a murderer's row of 19 prosecutors with subpoena power, money laundering experience, and on the other side you have two guys with yellow pads of post-its. manafort is the regime, rick gates is the made man and papadopoulos is the wise guy in the social club in brooklyn. if they flip, there is no telling where this could go. i think donald trump is beginning to realize that the walls are closing in. >> dan, the white house has said this all happened a long time ago, long before the trump campaign. does that necessarily vindicate anyone in the trump orbit? wasn't he supposed to hire the best people, have the best team ever? >> right. it raises real questions of judgement about the decision to hire manafort. people in and around washington knew he had been in bed with very sketchy people, dictators, people sort of on the margins of democracy. so it was a very strange choice