but you can't sustain too many days where the president's former fixer lawyer stands up in court and said i committed crimes at the request of the president. and look the other way. they did it after that access hollywood tape. they've done it after every sort of -- these are serious crimes being charged of the people that were closest to this president. >> michael schmidt, i don't know that anyone at the "new york times" has assigned the side bar. i suppose it's plausible that today was the day on two fronts when the good guys, meaning men and women woman. in northern virginia, a jury of paul manafort's peers acquitted themselves well and put in a lot of effort in that case. and in new york, we got to work -- watch the career publicer is vanlts of the southern district of new york. one of them actually called cohen out as a fellow lawyer. as someone who had disregarded his training and tradition. but to a lot of people watching,