call draw the sting. every prosecutor knows that when you stand up and give an opening statement, you want to certainly highlight all the incriminating evidence that makes it seem beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime, but even more importantly, you want to draw the sting of any really bad evidence that cuts against your theory of the prosecution. it looks like maybe giuliani is trying to draw the sting with what is some pretty blockbuster and really damaging information that we have now come to learn. when the president stands up and we see the highlight reels where he says over and over and over again, i have no business dealings in russia, no business interests, i don't plan to build trump tower monument to myself in moscow. then only to have his own lawyer shoot that down, definitively, as both you and john say, at a moment when they should be celebrating sort of the special counsel shooting down some really damaging information from buzzfeed.