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
committee, who has outlined new proposals today to end lobbying as we know it and get corporations out of rulemaking, what she calls an anticorruption initiative. senator, welcome. you re straight from a banking committee hearing on russia and sanctions. we ve just heard from brad smith from microsoft that they ve caught russian intelligence in the act of hacking two conservative republican think tanks who were going up against putin and calling for more sanctions. mm-hmm. and this banking committee hearing we re in, because we re responsible on sanctions, asking about the enforcement of sanctions, asking whether or not treasury is cooperating and following through, asking how rusol happened. treasury is doing its tap dance, oh, we re there, we re watching all this, but not so much. when are we going to get our public reports? not so much, not so much. so you don t think they re going to take the hammer to putin? no, i don t, and i think