reduced and that s going to happen naturally. there s a winnowing even before the first votes are cast in iowa. as you get fewer republican candidates, there will be more of a coalescing of support and i don t believe it s going to coalesce around donald trump. it s kind of donald trump versus most of the rest of the candidates. when do you think the winnowing process will start to happen? the winnowing? well, i think it s already happening behind the scenes. you know, if you can t get in the adult debates, your money s going to dry up, and that s happening to a couple of those candidates, maybe more than a couple, that were, as we say at the kids table debate on fox a few weeks ago. we ll see what happens at the second debate on cnn whether a different people get into that adult table versus the kids table. but that s going to have an impact. the donors have an impact. they can withdraw their money. and, look, staffers don t work