GEIST: You may not win tonight in Iowa, let's put that out there.



CHRISTIE: Yeah. No, I think it's pretty safe to say I won't.



GEIST: OK. So then you move on to New Hampshire, where you've invested a lot of time. You've done more town halls and more appearances than anybody else in that state. How does this shake out to you now if Donald Trump or Ted Cruz rolls out of Iowa? What's your positioning? Do you need to finish second in New Hampshire to move forward? How are you thinking right now?



CHRISTIE: Willie, we have always thought that what we want to be is the number one governor coming out of these two races. That if we beat Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, that we're the number one governor left, then that moves us on to the -- to the future races.



So that's always been our goal. It's less a number in the race, it's who we beat, who's behind us that matters most to us because that'll help us to consolidate support and money and all the rest. And you're right, Mika, it's a long chess game still and I know that everybody kind of who has a lot of time to talk on shows, whatever wants it to be -- happen like this. It's not going to. I didn't say you, I said people.