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investigation. also this morning, we are on the ground following a growing humanitarian crisis on the southern border. as the secretary of homeland security heads to the border in anticipation of a mass influx of migrants. border towns looking for answers, migrants looking for help. >> are you desperate? >> i'm very desperate she tells us. i don't have anything to eat. >> we have people sleeping on our streets. this isn't sustainable. it's not normal. please help us, and enough with the politics of it. and new controversy with justice clarence thomas. first it was reporting about...

Controversial. you can take that with a block of salt coming from me. i'm a criminal defense attorney. but it allows or encourages juries to deliver a partial verdict, to hurry up and resolve what they may think of as a provisional type of resolution and not being aware of the finality of it. to be candid, partial verdicts encourage efficiency. they encourage resolving a case, and they do avoid mistrials, at least as to counts the jury is confident about. so they do serve an important purpose, and defendants challenge them all the time with limited or virtually no success at the appellate cour...