they're not even confirming that they're having conversations. of course, they would say it would be very honored to be considered for anything. look at how chris christie paused this morning though when he was on "the today show ". >> i am not committed to doing anything in a new administration or not. the bottom line is that i have a job to do to get the administration ready. if there's some role for me that i want to do and that the president elect wants me to do, we have known each other for 14 years. we'll talk about it. >> we don't have the pause in that sound bite but when they asked him about potentially a chief of staff role, chris christie paused for quite a long time on "the today show." take that for what you will but a lot of nanmes floating and tw new york centric names and maybe look at others in this part of the country as well. >> katy tur, thank you. and of course, president elect trump has another big meeting today on capitol hill. he and vice president elect