get the votes? he better get them. he better get them. otherwise i'll say, tom, you're fired. does everybody like micky? otherwise she can easily be replaced, right? this was the one we were worried about. you weren't there. but you're going to be. look, he wants to remain a senator, doesn't he? >> the difference here being, you have live laughter. it doesn't seem like something that's later claimed to be a joke. those seem to be recognized as perhaps nervous laughter as jokes in the moment. what's going on there? >> what's going on there is a veiled threat. a threat that he can run someone against a congressman, or a senator. but it comes out as something like, well, i want to win, and you're going to make me win or else, quote, you're fired, as if this was on tv, and just a game. but it's not a game.