Interviews with political figures and news updates. Interviews with political figures and news updates. The jury that there is a third option, there is guilt, there is not guilty, and there is a hung jury. The judge declined to do that and said that if the jury were to come back again and say they remain deadlocked, the judge will ask them how many counts theyve reached a verdict on. Hell then consult with the lawyers and decide whether or not to take whats called a partial verdict which means to have the jury announce those counts to which theyve reached unanimous agreement. Now, correct me if im wrong, the trials that ive covered in the past, dan, and youre the lawyer and former prosecutor, a judge will only repeat that allen charge so many times, or else risk, you know, being overturned on appeal if it ends up being a conviction, that east putting too much pressure on a deadlocked jury. Youre exactly right, andrea. Even the judge mentioned that his objective was not to be coercive t
like the pardon ability. might he go after the mueller team? if he takes away their security clearances, they can t do their job. andrea, that s what i warned against when he first took on not only brennan but remember what really concerned me was the fact that he enumerated eight or nine other folks. some of them including current justice department officials who had no charge against them, that he might they might be next on the list. so the idea that this white house is going to have these withdrawal of security clearance forms already filled out and then to use them whenever they re having a bad news day, to echo what bob corker said, that s the kind of activity you see out of a banana republic. but i would not dismiss this white house willingness to do that. and i increasingly feel with threats against mueller, this goes back to a speech i gave last christmas, where i called on my republican colleagues and, for that matter, everyone who supports rule of law. this goes beyond
trump campaign, with the possibility does it concern you that s the goal, or do you think it s a coincidence these relate to past special counsels? i don t think it s a coincidence that these charges, for instance, relate to campaign finance abuse, or abuse of power, or obstruction of yesterday, or lying to the federal government. these are some of the charges upon which individuals have already pled guilty, or are being prosecuted or potentially investigated. and so i think it s reasonable for people to at least be suspicious that that is exactly what s taken place. the other problem with this pardon ability, as you pointed out, is that everyday americans don t have access to the presidential review process since it s just being done by an individual who is bouncing off the walls in the oval office, coming up with the next great idea to pardon some conservative cause celebrity. no, it would seem, if you take the president s process as it s been publicly executed, you need to e
need to do a better job at border security. there s not an agreement that can be reached to puts those things together, the government has become so partisan and political that neither side knows how to win. i think the president is right in being supportive of daca kids staying here. there s also no reason he can t also get some of the things he pledged to the american people he would do as part of a early agreement. i hope they could get that. i think what you call it may matter but whatever you call it. it is like amnesty. not on the daca side. i think the daca will work out and they will stay and have some pardon ability to be part of our country in every way. on the other side, you may not be able to call it a wall, but you could call it everything but a wall. i think the democrats have a