us on the set. i wish you could see this at home. jonathan and tom have been reporting this story as they sit here on their phones. jonathan, let me ask you the bigger picture in terms of the road of how it came to today, to michael cohen and this plea deal he's about to enter at 4:00. we've been hearing rumblings and comments that certainty suggested he was looking in this direction. how long did it take to get here, when did it intensify? what do you know about the road from there to here? >> it began with the search of his home that caught everyone by surprise here in new york when the fbi went in and seized those documents, those tapes and that's where the road began. then over the course of time it has evolved from michael cohen will take a bullet for the president, never turn on him, to michael cohen is going to do what's best for my family to sort of radio silence for the past couple weeks as he's been engaged in plea talks with the southern district of new york of exactly what he's going to