Good friend nick kristof and just one minute. Following that, we will have an interview with the ambassador of china. Missile, nbcdrea is our corporate strategic partner. Be5 30, our last event will beinterview who will interviewed by margaret rendon. A word about my friend nicholas kristof. Thee we can bring him up on screen. Hes a longtime friend and a member of the aspen strategy group. He writes a very important twiceweekly college for the column for the New York Times. When i read your column and read it avidly, you put people first. You dont put government first. He put human rights and dignity first. Because of his extraordinary repair extra ordinary career, hes won two pulitzer prizes, one for reporting on china and one for darfur. Hes just wrote a book with his wife which we will talk about. I think it has deep meaning for him personally. He has had an extra neri journalistic life full top he has lived on for continents. He has traveled to 160 countries and his biography says
Our guest is former new jersey governor chris christie, twotermis governor a republica, a former president ial candidate, formerer u. S. Attorney. He ran President Trumps Transition Team for mostan of 26 pigs also the author of let me finish, his memoir of his time as governor alongside President Trump your governor christie thanks for joining us on your own jersey shore. Thank you. Happy with your. Youre one of the few people the president listens to on the outside on political matters and id love you were at a come to jesus meeting at the golf club in new jersey with President Trump. How did that go and did the president decide to make any changes with his campaign . As you know ive always taken the position that consultation fight with the president are between me and the president. I think the president is really focused on the next 95 days, really focused on trying to make sure that he gets attestation for the next four years, and its always good for me to have some time to visit
Governor christie thanks for joining us from your own jersey shore. Thank you. Happy to be with you. You are one of the few people the present listens to on the outside of political matters and of love cindy adams said you were at a come to jesus meeting at bedminster the the presidens golf club in jersey with President Trump. How did that go . To the present decide to make any changes with his campaign . As you know, ive always taken the position that the consultations i have with the present between the the presid. I think the president is focused on the next 95 days. With a focus on trying to make sure they have his visions the American People for what he wants the next four years to be and its always good for me threats to us in time to visit with them in bedminster and discuss things as like them as i see them and help them articulate the issues he wants to articulate over the course of the rest of his campaign and thats all i was attempting to do when we met last week. What is he
Jersey shore. Gov. Christie thank you. You are one of the few people that the president listened to on the outside on political matters and i love this article and you had a come to come to jesus meeting with President Trump. How did that go and did the president decide to make any changes with his campaign . Gov. Christie i discussed things from where i sit and continue do try to help him articulate the issues that he wants to articulate over the course of the rest of his campaign. And thats what i was attempting to do when we met last week. Whats he doing right, whats he doing wrong . Gov. Christie in the last week or two, i think his focus on the coronavirus has been good. I think his focus on encouraging the American People to wear masks and letting them know we are in this for a while and we have to remain strong and resolute. Those are things that are very, very important. Listen, i think the biggest thing he has to do that he hasnt been doing is articulate a vision for the next
Gov. Christie happy to be with you. You are one of the few people that the president listens to on the outside on political matters and i love this article that you were at a come to jesus meeting at the president s golf club with President Trump. How did that go and did the president decide to make any changes with his campaign . Gov. Christie i have taken the position that the consultations that i have with the president are between me and the president. I will say this, the president is really focused on the next 95 days, focused on trying to make sure he lays out the vision of where he wants the next four years to be and i had time to spend with him and discuss things from where i sit and for me to help him and articulate the issues he wants to articulate and that is what the campaign will need to do. What is he doing right and what is he doing wrong . I think for the most part, in the last week or two, i think his focus on the coronavirus has been good. I think his focus on encour