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News, republicans came as close as they will ever get casting a ballot specifically for a vice presidential candidate. friday marked the vice presidential straw poll at c pac in chicago. the top three contenders, marco rubio in first with 30% of the votes followed by chris christie with 14% and paul ryan with 9%. noticeably absent from the top of the list, ohio senator rob portman. now, a lot of folks think that he is the guy we are going to see on the ticket with romney. mike huckabee also didn...

Congress doing what congress needs to do which is hold the executive branch accountable. we have a special prosecutor, im frankly not surprised about that. but this is where congress has to step up and do its job and do the oversight thats necessary and they clearly have to do it with eric holder. >> joining us today from chicago to announce his new program called patriot voices, senator santorum, thank you very much. have a great weekend at c-pac. >> thank you. >> coming up straight ahead, shes...

Which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? chris cillizza is back. theres a beauty show, a beauty pageant going on in chicago. the c-pac gathering and all the prospective vice president choices are showing up. >> a vp tryout. you have governors chris christie of new jersey, bobby jinl, bob mcdonnell all speaking tomorrow. i would put them in the top ten list. maybe even the top five list for the vp choices. a little tryout. i dont think he will pick any time soon despite rep...

Conversion. he has now decided that gasoline prices should come down. the gas hike trio has been going in the direction, tim for them to go, probably hand in their recognitions, if he is -- resignations if he is serious about that and start drilling for oil, natural gas, coal resources for power generation. its a very different policy he is talking about. i hope its a real conversion. time will tell. >> gregg: you feel the presidents vulnerable. looking at the headlines, you have been hitting th...

Voters in a primary. these are generally republican-leaning independents. they dont reflect the pool who will be there in a general election. mitt romney has consistently led in almost every state among republican voters only, not doing quite as well among the independents or the democrats, but very safe among the republicans. that has a big advantage to him going forward. and what we are seeing, more than anything else is a reflection of a good campaign. republican conservatives are struggling ...

My head, a bullet right out of my hand and just missedded me. but, look, you were working on a project with him now. he said at c-pac that he had tapes that would change this election. and i have had more people ask me, what about the tapes? >> look, there is a set of tapes. we are dwg through it. he attracted fighters. he attracted guys like ben shapiro and larry oconnor, guys who are going through a series of tapes of president obama at harvard. they will be -- we will come back in a week or t...

Since november. nearly down against the presidents numbers nationally, but ill bring in our contributor with the latino group. robert, i want to start with you, the prolonged fight pushing mitt romney too far to the right for a general election. is that a good thing? >> no, its not a good thing. first of all, i dont know if it is actually pushing mitt romney too far to the right because, again, it is a republican primary and republicans for the most part, at least the grassroots republicans -- >...

Raise expectation, he better beat santorum by a lot now? >> it does. part to of a broader thing i think we see happening with romney now. one of his biggest challenges, people just dont believe him you dont feel like he is all the then theic, dont really even know who he is. you saw him at c pac on friday start to develop a new -- i hate the word narrative, i have to think of something else. >> is what it is. >> trying to sell himself rather than just as we were talking about a minute ago, just ...

Which reflects the people out there is not capable of wrestling with the big questions of where we are going as a country. we get into partisan fights and not get out. we are stuck on the questions of taxes and spending and the republicans and democrats are not capable of ironing it out themselves. if we see a big win for one side or the other, youll see something happen after that. if not we will be in a muddle for a long time. >> what are you saying is this a long drawn out a-tonal opener to h...

Thinks. it was so great for the three weeks that we all got along. i mean, this is a church -- >> yeah, beyond the catholic church, joe scarborough, the larger playing field here, which is decision 2012, i mean, this is in many ways much more about role of government, government making health care decisions, and thats how it seems to me the conservatives will argue it. >> yeah, before the friday deal, everything was breaking conservatives way, but not only on the c-pac, but you had democrats, th...