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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 they ve reached a verdict on. he ll then consult with the lawyers and decide whether or not to take what s called a partial verdict which means to have the jury announce those counts to which they ve reached unanimous agreement. now, correct me if i m wrong, the trials that i ve covered in the past, dan, and you re 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. you re exactly right, andrea. even the judge mentioned that his objective ....
damaging winds. good evening to all of you in hawaii. just 10:00 p.m. good morning to the rest of you. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is thursday, august 23rd. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. the white house struggles to contain the fallout from the michael cohen guilty plea. president trump is turning to personal attacks. cohen implicated trump for coordinating hush payments to a porn star to sway an election. the president tried to minimize cohen s role in life and business. he was one of many lawyers for me. they say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. i don t know if he was a fixer. i don t know where that term came from. he has been a lawyer for me. he did not do big deals. small deals. not somebody with me that much. somebody who said i did not live without him. the payments michael cohen made to the two women who allege they had an affair with trump. what he knew and when. the president saying with fox news he did in the know about the payments until ....
Where you can hear russian fire jets skreeching overhead followed by enormous blasts and the sense is i got to say, clarissa. gradually getting closer and closer. clarissa, we re showing the videos now the roeuters images, drone images of that apartment block. i mean that is, that is a residential building completely destroyed. reporter: it is, and, you know, the russian line has always been this is a sort of restrained military operation, very targeted, not maximalist or expansionist, not intended to be an occupation, not targeting civilians but when you re looking at those images, as you said, which looks like grasni or sites i ve seen in aleppo, almost apocalyptic nature of ....
And the dire warning of trade. escalating tariffs pose a big threat to the u.s. economy and prolonged dispute could hurt growth. that is from the minutes of the fed s recent meeting. central bank plans to keep raising interest rates. the next hike likely next month whether or not trump likes it. he told roeuters that he is not thrilled with jerome powell. target just had its best quarter in more than a decade. same-store sales rose 6.5%. fastest growth since 2005. target credits the digital strategy and store redesign. consumers are spending. boosting sales at home depot and nordstrom. something is going right with the consumer. target ceo said yesterday this is the best consumer environment ....
Going to be a nation of laws, allow our judicial processes to continue unabetted without political interference. he appears to be willing to try to do anything to prevent the mueller investigation from finishing. one other thing that came up, a number of things came up, but one of the other headlines out of that roeuters interview is te president went after his own republican appointee. the relatively recent fed chair, jay powell, a republican who was appointed by this president, and he said he wasn t thrilled with his record, raising interest rates, things powell should do more to help boost the economy. this is very unusual criticism by the president. to do it publicly like this and his own appointee. andrea, this is again, i m not sure any of your viewers or probably you and i are not surprised, but this president just doesn t respect any of the rules and norms. the whole notion of the fed is that it s supposed to be ....