court and said i committed crimes at the request of the president and look the other way. they did it after that "access hollywood" tape. they've done it after bleep hole countries. they've done it after every sort of norm gets broken. but these are serious crimes being charged of the people that were closest to this president. >> michael schmidt, i don't know that anyone at the "new york times" has assigned this side bar. but i suppose it's plausible. that today was the day on two fronts when the good guys, meaning men and women, won. in northern virginia a jury of paul manafort's citizen if not financial peers acquitted themselves well and put in a lot of earnest effort in that case. and in new york we got to work -- we got to watch the career public servants of the southern district of new york, one of them actually called cohen out as a fellow lawyer, as someone who had disregarded his training and tradition. but to a lot of people watching it felt leek a recentering today. >> part of this story we don't