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It is not a speech. He is speaking off the cuff with a group of men. Governor-types. Regular men and him. Chairs with plastic seats and metal tube legs, Christie is sitting on the end and it goes:
bink bink bink bink boink.
Bobby Jindal
Pat McCrory
Scott Walker
Mike Pence
Chris Christie
He looks good. Real good. The others are wearing sport jackets without ties, he is jacket-less showing off his new shape that is smaller than the previous shape and now barely hangs over the regular chair.
They should have better chairs. Come on, it's Aspen. Have you been there? I have better chairs than that in my dining room. Their chairs are a poor reflection on Aspen.
Glasses and pitchers of water on small glass tables by each seem to float in the air.
It is a confab. The audio is out of sync with lapses, extremely annoying to listen to, for its droning bullet point content as much as anything. Don't bother to watch.
They are reviewing what we already covered a dozen times, Christie is just being provocative
"This strain of Libertarianism that's going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought."
He evokes 9-11 in his challenge (
This site has "invokes")
“These esoteric intellectual debates — I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they won’t, because that’s a much tougher conversation to have. The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people having this intellectual debate and wondering whether they put (mumble)
Are you referring to Rand Paul?
“You can name any number of people and he’s one of them. These esoteric, intellectual debates; I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they won’t, because that’s a much tougher conversation to have.
The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people having this intellectual debate and wondering whether they put…”
