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Trump asked me to get involved because my reputation among other things in politics is understanding of the convention process, the delegate process and most of the major successful big conventions over the last 30 years i've been intimately involved in. >> did roger recommend you for the job? >> roger was one of the two or three people who strongly recommended me, yes. >> did he bring you in? >> no. not at all. >> last friday night paul manafort's long time friend and partner roger stone went ballistic on twitter.

Who got big dollars for his wife's political run from hillary clinton and her representatives? drain the swamp. his netflix documentary "get me roger stone" centered around the former trump campaign adviser who first introduced manafort and trump back in the '80s. if you have not seen it, here's a clip. >> trump asked me to get involved because my reputation, among other things in politics, is understanding of the convention process, the delegate process and most of the major successful big conventions over the last 30 years, i've been intimately involved in. >> roger recommended you? >> roger...

But that's nothing i want to do. i don't want to do that. number one, when you are leading by 20 and 21 points you don't do that. >> i don't want to do it but i will. >> yeah. it's a stick he holds over the head of the party. when the chairman went up to new york to get him to sign that agreement, i started laughing, i said this is just words on paper because everything with donald trump is renegotiable. just because i signed it doesn't mean i will stick with that deal. i will renegotiate a better deal for me. that's what this is all about. that's what his words are saying right now. that okay...

Matters more, until much later in the process. >> and michael, correct me if i'm wrong, won't this put pressure, if trump is getting his 25 and 30, and that's a winning number, won't this put pressure on march 2nd, for the field to clear for whoever is the number two candidate, so that by march 15th, it's a two-person race? is that what will happen? we'll see pressure on whoever's not in second place, whoever can't stop the one person that's assumed can top trump becomes the candidate by march 15th? >> i think that's potentially what you will see. but the new reality for the party and the conv...

Thing is we got to get people into the work force so they can get benefits from their employers. >> that meejs we got to build up this commitment reduce unemployment and get excitement going in this economy again. there is nothing going on in washington to build up this economy and to create jobs and stop worrying about whether or not we will socialize medicine all across the country, we need to be putting innovative things in here to restore the economy, get people back to work again. >> governor, hi, jeremy peters here. i want to talk about something that may seem obscure to most people, but...