>>> turning to poll tick, mitt romney setting off this week on his first foreign trip since clinching the republican nomination. the high proceed pile journey is meant to highlight differences with president barack obama . romney will start his trip in the united kingdom where he will meet david cameron as well as former government officials like tony blair . he's also planning to attend friday's olympic opening ceremonies from london. romney sets off for israel where he will be meeting with net netanyahu and delivering one public speech and will have a two day stop in poland where elvis it with polish leadership and meeting with the former president there. joined now by mark murray for more on what this this trip could mean for the romney campaign. this seems to be a fairly different trip than the one president obama , then candidate obama, made four years ago in 2008 .
>> well, craig, one thing it's not as long as hitting as many countries. four years a go president obama went to iraq, afghanistan, jord jordan, germany, france, england. romney is focussing on three countries so he's minimizing the risk involved. it isn't as quite a high wire trip act that president obama ended up having four years ago. and it is worth noting that two of these countries where mitt romney will be visiting have very conservative governments that will probably make him feel quite at home.
>> a number of advantages to this trip, but there are also some dangers for mitt romney , as well. what are some of the potential dangers?
>> well, one is you never want to have a gaffe. he'll have two high profile speeches and i know that four years ago when we were covering barack obama 's big trip to the middle east and to europe, everyone was waiting to see if this person who a lot of people said didn't have a lot of foreign policy experience would make a mistake. he didn't. he went on to win the presidency. i think people are looking for the same thing from mitt romney . this trip allows him to build on his credentials. you look at almost every poll out there and it shows he's trailing when it comes to foreign policy . the one thing i'm actually looking for to see if he kind of creates any daylight between the policies he wants to pursue and the george w. bush policies from 2001 to 2008 . it will be interesting to see if there is any daylight there.
>> let's play veepstakes here. i don't like you to have you on television for any stretch of time without talking about the potential vp nominee could be. let's delegate talk about kelly ayot ayotte. how serious of a contender is she?
>> well, if you're going to put one woman of a female candidate on that person of like five or six names, she's probably that person. she was campaigning with mitt romney last friday when he was in new hampshire. so it is worth note has gone she was by his side. i'm not sure she's necessarily top tier for reducing this to four or five names, but if you include to five, six, seven names, her name is definitely on that list.
>> she's only been senator correct me he if i'm wrong two years or around two years?
>> actually less than that. so she would actually help him on the female front, allowing perhaps mitt romney to erase that gender gap . but on the same front, she would draw comparisons to sarah palin who was less than two years as alaska's governor before being picked by john mccain .
>> thank you, sir, always a pleasure.
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