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Giving a jab at hillary clinton, marco rubio has emerged from the crowded field as one of the most serious contenders for his party's nomination. polls have senator rubio in third place nationally and in iowa and in new hampshire. but increasingly the freshman senator is being seen as number one by the establishment and political conventional wisdom. the blog fivethirtyeight has kept a handy leaderboard of republican endorsements. they point out while jeb bush still sits at the top the majority of his endorsements came months ago. rubio, on the other hand, has surged since september. in the pa...

Hillary clinton? somebody who's really sharp, as a debater. marco rubio. also, he looks like change. younger, newer, not a dynastic candidate and also look at the polling. he is viewed very favorably and enthusiastically by republican voters, is republican voters second choice if he like trump or carson. he's very acceptable to those people. so he kind of blends the establishment lane with the tea party lane, and could become a consensus candidate. so that's a long way of saying, yes. big threat. >> as you know, dana, some of the bush supporters out there, they're really going after rubio on h...

Those must-pass bills? >> you know, i think if john boehner wants to do him a favor, he does the debt ceiling before he takes the speakership. because, no, you don't feel like there's a way to do this. that said, you talk about tea leaf reading. look, there is a lot of -- while we don't know what biden is going to do, and some of us are convinced that maybe the vice president isn't fully sure what he's going to do. paul ryan today is making every move that you would make if you were about to do this. having that meeting, unofficial meeting with the freedom caucus, having this meeting tonight t...

To enter the race for house speaker. mercedes, his spokesperson has come out today and said, look, it will be at least a week before we're going to have any kind of decision. >> that's right. >> what do you think is going on behind closed doors? >> guess what, he can take his time. but this is the hot potato. i call it the speaker's race the hot potato game. they are passing this potato and nobody wants it. so i think for paul ryan he's made this decision where he does have time on his hands. why? he is a consensus candidate. he can bring conservatives and moderates together. but at the same t...

Ryan's former running mate mitt romney and the outgoing speaker of the house, john boehner, are both lobbying him to take the job. they believe as many republicans in congress do, he is the closest thing to a consensus candidate. the best person to bridge the divide between the more moderate republicans and the conservative freedom caucus. as chairman of the ways and means committee, ryan is widely regarded as one of the brightest thinkers in the gop. now hoping his desire to fix his signature issues like entit entitlement reforms will convince him to run. >> if somebody else will fix the prob...