christy had 12 percentage points. the question is how that impacts her in iowa remains to be seen, but that would certainly give her momentum as he heads into south carolina and nevada. >> she would really challenge trump in new hampshire if she got all the of those supporters. >> one thing they do have in common is foreign policy. you know, they're very pro-u pro-ukraine. you heard them talk about it tonight, pro-israel. so that's one area where they can sort of find some way to get together, because she is very strong in the way that he likes. that may be one thing he can point to that he likes about her. >> yeah, they're from the establishment wave of the republican party. she is trying to, i think, soften her language on determine abortion, too, to contrast herself with ron desantis in particular. ultimately, i think endorsements are sort of overrated in this political environment, it wouldn't hurt her to get that endorsement, but i think do alice's point, voters will make up their mind as to who serves them best.

christie has tried to damage donald trump in this race.think he was able to accomplish that? >> doesn't look like it if you look at his numbers and trump's numbers. this was a kamikaze mission and kamikaze pilots don't tend to survive. there is a thesis here that someone has to take on donald trump. how can you defeat donald trump if you don't take him on frontally. some of the candidates say how can you defeat him if you take him on frontally. chris christie had that thesis and he did it at his own personal peril in that it would have been easy to do what other people did, he is proving himself to be a mission-first conservative. when he thought his voice could make a difference he raised it loud and now he thinks he's in the way of someone that might be able to stop him in nikki haley and he's able to step back. you want to talk about someone who is showing principal and kamikaze missions are dangerous and the pilots don't survive. he did not survive on this for and he'll be around for a hong time 37 spa elena, you've been a lot of repor

christie was running third. this is the second choice of christie voters. look at that. 65% of the people who were going to vote for chris christie today say they're going to go to nikki haley. that gives nikki haley right now an hour from now an opportunity. obviously iowa is first. she is in des moines. she is trying to run as strong as she can here. trumps way ahead according to all the data. the question can she come in a decent strong second here and use that momentum to catapult into new hampshire where she is already in second place. and if she can pick up the christie support and then get even closer to trump, can she beat trump in new hampshire. look, the biggest question here, we talk about all the little pieces. the biggest question is we may know two weeks from i know whether donald trump can be slowed or stopped. if donald trump wins iowa and new hampshire, forget about it. just forget about it. then he is on a rocket. he is on a path. so if someone is going the stop him, it has to start here with at least a strong second. and then a stunner in

you heard christie. he gave a blistering speech, and it wasn't just about donald trump, but about the other candidates who are afraid to take him on. and that was very much haley as well as desantis. so it could be that some of his supporters are indecisive. but the bulk of them i think will go to haley. and i think that's something that the trump team has to worry about. >> do you see christie endorsing somebody before iowa? >> i mean, it didn't sound like it tonight, at least in the hot mic moments. he was caught backstage saying she is going get smoked. we all know that. how do you say that and then that get publicized around the world and you go out and endorse somebody. >> we don't have the context of exactly where she is going to get smoked. just pointing that out. >> and the speech he gave tonight was as much about his opponents as trump, his non-trump opponents. i don't know. it didn't seem like it. i heard kristen reporting on tonight memo that the trump campaign issued. i tend to agree with the

mary pat christie.important person in determining whether he does continue to go all the way and live up to the implications of that sentence that anyone unwilling to say donald trump is unfit is unfit themselves. that will be a question used to look at himself when he decides what to do in the general election. >> the call lists the briefing books being thrown out the windows by white house aides in favor of all these new names. thank you all. thank you. so for joining us on this very, very busy day of news. "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> hello. welcome to "the beat." we're tracking developments in the final countdown to iowa. candidates canvassing the state. the debate is tonight. as mentioned, another republican dropping out. governor chris christie, if you've been watching msnbc, you just heard, the most strident trump critic is o

chris christie speech that i like, i've never seen a chris christie speech that i respected that had anything in it i admired, until tonight. it was virtually the entirety of it that was could. not just good but exactly what republican-leaning voters need to hear, forget about trump voters, they are gone. they are lost to a cult. they won't be back until there is no trump on the ballot. he is speaking to voters who are not sure of about biden, they are independent, they normally vote republican, but they really don't want to vote for trump. he can hold on to that. he is not voting for donald trump in november. he may never say that he is voting for joe biden and he might not vote for joe biden in new jersey. he might just write into somebody else. that will be very helpful because every republican who doesn't vote for donald trump, holds donald trump down from victory. he has a way of -- that joe biden will never be able to do, that barack folbaum won't be able to, do there won't be any who can speak to republicans the way -- he used the most forceful language that i have ever heard

>> trace: the chris christie development. here's chris christie caught on a hot microphone taking a big swing at nikki haley and a smaller swing at ron desantis. >> she spent $16 million so far. she's on tv. we spent 12. who is punching above their weight and getting a return on their investment. she will get smoked. we know it. she's not up to this. i talked to desantis. he called me petrified. >> trace: nikki haley just said he's been a friend for a long time. let's move on. what do you think? >> chris christie gets out of the race saying the one thing he doesn't want to do is help donald trump and then helps donald trump putting a smack down on nikki haley and saying negative things about ron desantis. that's an endorsement of donald trump. >> trace: 15 seconds, joe concha. what did you think of hunter biden's show today capitol hill? >> exactly what it was. it was a show. it did not do him any good. reporters asking what kind of crack do you prefer? that's not a good thing. a bad thing for president biden who had a very b

he drove between enterprise, christie's home, and the murder scene.then, he checked that gas station acuity video again. this time, looking for a black vw. he watched the video more than 50 times. finally, located what looked like the vw passing by less than an hour before the murder and speeding through just minutes after. what's more, there was a phone number on the rental form that was new to investigators. turns out, marnie had bought a disposable phone with cash a week before the murder. she made only a few calls on it, but that was enough. >> there was at least one call that placed her in the vicinity of deerfield on the day of the murder. >> more strong circumstantial evidence. still, not enough, the prosecution said. >> it was aggravating. they kept pushing, one more thing, for more than. >> it was maddening for police. they were their prime suspect would never be brought to justice. but they had a plan. an undercover sting. they thought they could convince someone in particular to try and get marni into confessed on tape. police were about to

i think they will keep this momentum going for chris christie four. >> let's talk about chris christie. you have called for him publicly, to drop out of this race and consolidate another report for nikki haley. if she doesn't get new hampshire, would you put the blame on chris christie, for taking some of those more moderate voters away? >> there is only one person that wants chris christie in this race. a vote for chris christie, is a vote for donald trump. it is being taken away from nikki haley. it prevents delivering that loss to the former president. chris christie's message has always been, he has an opportunity to get out of the race. they were galvanized behind nikki haley. once the law starts, he was in the first primary in new hampshire. they go to the home state of south carolina for nikki haley. one month to campaign and close the gap. everything gets reset if he gets out. i'm still hopeful that he will make the right decision. he has done a great job on the race. give him a lot of credit. it is time to say that this is going to be a long shot. we need to consolidate. it sh

chris christie dropping out of the race for president. but not before a hot mic picked up what he was saying about nikki haley. >>> also breaking, the deadly avalanche in the u.s. the search and rescue. >>> in the northeast, rescues from the floods. and now the new storm set to move in. >>> first tonight, the breaking news just in. chris christie out of the race, five days before the first voting in iowa. tonight, what christie said about his decision, and the most important issue for anyone running for president, he says. and that hot mic moment, right beforehand, what he said about nikki haley. rachel scott in iowa. >>> the search and rescue, the deadly avalanche in california. skiers buried in the snow. search teams battling heavy snow, brutal cold, and winds gusting up to 100 miles an hour to find the victims. the images coming in tonight. >>> in the northeast, the flood emergency playing out. high water rescues. a potential dam breach forcing evacuations. homes surrounded by water. and now, the new storm set to sweep across the count

chris christie is no longer running for president.r announced that he's dropping out of the race during a town hall event in new hampshire yesterday. kristi told supporters there's no longer a clear path to the nomination for him. this as nikki haley has been gaining ground among voters in the granite state. there's pressure on christie to drop out and potentially aid haley. while christie has not endorsed any candidate,hy he says he's working to make sure donald trump doesn't get elected again. he up staged himself because ahead of his announcement yesterday christie was caught on a hot mic appearing to say haley september going to beat trump and that ron desantis is getting nervous. the comments came while christie was offstage and could be clearly heard on the event's live stream. christie's campaign cochair told nbc news he was the person the former governor was talking to when he was caught on that hot mic. take a listen. >> i mean who's punching above their weight and who's getting a return on their investment, you know? and she

i love chris christie.eat job in his campaign, but nikki haley is the way to beat trump. the independent voter is going to make this decision. i think the american people are going to be surprised to see donald trump did not win the new hampshire primary. >> eva mcend is in new hampshire. you have been spending a lot of time up there in the granite state recently. away are you hearing from voters about this question, this dynamic? >> reporter: dana, chris christie really resisting those calls. that's because he has a base of support here. you can hear it on the ground from his supporters. and you hear governor sununu calling for christie to step aside. this is an indication that voters are trying to consolidate around an anti-trump alternative. you might hear that donald trump is going to walk away with the nomination. not if the voters have something to say about it. many of them looking for someone else, including this woman who we met just recently in lebanon. take a listen. >> let's just say i lived in

barton were ready to go all in for christie.e isn't sure what comes next. >> i'm very saddened by this. >> reporter: he says he's open but needs to see more. >> if there's one candidate that i would like, if she would stand up to trump more, it would be haley. >> reporter: katherine johnson, a democrat who supported christie doesn't see it the same way with haley. >> i'm a new hampshire democrat volunteering for a republican because he believes in the idea of working across the aisle. i'm going to go work for the democrats starting tomorrow. because, no, i respect her. but, no, i will not vote for her. >> reporter: others as young as 10 years old liked christie. >> let's say you weren't running and you had no idea that this could even happen, who would you vote for. >> reporter: but hannah and her parents thought this was the right time for him to go. they attended many campaign events and hannah encouraged her parents to see more of the candidates. it changed their minds. >> i'll give chris christie the credit for telling me th

haley's more like chris christie.he vast majority of the voters like donald trump, a lot of them think he did win the election in 2020, they think he ought to have won the election. they look at the polls, they see him on average leading the president to the polls, they don't buy the stuff, trump can't win the next election so you're trying to make an argument to people who like donald trump a lot. if you attack donald trump that's not going to appeal to them and the electability arguments don't fly because they don't think trump has an electability problem. the vn she hasn't executed a strategy that does better there is i'm not sure if there's one available that will work. >> i would take issue with the fact that -- there's an overwhelming majority that are supporting trump, but still he's below 50%. and i think all the polls the continue to show him in the low 40s show me there's 56 plus that are looking for an alternative. i would even say that there's probably 30% of trump's 44% are just waiting for somebody to sh

talk about chris christie just to what j.d. vance said. chris christie is going to work inside of the republican party to elect joe biden. not nikki haley, not donald trump. he is working for joe biden. cnn, maybe not msnbc, but maybe the next biden administration, hoping to get a spot. in that's what he is doing. >> he wanted to be attorney general, senator, for trump. and he didn't get that position. and now maybe he could be attorney general for biden people are ready for the main event here. about two weeks away from that you compare these records. the american people doing better. it's a blue collar party now. i welcome that, i know you do, too. americans were doing better. we had a secure border and energy dominant. people are ready for that again. i don't think this changes anything about the race. trump is on his way to victory probably over in two weeks. >> this is a pat buchanan platform of issues on immigration on being less intervention nist obviously on the trade issues. these issues go back to pitch fork pat in 1992 in new ha

chris christie is a trash talker. >> he's from jersey. >> he's from jersey! i'm not surprised that's what he was saying. i do not agree with chris christie on policy, and i thought his speech was very, very strong and he called out people up and down his party in the house and the senate for siding with donald trump, calling people hostages from january 6th. i thought it was important and strong, and i hope he continues to do it. i hope asa hutchinson, in the race and out of the race continues to hold the feet to the fire and making sure people are taking donald trump to task. >> i'm not along with what chris christie said. he identified a lot of what the very obvious problems are. i didn't hear one offer of what a solution might be, and i think that's part of where the republicans find themselves. they don't know how to go forward if they can't find the solutions and the problems are easy to diagnose and christie is a truth teller for sure, but he hasn't been able to diagnose what those solutions would be. >> republican leaders and fox and others, not lying

you're one of the 65% who supported christie and are leaning haley. why? >> she's the best pathway to helping the country move forwards from trump. >> reporter: a dynamic he raised at a christie campaign event last month. >> would it not better serve the anti-trump vote for you to suspend but for nikki to have you as vp, declared before the january primary? >> no, i don't think so so. >> i was particularly pleased yesterday with the christie announcement because the timing was right. next best candidate is clearly haley, now she has an opportunity to gather and speak with and speak to that 65% of christie supporters like myself. her needle has moved a big jump now in new hampshire. >> reporter: other christie supporters were ready to go all in for christie, now he isn't sure. >> i'm saddened by this. >> reporter: he's open but needs to see more. >> one candidate that i would like, if she would stand up to trump more, would be haley. >> reporter: johnson, a democrat who supported christie, doesn't see it the same way with haley. >> i'm a new hampshire democ

christie gave that to him. so his endorsement in 2016 was powerful. as well for nikki haley but it's tough to see how it plays out for him. >> neil: we'll be hearing from chris christie, presidential candidates. he put all of he's marbles in new hampshire. he could be on the verge of saying let's help hip the scales in someone else's favor. more after this. if you have chronic kidney disease you can reduce the risk of kidney failure with farxiga. because there are places you'd rather be. farxiga can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, urinary tract, or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking farxiga and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of this infection, an allergic reaction, or ketoacidosis. ♪ far-xi-ga ♪ ♪ ♪ every day can be extraordinary with rich, creamy, delicious fage total yogurt. you always got your mind on the green. not you. you! your business bank account with quickbooks mone

the other thing i was going to say is chris christie is very ambitious. donald trump, he would really like to be president of the united states, so we certainly have to keep a close eye on him in the coming weeks and months. >> there's also fresh speculation over whether former maryland governor larry hogan could mount a run after resigning as cochair of no labels, what do you think of that? >> hogan is another good candidate for this cause. he's also committed to blocking donald trump by any means possible, but he's a lesser known quantity than chris christie. chris christie is a big personality. he's been on the national stage for a long time now. larry hogan was the governor of maryland. he was successful there. has a good track record of working across the aisle, but he has lower name i.d. throughout the country, and raising name i.d., lifting name i.d. is very expensive. >> former congressman, carlos curbelo, have a great week. good to see you. that's going to do it for us this hour. our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" right after the brea

>> give chris christie a ton of credit. from how he ran his campaign to stepping out when he did, every pitcher starts the game wanting to pitch a complete game, but rarely does that happen. i. hope he stays plugged in and continueses to hold donald trump's feet to the fire. you said this earlier. republicans have fallen in love with donald trump's personality, not his leadership. none of us, even his most ardent supporters wouldn't trust him to do anything. but yet we're trying to trust him to run the country again and he probably runs it into the ground. i hope chris christie's message stays strong and loud and prude. we have to make a determination. nikki haley and ron desantis have a very, very thin window to do this. they have to call donald trump what he is. donald trump wakes up in the morning and looks in the mirror and sees a mafia boss. he just is really wide shouldered, proud mafia boss. the reality is he's a thug. he just walks around and tries to intimidate everybody. >> jeff duncan, you experienced this as a r

like tom barton were ready to go all in for christie. now he isn't sure what comes next. >> i'm very saddened by this. >> reporter: he says he's open, but needs to see more. >> if there's one candidate that i would like, if she would stand up to trump more, it would be haley. >> reporter: katherine johnson, a democrat who supported christie, doesn't see it the same way with haley. >> i'm a new hampshire democrat volunteering for a republican because he believes in the idea of working across the aisle. i'm going to go work for the democrats starting tomorrow because, no, i respect her, but, no i will not vote for her. >> reporter: others as young as 10 years old liked christie. >> let's say you weren't running and you had no idea that this could even happen. >> okay. >> who would you vote for? >> reporter: but an ha and her parents thought this was the right time for him to go. they attended many campaign events and hannah helped encourage her parents to see more of the candidates. it even changed their minds. >> i will give chris christi

now, chris christie hasn't been afraid to.ction results, for his more than 90 criminal charges that donald trump faces in four different cases, for not taking part in the republican tv debates — i mean, the list goes on. and chris christie hasn't been shy, he hasn't been afraid of using that list. now, in his speech tonight in new hampshire, when he announced that he was suspending his campaign, chris christie said that he was pulling out to make sure that, "in no way i enable donald trump to ever be president again". and that is because by staying in the race, he's essentially splitting the anti—trump vote. and he also in that speech attacked the other speech attacked the other candidates for not attacking donald trump, saying that they were treating the former president like voldemort from the harry potter books, saying that they feared that even bringing up his name, he would appear. and briefly, by him dropping out, which other candidate does this move benefit? well, this is the big question now, isn't it? to which candida

she and christy are sitting on the votes of a heavily upscale demographic. haley's challenges that new hampshire may only represent a false dawn, a blip before the primary returns to states with a down scaled demographic, more like iowa. haley may find open new hampshire, but that would only tempered to return home to south carolina and discovered that she is hootie and the blowfish to trump's taylor swift. just to be clear, that is hootie and the blowfish circuit 2023, 1994, when rudy was massive. nikki haley would probably be delighted to have hootie and the blowfish popularity. the reason why chris christie's departure and a sentence in new hampshire matters here is not because of nikki haley is going to sweep the rest of the gop primary states. it is because support for candidates like nikki haley and chris christie can still tell us something about the broader republican electorate. and five days, iowa is going to tell us the actual number of republican people in that state that don't want to vote for donald trump the number of actual people willing to

but the next logical question is, what does christie do next? i want to tamp down on this and be like oh now he wants to be us -- to get a slot at the dnc. chris christie speaking to republicans and saying wind arnold trump isn't fit is very important,. the second that he becomes a democrat, he's gonna lose that credibility. i don't think there should be a rush to do that yet, because we need this civics education. we wonder, why do republican voters think the way they do? why do they support trump? there's a self fulfilling doom loop where trump tells them something, his maga media echoes that, all the go along politicians repeated and get covered, the voters get it may reflect back to everybody. and on an honor goes. if chris christie can get in there a little bit, and be like hey maybe this is why presidential immunity matters. i don't know. something like that going out of the courts. that would be great. >> angry with that, and jamele, i think one of trump's skills, he is polarizing. intentionally. it's a which side are you on kind of situa

but chris christie did that, and look where he ended up.was it always going to be an exercise in futility, susan? >> well, to some extent, the argument of going after trump made sense when trump was weaker after the 2023 elections, 2022 elections, when all of a sudden like whoever donald trump back lost his polling numbers were down. it was pre-indictment. he looked weaker. that's when desantis's numbers were actually pretty good against donald trump, and i guess the desantis team thought, like, why -- we want to get his support -- or his supporters i should say. donald trump won't be able to continue. except when your argument is i'm, you know, i'm the trump alternative and donald trump is still viable, it doesn't really work because donald trump is a viable nominee and, you know, general election opponent to joe biden. the polls are close enough that trump is definitely still in it. the going after trump needed to happen many, many months ago. right now i think if you look at desantis and nikki haley, nikki haley figures so far she could

even christie supporters, though, don't know who to spoke. we spoke to them in the primary state of new hampshire. >> reporter: chris christie hasn't endorsed anyone yet, but there's one candidate most likely to benefit from his exit. a cnn poll from new hampshire showed 65% of christie voters surveyed said they would pick nikki haley as their second choice. you're ssentially 1 of those 65% who supported christie before but now you're leaning to haley? >> yep. >> why is that? >> because she's the best to help the country move forward from trump. >> reporter: it was a dynamic he raised at a christie campaign event last month. >> would it not be better -- to better serve the anti-trump vote for you to suspend but for nikki to have you as her vp declared before the january -- >> yeah, i don't think so. [ laughter ] >> i was particularly pleased yesterday when we had the christie announcement because the timing was right, the next best candidate is clearly haley, now she has an opportunity to gather and to speak with and to speak to that 65% of c

but sources tell cbs news christie has no plans to endorse haley. in fact, tonight before his speech in new hampshire, he was overheard by reporters on a hot mic doubting her chances, saying, quote, she's not up to this. norah? >> we will stay tuned, ed o'keefe, thank you. i will join ed and our cbs news team in iowa as cbs news will have full coverage of the iowa caucuses, including special live coverage on monday. it is very cold in iowa. you can find us right here on cbs, the cbs news streaming app, and at cbsnews.com. >>> back here in washington, there are few genuine surprises at the u.s. capitol, but there was a big one today. house republicans were thrown for a loop when hunter biden appeared at a hearing called to hold him in contempt of congress. cbs' scott macfarlane was there as the meeting descended into chaos. >> mr. biden, do you plan on testifying today, sir? anything you want to say? >> reporter: the president's son walked into the house committee room telling cbs news he was willing to take a seat at the witness table. the company w

i want to come to that because of course christie's - because of course christie's campaign is over,nald trump. and he has really been the only one in this race that has been prepared to take him on. christie is polling at 12% in new hampshire. so this could be significant. when you consider that in the latest cnn poll haley wasjust 7 points behind trump. she has made significant progress since november. and the thinking is, that the bulk of christies support would go to her. the question is, will chris christie endorse her. if he is going to do that, you wouldn't have guessed it from this hot mic moment that was caught last night. he's spent 68 million so far, just on tv. spent 68 million so far, 59 million by desantis and we spent 12. who is punching above their weight and who is getting a return on their investment? you know? and she is going to get smoked. you and i both know it, she is not up to this. she is still 20 points behind trump in new hampshire, right? oh, yeah, oh, yeah. and he's still going to carry iowa, right? oh, yes, italked to, desantis called me petrified that i

that's why christie was polling so well here.ask in these polls, we have seen indications that the second choice of christie voters would overwhelmingly be haley. so, that possibly could give haley a chance here in new hampshire. the presence of independent voters, it is a secular republican electorate, relatively speaking. a lot of other states, evangelical christians play a bigger role and it is a more moderate independent minded electorate too, relative to other states. if you put iowa and new hampshire side by side and look at how the caucuses, what the republican electorates -- look at this, nearly two-thirds of the iowa caucus electorate, evangelical. in new hampshire, a quarter. independents, one fifth of the iowa caucus electorate, republicans, independents, more than 40% in 2016 and, remember, 2016 there was a democratic race, a republican race, independents chose between the two of them. this time around, there is only a competitive republican race. i think you can expect that independent number to be higher this time.

chris christie called chris sununu a liar. chris christie and chris sununu used to get along. i think what sununu is doing is making it more likely chris christie stays in the race out of pure hatred than anything else. >> first i want to say, it wouldn't be a one-on-one matchup if the leading contender and the former president actually showed up to a debate. i mean, he is still in the race, but he refuses to debate, which is telling in and of itself of how serious he's taking this race and the other candidates. to the point on new hampshire, we knew this republican field at some point was going to have to consolidate. i have to be honest f i'm chris christie, i'm not going to drop out before iowa because i made this point before, but i think chris christie is helping nikki haley right now by staying in the race because he's the only one going after donald trump. if you're not going to -- nikki haley won't punch at donald trump, you need someone in the race and i do think chris christie's attacks are landing in some ways with new hampshire voters. do i think nikki haley can wi

host: david mentioned chris christie, he has dropped out of the race. he did not have a lot of support in iowa. i wonder what he did not have very much support and who his supporters might go to. guest: chris christie has not made iowa -- did not make iowa much of his early campaign strategy. he was entirely centralized on new hampshire which makes sense when you consider where he is from in the northeast. a lot more in the po -- a lot more independents and democrats participating up there. he has not been on the ground in iowa whatsoever. there might be too chicken rack dynamic where he has not been on the ground so he is not ve support. he was earning a few percentage points in polls. we crunched the numbers on our most recent poll to see if chris christie dropped out, we asked folks who their second or third choice was. it barely made any impact. maybe nikki haley went up one percentage point. everyone else was fairly uninfected. we saw folks supporting chris christie with the most adamant anti-trump voters in the republican coalition. it remains to

who will benefit moers from christie pulling out? our senior data reporter harry enten here. >> the fact is, chris christie might not like nikki haley, but in new hampshire, his voters do like nikki haley. their supporters, their second choice, look overwhelmingly, who are they? they are backing nikki haley, 65% of chris christie voters say their second choice is nikki ha haley. very sue of them, none of them, choose ron desantis, and trump comes in with the star, that means less than 1%. nick kki haley overwhelmingly t second choice for chris christie persons. let's do a little math. who doesn't like to do math? let's remindure uour viewers whe top choices were. we saw trump at 39%, haley at 32%, christie at 12%. what happens to this math when we reassign the christie voters to their second choice? guess what, folks. we have a flat out tie. trump at 40%, nikki haley at 40%. no clear leader. the fact is chris christie leaving the race overnight changes the race in new hampshire. we got a tie. >> 24 hours, less than 24 hours before he

former new jersey governor, chris christie. up to about an hour ago was running for president against donald trump. the only republican to consistently and sharply criticize trump has dropped out of the race. and what he has had to say about trump and about his remaining opponents is where we begin tonight. just a short time ago in new hampshire, kristy said he no longer saw a path to the republican nomination. >> please understand this. i have known him well for 22 years. more than anybody else in this race has known him. and i can promise you this, if you put him back behind the desk in the oval office and the choice comes and decision is needed to be made as to whether he puts himself first or he puts you first, how much more evidence do you need that he will pick himself? >> but even before the announcement made it official, apparently christie didn't realize his mic was still hot when he s this apparently speaking about donald trump's remaining rivals. >> yeah. that's what you get. yeah, i mean, he'd spent 68 million so fa

christie through donors and allies before he left the race.istie's campaign says he has not spoken to no labels but neither the campaign nor the man has rolled out a third party run. former senator joe lieberman, chair of no labels, thinks it might be time for a second look. >> look, earlier in the year, when he was asked about no labels, he basically said it was not an effort that had any chance of succeeding. but maybe the world will look different to him now. and i'd like to reach out to him and see if he, governor christie, is at all interested and being on a bipartisan no labels unity ticket this year. he could be a very strong candidate. >> joining me now is america's sweetheart, steve kornacki, based in use national political correspondent. stay, not only are you a political savant, you are also a jersey expert. i think you understand the mind of christie better than most. do you think it is all, somewhere in his mind, summer, front, meiddle, back of mind, to keep investing as a third party candidate? >> i bet it's summer and has. mind

you heard christie's explanation.as betting everything and didn't even stay in until the new hampshire voters got a chance for their say. was that the right call? >> i think he had to get out. he's the one who represented himself as a truth teller. he faced up to the truth that there was no path for him. it was a fascinating candidacy. in some ways, chris christie was the most articulate candidate. you listen to him talk at these town halls, i found him interesting to listen to, you don't say that about too many politicians. he was able to talk about a lot of things but he built his entire campaign around being against trump. why he thought this would gain him the republican nomination is a mystery especially in a state like new hampshire. he hit the ceiling. he did say a lot of things that were true. he's gone now. the question is, are those voters going to transfer over to nikki haley? it looks like they probably are. paul: that's the question i have for you. are they? most of them likely to go to haley and how much

over chris christie dropped out of the race on wednesday, christie was one of the very few republicans. and kristie, a former federal prosecutor, said he would do everything he could to top stop trump from getting reelected. michael, let's start what we started before we went to break. you are saying? >> i love that question. who do we want to be? it's a question i have proposed to many republican friends and it's a question that i now in various veins have been posing more broadly to the country. who do you want to be? what does all of this say about us? and i think that question is even a little bit more powerful than do you love democracy question. why? because it's more personal. who do you want to? be it speaks to how you view yourselves as an american. and i thought chris christie laid that out very nicely. i think one way to help frame that question for people is, if we could, let's listen to donald trump on bedlam. tonight in his town hall, when asked about bedlam. let's talk about that. me >> there will be bedlam in the country. it's a very bad thing. a very bad precedent, as

and that's why chris christie had to get out.here but i think he got read the riot act and i think that's why you got him on the hot mic. he's angry that he's been forced to do that. it's human nature. you know what that's like. >> someone like you. they say, well, he's ohio governor, he's this, he's that. it's people and you're reminding us that what chris christie may have said in the moment as he's driven out might be different than his broader feelings. i have to fit in a break. we've got rachel coming up, the governor. >> thank you. all right, ari. see you. >>> up next, we look into policy at our nation's children, for real. dren, for real help you find and unlock opportunities in the market. e*trade from morgan stanley. with powerful, easy-to-use tools, power e*trade makes complex trading easier. react to fast-moving markets with dynamic charting and a futures ladder that lets you place, flatten, or reverse orders so you won't miss an opportunity. e*trade from morgan stanley. ♪oh what a good time we will have♪ ♪you... can m

so, chris christie said he wanted to do anything he could to hurt trump.olong the amount of time before donald trump secures that nomination and thereby hurt his general election effort. >> bret: let's go to capitol hill. hunter biden appearing today, take a listen. >> mr. biden, why did you put your dad on speaker phone with your business partners if he had no involvement in your business? >> do you have a dad? does he call you? >> yes. >> answer the phone. >> yes. >> okay. >> but why did you need to talk to him during business meetings if he had nothing to do with your business? >> bret: there you go. hunter biden on the hill, brit. "new york times" hunter biden appears on capitol hill as house g.o.p. readies contempt vote. rival younger biden testify publicly impeachment inquiry into president biden but refused to be interviewed behind closed doors prompted chaos in the proceedings as democrats and republicans bickered about whether to allow him to be heard. what do you make of this drama today? >> well, first of all, hooray for hillary vaughn. those ar

>> of course i will, i have already started to like chris christie better. >> chris christie for vp?see it, that would be an upset, christie for vice president. i would like to announce. >> brian: i don't think he made the decision. >> ainsley: said he has. >> steve: he knows who, might not be a person, might be somebody with the qualities. >> brian: unless you are on to something with lee zeldin. elise stefanik, kristi noem. >> ainsley: kari lake. >> brian: she's running for senate. >> ainsley: if he says come be my vice president -- >> brian: i don't think she benefits from that. >> lawrence: whether he knows or not, it was clear from his performance, he is moving toward general election. he was not as focused on the primary. he was calmer. he was taking on his case against joe biden. it wasn't a lot about the other candidates. >> steve: in his head, i think he's already won it. three names circulating on twitter, now x, ben carson, lee zeldin and youngkin. big question is whether or not they would want it. those names are floating around. >> ainsley: took me a while to get on boar

nikki haley is 16% and chris christie at 4%. not surprising chris christie has put almost no resources in iowa. the real numbers is ken haley actually get the point to catch up to ron desantis? which would obviously be very bad for ron desantis, who went all in for this date. the you look at new hampshire, uc trumps number, he is still leading. there is the chris christie factor 14%. in the last one of course, south carolina. again, it is still early. all of the different dynamics will come into play, depending on what happens in iowa. this is where it stands right now. >> thank you for taking us through that. i also get a bit of an eye twitch or hives, but i feel you one back. it gets a little crazy this time of year. let's bring in former biden white house communications director and now cnn political commentator kate bedingfield and joe walsh, the director of mission democracy and host of the white flag podcasts. it is mixed emotion. so much chaos and so much excitement. what can these non-trump candidates accomplish in this

what is chris christie all about? when i stand with chris christie it means this. everybody keeps saying, why don't people take down donald trump. you want to understand why you don't take down donald trump, look at this as a case study, if your whole focus is taking down donald trump and not giving us a reason to say you are the person i want to vote for because you're going to do something differently, this is the result. and unfortunately it's not going to win an election. >> i don't disagree. i just think the reason you only think of him as going after donald trump is because he's the only one who did it. he's like this unicorn who actually took on donald trump. maybe if everybody else on that stage would have taken him on, they actually could have taken down donald trump. i do think he talked a lot about education, he talked about what he did as a blue state republican governor. yeah, when he would go after trump, nobody else did. so that's what kind of hogged the message and it became all about that. i have a ton of respect for him making the effort. now we'l

chris christie dropping out. the field could solidify behind one trump challenger as soon as next week. >> we don't need a politician who tells you what she thinks you want to hear just to try to get your vote. >> every time he lies, drake university don't turn this into a drinking game, because you will be overserved by the end of the night. >> 25 hours after hunter biden surprised congress, he is in california preparing to face a federal judge this afternoon. >>> good to be with you. court is in a break and donald trump is speaking. we will show live pictures in a moment. andrea mitchell is on assignment. donald trump's defense team should be finishing their closing arguments relatively soon this afternoon. right now they are on a morning break. this is the $370 million civil fraud trial against donald trump here in new york city. they have been in court, before this break, for about two hours, despite a bomb threat at the home of the judge. police are investigating. yesterday on truth social, the former presid

chris christie is at 12. so the other point here, because i know, if governor christie is watching right now, he'll say that's not true, his prefers not to that. but look at this. 75% of his supporters and after of it started back nikki haley in the primary if he was not in the race. does that make the argument against chris christie, if you are trying to avoid maybe donald trump being but nominee? >> it potentially does. and it goes back to what we showed content earlier in the show, he said this isn't good for our primary but it's really bad for a general election. this picture out to that. that nike had it maybe this person who can bring on those independents. and christie's numbers -- 60% of new hampshire republicans disapprove of chris christie. so his cousins at this point, yes he's a truth teller on donald trump, but of his goal is to get rid of donald trump, and i might think this, because i admire his truth telling -- it would be time for chris christie to go. if your goal is to get rid of donald tru

new hampshire is -- is just right for chris christie. it is a combination of democrats, republicans, and independent voters who all act like independent voters, right? >> right. >> why couldn't christie given what he said tonight out the door, and i know me happened that case continually throughout his campaign because that was his only focus in this thing, why couldn't that message resonate? why didn't it resonate with voters enough to say you know what, in the balance this is the guy who should be the one to take on trump and probably carry the party to a different place than trump is planning to take it? >> well, first let me say i think that chris christie provided the nation with, you know, such a valuable service, such a valuable moment. if it wasn't for chris christie, the truth about donald trump and the truth about this gop primary would be lost in history. so because he was so aggressive and assertive and firm in standing in that message, we all want to thank you for that. and why didn't he take off in new mexico, because this

i am friends with chris christie and donald trump and i know firsthand that governor christie was inistration trying to be very helpful, was offered a number of positions but there until almost the bitter end and so it's hard to watch that. everybody is allowed to make their decisions. i think look, in new hampshire, in the polling right now they have upwards of 50% in the sample independent. the highest number of independents to ever vote in a republican primary in new hampshire has been 40%. so we'll see if it actually is a rising number of people who call themselves independents and show up. it is a lot of democrats way past the deadline of being able to switch and vote in the republican primary. we'll see how it turns out. he is welcome to do that. for a while governor christie had some momentum as being the non-trump candidate. by definition you are a non-trump candidate if you are running this time. i have think governor christie and donald trump had a 20-year friendship. i hate to see that disappear because of politics. and like i said for me personally i worked very closely w

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