spin this into a win, as they usually do. and the message that we heard from him tonight in his speech was they're coming after me because i'm fighting for you. so he is going to stick to that message and try to force his rivals to come out and defend him. but i think what is so funny about that is if you're a 2024 rival taking on donald trump, it's interesting that you aren't making the case, then, for why you're running if you're afraid to criticize him. and i think that they should be out there taking him head-on. >> it's very hard to understand. there are also a lot of pet theories about what kind of timing benefits and what kind of timing doesn't in terms of these cases moving forward. what's your cake, kristen, about how this plays into the republican primary. as we know, i was coming up in january. and he also has a court date for next march, i believe, in the middle of the primary season. >> well, whenever something like what we've seen over the past