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Involved in influence peddling or crimes. there's nothing that prevents him from doing that and i think that would be a terrific moment for him to say i stand by transparency and independence, it's up to attorney general garland but i would support the appointment. jon: i want to turn your attention quickly to the whitmer kidnapping case, for men charged in federal court for supposedly plotting to kidnap the governor of michigan because they were upset over covid restrictions, two of them were acquitted and the other two ended up hung juries. the justice department said it intends to prosecute...
Against americans regarding russian interference in the 2016 campaign. so it was pretty interesting that he made it on the jury and he was also fairly strongly in favor of acquittal. another juror said they understood given the way that craig was stepping up to the line and might have actually lied before that key statute of limitations date, that this was a legitimate case. at least for the justice department to have investigated, if not brought. >> fascinating. well, first acquittal in any of these cases so many of which ended in guilty pleas and prosecution, others ended in hung juries. fas...
>> it's a murder charge, not a petty larceny charge. with a hung jury where you walk away from it. we understand that the d.a.'s office is not going to walk away from a homicide. >> how will it look differently? >> better for me. that's how it will look differently. >> unfortunately for charlie's attorneys, they'd already played their surprise defense, mom really did it. there would be no shock value in a second trial. >> frankly, we've got to face this like a brand-new case starting today. hung juries are a case in which you have to reinvent the wheel. >> in november of 2015, weeks after the ...
Pardons and looking at trump two or three months after the election before we get into the 2020 cycle to really clear the decks. of course there could also be more indictments this month or a mueller report this month. cohen tapes. there's so many moving parts in this. >> i also think that the manafort trial is harder to discredit a jury verdict than it is -- >> what if they get lucky and get a hung jury? what does trump do if that happens? >> fires rosenstein. >> see, it's a witch hunt. hung juries can happen, right? >> it has to be unanimous, by the way, in the federal criminal trial. it has...