Christie Attacks Rubio for Making Joke About Snowstorm; ‘Shows a Real Immaturity’
TAPPER: "Up in New Hampshire, Marco Rubio, with whom you have been exchanging a lot of words, said that — I guess he was joking — that the storm would at least freeze the federal agencies from creating regulations. It would freeze Obama’s veto pen. As somebody who is having a hands-on experience with the storm, I wondered what you thought of that."
CHRISTIE: "Well, that’s a difference between a United States senator who has never been responsible for anything and a governor who is responsible for everything that goes on in your state. Fourteen people died across the country. And that shows a real immaturity from Senator Rubio to be joking as families were freezing in the cold, losing power, and some of them losing their loved ones. But I don’t expect that Senator Rubio would be able to understand that, because he’s never had to make a decision of any consequence at all that he’s had to be held accountable for.
"Voting yes or no in the United States Senate every day, sitting where they tell you to sit, coming when they tell you to come, leaving when they tell you to leave, it sounds like school to me, and not like the kind of job that the presidency is.
"So, unfortunately, I’m not surprised that Senator Rubio made those kind of ill-advised comments. That shows his level of preparedness for the presidency, I suspect."