CNN hosts Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo were very happy with Jeb Bush’s performance during last night’s Republican presidential debate.

“The performance side of this is not why I’m running for president. We are the greatest country on the face of the earth, we need a president that can unite us around a set of common purposes,” Jeb Bush tells CNN’s New Day the morning after a strong showing at the #GOPDebate. http://cnn.it/1NprW8Q”Performing is not what a president does, leading is what a president does. It’s not that I’m not comfortable with it— it’s not my motivation; it’s not who I am,” Bush adds. “I don’t wake up each day saying well, not I can have a zinger and attack somebody … but you gotta do it … and I’m getting better at it, I hope.”

Posted by CNN Politics on Wednesday, December 16, 2015

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After playing an exchange between Bush and frontrunner Donald Trump, Camerota implied Bush’s interruptions were “rude,” but said in flirty fashion, “So that was different than what you’ve done in the past.

“When he said, ‘Don’t interrupt me,’ and, ‘Are you talking or am I talking,’ in the past, you might have just ceded him the floor because it is rude to interrupt but you did something different thee last night.”

Cuomo then likened the debate to “prize fighting” and fondly pressed to know who came up with Bush’s zingers.

“You then came up with two great lines that I’m figuring (political consultant) Ana Nevarro probably wrote, so I want to get confirmation. You called him the ‘chaos candidate’,” Cuomo said, also referencing the idea that Trump gets his foreign policy information from weekend shows.

“The question with Donald, ‘Are those Saturday morning or Sunday morning,'” Cuomo said, as Bush responded, “I have to admit those were mine.”

“Those were quality lines,” Cuomo gushed. “That was strong.”

“It actually just came to me,” Bush claimed. “The Saturday part I made up as I went along.”

“Really!” Cuomo said.

Bush conceded the “chaos candidate” line was “a committee effort.”

Cuomo added it was “a good zinger.”