pass, saying i'm sorry i got caught is not an inspiring plea for leniency. then she says first of all, it's entirely relevant to the question before the court -- excuse me, first of all, it's entirely relevant to the question before the court. the number of times the argument was repeated notwithstanding -- excuse me. first of all, it is entirely irrelevant to the question before the court. the number of times the argument was repeated, not withstanding the fact that it didn't have any bearing on the question at hand, suggests that it wasn't being repeated for the benefit of the person you were trying to persuade he had accepted responsibility, but it was being repeated for some other audience. so forgive my missteps there. that is the judge saying that the fact that it was the special counsel who is prosecuting paul manafort was irrelevant to the question before her. the fact that the special counsel was the prosecuting agency here she's suggesting kept getting brought up in court by manafort's defense not