Animation to show that rick perry had poofed out of the race. And that turned out to be kind of a thing on this show. After rick perry, ten days later, the next candidate to go poof was another high profile republican governor. Scott walker is quitting. Oh, which means we got to poof him off the list. Lets do it. Scott walker going byebye in three, two, one gone. Poof. We started doing this for candidates in the gigantic republican president ial primary in 2015 and 2016. I think we didnt really think through the fact that i was actually signing us up to do that over and over and over again, to do quite a lot of poofing. Once you start, you cant stop. Cant poof just one. And so, it became this thing, we had to do all the time for months. Goodbye mike huckabee. Poof. Rick santorum. You ready . Three, two, one, poof. Chris christie, poof. Carly fee rena, poof. And jim gilmore, poof. All in all, in 2015 and 2016, we ended up tracking the demise of 16 different republican primary candidates
white shoe very fancy law firm, where greg craig was working, where alex vander swann was working. we know that he engaged pr, at least one pr firm. we know that he engaged lobbying firms, as well. it s starting to feel like everything who touched this, everybody who worked with manafort on this particular gig, has got some sort of exposure or at least a lot of hassle in terms of the kind of work this was and the fact that the justice department is newly interested in prosecuting people for potentially working for foreign governments without registering as foreign agents. they definite have hassle. the justice department has poured through all kinds of emails and other communications. i think that the notion that prosecutors would tie a case specifically to someone like rick gates in other words, would they build a case where they don t think they could quite prove it, but with rick gates, they think they could prove it? i m a little doubtful of that. i mean, he listed, as you were