which was his entire mind-set obviously. some might argue still is in many ways but we know he talks about the campaign a lot but back in that moment, receiving that information according to sean spicer today. here is my predecessor who is no fan of michael flynn and they fired them. so of course he will say i should, but we know that donald trump emerged from that meeting with president trump actually saying, i learned thing about health care that i now understand are important and maybe there are ways to keep pieces of president obama s law that won t hurt too many people. some national security matters. he paid keen attention to that but did not pay attention even though he had very little experience in national security matters to hearing there was a real kesh to tconcern to the si president about and i m not sure that it was that he was digesting it through partisan lens as the white house is saying now. because you re right, when he walked out of that meeting or when he was s
that s going to be the real kesh. for christie, however, it s not just a question of surviving as governor. it s a question of the national impact is. if you re out there and you re looking at a possible republican who might have luggage carried into the national campaign, i have to think that s a tremendous liability. so christie is in a difficult position because he s got to clear this up one way or the other. i think that s what the press conference was all about and it was an academy award nomination perfe performance. but the reality is if he s unable to do that, and if the wall breaks, if you have to use a terrible analogy, if you have john dean come out and testify, any one of them, any one of the six, and they say the wrong thing, i think the administration will be in a lot of trouble. and, to me, it looked like wildstein was volunteering to play the john dean role in this if they can cut him some kind of a deal. so that jumped out as hugely important. even if chris christie