you ve seen video of me. i don t hold back, okay? but, if there s that much anger whrks he displays it, it s never about what s being done to the country. it s never about what you talked about, about how much things are costing you and how you can make ends meet, it s not about the crime in the streets. it s about what s been done to him, poor me, victim me. i don t think either one of those people are perfect to be president. that s why i m running. if those two are the candidates, i don t believe that there s a winning alternative for america. and america needs to start winning again. and the only way we do is each and every one of you has a chance to win every day. i want to introduce you to jason ortiz from new york. he s a republican who said he s supporting tim scott, governor ron desantis. governor christie, do you admit any involvement direct or
governor christie. as a former u.s. attorney, do you believe that the justice department is being weaponized against donald trump? and as president, would you reform the justice department and/or the fbi and cia? i started to answer that. sorry about that. look, i think and i said at the time that the russia business was complete bologna right off the jump. i was involved in that campaign in 2016. i can tell you there was no colluding going on. they were trying to figure out how to get from new york to wisconsin. colluding with the russians was the last thing they were thinking about. i spoke out from the beginning that i thought jim comey in particular made the decision that he didn t believe donald trump should be president. that s wrong. i think it s wrong hillary wasn t prosecuted. i think it s wrong that jim comey wasn t brought to justice for things that happened at the
supporting governor desantis. hi, governor christie. hey, there. my question is president trump significantly increased tariffs on chinese goods. president biden has kept these in place. would you reduce, maintain, or increase there haves on china? i would make it part of an overall goal to reset our relationship with china. we need to make the chinese that, like, the party s over. for the last 50 years, we have been investing in china to try to bring them into the community of nations and to try to make them better because we thought it would make us better too. and in some ways, it has. we had great trade with china over a long period of time. and by great, i mean a large volume of it. but the chinese have taken advantage of our good nature, stealing our intellectual property, spying on us, causing
trouble around the world, unfair trade deals. and it s time for that to stop now. they re no longer a fledgling economy. they re the second largest economy in the world and inching up on us. what i would do on tariffs would be to say, look, they don t like those tariffs and those tariffs also increase prices for some of us, right? we re not going to get rid of that stuff until they decide to be fair on those other things. you come up with a great idea, intellectual property, you should be able to own that. and if they want to use it, they pay you for it, not steal it from you. tiktok is here in this country. we let them in. facebook and twitter are not in china. they want facebook, twitter, and our social media into china, i ll let tiktok stay. they don t, tiktok goes in the christie administration. they need to understand that we will be fair but we won t be chumps. so, i don t want to give that
and welcome to this 360 cnn town hall with chris christie. i m anderson cooper. on the eve of donald trump s arraignment in miami on 37 counts, we re going to hear directly from chris christie. christie ran in 2016, dropped out after new hampshire, and endorsed donald trump two weeks later. christie enters the race for the chance to take on president joe biden. tonight voters will have the opportunity to question the former governor directly about the issues on their minds. and i ll have a chance to ask questions of my own. this town hall is part of the republican primary process, so the audience tonight are voter who is say they plan to participate in their state s republican nominating contest. the audience comes from new york, new jersey, connecticut, as well as iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and nevada. we reached out to affiliated business groups, also young