jesse benton is, hoarding cash. thank you as always.an jesse benton. thank you very much for joining the program. coming up, it is springtime for the republican presidential field. we'll look at the week that was in the gop race. i not read a teleprompter. and what just happened next on "now." this mio energy is completely crushing my game. i love it. i take the stuff everywhere. exactly. everyone's more energized, more alert. i've lost their respect. last night i hit on a dirty hyena and she laughed in my face. that's nasty. remember when i used to be it? i was the man. you needed to track the gazelle down for dinner, you came to me. oh who's laughing now!? gazelle!! [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] personal, portable mio energy. shake things up. >>> it's friday and that means it's time to look back and ask what just happened? >> any more heat in here, we'd spontaneously combust. >> spring has sprung ♪ the birdses and the bees >> and love is in the air. >> it is our anniversary. >> the candidates republican smitten. >> congratulations on

. >> or jesse benton says -- head of all things gold, jesse benton, paul's campaign chair says we'reor ron to be the vice presidential nominee. >> or rand. that's the other name. >> is that possible? >> anything's possible. >> that's new customers. >> you anything's possible. >> ip just have your bowl of popcorn. >> and enjoy this. i mean, everybody's trying to think this out too much. this thing is going to get played out. is there a bro man's between those twos campaigns? absolutely. it's like the biggest secret in washington. everyone gets it. those 60 days between the end of june and the beginning of the tampa festivities will see a lot of moving parts come into focus. and i think you're exactly dead on there, eeb, in terms of all the little shenanigans and conversations that people are having and who they're trying to prop up and put in play. >> i'm not convinces there's not a bromance between gingrich and santorum either. >> i would agree with that. it's a bro moment. >> we're talking about bowls of popcorn. talk about newt gingrich, which is to say what does he get out of this

and he consented to be the second of a friend of his who was duelling thomas benton's brother jesse. jesse took a bullet to the buttocks, which proved somewhat embarrassing. as a result of that the bentons were trashing jackson's name all over nashville. jackson didn't like that. he took himself quite seriously. so he went after after the two of them with a riding whip. guns were drawn. bullets flew. benton was wounded. jackson was wounded in the shoulder. he was lying in the street of nashville bleeding profusely almost died. benton sort of realized that given the fact that jackson was the hero of tennessee every loved him, that he'd better get the heck out of dodge. he left nashville and went to missouri and rose up to be missouri's top politician for 30 years. >> is this the incident that resulted in andrew jackson walking around with bullets in his shoulder for the rest of his life? >> that was one of the incidents. that was a bullet in his shoulder he was never able to get ride of. >> i would say jackson and benton became allies in politics when jackson was president and benton