News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Back in the jury room. So how this all unfolded, just after 11 00 a. M. , the jury did send a note to the court asking the judge, judge, what do we do if we cant come to a unanimous decision on one of the 18 counts. That implies that perhaps they have reached a decision unanimously on the other 17 counts, but they havent said that definitively. What the judge had to do was he had to come up with instructions to give the jury as it pertained to them going back and deliberating yet again. That just happened. In just the past few minutes, the judge instructed the jury, go back into the jury room and continue to work on that one final count. Try to continue to work, to come to some unanimous verdict on that one remaining count. Outside of the presence of the jury, the judge indicated that he might be prepared to accept a partial verdict if they werent able to come to a conclusion on that one remaining count that they seem to hav
we can go on, if you want. mitt romney. ouch. exactly. i think she knows that she s got to define herself as someone who s a reformer, someone who s a pop ulist, not merely the harvard law professor. i think that s the effort today. you run against d.c. you call it a stinky swamp. and you kind of embrace some of the rhetorical strokes that trump did in 2016. she knows she s going to get hit hard from the right with all the usual bug-a-boos and she has to get out early in defining herself. here s one prediction. the oklahoma accent you ve heard, i think you re going to hear more in the next year, year and a half. in some ways, it seems like she s stealing trump sov overal message but saying he didn t really act on it, he didn t act on the drain the swamp message. so she s setting herself up as this perfect foil. the democratic primary, as we know, there are probably going to be 17, 18 people running. so she s setting herself up to be that perfect foil for donald trump.