muscle? more protection from being fired or just a little? it s all nuance. it s up to these relationships. look, i think the other problem is that trump has not been able to demonstrate thus far that he can protect you either. i mean we start at the beginning. look at the different people he s fired. even if i m a trump loyalist. even if i think russia is flimsy nonsense hence the pardon talk. he has to be able to provide support for people who are going to take bullets for him and right now he hasn t shown he s that good of a shield. did you think up until this point, he s a 72-year-old man, the way he s gotten things done is by stomping his foot, making people cower because he s the chief executive of a family owned business and you work for him so do you what he says. then he comes to washington. he tries doing that to mark meadows. he tries doing that to paul ryan. he tries doing that to mitch mcconnell. hello, mr. trump. there are people here in
guy. it is interesting to see there have been discussions about that. i don t know how that will play into the pardon talk. the washington post is reporting about the second trial. it says it is set for september in august and expected to last three weeks and on the basis of a list of 1,500 possible exhibits will delve far more deeply into how he operated as a lobbyist and consultant than was done in the just completed trial in virginia. the time line and exhibits were included in a joint filing on friday night by manafort s defense and prosecutors with special counsel robert s. mueller, iii. this trial, for those of us who are not lawyers, that he could plead guilty, he could cooperate or he could do neither and go on with this trial. but legal watchers i have talked to have said this is a tighter case and possibly a better case for the government than the first trial. yeah. and the government also i think is coming in with a lot of momentum after the eight convictions it obtained