NBC’s Casey Hunt asked Gov. Christie the question that is on everybody’s mind: How can Americans be sure that a Chris Christie White House wouldn’t be mired in indictments? How did the self-professed teller of truth and openness handle it? He responded it was “such a silly question I’m not even going to answer it.”
Then he went on say everybody makes mistakes. “The fact is that there isn’t anybody in public life who has had the opportunity to select lots of different people, that hasn’t made some mistakes. And I said that 15 or 16 months ago: That it was a mistake. I apologized for it. And I think it’s kind of interesting that 15 months later, exactly what I said in January 2014 has turned out to be — at least according to all three of the investigations that have now occurred – to be exactly what happened: I fired three people who I believed at the time based on the information I had to be culpable.”
He said his reaction to Bridgegate was true leadership in action. “I don’t think you’ll find any administration — at the governor’s level or at the presidential level — that doesn’t make mistakes. What matters is how you respond to it.”
He had better get used to the question because it is not going away. Jon Steward made fun of Christie claiming vindication that he was not indicted. And a new New Hampshire poll shows Christie in 10th place among Republicans in the race for 2016 and the least honest.
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