Chris Christie, "Bridgegate" and the Republican Party
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
With 4 days of agonizing delays on the George Washington Bridge still unexplained, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is on a political tour across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Chris Christie, Bridgegate, and the Republican Party. |
| 0:06.8 | Hello again, I'm a Mr. Christie, a presidential prospect. |
| 0:10.5 | Now he faces a question every American voter can understand. |
| 0:14.7 | Why was a 30-minute trip? |
| 0:16.4 | Christie insists, he doesn't know. |
| 0:18.6 | But the lawyer for one of Christie's former aides has hinted the decision |
| 0:21.7 | did go all the way to the top to dextine first here's the news listen to kCRW's 24-hour all-news |
| 0:31.0 | channel stream b b at kCRW dot com support for to the point comes from the members of case of agonizing delays on the george |
| 0:43.1 | washington bridge still unexplained new jersey governor chrishti is on a political tour |
| 0:47.7 | across the country some fellow republicans are meeting with them and some are not democrats are |
| 0:53.5 | having a field day look We'll look at the |
| 0:55.1 | potential fallout for the GOP. To enforce our laws. And it's going to be difficult to move any |
| 1:00.9 | immigration legislation until that changes. Enforce our laws? Well, there's a couple of dynamics |
| 1:07.7 | going on here. And I think there was a lot of coverage and attention paid to these remarks, but not quite yet ready. The duration needs to get done, but he has a very |
| 1:15.4 | divided and fractious party. And I think part of his comments were acknowledging the part of the |
| 1:21.4 | when they say that they don't trust the president enforcing the laws. One, I would say that |
| 1:25.7 | congressional Republicans, since they won the House in 2010, have not trusted President Obama on laws. One, I would say that congressional Republicans, since they won the House |
| 1:28.4 | in 2010, have not trusted President Obama on anything. So suggesting that immigration is new, |
| 1:33.6 | a challenge is not necessarily accurate. But in particular, they cite the Affordable Care Act, |
| 1:39.0 | and that the administration has used executive authority to change the way the law is being implemented in the way. |
| 1:46.8 | And the idea of enforcement, or whether you're enforcing the law or not, is something that would |
| 1:51.7 | certainly be open to... On the border, on the U.S. Mexico border to secure it there. |
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