himself is helping pay or is mr. cohen on the hook for that whole bill. josh gerstein and christina wilky, thank you both. i mned by legal analyst nick akerman and jil wine-banks. nick, i ll start with you. it s worth noting that gates a similarly orturous situation in which he was there was interest from investigators and then was he or was he not going to cooperate. he hired new lawyers right before he pled guilty. right, but that doesn t necessarily mean that because cohen is gettingrs s cooperating. you have to look what s been going on the last month or so. he has been coopeng with trump s lawyers to go through all of those documents and all of those tapes that were seized in the search warrants. they re getting prediscovery, discovery that they normally wouldn t get. exactly what people saw trump trying to get with respect to