if you're explaining, you're losing. that lesson -- following the speech, he wasted no time muddying the waters, trying to explain how probation is different from amnesty and different from deportation and exactly like the broken immigration system we already have in place. >> i'm not offer a new pathway to citizenship. i'm simply saying you can get a work visa and get in the normal line. i'm not creating a new line, just saying you can get in the current line that exists. the only thing i'm saying is you don't have to go home. >> ultimately it may be that rand paul supports probation, as long as nobody tells the base that. indeed, keeping the big plan under wraps was the idea at cpac when both paul and marco rubio stripped any mention of immigration from their remarks. still, tower further, confusing and secretive is still an improvement on this guy. >> i think if europosed to illeap immigration, it doesn't mean that you don't have a heart, it means that you have a