intimation of what his defense would be during opening statements. but instead, we got the my underling did it defense which is really in many ways something of a yawner, something that juries occasionally will show interest in and occasionally even a jury will hang over that, but it doesn't seem like a strong defense here. i was surprised that we didn't see a better opener. >> are you able to answer the question you just put before us, why is manafort holding out? >> there are a couple of reasons, but frankly, we all speculate is there's someone that manafort fears more than he fears mueller. and spending the rest of his life in jail. that's one possibility. does he think that trump will pardon him and make all of this go away? i suppose that's a possibility. and then there's a third possibility which is that some defendants like to see how the evidence comes in at trial and bank on being able to cut a late deal with prosecutors if they
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