what if anything was taking place during the campaign. it looks from the initial things that are being pieced together here we're looking at what happened after the election. it raises it seems to me, a potential different question. not one about this issue of collusion during the election but about this idea of the logan act, about trying to set foreign policy, take actions before somebody is actually in office. conversations with the russians about sanctions involving israel and -- skaous excuse me, what the obama administration did last september. are we in post election or preelection realm? it seems to be attentively on the post election side. then it is a question too of does flynn actually have, if he is cooperating, what mueller thinks he has and will he cooperate to the extent mueller believes he will cooperate. we have seen cases where the plea deal is struck. the cooperation is agreed to. and six months later the