you know, if putin wants a guilty verdict in russia, he's going to get one. i mean, there's not the sort of separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary in this committee that you have in the united states or any other sort of democratic country. and i think what putin's angling for, and this has been speculated about a lot, is some kind of prisoner swap, we've got maria butina in the united states who is going to be sentenced shortly, and she's cooperating with the authorities at the moment, but she faces a prison sentence. the russians want her back. and there's a number of other prominent, sort of russians that are being held in u.s. prisons that i'm sure the russians would absolutely love to get back and may use paul whelan as some kind of negotiating chip in order to do that. the person that springs to mind to me is victor boot, one of the world's most notorious arms traffickers and serving a 25-year prison sentence in a u.s. jail. he's been dubbed the merchant of death. the russians sorely want that