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Person doesnt mean i think he should be elected and president obama shouldnt. >>eric: why do you thing he walked back the comments? >>guest: he cannot be out there so directly undermining the presidents campaign. he has to look like he is trying his best and maybe at the end of the day he wants obama to be re-elected but there is clearly undermining of the campaign with the sterile business career is killer. like president obamas number one message the last several months, and they will take pre...

>>guest: absolutely. that is why we have rubio on the list other than florida and the fact he excites the republican base, that is the great plus for rubio. the minus is, he is a relatively new figure on the national scene and you know what that means. earthquake i remember a new figure four years ago, and that was president obama. >>guest: well president obama or sarah palin. you will get, well, in obamas case you didnt get that, but in sames case you did, and believe me, for this v.p. candidat...

>>eric: notice the empty seats at lick picks. organizers did and now reports are they are giving people tickets for free. monica is asking what the (bleep) just happened, the title of her new hit book. >>guest: people who bought tickets and secured tickets and ready to go to see the events, they are saying what the (bleep) just happened? >>eric: they bought tickets and some were shut out, and now the arenas are em. what the (bleep) did happen? >>guest: so governor romney was right when he raised...

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>> you have the top two right there, tim pawlenty and rob portman. and governor jindal, and senator rubio of florida and wounding out the top five, congressman paul ryan from wisconsin. any of those five would do a lot of good. >>eric: a lot of people say, with about chris christie? >> he should run for president and will eventally. i dont think he is vice presidential material. i dont thin you would think so. he would be on the front page more than romney. i dont think you want that in a vice p...

The vetting that the press will do and the opposition democrats will do, should in the turn up anything that will take this election off the track of the economy because the bad economy is the winning track for mitt romney. >>eric: larry, i am looking at your bullet points on the potential candidates on the portman and pawlenty, you have safe, and vanilla. is that more important than a rubio where you say a valuable swing state senator, you could nail down a state if you pick this guy. >>guest: ...

And he has been proven right. >>eric: monica crowley, what the (bleep) just happened. what happens when the games are over and the venues are empty? and now to london. >>guest: londons legacy corporation says six of the eight venues have been sorted out. in a five double dip recession, no one wants a lot white elephants laying around, so a lot of thought was put into the future of the venues from the very beginning. here is the scoop. >> londons olympic sites have cost more than $1.5 billion to ...

Week." four pictures, he is smiling in all of them, nice photographs, with great color, and he looks good. you look at mitt romney with the big letters, "wimp." what is going on? >>guest: at this point in 2008 they have done eight coughs on president obama. they all could have looked like press releases, just the laudatory pieces about obama. that is perfectly fine if you going the same thing for the republicans. instead for the republicans you get "wimp factor." that is what i mean by newsweek ...

People, that is not necessarily bad. >>eric: romney did not want to make an issue of it. listen to the response. >> if i worried about the media said i would not be able to sleep. and i am able to sleep. >>eric: you have to like that response. >>guest: the back of his hand dismissal of them which is a good thing for a candidate to do. >>eric: instead, he will stray -- stay on his message. that is, the economy is not working so maybe a little hope and change for real. >>guest: if i advised romney...

They can expand the markets but the latest mergers are a contraction of the economy. nobody sees great investment opportunities right now. >>eric: you are 100 percent right, buying back your own stock is not necessarily bad but the reason the c.e.o.s are doing that could be concerning. people did not want to hire new people because of what? >>guest: obamacare is a problem, and the big tax cliff, and the big data, whether we will do anything about dealing with that. but the ultimate sign of risk ...