functions of the american intelligence community and law enforcement. i do want to get to the manafort trial. jeremy bash on this program once said that it was possible that there was a russian plant, that there was somebody who was -- who sought out employment on the trump campaign. we know that paul manafort sought out tom baric and asked to get in front of trump and paul manafort served as the chairman when the platform at the republican national convention koicoincidentally perhaps, maybe it's president trump's one true intellectual impulse on foreign policy, changed to a pro russia position. what do you make of the fact that paul manafort, while i understand this trial is about financial crimes, is one of the first characters who could have been perhaps planted or placed there as a russian agent inside the trump campaign, is that implausible to you?