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
release of the special counsel, robert mueller s special report to congress and to the american public. that resolution passed 420-0. you were among those voting in favor. as you know, the president keeps calling the whole mueller investigation a witch hunt and a hoax. why didn t you vote in favor of releasing the final report? it s the right thing to do. it s what the vast majority of the american people want. they want to draw their own conclusions from the final mueller report. whether they re republicans or democrats, conservative, liberal, whether they like president trump or hate president trump. almost all americans want this to be public so that they can determine for themselves whether or not there is anything serious in the report that actions should be taken up on. i said from the very beginning, wolf, that this investigation is important, that the actions by russia to meddle in our election process in 2016 is real, serious and hopefully this report gets to the bottom of m
walling. this is not the president s tax returns or jared cukushner s security clearance. this is the single most important report since watergate. we may see barr attempting not to produce all the information and then congress fighting this. it may go all the way up to the supreme court. nixon s strategy in watergate, he knew it was the end of his presidency. he fought to keep them secret saying it s not about protect meeg. it s about protecting the office. we might see a similar strategy here. the harder the administration fights the stronger the suspicion is that there is something really bad in there. didn t turn out great for nixon, all that fighting. it did not. the president keeps calling the mueller investigation a witch hunt, a hoax, a witch hoax he once called it. all of these republicans have
what republicans were saying in florida, campaign. what does someone like senator mccaskill or other senators do in closely fought races? that s a challenge. i mean, senator mccass kel, it was turned over that it was russian intervention, the so-called fancy bear group. it is true that senator burr and i thought the letter senator nelson and senator rubio sent out to florida election officials was very appropriate. i am concerned the florida election officials haven t taken that seriously enough. this is a problem that s not going away. they re trying to be successful again in 2018. and all of our jobs are not made easier when you ve got a president that continues to not acknowledge this threat and a president that continues to call the whole mueller investigation a witch hunt. this morning in banking committee, we talked about adding on more sanctions and you
have these administration officials caught between saying yes they re looking at some of the people from the russian spy agency that mueller indicted about being sanctioned. yet at the same time trying to defend the president s calling the mueller investigation a witch hunt. they re put in a very difficult position. the national security adviser just this weekend said that it s russia, it s china. instead of spreading the blame. as did the president in an interview with reuters last night. listen, they d be the russia game book is now shared by other possible adversaries and they ve seen how cheap, how effective in many ways, how vulnerable we are. it would be a real mistake to assume that any other nation has the level of those sophisticated attacks that russia s putting forward. the history of using these attacks both on the election process directly but also in terms of maligned efforts to try to divide americans on hot button issues. you have a record of working