>> no, i'm not at all. here is the thing, i mean, the republicans, conservatives and for that matter the intelligence communities around the world have immense respect for the vice president. i mean, he's a man of enormous accomplishment, and he is very intelligent and smart, and i expect it to be a great book. i look forward to reading it. >> indeed. rick perry is surging in the latest polls, and which of the current candidate dos ys do you and i wonder if i can ask you this, is most likely to pose a serious challenge to president obama, which of them? >> well, i mean, i don't want to get into singling them out, but i will tell you that you have obviously seen the polling this week that four or five of them being polled are all within the margin of error which included rick perry, and ron paul, and mitt romney and michele bachmann -- >> indeed. >> and maybe i am missing somebody, but what it more spells, martin, is trouble for the president. literally, we have a president