pete williams, take it away, first, the significance and the facts embedded in this -- these allegations against pal manafort and rick gates as well as rick papadopoulos. >> yeah. manafort and gates are getting most of the attention because they are familiar names. but the papadopoulos case is potentially more important for bob mueller's investigation as to whether anyone in the u.s. was in cahoots with the russians to try to inflew enthe campaign. the reason is one thing that you mentioned, we know that he is cooperating. he was actually arrested in late july. and court documents say he has repeatedly been questioned by the government since then and has been providing answers. that's the first hint he is cooperating. the second one is that the court dock pts say that the government in return for his plea is recommending a sentence of zero to six months for the single charge of lying to the fbi.