who according to the federal court, a person who instructed the aides that make the payments to suliman brownthe prosecution has not yet identified who person a is. the speculation that the person could be another close aide of vincent gray or vincent gray himself. we don't know the answer to that yet. the problem he's got now is that he was once -- he once talked extensively about this effort and denied any involvement at all. any knowledge at all and now he's not talking since the two aides were arrested. he's gone to ground and says he can't discuss the active investigation. well, he knows it's been active for sometime but his lawyer has told him, prominent lawyer to clam up and that's what he's doing. i'm not sure he can get by with clamming up. as a matter of fact, his hand is going to be forced sometime in the next two days, two weeks maybe. host: we are focusing on columnists all this week and one of the things we're trying to get from everybody in the table is where you come up with your ideas, how you write and what's the best way to put your ideas on paper? guest: well, as columnist