himself a real character. i think and the article says could, could take him all the way to the nomination. michael, there is a long list of possible 30-second attack ads on chris christie s integrity as reported in the new book double down vetting issue with mitt romney. there is also the medicaid expansion in new jersey. which is a policy issue where he differs with probably all of his republican rivals for president. do you expect in a flashing forward to republican presidential primary that his opponents would lean more on things like the medicaid expansion than they would on some of these vetting issues? well they, they will use both. and the vetting issues are issues now. they re not, not clear how, how deep they will go. the book reports on a number of things. that weren t resolved in the vet. they don t say that anything was discovered that would be disqualifying. would christie run. i think the medicaid expansion
i think and the article says could, could take him all the way to the nomination. michael, there is a long list of possible 30-second attack ads on chris christie s integrity as reported in the new book double down vetting issue with mitt romney. there is also the medicaid expansion in new jersey. which is a policy issue where he differs with probably all of his republican rivals for president. do you expect in a flashing forward to republican presidential primary that his opponents would lean more on things like the medicaid expansion than they would on some of these vetting issues? well they, they will use both. and the vetting issues are issues now. they re not, not clear how, how deep they will go. the book reports on a number of things. that weren t resolved in the vet. they don t say that anything was discovered that would be disqualifying. would christie run. i think the medicaid expansion will be an issue for people like ted cruz. also true that a lot of
these than we do. we can find these in minutes. it was not hard to find these records. at what point is there at least you re innocent until proven guilty in america. but at what point does this go into a separate file. once he gets that military i.d. he can walk on to that base. number two, they weren t searching bags. number three, there will be questions now and the gun control debate will be reignited. if you have a government issued military i.d., that s an easy pass to buying a weapon. the government vetted you. easy. there s more definable politics involving in issue. we ve had people say this is the sequester. this is trying to do things on the cheap that shouldn t be on on the cheap. this is private contractors vetting, not the government vetting. how real will this be going forward in terms of a political fix? both on the vetting issue and because of spending priorities have they reduced security
it was eight days, nine days ago we were discussing paul ryan, the article in the new yorker called fuss budget. did you know then he was actually on the fast track to be a pick for the vp? no, we barely talked about it in my interview. the reason i wrote the piece, i wanted to think about what is romney going so do if he wins. if you want to understand what republicans will do if they gain the white house, paul ryan is the guy to understand. it was his policy agenda that you knew romney was going in the direction. i didn t think he would take paul ryan himself. you could have said yes and told us you did i want to be honest. i did say he was a long shot for veep. we re talking all about paul ryan today. in fact, we want to get up close and personal with the congressman. mitt romney says he is very happy with his new running mate, ryan seems genuinely moved by the appointment and at point practically crying with emotion. last night on 60 minutes. paul ryan said
if predictions prove to be, or polling proves to be roughly in line with the results in iowa and new hampshire, and we get sort of a three-way cluster tomorrow in iowa and romney wins pretty big in new hampshire, if that happens, are you already looking ahead to south carolina in terms of its predictive ability and who is likely to run strongest there as a determinative race? that would be romney s first opportunity to close i think essentially the nomination, unless there were some scandal or some vetting issue later on. if a candidate like mitt romney who s a mormon in a very evangelical protestant state, certainly not a southerner. if he wins in south carolina after having done well in iowa and new hampshire, there s not a real argument that other candidates are viable at that point. i think it might be a little more likely that some candidate comes back and wins south carolina, maybe a santorum or, who knows, maybe gingrich will have a miraculous comeback. romney has good states