staff tolls me you're friends with chris christie. you don't want him for president do you? >> i would rather have him as president than donald trump i will say that t i understand he has a gladtorial attitude and he's ready to combat. we know what he did to marco rubio in 2016 in the primaries we get all that. i think he's a guy that is not walking around preaching about rigged elections and all this other stuff. he's the country forward. i don't know if he will win, i know donald trump has him beat by a mile at this particular moment in time but in the same breath i don't think he's going to be pushed around by the former president and chris christie knows what he's talking about highly intelligent and accomplished. i don't know but we'll see. >> sean: if he's so intelligent why did he leave office with a 14% approval rating. we all remember bridge gate although that ended up being overruled on appeal, but then there he is sitting on a beach that he closed himself, one rule
against one another with a goal of making them fight. >> exactly. that's sort of roman gladtorial yal stuff. every question was set up as a fight between two republicans. and i do think this is a better way to get at what these candidates are. it does allow them to say what they have to say without having to get personal and without having to do at home. and the other interesting part is when you set a debate up as one remust bely can against another, you rarely here about what the main argument in the election ought to be about. the two parties arguing their plit political philosophies. the republicans have now spent the summer when they've allowed the democrats to get away with
stage where they're being pitted against one another with a goal of making them fight. >> exactly. that's sort of roman gladtorial yal stuff. every question was set up as a fight between two republicans. and i do think this is a better way to get at what these candidates are. it does allow them to say what they have to say without having to get personal and without having to do at home. and the other interesting part is when you set a debate up, as one remust bely can against another, you rarely here about what the main argument in the election ought to be about. the two parties arguing their plit political philosophies. the republicans have now spent the summer when they've allowed
newt came to new york today for trump's blessing, calling the tycoon a true american icon. but trump is now something phenomenal indeed. he's the ring master of the republican clown show. also tonight, mitt versus newt. with herman cain's exit, the republican race comes down to this. on one side, the perfectly presented if not sufficiently conservative mitt romney. on the other, the gladtorial former speaker of the house. newt's surging in iowa right now and closing the gap in new hampshire, and that's got romney sweating, if he could sweat. and that leads to this, which candidate, newt or mitt, does president obama and his people want to run against? would the obama campaign rather face a flame thrower like newt, who has a ton of baggage, or the genteel romney who has trouble with consistency and connection with people. and later, the penn state scandal, the sex scandal has come back. jerry sandusky, the former assistant football coach accused of sex crimes against young boys speaks out, again.
brawl, without some turbulence along the way. nobody coasts to it. not even george w. bush came closest in 2000. there's always a fight. what you say is true of gingrich, that he's going to be stronger if he surmounts these withering attacks, is also true of romney, who has looked weak. if he can somehow find his spine, come back, he's going to be much more formidable. >> but you're being very fair here. aren't you being too fair in a sense that saying that both of these guys equally enjoy the gladtorial aspect of politics? >> no, no, no. >> romney doesn't like this stuff. >> mitt romney's fatal weakness to date has been that he hasn't shown that he can really win a barroom brawl. he won't win the nomination unless he proves that he can do it. i do think with respect to gingrich, you know, chuck mentioned, he's under attack from the social conservative right on the ground out in iowa. he's also under attack sort of from above the elite of the
be much more formidable. >> but you're being very fair here. aren't you being too fair in a sense that saying that both of these guys equally enjoy the gladtorial aspect of politics? >> no, no, no. >> romney doesn't like this stuff. >> mitt romney's fatal weakness to date has been that he hasn't shown that he can really win a barroom brawl. he won't win the nomination unless he proves that he can do it. i do think with respect to gingrich, you know, chuck mentioned, he's under attack from the social conservative right on the ground out in iowa. he's also under attack sort of from above the elite of the party in washington and new york, under ordinary rules, no candidate could surmount this kind of -- survive this kind of challenge. what gingrich has to bet is that these are the conventional rules do not apply, this is not a conventional year, this is not a conventional moment and an unconventional candidate can