benefit, good point. looking ahead to monday. can you put yourself in the prosecutors shoes and tell us how you would craft opening statements? >> yes. so i think an opening statement is very powerful and important moment in the trial. in some ways, it's the most important moment at the trial. they've obviously had some exposure to the jury pool because there was a volunteer process but it's the opening statement where the prosecution gets to set forth the basics of the case and the evidence that they're going to show and i think they want to resist being overly dramatic. they want to resist being histrionic. they want to be plain and simple. >> here. the fact here's what the evidence will show. and they also need to be careful not to over-promise they have some interesting witnesses that have been mentioned on your show in the last hour, including michael cohen it's unclear.& i probably believe in the minds of the prosecutors, it's unclear how smoothly that will go, both on direct examination cross-examination, and redirect examination so they will want to tell the jury, we have these witnesses