Governor Christie on Piers Morgan Tonight (1/4)

Описание: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie sits down with CNN's Piers Morgan for an interview. June 14, 2011.
(Transcript Below)


Piers Morgan: Could the next president of the United States come from New Jersey? Tonight I'll talk to hometown boy made good, governor Chris Christie, and find out.
Governor Christie: I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the united states and that I want to be president of the united states right now.
Piers Morgan: Tea Party loves him, and democrats fear him. Sounds like the formula for a perfect Republican Presidential candidate. Chris Christie says he's not running for president. Well, not yet.
Governor Christie: I'm 100% certain I'm not going to run.
Piers Morgan: He's a budget-slashing reformer, a tough-talking former federal prosecutor, and a Jersey Boy born and bred.
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New Jerseyan: You are adorable.
Governor Christie: Thank you.
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Piers Morgan: He's a Bruce Springsteen fanatic. So could Chris Christie secretly be born to run?
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Piers Morgan: What's your favorite song, "Born To Run?"
Governor Christie: No. "Thunder Road."
Piers Morgan: Did you see what I did there? Born to run?
Governor Christie: Yes, I saw that. I went back over it to "Thunder Road," Piers.
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Piers Morgan: This is "Piers Morgan Tonight."
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Piers Morgan: Governor, welcome back to your old gym.
Governor Christie: It's great to be here.
Piers Morgan: Does this bring back warm memories? Horrible memories?
Governor Christie: Incredibly warm and happy memories for me. I mean, my -- almost all that I am was developed in this place. It really was.
Piers Morgan: Yeah, but in the gym specifically.
Governor Christie: Oh, yeah, listen, I played sports here, and it was a great place to grow up, and we had great athletes that I played with the years that I was here. It -- you know, I watched my own son now play high school baseball and I --
Piers Morgan: Well, I heard you were a bit of a baseball star here.
Governor Christie: Well you know, listen --
Piers Morgan: Trophy cabinet littered with your triumphs.
Governor Christie: I think that's probably overstating it. We had a lot of great players. I played, which was a triumph.
Piers Morgan: But you were good?
Governor Christie: I was pretty good, yeah. I was pretty good.
Piers Morgan: You were a hot athlete in your day?
Governor Christie: I was a good catcher. I was a good baseball catcher and a good leader on the team.
Piers Morgan: Well, talking about being a leader on the team, I loved this quote I found from Steven Sweeney, the Democratic President of the State Senate here. Who said about the difference between his style and yours, "the difference is that I have an off switch and Chris doesn't. You know, if I knock you down, I'll pick you up, brush the dirt off your back, try and build the relationship, and go forward. Chris knocks you down, like with the teachers, and he'll stomp on you, kick on you until he can kill you."
Governor Christie: Very dramatic but not true. You know. Very dramatic but not true.
Piers Morgan: Not true?
Governor Christie: No. Hey listen, I'm tough when I have to be the same way Steve is tough when he has to be. but in the end I'm about getting things done and you don't get things done by stomping people until they're dead. You get things done by standing for your principles. And letting people know that that's what you stand for. And then that can make appropriate compromise possible. But being squishy does not allow to you make appropriate compromise possible.
Piers Morgan: See, to a Brit like me even your accent seems intimidating. it's the kind of thing --
Governor Christie: Good. I'm glad about that.
Piers Morgan: Yeah. You're like a sort of political Tony Soprano.
Governor Christie: Others have said that, Piers. Others have said that. But you know, just like James Gandolfini would say if he were here, there's some of that that is for effect. I mean have to, part of what we do --
Piers Morgan: Do you like the fact you have this slightly intimidating reputation?
Governor Christie: I don't like or dislike it. It's just kind of what it is. It's who I am. And in the end, what I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. and I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else, that's who I am.
Piers Morgan: But right, now I'm getting sort of -- you know, this is a very civilized conversation we're having, you're very polite, you're very friendly. But I've seen some of these YouTube videos of you in action in these town halls, and you're on the rampage...

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