Chris Christie on Hillary Clinton: ‘She Doesn’t Tell the Truth’
DICKERSON: “Taking the morning off the campaign trail to join us in person is 2016 Republican candidate and Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie. Welcome, Governor. I want to start with some of the tough comments you have made about Republicans in Washington. First, on the Benghazi hearings, you said they were ineffective with the secretary of state.”
CHRISTIE: “Yes, I think they were. I mean, listen, the fact is, we should be talking about what really matters in that — in that suit — and this is the thing. Secretary Clinton says that she is not responsible for what happened there. She says other security professionals were responsible, yet she didn’t fire anybody. And I think what the American people dislike the most about Hillary Clinton is that she refused to be held accountable. Mistakes happen. Bad things happen when you’re in office. And you need to be held accountable and stand up and do that. She has no accountability and no transparency to what is going on. Everything has had to be dragged out of her. And I don’t think they did an effective job in getting at that. But here is the thing. Come next September, when I’m on the stage with her in the debates, she will have a former federal prosecutor asking her these questions.”
DICKERSON: “When you say she wasn’t on top of it and her security staff, is that — I mean, people said that about with you the Washington — George Washington Bridge. They said, well, he should have known this was happening underneath him and it shows that he wasn’t on top of things.”
CHRISTIE: “That’s why I said it’s about accountability, John. Bad things will happen sometimes, and when they do, you have to be accountable. Within 24 hours of when that news came in New Jersey, I fired the people who were responsible. What happened to Hillary Clinton? Why haven’t those folks been fired? If it was really their responsibility, why haven’t they been fired? She sloughs it off on something else because she doesn’t want to tell the truth. And that is the biggest problem with Hillary Clinton, is that she doesn’t — she isn’t forthcoming. She doesn’t tell the truth. And she doesn’t want to be held accountable. That’s not the kind of person we need in Washington, D.C., right now in the White House. We need someone who is willing to be accountable for what goes on in this country, what goes on, on Capitol Hill, and everyplace else.”
