NJ Governor Christie Booed By Fans After Catching Foul Ball; Author: Christie Went From Top Dog To "On The Outs".
KING: Welcome back. Yes, hard to believe sometimes but politicians are people too, just like you and I on a July night, what do you do? Well, put Chris Christie at a ball game.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He gets the ball. Left-handed catch. Just noticed him. Boy, are you hot?</s>KING: That's a pretty good catch. Chris Christie right there showing that he can catch a ball, but he can't catch a break.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nice to see him get from the beach here to the ballpark.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At least he gave it to a kid, you know?</s>KING: A little shot there going to Christie. I think Christie took some hot water for going to the beach a week or so ago on the state beach that was close</s>BALL: He's the least popular governor in the country, and, you know, to give him a little bit of</s>KING: There should be just some safe place in America, it should be a ballpark. We could just be a guy who catches a ball and gives it to a kid, no?</s>KUCINICH: Ballpark</s>KING: Yes, sorry Governor. And Christie is in the news again. He's been in the news a lot lately. But there's a new book, Joshua Green of Bloomberg about the 2016 elections called the "Devil's Bargain", and he talks about the president on election night. He got a call from then President Obama saying, if Trump wins I'll give you a call. Now Donald Trump is a known germophobe. Chris Christie took the phone himself calling his cellphone and tell then president-elect or candidate Trump, if he calls me back. "The president talked to me earlier. If you win he's going to call my phone, and I'll pass it over to you." Trump says, quote, hey Chris, you know my bleeping number, just give it to the president. I don't want your bleeping phone. This is Donald Trump then a candidate or president-elect by the end of the night, being a germophobe not wanting to apparently use the New Jersey governor's cell phone. And Josh being</s>JOSHUA GREEN, AUHTOR, "DEVIL'S BARGAIN: That moment and in the days that followed, you know, he wound up going from being in charge of the transition and maybe ticketed for a job like attorney general, some high level job in the Trump administration, to being completely on the outs, sent back to New Jersey.</s>KING: Really?</s>KUCINICH: Man, tough crowd.</s>BALL: Well, it is one of the enduring mysteries of the whole Trump- Christie bromance, right. Here is the first Republican governor to endorse Trump very loyally at his side even when he took a lot of flack especially back home for it. And then he gets nothing. And you hear people around him say, oh no, no, he said that on purpose, he didn't want anything. But it's weird how far apart they've grown.</s>KING: It is and