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>> when, you know, you work on campaigns, you have almost an obsession over the optics, and i can't think of optics that are worse for a politician. this is emblematic of his current political state. his approval rating is at 15%. the joke is when you are at 15%, you are down to blood relatives and staff. that is -- his political base was there with him. >> your wife. >> yeah. he is lily and figuratively on an island politically. >> yeah. i have to point out that when he was confronted about these photos, christie publicly said he was planning to be at this beach, and he never caught wh e wher...

Even if you are mostly cut off from news over the long fourth of july weekend which i tried to be, you probably saw these photos of governor chris christie and his family enjoying a day out on an otherwise empty beef. a beach that christie himself had ordered empty. he was asked if he got any sun. he said i didn't get any sun today. until that photographic evidence showed otherwise, he came up with a novel explanation saying he didn't get any sun. he had a baseball hat on. the governor himself elaborated to reporters yesterday. >> i don't count going out on the beach after i've been working al...

Not what those pictures show. i'm sitting there with a baseball hat, shorts and a t-shirt talking to my wife and talking to our guests. i don't apologize for it. i don't back away from it. and i think my poll numbers show i don't care about political optics. i care about what's doing right and wrong and it was right for my family to be together and for me to be with them and do what we were doing. >> no, that's a big no. everything about that is no. seriously, a lot of people worked all morning and wanted to go to the beach, and they couldn't go to the beach and spend time with their family, a...

His beach trip was appropriate. and criticism from his second in command. take a listen. >> whenever i get done tonight, i'll go back to the beach. that's where my family is, and that's where i'll go back to. now, you know, it's been really clear, that's our residence. and we have a right to be there whenever we want throbe there. i don't count going out on the beach after i've been working all morning to sit and talk with my wife and our guests for 40 minutes before i had to leave to come back to work. as getting sun. that wasn't what i was out there to get. the way i took the question was, h...

A tan today? that wasn't what i was doing and that's not what those pictures show. sitting there with a baseball hat, shorts and a t-shirt talking on my wife and our guests. i don't apologize for it. i don't back away from it. and i think my poll numbers show that i don't care about political optics. what i care about is doing what's right. what was right for our family was to be together and for me to be with them and to do what we were doing. >> clearly he does not care about political optics. amid all this, another official making a move that has drawn a lot of criticism. the u.n. ambassado...