If your skill level is here and you attempt to do something up here, it may be fail.

如果你的水平在这里的话，而你想要达到这个水平，可能会失败。

In this case, Pablo is trying to make sure the press doesn't ask embarrassing or critical questions by answering their questions " up front." To do something " up front" is to do it at the beginning, before something else happens.

在这种情况下，Pablo 试图通过“预先” 回答他们的问题来确保媒体不会提出令人尴尬或批评的问题。 “预先” 做某事就是在开始时就做，在其他事情发生之前。