these rulings. kim belle wood could have very easily shutdown cohen and the president's attorney. she chose not to. it also gets a little subtle because it comes down to what is this that's going on here. obviously we now know that sean hannity has very good reason to defend michael cohen the way he does and to defend the president he has a closeelationship with them. that's not that big a surprise, but at the ends of the day, will this change the nature of how he is perceived? >> how sean hannity is perceived or cohen? >> yeah. >> i don't think this is going to stun hannity observers. i think people sort of get the deal that, you know, he is very much a partisan advocate of president trump. chris, you make a really important point that i want to echo and that is that on the one hand, judge wood is really helping the president by being fair and deliberate and coming off as somebody who wants to be