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Advisory Opinions

Hookers and Kushners | Interview: Chris Christie

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joins Sarah Isgur and David French to give advice to all young attorneys and aspiring legal professionals. Plus: some war stories from Trump Force One. The Agenda:—Frenemies—Christie’s time as a U.S. attorney—The difference between a podium and a lectern—No class reunions at the White House—We’ve all crashed out at some point—‘I’m not a potted plant’—Should Christie wear make-up?—VeggieTales and David French Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to Advisory Opinions.

0:05.0

I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And today we are doing

0:24.0

life advice and professional advice for lawyers with a special guest. And I'm not going to tell you

0:31.5

who it is. I'll just, I'll give you two hints. One, I hated him in 2016. Two, he's the person I most look forward to seeing on Sundays.

0:42.5

And we are here for a very special advisory opinions and advice with former New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.

0:52.3

I didn't hate you in 2016.

0:56.3

You didn't know who I was in 2016.

1:02.7

Well, that's exactly right. So I didn't hate you. I hated your candidate. I didn't hate you, though. She was by the way, she was by the way the rudest candidate to deal with on that entire stage.

1:10.1

After her first debate, my second at the Reagan

1:12.8

Library, we were the two considered to have done the best in that debate. So as you'll remember,

1:18.9

we were very much in demand the next morning for the morning shows. And when you do that at the

1:23.3

Reagan Library, that means you're out there at 3.30 a.m. getting ready to do it. So we're in makeup

1:29.0

chairs next to each other. And I turned to her and I said, hey, Carly, good morning. I said

1:34.3

in a good job last night. And she turned and looked at me and she said, yeah. And that was it.

1:41.3

I want to be clear. First of all, nobody is more competitive than Carly Fiorina.

1:46.9

Second of all, this would explain so much because if you remember, we were not in the first

1:53.1

debate.

1:54.3

And I am quite proud of what happened next, which is I basically had this whole like mini

2:00.1

campaign to get us in that

2:02.1

second big kids debate using math. Like all of my skills finally came together. My beginnings as a math

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