Jersey one time g. O. P. Rival of donald trump who went on to serve as head of trumps Transition Team he joins us from new jersey governor thank you in the United States has about 4. 5 percent of the worlds population but 29 percent of coronavirus deaths how do you account for that i think a few things ari 1st off its great to be back on this you would see this. That we 1st off i think were the most Transparent Society in the world so i think were giving Accurate Information all the time i dont you can say that about the chinese the North Koreans the russians i know they were getting Accurate Information from them and i cant imagine that the chinese dont have more coronavirus case that ice but the other thing too is larry we were a little bit slow to react here theres no question about that that you know i was advocating in early march a shutdown it really didnt happen for another 2 weeks after that you look at your state where you are right now california they shut down sooner than anybody else and i think as a result theyve gone through this a little bit better than anybody else especially relative to their population so they were a little slow at the beginning and also they got to places are being nearly as honest as we are about it you know Washington Post op ed last month you wrote the grim reality is that additional lives will be lost as we reopen our country how many it thats easy to it isnt easy cause were alive but thats tough to face as an i government. It is tough to face our bill let me tell you what else is going to happen if we dont open up were going to lose a lot of lives as well which is already seeing the statistics across the country larry increasing depression increasing Domestic Violence increasing drug addiction increase in suicide you know working people in this country larry they need to go back to work not just because financially what it does but what it does for their selfesteem every day and if we are going to lose a lot of people a lot of people if we dont let people get back to work we can never risk the situation here and we certainly cant wait for a vaccine narry because a vaccine may never come were still waiting for the sars vaccine were still waiting for the h one n exene right so americans are smart and they know theres going to be some risk but also larry were going to act differently than we acted pre the shutdown people will wear masks people will wash their hands frequently they will sanitize hard surfaces they will socially distance were not going to be shaking hands or high 5 ing or hugging people for a long time and so i think there will be changes in that way as well which will make the infection rate thats that it was pretty shot them we may never shake hands again right we may not make the president really happy it was his hands any. Human happiness the program or all one he was a gentle soul when i 1st met im sure absolutely and only when he got into politics the start shaking hands. That going to early module and door state shutdowns to flatten the curve because she said it was the right thing to do and the economic consequences of the shutdown has been worse than you expected. A little bit worse than expected although i expected it to be pretty bad but also larry we needed to do that at that time because we didnt need to flatten the curve because for the biggest reason was because our Health Care Systems were become overwhelmed and then you start tree arching care and making choices about who lives and who dies and americans that want to be put in that position so we did it but remember it was to flatten the curve not to find a cure it was the flatten the curve weve done that and now we need to go back to work to what we need to work and it will be 2 and well do it better this time and you are just continue to listen to folks who say you know until its perfectly safe well then we should reduce the speed limit to 25 miles an hour to harry i mean you know theres theres risks we take every day in this country to do things the way we want to do them you wrote in the Washington Post that americans now understand the importance of Wearing Masks trump very public refusal to wear on mask what do you make of that i dont stand the president being in groups of people im not wearing a mask its a mistake and i said it when Vice President pence went out to a clinic and didnt wear masks that he should hes now started to wear masks since then and i think the president should wear when to when hes around other people now hell argue that hes probably the only person americans has that every day so he knows whether he has the virus or not but the fact of the matter is i think he should wear a mask and i wish he would also in the Washington Post who declare that now is the time for honestly telling our citizens as f. D. R. Did in 42 that preserving our country in our cars will not be without sacrifice do you think as a people we are prepared for that. Yes i believe the American People look at what theyve been doing for the last 10 weeks larry for the most part this country has voluntarily shut itself down the last 10 weeks people have lost their businesses theyve lost an enormous amount of money and there has been great as we talked about before Mental Health effects but the American People did it because they thought thats what was in the best interest of the country and now as the best interest of the country are going to be for reopening the country the American People will understand that theres going to be risk involved with that theyll be smart about it and by the way larry the most vulnerable folks you know folks who are older folks who have Underlying Health conditions theyre going to have to stay in for the most part because theyre most at risk of really getting this virus in a way that could end their wives frankly and i know youre in the Republican Party has the trump leadership leave to much to be desired here. I listen i think it was a little slow in the beginning larry and i think that in the beginning he didnt take it as seriously as he could have i think though starting around the time he gave his Oval Office Speech in the middle of march i think the president has followed what the medical experts have asked to do in fact in the curve hes taken in historical steps in trying to give a safety net under people for the economic concerns and i think now hes leading correctly to try to get the country reopened and so in the beginning i think it was a little bit slow but overall i think the president has gotten to it and i think hes doing a good job congress has already passed close to 3 trillion dollars in cost of Coronavirus Relief the democrat controlled house approved another 3. 00 turn in Republican Controlled Senate has no action schedule what he what do you think we should too. Were going to have to do something there but im 3 trillions out of control and i think that we havent even distributed the 1st 3 trillion yet in the hole so i do think its smart to take the time to see how thats going to work but i do think youre going to have to alter we provide some aid to the states to continue them to make up the revenue theyve lost not to to make up for past sins but to make up for the revenue that theyve lost and i do think were going to need to give some more help to folks out there who are really struggling to raise Unemployment Benefits and worker retraining what do we need more a though of train trunnion was not preaching was fired me i think we should do one trillion more. You know i think i think that were going to get much closer to that number than the 3 larry and i think some of thats going to have to go to the states to help them some is going to continue to have to go to our Health Care System and then some is going to have to go to people who are the most injured during this to keep a roof over their heads to keep food on their tables it is a sin in this country larry to have the number of people we have right now standing at food back lines its heartbreaking theres a theres a woman outside Atlantic City who is in a New York Times a week or so ago who has been working since she was 15 years old shes now 54 and she said the 1st time ive ever been to food bank lot of my life i feel like a failure that woman has a failed in anything and we need to get her back to work making much me im so shes. Housed in jersey dylan. 2nd worst in the country larry. We have the 2nd most deaths the 2nd most cases just behind new york and thats for a few reasons i think part of it is we as you know being from the area we are Bedroom Community to new york city lot of people work in manhattan in the boroughs every day and travel back home to live in new jersey im so a lot of that commuting in those packed shorts im sure conveyed a lot of this virus early on. Second we did not act quickly to close here you know Princeton University closed the 4th larry and they even bought Airline Tickets for the students who couldnt afford it thats an urgent they thought it was the campus yet we did jersey for not for 2 weeks i think really look back on it thats going to have been a mistake and 3rd the biggest mistake is im Nursing Homes we ordered Nursing Homes to take over 1000 patients and so 54. 00 protests in new jersey over 5000. 00 people have dollar homes larry and veterans homes thats unacceptable and i think thats whats made us the 2nd worst in the country sad President Trump predicts the heiress to United States will have an incredibly strong 4th quarter Economic Growth and a phenomenal comeback and 2021 what it what does he base that on. I think hes looking at what the fundamentals were before all this larry and saying that this was an artificial circumstance it wasnt an economic downturn it was caused by this by this virus and so i think evil of sentencing has put the if the virus under control those economic circumstances in the main will go back to where they work. You know that i fear we present it wasnt what him said he wished he had a one armed economist so the economists can say on the one hand this but on the other hand that and i think of us are known for that and nobody really knows for sure whats going to happen but part of the president s job is to be optimistic and to try to put forward an optimistic vision of the future to give the people this country hope and i think thats part of what the president s doing holy move on to other things what are you doing now well a number of Different Things 1st of all been staying at home for the last 910 weeks now larry are 2 older children moved back to the city to move in with us and so all 6 of us are back home and the Silver Lining in all of this is been you know weve had more dinners together in the last 10 weeks that we had 10 years before that even me being governor thats been great and you know i am still serving up boards im doing my work for a. B. C. As you know as a commentator and i have a Consulting Firm thats trying to help with Strategic Consulting and Crisis Consulting so weve got some business going on right now given the crisis were in while im more with former governor Chris Christie or right after these words. The world is driven by a dream shaped by. The dares thinks. We dare to ask. Problem drugs dont do is come from scrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the United States we see a very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids oids invented america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so whos to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments. Seem wrong. All just all. Get to shape out. And engage. The trail. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area russia. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so of added 11000000000 barrels of oil. Take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have Nuclear Weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so thats why were going to drill down on the story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly its time to do news again. Welcome back to politicking guest Chris Christie former republican governor of new jersey one time g. O. P. Rival of donald trump who went on to serve as head of trumps Transition Team he joins us from new jersey earlier this month in a unanimous ruling the u. S. Supreme court tossed out the federal governments case in the socalled bridge gate scandal clearing the convictions of 2 people who work for you said that the governor that the government have done poorly but it wasnt unconstitutional what do you make of that ruling. Well larry it was vindication i told you when i was with you a year ago on my book tour that thats what i thought the u. S. Supreme court was going to do and the research for that is this was a vindictive political prosecution by a prosecutor in the Obama Justice department who was looking to take me out and didnt care which people in my ministry she hurt what the Supreme Court said that decision ari was that the law was clear that these actions while stupid were not a crime and certainly not a federal crime and that the prosecutor should have known that at the time and i believe he did know that at the time the right he went whoa he went forward because he was on a Political Mission on a vindictive mission and when you lose 9 nothing before this Supreme Court thats been so divided that tells you just bad that conduct was ok but the court said and did indicate abuse of power what is the he did he for abuse of power invention not constitutional whats the remedy you fire him larry you fire them which is exactly what i did as soon as i found out about what they did they were fired and publicly they were shamed by that firing and you know not everything wrong in life is criminal and that was wrong what they did wrong and they were fired but they did not belong in federal prison there and what this prosecutor did was unconscionable you know one of these folks went to jail for 3 months larry before the Supreme Court actually granted search or are in this case and the trial judge then released him but he served 3 months in jail for a crime that didnt exist thats thats unconscious cuter should not be doing that and this prosecutor should be held to account for what he did. Speaking of crimes that dont exist trump keeps talking about obama gate and he said Everybody Knows what it is you know what it is no i dont know yet but you know listen i think theres an investigation going on by john durham regarding what went on with the russian investigation. And the conduct of the f. B. I. Regarding general flynn lets let him do the investigation i said this the president all along i said tell him during the muller investigation any ukraine investigation mr president if you did nothing wrong that will come out in the end but youve got to let the process work but we know our friend the president larry hes not always the most peace and fellow in the world so his and i dont know any you know i dont see it yet and apparently i read today larry that attorney general barton see it yet either so you know i dont see it but you know well let investigation go on and see where it leads and every versa geishas should be given its chance to find the facts but we should be have a predetermined outcome larry thats not what america is and it never should be trouble once called Bush George Bush the 2nd the washed president we have a had now in cos obama the worst he has with obama forever insistent that as an all girl crowds will bigger than ounce in obamas grossly incompetent you can agree with that. Listen i didnt vote for president obama either time you know i voted for john mccain and i voted for and i voted for mitt romney but what i will tell you though larry is that this is who the president is you know this youve known him for 40 years right i dont for 20 years this is who he is he is at root a salesman hes somebody who selling his point of view and pushing it all the time and theres hyperbole involved in that and so do i think brock obamas the worst president in history no no i think that James Buchanan definitely beats of al. Franco because he was in hi ira a very piers was not a great one either larry or exactly right so you know but in the end this is who i always get surpris