they could regret that later, but for now they will take it. >> let me go to josh marshall. the idea that they are deciding who is going to be the republican nominee for president of the united states in these times when we're competing with russia on economics, with china on economics, brazil, the whole world, we have the toughest economic competition in our history, and it's going to get tougher and tougher and tougher to deal with these issues of a world labor market and resource depletion and everything that we have to deal with to be arguing over who cut my lawn when illegals -- i'm sorry, undocumented workers cutting people's lawns is endemic, pandemic in this country in terms of people doing that kind of outdoor work. your thoughts. i thought it was ridiculous they talked about this stuff. >> this is a great debate if you're in the political news publishing business because it is like professional wrestling. going back to what howard said, i think it's even more real than professional wrestling because these guys clearly don't like each other which isn't always the ca

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