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Foremost. we have to make it easier for new jobs to be created. we are going to cut taxes. streamline regulation and bust the bureaucracy strangling businesses and have an economic development team that will hang on to jobs here. that will increase the revenue side of the equation. if we don't put californians back to work there is no way out of this fiscal mess. on the cost side, we have got to run the governor efficiently and effectively. i've talked about downsizing the government. i've taked about using technology to do more with less. perhaps our biggest problem is the public employee pen...

Republican convention and now he's at 15% with photos of him on a beach. >> i remember the sound check at the tampa convention, out on the floor and people flocked to him, there was this flow before he gave the me-note, and mitt romney who he was there to nominate. things went badly for chris christie and some of the problems were evident before 2012. christie came in and had a serious structural pension problem and they are now in the worst state of any state of the country. he had other kinds of budget tearle challenges, the bill eventually came due. his absences, he spent something like 190...

The last report said if the pension problem was fixed new jersey would be in good fiscal position. this is not about not having enough revenue. the government was too big. we've made it smaller. if the pension system continues to get better we will be fine. >> if you haven't been able to fully solve the crisis and make democrats do what you want them to do in new jersey, how are you going to do it in washington? >> wait a second. we have taken a pension system that was about to go under and now it's paying its bills and doing better in the six years that i have been governor than it was in the...

The last report said if the pension problem was fixed new jersey would be in good fiscal position. this is not about not having enough revenue. the government was too big. we've made it smaller. if the pension system continues to get better we will be fine. >> if you haven't been able to fully solve the crisis and make democrats do what you want them to do in new jersey, how are you going to do it in washington? >> wait a second. we have taken a pension system that was about to go under and now it's paying its bills and doing better in the six years that i have been governor than it was in the...

Jersey it's tough to get them to push even further. what the last credit report said was, if the pension problem were fixed, new jersey would be in good fiscal condition. this is not about not having enough revenue. the government was too big. we've made it smaller. if the pension system continues to get better we will be fine. >> except -- all right. but if you haven't been able to fully solve the crisis and make democrats what you want them to do in new jersey, how are you going to do it in washington? >> wait a second. we have taken a pension system that was about to go under and now it's p...