Ep. 379 — Chris Christie

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey, joins David to talk about what he’s learned throughout his thirty-year career in law and politics, his relationship with President Trump, what advice he would give to the administration during the present crisis, and more.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with
0:12.5	your host, David Axelrod.
0:20.2	Few people in politics know Donald Trump better than Chris Christie, the former governor of
0:25.2	New Jersey.
0:26.3	Friends for years, they were opponents in the 2016 race for president, and then
0:31.3	Christie became the first major public official to endorse Trump for president and was a player
0:37.8	in his campaign.
0:39.3	He's written an autobiography called Let Me Finish that covers that experience, and we
0:44.8	sat down the other day virtually to talk about Christie's own vivid life and career and
0:50.5	his friend Donald Trump.
0:52.0	In this moment of crisis, here's that conversation.
0:59.2	Chris Christie, it's good to see you even at a distance here.
1:03.0	Same here.
1:04.0	Because we're both observing the rules.
1:05.3	How are you doing?
1:06.3	How are you and your family doing right now?
1:08.2	So far so good, David.
1:09.7	We have two older children who had been living in New York City, have now moved back home
1:15.2	to New Jersey during the crisis and got out of New York.
1:19.7	One child who was up at Providence College who came home and is now doing distance learning
1:24.0	and a high school student who's doing the same.
1:26.1	So it's actually they're all healthy, and that's the most important thing.
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