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gloria borger is with us, cnn's chief political analyst. >> both john king and have i been talking to sources as well as peter hanby. none of our sources are steering us away from paul ryan. some of us are steering us towards paul ryan. in fact a few of them are. i think what this shows us, a paul ryan pick is a calculation that mitt romney is going to a different generation, and that he intends to make the fiscal future of the country and the budget issue a real centerpiece of the campaign. i think what is interesting to me, you were talking to john a few minutes ago about joe biden...

glor ya, tell us what your sources are saying? >> both john king and i have been talking to sources as well as peter hamby. none of our sources are steering us away from paul ryan. some of them are steering us towards paul ryan. in fact, a few of them are. and i think this shows us a calculation that mitt romney is tending to make the fiscal future of the country and the budget issue a real center piece of the campaign. i think what's interesting to me, you were talking to john a few minutes ago about joe biden and how joe biden would have a debate with paul ryan. it's interesting be...

And picks james baker who ran bush's tough nasty campaign to run his own. >> yeah. >> chris christie, though, guess what? chris christie doesn't sit in the back. he doesn't keep quiet. and the romneys may not be comfortable with that. they need a street fighter right now because chris christie -- >> they really do. >> would pummel and eviscerate anybody -- >> shows he's a bad manager. let me finish. a bad manager highers weaker versions of himself. >> a lot of people do that. >> a great manager hires something that fills their weaknesses and stronger than them. >> political sense, that all may...

It, but let's say he does. do you think that could cost the republicans the house and the senate? >> i think it would be very problematic, absolutely, in the house and senate, and that perhaps could be another reason why they don't choose him. >> who would you your pick? >> portman. >> bush baggage? >> the reason, romney needs now mostly is someone he's going to be perceived as being comfortable with. there's a lot of, you know, stuff being said about him that he doesn't seem comfortable in his own skin, and to some degree that is true. the most important credential is making sure the person h...

Surprise. so there's about a quarter century of our getting this wrong basically. and biden wasn't really -- my memory is not that he was not top of mind. so history would suggest, yeah, there will be a surprise. the interesting thing to my mind about governor christie, as he said to you all, is does the down side outweigh the up side here? he is someone who has an authenticity, will go off script and governor romney, does he have the stomach for that going forward? >> al, is that what he needs? again, nobody's talked about chris christie but you look at the approval ratings, he's plus 20 in n...