manafort trial. >> this will be a classic fraud trial in many ways but for the fact that manafort is a high-profile defendant and a lot of attention on it for ext extraneous reasons. he made a lot of money, spent lavishly. the trial will be very dry and burglary. when gates was the that will be the most compelling interesting part to the rest of the world. but, you know, it's a strong case. i think there's a very good chance that he's going to get convicted. always hard to make those predictions. opening arguments, which will be after jury selection which can take a couple of days in a trial like this, the opening arguments will be to lay out both the government's case in a nutshell, and what some of the defenses might be which are hard to see right now what those might be.