so a lot depends on the nuances, and that's where you can easily compose and elaborate and embellish. i'm not saying that happened. i'm just saying with the presumption of innocence, we don't even have a grand jury indictment here. all we have is a statement at allocution in open court that's not admissible. >> understood. let's not get carried away -- >> the idea of naming somebody as a an unindicted co-conspirator is something i complained about even when nixon -- >> although by the way they were pretty good today to the president. they actually didn't name him at all today which i thought was bordering on the absurd. >> oh, come on. that was so absurd. did you notice too that the u.s. attorney, when he went out there and described the entire crime, never mentioned, as far as i can remember, never mentioned the fact that cohen, in his allocution, said and the president directed him to do it. it's not clear to me that the u.s. attorney's office actually credits that part of it. we'll wait and see if they depend on cohen's credibility. >> let's not miss something a