so to kayton dawson's point. if you're playing sort of smart primary politics, knowing people can file in march. republicans are doing that. they're doing what's right. >> they're doing what may be right for them in the upcoming primaries, but that's a very my op oh pick way of looking at things. not just the fact that it's a very contentious issue on the right, but the longer that they wait to do immigration reform, that is longer that the democrats can use this against them with latinos and other american voters and the longer it can cement latino antipathy to the gop. you went through the list of reasons why they said we could not do immigration reform. that was only half the list, joy. remember we couldn't do it because of the crisis in sear yas and because of the sequester, we could not do immigration reform because of the boston bombing and the fact that some of those suspects were immigrants. we counseln't do immigration reform because president obama issued the affirmative action. these are continual excu