gates. we switched lawyers, he picked up tom green and that led to a guilty plea and cooperation agreent. so this may be a predicate for what twas. or it could be, as gloriaeports, that he just wanted someone local, and that he moved from washington, d.c. base lawyer to a new york lawyer. but to your timing question, it is very unusual. when you have a deadline of tomorrow to produceocuments that you're going to assert privilege with respect to which may be the whole basis for your case, it doesn't make sense that you would switch the day before, unless there was some fundamental disagreement between the lawyers and their client about how to move forward. >> i admit, we could be spun on this, and there could be a disagreement on strategy with lawyers, which would signal a split. we just don't know on this. all we know is that they've separated, and we're not sure what that means down the road yet. >> know -- just one point here. we know from an earlier report that the law firm that is presently representing cohen, has received paymeer the guidelines from the trump organization, the trump campaign. so maybe there's a fee dispute here, if they can no longer