jeff's point, they want to win, but they are not willing to give up on donald trump because of his base. but that's the question he is facing tonight. you know, what chris christie said, what laura mentioned about all of these investigations, why should he ever be allowed to be president again? with his history, it's not just will he get the votes. but considering what he did on january 6th, considering these criminal investigations, should he ever be allowed to be president? >> yeah, that's what several republicans are saying. all right. everybody stand by. coming up, breaking news fup on capitol hill about republican congressman george santos. the house speaker kevin mccarthy weigh

but he could be competing with guys like chris sununu, like chris christie for that lane, adding up,eople want to see from a third or fourth candidate. >> yeah, susan, conventional wisdom says the larger field helps trump. you were telling me something interesting in the break. you think the key here for a real challenge to trump might be chris christie, not necessarily that he would win, right, but? >> he's the one who takes on trump. he's the one who lodges all the attacks, so, for example, someone like tim scott looks good with his forward-looking message, his inspirational message, and he doesn't have to get down in the gutter. and trump can't help himself. if you attack him, he is going to focus on you with a laser. and christie knows the president pretty bell, better, for example, than ron desantis, he knows how to get to the former president. add to ron desantis, how much incoming can trump take, keep everything that he has, which i argue is not the numbers that the trump people have. i don't think he's at 35, 40%. i think he's probably at a solid built in 25%. and could all t

tim scott, chris christie expected to announce in the coming days.istie has the backing big billionaire steve co-hun owns the new york methods. mets. shooting tv ads, is he a republican. the prime mayor who we interview a lot francis suarez says is he not ruling it out. if he announces, he will announce soon. is he strongly considering it. bobby kennedy on the democratic side he named dennis kucinich as his campaign manager. we have a voter panel. we will listen to what they think about democracy 2024. >> lawrence: abby hornacek live from the professional bull riding world. >> ainsley: you are so cute, abby, i love the hat. >> oh, thank you, ainsley. i'm having a blast here already. it is a beautiful morning because we are about to catchall of the action coming up for the super bowl of the pbr. pretty soon we are going to see some of the best athletes in the world take center stage. there will be bulls in these chutes right here next to me red to buck off their riders. look, guys it, t. all comes down onto this weekend. these riders have been prepari

because, look, chris christie is right.hing but lose since 2016, and he is going to absolutely drive a larger gender gap in a lot of these battleground states, particularly in the suburbs with better educated fascinating pi sound. let me play that for you, cornell. >> donald trump's done nothing but lose since he won the election in 2016, we lost the house in 2018, the senate and the white house in 2020. we under performed in 2022 and lost more governorships and another senate seat. donald trump cannot win, and he's on a vanity exercise to try to make himself feel better. that's not going to make the country any better. >> so i listen to that and i thought of marco rubio. people who think that chris christie's got no role in the race, forget that marco rubio was a front runner status until he met chris christie on the debate stage. chris christie may or may not be electable in the republican party, i don't know anymore, but he can do great harm to his primary opponents. and to see him take after trump in every news cycle is

nikki haley 3% so former governor chris christie 2%, former governor hutchinson was announced candidateand 4% someone else. recent polling shows biden and trump leading voters has the respective parties so many. the question for you today, are you prepared to support biden or trump or would you prefer someone elseef? if you think biden should be president, ready to support, call (202)748-8000. if you think trump deserves to return to the white house call us at (202)748-8001 but if you support another candidate for think another candidate should be president, (202)748-8002. our next color calling from garden city, michigan. you are a biden supporter. >> i am. i prefer maybe somebody else to run who's a little younger as far as the republican party with trump, i can't support them at all, they have no credibility. didn't even believe their election h results, they had trf legal issues and to me he's a businessman, he's not really a businessman because he'sno had n currencies, all kinds of legal issues.ov lawsuits he's had over his lifetime, he has no credibility, the united states any goo

. >> i don't know if you have seen this what chris christie said. >> to his credit, i remember chris cause cohen knew all of his sort of -- things he kept secret. chris christie seems to have watched your closing argument. each of our witnesses took the stand and swore an oath to tell the truth. their testimony is consistent and overwhelming. the guy calling them a liar is the only one who did not testify, who wouldn't swear an oath in the courtroom without admitting he assaulted miss carroll. this was never a he said she said case. we had too many witnesses for that. at the end of this trial, we see there wasn't even a he said because donald trump never looked you in the eye and denied it. this is specific to this case but also quintessential donald trump. i know lawyers never like to project their cases on to others. do you think that other victims and other groups of lawyers are looking at the ak success you had? >> we hope so. that's what e. jean was trying to accomplish with this. i know i speak for the team and for e. jean as well when we say we hope people who have been through

. >> chris christie? >> chris christie certainly may. i'll be interested to see if he does. somebody somewhere needs to not just let this be a blip because otherwise, it will be. especially among republican primary voters. we often fool ourselves into thinking this type of information floods through to republican primary voters and it's all they're seeing. it's probably not something they're going to see a lot of unless somebody running against donald trump forces him to con front it. they can't do it during the bragg indictment. they rushed to his defense. is this going to be another situation where they rush to his defense? that's the first thing we need to keep an eye on. >> so roberta kaplin has spoken to reporters. she said all of we're very happy. carroll did not say anything. she might have said something as she was trying to get into the car. i want to ask you about the access hollywood tape. were you still with speaker ryan when that came out? >> i was. >> what was it like? >> i think we saw the same blowback that it seems to be what we understand likely happened he

like people criticizing donald trump when it's ron desantis or mike pence or nikki haley, or chris christie for christie on that tight rope, remember of course, it was his endorsement of trumpet back in 2016 that gave trump some legitimacy in the party as he was starting to become the leader in the field and kristi is had stayed with trump, in fact he almost died doing so, because he caught covid at a trump debate rehearsal right before trump himself got it and was in the icu for a time. since then, he has denounced some of what trump has done including of course january 6th but has also left the door open to potentially voting for him again. so we will see. he has signaled to people that he's going to be the flamethrower, that he's going to be the candidate who's not going to be afraid to take on trump this time around, i don't know how they got the lane that is, you know, we see the republican party, trump is still far and away the heavyweight there. he's the favorite and it's not clear how they will react to someone coming at him like christie, and yes, he has said he will jump in the ra

you hear rumblings about chris christie, i really don't think that there's a chance there, but i do think like this, these are people that need to continue to speak out. they need to talk. i also think that nikki haley will play a prominent role when it comes to foreign policy. this will be somebody that i think, eventually, as time goes on, she will be speaking more and more, coming more forward. >> well, i hope so. >> she is an impressive person, no question. so far, i have not noticed anything, she did have something quite interesting to say about abortion, but she needs to step it up. >> step it up with china. we have a lot of adversaries, a lot of threats looming on the horizon. the american people are smart. the american people are very aware of what is going on. i choose to look at the glass as half-full. i do not want to see it as half empty. we are not going to give this up. >> brilliant. we will see you a bit later. i want to cure your thoughts on memorial day and what this holiday really means. just so you are aware, we have repeatedly asked ron desantis and tim scott to join u