covered the same way but to the overall amount has gotten more superficial so now i asked chris chris your paul ryan they spend a lot of time talking about their weight or exercise that may double the of playing field a bit maybe it is at the expense of substantive coverage. >> host: ltd. rice do you have for candidates to reach out to the media? >> when they call, always talk. you need to build good relationships if they are approaching you there is no reason not to take them up. don't waste their time don't send out of a press release everyday. said not one that is newsworthy because they can come to those events then they will cover you would if you waste their time they will stop. >> host: what you teach your? >> women of political leadership in this seminar of contemporary politics the last semester i taught a class election in 2012 we follow the congressional and presidential elections in detail and women in politics >> host: water to conclusions that you have? >> guest: it is a broad question but the two things that are relevant is primaries matter and even though ms. romney got through the p

your. -- republican savior. chris christie and rubio are considered the leading republicans. who is ahead now, joe? >> jeb bush. chris: i knew you'd say that. gloria? >> paul ryan. chris: you're just playing this up. what game are you playing? paul ryan? come on. >> i think marco rubio is a very attractive candidate. chris: paul, take it back. paul ryan. >> he's staying in the house. chris: we read the same stuff. >> he wants to be speaker of the house. chris: that's a good scoop. >> these guys are overexposed and i think the next attention goes to jeb bush and somebody else gets a turn. >> if chris christie is talking about losing weight, he is serious. >> no, i think he is the guy that can shoot the lights out. we saw that at the end of the 2012 campaign. you can argue barack obama got re-elected. chris: does he need to change his act a little bit back from none of your business or is that going to work for him? >> he needs to show the country his intellect which is formidable, in addition to that kind of new jersey toughness. >> my favorite race, joe biden, chris christie. wouldn't that be great? chris: a lot of jersey in both guys. thanks to our great round