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
strong words today from elizabeth warren, who said president trump s promise to drain the swamp is beyond laughable. the trump era has given us the most nakedly corrupt leadership this nation has seen in our lifetimes. but they are not the cause of the rot. they re just the biggest, stinkiest example of it. corruption is a form of public cancer, and washington s got it bad. the democratic senator from massachusetts introducing the anti-corruption and public integrity a integrity act. it would impose a lifetime ban on lawmakers from becoming lobbyists. another big push for national attention by warren, another piece of a populist platform many see as the framework for a possible 2020 presidential run.