not unprecedented. i think what happened here was paul manafort and his lawyers probably believed that they were not cooperating against the president. and the president s lawyers believed that paul manafort was not cooperating against the president because there was nothing to cooperate on. so, in other words, their interests were aligned. and so on that basis, they had a common interest or a joint defense agreement. just what we re talking about oh, sorry. even at that, everybody going into that knows that prosecutors will hate that. and so normally you don t do that because in cooperation situations you re all in. you re all in. to that point, too, it is also rare, extremely rare, for the government to try to pull a plea agreement. yeah. i was trying to think back to whether that had ever happened to me, and i can t. i can t recall an instance. and normally, there is so much interest on both sides in making sure that situation doesn t