hope will be this truce that will last. i would argue fox can t afford an open, you know, hot war. well, but the calculation early on is they went into this was that trump can t on ford it, right? in some ways, they seem to be two of the most uncontainable personalities in american public life who are now essentially eyeing each other with a kind of strategy of containment. and i think what roger ailes would hope for fox s sake is that trump s poll numbers collapsed. his that s his power, politically speaking. then ailes can sort of have open season, fox news can start attacking him openly without fear of a backlash. but as long as trump s poll numbers are 20-plus, if fox goes to war with him, that is sort of his base of support. that s their audience. the audience as we saw turned on megyn kelly after the debate. so really, you know, trump holds the cards as long as his poll numbers stay elevated. we should say the audience some portion of that audience turned on her, right?
that they are going to be talking to, you know, senior intelligence officials about this issue. do we know how close this is to targeting him? i mean we hear these phrases like subject of investigation, interested party, whatever, and then we know the term target. is trump a target? well, technically speaking, trump can t be a target in the normal legal sense of the word because justice department policy is that a sitting president can t be indicted. but the point here that s a little nicety. the point here is that there is an investigation going on to see if the president may have committed a crime. that s a pretty big deal. i think that s a remarkable step in this investigation generally. well, who else could be focused on his guilt of obstruction of justice, whether it s impeachable or indictable in either case, than the person who did it? maybe i m talking a redundancy, but there s only one guy that