the early months, so it is significant that he has plead gi guilty and agreed to cooperate with the federal prosecutors and investiga investigators. and to the that point, josh, there is obviously manafort and president trump, you mentioned that rick gates was around that campaign and went into the transition a lot longer than paul manafort did, and is that possible for mueller to draw a direct line from gates to the president? well, it is hard to say, and don t make any predictions ors a sum shuns at this point, because as we have seen from the special counsel s investigations, there are twists and turns that nobody saw coming. but i certainly think it is noteworthy how involved he was, and rick gates is somebody who was frequently at trump tower, and in strategy sessions, and he knew what was going on, and even in the early days in the transition. he was a key player. and so i don t want to say it will go straight to the president, because we don t know anything along those lines