they wanted the names of the cheery, among other things in this trial. unseal before the verity. the judge said come out there have been threats against him, he did not see why there would not be threats against of the jurors at their names were released. at the time, he was not inclined to reveal the names. the jurors asked that the names not ever come out. they are now on their way home. neil: that is not unusual. people like their anonymity. all of this is what you would have expected. the jury was unable to reach a verdict on those counts. the judge had no choice but to declare a mistrial. he discharge the jury and sent them home. bob mueller s office will decide whether to retry this. i don t want to speak for his office, but it s probably likely like that will not be done. it would not result in the retrial. they are facing another proceeding against mr. manafort in october in any event. my guess is that we have now
verdict but has not yet given the option to the jury. there are questions about how stuck they really are. somebody who still saw the note told me that it was edited and it did not appear that the jury was asking about a single count when it was initially drafted. it is not clear if they came to an agreement on a single charge or one single charge. it is a good point in this trial to have a question like that. the manafort defense team has said the longer deliberations go, it is better for their client, paul manafort. the judge instructed the jury to go back and review all of the evidence in the case. we don t know if they have decided that they have gone far enough, but again, we will know in the next couple of minutes. neil: thank you, james, what do you make of that
know if that means they have reach consensus on everything else except for one, for they haven t reached consensus on even one. but whatever it means it s day four of deliberation. what we don t know, we are kind of trying to figure out what s in that envelope. i will tell you this about the manafort trial. rick gates, it s one thing to be a dirty witness, engaged in fraud and all these other things, but he stole millions of dollars from in a manafort itself. i think that s a fact and with which the jury may have tremendous consequences. either virtual in this case was not surprising. harris: is all of these men are pardonable. no matter how it shakes out? b3 ultimately they all are. harris: so why do you cut a deal with prosecutors? again, abc news is it announcing this about michael cohen, we can confirm that lisa sentencing for michael flynn is on hold. likely he s cooperating but we haven t confirmed that yet.
on. and with michael cohen, they entered a guilty plea. what does this have to do with russian collusion customer if there is no evidence of russian collusion, i think that weighs more in the balance of the president s continuing to apply pressure on the special counsel and refusing to grant a voluntary interview. i think that is where that comes up. the third thing to take a look at here and pay attention to is this critical period of time between now and the sentencing date, and also the second manafort trial. there is a fair amount of pressure on paul manafort if he had anything to provide, provided now. we will have to wait and see. my guess is that the critical time will be between now, the sentencing date, and the proceeding in d.c. in october as to whether or not he has anything further to say to the government. neil: as to all of this, what brought michael cohen down, or the president s secretary, pleading guilty to charges of
second case that the government is bringing which they have a lot more ammo, right? i don t know if it is a lot more ammo. they have one additional fact that is pretty, and that is abstraction. if you recall, mr. manafort was not locked in this case. he had a number properties, duly angle bracelets on. i don t see that changing with a conviction of any count, i guess a straight acquittal, he might try to make a motion with the d.c. court to try to get back out into the community. but, realistically, on the immediate horizon, he has the foreign agent registration act violation and obstruction case waiting for him. it will be real interesting to see how strongly each side wants to pursue trial in that case after the start. neil: james, when the jury was admonished by judge see if