Chris Christie

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The Cons & Cons of Trump with Gov. Chris Christie · 30 Jan 2025 podcast

It does through the Senate. But in the House, here's his problem on reconciliation. There is a large group of Republicans, and by large I mean 25 to 30, that are going to say like, hey, we're not increasing the debt ceiling in March unless there is significant reductions in government spending.

You should be extraordinarily disappointed in your team and the lack of any coherent, saleable, authentic plan. I totally agree with you. But remember this. Games are both offense and defense. Uh-oh.

It's exactly right. We're going to get on FAN any moment now. There you go. Look, it all comes back to offense and defense. There are big expectations on the Republicans to deliver on a bunch of the stuff they're talking about.

And for instance, when you talk about significant cuts in spending, when you only have a two or three vote majority, there are a lot of moderate Republicans from New York, Illinois, California, who are going to have a hard time voting for some of those things. And let us not forget the premise of what I mentioned before. What they care about the most is keeping the title, John.

And the title is kept for them by the people back at home, not by the people in Washington. So the challenge for Republicans and for Trump is going to be, can he muscle this through and have them basically say, you're going to have to sacrifice your career for what I want to get done here? And I got to tell you something. I haven't seen that type of political courage out of any of them.

Because they're unwilling to stand up and do those things. So Democrats, though, if they're counting just on that to get them over the finish line to getting a handle of power in either the House or the Senate, I think they're going to be sorely disappointed. They have to do both. They have to hope that the Republicans make strategic mistakes in that regard.

But they got to come up with a plan that is authentic and genuine. That... That people in the center of this country, and I mean the philosophical center of this country, can say, oh, I agree with that. Yeah, no, that doesn't offend me. And they don't have that right now. And you're right about Chuck Schumer.

I mean, if you could have a worse salesman to put up next to Trump, I don't know that it's possible, right? Now, I think Hakeem Jeffries is a little more politically skilled than Schumer. Of course, that's a low bar. But nonetheless, I think he's a little more skilled than him. And getting Pelosi out of there would be a real help because –

rightly or wrongly and you know people have a certain perception of her in the middle of the the philosophical middle of the country that's not positive so the fact is that democrats have to change the cast if we're going to go back to the tv show analogy they got to change the cast and they got to get some better writers um for the script because they don't have that now

And here's what's frustrating for a guy like- Perhaps if they opened up the hiring to- See how we tied it all around? I'm telling you, this is really one of those things that people say, wow, those two guys really get it. To me, John, the frustrating thing for somebody like me is- Like as governor, I tried to be this way. I tried to be practical and consistent.

And sometimes you're going to like it and sometimes you aren't. But my job is to run this thing and to get it to work as best as I possibly can get it to work. And I don't think anybody's thinking about it that way right now. They're all thinking about it from a political advantage, a chess or checkers, depending upon the level of intellect that's going on in this stuff.

No, John, my pleasure. Always happy to come back. And I'd say as things go along here, because it's going to change. It's going to change. No, I know. And I would say there are not many people out there who know Trump as well as I've gotten to know him over time and been someone who he said was the greatest governor in America and And now is the worst SOB. And he's not hyperbolic. At all.

And now I'm the worst SOB in the world. And every cruel beam he could send out, he does. And I never believed it when he said I was the greatest. And I don't believe it now. I'm calling balls and strikes here because I know him well. And I will say one thing, if I can, about the governors. Please.

I say to my kids all the time when they accuse me of being biased on something, I say, okay, I'm biased, but it doesn't mean I'm wrong. And I'm biased about governors because they're the ones who have to give practical results, not the people in Congress. They have to actually plow the snow. They have to do things that run the schools, do all the things that need to be done.

And I do think that you're going to see a lot of people on both parties emerge from the governor's ranks to try to set a different path and a more creative path, and a more practical path. And hopefully it's the right ones who emerge. There's good ones and bad ones. Well, we'll have you name those next time. Well, that's right. That's good, but that's a little preview.

You know, this is also showbiz. Look at you. You're giving a little preview for my next appearance, John. It's a teaser. It's a teaser. Very nice. Very nice. Yeah, that's what I do. Well, and I believe that's really important for us to focus on, that everything in this country doesn't happen in Washington.

And that in state capitals all over this country, you can make a real difference in people's lives. And I'd argue probably a more direct and substantive difference at that level than ever happens in Washington because they're all scared of their own shadows and want to just protect their title. They want to be called congressman and senator forever. Get that good health care.

That's what they're in there for. It's not bad, John. Right. It's not from what I'm told. Never been there.

Mr. Jersey. There you go. Good to be on with you. I appreciate it, John. Beautiful. Thanks, Mike.

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