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to roll the dice and gamble. i think the question of a pardon is huge. and intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. the mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. in these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that michael cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. he has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. that is not the mueller investigation. we need to figure out what role the mueller investigation is going to have in this agreement. in the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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The jury s verdict on the counts they do agree on, presumably 17 and declare a mistrial on the 18 t cou 18th count. i try to go through the counts as the one stand alone and often in a case you can say here is the thing that the prosecution didn t do as much on. it s hard to tell. as the 18 counts break down, there is a group of nine that are sort of similar and a group of five that are similar and a group of four that are similar. so, it s not clear which one they re talking about, right? okay. so we have been talking about facts and we get into the realm of sheer speculation. it seems a reasonable guess. the tax counts are pretty much the same. every year the government said he failed to pay taxes on all his income. the numbers change from year to year, but the underlying conduct doesn t. that s five counts. four more counts failing to file, tell the government he had overseas foreign bank accounts, foreign bank accounts they re