choices, and that there will about, in fact, maybe a pick by early may, that the president wants to reach out to republicans. but we have these new cnn opinion research polls that show 6 in 10 americans think obama will pick a liberal but only 25% think he should pick a liberal. who and what is he going to pick, paul? >> he's going to pick a liberal. come on. at least certainly a democrat, somebody in the mainstream of the progressive part of government. that's as it should be. elections have consequences. 53% of it, we the people, voted for barack obama to make him our president. i think the model frankly is when ed rollins is working for reagan or george w. bush, these presidents were conservative. they nominated the most qualified and most conservative people they could find. so you have scalia, you have chief justice roberts, people with impeccable credentials who i think are way outside the mainstream because they're conservative. that's what barack obama has to do, that's what he will do.