pope? you have to be for your hometown guy. i m all in for cardinal dolan. all in. it would shake things up a bit. i would love to see cardinal dolan on a sunday at the vatican preaching to the world. it would be fantastic. let us move on to you. i want to play you a clip from an interview with ed koch just before he died. it turned out to be his last interview. i thoroughly enjoying meeting him. a real legend. this is what he said about you. who would be the next mayor of new york? well, i am for christine quinn, but it s a wide open race. that s an endorsement from the great man. how did you feel about that? it was great. it was great. ed koch endorsed me a couple of years ago. when the reporter said to him why so early, he said i m 87, i should give her an iou? it s a great ed koch line. he had a catch phrase. have you thought about what yours might be? when we launched the campaign
to see her daughter in the thick of her city engaged with groups like catholic charities helping people engaged in making the city a better place, she would love it. she would just love it. do you have a view on the pope? you have to be for your hometown guy. i m all in for cardinal dolan. all in. it would shake things up a bit. i would love to see cardinal dolan on a sunday at the vatican preaching to the world. it would be fantastic. let us move on to you. i want to play you a clip from an interview with ed koch just before he died. it turned out to be his last interview. i thoroughly enjoying meeting him. a real legend. this is what he said about you. who would be the next mayor of new york? well, i am for christine quinn, but it s a wide open race. that s an endorsement from the great man. how did you feel about that? it was great. it was great. ed koch endorsed me a couple of years ago. when the reporter said to him why so early, he said i m 87, i should give her an
you got that one right by the way, you have got that absolutely right, four more days. this is a, oh, great experience to be here with you today. this is so exciting. [cheering]. what a great state, what a great welcome. by the way this state will help me become the next president of the united states. [cheers and applause] i want to thank, i want to thank governor walker for that extraordinary introduction. what a great governor you have here. you re very lucky. that took some work. [cheers and applause] senator johnson. thank you, senator johnson, for your help. lieutenant governor kleefisch, thank you for your help. former governor and future united states senator, tommy thompson. thank you. [cheers and applause] chairman reince priebus, a hometown guy and,
florida is a state where there is a concern i m sure about medicare that is something that debbie wasserman-schulz talked about on fox news sunday. how important was florida and how are they poised to take florida. florida is a huge state and a big prize and a lot of electric for rail votes. and it is an expensive state to run a campaign. the one thing about the ryan pick, it was a political savy decision for governor romney, but the one thing about the ryan pick is the budget. it proposed mead changes to medicare. this would affect florida obviously very old population. we can tell you what the polling shows. it shows this is unpopular of with seniors. florida may be a new problem for that time right now. would marco rubio made a big difference? if you get wisconsin because he is a hometown guy, and some of the other states where they
gloria borger is with us, cnn s chief political analyst. both john king and have i been talking to sources as well as peter hanby. none of our sources are steering us away from paul ryan. some of us are steering us towards paul ryan. in fact a few of them are. i think what this shows us, a paul ryan pick is a calculation that mitt romney is going to a different generation, and that he intends to make the fiscal future of the country and the budget issue a real centerpiece of the campaign. i think what is interesting to me, you were talking to john a few minutes ago about joe biden and how joe biden would have a debate with paul ryan. it s interesting because both of these men, biden and ryan came to congress at very young ages. i mean ryan ran for congress first when he was the age of 27 in 1988. and he 1998, and he asked his mentors jack kemp and bill bennett whether it would pass the laugh test. and they said yeah, it kind of would. but he remained the kid from janesvil