done? you know, i think we re in the dog days of summer. we have seen the president sort of filling the void in the west wing by tweeting out attacks on robert mueller on twitter. clearly, all of this stuff is top of mind for him. the mueller probe, which he has been told is coming to a close, paul manafort s trial which we may be getting a jury verdict on any day. the upcoming midterm elections which will be its own verdict on the first two years of the trump presidency. i think the president knows that he is going to be getting the voters the voters will vote on his first two years in office. he is feeling the heat, both from the mueller probe and from voters going to the ballot box. in terms of feeling the heat, we don t hear much from robert mueller. not a lot of leaks. the president has upped his attacks, jack, on robert mueller. not on mcgahn but in the wake of
but we are not promising our base things that could never happen. things the rest of the international world understands well. gina mccarthy, we appreciate your expertise. thank you for being on new day. thank you, alisyn, great to be here. a new attack uncovered overnight by the russians on the u.s. election system. were they trying to get into the 2018 midterms? that plus the paul manafort trial. what s going on in the jury room? we ll get the bottom line next.
questions the jury has now submitted to the judge. we understand that the defense team, prosecutors, they are in the courtroom. how this unfolds, the jury will be brought into the courtroom. the judge will the clerk probably will read the question from the jury and then the judge would determine how exactly to answer this. what s interesting is, last week on thursday, the jury asked four questions and the judge actually only answered the one pertaining to reasonable doubt. as to the other ones, he didn t provide any specific instruction. he said, just rely on your recollections, your best memory of what happened during trial. we will wait to see what the question is from the jury. it is important to remember here, we re all counting the minutes and hours and days of the deliberations. but these are 18 complicated counts that this jury has to come to a unanimous verdict on each and every count, whether that s for conviction or acquittal. we seem to be quite antsy, but
counts. again, information comes out of the courtroom as fast as somebody from our team can write it down and run it out. the first think that we got was word that there is a verdict, again in eight counts out of 18. we have long understood since the trial began that wants the jury determined that they came to a verdict, there would be about a 10-15 minute wait and that is because paul manafort is being held in solitary confinement somewhere in the courthouse. they have to go and get him. we saw his wife walk in with the manafort lawyer. they have their prosecutors in the courtroom already. if things are going according to the plan that was laid out a few days ago, right now, they are going to get mr. manafort and bring him to the courtroom so that he could have a verdict
way or another. prosecutors are always worried about that. if they know the jury pays attention to signals, especially from the judge, that concerns them. the judge will stop here. but he also showed himself prepared to admit a mistake when he made a mistake as far as the prosecution was concerned. he did it in the presence of the jury. overall, i never really felt that the take away from that was that he was being unfair or unduly unfair to the government. judges have views about cases just like anybody else. their job, of course, is to remain neutral and not put their hand and the scales in one way or the other. it is obviously a concern if they were to tip the scales in favor of the prosecution, and in favor of the defendant. all defendants are deserving of a fair trial. prosecutors do not suffer from an unfair trial.