inspirational. do you think, michael, that the president has directly promised michael cohen that he will pardon him? i don t know that he s directly promised it to him but i think he may have illueluded t but that s a false hope and the reason is because they have effectively telegraphed that that s a possibility to prosecutors and i have to believe that the attorney general of orthot gener general of new york will communicate with federal prosecutors as it relates to the charging decisions in order to guard against that. what i mean is they re going to leave a window open to bring state charges against michael cohen and michael cohen cannot get a pardon for the state charges from the president. it will do him no good. so they have effectively shot themselves in the foot by even eluding to this or by people believing it ahead of time. now michael cohen has done something pretty interesting and