very important. i give seth myers enormous credit for his takedown of donald trump. he knew he was going to face incredible questions as well as ridicule. so i don't know that we'll ever know. >> i think trump was tempted at one point when he got the 26% of the polls. >> yeah. >> get david in in the final moment. >> i think there's a broader question to ask, which is when mitt romney easily puts away this whole contest, we're going to look back on four years of punditry and say what was that all about? wasn't it obvious the whole time that mitt romney was the front-runner, was going to win, and no one else had the staying power to beat him? >> if it was so easy to know the future, many of us would be out of business. it's more fun to talk about it. i think there came a point when he had to take trump serious. joan, you make a good point. when the press started looking loo his business record, his voting record, things he was pushing on birthers, that's when the air started to go out of the trump balloon.