department. shimon, if i could begin with you first. just to highlight this, this is the president s former chairman of his campaign, charged with multiple crimes here. his defense in effect cannot mount a defense or refusing the opportunity to mount a defense here. certainly refusing the opportunity. the jurors will be told and have been told that there s no obligation for a defense for the attorneys to put on any kind of defense. i think it s certainly shocking that they didn t put on any witnesses. no one expected paul manafort to testify, quite clearly. such overwhelming evidence from the prosecution. they have e-mails, documents. they have rick gates, who was his long-time business partner. it s not surprising that paul manafort didn t testify. i think people are kind of surprised that at least they didn t put someone on to show that they were making some kind of effort perhaps. while jurors shouldn t consider this as anything negative,