Now that Donald Trump is the next President, what will happen to supporter, Governor Chris Christie. Emily Drooby (@emilydrooby) has the story.
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TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie indicated Thursday that president-elect Donald Trump will not keep one of his campaign promises that the governor himself made one of the most memorable lines of the 2016 election: prosecuting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Trump had promised to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton's use of private email while she was Secretary of State, and Christie captivated the audience at the Republican National Convention last summer leading a call and response that included chants of "lock her up."

But that was politics, Christie said Thursday morning on the Today show, his first national interview since Trump defeated Clinton in the presidential election.

"They had an enormously gracious conversation with each other on Tuesday night," Christie said. "Politics are over now. People have spoken. Time to move to uniting the country."

Christie is responsible for filling out Trump's administration by the time he takes the oath of office in January. But Christie would not say whether he is eyeing a job for himself — either as attorney general or chief of staff, two jobs he has been rumored to covet.

Christie did say that should he take a job in the new White House, he does not think his alleged knowledge of the 2013 lane closures at the George Washington Bridge would cast a shadow over a potential role in the administration. Two former aides were found guilty last week of blocking access to the bridge in Fort Lee, N.J., to punish a Democratic mayor for not endorsing Christie. Testimony in the trial heavily implicated Christie, and lawyers on both sides agreed that the governor knew of the plot as it happened. Christie has denied having any knowledge.

"What happened last week with the verdict was that they confirmed what I knew and did in January of 2014, which was, back then I said, after 24 hours, it's my view that three people are responsible for what happened there. Those three people, after three years of investigation, Matt, in the trial, the same three people I fired in January of '14 were the three people who were held responsible by the U.S. Attorney's Office and that jury," Christie told Matt Lauer.

Christie said he has not yet spoken to Trump about a potential job. He said Trump wanted to focus on the election first, then turn to assembling his administration. When Trump gave Christie the job of transition chairman in May, "he said, 'You focus on getting this ready for me and, he said, and we'll talk on election night.' So we spoke on election night but we didn't speak about me, we spoke about the transition," Christie said.

"I am not committed to doing anything in a new administration or not. The bottom line is that I have a job to do to help get the administration ready and if there's some role for me that I want to do and the president-elect wants me to do," Christie added, "we'll talk about it."

Trump is scheduled to meet President Obama on Thursday at the White House. It was not clear whether Christie would join him. He had no public schedule Thursday.

Christie said he did not anticipate Trump would apologize to the president after spending years questioning the legitimacy of his citizenship. That, like the promise to prosecute Clinton, was politics too, Christie said.

"I think what these two men recognize is that now this is about governing and leading the nation and the world. And they have a lot more important things to talk about than slights, real or perceived, in the past," Christie said.

Trump's meeting with Obama will come after a night of unrest nationwide. Protesters took to the streets denouncing Trump, whose campaign was infused with bombastic and racially-charged rhetoric. Christie, who has known Trump since 2002, said the nation will come to see another side of Trump that wasn't revealed on the campaign trail.

Christie said he is confident that Trump will "bring the country together." And his party, now set to control the executive branch, has a heavy burden after Tuesday's election.

"The Republican Party's in charge of the federal government and we have an obligation to get things done," Christie said.

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