firms. so once -- hopefully in the next week he'll decide on his council. i think that's the next step we're looking at. >> josh, do you know if there's a financial problem here for cohen in terms of paying for these legal bills which have to mountg up very quickly? >> i've heard from people close to the case there is concern about the financial cost. rming over the l task they've few weeks involved maybe dozens of lawyers involved in going through all the millions and millions of pages of doc mailsages and voice gs that you mentioned as part of this search warr relateded process. that's a lot of legal hours being billed at a pretty significant law firm. must have run up a really large tab for mr. cohen. is that a tab that the trump organization or president trump himself is helping pay or is mr. cohen on the hook for that whole bill. >> josh gerstein and christina wilky, thank you both. >> i'm joined byal analyst