after his educational background and his time working with manafort was laid out by the prosecutor, the very next thing they got into was his plea agreement with the government and there was more discussion later on of the same basic theme, especially this issue about embezzlement. prosecutors seemed to want to get that out on the table very early. folks may remember the defense brought this up, that gates had apparently stolen money from manafort, or from manafort's firm, and the prosecution definitely wanted that laid out before we quit court today. they wanted that out on the table and brought that out before they sort of went through chronologically the different crimes this pair may have been involved in. they were clearly trying to imewe nice him for the counter attack from the defense that is coming. >> rudy giuliani called it hanging a lantern around your problems. that's not a tactic limited to one side or the other. josh, thank you for covering ie