party of virginia he's in lansdown virginia and in boston jake mag of a who worked in the obama administration is the former chief speechwriter to attorney general eric holder or john we'll start with you what do you make of what happened in the sentencing a mystic own. well you know i think the media would have us believe that michael cohen is this major witness against trump in the mall investigation but i think the sentencing today tells us that he's not as useful as they thought he got a pretty much a typical sentence they did a pretty sense investigation like they normally do in federal sentencing the probation office i think they recommended that he do forty two months of the judge gave him thirty.