Here are a couple questions I put to Carly Fiorina, a top adviser to the McCain Campaign, which I did not have room to put on the air:

Would the former CEO of HP press John McCain to ramp up the number of H-1b visas the government offers to high tech companies in need of overseas talent? It's a big issue in Silicon Valley and a bitter complaint of software engineers who fear their jobs will be outsourced.

Her response:

John McCain has been a supporter of the H-1b visa program for many, many years. He has also been a supporter of making the R&D tax credit permanent, of banning permanently taxation of the internet. All of those issues are very important to Silicon Valley executives and to the information technology industry in general. I think it is also fair to say John McCain understands that this must be a nation of laws and he has been forthright in saying this also has to be a nation of immigrants. It gives us economic vitality. So I think you are going to see him, as he did yesterday in his speech say, "you know what, we do have to secure our borders, but then we also must have a guest worker program that functions effectively."

And I couldn't resist asking whether Fiorina, who was publicly fired after leading HP in a new direction, felt vindicated by the EDS deal.

You decide:

Fiorina: "I'm very proud of what HP has done. I did the right things for HP, I made the right decisions at the right time and we executed them well. And when I see HP achieving the goals that we set out. Becoming the first $100 billion information technology company in the world and proceeding to successfully consolidate the software industry, in larger measure and the services industry, yeah, it makes me proud.

Gersh: Good deal?

Fiorina: It will depend on how it is executed as all deals do."

If Fiorina executes well for the McCain campaign, don't be surprised to see her in the cabinet or maybe running for office in California.