 several appearances try and get through this week by the way he's going to do a high wire act in a press conference on thursday afternoon if they can get through that get to the republican national convention figure out who trump's vice president can be maybe they can steady the ship for a while and hope they can get past the post and to that they're playing a time game here we had obviously the debate was a disaster it took eight days for the interview to happen with george stefanopoulos that wasn't an accident