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
you shut down or try to assert more control? quote, i can go in and do whatever. i could run it if i want. but i decided to stay out. i m totally allowed to be involv invol involved if i wanted to be. sometimes the president says things that he knows are provocative and that he knows are not of the planet, shall we say, to stir up conversations. but when you have, among the things don mcgahn has talked to the special counsel about, is he wanted me to fire you, mr. mueller. he s several times wanted to make runs at jeff sessions. he wanted to go after the deputy attorney general. the fact is he hasn t stayed out at all. he just wants to put that image out there. the other thing i think has been effective from his legal team in terms of the conversation about the perjury trap is that the president is a paranoid person. we ve seen this now again take place with the conversation about don mcgahn. he s paranoid.