Former, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, he's not really thrilled about
some of the revelations that have come out in Mark Meadows is new book.
Specifically stuff that was coming out last week about Trump's hiding
his COVID diagnosis.
Which Mark Meadows and he hid from the entire group that will
surround him specifically Chris Christie who was in his face with spittle flying as
they did debate prep for his upcoming debate with Joe Biden.
So, when he was asked by Margaret Hoover of PBS about exactly how he felt when he
discovered in Meadows, his book excerpts about what happened,
this is what a Chris Christie had to say.
>> You said that your wife, Mary Pat, and you had in a quote interesting reaction.
When you learned this from Mark Meadows book, what was that reaction?
>> I can't believe Mark Meadows didn't tell me.
I mean, >> You didn't think Trump would
have told you?
>> Well, that's obvious, of course Trump should've told all of us.
I would have worn a mask if I knew that, if Mark Meadows knew that somebody
that I was sitting across from for four days, had passed a positive test.
He is the White House Chief of Staff.
Put aside the President for a second.
Obviously the President is my friend.
She looked to me and told me that, that's obvious.
But I think what's less obvious is that Mark Meadows save this for his book.
>> Yeah.
>> He saved it for a book.
>> Did this confirm for you that you did in fact get it for the President.
>> I think it's undeniable.
And by the way, six of the seven of us in that room got it.
>> Yeah, >> Hope, Hicks, Bill Stepien,
Kellyanne Conway, me.
Stephen Miller and Donald Trump all wound up with COVID in that room
>> Man there's so many things, there's so
many things I don't wanna take them all, but I'm just gonna go out the first.
And if you guys missed some of the great points this I'm gonna come back to, but
the number one thing was that I'm so mad at Mark Meadows.
I can't believe Mark Meadows would not tell me that Donald Trump had COVID and
was hiding it from me.
Now, Donald Trump hiding it from me, that's Donald Trump.
Of course he would do it.
He's a piece of garbage.
That's why he didn't tell me.
It's like the expectations or is it Donald Trump is not gonna do the right thing
because he's not gonna do the right thing.
Yeah your ass was sitting there doing debate prep with him screaming in
his face.
He admitted later in that interview that e had no idea what Donald Trump's testing
schedule was, so it must have been him, yet
you still say yeah of course he ain't gonna tell me.
Why would you be around someone that you know would not care about your life enough
to not tell you something like that to this day, this is not an ad from right
after he found out, he found this out and he's saying this on TV now.
I got more, but I want you guys to go.
>> I don't trust anybody with that posture.
>> [LAUGH] >> I can't,
I don't trust anybody with that posture.
But, isn't it amazing that as long as Donald Trump doesn't do it
to you it's okay.
So, he's s offended that he put him at risk, but
never mind the hundreds of 1,000s of Americans who have been at risk in
the last couple of years from all of the misinformation.
And that them politicizing this Pandemic and this virus, but don't do it to me.
He was so offended and that's why, for me that's why these public servants
I labeled them garbage, because your job is to care about the rest of the country.
But it's like, man how could he do this to me,
how it whether it's Mark Meadows or Donald Trump, he is mad about his own hide.
But what about the rest of the people in this country who don't have all of
the things that he has?
And it just,
it's amazing to me how Donald Trump is cool as long as he doesn't do it to you.
>> That's such a good point.
That is such a good point.
I mean, that's another example of where the journalism fails as well.
When the person says to you,
I just couldn't believe my friend didn't tell me read in my face.
His chief of staff didn't tell me you have to your obligations journalists reply.
Isn't that exactly what he did?
By telling the nation you don't have to wear a mask.
Isn't it and so why do you only care when it's your hide?
Make the point I just made.
>> To the face of this lawmaker if you think that Chris Christie,
because he's good at talking around these issues.
And he's definitely more charming at least than Trump himself Is any
better I've got a closed bridge to sell you.
Because this guy is garbage remember when he said all this junk about a horrible and
dangerous Trump wasn't then he loses to him in the election.
And instantly he's his best friend he goes to the White House and
he goes Trump I wanted to get steak, and Trumps, like you're having chicken.
>> [LAUGH] >> And so I had chicken.
He just decides for me what I eat.
And it's just his way.
It's what he does, he's my buddy.
He's still called him, his friend.
He's my friend.
He's your friend.
He's trying to kill people.
He's trying to overthrow our democracy.
The fact that Christie himself still says he won't rule out voting for
Trump if he gets the nomination makes him complicit.
100% complicit in every death going forward.
If our democracy fully crumbles it's on Christie.
It's on all these people that don't, don't put a line in the sand,
because they know better than the disinformation.
So, they just fall in the stupid naval category.
>> That also, by the way, he was the other part of it, he was upset, Mark middles.
He did it for a book, did it for a book.
Like you don't know what these guys [LAUGH] do, that they're doing it for
money and influence in power.
You think they're not doing it for a book?
Speaking of books, Chrissy did a book tour and
talk about some revelations from the Trump staff.
In fact it was something related to the COVID stuff.
Let's go to that really fast, because Maggie Haberman,
New York times pointed this out when he was going on that.
Mr. Christie revealed this is when he was on his book tour, how worried he and
others were for his survival, this is when he was sick with COVID.
And when he became infected with coronavirus,
after being at the white house around the same time that Mr.
Trump, and several other aides contracted COVID-19.
Mr. Christie writes that his priest arrived in the hospital and
rubbed oils on his forehead in the sign of the cross praying over him.
For those you don't realize what that may look like it means, you gonna die.
No, maybe it saved him, the blood of the oil got him.
So, the last part of this kicker of this is he got a call from a hospitalized Mr.
Trump they both in hospital, who had one main concern to Chris Christie.
Are you gonna say you got it from me, Mr Christie?
Mr. Trump asked him.
So, the concern Donald Trump was hey, you're gonna tell everybody that you got
this for me, because that's the little bit of an admission saying that,
cuz I gave it to you, because I had it.
But Christie, he didn't pick up on that either.
So when you're lying in bed and the priest comes in and says, you're about to die,
and you get a call from your best friend, it says, hey,
Chris, are your last words gonna be you got it for me.
You might want to rethink who your friends are, but he's still can't.
>> Yeah.
>> And it's exactly what he's accusing Trump and Mark Meadows of doing now.
It's literally him saying, I can't believe he didn't tell me that he
exposed me to a deadly virus and then he gets that call from Trump.
He knows it was Trump and he doesn't go on television and say, wait, hold up.
Guess what this guy that almost killed me, because it was touch and go for
Christina hospitals to for the first couple of days.
He gave it to me, he's lying to all of us if you don't go screaming for the hills at
that point Soylent Green is people you're responsible for those deaths as well.
He's he saved it for a book, Christie saved it for this interview.
>> Yeah. >> It's insane.
>> Yes and more yes.
Yes.
It's an, it's what Malcolm X said the dog and pony show.
This is what it is.
This is what they were talking about and we're watching it play out,
the Truman Show, whatever you want to call it.
It is a clown show and we have been so indoctrinated and
programmed to constantly seek content, and to keep our phones in our faces.
We don't realize that these macaroons are trying to overthrow our democracy in
the name of greed and power, and we're not even paying attention to it.
It's playing out in front of our very own eyes and
we are just sitting here watching it now we don't even do anything anymore,
we're just like yeah Donald Trump is the Prime Minister of Israel.
>> Okay.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah and and
not only is it all of those things the dog and pony show and the Truman Show but
maybe even more aptly it's The Apprentice, Trump has fired all of us.
And the only person left standing after the crumble of our nation will be Omarosa
being like I recorded all of it, I got it.
>> [LAUGH] >> That'll be all that's left.
>> That's the way it works.
Now, the entertaining part is when Chris Christie does run for President,
and if Donald Trump decides which I don't think he will to run as well.
Now some of the friendship is definitely gonna end again,
because now it's about power.
Now it's about the full power.
This is when they actually start butting heads and if he loses again to him in any
kind of primary, then he'll go back to follow him around on tarmacs,
getting told to go back home, remember that one?
Go home.
Home Chris gone.
>> Dry cleaning, remember?
>> God, it's so many things it's so many times you almost forget, as you point out,
we go straight back to the next new cycle or into our phones, or
into some kinda way to to escape the madness.
And that's why it keeps on turning.
That's why Mitch McConnell can say two things he says,
how much how blatantly he's against any kinda progress for Congress to make.
And then the next moment complains about how Congress doesn't make any progress.
It's, the common sense things that you think when you see someone say
something and you assume that the result will be there and
we just don't expect it's halfway our fault and I don't know you collect.
Selectively changed that maybe one day, or I don't know maybe take some pandemic
kills hundreds of thousands of Americans, no not that either.
Can't figure out what can make people actually realize who's against you and
who's action for you.