AP Photo Christie: The 32 minutes without me talking were the most boring of the debate

Chris Christie thinks the 32 minutes that went by without him being called on were the most snoozy of last night's three-hour debate.

“That 32 minutes was the most boring 32 minutes of the debate. So, you know, I think that is probably pretty clear from the ratings,” Christie said Thursday on “CBS This Morning.”


Christie, who in the past said he waited through 20 consecutive questions in a row without being called on during last month's Fox News debate jokingly had threatened to go “nuclear” if he wasn’t thrown questions Wednesday night.

Making the rounds on the morning shows, Christie said he felt the second debate had gone well.

“There’s 11 good people. What you try to do is just use the time that you get as wisely as you can. I feel like, listen, when you’re talking about other people’s issues, the people of the United States' problems, that is what they want to hear about,” he said.

He also addressed his outburst when Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina were trading jabs about their business records.





“The fact is, we don’t want to hear about your careers,” he said during the debate. “You’re both successful people. Congratulations. … Stop this childish back-and-forth between the two of you.”

Gayle King pointed out that Christie, himself, has talked about his business record a lot.

“What they were doing getting into a kind of typical, personal food fight. In the first debate it was between Jeb and Donald Trump. Then yesterday, it was between Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina, and they were, you know, going tit for tat with each other,” Christie said, “That adds nothing to people’s knowledge about what kind of president you would be.”