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
let s go to nbc investigative reporter tom winter for the details. tom, what are you learning? reporter: yes, nicole. so two senior law enforcement officials familiar with the matter tell myself and my colleague that the medical examiner in new york city has determined that jeffrey epstein s cause of death is suicide by hanging. this was what was presumed all along, what officials initially believed when they found jeffrey epstein dead in his cell nearly a week ago on saturday morning at 6:30 a.m. they found him or just after 6:30 a.m. they found him unresponsive. the me conducted the autopsy on sunday the following day. and then said that they needed a little bit more time and a little bit more information to determine the cause of death. but now we know that it s suicide by hanging. and this kind of ends this portion of the investigation. now, of course there is still ongoing investigations on several fronts, nicole. one is the fbi investigation into the death to see if there is an
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more breaking news, involving michael cohen. multiple sources familiar with the matter telling nbc news the president s former personal attorney is discussing a possible guilty plea with federal prosecutors in new york in connection to alleged tax fraud and banking matters. joining mow now, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, msnbc political analyst peter baker, and wnbc chief investigative reporter jonathan dienst who is breaking this story. jonathan, there s been silence for the last a couple of weeks from the michael cohen camp, from lanny davis, his lawyer, which certainly indicated that he might be in conversations with the prosecutors. this is not the mueller team, this is the prosecutors, as you know so well, in new york at the southern district. what do we now know from your sources? we know these talks are under way between michael cohen s attorneys and federal prosecute erg ers, and that a deal on a potential guilty plea could be reached as early as this
people at microsoft. what you re seeing, andrea, is what all of us from the intelligence community have said throughout post-2016. the russians felt they were successful in 2016. they haven t slowed their efforts. it s cheap, it s effective.chea. we re now seeing them going on to a different tech company in terms of microsoft. our coordination is getting better. i would not be surprised if you won t see other examples of russian intervention towards our 2018 elections. what worried me is twofold. one, this president doesn t fully acknowledge this very real threat. there s nobody at charge at the white house of election security. two, i increasingly fear that local and state election officials aren t taking these warnings seriously enough. senator nelson warned the florida officials we have four sources confirming i know you can t talk about those kinds of briefings. but we ve confirmed at nbc news that took place, contrary to