and douglas wilder from virginia as well as, can t believe i forgot about david patterson from this great state, the great state of flaerk. so if the governor of virginia resigns and his lieutenant governor justin fairfax takes over, mr. fairfax would be the fourth african-american governor in modern times and the nif in our nation s 242 he-year. got to make that correction. but let s talk about an historic first. this tuesday a black woman will deliver the response to the president s state of the union address. i m, of course, talking about former democratic nominee for georgia governor stacey abrams, who emerged as one of the 2018 cycle s democratic stars. she lost her race in a nail-biter and then she wasted no time after the race getting back to her life s work, fighting for voting rights and against voter suppression by starting her own pac dedicated to increasing voter accessibility called fair fight. she s keiring up this tuesday
the final verdict? and it turns out they were deadlocked on ten counts. and the judge asked them to go back and distribute and they did that for about four hours and apparently they could not reach consensus. and i think what this tells us, a couple of things. one, manafort s lawyers actually did a pretty good job. in the face of overwhelming evidence and a terrific presentation by the prosecution, a powerful presentation, manafort s lawyers were able to raise some doubts in the minds of some jurors on 10 of the 18 counts. but that s really irrelevant for paul manafort because he s a convicted felon, or will be when the judge passes sentence. eight counts of felony convictions of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failure to declare a foreign bank account is a victory for the prosecution. no other way to look at it. a huge vindication for robert mueller and his team in their first test in a major trial. and the other thing we can say i think is that this jury did not appear to be swayed by any
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block buster interviews with women who claim they had affairs with donald trump. which gives melania trump something in common with another first lady, hillary clinton, who had to face accusations against her husband, president bill clinton. cnn s senior national correspondent alexander marquart has more. alex? reporter: good evening, don. before bill clinton and donald trump became president, their wives, hillary and melania were well aware of the allegations concerning their husband s inif in the white house, both women have had to deal with the embarrassment caused by their husbands behaviors. for all the similarities, to far they have been treated very differently. and while hillary clinton was never one to shy away from the spotlight as this scandal rages around the current white house, melania trump has fled it. they are two women whose lives and careers couldn t be more different. but hillary clinton and melania trump now share something few other first ladies have had to s
the show for the blindingly obvious yes, we do. prosecutors don t take the protest of subjects as gospel. we check, we issue subpoenas, bank records, travel records, hotel records. you have to find the truth. you don t normally or often get it from the people under investigation. now, i wanted to ask ben about today, which might be a cig nif cant day in the course of the fbi. andrew mccabe could be fired today. if he didn t fired by today, by tomorrow, having retired, he would be subject to his pension for decades and decades of service by the fbi. if he is fired today, he would not be eligible for those pension benefits. i don t know if you are hearing anything, but there are signs cominging from the justice department. look, we don t know what the allegations against andy mccabe