that's why christie's going to run against costa and ride that to the presidency. >> exactly. let me turn to washington, d.c. where we all opined that it felt like august this week, so little is going on. now they are on leave or vacation or recess, whatever you want to -- district work period. >> district work period. >> i'm sorry. but the president's budget we're learning bits and pieces of it. one of them is he is no longer going to do chain cbi. basically he will not make any cuts in any entitlement program. he certainly doesn't do it in this budget, so he backs away from last year's budget. at the same time, we have republicans seeming pretty determined not to bring up immigration reform to me. why? because any touching entitlements makes the democrats go crazy and fight with each other, and anything about immigration makes republicans fight about each other, so they are in their safe places and they're never going to come out this year, are they? >> i would not think this is going to be a highly productive legislative year. >> we didn't think we were going