Cheapest person: Chris Christie blasts Trumps fundraising

We were just talking about the state of the 20, 24 race. And you obviously what sets you is that you were willing to go after Trump in a way that no one else in the 2024 fie We see a Hutchinson and we'll he they do criticize him but not in the way that you have Do you believe those who don't are making a mis you made

in 2016. Exactly. I think they're making a mistake not only that I made but the Jeb Bush made and Marco Rubio made and Ted Cru and John Kasich made that we didn't go after Trump early enough and we allowed a certain narrati 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 abl to knock down his numbers or shakes off his support. I've been in the race for three in three weeks, but we have, you know, seven mon until the first people vote. And my message will be heard by And I think the American people about the truth, Kate, that I re And I think

the Republican Party cares about the truth and I think they want to hear it But no one's been saying it to t And I'm going to say it to them over the next seven months. We have questions on your fundra but on Donald Trump's fundraisin he has quietly begun diverting m that he is raising for his 20, 24 campai into a political action committee that he

has used, which we can see from filings for his personal legal fees. What do you make of that? It's disgraceful. It's disgraceful. He's going to middle class men and women in this country, and they're donating 15, 25, 50 because they believe in Donald T and they want him to be presiden They're not giving that money so he can pay his personal legal And let's remember something.

He's a billionaire. He's a billionaire, self-professed billionaire. Why can't he use his own money to pay his personal legal fees and not use money coming from th It's disgraceful. And it's a continued grift. And look, the Trump family has been involv in grifting for quite some time. He was doing this in terms of the people who got paid out of this PAC bef whether it was

Kimberly Guilfoyl or other members of the family. Jared Kushner, six months after the White House, gets $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth When Donald Trump had put him in a position to be in the Middle East, what was Jared Kushner doing in the Middle East? We had Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo as secretaries o We need Jared Kushner. He was put there to make those

relationships and then he cashed in on those relationships when he left the office. So what Donald Trump's doing now is just a continuation of what he's permitted his family to do over the entire course of as president. Why do you think he's not using his own money to pay for his legal fees? Because he's the cheapest person I've ever met in my life. That's why. And

what he's very good at. Kaitlin is spending other people And if you look at his history in New Jersey history, he's misleading his vot his supporters by I think, their supporters. You know, write a check to Trump for presi They think they're paying for campaign expenses, not for personal legal expenses. This is what happened to him, let's say with the documents case had nothing to do

with the campa at all. It's a personal fault of his mis he made that he's not being held to acco who has to pay lawyers to defend The same thing with the Stormy D case in New York. I think it was a ridiculous indi to bring. But nonetheless, it's based on his personal conduct of allegedly paying off Stormy D to keep her quiet during an elec

These are not things that the pu should be paying for and certainly not people who are supporting him for presi And giving him the money, thinking it's going to be used to help forward his campaign when, in essence, all he's doing is using it to pay his own legal so he keep more money in his own and keep running his jet And, you know, going back

and forth between Bedminster and Maryland, Mar a Lago, there's a new Quinnipiac poll that finds 61% of Republica in your backyard in Pennsylvania have an unfavorable opinion of y You're obviously very well known but you're not exactly well-like by Republican voters when you look at the polls. Why do you think that is? Well, we had the same situation eight years ago, and we were able to

turn that around to a large extent. But the reason is because I governed the blue state Caitly And so when you govern a blue st you have to make compromises if you want to get things done. And I'm also someone who speaks really directly I'm not looking to you know, as you can see from to I'm not looking to play a bumper pool here and not

answer questions. So when you answer questions dir you get you get reactions and emotional reactions from peo Lastly, you know, I think that when you have political capital, which I had a lot of in New Jers you're there to spend it to do things of consequence. We haven't had a president who's been willing to do that for a long time. And that's the kind of president

when I win the election. I'll have a lot of popular alrea and I'm going to spend that popu to do the difficult, big things that this country nee Can you get your polling up enou or are you going to make it on the debate stage? Sure. Well, I'm already from a polling persp We're at 9% in some polls in New Hampshire. What about on fundraising? We're

not going have any problem meeti the 40,000 person threshold. Oka So you'll be on the debate stage I certainly will be. And everybody's concerned about Go to Chris Christie dot com rig Donate. We'll be fine. Speaking of New Hampshire, Governor DeSantis was there yest Obviously he's another 2024 chal He was asked by a high school st about January six and how Republicans handle that. This is

what he said to that stu Do you believe that Trump violated the peaceful transfer of power, a key principle that of American democracy, that we must uphold you in high Yeah. So I wasn't anywhere near Washin that day. I have nothing to do with what happened that day. Obviously, I didn't enjoy seeing you know, what happened. But we've got to go forward on this stuff. We

cannot be looking backwards and be mired in the past. He talked a little bit before that about how Biden is running for office and why he or Biden running and why he should be. But is that the way you think Re should be answering that question on January the six He wasn't anywhere near Washingt Did he have a TV? Was he alive that day? Did he

see what was going on? I mean, that's one of the most ridiculous answe I've heard in this race so far. You don't have an opinion about January 6th, except to say particularly enjoy what happened People were killed exactly as st people were killed. Caitlin, as you know, that day on Capitol Hill defending the Ca we had members of Congress who were running for their lives We

have people trying to hunt down the vice pre the United States chanting hang Mike Pence and Don the entire time sat outside the Oval Office in that little dining room, his eating a well-done cheesebur and watching TV and doing nothin what was going on until it got to the point where even he could no longer st And he finally, at four something in the afternoon, put

out a video asking people to leave the Capit And Ron DeSantis doesn't have any opinion on that. Look, I know, by the way, I'm pretty sure I know who that high school stud He goes to every town hall meeting in New Hampshire. He's been to three of mine. And he asked really tough questi And I said to him, the last time I had a town hall

he was out of mine. See if any of the candidates will answer your questions direc and grade them on it. I suspect when I go back and see in New Hampshire next time I go to see if this is going to get an F for that answer, If he asked you that question, how would you answer it? I would say it was one of the most

disgracef in American history and that the president was principally responsible for One through the conduct and his from election night forward, inciting people and insisting that the election was stolen when it wasn't through his speech that day, when he attacked directly his own vice president and incited those people to be angry at Mike who was just performing his constitutional du and he had no choice. And

every lawyer, good lawyer had told people that that he couldn't do anything different than that. And then while the event was goi on, while the riot was going on on Capitol Hill, we know that Donald Trump was wa and was being urged by even members of his own famil to get out there and say somethi And he refused because he was enjoying watching people yell, scream

and destroy things in his name. That's the kind of answer you should give. And that makes someone, in addit to all of the other things, unfit to be president, the Unite You mentioned Pence, as you have been such a vocal critic of Trump in these last few weeks since you entered this race. Have you heard from people who worked in his White House that agree wi

I have a number of them of people who were treated horribly by him. Look, one of the untold stories here i if he were ever to win again, and I don't think he can but if he were to win, who would go to work for him? He called Bill Barr a gutless pi a two time United States attorney general who he picked and said was one

of the brightest lawyers in America when he picke He called Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, and his first secretary of state who he said was the personification of the American dream. When he left, he called them lazy as hell and dumb as a rock. Now, let me ask you, Caitlin, people who are treated like that, people of the esteem of Rex Tillerson and Bill

Barr, and there are plenty of other ex why would anyone go and work for him again when you know that it's always going to end that way? No one has walked out of there u If you dare to disagree with him that's what he does to you. Is that really the kind of president we want? Is that and if the country is angry and it's not

the only reason Joe Biden is a big reason. I think we're divided and angry But Donald Trump has made it wor during his presidency. And he said it himself, Caitlin. He said if he gets reelected, he I will be your retribution. Well, I've known him for 22 year He won't be anybody's retributio But his own.