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
intelligence community or in the law enforcement community, who need to have clearances to do their jobs. and if the president is going to go after somebody who upsets the president, whether it s an intel analyst who brings information that the president doesn t want to hear, or a prosecutor pursuing a case that the president doesn t want to see pursued, and the president uses this authority to withdraw security clearances as a way to punish, that undermines one of the basic precepts of our democracy. doesn t he have the power right now to actually withdraw the clearances from the mueller team and they can t continue their investigation, it s a counterintel investigation? the folks on the mueller team need clearances to do their job. if the president were to withdraw those clearances, they would be out of business. it would be tantamount to firing mueller and his team. david cohen, thank you so much. coming up, power check.