>> laura flanders, is that in this hemisphere?> no, it's not in this hemisphere, but it was interesting to hear the silence around a lot of what ron paul had to say this in the south carolina crowd. kind of surprising given the particularly youthful support he's had in some of the other debates. here you could hear it. it was like a pindrop silence when he talked about about some of the comments he made about defense spending being a waste. this isn't going to get him very far. and i think, you know, the real point here as we're getting back to this question of winners and losers tonight, and i think winners and losers tonight, the big loser is this martin luther king day, are we the american people, and frankly the people of south carolina, who didn't get to talk about what's really going on and what choices their country really face, and the crisis that is happening on military bases, not because of overspending on our veterans and service people, but really on lack of services. >> gene robinson, how's the rest of the week going