the window closes for ever getting discovery out of him. >> michael? >> well, i mean, i think that's a good point. we could be delayed for a significant period of time as a result of this stay, you know, frankly reading the tea leafs and you never know what's going to happen in a case like this, but we were very confident coming out of the hearing, i think the judge who is an exceptional judge, one of the finest in the country really understood the issues, i think that he agrees with a number of our arguments and, you know, i do not think there is going to be a stay. i think the judge is going to fashion some protections for michael cohen as it relates to his fifth amendment rights and the judge is basically going to give us an opportunity to depose him and say that if michael cohen wants to assert his fifth amendment right that's fine, he is entitled to do that, but there's consequences for that and that's no different than litigants day in and day out across the united states. >> michael, i agree with you but one thing, every day that passes is potentially a closer day to