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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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Final verdict? put that altogether and it seems pretty clear, they re saying to the judge, we re hung up on one of the 18 counts. now, i agree, it s not 100% absolutely finally definitive, but that sure seems to be the most sensible reading of what the jury sent in this note they sent to the judge and the rules are pretty clear. the judge can accept what is called a partial verdict. right. but before he did that, he said to the jury as judges always do in cases like this, are you sure? go back and try again. that was at about 11:00, 11:30 this morn p tsin morning. the jury had lunch and they are doing what the judge said is trying to reach a verdict on still one count and they haven t fallen apart on the others. we can t be sure about that. we just get these snapshots when they send in a question. if they try again and say, judge, we re just never going to get there on this count. then what he would do is accept