Mark Halperin

Do they ask them directly about it?

there people about it how do they handle it and then what's the reaction because i'm telling you and i some of you be mad at me for for being vague here i'm telling you there's stuff out there about lots of these people there's stuff out there about lots of them and you do not get scrutiny until you run for president you might run for senator governor been in a ceo of a company until you run for president

The incentives aren't there for your opponents, prospective opponents or opponents, to do the research and come after you.

And no one who's running for president in 2028 in either party has the superhuman ability of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton to survive stuff that would kill anybody else politically.

None of them do.

I just tell you they don't.

So then the question is, okay, as mortals, as the level of Barack Obama, the level of George Bush, the level of Joe Biden, how much can they survive?

Now, those three guys survived a lot, as did President Bush 41, because they made it to the White House.

I mean, clearly, you know, you don't make it if you can't survive some stuff.

But how much can they survive?

And in the current world in which we live, with AI and digital media and a lot of reporters with a very low bar for publishing things,

It's going to be the Wild West times 10 in 2028.

Anybody who wants to be president is going to have to decide, are they willing to walk through this?

And I'm flabbergasted based on what I've been told.

I'm flabbergasted at some of these people making noises about whether they're going to run.

that they might run.

Maybe they will.

Maybe they'll end up running.

And maybe this stuff won't be true or will never come out or they'll handle it great.

But I think some of these people aren't going to run.