that's where we are. back to you. >> and more to come. joe, thank you very much. court continues. joining me, crime and justice reporter shimon porcupez, and cnn legal analysts and former federal prosecutors. thanks all for being here. renata, first to you, how is the gates testimony going so far? like how would you -- how would you grade this? >> it's going very well for the prosecution. i think at this point if we're grading on a curve, we'd give him an a. they have obviously -- gates has problems, you alluded to that earlier in the show. whenever you have a flipper, cooperator, they're going to have problems. they're somebody who's committed a crime. here gates is -- you know, admitted to lying under oath. he admitted to lying to the fbi. so that is something that jurors are going to have to consider. but the -- that has been fronted by the prosecutors. in other words, they have put that out there there for the jury so it takes the sting out