Podcasts about in your face politics

 Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie drinks a symbolic tequila toast, analyzes the New Jersey sports betting market from germination to July and ruminates on what comes next, including maybe, perhaps, politics.  And in the second and final installment of our series on the Chicago Black Sox Scandal, Society for American Baseball Research scholar Jacob Pomrenke puts the legacies of Shoeless Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver in perspective. He also draws strong comparisons between the baseball landscape of 1919 and now, and how owners are looking at gambling in much the same way.   TIME STAMPS  2:25 – Maine sports betting bill collapses in a pocket veto.  3:30 – What went wrong in Maine?  4:45 – Sports betting disappointments, encapsulated.    Chris Christie on Legal Sports Betting Crusade  7:00 – Interview with former New Jersey governor and legal sports betting trailblazer Chris Christie.  9:39 – How does Chris Christie think New Jersey has done as a legal sports betting market more than a year after the repeal of PASPA?  11:18 – Will New Jersey maintain its primacy on the East Coast even after New York eventually legalizes sports betting?  13:50 – Pennsylvania continues to be a strong market for New Jersey after legalizing sports betting.  15:01 – What role does Chris Christie have advocating for the legal sports betting industry?  16:52 – Why was New Jersey so ripe for legal sports betting?  18:56 – When did this cause blip your radar and why did it matter to you?  23:45 – Is “integrity fee” a non-starter?  25:11 – How did you learn of the PASPA repeal?  26:32 – How did you celebrate?  27:08 – On Chris Christie’s first sports bet in New Jersey. (It’s not what you’re thinking).  29:00 – Chris Christie was all over Tiger Woods at The Masters.  30:01 – What's next for Chris Christie?  31:01 – Why weren’t there any sports betting references in “Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics.”  32:33 – How good of a job did Jason Alexander do portraying Chris Christie in a play?  33:13 – How's the new Bruce Springsteen album?   Jacob Pomrenke on the Black Sox Scandal  38:12 – Part 2 of our Black Sox Scandal deep dive.  39:45 – On Buck Weaver and Shoeless Joe Jackson.  43:18 – The trial.  45:42 – How the Black Sox matter 100 years later.  50:03 – Do modern player salaries immunize sports against Black Sox-type corruption?  51:39 – Will changing views of sports betting mitigate the punishments for Buck Weaver and Shoeless Joe Jackson?  53:30 – The scandal made Shoeless Joe a cultural icon.    #OddBet  59:35 – Astros > Rangers.  1:00 – Reds or White Sox. Who ya like? 

Chris Christie is a boisterous, larger-than-life politician who served two terms as governor of New Jersey and briefly ran for president in 2016 before dropping out of the primaries and being the first prominent Republican to back Donald Trump. But when Trump won, he essentially threw Christie overboard, passing him over for the two jobs in the administration he coveted: Vice-President and Attorney General. Sitting on the political bench at age 56 and now an ABC News contributor, Christie has written a book called Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics. Christie joins Tina to talk candidly about what the Mueller report means for Trump, the president’s extraordinary self-preservation instincts and why hiring family members is a very bad idea.Tweet me @tinabrownlm #TBDwithTinaBrown And if you liked this episode, please rate, review and subscribe to help spread the word.

Former NJ Governor Chris Christie sets the record straight about his tenure as a corruption-busting prosecutor and a Republican running a Democratic state, as well as what really happened on the 2016 campaign trail and inside Trump Tower.  He recalls how his friendship with Donald Trump began and the nasty details of the infamous Charles Kushner case that would later come back to haunt him.  He talks about why he passed on running for President in 2012, Hurricane Sandy and that notorious Obama hug (which he says wasn’t really a hug), and how the Romney campaign used it as a scapegoat for their own candidate’s shortcomings.  Christie reveals that he even had to convince his own son that he had nothing to do with the George Washington Bridge closure and in the end it boiled down to stupid people doing stupid things.  I ask him if he thinks the Trump-Russia collusion may turn out to be a similar situation, he says he could tell General Mike Flynn was trouble from day one, he talks about his former colleagues Bob Mueller and James Comey, and he shares the advice he gave President Trump when the whole Russia investigation began.  He reveals why he believed he was going to be tapped as Trump’s running mate, how Jared Kushner tossed out the entire Trump transition plan just to get even with him, and the day he finally got fed up and said "I’m done."  Plus Chris Christie on how he became the first Youtube Governor, why he unfollowed every New Jersey reporter on Twitter, and why it took him 3 months to convince Donald Trump to cash his check. Order Chris Christie's book Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics on Amazon, Audible, or wherever books are sold.  Follow him on twitter at @ChrisChristie.  Today's episode was sponsored by BetterHelp.com.

In this week’s “A Reagan Forum” we go back to February 9, 2019 when former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came to the Reagan Library to discuss his brand new book, “Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face-Politics," and to set the record straight about his tenure as a corruption-fighting prosecutor and a Republican running a Democratic state, as well as his frank insights and experiences with President Trump.

Townhall Review – February 9, 2019 Hugh Hewitt talks with Senator Marco Rubio about President Trump’s State of the Union address. Kevin McCullough speaks with The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel about the Democrat’s reactions during the State of the Union. Hugh Hewitt talks with John Bolton, National Security Advisor to President Trump, about the situation in Venezuela. Mike Gallagher talks about a Victor Davis Hanson article titled “The Progressive Race to the Bottom.” Hugh Hewitt talks with Chris Christie about the 2016 presidential campaign and his book Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics. Sebastian Gorka discusses the Virginia abortion law with investigative reporter Sara Carter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hugh Hewitt talks with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, for an extended interview about his book, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Christie, the former two-term New Jersey Governor and member of the President Trump transition team, spoke with me about his new book "Let Me Finish: Trump The Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey & the Power of In-Your-Face Politics."

As a nation remembers George Herbert Walker Bush, Michael discusses his lasting legacy with Mona Charen and Ellis Henican and looks at new developments for Donald Trump in the Mueller investigation. Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Her most recent book is Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense. Ellis Henican is a New York Times bestselling author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and a popular TV news pundit. He is also the voice of Stormy on the hit Cartoon Network series Sealab 2021. His upcoming book, co-written with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics.