1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: There's good news in America today, everybody. Chris Christy, the 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: former governor of New Jersey, has met the donor qualifying 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: threshold to participate in the Republican debates. He's met the 4 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 1: threshold for polling in one of the three polls. Chris 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: Christy will be on that debate stage, and so will 6 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Donald Trump is being coy right now, intimating 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: that he won't show. Chris Christie understands Donald Trump better 8 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: than any of the other candidates by far, because he 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: was such close friends with him, and he was such 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: a strong supporter of him. But none of that matters now, 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: because now Chris Christy is his fiercest opponent on the 12 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: debate stage. Chris Christy is the only person standing on 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 1: that debate stage who can take it to Trump, the 14 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: only person tough enough to take it to Trump. And 15 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: understand this, Donald Trump is scared shitless of Chris Christy. 16 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is terrified of Chris Christy. Donald Trump knows 17 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 1: that Chris Christie is going to, as we would say 18 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: in New Jersey, kick his ass from one end of 19 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:31,199 Speaker 1: the debate stage to another. Donald Trump, at his core 20 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: is a bully, a narcissistic one with a profoundly disordered personality. 21 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: But the one thing he has always been is a bully. 22 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: His father was a bully. He comes from a long 23 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: line of bullies. And you know how you deal with 24 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: a bully. Do you appease him? Do you cowtow to him? 25 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: Do you lay down in front of him? Do you 26 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: take the Mike Pence approach and try to emulate him, 27 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: imitate him, shadow him, and mirror him so that when 28 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: the bully puts his glass of water down, you do 29 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: the same. There is a tried and true recipe for 30 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: dealing with bullies. It's very simple and it never fails. 31 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: When a bully comes, you knock him on his ass. 32 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: And that's how you deal with a bully. There's no 33 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: other way. And what all bullies have in common is 34 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: their cowards. Donald Trump is a kick down type of guy. 35 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: He prays on weakness. He goes for people that he 36 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 1: thinks are smaller, that can't form him. He runs over 37 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: the milk toast politicians of this era, from Jeff Bush 38 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: to Marco Rubio. Donald Trump just ate them all alive. 39 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: Every one of these people on that debate stage are 40 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: afraid of Donald Trump. 41 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 2: Think about that the people who. 42 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: Want to be the commander in chief of the Armed 43 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 1: Forces of the United States. The men and women who 44 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: seek to be president to sit in the seat occupied 45 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: by George Washington, John Adams and Abraham Lincoln and Franklin 46 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: Roosevelt and John Kennedy. They're afraid of an orange tinted 47 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: queen's hustler named Trump. God help us if any of 48 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: these people ever have to sit across the table from 49 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: Xijingping or even Vladimir Putin's successor, terrifying prospects. Chris Christi 50 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: is about to have his moment. Chris Christie is about 51 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: to call Donald Trump out, and when he does, the 52 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: balloon will burst, the facade will crumble, The American people 53 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: will get to see something, and more importantly, republic Ads 54 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: will get to see something they haven't seen. They're gonna 55 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: get to see Trump embarrassed, humiliated, in made to look 56 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: as small, dumb, and ignorant as he actually is by 57 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: the man who sparred with him in the debate preps 58 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: for Joe Biden. Now Joe Biden ran over Donald Trump 59 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: in those debates, made him look like a fool, and 60 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: they played a big role. And the reason why Joe 61 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: Biden was elected president in the Republican debates of twenty sixteen. 62 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was a steamroller. He ran over his flaccid 63 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: and impotent opposition one after another. But Chris Christy is 64 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: in low energy. Chris Christie is going to bring the heat, 65 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: and that's a good thing. Many of you out there 66 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: may say, well, I. 67 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 2: Don't like Chris Christy fair enough. Many of you. 68 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: May say he was a terrible governor of New Jersey. Well, well, 69 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: i'd say to you on that maybe, but you may 70 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: not know the history of New Jersey governors because when 71 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: you stack them all up, no matter what you think 72 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: about Chris Christy, he wasn't all that bad. And he 73 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: also didn't wind up in jail, which is where a 74 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: lot of New Jersey politicians usually end their careers. Chris 75 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: Christy isn't perfect, far from it. All of us are 76 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: works in progress. But Chris Christy is tough, and Chris 77 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: Christy won't back down, and Chris Christy won't be deterred 78 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: by the name calling that will come his way. Chris 79 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: Christie seems to have entered a new spring of honesty 80 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: and he's going to be a very potent candidate coming 81 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: down the fall. There's some people who've written him off, 82 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: who say he has no chance of advancing, becoming a 83 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: chief competitor to Donald Trump and the Republican primary process. 84 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: And what all of those people have in common is 85 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: that they've never worked on a presidential campaign, they've never 86 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: navigated the Republican primary process, and as a general proposition, 87 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: they have no idea what they're talking about. Will Chris 88 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: Christi be the Republican nominee, Probably not. Could he deny 89 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump the nomination, absolutely so? 90 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 2: But could he win? 91 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: There's a recent media report that said, here's Chris Christie's fantasy. 92 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: First he becomes Trump's chief opposition, and then second, when 93 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: he does, he beats him. That doesn't sound so far 94 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: fetched to me. It's a coherent rationale. And I think 95 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: my opinion might matter here a little because I orchestrated 96 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: the largest and biggest comeback in the modern history of 97 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: presidential politics inside the Republican Party for John McCain when 98 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: he collapsed in two thousand and seven and was the 99 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: Republican nominee in the summer of two thousand and eight. 100 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: The issues at hand for America are momentous. The incompetence 101 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: on the debate stage. Confronting Donald Trump will be staggering. 102 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: There is no question that our country is in crisis, 103 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: that our country is in danger, and we have no 104 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: perfect people out there to save us. Politicians are people 105 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: by definition who have a pension for transactions and accommodation. 106 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: They look for the lubricant to slide in to evolving situations. 107 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 2: The people who voted for. 108 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: Donald Trump in twenty twenty, like Chris Christy, like Liz Cheney, 109 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: like Adam Kitsinger, it's fair to question their judgment about 110 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 1: that vote. But what they did next was heroic. They 111 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: did not get in line with everybody else with Donald 112 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: Trump crossed the river, They did not follow him. 113 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 2: They did not cross the Rubicon with him. They did not. 114 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: Participate in a coup to end the American Republic. We 115 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: have arrived at an hour where it is time for 116 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: some honesty in this country. What is it that we 117 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: want for our children? The world of Trump take where 118 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: you can get run over anyone in your way. That's 119 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: what trump Ism is. And finally, at long last, we're 120 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: about to see a heavyweight contender who could throw a 121 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: big time punch land one on the top of Donald 122 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: Trump's head. Here's what I think is gonna happen. When 123 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: Chris Christi connects, He's going to drop that bully to 124 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: his knees and that's gonna be a good thing. Go 125 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,439 Speaker 1: Chris Christy, go knock him on his ass.