don t know. certainly possible, martha, if candidates as a group took him on and attacked him hard and often not only in the debate but remarks on the stomach and advertising it could be structured against him, that it might hurt him. the danger always is that an attacking politician may damage the object of the attacks but may not benefit himself or herself. sometimes in a big splintered field like this, somebody attack as frontrunner and frontrunner gets hurt but person did attacking doesn t go to the other candidates. that is the risk. martha: great point. every weekend i read a long story in the newspaper over the weekend. all about concerted effort being put together by the candidates and republican party to start slamming donald trump and hasn t materialized yet. let s see if they do it. yes. brit, thanks so much. thank you, martha. martha: one of those candidates doing the attacking brit was