months ago saying having paul manafort pleading guilty and cooperate was such a big move by the special counsel. and yesterday, jaw-dropping when you think about that. they have spent months, deciding to cooperate with him, interviewing him, questioning him, fbi agents questioning him. u.s. attorneys questioned him. and what they're eye saying is, he repeatedly in the course of the past few months, lied to them about information that they were questioning him on. certainly, this means they have a lot of information that they do not need paul manafort for. they had obtained on their known through intelligence and perhaps other sources. so when they went to question paul manafort it appears according to court filings that he lied to them. what's really interesting in all of this, this is probably not something that just happened. that they had spent months with