in a separated fashion so they kept the russia investigation clean. manafort and gates play devil s advocate for a second. manafort and gates are charged with crimes regarding laalleged money laundering that s their elections, not ours. but it has to do with ties and back door it has nothing to do with the 2016 election. i don t think we know that. i think all we ve seen is comments like, sure, we ll talk to marketing. continuing their marketing into that part of the world, talking to people they ve had ten-year relationships with and who the news plays up as, oh, my gosh, this ex-military guy from the soviet union, now russia, they ve been working with him for ten years. ties to the russians. any tie to russia qualifies?