make the jury think gates is as unbelievable as possible, thattize a lying liar who lies. right? i don't get it, they kept going with this today. hammer and tongs. here today, mr. gates, do you have any doubt in your mind if you lied that the special counsel's office would rip up your plea agreement? >> gates, no doubt at all. why would you have that conversation in front of the jury? why is this a good strategy for the defense? why keep clearly laying out how high the stakes are for gates if he does lie he can go to jail for a century? the manafort defense has simultaneously tried to make gates look at bad as possible for the jury up to and including the jury hearing he had multiple extramarital affairs including that gates has the incentive to definitely not lie in this case because that would be so terrible for him. how does that work? why would you tell the jury you