that's what got him really excited. during his actual council's initial argument, he was pretty much sitting there and listening. the legalese and citations kind of went over his head. but in terms of the argument, what he was interested in, he got really interested when the special counsel was making her arguments and was writing those notes you mentioned on the yellow legal pad, scribbling things down and passing them over to his lawyer. it seems like the message got through there on the other end because his lawyer made some really stark political points that were a little bit out of context i think for the argument they were making. just those lines that he essentially wanted to get in. just look at this logistically. donald trump wanted this to be an event. they had to go somewhere else to hold this press conference because the courtroom here isn't really, the courthouse, rather, isn't a great place to hold press conferences because there's a security mechanism, you go through the basement, can't really pop outside, the secret service would love that if you did. they had to set up a separate