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
about this trump tower moscow deal and that trump green lighted it, it was proving that trump lied in the campaign about the timing and the nature of the trump tower moscow project. what is new here is the allegation that donald trump told michael cohen to high, and we re not getting push back on that from the michael cohen camp. trump s attorneys are denying it, but it is hugely important apart from the information because it suggests that he was involved in emergency, part of a conspiracy to lie to a coequal branch of golf, and it hvernmens a lot of people calling for robert mueller to impeach. michael cohen being called a liar will not be enough for the public for that matter.
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
it sure does seem that it would likely have come from the michael cohen camp. it s very clear that cohen feels aggrieved, he feels abandoned by donald trump. he s been lashing out. his lawyer is making clear that he is adverse to donald trump and prepared to testify against him. so it wouldn t surprise me at all that if at the end of the day this information came from cohen s camp. i want to go back to the issue of why this is a huge deal. some people are suggesting this is the smoking gun of collusion. i don t think that s fair because from everything that i ve been reporting on, there was no substantial incriminating information turned over by these russians at the trump tower meeting. but i think it s important for the following reason. the fact if it s proven that donald trump consistently lied about knowing about this meeting, that could be a key factor in the obstruction of justice case against him because he knows this is under investigation. he s known for a long time that ro
the president is changing the subject away from the helsinki summit in another way to make taking aim at the nfl and is policy understanding for the national anthem. jim gray will be here to talk about that. is the nfl dropped the ball again? charges the president too soft on russia, turns out they took an aggressive move tonight against vladimir putin, the $200 million military package for ukraine as it fights russian backed separatists. that will not sit well with russia. so much for being too cozy with the kremlin. audiotapes of payoffs to playmates, tweets about the nfl and nonlethal but valuable military obstetrician enemies, a busy night for the president and the administration. we are all over this, jonathan hunt has breaking news after speaking with a source close to the michael cohen camp. we begin with kristin fisher and