I think this was a man perceived as being the grandfatherly figure who wound up becoming Richard Nixon on a bad day.

This is the performance of his life. If he does not hit his mark on the first take and get the jury to look past what they saw in the first half of the trial, he is going to spend the rest of his life as a ward of the federal government.

He is likable. He is grandfatherly. He's everybody's papa and he has the ability to show outrage without showing outrage.

He's got to open it himself; the government can't kick it in.

This is a case that turns on credibility.

I believe the judge, as an umpire, at some level has to be concerned with the integrity of the process.