E145: Presidential Candidate Chris Christie in conversation with the Besties

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

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4.4 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

(0:00) Besties welcome former NJ Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Chris Christie!

(2:14) US debt crisis, cutting entitlements

(14:03) Level-setting on foreign policy

(25:28) Ukraine / Russia: culpability, where to go from here

(36:47) US defense budget, optimizing spend, zero-based budgeting, influence peddling

(50:01) Immigration policy, how each party co-opts the issue

(1:02:24) Fentanyl crisis in SF, LA, and NYC, incarceration and criminal justice reform, political activism in law enforcement

(1:15:57) Why Chris Christie is running for president

(1:17:41) Thoughts on prosecuting Trump, January 6th, and more

(1:23:16) Chris Christie addresses his past controversies

(1:48:34) Post-interview debrief

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Referenced in the show:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMPOPNETMUSA

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/08/31/border-families-record-crossings-biden

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0:00.0	All right, everybody. Welcome back to the all in podcasts. We're very excited today to do our
0:05.2	third deep dive long form discussion with presidential candidates for the 2024 election started with
0:11.8	RFK. And he got a huge boost in the ratings after it was on the pod. We had Vivek. And now
0:18.3	Governor Chris Christie is with us. Governor, thanks for coming. My pleasure. Thanks for having
0:22.8	me guys. All right. So it's a little bit different here than I think some of the other news hits
0:27.8	that you do. This is not short form. It's long form. We like to, you know, have a thoughtful
0:33.2	discussion with the candidates, not with talking points. And I know that you're a straight shooter.
0:39.2	So I think you'll fit right in here with the other boys. I think you're very unique amongst candidates
0:44.8	that you've actually brought up the deficit. As we know, just two facts here and then I'll hand it
0:50.8	over to Friedberg for his question. Last two administrations have run up the deficit massively.
0:57.8	Here's a chart of our debt trump added almost 8 trillion Biden's added 4 trillion. And this is
1:06.7	obviously an unpopular issue to bring up. As you've mentioned, bringing this up is unpopular.
1:12.7	It doesn't get you votes necessarily to say we have to cut spending. And Friedberg and I are very
1:17.7	much. I'll speak for myself. This is my number one issue in terms of picking a candidate.
1:22.4	Friedberg, I think you said it's your number one issue. So Friedberg, I'll hand it over to you in
1:26.0	terms of a question for Governor Christie. Yeah. Governor Christie, nice to see you. You and I
1:31.5	sang on a karaoke stage together in Idaho a few years ago. But it's I remember that. Yeah.
1:37.4	Is that a sly way of saying Idaho? I had to put that two and two together there.
1:41.9	One nice, Friedberg. It was a small bar in Idaho. Oh wow. It was a small bar in Idaho.
1:46.4	Small bar in Idaho. Small establishment classes. Okay, the wrong with a few folks who
1:52.1	happen to be in a bar together. At the B conference that you have been.
2:12.1	We watched the Republican primary debate a few weeks ago. And I think what struck me at least
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