if the government says, we re not going to drop this, we ll have a new trial next year, that would coincide with menendez reelection campaign. the democrats would have to decide if they re willing to stand beside a man on bribery charges, or if they would allow someone to run against him. it s so complicated personally and politically. we don t have steve. let me bring up the fact that this situation was compromised and they knew this going on in the mcdonald case, the governor mcdonald case. that was the decision by the supreme court that gifts from friends are okay as long as there is no state prohibition against such gifts. the mcdonald rule created if you want to prove bribery, you have to come with something very pointed, very specific, very clear. there was a moment in this trial, in fact, where menendez lawyers moved to have the thing