Watch Fox News host Neil Cavuto shrug off Chris Christie’s "joke" about Hillary Clinton, “I’ll beat her rear end on that stage,” as possibly “much ado about nothing.”
The 15-minute interview began with a clip of the Republican presidential candidate threatening Clinton.
CHRISTIE: She sees a federal prosecutor on the stage, I’ll beat her rear end on that stage and you know what, after I do, she’ll be relieved because she’ll just be worried I was going to serve her with a subpoena. It’ll be a relief just to lose the debate.
Cavuto made light of the remarks, joking, “Donald who? Chris Christie lighting up the airwaves” with “those choice remarks.”
Later, he asked Christie, “Do you regret those remarks?”
Christie doubled down.
CHRISTIE: Noooo. Not at all. That’s exactly what we’re going to do on stage. We’re going to make sure that she gets the rhetorical beating she deserves for her lies on Benghazi, for her lies on the e-mails, for her awful foreign policy in Libya and all around the world.
“You’re going to hear those who are going to say that’s not the proper language you use in a town hall forum,” Cavuto lightly challenged. “You say what?”
“Everybody should stop being so politically correct,” Christie said. “I was having fun there, as was the crowd, as you could hear. If she is too sensitive to take that, then she’s too sensitive to be president of the United States and I don’t think that’s the case…”
Instead of challenging Christie’s idea of “fun,” Cavuto said, “You’ve not heard from her camp so maybe much ado about nothing.”
The discussion moved on and Christie made lots of rhetorical attacks on his Republican rival, Senator Marco Rubio. Christie referred to Rubio as the “boy in the bubble” holding “drive-by town hall meetings” and accusing him of acting “like the King of England” for not taking many questions.
Check out how much more of that kind of talk got challenged by Cavuto, below, from the February 3 Your World.