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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, some major breaking news that we wanted to

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Speaker 1: bring you as soon as possible. Governor Chris Christie, formerly

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Speaker 1: of New Jersey has officially dropped out of the GOP

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Speaker 1: presidential primary.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to what he said.

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Speaker 3: From the moment I got into the race, the decision

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Speaker 3: that I made was really simple. I would rather lose

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Speaker 3: by telling the truth than lie in order to win.

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Speaker 3: And I feel no differently today because this is a

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Speaker 3: fight for the soul of our party and the soul

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Speaker 3: of our country. Why have we resisted the calls to

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Speaker 3: drop out of this race, Because, unlike some of the

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Speaker 3: other candidates, we're fighting for something bigger than ourselves. We're

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Speaker 3: fighting for something bigger than self interest. We're fighting for

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Speaker 3: something bigger than the next title. I've got plenty of titles.

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Speaker 3: I enough titles to last me the rest of my life.

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Speaker 3: US attorney, governor, husband, father, son, brother, I had enough

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Speaker 3: titles to ask me for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 3: We are fighting for something bigger. This is something that

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Speaker 3: conventional wisdom thinkers just can't possibly understand, and so they've

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Speaker 3: been saying for weeks and weeks and weeks because supposed

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Speaker 3: that I should drop out of the race, that I

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Speaker 3: should get out for that reason, the smallness of the

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Speaker 3: campaigns who spend more time arguing and worrying about who

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Speaker 3: should get out of the race than they have spent

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Speaker 3: going after the front runner. They spend all their time saying, Oh,

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Speaker 3: Christy should get out, Scott should get out, Pence should

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Speaker 3: get out, Hutchinson should get out, Bergham should get out.

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Speaker 3: They and their donors have a different target every day

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Speaker 3: to try to minimize the attention to their own campaign. Now,

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Speaker 3: their own campaign is a campaign that doesn't play to win.

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Speaker 3: It's a campaign that plays to not offend.

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Speaker 1: All right, So he says he's dropping out because he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a path the nomination.

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Speaker 2: He would rather lose and tell the truth than lie.

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Speaker 1: In the very same breath, though he went after some

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Speaker 1: of his opponents, Ron De Santis and Nikki Haley.

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Speaker 2: He didn't do it by name, But we have to

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Speaker 2: show you this so hilariously.

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Speaker 1: Right before he was about to step on stage, he's

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Speaker 1: caught on a hot mic clearly that he was wearing

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Speaker 1: on and backstage, where he tells us pretty clearly what

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Speaker 1: he actually thinks about Nikkile. She doesn't have a chance

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Speaker 1: she's gonna get smoked about Ron Desanta's Oh we called me.

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Speaker 2: He was all panicking.

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Speaker 1: He's talking himself up about how good of a candidate

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Speaker 1: he was. So this is the actual Chris Christie thoughts

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Speaker 1: and not the made for TV.

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Speaker 2: Here's what it sounded like.

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Speaker 3: Well, don't want to hear it, Wayne, they don't want

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Speaker 3: to hear it. We know we're right, but they don't

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Speaker 3: want to hear it. And there's you know, we couldn't

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Speaker 3: have been any clearer. If we couldn't have been any

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Speaker 3: more any more, director worked any harder.

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Speaker 4: So you know, she spent sixty eight Yeah when you

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Speaker 4: land Shiner any places like that, Yeah, that's what you get. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, she spent sixty eight million so far

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Speaker 4: just on TV. Spent sixty eight million so far, fifty

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Speaker 4: nine million by Desantus and we spent twelve. I mean,

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Speaker 4: who's punching above their weight and who's getting a return

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Speaker 4: on their investment? You know, And she's gonna get smoked

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Speaker 4: And you and I both know it. She's not up

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Speaker 4: to this. She's still twenty points behind crumping them sure,

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Speaker 4: right yeah, oh yeah, and he's still going to carry.

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Speaker 3: Out right, Yeah, oh, he's I talked to Desantus called

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Speaker 3: me petrified that I would be probably getting out.

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Speaker 2: Well, all right, yeah, I mean I can't get enough

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Speaker 2: for that. It's just so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: He's like, oh, she's going to get smoked. There's just

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Speaker 1: no way, you know. He's like, oh, I spent twelve

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Speaker 1: million dollars and I forgot this far. And Ron he

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Speaker 1: called me and he was panicked that I was going

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Speaker 1: to drop out. Now, obviously DeSantis actually should be. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: let's take a little bit of the takeaways. The top

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Speaker 1: line here is that this is the big win for

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Speaker 1: Nikki Haley, even though you know, based on the Hot Mike,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't think that she can win.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't.

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Speaker 1: He thinks, quote, she's going to get smoked. But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, you know, his amount of voters,

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Speaker 1: some ten percent in the state of New Hampshire, are

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Speaker 1: probably the most likely to at least disperse and to

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Speaker 1: vote for the non Trump candidates. And Trump is beating

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Speaker 1: her somewhere on average by about twenty points in some

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Speaker 1: of the In some of the best polls for him,

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Speaker 1: it's a single digit lead of maybe three to four points,

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Speaker 1: and some of the latest including a CNN one that

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Speaker 1: we covered very lately. Obviously polls her all over the map.

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Speaker 1: Who the hell knows, you know what the reality is.

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Speaker 1: But I think you can say pretty unequivocally this is

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Speaker 1: going to be good for her. Now, we don't know enough,

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Speaker 1: and but you know, I think it definitely could put

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Speaker 1: her in a position to win in the state of

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire. More importantly, though, she's got four days now

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Speaker 1: till the Iowa Caucuses. With those four days, she can

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Speaker 1: try and consolidate her and say, guys, you need to

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Speaker 1: come out and make me number two to Trump in

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Speaker 1: Iowa and in New Hampshire. So if you have two

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Speaker 1: number two back to backs, then she could credibly make

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Speaker 1: a case in South Carolina. And now listen, I'm giving

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Speaker 1: you the best possible case for her that's even possible.

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Speaker 1: I personally still think I think she could win New Hampshire,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think it would matter, you know, in

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Speaker 1: the long run. That's something we'll talk about. Actually tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we have some really interesting stuff that's prepared for the show.

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Speaker 1: But wanting to jump on here and just also reminisce

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Speaker 1: about some of the good times, you know, Chris Christy

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Speaker 1: he really, in my opinion, he was kind of a

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Speaker 1: dug from the start here in race. The one thing

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Speaker 1: that we expected from him was so twenty sixteen energy,

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Speaker 1: coming on the debate stage and destroying him, and let's

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Speaker 1: be honest, none of that happened, I mean, failure to launch.

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Speaker 1: He made it all about Trump. Clearly, nobody in the

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Speaker 1: GOP actually wanted to hear it, and the best he

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Speaker 1: could come up with was that horrible Donald Duck line.

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Speaker 1: So let's relive it for if we have to.

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Speaker 3: And I want to look at that camera right now

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Speaker 3: and tell you, Donald, I know you're watching. You can't

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Speaker 3: help yourself. I know you're watching, okay, and you're not

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Speaker 3: here tonight, not because of polls and not because of

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Speaker 3: your indictments. You're not here tonight because you're afraid of

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Speaker 3: being on the stage and defending your record. You're ducking

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Speaker 3: these things. And let me tell you what's gonna happen

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Speaker 3: you keep doing that. No one up here is going

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Speaker 3: to call you Donald Trump anymore. We're gonna call you

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Speaker 3: Donald Duck.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, I guess you could probably call

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Speaker 2: that the peak. I guess. Also, he really hated to

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Speaker 2: vake Ramaswami.

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Speaker 1: But you know, he always he always still decided to

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Speaker 1: White Night for Nicki Haley on the stage. He really

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Speaker 1: is an interesting I mean, I think he's just got

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Speaker 1: a titanic ego because he clearly hates Trump. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: want Trump to be the president again. But he also

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to do anything to bolster the Haley campaign,

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Speaker 1: at least for now. He's not endorsing anybody, you know,

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Speaker 1: as of yet. He doesn't want to bolster the Desanta's campaign.

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Speaker 1: He seems to be kind of a kind of a

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Speaker 1: nihilist in all this. Maybe I respect you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: a bit of an nihilist sometimes myself. So anyway, that's

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Speaker 1: the big news. Governor Chris Christy, we hardly knew ye

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Speaker 1: he dropped out just days before the Iowa caucuses, probably

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Speaker 1: clearing the path for Nikki Haley if she were to

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Speaker 1: this could be her moment, you know, number two and

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Speaker 1: number two that will give her media boost. But guys,

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Speaker 1: don't forget, you know, Joe Biden cleaned everything up, even

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Speaker 1: though he got fifth in the freaking state of New Hampshire,

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Speaker 1: in the state of South Carolina that came afterwards and

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Speaker 1: in every poll that we've seen so far. She's not

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Speaker 1: even close to winning in her own home state. So

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Speaker 1: that's what we've got so far, guys. And we have

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Speaker 1: a great show for you guys tomorrow. Don't forget there

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Speaker 1: will be a debate tonight, Ron DeSantis versus Nicky Haley.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have the highlights for you on the show

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Speaker 1: as well as a lot of other stuff, so we

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