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Room just before the vice president sits down with his next private lunch with the president. remember the reporting at the time, you said things like of course theyll look at this. ra you have to go back at a time when it wasnt a sure bet the president would win re-election. lo and behold, this book shows they did have focus groups and did do polling they were saying they were just studying it. you can bet the vice president will have a private chat with the president. if you look at the presid...

Romney said lets go back and take a vet of chris christie. there were questions about personal finances. what we dont know is were they rushing and couldnt answer those questions or could they not find the answers to those questions? thats something that no doubt, now that the book is out, governor christie will read it. if there are questions he has to answer, his team will say lets put things out. reporters in new jersey and washington are going to look at whats in the book, try to figure out ...

Rye l relitigating the last campaign. thats what we do. we learn about chris christie and his temper at the romney campaign. that wont matter assuming governor christie wins re-election as we suspect. the most scintillating detail is how much detail they went into studying the joe biden question. washington will pour through this book. it turns out he couldnt name the top five guys helping him raise the money for re-election as it says in the book. hollywood has the kardashians, we have campaign...

By the weekend. thats rough, chris and kate. >> times are changing. temperatures are changing at least. thanks so much. we get to washington with surprising news now revealed from the 2012 campaign trail. it seems top obama aides secretly considered dumping vice president biden from the re-election tick net favor of hillary clinton. the bombshell coming from a new book quoted in "the new york times." brianna keilar has been looking into all of this. talk about setting washington abuzz this mor...

♪ the fighter ♪ dancing through the fire eye of the tiger, thats what katy perry has. we have the eye of the storm with indra petersons checking the forecast. wheres it moving. >> were seeing this moving into the northeast and mid-atlantic. we have severe thunderstorm watches up right now, including philadelphia, also just west of d.c. what are we talking about? winds as high as 70 miles per hour. of course some rain. the bigger story is wind. notice even if youre anywhere up to new englan...

Joe biden. bill daly who was the chief of staff at the time who admits forcefully pushing to do the research, say they never got near the trigger point. of course we were going to study these things. this is the kind of things that fascinates washington. you want to look back and study every last detail of the last campaign, sometimes for gossip, sometimes for fun. sometimes for our own version of reality television and sometimes to learn important lessons as you move on to the next campaign abo...