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Welcome to the Buck Brief. We've got Chris Christie dropping his presidential bid.

Iowa Caucus's preview will talk about that. Also Wall Street Journal editorial that says

blocking the road is civil terrorism I want to dive into that with you

Some GOP folks not happy with speaker Mike Johnson over spending and border issues we shall certainly discuss and then a

hundred million dollar con by a woman pretending to be running military youth programs.

A hundred million dollars.

We shall discuss all this.

All let's start with Chris Christie.

I know why he was running, but I'm going to say say things like I don't understand why he ran because he

I get that he wanted to get attention and that he hates Trump and that he wanted to be able to

take shots at Trump on the biggest stage he could but you would think that at some level if you're really about the country it should be about more than getting some media attention and more than a personal

vendetta. It's amazing isn't how much if you study history if you sit and and look back at some of the biggest

challenges that our leaders have faced and the way they've responded ego and vanity

these are things that lead to some disastrous decision-making and

consequences I mean ego of individuals and I think Chris Christie was running

on a vanity retribution tour and now we had him on

Clay and Buck show a number of times and I was fair to him I don't have any personal

animist where Chris Christie I've actually never met the guy. I've interviewed him many times going on a decade now and I felt like he was only doing one thing which was showing up to say you know

Donald Trump is horrible I hate Donald Trump he's awful he's a and you know at some

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