Christie on Time's Fat Joke: 'Who Cares?'
After his dominant re-election victory, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appeared on Fox News Sunday, ABC's This Week and CBS's Face the Nation to campaign for 2016 talk about the Garden State's future, the controversial Time cover, and his Romney vice presidential snub.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is already trying to submarine Chris Christie's presidential dream, because he has so many successful campaigns that make him an authority on the subject. Perry started questioning Christie's record and whether it would be best for national Republicans on ABC's This Week. "He was a successful governor in New Jersey? Now does that transcend to the country? We’ll see in later years and months to come," Perry said. "Is a conservative in New Jersey a conservative in the rest of the country?" Perry asked. "We’ll have that discussion at the appropriate time." But Perry thinks the door is wide open for him to re-enter national politics. "Second chances are what Americans have always been about," Perry said.
Secretary of State John Kerry promised all things were being considered during nuclear negotiations with Iran on NBC's Meet the Press. "This is the first time that the P5 had come together with this kind of a serious set of possible options in front of it with a new Iranian government," Kerry said Sunday. The lead negotiator with Iran got ahead of criticism that the U.S. was about to cut a bad deal just for the sake of cutting any deal at all. "We all have said, President Obama has been crystal clear. Don't rush. We're not in a rush. We need to get the right deal," Kerry said. "No deal is better than a bad deal. And we are certainly adhering to that concept."
Sen. Lindsey Graham refused to drop his nomination hold-up threats over Benghazi during his appearance on CNN's State of the Union. "I’ve been trying for a year to get these interviews without holds," Graham said. "I don’t want to hold anybody … Congress has an independent duty to find out what happened in Benghazi." Host Candy Crowley politely pointed out that CBS's 60 Minutes Benghazi report, which prompted his latest round of nomination hold threats, was false. Graham stubbornly refused to budge. "Oversight is important," he said. "I’m trying to perform oversight, I’m not trying to prosecute a crime."