speaker of illinois and his son is running for his old seat. let's go to you first, john. >> sure. >> let's talk about this illinois primary. what do you think is going to happen? mark kirk, the republican can d candidate, has gotten ay lot of boost in the past and democrats are in a three-way primary. there's a new issue involved in that, which involves the bank problems of one of the democratic candidates. >> well, andrea, if there's any place that's more dysfunctional than the federal government it's the illinois government. the city of chicago -- >> that takes a lot. >> that takes a lot. state legislature has been completely dominated by one party. the last two governors in illinois have gone to jail, including rod blagojevich and was trying to get some sort of show on nbc, i think, and before that george ryan is in the slammer right now. completely dysfunctional government and really a revulsion toward corruption. in the democratic primary, alexi