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“I certainly would sit down and discuss it with him,” Carson said Tuesday when asked by Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network if he would consider being Trump’s vice president. | AP Photo Carson: Being Trump's VP a possibility

Ben Carson isn’t ruling out being Donald Trump’s running mate.

“I certainly would sit down and discuss it with him,” Carson said Tuesday when asked by Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network if he would consider being Trump’s vice president.

But whoever it was offering him the position, the retired neurosurgeon said he “would have to have major philosophical alignment with” and “have guarantees that I could do some substantial things.”

Carson went on to caution that he wasn’t really interested in talking about vice president as he was currently running for president.

He also said that if Trump wins the nomination, "then that is what we will deserve, and hopefully it will be something good."