intelligence officer. so this puts manafort really booep deep in it. this is whatever c word you want to use, collusion, conspiracy, this is it. manafort is in it. and now the real question is what is he going to do? is he going to cooperate? if he does, what will he say about trump s knowledge or involvement or other people in the campaign about these activities. i want to talk to you about witness sampering specifically, what the new charges are around. knowingly and intentionally attempted to persuade another one with respect to testimony in an official proceeding. could you make the argument that the president has attempted to persuade witnesses himself? he has been going offer jeff sessions recently tweeting about him just three days ago, and sessions is somebody who has been interviewed by the special counsel. look, i mean, that s certainly the one of the things that mueller is looking at. are trump s repeated sort of