purposes of his cooperation with the government and i think most lawyers would say going out and talking about a former client and describing his mental anguish or potential alleged suicidal ideation is beyond the pail. and then two, it is a complex set of reasons why the sdny didn't go forward with the wider case. that is the simplest way i could put it. i want to put that nt owe the record. but i want to double back to what we said earlier because you raised something that we showed viewers, which is this theory of misdemeanor turns into felony based on some second crime and they gave several options on the menu. could be attacked. how would they attack that at trial on the defense side? >> well a lot of it depends on which theory alvin bragg is going to put in front of the jury. when it comes to whether this is election law, you could turn to the case of john edwards. this is been something that has been tried before. where hush money paid to keep an affair silent is something that