point, clarissa, he wasn't. >> i think part of it is, if you were one of the clinton people, you see president trump -- the only time we've heard president trump acknowledge with no cav t caveats, yes, there was russia, was so he could blame president obama. we've seen that repeatedly over the last several days. looking at it, if you're a clinton person, my guess and not based on reporting, my guess is they don't want to drive a further wedge, given that the current president is already trying to. >> what's your read on manafort registering as a foreign agent? that doesn't have much retroactive impact to his lobbying activities, who he worked for, what money he made and how that was handled. what does it suggest? >> it suggests a couple things. it's tripped up other people. i believe it came up with michael flynn and is one of the things being looked at with him. what it tells me is that one of