butina pleaded guilty in u.s. federal court. is this payback for the butina prosecution? >> well, look, the timing obviously of these two events strongly suggests there's some sort of a linkage. this is very unusual spy case compared to those we've seen recently play out in the sense that the russians have not given us more specific details. they allege that this american was caught in the midst of some sort of an espionage act, but they haven't given us any more evidence. when i was in moscow as a correspondent and there was a case involving british diplomats, they immediately trotted out on television videotape footage, extensive allegations about what the alleged spies did. that's not been the case here. new details are still emerging about the biography and background of paul whelan and, you know, it doesn't really add up for me right now. someone suggested to me earlier tonight that perhaps president