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independence which is critically important. actually rob, what is remarkable about her, she s somewhat of a consensus pick. wall street seems happy with her and labor seems happy with her and senator brown very happy with the choice. and as you re pointing out the federal reserve internally excited about this choice. but also as you re saying she s qualified we have the president coming out. we ll go to him now live. have a seat, everybody, good afternoon. over the past five years america has fought its way back from the worst recession since the great depression. we passed historic reforms to prevent another crisis and to protect consumers. over the past three and a half years our businesses have created 7.5 million new jobs. our housing market is rebounding, manufacturing is growing, and the auto industry has come roaring back and since
senator fathering a daughter of former senator and it s one thing that makes you want to cry inside. bret: charles? winer argot for best picture. you heard it here last, it s a consensus pick i think. loser, i agree jesse jackson junior. and the tragedy is this. this is a man of great talent, promise and he sold his soul for a rolex watch. it doesn t get sadder than that. bret: you whipped through that lightning round. you whiffed through it. go back to that argument we were having bret: i ll never make it to the end of the show. charles is famous for filibustering. i know. we upset you by finishing early. bret: early. finished early. as i said, so much error, sair, solittle time. give it a shot. drones. it gives me the willies the drones, because it s big brother watching.
candidates. alex i m glad to have you here, i don t know if you heard dave weigel and i just talking. he was couldn t we think of a better word than vooepstakes after all this time? maybe you ve got something better to call it. at this point it s with the primary winding down it s kind of becoming the most popular parlor game in d.c. now. speculation has definitely increased. to that end i want to look through the possible running mates in your poll, new jersey governor, chris christie. virginia governor bob mcdonnell. senator rob portman and representative paul ryan. rubio seems to be the top pick. how likely do you think that ticket is? i think he s still the favorite at this point. the interesting thing is we did the same poll in october and at that point he was the consensus pick of republicans and democrats, it was at 60%, and now it s 30%, there s been a
i think people can focus on the politics and i m sure there are some in the white house who will. at the end of the day, this is a very important decision and i think he will treat it seriously. there will be less regard for politics in this decision than many others. less than many others is a fair statement. you ve works for him. you know the people outside who he will seek for advice. some will say mr. president, their base is fires up, our is down. we need to gin it up. might you pick somebody maybe a little bit more left than judge sotomayor was a consensus pick in a closer to the mid until this environment? again, he will look for the long term. look at sotomayor. she really did engage and important constituencies, women, latinos, an inspirational pick. the president should look at that as a real important aspect of the nomination. at the end of the day you want