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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Back in the jury room. So how this all unfolded, just after 11 00 a. M. , the jury did send a note to the court asking the judge, judge, what do we do if we cant come to a unanimous decision on one of the 18 counts. That implies that perhaps they have reached a decision unanimously on the other 17 counts, but they havent said that definitively. What the judge had to do was he had to come up with instructions to give the jury as it per...

Business news and analysis. Violations. It could land him in prison from 35 years. Mercedes, that issue will come up whether mr. Cohen has decided to do this to get at this out of the way and hope and pray for a pardon down the road. Certainly what our calling is done as wonder if they are going to get cooperation. Frankly, they could have a discussion with mueller later on and find out what he knew. Whether President Trump knew of the meeting and what the meeting was taking place. And the payme...

Turn down the volume, dont listen to the politics, look at the evidence and what you can infer from the evidence, and when we got the second jury note, what they asked for was specifically to be read back the part about inference, and how inference works and they actually said, we explicitly want you to read back the rain metaphor and judge merchan had read this when he was reading the very technical jury instructions, he had read this, he had given them a metaphor about rain and the metaphor wa...

Joshua steinglass, he spent a lot of time talking about this, he said we didnt choose michael cohen, we didnt go to the witness store and pick him off the shelf. you dont need to want to be in business with him, what you need to do is look at the documents, the documents dont lie or forget. look at the other cooperating witnesses and the first jury note, what did they ask for, they asked for three experts, four experts, of testimony, three of the four were david , so they were hearing what stein...

But he spent a considerable amount of time saying play that tape and listen to it and turn up the volume and they asked for headphones. but it is interesting. the other thing is that joshua steinglass spent a lot of time in the final crescendo saying, turn down the volume and dont listen to the politics. look at the evidence and what you can infer from the evidence. when we got the second jury note what they asked for was specifically to be read back the part about in france and how inference wo...

But now what is clear is the closing arguments from the prosecution got a lot of blowback that they were too long and too granular but this jury responded to them and they hurt it. if you look back at what they said, they were almost in conversation with joshua steinglass. he spent a lot of time talking about -- he said we did not choose michael cohen. you dont need to be friends with him, you dont need to be in business with him. if you dont like michael cohen, look at the documents. the docume...

Up to the trial, but also during the trial. what goes through your mind, and what information do you have? >> i think this was much more complicated than any of us had anticipated. it seemed like there was overwhelming evidence. but these are 18 counts, very confusing perhaps at times. look at this jury note. theyre probably confused in some ways too. its clear theyve made a lot of progress. weve been waiting to hear whats going on for days. we really havent heard where they stand. now we know. ...

Whether that funding touched on the campaign funding that creates a possible liability for the president. again, not knowing whether he is cooperating or knowing if he is accepting guilt, we have to wait and see in terms of whether he is taking a bullet or aiming a bullet at the president. >> neil: that is well put. we will wait and see if that is what is going on in new york at the courthouse. we are told michael michael cos already arrived. in the meantime, there is another jury note in a sepa...

Its not clear where that form fits in to the question, if at all. thats what we know from here. >> okay. so elly, if we cannot come to a consensus on one count, i heard that the way ken did, meaning maybe weve come to a consensus on 17 counts. you might hear that differently? >> reporter: a very imbigus jury note. your honor, if we cant come to a consensus for a single count, completely ambiguous. >> one count? >> reporter: on 17 of 18 and held up on one or could me anyone count. >> right. >> wh...

Not come to a conclusion in this case. i want to bring in our ari melber whos been watching this every step of the way. this is exactly what people had feared that this jury is deadlock that they cannot come up with a decision. a majority is still undecided. >> we heard a lot of jury note. this is a huge outcome to a case that riled the community and the dramatic cell phone footage that showed officer slager pursuing walter scott and drawing h is firearm and shooting him in the back as he ran aw...