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Is much more 50/50. these things almost never succeed. >> you know, you're not constitutionally allowed to have a split jury, half republican, half democrat. >> exactly. >> it's a jury of your peers. >> and the judge said we've got an exhaustive questionnaire, we're going to voir dire, we're going to interview them, talk to them. and the judge said if i find i can't find unbiased jurors, i'll reconsider but really these motions almost never succeed. >> let's bring in glenn kirshner, former prosecutor. what does that signal to you that mueller would have for immunity for five potential witnesse...

So they solved some of the communication difficulties they've had in the past and they're just keeping a very good eye on things. and i'm also certain, knowing commissioner davis, that he's reached out to the major core of protesters to have some sort of dialogue there and constant communication there about their first amendment rights and how to go about protesting and making sure people aren't destroying property and violating the law. so, you know, even though we have a split jury on this, i'm very confident that baltimore can come together at this time. >> you don't think this hung jury, t...

To talk through the emeshes, sift it aside and look at this from an analytical point of view and look at the evidence in order to come to a verdict. >> you mentioned a couple of things. first of all you think we'll have a quick verdict. i'm wondering why. and if there's a split jury, if there's a split jury, how do they get around that? they're going to need to come to some kind of unanimous decision here. >> they have to make compromises and when i say quick, i'm not saying like in two hours. if -- it's going to take two hours to read the instructions. but i think they'll work through tonight...

Narl -- natural tendency to reach a verdict quickly? >> well, at this point, i believe they will because they haven't taken any breaks for the most part. throughout the buyer trial when they've've been offered a break they haven't taken it. now that we breck at 2:00, they're going to go right into deliberations and choose their foreperson, read the instructions instruction instructions and deliberate all night long. >> any way to gauge based on your observations which way they're leaping? >> i believe we have a split jury here. two jurors i identified that i feel like are pretty emotionally hi...

On -- >> or could it be that we are grasping for anything because we have become so bored with what appears to be -- >> so bored, they're dressing alike. >> it's been six days now -- six days. they'll go back on tuesday. you've been involved in a number of these types of cases. what the heck is taking so long? >> i'll tell you what's taking so long. this is a criminal case wherein you don't have as many exhibits in a civil case. in a civil case, sometimes you have thousands of exhibits. here in this criminal case, there's thousands of exhibits. and on top of it, the jury's instructions are ext...