between those two options, which is that this is saving time and energy and money and resources and cutting to the chase and the idea that it's significant in terms of what mueller believes manafort can provide. >> hugely significant. manafort raised the white flag today and basically gave up everything. he is now sitting there exposed to 20 plus years in prison. in order to provide information that's going to make any difference to get him into a sentence that's going to be even reasonable he has got to be singing like the largest choir in this country. he has got to provide so much information, and he's got to feel comfortable about doing that to enter into this deal that he has got to have a lot of information. and if you kind of combine what is going on here with what happened with vander swan, who is the fellow who's now serving time in jail. >> yes. >> who pled guilty. >> the lawyer. >> right. and you look at the russian angle that's in this huge information that was filed today