Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Attorney for the Southern District of new york elly honing. Julia, start with you. Did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation . Where is it coming from . Seems to just be coming out of his adlib interview as he frequently does. Sort of spins from the cuff here. Seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from President Trump. He wants to show that he has control over the situation. In fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. Perhaps that plays to his base who thinks this is part of the witchhunt he describes treating him and others like Paul Manafort unfairly. It could be that hes watching what the coverage of the Manafort Trial, thats getting to him. Could be he sees people like don mcgahn, his white house Special Counsel speaking to Robert Mueller and heard a lot about the fact Robert Mueller could be preparing a slew of indictments to give himse
out and give us the 17 and if they re stuck on the last one, we ll drop it. i want to recap this for the viewers. we have a note from the jury that indicates they re struggling on a charge. there is some interpretation that it could be on all charges. but we might be narrowing down to the idea paubecause of sometg the judge has just done that it s just one charge they re struggling with, in which case we may end up hearing from the jury very soon with a verdict, number one. number two, it s possible we may get a plea deal from michael cohen along with the southern district of new york this afternoon having to do with his taxi business. but it may involve cooperation with the southern district of new york and the mueller investigation. again, that is fluid, and that is information that we are getting in that may or not and we have just heard now that the jury has now reentered deliberations. so whatever instruction they ve gotten, the judge has sent them back into the room to delibe