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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 they'll look at this. ra you have to go back at a time when it wasn't 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 president's political standing right now, you can probably bet as secretary clinton reads this book, she...

Romney said let's go back and take a vet of chris christie. there were questions about personal finances. what we don't know is were they rushing and couldn't answer those questions or could they not find the answers to those questions? that's 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 let's put things out. reporters in new jersey and washington are going to look at what's in the book, try to figure out exactly what those questions were an double down to borrow a phrase in trying to answer them. ...

Rye l relitigating the last campaign. that's what we do. we learn about chris christie and his temper at the romney campaign. that won't 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 couldn't 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 books. >> exactly. just as juicy it seems. i want to ask you about the chris christie considerat...

By the weekend. that's 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 morning, brianna. >> reporter: it sure is, kate, already. former top aides to the president are clashi...