she s not going to be prosecuted for anything she says on the stand. so the defense can basically use that to say, okay, you yourself this tax preparer you ve acknowledged and engaged in wrongdoing yourself, so she might not exactly have pristine hands. and i think they re going to try to exploit that. and then when we see rick gates, who is paul manafort s business associate, i think there s no question the defense is going to subject him to a grueling cross examineination. their whole point is the crimes weren t actually committed by him but by gates and the negligence of the tax professionals he employed around him. let s go to the other side of the coin and that is the prosecution. gates could be a devastating withering witness because of how deep into paul manafort s life and career he was. yeah, that s right. and they set it up today by