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One, of course, it is interesting to think about the notion that you make the assertion this would be stealing from a persons ability to choose their candidate of choice. that is part of what they are accusing. again, im a former prosecutor, so they have to prove their case in court, as you well know, and a jury as they want to make the ultimate determination. we are talking about somebody who believes in that process still. its interesting to think about, if that is the goal, to have the voters...

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Thats totally unethical. the question becomes, is it criminal. if you have a quid pro quo and a timeline that connects these gifts, you do have bribery. >> they dont have that. theres no receipt proving that or anything that will connect it to make it clear for the jurors. >> so then what if there is a mistrial. what happens next? do they impanel a new jury? do they use alternates? would there have to be a change of venue? do they select from a brand-new jury pool. >> no. the government has to t...

Conflicts in terms of human rights abuses. the philippines president called president obama the son of a horror. theres a lot on the table when it comes to the relationships with the philippines. there president said when he was 16 years old, he stab someone to death for looking at him the wrong way. a lot of this could be urban legend coming out of his mouth to make him look fiercer but we will see what kind of relationship president trump has with him when they sit down for the first time. >> ...

The wall. they started this case in september when the mcconnell case came out in june. they shouldve let it go and they didnt. >> they will retry the case because there is no victim here we have to worry about putting the victim back on the stand. public corruption cases, theyre going to retry it. its not like a rape case where youre putting the rape victim back on the stand for a new trial. i think they would retry this case. >> i think politics are definitely in the jury room and people who a...

>> i dont think so because in the mcconnell case, it dealt with setting up meetings. if youre merely setting up meetings and youre getting all these gifts, that wasnt enough. however, in this case, menendez is accused of setting up more the meetings. he is, he was a lobbyist. he was advocating, he attended the meetings and hes receiving all these gifts on behalf of the doctors. >> they were friends for decades before the. >> friendship means nothing. >> but it also means they could be doing thes...

Many time that juror may say not guilty but it turns out it turns into a guilty vote. >> they are predicting there will be a mistrial due to a hung jury. she was leaning toward not guilty. she said if i was rich and i had a lot of money and wanted to take my friend somewhere, why cant type. she said she feels like the senator did nothing wrong, the prosecutors are trying to railroad him. she is not a politician. the senator is, but in the case of senator menendez, does this make it criminal? >> ...

>> why was she allowed. >> but everything is put out in the open with jury selection. jurors were tell you, i have a planned vacation in the judge and the attorneys will make a decision and say its not going to last eight weeks, it will last six weeks but here it lasted eight weeks. you had the alternate so is no problem. >> thats why they have the alternates, for situations like the. >> so shes no longer on the panel. thats all legal too. >> theres no order of the court that they can speak with...