Short questions with Dana Perino for Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire

For a quantity of months now, I’ve loved checking in with some of your favourite Fox personalities to study extra about who they’re behind the scenes. 

But as it’s possible you’ll recall, I did promise to throw in some shock appearances right here and there!

This week I needed to share my dialog with Gov. Chris Sununu forward of the New Hampshire main, which shall be held on Jan. 23, 2024, eight days after the Iowa caucuses. He is the 82nd governor of the State of New Hampshire. 

Before his election to governor in 2016, he served for three phrases on the New Hampshire Executive Council, representing 32 cities and cities in Rockingham and Hillsborough counties. He grew up in Salem, New Hampshire, and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) with a BS in Civil/Environmental Engineering. 

Read on to study extra about Gov. Chris Sununu as all eyes are centered on New Hampshire now and within the days forward. 

For her distinctive collection for Fox News Digital, Dana Perino interviewed Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire — who reveals the perfect recommendation he is ever been given and why “there’s still time for my great American screenplay.” (Fox News/Megan Smith-USA TODAY News Who Is Chris Sununu)

Q: When you have been a child, what did you need to be whenever you grew up? Ever in your wildest desires, did you suppose you’d find yourself as governor of New Hampshire?

CS: Never needed to be in politics. I briefly attended NYU Film School and all the time envisioned working in Hollywood. 

I nonetheless don’t think about myself all grown up — so I suppose there’s nonetheless time for my nice American screenplay. 

Q: Many folks might not know this about you, however I’ve all the time been so impressed by the truth that you graduated from MIT with a level in engineering. For this query, let’s commerce in your political hat for your engineering hat. Which American invention do you imagine has had the best affect on society, and the way has it influenced your political profession?

CS: Technology enhancing entry and reliability of clear water modified the world. 

Clean water has saved billions of lives throughout the globe, and I’m significantly proud of spending the early half of my profession cleansing up hazardous waste websites. 

One of the foremost obligations of authorities is making certain entry to wash water. 

“Clean water has saved billions of lives across the globe, and I am particularly proud of spending the early part of my career cleaning up hazardous waste sites.” 

Q: Prior to taking workplace in 2017, you served as CEO of your loved ones’s ski resort in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. What do you like most about snowboarding and the place – outdoors the Granite State — is your favourite place to hit the slopes? 

CS: I like being outside and within the wilderness. It’s why I hiked the Appalachian Trail. 

Favorite place to ski outdoors of New Hampshire is within the mountains of Utah.

Q: Name one factor you suppose each supervisor ought to ask in a job interview.

CS: “What do you like to do in your free time?”

Q: If a billionaire known as you tomorrow with an open seat on the following area flight, would you go?

CS: Only if the rocket was designed by MIT engineers. 

Q: What is the perfect recommendation you’ve got been given? And what’s your favourite piece of recommendation to present?

CS: Best recommendation I’ve ever been given: Be cautious of unsolicited recommendation. 

Favorite piece of recommendation to present: Never give unsolicited recommendation. 

“Best advice I’ve ever been given: Be wary of unsolicited advice.”

Q: Best live performance/musician you’ve ever seen in individual? 

CS: Def Leppard in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Q: In the spirit of bipartisanship, should you needed to plan a dinner date with a outstanding Democrat, who wouldn’t it be and what’s on the menu?

CS: Phil Murphy and I splitting a six-pack of beer in entrance of a Patriots sport is assured to be a very good time. 

Q: Last yr I hosted a cocktail party the place everybody needed to come with their “unpopular opinion.” For instance, that Bruce Springsteen’s music is overrated or that highway journeys are higher than getting on a airplane or that soccer, not baseball, is actually America’s sport. What unpopular opinion would you will have dropped at my ceremonial dinner?

CS: Kale isn’t really good for you. Stop consuming it. 

CS: It doesn’t get any higher than the summit of Mt. Washington.

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To learn all of Dana Perino’s earlier “Short Questions” interviews for Fox News Digital, take a look at this (lengthy) checklist!

For her interview with Ross Rayburn, click on right here. 

For her interview with Mark Meredith, click on right here. 

For her interview with Emily Compagno, click on right here. 

For her interview with Chad Pergram, click on right here. 

For her interview with Mike Emanuel, click on right here. 

For her interview with Gillian Turner, click on right here. 

For her interview with Madison Alworth, click on right here. 

For her interview with Nate Foy, click on right here.

For her interview with Laura Ingraham, click on right here. 

For her interview with 5 New York FOX reporters, click on right here. 

For her interview with Katie Pavlich, click on right here.

For her interview with Guy Benson, click on right here. 

For her interview with Pete Hegseth, click on right here. 

For her interview with Sandra Smith, click on right here. 

For her interview with Nicolas Yannicelli, click on right here. 

For her interview with Abby Hornacek, click on right here. 

For her interview with Elise Bitter, click on right here. 

For her interview with Brian Kilmeade, click on right here.

For her interview with Kennedy, click on right here. 

For her interview with John Roberts, click on right here. 

For her interview with Janice Dean, click on right here. 

For her interview with Charles Payne, click on right here. 

For her interview with Trey Gowdy, click on right here. 

For her interview with Johnny “Joey” Jones, click on right here. 

For her interview with Bill Melugin, click on right here. 

For her interview with Jimmy Failla, click on right here. 

For her interview with Tyrus, click on right here. 

For her interview with Ainsley Earhardt, click on right here. 

For her interview with Lawrence Jones, click on right here. 

For her interview with Dr. Arash Akhavan, click on right here. 

For her interview with Martha MacCallum, click on right here. 

For her interview with Bret Baier, click on right here. 

For her interview with Kayleigh McEnany, click on right here.

For her interview with Harold Ford Jr., click on right here. 

For her interview with Shannon Bream, click on right here. 

For her interview with Jessica Tarlov, click on right here.

For her interview with Leo Terrell, click on right here.

For her interview with Geraldo Rivera, click on right here. 

For her interview with Clay Travis, click on right here.

For her interview with Bill Hemmer, click on right here. 

For her interview with Greg Gutfeld, click on right here. 

For her interview with Benjamin Hall, click on right here. 

For her interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro, click on right here.

For her interview with Jesse Watters, click on right here. 

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