that alex van der zwaan's lawyers were making to the court. in response to those arguments, the special counsel filed their own document with the court, in which they tore mr. van der zwaan's head off. the fact that your wife is having a baby isn't reason for you to get leniency from the court. the fact that you stopped lying and pled guilty after we caught you isn't cause for leniency either. he does not deserve credit for adhering to the law. the special counsel's filing literally ends, the last sentence with suggesting that if he really wants to get home for the birth of his first child, maybe he should hurry up and get to prison to start his time. the special counsel's office is not messing around. it's important to remember that even though alex van der zwaan has pled guilty, he's not cooperating. he has not agreed to cooperate with the mueller investigation. he pled, and he wants them to be lenient, because he pled, but he's not cooperating with them. so presumably, this very hardball effort is to get him to change his mind about cooperating. this is important, while they are ripping van der zwaan's head off in in filing, they also make explicit something that i think ought to be unnerving to this white house, even if the president doesn't necessarily