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A co-conspiracy. and that could be a problem for them. >> do you see any similarities, john, in how mueller took down the gambino crime family when he was federal prosecutor in terms of how mueller seems to be systematically indicting and then flipping these trump associates to cooperate? >> there is. and this is pretty standard with white collar prosecutors working on mob cases particularly where they go to get the lower level people first, try to get them to either plead or indict them and the...

Will address the issue post verdict. now, jurors are taking the weekend off, and then deliberations will get started again on monday. shep? >> molly lions at the white house, thanks very much. some folks had assumed that the jurors would have reached a verdict by now, but as other high-profile mob cases show us, theres really no pattern. al capone was convicted of dodging taxes in eight hours, john gotti of murder, racketeering and a slew of other things in 13 hours, but his son john gotti jr....

Court, and, well, referred to bulger as a rat. that brought all kinds of fireworks. >> yeah. the government contends, and its in the process of proving its case and, candidly, the evidence of guilt is overwhelming, but the government contends this man was an enforcer for mr. bulger. and now this guy, and this is typical of mob cases, is turning evidence in favor of the government and against mr. bulger and, of course, bulger wasnt happy about it. so the question is, i suppose, how do jurors reac...

Are telling me plenty more are coming. and then charles payne, dawg mcdowell, along with adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino, what do you have? >> i think there are clearly going to be more people that are either to cut deals or theyre going to find themselves before, in court and find the charges and theres no doubt, this is the beginning, i believe of a longer process and the question is who is the ultimate target and all you have to do is talk to defense attorneys and people that are pretty ...

Bar owners in 1981 after a drink that was accidentally spilled on a womans dress. tim white is an investigative reporter in providence, rhode island. tim, good to see you and happy to talk about this with you. youve been reporting on mob cases and mobsters for quite some time. how big would you say this fbi roundup is? >> reporter: well, in new england its massive, to say the least. we only had two arlss rests in area in this entire sweep, but one of them was big-time, the reputed former head of...

Before. >> shell smile at me, do a couple things shell only do around me, like pat me on my face. >> there were other activities indicating giffords rapid recovery. doctors say she scrolled through an ipad, picked out different colored objects and is even moving her lips. its still unclear whether she can speak. house republicans are addressing the always controversial issue of abortion. theyve introduced two bills to toughen restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortions. one would ban govern...

Months. these are legitimate questions. if you heard that mob lawyers were in the justice department, had been hired in the justice department to defend -- to handle mob cases or drug cartel lawyers had been hired to do drug cases, wouldnt you know who they were and what they were working on? >> absolutely. they came out and posted on the web site and said lets unearth these names and bring the name out and condemn these people at which time people like ken starr said it was wrong for the group ...

The tape saying not so fast, it doesnt clear your client. there is a tape somewhere, there is a transcript somewhere, somebody is going to have to make that judgment. >> you and i were just chatting, you were saying you worked mob cases and in this case, talking about the parallels, you always wanted access to the mob boss, and if you even had a recording of the mob boss, even better fon that persons case. what are the parallels? >> so the main parallel is youre trying to penetrate a closed, sec...

An atmosphere when you have people who want to fillet people or assault them and feed their legs to the p pa paraiah. the media outlets asking the names are geud opennes argued e corner stone of our jury system. >> we simply dont have anonymous juries. we never have. in the most high profile case, even mob cases, gang cases we dont have anonymous juries. >> judge perry indicated a ruling on the matter will likely come down early next week. as we reported, only one of the jurors has so far come f...