auditioning for this. do you agree with that after his explanation that he wasn t? i sort of did, actually. he really did seem like he was out of the game. remember, they offered him effectively the job of representing trump which was an exchange that we didn t know about. in 2017, ambassador freedman who is u.s. ambassador to israel, a former law partner of one of the president s lawyers said would you like to work. they took him in to meet with trump and he basically said i don t want to do this. i sort of do believe that this was not an ambition thing. i think what we know about the audition process, it bears out because i think when we knew that the president wanted to