00:00Okay, here's the former Republican governor of New Jersey, who's a contributor now for ABC News, Chris Christie, and she's the former deputy prime minister of Canada, Krista Freeland.
00:11Okay, for the panel, should there be a law that says the president can't sue people? Well, he's suing everybody. I mean, he is, that is one thing that he never changed one bit from when he, I mean, he sued me.
00:24Remember, with the girl, the orangutan thing. And let's not bring that up.
00:29Did you apologize for that?
00:30No. Fuck no. Why would I apologize?
00:33I thought you had supper with him and you talked about it.
00:37Yeah, I had supper with him. I didn't apologize. This is one of my frustrations. People get the facts wrong.
00:42Sorry.
00:43It's okay. But, you know, it's not whether I had dinner with him. It's what I said about him after dinner.
00:49Right.
00:49Which, as I have never pulled a punch, I came back on the show and did what I always did. Some people stopped watching the show because I had dinner with them. If you watch the show, who's harder on him than I? No one.
01:03So, no, I didn't apologize.
01:05By the way, why shouldn't you do that?
01:09Exactly.
01:09Exactly.
01:09And that's part of the problem with our country right now is that families won't have dinner with each other if they disagree on politics.
01:18And, by the way, you said that's one way he hasn't changed. I've known him for 24 years. What way has he changed?
01:25No, none.
01:26None.
01:27None.
01:27Like, he's basically the same person that I met in 2002.
01:31No, being president has not changed his M.O. at all.
01:36The majesty of the responsibility has not weighed upon him.
01:40But the idea that you're, I mean, no.
01:43You know, we didn't put it in the Constitution that the president can't sue people or anybody or anything or his own government, which he's trying to do, suing the IRS, suing the Justice Department, because they didn't think it would be like putting in a clause that said he can't turn into a werewolf.
02:05You know, it's like they just never thought it would come up.
02:08Yeah, we can't get all over Adams and Madison on this one, right?
02:11It's just, there was no...
02:13Who knew?
02:14Okay, how would you grade Mayor Mandoni's handling of New York snowstorm last month while you were in the area?
02:23Yeah, I'd give him a C, because he seemed to move a bunch of the snow, but couldn't figure out how to do anything else when that was going on.
02:32He didn't pick up the garbage.
02:34He walked through, all my kids live in New York City.
02:36I've been there since the snowstorm.
02:39The garbage is piled up everywhere.
02:41But you know the one place, Bill, that is pristine, the garbage is gone, and there's no ice even on the sidewalk, in front of Gracie Mansion.
02:50Is that true?
02:51It's absolutely true.
02:52And so, like, socialist motionless, like, take care of my thing first.
02:58Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
03:01Right.
03:01I read this today in the paper, RFK says keto, the keto diet, you know what that is, keto?
03:09Like, almost...
03:09It's like only protein?
03:11No, no.
03:12It's mostly fat, I think.
03:14And no carbs.
03:14No carbs.
03:15No carbs.
03:15It's fat.
03:16A lot of butter.
03:17Yes.
03:18You know what?
03:19It's with Jack LaLanne.
03:21Anybody remember Jack LaLanne?
03:23I mean, even before my time, I just...
03:26But, like, in the 1950s, it was he and Bodybuild were saying.
03:30They were saying, let's do...
03:30And it kind of came back into style.
03:34He's suggesting it cures schizophrenia.
03:37Who would know better?
03:42Who would know better?
03:45Medical expert.
03:46Okay.
03:46Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
03:49Other items I just saw in the news.
03:51Pete Hegseth says the War Department, which we used to call the Defense Department, is going
03:57to...
03:58You still do.
03:58Only they call it the War Department.
04:00I mean, it is a...
04:08We used to call it that.
04:09George Washington called it that.
04:10Yeah.
04:11A little bit different back then.
04:14Anyway, they're going to...
04:16Whatever they are, they're going to cut ties with the Boy Scouts.
04:20I didn't know we had ties with...
04:22I didn't know there was a liaison.
04:27Do you think maybe the Boy Scouts asked them to do that?
04:30No, I don't think so.
04:32I think this is coming...
04:33I think...
04:33Well, first of all, the Boy Scouts did let in girls.
04:36That does seem crazy.
04:38A little...
04:39That does seem crazy.
04:40Didn't we have the Girl Scouts, too?
04:41Of course.
04:43Girl guides, they are?
04:44Yeah, right?
04:45It's Girl Guides, Boy Scouts, right?
04:47It's Girl Scouts.
04:47Girl Scouts.
04:48Girl Scout cookies.
04:49Girl Scout cookies.
04:50Am I missing something?
04:51You don't have that in Canada?
04:52We have Girl Guides.
04:53We have Girl Guides, Boy Scouts.
04:56Girl Guides?
04:57Girl Guides.
04:59Guides.
04:59Okay, well, same thing.
05:00Whatever country we're talking about, whatever name, we're talking about the fact that it's
05:06okay to have just a group of one sex, gender, whatever we want to call it, in the formative
05:13years, when they perhaps have interests that don't co-align with the other group.
05:19I mean, boys...
05:20How dare you, Bill?
05:21How dare you?
05:30Is that not progressive enough?
05:32Should we always...
05:33Should the Boy Scouts have girls?
05:34It just seems...
05:35Ridiculous.
05:35And I think for girls, it can often really be great, especially young girls, to be on
05:43their own.
05:44Much better for girls.
05:45Very important for girls.
05:46Sometimes not to have boys around.
05:48Yeah, it is actually...
05:49Even more important for the girls.
05:50Yes.
05:51Yes, I would agree.
05:53Okay, Trump is going to want...
05:56We didn't even get to this story.
05:59That's how crazy this country is.
06:02He's willing to make a deal with Chuck Schumer...
06:04Oh, yeah.
06:04...to unfreeze funding for infrastructure projects that Schumer wants, if Schumer agrees
06:12to name Penn Station and Dulles Airport after the president.
06:20I...
06:21I...
06:21I...
06:23It's...
06:23I can't...
06:24He's brought...
06:25He's brought shameless to an art form.
06:29I...
06:30In somebody's darkest moment...
06:35Somebody's darkest moment, they might say, they lived in New York City all their life.
06:39What, God, wouldn't it be great if Penn Station were named after me?
06:41But do you never say it out loud?
06:46Like...
06:46It's...
06:47It's...
06:48But you know what?
06:49You're not surprised.
06:51Are you?
06:53Yeah...
06:53Not...
06:55No.
06:55Generally, no, but specifically, yes.
06:58I mean...
06:58I mean...
06:58Like, if tomorrow...
07:00He...
07:01I mean, he already renamed the Gulf of...
07:04Mexico.
07:04Mexico, the Gulf of America.
07:06If tomorrow was Donald Trump presents the Gulf of America.
07:11The Trump Kennedy Center.
07:13Yeah, the Trump Kennedy Center.
07:15So, no, I guess...
07:16Have you seen that yet?
07:16I drove by it.
07:18With the name on it.
07:19And it's the Donald...
07:19But now it's been shut down for two years.
07:20Well, yeah, well, because no one will go there.
07:22But the...
07:23The Donald J. Trump...
07:26Here's the interesting part, because he doesn't, again, deal in subtlety.
07:29The sign says, the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Arts Center.
07:40Yeah.
07:44I mean...
07:45Yeah.
07:45I read the paper every day.
07:46I miss that.
07:47Yeah, yeah.
07:48I love it.
07:50Uh...
07:51I have a question for you, Governor.
07:57Oh, sure.
07:57I think one of the reasons that Epstein stuff has been so riveting is it's what all these
08:03rich and powerful people say to each other when we're not listening.
08:07So, I want to know, what do Republicans say to each other when we're not listening about
08:13what's happening in America right now?
08:15Look, so many of my fellow party members, especially come up to me, because I say all
08:22this stuff out loud, and they, in the green room at ABC, they'll say, you're so brave.
08:27That's so great.
08:28I totally agree with you.
08:29He's nuts.
08:30And then they go out on camera to be interviewed.
08:33They're the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.
08:36You know?
08:37And then they come back in the green room, and they say to me, you know, I have to do
08:40that.
08:41But, like, I don't really mean it.
08:42That's what they say.
08:43Like who specifically?
08:45All right, Bill.
08:55One more time's not long enough to give you all the names, but I'll give you one.
08:58Lindsey Graham.
08:59Lindsey Graham.
09:07Which, by the way, was what he was saying when he was running for president in 2016.
09:12But I guess if you get invited to play golf, then off you go.
09:18Well, knock me over with a feathered bow that I'm wearing with a silk robe.
09:24This is for...
09:28Christian, do you agree with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney?
09:31Is that who you ran against in the primary?
09:34It is.
09:34He's also my son's godfather.
09:36Oh, wow.
09:37That must have been an interesting campaign.
09:39We were friendly.
09:41The Canadian campaigns are so different.
09:43They're so nice.
09:44They just, they don't, they don't get...
09:45They're nice.
09:46They really are.
09:47Look, guys, we have a democracy, and we're not having a fight inside our country right
09:52now about how to count the votes.
09:55So I'd say, please don't diss Canada.
09:57Right, no, absolutely.
09:57We're like hanging in there.
09:58You have nice campaigns.
09:59We don't.
10:00I mean, I've been in Canada when elections were going on and saw on the local TV the attack
10:06ads, and I just laughed out loud.
10:08I mean, they're just, what they consider an attack, we wouldn't know.
10:12So anyway, do you agree that he said, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that we're witnessing
10:17a rupture in the world order?
10:18He gave a very powerful speech at Davos a couple of weeks ago.
10:22I'm sure Trump didn't like that, but it seemed to be saying to a lot of the world, as you
10:30said before, we can't rely on the United States, and we seem to be driving China, you know,
10:37into the other countries, rather, into the arms of China.
10:40I mean, you know, there was an old song, I want to be around to pick up the pieces when
10:43somebody breaks your heart.
10:45Well, we broke a lot of hearts, and China's like, I'm going to pick up the pieces.
10:49Yeah, look, I think it was a brilliant speech.
10:54I think it was really, really important, and I think it's really sad.
10:59And, you know, I would say to you influential Americans, to Americans here, we really like
11:07you.
11:08Like, Canadians like America.
11:11Yeah.
11:11No, we do, actually.
11:12Oh, I know.
11:12And we respect you.
11:13And why wouldn't you?
11:14We're still fucking awesome.
11:16Yeah, actually, no, actually, you are awesome, and you have done so much as a country.
11:24Yes.
11:24And the world, especially the world's democracies, will be really much poorer if you guys don't
11:33get your act together.
11:34Because a world in which we need to start relying on China, this is not a world where
11:40human rights matter.
11:41Yeah.
11:42This is not a world where democracy matters.
11:44And, like, I feel kind of weird saying this, not being an American, but, like, America's
11:51really great.
11:52And I actually, I think Winston Churchill was right when he said, America does the right
11:57thing after trying everything else first.
12:00So, could you please, like, finish trying the other stuff and start doing the right thing?
12:07All right.
12:07We'll end it there.
12:08Thank you, Christopher.
12:09Thank you, people.
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