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
all-out free speech and enabling the spread of misinformation and propaganda. and elon musk has been criticized for trying to silence his own critics, including among his own workforce. and having those, quote, free speech decisions essentially in the hands of one man can be potentially problematic, can t it? because he is deciding. i mean, he is the richest man in the world, and just incredibly privileged in every way. something he says he doesn t like could truly be dangerous or threatening to somebody with a lot less privilege to him. so i think that s why there is a big rub here is that for some people, yeah, if you re just getting criticized, but you have all the money in the world, you don t really care. but if you re someone in a vulnerable mental state and you have people on twitter being free to say whatever they want, including making death threats or saying horrible things about them and not even being worried about getting banned because elon said he thinks people should
topping our political radar today, two top government officials say despite claims to the contrary, they ve seen no evidence florida s election infrastructure has been compromised. the homeland security secretary and the fbi director say they cannot corroborate claims from democratic senator bill nelson who said recently that certain jurisdictions around florida have already been penetrated by russians. a manhunt happening right now for a man suspected of making death threats against president trump. the 27-year-old of pennsylvania allegedly made a facebook post earlier this month threatening to kill a local district attorney and the president. he was last seen cumberland, maryland, thursday. the trump administration this morning following through on a 14-year-old deportation order for the last known nazi collaborator in the united states.
nothing new was learned. irish authorities are holding a man suspected of making death threats against president obama. police say the suspect khalid kelly is a converted muslim who subscribes to al qaeda s ideology. police arrested him after his search in dublin. he can be held for three days of questioning under irish law. president obama is scheduled to visit ireland later this month. the head of one libyan rebel group is headed to washington today to meet with a white house official hoping america will recognize his group. this comes a day after they claim a critical victory. you re seeing the rebels in their vehicles, hearing them shooting their guns in celebration in the war torn city of misrata after months of fighting, hundreds of civilian deaths, the opposition saying that once and for all, the city is theirs. everything they owned, washed away. this morning we re hearing the painful stories of flood victims in the south, this wall of water