Christie Hits Rubio: ‘Abundantly Clear’ He Didn’t Fight for His Immigration Bill

CHRISTIE: "This is the difference between being a governor who has to be responsible for problems and not answering a question. The question was, did he fight for his legislation. It’s abundantly clear that he didn’t. It’s abundantly clear that he didn’t fight for the legislation. When the teachers unions attacked me with $20 million of ads because I wanted to reform teacher tenure, I fought them and fought them and fought them and I won. When they didn’t want — when people wanted to raise taxes in my state at democratic legislature and threatened to close down the government, I said, fine. Close down the government. I’ll order a pizza, open a beer and watch the mets. You can call me when the government reopens. And guess what they didn’t do? They didn’t pass a tax increase, because I vetoed it they never closed the government because they knew I would fight for what I believed in. The fact of the matter is, a leader must fight for what they believe in. Not handicap it, say, maybe because I can’t win this one, I’ll run. That’s not what leadership is. That’s what Congress is."
MUIR: "Senator Rubio?"
RUBIO: "Leadership — leadership is ultimately about solving the problem. And the approach that was tried and has been tried now repeatedly over ten years to do this all at once in a massive piece of legislation has no chance of passage. It is not leadership to continue to try something that has no chance of happening. I want to make progress on this issue. It has been discussed now for 30 years and nothing ever happens. And I am telling you that the only way forward on this issue that has any chance of you cannot do this without the happening, meaning gaining the support of the American people, support of the American people. Is an approach that begins by proving that once and for all, illegal immigration is under control."