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
agencies, that even talks about the importance of the judiciary and being more forthcoming and following a clear set of ethical rules. now, what david wassermann from the cook political report is projecting is that it would take a victory of some 60 seats of a switch on the house side to offset what he anticipates will be a continued republican control on the senate side or a much rougher patch on the senate side and really most likely gridlock. how do you get legislation like yours to go anywhere given what s happening in this country? look, this is not legislation that is going to be driven by people who are inside washington. they already know how the game works, and there are a lot of people who have already figured out that reinvolvivolving door they make their fortune. this is legislation that s driven from the outside. like the consumer financial protection bureau, this was an idea, way back when, following the financial crisis, to say we