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I'm only the man of the hour if this is true, right? >> proves faulty, but continue on, my friend. >> we're fairly certain this is going to happen tomorrow. our reporting indicates that, other news organizations have said that. look, jack lew fits a pattern, the whole process every time he's had an opening, that is he has this sort of internal candidate, then they cast out wide, think, oh, gee, who else might we want to think about, they reached out to the ceo of american express and the president always goes with who he's most comfortable, in this case, jack lew. it's a safe pick also because...

That this is going to be the focus of his fall campaign, a reformed conservatism aimed at getting the country's fiscal house in order. paul ryan will be an excellent partner for governor romney in this effort. martha:ed rollins is former deputy chief of staff for president reagan and managed his campaign for re-election in 1984 and held major roles in nine other campaigns and we are glad he is a fox news contributor. this took a lot of people by surprise. the thing is that portman or pawlenty would be a safe pick for mitt romney an didn't want anybody who was going to out shine him. he really ...

Going to have the confidence. we talked about this before. i felt like, you know, there are some guys who don't want to date a really hot girl because they don't want to be threatened, they don't want her to get too much attention. >> i don't know any guys like that. >> i worry that mitt romney might make a pick based on insecurity and an insecure pick would be a safe pick like rob portman or a gimmicky pick, chris christie. i thought the only confident pick was paul ryan. he's got a national cachet not because he's been a kooky speaker but because he's a policy wonk. that's interesting. he's ...

Does paul ryan bring in the way of energizing aside from the fact that he has bona fide conservative chops that maybe the governor from massachusetts didn't have? >> for one thing he is very exciting. obviously a much younger candidate. several years younger than the president. he is only 42. and so in some respects republicans think here that they can narrow the gap with obama on the younger demographic, the 1 18 to 29-year-old vote that is so important that helped president obama over the edge in 2008. it could help with suburban women as well. paul ryan is a young father and appeals to fami...

Spending cuts, entitlement reforms and cleaning up this tax code. getting red of the job killing red tape. having energy policy he has been more specific on these things than any other person running for president in my opinion. that's the kind of li we need. >> the decision to pick paul ryan as a safe pick or daring one. joining us on the phone is chris, good morning to you, chris. >> good morning to you. this leans toward the bold rather than bland and mild. what the is biggest risk when it comes to selecting paul ryan? >> i mean, look, we can can say bold vs. bland. paul ryan comes in paul ...