works in colorado in this particular phase of the sentencing, the jury has to decide unanimously that aggravating factors, the heinousness of the crime outweigh the mitt greating factors like john holmes mental illness, in order for the case to move forward in the next phase, the death penalty. if a single juror descents, it ends here and now. it took a total of 2 1/2 hours of deliberations. they deliberated on thursday and took a long weekend and came back today and relatively quickly announced this verdict, which we ll get about 90 minutes from now. scott cohen reporting for us from centennial. joining me here in los angeles is attorney paul henderson. paul, this decision has come back as we re hearing from the deliberations, pretty quickly. an hour on thursday the remainder of their time devoted to it today. 2 1/2 hours. what does that say to you? it says to me this jury has already heard a lot of this information. and right now they are moving very quickly because
republicans up ending one primary race and the democrat considering a serious challenge in the other. we have new msnbc/wall street polling this hour about how trump is doing among latino voters. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza usa today him inauguration reporter alan gomez and jean cummings. chris cillizza first to you. let s talk about the whole possibility of joe biden jumping in to this race. we know what maureen dodd reported. i know my own reporting is that certainly beau biden and hunter biden, surviving son, wanted him very much in to do this. the family has not made its decision. they will decide by late summer early september. how viable would a joe biden campaign be at this i imagine stay, this late stage? i think it would would be very, very tough, andrea. i don t think there s a huge amount of clamor for him. i do think there is some hand wringing in the democratic party about hillary clinton and her numbers and how competitive bernie sanders
here s long-time clinton confidante james carville on abc this week. you wonder why the public is not following this? they know what it is. it was something that she did. it was legal. i us a speth she didn t want louie rifling through her e-mails which seems to me to be a reasonable position for someone to take. so it amounts to just like everybody else before it, it amounts to nothing but a bunch of people flapping their jaws about nothing. some wor maureen dodd had this peace. entitle and open letter to hdr22@clintonerk mail.com. in part she writes this because you assume that if it s good for the clintons it s good for the world. you re always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desire deceptions marital bargains and gremlins. instead of raising us up by behaving like exemplary sterling people, you always bring us down to your level.
clinton is going to face the same type of skepticism from the washington press corps. we republicans said oh, they re so biased. i remember back in 2000. i i never admitted it on tv until late in the game. i thought the washington press corps was a lot tougher, a lot more ruthless against one of their own, al gore than they were against george w. bush. i thought through the campaign they gave bush a free pass. they were brutal on al gore. i m wondering, looking at this maureen dowd column, i wonder if the washington press corps is going to do that again, especially if, say, she goes up against a scott walker if knowing the clintons so long breeds contempt. even before that, joe, if she goes up against virtually no one, i think that makes the press even tougher on her. i think that would is what will happen. i don t think the press has ever been easier on the clintons. for maun marinereen, this is a dream
whose unspoken messages we re going to give you money to improve the world now leave us alone to go persecute women. that s an unkol for theable echo of a clin tonian tradeoff which goes, we re going to give you the first woman president who will improve the country. now leave us alone to break any rules we please. what do you think of that mika? i think it s searing. i think it s searing. do you agree with maureen dodd? dowd? i have questions about these e-mails and i m confused why everybody listens to a press conference or a clinton person who says okay like it still doesn t make any sense that she had her own server and she chose what e-mails to hand in. does anybody at this table disagree that that s an important question? nobody has done that. anybody? anyone agree that there s big questions here? yes, there are big questions. and i think it would have been