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Chris Christie: “This is just another hack who wants five minutes on TV. If she wants to get on a plane and come here to New Jersey and…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2014
This is just another hack who wants five minutes on TV. If she wants to get on a plane and come here to New Jersey and ask me if she wants to examine me and review my medical history, I'll have a conversation with her about that. Until that time she should shut up.
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Chris Christie
Republican · New Jersey

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Governor Christie responds to a doctor's public questioning of his medical fitness, dismissing her comments as seeking publicity.

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