Exclusive interview with Beth Myers on Romney VP process

CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger sat down with Romney senior campaign adviser Beth Myers to talk about the vice presidential selection process. A highlight and a video link from the interview are below the jump. The full transcript is posted at http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/11/se.01.html.

Note: The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer will air a live special at 6 p.m. ET today around Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s vice presidential selection.

Please Credit – CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger

Highlight from Borger’s Interview with Beth Myers
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

First of all, he wants all the information. And we went — we went about a very thorough process in making we have a lot of information about a broad group. He also doesn’t like to rule anything out until he has to. So, you know, the first swath was broad. We got a good cut of information about a lot of people.

He then narrowed it down and we got even more information. We got personal information from each of the potential candidates. And at that point, again, we had some attorneys look through and go through everybody’s record to make sure that there was — you know, I didn’t want to miss anything about them.

And then Mitt took these candidate dossiers and he thought about them. He read all of them, word for word. I had talked with each of the candidates personally. He had obviously been campaigning with a lot of the folks that he was considering.

And — and he read the dossiers. We narrowed it down once again. And did an even a more deep dive on them and then gave them the final product, and he’s thinking about it now.

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