You typically don’t have to call an associate to “get your stories straight” unless “the story” is something other than what actually happened.
[ETA: it sure seems like allowing Manafort to have house-arrest worked in the prosecution’s favor. I see that it’s not exactly Manafort and Kilimnik getting their own stories straight, as it is trying to influence or delay other witnesses, but from what I hear the evidence Mueller has is an open-and-shut case of tampering.]
