and he's fighting these very serious charges in court. and a roll of the dice for manafort nelson thinks the government has overstated their case. >> or he thinks maybe he will be pardoned. that could also be part of it. let's look at the big picture. we know that president trump has presided over a cover-up of all things russian for more than a year now. the question is, is it a nixon cover-up? and these developments today make it look more and more definitive that it probably is a criminal cover-up by the standards of most legal experts. we don't know that for sure. but we're tying together both the question of the president's actions in relation to promising things that will in fact impede and instruct mueller's investigation, and also, we are seeing in the gates