challenge that point of view, because they know that there's a portion of their supporters, their base, who believes it, and they might lose that base if they challenge it? >> i don't think that's it at all. i think moats of the candidates are abiding by reagan's 11th commandment, which is thou shall not attack a fellow republicans. and i think a lot of them realize there's an effort to bring down donald trump, one reason, he's beating hillary clinton in the polls, 45-40, beating joe biden in the polls, 42-40. donald trump is the front-runner. people are rallying around him. there's an effort to bring him down and this is part of it. and the other candidates don't want to get mired in this back and forth. >> you have hillary clinton facing tough questions. chris christie facing committin on his governorship of new jersey. aren't these the kind of questions that presidential candidate face when they run for the highest office in the land? >> i would prefer they ask questions about the issues, but we are being sidetracked, because entities like the