>> no, no, i'm thinking about supporting-- look, nurming is going to have a big election. we in new jersey take one election at a time. 2014 is a long way off. let's focus on supporting the democratic nominee for governor and, frankly, a lot of legislative races are up for grabs right now in new jersey. >> schieffer: let me go back to governor barbour. quickly, governor, if you had one piece of advice for beth sides right now on how to avoid the sequester, what would it be? would it be to put it off? i understand speaker boehner is talking about maybe passing some sort of resolution to keep the government funding at current levels until august, which is just another way to kick it down the road. is that the best both sides can do right now? >> i don't believe speaker boehner is thinking about doing that. we have a continued resolution that comes up at the end of march, march 27-28. bob, remember, while the president talks like he's real concernedded about the deficit spending, we haven't had a budget in three years in the united states. now, how serious you can be about ou

ashley: the problem the nurm per of representatives went up 1% but sales dropped one percent so thate concern. amazing they couldn't pull off the business model in south america and asia and --. tracy: that is international play. it is not an american play. >> international play and empowerment play. you go to africa you go to women without any real economic opportunities but the continent is coming to life a little bit it is amazing opportunity. brazil, chile, all the places around the world. we haven't pulled the trigger. i'm waiting for volume to tell me when to pull it. tracy: thank you, charles. >> see ya. ashley: thank you, charles. coming up to quarter past the hour, time to check on the markets with lauren simonetti where we go every 15 minutes. the dow is still up 53 points, lauren. >> we still have a higher market and we're watching three stocks a trio of earnings happening after the bell. dell, shares are flat in the regular session but after-hours it should be exciting following conference call. we'll hear from michael dell after the $24 billion bid to take pc-maker priva