as a federal prosecutor and somebody on the other side, you know, representing clients, you know, unless you think you can beat the charges -- and i will tell you federal prosecutors get convictions well over 90% of the time in cases -- so unless you think can you beat all the charges, the smart thing to do is cooperate. this is the right move for gates. i think the question is you know first of all obviously this is bad news for paul manafort. he already was looking at a very difficult case of his own. now he has a cooperator against him. the questions what else can manafort gates give mueller about the campaign because he was involved in the campaign. >> juliette, the "washington post" is reporting that shortly after president trump fired comey when he met with the acting fbi director andrew mccabe. he asked him who did you vote for, to which mccabe responded he didn't vote which i think was a smart answer. you used to work for the fbi. have you heard of anything like this happening before? >> well a long time ago it was d.o.j. and there is no excuse for trump. he knew what he was doing.