putin-- putin, he's hoping the russians will pump more oil to give them more money to build their military even stronger, i mean, this stuff makes no sense if you are a normal person, but on the american left it apparently substitutes for any kind of critical thought. maria: that's what strikes me. we see the poll numbers plummeting we see americans rejecting their agenda and yet he's not responding to it at all. he-- in terms of what's important to the american people. >> look, the government socialism doesn't work, but the people who believe in it believing it almost as a secular religion appeared they can't get off of it. so, you really end up with people who are asked fanatic as the revolutionaries in the french revolution or the revolutionaries in a 1917 in moscow and they believe and when you show them the facts, they reject the fax because it threatens