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The rule of law in this country, and it has to be -- >> i'm going to have to leave it there, eric. you got the last word. ray, you had the first word. i'll reverse it the next time we have you on. austin and boston. >> thank you, chuck. we'll get a check on what's moving on wall street. and republicans pouring money into west virginia. will it pay off? as they try to turn the race into another referendum on president obama. but first -- ♪

Rangers, hundreds of millions of dollars, he's called for national guard troops and border patrol agents to secure that border. the failure is that the federal government, when rick perry is president of the united states, that border will be secure. we know how to do it. we've worked to do that in texas. that will be a major priority. >> eric, when it comes to one of mitt romney's issues in this primary, it's been to win over rank-and-file conservatives who are skeptical of mitt romney. it's something governor perry attempted to bring up last week, how conservative is mitt romney. how real th...

Mouth is in this state to secure the border, to send the rangers, to fight the violence there, and perry will do that when he's in the white house. >> eric, respond to this comment, though, about the fact this is a new position for governor romney. >> on in-state tuition, no, it's not. we received a bill to that effect. governor romney vetoed it. i would like to just elaborate a little bit. i have a 17-year-old son, he's a senior in high school, he lives in massachusetts with me, and he's currently looking at colleges. if he applies to and is accepted at the university of texas, the cost of tu...

What it means is is that an illegal immigrant -- and they have 16,000 of them now in the public college system of texas -- is able to attend the university of texas at a discount that's equal to $100,000 over four years of d -- >> there's no discount at all. kids in our state pay -- they are -- >> texas residents -- >> they are texas residents. they pay texas tuition. that is a decision the legislature has made. there is no subsidy. there's no discount. >> that's the problem. they're not residents. ray, this is the problem. >> eric, they have been -- they have been living -- they have been liv...

Rapidly approaching. >> ray, are you at all concerned, though, that this latest uptick in interest by big republican donors is a direct reaction to disappointment in governor perry's debate performances? >> not at all. we're continuing to ground -- to blow through this time, to continue to build our campaign and infrastructure. you're going to have strong points, strong weeks, weak weeks in a campaign. the key is to power through, to continue to build, to continue to talk about jobs and the economy, to continue to highlight the flip-flops from governor romney in our case, and to build a strong...