where michael cohen was not being forth coming without specifying what he wasn't forth coming about. and so it is not just lanny davis who is taking issue with the southern district, but it is also guy petrullo who worked there on two stints and worked in an executive capacity and quite upset about the strident tone of the southern district m memo and upset with how they characterized his willingness to coo coooperate and here we are now with the three-year sentence. >> and phil rucker, the washington bureau chief, and white house bur rerow chief for the "washington post" and someone who knows michael cohen and has covered donald trump so we well. what are you -- what do you take from this and what the president said to the reuters last night, and distancing himself, and trying to distance himself from what happened to cohen and all of the criticism that the president has leveled against cohen in comparison to say manafort and some of the others? >> well, andrea, this is a pretty extraordinary moment in