Once Trump started hitting back at you on a number of fronts,
he took aim at your weight.
What was your reaction to that?
>> [FOREIGN] I mean, please.
>> 2024, Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie hit back
at Donald Trump for repeatedly mocking him and ridiculing him over his weight.
Now, here's more of his response to Donald Trump and
his delusions of somehow being fit and spelt as he attacks Chris Christie.
>> There are tens of millions of Americans out in your audience watching right now
who, like me, have struggled with their weight.
I continue to struggle.
I continue to try to do better, and so do they.
And what's that got to do with my competence for office?
I ran the governorship of New Jersey for eight years.
I think in a very energetic, successful way.
Responded to Hurricane Sandy, working 20 hours a day for weeks.
I don't know what his point is.
You know what it is?
It's like a child.
It's a bully on the schoolyard who teases you and makes fun of you.
But here's my message to him.
I don't care what he says about me, and I don't care what he thinks about me, and
he should take a look in the mirror every once in a while.
Maybe he dropped the weight thing off of his list of criticisms.
>> So just over the past month,
trump has gone after Christie over his weight in several different ways.
So, for instance, he posted a video on Truth Social of Christie speaking, and
the video was edited to appear as if he was holding a plate of food while he
was talking.
After a recent speech of Christie's where he
referenced the choice between small and big.
That voters face in 2024, Trump wrote the following on Truth Social,
he wrote, how many times did Chris Christie use the word small?
Does he have a psychological problem with size?
But unlike other Republican primary candidates,
Christie seems to be the only one who's willing to hit back.
And to hit back by naming names.
Like, he doesn't do this cutesy little thing that you see with DeSantis,
where he's responding to Trump but isn't actually naming Trump.
It's interesting, I guess, but we've got more on this.
What do you think, Jank?
>> Look, I like it, and I'm predicting that Chris Christie goes up in
the polling, but I'm not doing that because I'm an establishment clown.
They look at this stuff and
they go like, I bet the Republicans really love the anti Trump attacks.
Let's put them out there and see what happens.
Look, I'm over exaggerating, but the reason why I think it's
going to do well and it hasn't yet he's at 2% in the average of
polls is because Republicans really genuinely like a tough guy.
And, like, RFK Jr did this video where he was shirtless and
he's got a good body and he did push ups.
A bunch of right wingers are like, gets up.
>> Really?
>> Yeah, [LAUGH] they love RFK Jr now.
He's in the wrong primary anyways.
So I think after a while of Chris Christie fighting back and
DeSantis not fighting back, aggressively and obviously.
Some of the Republican voters that are looking for
an alternative are gonna be like, well, I don't know that I love
all the things he's saying about Trump, but at least he's got some guts.
He's on to something, and it's way better than what Haley or Tim Scott or
Pence are doing, which is just floating on it.
They're like Sandra but that space movie.
They're just floating out in space doing nothing.
>> I don't think that Christie attacking Trump is gonna work.
I really don't.
>> I get that the attacking Trump part is tough, right?
Generally speaking, that Republican voters don't like that.
But I'm telling you, they're gonna respect his strength after a while.
That's my guess.
We'll see if I'm right.
>> Maybe they'll respect his strength after a while.
I don't think that's gonna necessarily translate to Christie rising in the polls
and getting anywhere near Trump's popularity among the Republican base.
Because remember, Trump is willing to punch back as well.
In fact, he constantly goes on the offense and throws the first punch.
>> Well, I said one more thing, guys.
Media is such an enormous part of the equation, and
the media loves Chris Christie.
So you're gonna see Chris Christie from here to forever, okay?
>> Great.
>> So that's why he's a rare guy outside of DeSantis
that at least has some sort of chance of winning the Republican nomination.
Whereas all the rest of them, the Haley Scotts, et cetera,
have 0% chance because they're not even trying.
>> So we have more clips from the same interview that we've shown you with
Chris Christie speaking out against Donald Trump and his attacks against Christie.
So let's take a look at the next clip where he just straight up calls
him an idiot.
>> Trump just told Sebastian Gorka, as you know, that he never trusted you and
he never wanted you in the administration.
>> Well, look, that makes him either a liar or an idiot because he,
in fact, did give me chairman of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission.
He did make me chairman of his transition.
He did put me in charge of his debate prep both times, and he offered me Secretary of
Labor, Secretary of Homeland Security, and White House Chief of Staff.
So he is either an idiot or a liar, because if you would offer all those
things and give those things to someone that you don't trust, you're an idiot.
And guess what?
He did trust me.
And it's just because I disagreed with him that now all of a sudden,
you wind up on the other side.
But I take it as a badge of courage.
>> I thought that that was his strongest moment in this interview, right?
Because that is what we've been arguing since Donald Trump got elected, right?
It started with him claiming, I have the best people.
I have the best people.
And then one by one, anyone he perceived to be disloyal to him within his
administration, he just absolutely destroyed, right?
Starting with Jeff Sessions, his original Attorney general.
So I like that Chris Christie made that point.
It remains to be seen whether or
not making these points in conservative media outlets is going to resonate.
Are the Republican voters absorbing what Chris Christie is saying here?
>> Yeah, so, look, it's funny.
You were out last week, and Chris Christie did something very similar last week, and
I said pretty much the same exact thing you just said.
>> Really? >> Yeah, and
it's because pointing out guys, which one is it?
You know, he fired all these guys.
You saw him fire all these guys and call them gutless pigs and idiots and
morons and stuff.
And you saw him hire him, right?
So it's not gonna work overnight.
No way, right?
They love the Messiah way too much.
But you remember that old game, knockout, body blow, body blow, body blow.
And that's what Chris Christie is doing.
And body blows wear you down after a while.
So it's not bad.
By the way, Democrats, where are you at?
You're supposed to be saying these things, but
I don't see any Democrat fighting against Trump at all.
>> No, I mean, like but Team Biden has been pretty clear about how they're
hoping that the Republican candidate is gonna be Donald Trump.
>> So pathetic.
>> They believe that Biden has a better shot at beating Trump versus DeSantis.
So, I mean.
>> It's so sad.
You know what you're supposed to think?
Let me add them.
I'm gonna kick both their asses.
They put them together, make them VP and president, I don't care.
I'm coming for him.
And here's what's wrong with Trump, and here's what's wrong with DeSantis.
What do you get from Biden?
My Republican friends, I love you so much.
I'm gonna let Chris Christie say the rest.
>> So, a few more videos here, if you're wondering.
Look, we talked about the polling.
Chris Christie is not doing well among the Republican electorate.
He's not even close to where DeSantis is, not even close to where Trump is,
obviously.
But with that said, he seems to be very much willing to upset the Republican base.
And they showed their disdain toward him during his appearance at the Faith and
Freedom Conference in Washington, DC.
He did criticize Trump, and here is the reception to that.
>> He's unwilling to take responsibility for
any of the mistakes that were made, any of the faults that he has, and
any of the things that he's done, and that is not leadership, everybody.
That is a failure of leadership.
And you can boo all you want, but here's the thing.
Our faith teaches us that people have to take responsibility for what they do.
>> Now, later, he was asked how he felt about being booed by Republican voters
during his speech, especially as he was criticizing Donald Trump.
Here's how he responded.
>> That must not have been easy to get booed, but
you probably were not surprised.
>> Look, half the room was clapping also, and so it was a real mixed bag.
But, look, I knew that's what was gonna happen when I accepted the invitation, but
I'm not changing my message and pandering to anybody.
I'm gonna tell the truth.
The truth matters, Dana.
>> I like that.
I like that, I hadn't seen that video, and
I really like that because that's not an easy thing to do on the right or the left.
>> No, that's what I was gonna say.
Look, ironically,
him getting booed makes me think he has a better chance of winning, why?
Because if the other candidates had gotten booed in a stage like that, they
would have been mortified and he will end their speech early and run off the stage.
DeSantus would have been like, do that weird thing that when he gets nervous,
Haley would have done this.
When she gets nervous she does that.
Pence would have been like, they all have, like, their nervous ticks, right?
Whereas Chris Christie's like, yeah, go ahead and boo.
Here, I got news for you, okay?
That's Jersey tough guy.
And eventually people go, well, at least he's in the fight and
he's not a pandering politician.
>> That's true, that's true.
That's what speaks to me.
I mean, look, I'm not gonna vote for Chris Christie.
I wouldn't vote for any of the Republicans.
But the fact that he's willing to go against the grain
when it comes to his own party speaks to his strength.
And while he might not end up being the Republican candidate,
I at least admire the fact that he's willing to do that.
>> Yeah, I'm not sure we go as far as I admire, but respect?
>> No, like just that one tiny sliver.
>> I got you, it's personality.
>> Yeah.
>> I respect the fighter.