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He said, mike, and we are awaiting that verdict here. we have garrett tenney outside the courthouse. he has been following this trial from the beginning. garrett, are you with us? >> yeah, jacqui, i'm with you. >> jacqui: what are you hearing? what is the scene outside the courthouse? have you been seeing people milling around? what is the energy of the area right now? >> well, i can tell you the temperature this week -- it feels like it's been in the single digits or the teens, so there hasn't been a huge crowd outside the courthouse. there's been a handful of people. last night there were a ...

Announcement today and "outcome" has been reached, not necessarily a verdict. jacqui and mike? >> mike: garrett, we are showing our viewers images of kim potter on the stand getting very emotional. it'll be interesting to see what the impact of that is on the jurors who are deciding her fate. >> absolutely. that was the final witness in this case, the final images this jury to come over the weekend before the closing arguments. she was very emotional throughout her testimony. and the jurors watching, the folks they have in the courtroom, said they appeared to be looking very intently at her th...

Have been out here over the months leading up to this trial, calling for justice. they are also expected to hold a press conference this afternoon. no word from the defense of whether we will hear from them. usually we do, but nowhere definitively whether we will at this time. again, we are expecting to get that verdict here in roughly an hour to an hour and a half from now. >> jacqui: garrett tenney lives for us in minneapolis. thank you. mike? >> mike: let's begin mike i you are concerned about the case the defense made. your thoughts about the trial outcome in the kim potter case? >> well, ...

Motion practice beforehand, where the prosecution was trying to get the expert expelled from the whole trial. essentially the expert said sometimes your brain actually tells you that you're doing something when in fact you are not. so in this case officer potter truly believed it, she's calling out "taser, taser," meanwhile it is a glock in her hand, not a taser. they put in a place holder to give the jury the way to do it and it's true that expert that says it happens. this mistake happened because she honestly believed she had a taser in her hand when it fact it was her glock. a >> mike: tha...