Chris Christie: “I would correct them and say no, the president is a Christian and he was born in this country. I mean, those two things…”

This is not a message of unity in the face of what could have been a national tragedy.

This is an embarrassing episode for the Department of Justice [that] further undercuts the public confidence in our system of justice.

“For our party’s sake, if we do a lot of losing six weeks from today, I wonder whether we’re going to say, OK, we need to change this approach and change this kind of wing of the party from being the dominant wing and having a different…

“Once you go through the thought process of convincing yourself that you can be president, and then the next step that you should be president, that doesn’t leave your brain.”