yesterday and the former president did pick out the fact that chris christie he says, watch chris christie will go after the spiralling governor desantis. i think he will go after president trump >> ainsley: he said he's willing to take on the front-runner, desantis is willing, too. chris christie is someone to watch, someone we enjoy hearing. his sound bites can be colorful. he's not afraid. remember in 2016, he was yelling at someone who stood up and he yelled back at them. he is always interesting, can he beat donald trump? he wasn't able to in 2016, not sure he will get traction. >> steve: it is 517 days until the election. >> ainsley: the countdown is on. >> steve: absolutely. it is interesting, going back to former vice president mike pence, what they're trying to do and if the former vice president is watching, happy birthday, 64 today. his team -- >> ainsley: you said he is too old to run, didn't you? >> brian: way too old. >> steve: mike pence, his team will try to reintroduce him, note as donald trump vice president and not the guy that stood between the people on january 6 and t

chris christie is a gun guy. chris christie is antiabortion. he didn't lean into either of those issues at all. if you were either a pro gun or pro life voter, he didn't give you a reason to vote for you. he certainly didn't say anything that would make you think that he wasn't on your side, but he wasn't very aggressive on that. >> it is an interesting point that on those, let's call them culture war issues, he didn't really lean in that much. but i did think it was notable that he was coming at trump from the right. he said, trump didn't bring down the deficit. trump didn't bring an immigration bill to the floor. i think he understands that you do have to go through trump, but you can't do it from the left. you can't even really do it from the center. you have to be somewhere to his right. and i did see him trying to make those arguments to republican voters that this guy is just not the conservative that you think he is, perhaps. whether that will work as an argument, i think it has not worked historically in a republican primary because i t

but in the chris christie style is just chris christie. >> he is such a spoiled baby.tter, angry man. a lonely, self-consumed, self-serving, mirror hog. >> okay. and that one actually seemed like he was thinking it up as he was going. it wasn't even a recited line. the only republican talking like this. >> because he understands donald trump -- he understands donald trump is leading by double digits ahead of the next person after him. and chris christie had a powerful line, which is, the only path to the nomination is through donald trump. he's on a kamikaze mission against donald trump to lay out what most republicans have been unable or unwilling to do, which is talk about his unfitness for office, the danger he poses to democracy. and the second is this, because a lot of folks will talk about the fact that chris christie does have record high unfavorability with republican voters. he hasn't been running for president since 2016. that is a universe ago in today's politics. tonight is also an opportunity for him to reintroduce himself to the public. we know this gop,

chris christie is joining chris christie isjoining an ever—growing field of potential republican nomineescandidates and especially the man in number two position, ron desantis, the florida governor, still trailing behind donald trump who was leading the pack but unlike the others, chris christie is making it very clear he is in this to stop donald trump. he a winner — just in it to win it on its own account but also in it as he would say to expose the failings, as he would probably say, to expose the lies of donald trump because this is a man he knows very well. chris christie first stood potentially for the presidency in 2016, the year that donald trump eventually went on to be the winner and chris christie did not do very well and dropped out very quickly and joined donald trump. was pretty much with them all the way through his time in the white house but after the january the sixth attack on congress that is when they parted company with chris christie accusing donald trump of inciting the violence. really, eversince then, as a political pundit on television, chris christie has been c

is that happening to one chris christie? when we come back, do you think he will be debated if he enters this race as expected to next week for what he did eight years in the bluest of states as a republican governor or for what he did and didn't do in the friendship that he have or didn't have with donald trump or is it over something silly and stupid like his weight? fat chance he will be treated fairly. we'll explore. that's my boy. ♪ stay off the freeways! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ lowe's knows you never come in for just one thing. so we've got to know a lot of things about a lot of things. like which mower makes the cut. the mulch that finishes the look. and picking a color that pops. you got this. we got you. subway just keeps getting better. break it down candace. they got world class bakers to develop their tastiest bread yet. this truly makes the subway series a dream team. you know about that chuck. yeah, i was the bread of that team too. try the subway series menu. their t

i think chris christie knows what he is talking about. is he highly intelligent and highly accomplished. sean hannity said if he is so intelligent why did he leave office with 1% approval rating and he gotten caught in some controversies, lounging on the beach when he closed that public beach. error, there was bridge gate. we will see. i don't know is he strong. always interesting. you turn up your tv or definitely want to hear what he has to say. >> steve: good talk last night. >> ainsley: can he pull through? can he beat donald trump in the numbers don't show that. >> brian: trump has been pretty steady. he has this great team around him so far out of the three teams this is the one most comfortable with. picking spots. they knew hot number one guy was. they put $30 million on hurting governor desantis before he got in the race. i think it was effective. we will sigh if desantis can start closing that gap announced see if trump now says to himself i'm up by 30 here and up by 40 in new hampshire. south carolina even with two other south

that's chris christie's problem in this. the second problem is, if he thought he had a problem -- in 2016, i think this is why chris knows better. if there is a problem in 2016, donald trump is more popular today among republicans by 15 points, more popular today, then he was when he won in 2016. that's the problem. >> he's more popular today than he was in 2016, but today, wouldn't you say he has a ceiling in terms of popularity? based on the last election, whereas in 2016, there is no idea where he could go. >> well, that was the bet every cater that was running against him in 2016 was making. oh yeah, donald trump, he has a ceiling, he can't get past this. the problem was? it never got to one-on-one, fast enough. in order for those people to beat him. that's the problem when you already have nine or ten candidates already in. it needs to be one-on-one, it's not gonna get there. that's why i think, right now, winning the republican nomination is still donald trump's to lose. >> i want to mention, the other part of it to, w

chris christie it's not particularly good at admitting to mistakes.te, as a new jersey kid, i have to say, i don't think he has fully come clean on closing the -- access to the george washington bridge and creating chaffetz jams to get back at the mayor. so, he is someone that has clearly wanted to be president at least since, like, 2012, very soon after becoming governor of new jersey. most of what he said about trump applies to him! >> is he flip-flopping? or has he evolved? has his position evolved on trump? i >> don't know exactly what's going on inside his head. but he made clear this to our town hall event that he did in new hampshire that he intends to do a really frontal attack on donald trump in this campaign. and i think this sees -- chris christie is not going to win this nomination. and i think chris christie it's smart enough to know that he's not going to win this nomination. i think there is a legacy play here, which is, that what chris christie is remembered for is bridge gate and for enabling donald trump. because he did not just endo

>> i think chris christie has a unique role. that makes him different here. he's the one who entered a crowded field with a whip, a chair and a gun, as the guy was going to keep donald trump cornered by making these statements. and he does it in the form and format of a former federal prosecutor who keeps coming back to the crimes, the violations, the legal analysis, as well as the political characterizations. and he's becoming formidable for being different in a field where mike pence struggles with, no one's above the law but shouldn't go to jail. >> their numbers are higher than chris christie's. >> right. we're very early. and people are just get accustomed to people speaking frankly and truthfully. it's a new concept in this conversation. you have to see how it plays out. he stands out. >> thank you very much. >>> we have new video to show you, how a police officer responded when he realized an active shooter was loose in a shopping mall. that's next. bug spray works best... when your family actually wears it. ♪ get odor-free eight hour protection from m

both former vice-president mike pence and the very unpopular former new jersey governor chris christie. i think he left office with about a 14% approval rating in his case now entered the race. we have full analysis of all this straight ahead tonight but we begin with this fox news alert. sources have now confirmed to fox that the doj's special counsel investing former president trump's taking of classified documents has now convened a second grand jury, this one not in dc but in south florida. that would be the same district where mar-a-lago is. and based on what we are hearing, the special counsel is now poiseded to wrap up that probe and there are many reports that charges could, in fact, be eminent. at the very same time, we are learning that an indictment against hunter biden could also be forthcoming, but don't expect hunter's charges to implicate the big guy. this will be all about optics, not about justice as president trump truthed out earlier today. they'll hit hunter with something small to make their strike on me look fair. i would expect that to probably in all likelihood

chris christie is right. want to take it out on kevin mccarthy because kevin understood republicans have to pay for the debt that republicans ran up over the path several years. and so tell us exactly what happened on the house floor and how they thought banging the republicans' head against the wall would? how help them. >> 11 far right republican, mostly members of the freedom caucus, who angry at the deal kevin mccarthy made with president biden to raise the debt ceiling, well, they took it out on him on the house floor siding with all democrats to block a pair of gop bills to protect gas stoves. the legislation itself was going to symbolic, but there is a sense that mccarthy can eventually work around this, but it should be noted that this is the first rule vote to fail since november 2002. so it does speak to republicans, at least a faction of them, being angry at mccarthy and of course the backdrop to all of it, it doesn't take much for mccarthy's grip on the speakership to be threatened. so they are at

chris christie is at this point. the voters have other options here, but heat makes them feel accountable. he's a deep fiscal conservative. we'll see if that is enough for the republican voters. >> chris christie is the latest on this. i would say governor asa hutchinson from arkansas a second, and then there is a long drop, maybe nikki haley there. mr. pence also said to ultimately, this is like a president biden and vice president harris and their policies would ultimately unite the republican party, but is it effort really that simple, especially if it is a truly bruising primary? >> i certainly looks like we're heading towards a bruising primary. i am not sure if history is our best guide here, because we have a former vice president running against a former president. we're in uncharted waters here. what if trump does not become the nominee and does not accept the results. what would that do to the republican party? this is a long conversation. republican leaders are dreading, but they know that they will have t

chris christie is able to walk and chew gum.ess in his attacks on trump. he is talking about january 6. one of the things i hope he can do is more the window of -- for the other candidates, their willingness to criticize and call out donald trump for the attempt to overturn the election and for inciting the insur insurrection. if he can push other republicans, then i think that it might break through. the odds are stacked against him. but donald trump is the apex predator. i think as i watch chris christie, i think the big question is, can he draw blood from the apex predator? can he make him stumble? will that then bring other republicans out of the weeds to do something that they have not done so far? tim is right. it's a danger that chris christie on that debate stage without donald trump, is he going to be able to restrain himself from taking out everybody else like he took out rubio. that's a legitimate point. >> i cried no tears when marco was eliminated from the republican field. let me read something from our friend myle

in 2016, chris christie famously tangled with marco rubio and christie may have single handedly endedfor the nomination during a single debate in new hampshire. >> you have not been involved in a consequential decision where you had to be held accountable. you simply haven't. i want the people at home to think about this. that's what washington, d.c. does. the drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly -- [ cheers and applause ] see, marco, marco, the thing is this. when you're president of the united states, when you're governor of a state, the memorized 30-second speech where you talk about how america is so great at the end of it doesn't solve one problem for one person. >> this thing that barack obama doesn't know -- >> there it is. the policemen rised 25-second speech. there it is. do you know what the shame is? the shame is that you would actually criticize somebody for showing up to work plowing the streets, getting the trains running back on time when you've never been responsible for that in

so chris christie is in an interesting position. because if he shows himself the way he did in that montage, he actually seems very much like donald trump. but again the republican party they love donald trump and the more you attack him the more his base is ready to vote for him again. >> chris christie not only endorsed trump in 2016, a few weeks i think after trump won the new hampshire primary, and then led trump's transition team until jared kushner fired him or whatever. but fast forward to now he's very critical of donald trump. listen to what he said at a new hampshire town hall earlier this year. >> one of the reasons i think he candid can't come back is he failed us. he failed us as president, based upon what he himself told us in 2015 and 2016 he would do if he became president. everybody can be fooled once by a shuckster, by a tv star. but if we allow ourselves to be fooled twice, we have no one to blame but ourselves. >> what's the george bush, shame on you? >> fool me once shame on you, fool me twice won't get fooled a

here is chris christie responding to that moment. >> he wasn't anywhere near washington.have a tv? was he alive that day? did he see what was going on? i mean, that's one of the most ridiculous answers i've heard. people were killed, caitlin, as you know, that day, on capitol hill, defending the capitol. we had members of congress who were running for their lives. we had people trying to hunt down the vice president of the united states, chanting, hang mike pence, and donald trump, the entire time, sat outside the oval office, that dining room of his, eating away all done she's burger, and watching tv, and doing nothing to stop what was going on, until it got to the point where even he could no longer stand it. >> jay? >> i'm perplexed by these responses, i never thought in 1 million years i'd be saying that chris christie would be the wise for moral reason and moral contrast in this moment. he is in part that person, the one person who is speaking truth to power, showing that the emperor has no clothes. in that clip, you can see he can't seem to help himself, being the o

it is chris christie.is gonna do it for them. >> also, did you see marco rubio the other day, basically blaming consultants who told him not to attack trump or go after chris christie and chris christie is taking credit for how he handled michael rubio on that debate stage. i do think that we should rethink. it is unavoidable. it'll quite a different place than we were then given what has happened. january 6th, everything that happened from the years in the white house. i know that pence has to say this but tonight when he was talking about the contradiction and saying that trump never be president again. that he will support the nominee. he said he has great confidence in republican primary voters that trump won't be the nominee. but right now he is far and away the front runner. two things that stood out to me tonight is, as jen was asking questions, one he broke with a lot of the republicans that are running on ukraine. saying he would continue to fund ukraine. and also on social security, saying that t

that's chris christie.ut he's a fighter in the mold that the gop does like. >> thank you guys very much. coming up, how the freedom caucus is trying to get back at mccarthy without ousting him from his job. >>> plus, what george santos tried to do to protect the people who paid his half a million dollar bond. s half a milln iodollar bond. hey bud. wow. what's all this? hawaii was too expensive so i brought it here. you know with priceline you could actually take that trip for less than all this. i made a horrible mistake. ♪ go to your happy price ♪ ♪ priceline ♪ (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. ♪ go to your happy price ♪ but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. from prom dresses to workouts and new adventures you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in th

i'm gonna go with chris christie.orruption he showed when he was governor of new jersey, with the bridge gate scandal means he should not touch the white house with a ten foot pole, to be honest. for me it's gonna be chris christie. >> you've got omit, by that standard, donald trump is -- just bridge gate looks like a parking ticket compared to a donald trump has allegedly been accused of. >> you're right, you're definitely right. oh yeah. >> i didn't mean to cut you off. go ahead if you want to finish your thought on that. >> no, i mean yeah, i think that just shows on such a little level, kind of how he views politics and the role of governor. trump is ten times worse, of course, but i think chris christie, i don't even think he's going to make it past 5%. but in an alternate universe, in the multi verse, he actually becomes the mamani, and becomes the president in some other world. i think you do an awful job. i think he'd be as corrupt. >> it's gonna say, that's very generous of you. >> eugene, give me your though

i think chris christie, it's a high bar for him.right now in the republican party, but he has to get on that debate stage. he has to be able to take on donald trump if donald trump participates, remember, donald trump is saying, you know, why would i show up if i've got such a large perjury ofcentage of th. he needs to go mano a mano with donald trump and i can't see how he will get to do that. i don't think trump wants to share a debate stage with him. that would be pretty toxic to watch. >> appreciate it all. programming note on this coming monday the 12th i'll be hosting a town hall with presidential candidate chris christie. it will air live at 8:00 p.m. monday 8:00 p.m. so i'll be able to ask him that question, will he commit to supporting the nominee because that is the rule now for anybody to participate in this republican debate. coming up tonight, a dam collapses in ukraine and there's major flooding threatening an area that is seeing increased fighting. two live reports on the disaster prompting evacuation, also tonight a

chris christie seems to get.this race, i don't know what it is they really think they are doing. because whatever they are -- to vote for donald trump. one of them is articulating a theory of how they are going to convince them people to vote for -- >> emma, your thoughts? >> i do think we need a model in this race for substantive engagement and transparency. and i think it's refreshing to see someone who is willing to call out trump. and we have seen the way trump response to his critics. and it is so often with belittling people, taunting them. and so, to have someone who is coming to the race with a real commitment to transparency and substantive engagement is, i think, refreshing. that being said, i also think it is important not to paint -- a picture. if you look at the morning consult numbers from a, it was trump was at 56%. desantis at 56%. and christie was not on there. and we also saw christie's last campaign go down in flames and then he -- so, i think we have to hold the truths in our hands. >> i also

let's listen in governor chris christie. would have to play springsteen, right? you knew. guy from new jersey comes up here to new hampshire we have got to remind you about what you're going to get tonight. you're going to get some straight talk from new jersey. i'm glad to be back here. and i have to tell you, it was not a layup that i would be here. far from it. if you had asked me a year ago whether i would be up here to talk to all of you about the future of our country, and where we would go, i probably would have said to you, you know, life is pretty good in new jersey and i think i will stay down here and let you all fight it out up here like you always do. every four years. and get a new crop of folks. come up here and talk to you. but i have to tell you, as i have watched the last year evolve, there has been just one question that kept going back and back and back into my mind. and it was about our country and its future. >> and i wondered what our choice was going to be. were we going to be small, or were we going

i haven't heard as much about trump's specific view of chris christie, i'm sure he'll be airing thoseackty as the campaign cycle continues and as christie backs more of a foil to him in this primary season. >> harry, i always find it fascinating in a political context and in this case a legal context when the public -- the voiceless middle, plenty of -- the vast majority are in the middle. when they hear the same thing from bill barr and chris christie as they hear from anyone on earth one viewing the facts as they are, that he commits his crimes in broad daylight, he lies and deflects about why he committed them. in this case he told brett bret baier they're mine, and he blunted out a presidential records act which has nothing to do with presidential documents and boxes. what do you make of sort of the action to communicate something seemly across the partisan divide on an issue so sensitive as the rule of law. >> you would think and hope that's exactly what it would do. we talk about a broad middle. to me it's not clear if it's broad or narrow. there is obviously a core group of sup

is this chris christie's redemption tour?ted 2016 after he dropped out of the race. he helped him prepare for the debate against biden. he got near fatal covid at the white house during the supreme court -- when amy coney barrett was getting confirmed. what do you see in his announcement? >> i see this as someone making kind of a clear legacy play. i also see this as someone who sees an open space to be the anti-trump candidate in this race. we should start with the obvious, right? there is a tough path to see for chris christie being a nomination -- getting the republican nomination. he would probably admit that himself. he probably occupies that third tier in this race. if donald trump represents the top tier and ron desantis is the clear alternative, kind of leading the pack in that second tier, chris christie's in that third tier. but that doesn't mean he's kind of irrelevant. this is someone who has real money backing him, someone who has relationships in new york, new jersey. reports say that he could have big financial

the field for the republican presidential nomination is set to grow again when former governor chris christiee race moments from now. omar jiminez is joining us from the site of the announcement in manchester, new hampshire. you have new reporting, i'm told, on what we'll hear from governor christie just moments from now. what are you learning? >> reporter: yeah, wolf, for starters former governor christie officially filed to run for president. we're expecting that formal announcement here to happen in a town hall format at st. anselm college in new hampshire. he'll take questions from the audience. as for what he's going to say we are learning that he is expected to talk about laying the foundation of his campaign. he believes that the country is at a crossroads over who it wants to be moving forward. also, he's expected to be awe hen tick in the sense of willing to admit past mistakes likely he's going to talk about past associations he's had with former president donald trump who he has not been shy about being critical about. when we get to the campaign he is expected to take the tone of

i noted you have chris christie.is probably one of the only guys that actually has gone up against president trump in real life in debate. the other ones don't that have experience and don't know what it is like. if chris christie will make a difference he has to do what he is starting to do. no better town hall person than chris christie. he has to camp here and live here and do the town halls. that's his brand. people dig it. >> dana: there is rnc debate rules to see if that will happen. let me ask you about president biden in new hampshire. how big a problem does he have with getting on the ballot, dealing with the fact that new hampshire is mad because they want to be first in the nation, the president wants to change that and make it south carolina. and robert f. kennedy junior gets a little attraction in new hampshire and said this yesterday. listen here. >> i think that president biden is not going to even put his name in in iowa and new hampshire. i don't think he will compete. >> dana: what do you think bide

chris christie in this pole is at 1%. it seems all he wants to do is go on abc, fake news cnn, bash trump, bash trump and then get into debates in the hopes that he has another opportunity to bash trump to and aggrandize himself. am i wrong? >> you are not wrong. he is indulgent and likes to hear himself talk turkey sucks all the air out of the room. everything else out of the room, obviously. chris christie is doing this for himself. he is doing this because he likes to see himself and likes to talk to cnn and msnbc and all the liberal outlets that hate donald trump. they will put anybody on that will bash donald trump. is not a serious candidate. he will get no votes or support. he wants to get on the debate stage. i don't think it will happen for him. >> mary catherine hamm, donald trump is a serious candidate. ron desantis is. mike pence is. tim scott and nikki haley. i would add to that larry elder our friend who was in california last night. he is serious and running on issues. last night he made a powerful statemen

chris christie she's talking about chris christie 24 campaign here is she says quote he is almost trumpequel in showbiz and his superior and effective. he can do's and damage but would be a suicide mission? i do not know but those kamikazes took out a lot of tankers. how much vitriol and name-calling will be tolerated by the gop base and the general electric? >> the kamikaze tanker reference to world war ii. peggy is on the editorial side of the journal i am in the news department. she is making some interesting points here. chris christie is not like a lot of these other candidates received ron desantis back away from direct confrontation with trump. mike pence is the same way. dodging and weaving and not engaging with trump on the body blows. donald trump can be mean. and it can be heated. chris christie and she pointed out and we have seen this in past campaigns, stands up to that he was a former federal prosecutor a successful governor in new jersey. got a track record you can run on. i think what you are going to see if chris christie gets in the race which is expected to happen, h

as chris christie is jumping in, another republican is officially out. and chris sununu says that he will not be making a presidential run, while warning a crowded field only helps donald trump and could doom the party in 2024. if they are not helpful, coming up, welcome everybody, glad to have you, i am neil cavuto, my thanks to sandra smith for her hard work yesterday. to alexa mcadams in manchester, new hampshire, on this announcement and more to come i guess. alexis. >> it's a crowded field all ready. and chris christie is officially throwing his hat into the presidential race, just about 3e paperwork to enter the white house for the second time. but chris christie says he has what he takes -- what it takes to help the debate stage. and we had what they saw it about this. to take a lesson. >> i'm not a fan, but i would like to hear what he has to say? >> i think that everybody has to figure out what they are doing and put forward and go from there. >> so in just a few hours, the former new jersey governor expected to launch his campaign on stage at a

we had chris christie on last night. republican kind of primary field is kind of working through itself and the reality remains donald trump is still the frontrunner by a significant margin and i want to play something that chris christie said to our colleague kaitlan collins last night and get your reaction to it. >> we didn't go after trump early enough and we allowed a certain narrative to set in about donald trump that then became impossible for us to change or overcome. and so, look, he has been a major world figure for the last eight years and so we're not going to be able to knock down his numbers or shake some of his support. i have been in the race for three weeks. in three weeks. but we have, you know, seven months until the first people vote and my message will be heard by then. >> that intervies so interesting and kaitlan did a great job with it. go watch because i think it lays out so many that's kind of swirling around the 2024 gop presidential field right now and where these tension points are, right. so y

chris christie can come out on a basket and afraid. to your point, i don't think that will only be interesting for us this journalist to cover, but there might be a part of him to american people like to. i think you had the right on the. >> very interesting, thank you for all of that reporting. coming up, there's been a major dam collapse and ukraine prompting flooding and massive evacuations. who is responsible for this? which side? we will get a report from ukraine next. so adding a student title might feel daunting. national university is here to support all your r titles. national university. supporting the whole you. ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) -awww. -awww. -awww. -nope. ( ♪ ) constant contact delivers the marketing tools your small business needs to keep up, excel, and grow. constant contact. helping the small stand tall. if you think you, a child in your care, or another loved one were harmed by endo or a related company, including par or ams, or their products including ranitidine, transvaginal mesh, or opioids like

especially for chris christie.name voters said they would not vote for. joining us, the new jersey editor for politico, and charlie style, for the record of bergen county. thank you so much. your christie expertise is appreciated on this saturday evening. maybe he is still friends, who knows, christie told axios he would never support trump again. maybe you heard my interview with asa hutchinson. the republican party said they will require these candidates to support the eventual nominee. how does this work? how does christie square this circle? winning points with never trumpers and independents, but at the same time getting enough to win the nomination. >> that will be his biggest challenge, i think. he has had this long-established relationship. he was out front really early in 2016, endorsing president trump, or then candidate trump. and he was one of the most vocal defenders and advisers until the 2020 election and then everything changed from there. in the course of that, he's managed to upset, as you mention

it's not chris christie territory.y in the northeast, stay in a place where independent can vote. the question is does he have to do it there or does he get on a debate stage with donald trump? the first is in late august. trump said we'll see if he changes his mind. that's number one. if there's a second and third debate, can christie meet the criteria. you have to be 1% in three approved polls. 40 donors. you must sign a loyalty pledge. you could change your mind, but if it's someone that can't support donald trump, do you get on a debate stage? >> the 1% is going to be harder than his signature on this one. because there are so many people running, maybe not in the political assassin lane, but trump can't be the nominee lane. it's going to be hard for him to stand out. there's polling that says voters aren't really crazy about anybody that ran in 2016. they are past that point of the republican party. this is a rerun. it's a lot of the same people. so that remains to be seen of whether he's going to be able to get t

i think the problem for chris christie is he may not even make a debate stage.re are standards he will have to meet. there is a possibility donald trump doesn't even show up for the first debate. if you bank on that big moment and don't get it, you can be in trouble. >> as far as donald trump is concerned, is it good or bad if the candidates keep trickling in? >> it is good, because he has a base core support of 30%. the more there are other candidates who break up the remaining people, break up the remaining support, the better it helps donald trump. he could win a lot of primaries. >> thank you for the update. now for a different kind of competition. the pga tour have agreed to merge with liv golf in a deal that ends the acrimonious split in the game. the surprise announcement comes after unprecedented disruption in the men's game following the launch of liv golf. >> existing tours saw their arrival of liv golf as an existential threat. they felt thereas a possibility of their best players being taken away. they had to dig deep into their pockets to come up wi

>> i don't have an analysis of chris christie's campaign on the politics of it. ning against christie, trump, desantis, and everybody else in this race looking forward. i will say that a lot of course these criticism towards trump, his vengeance and grievance and backward looking at the jute, i don't know that more vengeance and grievance towards trump helps us look forward. the reason i am in this race, caitlin, is i think conservatives have gotten too much into the habit of running from something. i am the person in this race who is leading us to something. what it actually mains to be an american. the more we can look forward, the more we can ask ourselves what will be running to, the better off we will be as a country. >> trump is still the front runner of this race. do you believe his grievances help the party look for? >> i don't. i think that we go further when we do it based on first principles and moral authority. not vengeance and grievance. i think reagan set a good example in that respect. reviving the missing national identity that we lacked in the la

i hear chris christie is coming in. 6% in new jersey, which is i love new jersey, but 6% approval rating in new jersey. what's the purpose? >> bret: yesterday, about your speech he said how many times did chris christie use the word "small"? does he have a psychologic problem with size? actually his speech was small, not very good. it rambled all over the place. how do you respond to both of those things. >> i ran a blue state for 8 years as you know how blue new jersey is. when you bring conservative solutions to that, you're going to lose a lot of people on the way. secondly as to the size stuff, you know, look, he is a juvenile. is he a baby. only children talk like that. he never said that about me when he offered me white house chief of staff. he never said that about me when he offered me secretary of homeland security twice. never said that about me when he offered secretary of labor. i wasn't any of those things then. look, the minute you speak out against him, bret? do you know what he does? lashes back out lik

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switch today. >>> chris christie is on a mission to take down donald trump. including calling him a loser. this is how christie put it. >> in 2018 we lost the house. in 2020, we lost the senate. in 2020, we lost the white house. he said he was going to repeal and replace obamacare. he had a republican congress and couldn't get it done. said he was going to balance the budget in four years. he left with the biggest deficit of any president in american history. said he was going to retire the national debt in eight years. he added $8 trillion to the national debt in four years. >>> let's bring in our panel. is chris christie trying this radical honesty approach? what's the purpose of the approach his taking? >> everything he's put out there, from a fund-raising standpoint, get me to the 40,000 donors and status in the poll. i looked at chris christie getting into this. he is the face for a super pac of anybody but trump. him stepping up, is reminding other candidates that they don't have to play in the sand box. there's a drafting aspect of this. what's being lo

. >>> chris christie's campaign kickoff. the one-time trump loyalist laying into the former president, as former vice president mike pence ready days to get in the race. >>> despite a red hot job market, why some employers are pulling job offers already promised to new college grads. >>> and taking the scenic route. one man's walk around the america, inspiring us along the way. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening and welcome, everyone. it has happened again. we're monitoring what appears to be another mass shooting, this one as students and their loved ones were gathering for a high school graduation in richmond, virginia, on the campus of virginia commonwealth university. police say there are multiple injuries. dana griffin is following the story and joins me now. what's the latest, dane? >> lester, we understand a high school graduation ceremony was under way at the theater on the corner of the vcu campus. now the public schools there says that that's when the shooting happened outsi

you gotta love slices, it doesn't matter how much time laugh, chris christie's not getting it.nk you so much. still ahead everyone, the execution in iran 40 years ago today. taking on new importance in the country. a special report on. that plus, congresswoman a member of presidential biden's national advisory report jennifer mcclellan joins me to talk about biden strategy of silence on the trump indictment. and our friends, the good liars, talk to trump supporters outside of the arraignment and it appears fake news is now in the former presidents bathroom. >> you keep the papers in the bathroom. >> what are you saying about the photographs? what about the photographs? >> it's a stage. >> none of that stuff would've been in the bathroom. that looks like biden's house. get help reaching your goals with j.p. morgan wealth plan, a new tool in the chase mobile® app. use it to set and track your goals, big and small... and see how changes you make today... could help put them within reach. from your first big move to retiring poolside and the other goals along the way wealth plan ca

his very own problems he has to deal with that are going to be in addition to donald trump. >> chris christiewho's going to be important in this race for as long as he's lost, and who knows, i was talking to a senior advisor of his and i said what's christie's lane? we use that terminology all the time. and he said chris's lane is going right through trump. it is the only way that someone can win. so just watch out for chris christie, they don't think he'll destroy himself in the process but it didn't work so well for him last time. >> i agree. >> i feel like he would have to -- there has to be a decision made at some point that's other people are going to have to get out of the race in order for one person to really be the person to take on trump. and, maybe christy thinks that person is him. but the numbers prove otherwise. he's at what, 2%? >> but if you go back to 2008, which i think a lot of these campaigns are looking at, 2008, 2012, where the league changed several different times. and can we get back to that model? if chris christie getting in this race is trying to suck the oxygen ou

is chris >> no one likes chris christie. but let's be honest, every other contender minus, maybecoup a couple like mike pence actually has a sholemike pent ag something within this movement, within this america first gop resurgence, conservative movement first, all have a placa they think has a place. >> pence is a serious guy, ser a candidate. >> he's been a governor. hens been a congressma you know, he's a he's a mayobviu have disagreements, obviously, at the end of the administration with trump. buslheration wump,t he's a serii he's in this for his reasons. r. oh, he certainly is. i think he's unserious. ng the n it comes to actually getting the nomination. and i don't think that he has much of a futured i don't thinks new conservative movement. dertaineverybody else, by an large, does. chris christie certainly does not. he's there for himselflyno. he's indulgent, narcissistic. and again, this is all aboutarcs chris christie. and they're putting him on tv because he's willing to bash hi trump. >> and that's really the ext

attacks against donald trump are likely to ramp up in a big way as former new jersey governor chris christie but since january 6 a sharp critic, officially joining the 2024 primary race today after his failed run in 2016. christie arguing that candidates in a primary need to take trump on head on. >> they kind of cozy up to him, they hope he implodes and if they are nice to him, they will inherit his voters which i think is a losing proposition. >> and joining me now, shaq brewster in manchester, new hampshire. and also steve kornacki is at the big board. and charlie sykes editor at large and also susan page also joining us. and so shaq, why is chris christie jumping in now, what does it mean for trump? he didn't to well in new hampshire last time around. but chris christie is battle ready and as a former prosecutor he might have a certain extra edge this time around? >> reporter: right, i mean, if you listen to what governor christie has said in the past, he has been clear that he will have that attempt to at least start some fireworks, start some sparks about the former president donald tr

i don't really know who chris christie's constituents is. mike pence at least has the evangelical base, he can legitimately appeal to and he's trying to stake out that lane very clearly, unfortunately, on other issues. so at least he has some obvious constituency. i think chris christie is really interesting choice for donald trump, which is fine as well. >> well, on that, we will leave it there. brendan buck, howard dean, thank you. we will actually, brandon, you will be back later in the hour. governor dean, thank, you as always, for coming to the sunday show. coming up, the supreme court is due to hands down decisions in the major cases involving voting rights, free speech, student loan forgiveness. dolly atlas, wicked legal correspondent for slate, joins me next. me next. ♪when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion♪ ♪upset stomach, diarrhea♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes for fast relief when you need it most. our heritage is ingrained in our skin. and even when we metamorphosize into our new evolved form, we carry that spirit with us.

chris christie can say whatever he wants to. he has nothing to lose.f winning. he is a household name. so, if he continues to do what he's doing, he's not going to get a nomination. but you finally have somebody in this race that is not scared of donald trump. you have somebody in this race that is willing to not attack him based on his rhetoric. he is going to attack on the results and his record. that is not been done in a consistent way. pointing out that he didn't build a wall. pointing out that he left the economy in shambles. pointing out he didn't show real leadership. so, i am munching my popcorn. i'm a democrat. this is all fun for me. but -- >> is it fun for you if john corn an is right, senator corncorn cornan. >> i'm not betting that biden is winning the nomination. who took that bet? >> i'm just saying, you're eating popcorn and all these people get trump the nomination. >> here's what i think. the best hope for republicans is they don't want to have to deal with donald trump going forward. you get people in there to throw the best punches