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Manaforts lawyer in alexandria, virginia. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. however, he would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial. thanked the jury for their very long and hard-fought deliberations. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. thank you, everyone. >> all right. not answering questions. thats the attorney representing paul manafort. the former trump campaign chairman found...

Good amount of time. maybe we will ask them one question which is up do you think further deliberations will be useful? and if the jury feels like they are hung up on the last count then we will get a verdict no later than tomorrow morning but probably this afternoon. >> dana: if they come to an agreement on a partial verdict in the judge accepts that, could he also say then, go back and see if you can get consensus on the final count, or is that the end of the trial at that point? >> when you a...

Room to the bench where jurors wrote after exhausting all options we have reached a verdict, we are not able to reach consensus of ten of the counts. the judge invited the jury who deliberated for 4 days into the court and asked all 12 jurors one of the time if it was ever going to be possible for them to come to any kind of consensus on those ten outstanding charges and one at a time they all said no. no chance of agreement in the jury room on the remaining bank and tax fraud charges. now the m...

Anonymous situation there? 18 counts that the jury is waiting. if they are confused on one, and lets say that they cant unanimously convict on that. it doesnt mitigate the other 17. you could have a case where they are guilty on 12 counts. how do they go? >> in the federal system, if you get convicted of any counts, you are in trouble. from reading the tea leaves associated with the prior notes, it may be that they have reached the verdict on 17, if they hang on one of the 18 counts, it will not...

In the courtroom. ken dilanian is outside the court. ken, what do we know now? >> to put some clarity own what elie was saying before, there is some ambiguity in this note as to whether the jury is unable to reach consensus on a single count or on any of the counts, meaning we havent reached on any single count. it seems as if its that they havent reached a consensus on one single count. the judge called a five-minute recess and instructed them to look at their jury form which tells them how to ...

Just been convicted of very serious crimes is what it looks like hes doing. >> seth, talk to me about the mistrials versus the convictions. there were no acquittals. what does this mean in the context of this trial and its success? >> yeah, i mean, you cant look at this as anything but a sweeping victory for the prosecution. to get someone on serious bank fraud, tax evasion charges, mr. manafort will be facing essentially a life sentence given his age. whether thats 11 years or 15 years, the jud...

That was so expensive that he bought still sticks with me. he had mounting bills. he owed money. >> right. >> do you think this is going to hurt him in the eyes of the jury, that they just may not like him as a person? >> it could. i think the main reason the prosecutors tried to raise that was to show that he had a lavish lifestyle that he had to support and that that might have been one of the motives for him engaging in these kind of fraudulent activities. i know judge ellis was unhappy with ...

May get some acquittals. but if i could, i think the defense is relying on two things. one is they eviscerated rick gates. they ran what you might have -- what amounts to a negative campaign against him, hoping to catch a juror to saying well, yeah, theres all this paper evidence, but can you believe this guy gates? its almost classic trump campaign, dont look at me, look at the guy who is against me. the other is that judge lewis made a lot of side comments. he was almost like an opinion column...

Hes carry the out within that state. >> chuck, whats the fate of the mueller investigation, if manafort gets off here? >> well, he has another trial in the district of columbia later this year. first of all, i dont expect him to get off here. this is an exceedingly strong case. but, stephanie, to your question, if he does, continue it is. acquittals happen. ive probably tried 40 or 50 cases. ive had an acquittal or too. all good prosecutors, i think have. politically -- i mean that with a small ...

I respect them. showing that respect takes a little of the fire out maybe in even unconsciously. its an important thing and hes sending a message to law enforcement and to the public that is judging him every day that we havent heard from him. >> hes got a isnt it true lawyer. a former federal prosecutor. he used to run the very office that is investigating cohen. whats the relevance of that? >> that and hes just won some acquittals in securities cases. hes got experience in economic type crimes...