crisis and what it might do to the counteroffensive ukraine was about to launch across the river and across the top of the crimean peninsula according to analysts. gillian: also this, something completely different for you, former new jersey governor chris christie will launch his second bid for the white house coming up later today. he s joining a very crowded and still growing republican primary field. byron york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner and fox news contributor. byron, a lot to unpack when it comes to christie entering the race. 1% piece of the pie in the polls, 47% unfavorability rating among republicans, is this about he really thinks he has a shot or about something else? he ran for president in 2016, finished tenth in the iowa
highest unfavorability rating of any of the republican candidates. he s polling, you know, at 1 or 0% depending on what poll you look at so when launching a campaign you could have all the expertise and credibility on a topic in the world. if there s no audience for what you re saying or no credibility, political credibility among the electorate, among which you re vying, it really does limit your reach. he would be most effective in this campaign if he were able to qualify to get onto the debate stage with donald trump and use those federal prosecutorial skills he s famous for to try to make the case. i m not sure what his path is to even qualifying for the debate so that s something i m sure his campaign will have to focus pretty hard on otherwise i m wondering what is the purpose of this campaign if you can t get into the venue in which you d be the most effective. david, you re our political director. your analysis? we had a poll that showed republican and republican leaning in
likely to be, if he can get on this debate stage. and i think you will not only be an agitator and a disruptor for trump, but i also think he will turn his cannon fire also on ron desantis. we saw this last time. in 2016, he almost singlehandedly took apart marco rubio. and actually, he paved the way for donald trump to win new hampshire, with chris christie s endorsement i. think obviously, he will have a much different message this time. given the unfavorability rating, he s almost certainly going to be the agitator, looking to destroy both trump and desantis. okay, robert, gives, always a pleasure, my friend. thank you much. we look forward to the next one. in the meantime, hope is lost at the scene of inexplicable tragedy in india, with fresh news on a search for train crash the rivers, but one big question remains unanswered. that is next. and later, mystery on the high seas. what you are witnessing right there was once rare, and we are trying to understand these inexplicable at
now after the former president was criticized for playing a pretty outsized role in the republican primaries ahead of those midterm elections. gillian? gillian: all right. rich edson in pella for us this evening. thank you. let s bring in fox news chief political analyst brit hume. brit, let s pick up, lots to unpack. let s pick up with chris christie. seems like he has expended an inordinate amount of energy lately eking out this position for himself as a never trumper, calling the former president all kinds of names, everything have from a coward to a putin puppet. take a look at this latest real clear politics average, gives him one, just one percent of the g.o.p. vote. and then monmouth yesterday gives him a 47% unfavorability rating among republicans. kind of begs the question: is he a serious candidate? is he running because he thinks he can somehow clinch the primary nomination or is this just a platform for him to
the fraud case against his bogus university saying he could not be impartial because he is mexican. all of it just boggles standard appalling disgusting racism. right? and he got away with it. with very few consequences. though i have to say, i do think it helped turning turn him into such a reviled favor figure with unfavorability rating of just 25%. it s not he like he s winning a popularity contest. or donald trump had a partner in this scene project of bringing racism out in the open. that man is now disgraced ex cable news host tucker carlson who, once he took over for the disgraced ex cable news host before him, i know it s hard to keep track, used his hour to regularly s view hateful raises views. he had tax immigrants because they made america, quote, dirty air. he referred to the black city of baltimore s one of the worst places in the hemisphere,