to a very special edition of outfront. the breaking news, chris christie drops out. the bombshell coming just two hours before cnn s gop debate, the last debate before the first votes of the 2024 election. i m erin burnett in new york, and welcome the our viewers here and around the world. and i m anderson cooper in des moines, iowa. behind me, the stage is set for the debate tonight between nikki haley and ron desantis. and christie s surprise announcement just raised the stakes here in a big way. here is chris christie in his own words. it s clear to me tonight that there isn t a path for me to win the nomination. which is why i m suspending my campaign tonight for president of the united states. the question, of course, who will christie endorse. conventional wisdom says nikki haley. but christie was caught on a hot mic right before his announcement saying this about haley. she s going to get smoked. and you and i both know it. she is not up to this. well, obvi
today after local prosecutors told giuliani s lawyers this week he is a target of their election interference investigation meaning an indictment is possible. in a separate investigation, cnn learned that two former trump white house lawyers were interviewed by the fbi about the classified documents seized last week at the former president s home in florida. let s get to it and begin with nick valencia live at the courthouse. rudy dgiuliani is still in the courtroom. you caught up with him. what did he say? reporter: defiant and computicom compcomexuding confidence. he asked for a continuance last week because of health concerns and ultimately a fulton county judge ordered him to appear today. on his way in to court, i p peppered him with questions including asking whether or not he lied before georgia lawmakers when he spoke to them at least three times in the wake of the 2020 election. mr. giuliani when you met with l lawmakers did you lie to them? we will not talk abou
that the trump team has to worry about. do you see christie endorsing somebody before iowa? i mean, it didn t sound like it tonight, at least in the hot mic moments. he was caught backstage saying she is going get smoked. we all know that. how do you say that and then that get publicized around the world and you go out and endorse somebody. we don t have the context of exactly where she is going to get smoked. just pointing that out. and the speech he gave tonight was as much about his opponents as trump, his non-trump opponents. i don t know. it didn t seem like it. i heard kristen reporting on tonight memo that the trump campaign issued. i tend to agree with them. i think a few people are going to flow towards haley. but a lot of people were looking for a pure anti-trump campaign. well, she is not giving them that. she is out promising to pardon donald trump. so if you were somebody who was all in on the chris christie message we have to sweep trump aside. there is no equivoc
you can see how loyal he is. he was begging for my endorsement. i could have said, mitt, drop to your knees and he would have dropped to his knees. he was begging. he choked like a dog. you ever see them in athletics? he s a choker! and he walks like a penguin onto the stage. you ever see him? like a penguin. but the two men appeared to have a somewhat cordial relationship at least when then president-elect trump considered romney for secretary of state. nbc news reports that romney might not run as a pure anti-trump republican. we re back here with our roundtable, katherine, christina and rick. that s a key question, christina. if it looks like romney wins the senate seat, which romney shows up in washington, the guy who s calling trump a fraud or the guy who s dining with him after the election? we don t know. we ve seen romney actually, as the clips have shown, stand up to him but we saw all of those republicans stand behind donald trump after the tax bill was passed. and just p
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