think they're going to face a lot of pressure to reinstate him and i'm not sure how they are going to deal with that. >> so, i mean, this is -- i mean, let's talk about that. it's been written about a lot. he is obviously a de facto leader of the republican party. they are still pledging allegiance to him. what are you hearing about a run? >> sure. look. even if people were not pledging allegiance to him, he would still be the de facto leader of the party. he will be until there's another republican nominee. but what he is telling people is that he wants to run again. and, you know, his advisers -- more of them than not -- think he is going to do it. in part because he is sitting on a big pile of money. in part, because, candidly, he doesn't have is a ton else to do. he is not running the day to day of his company anymore. his son, eric, has been doing that for a long time. he went from having the most attention he'd ever had in his life to having the least. so that's where his head is now. he has left a carve-out saying, essentially, if he gets a bad letter from a doctor that he might not. i think there might be other reasons why he might not and, you know, two years out is a long time. a year and a half is a long time