MELBER: Of all modern media, FOX News plays one of the largest roles in politics really over the years. They showed evidence trying to make the point that, in January of 2019, Jussie Smollett staged this entire attack, where he says that he was attacked by two people, and they hurled racist and homophobic terms towards him, put a noose around his neck, telling police that he was a victim here. Now, of course, this was the prosecution`s case approved. And we know that - from covering trials throughout the years, that jurors usually will go to the judge and ask questions.Д«ut this jury has been very quiet, only asking the judge one question. Now, jurors have been deliberating for the last two days now, more than six hours deliberating. So jurors found that he lied to police officers on those five counts.Д«ut on another day, a separate day, weeks later, is when he was charged with that sixth count, found not guilty. The first five counts are connected to that incident in January of 2019, a statement that Jussie Smollett made to police officers. MEAGAN FITZGERALD, NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT: So, Ari, yes, just within the last couple of minutes here, the jury foreman reading off those six counts that Jussie Smollett has been facing.ДЄnd she found, they found, this jury found that he was guilty on five counts, not guilty on six counts. The last thing the Roberts court wants, particularly after the abortion fiasco that they have now found themselves in, is to further politicize the court. It probably - and the Supreme Court will likely deny cert, but, at the same time, there is a chance - and Maya Wiley made this point on Nicolle`s show - that, because the conservative wing of the court is so hell-bent around an augmented executive branch, that they could see this as an opportunity to tinker and to explore.Д«ut I think, at the end of the day, the precedent and, quite frankly, the politics would say, don`t touch this. I think, at the end of the day, counsel is right. I don`t think that is so much this in this case, but that`s something you also have to look at and be concerned about, as is - and that`s where the Supreme Court is going to come in.

You have this pressure now, this legal pressure at the state and federal level, that have boxed the Trump into a corner.Д«ut here`s the question, is, does that pincer move latch on to something real and substantive that forces Donald Trump to not only appear, but then to either invoke the Fifth and go through the process, or does it latch onto Jell-O, in which case, it just slips through the legal process, it`s delayed, there all these other hurdles that are put out in front of it? And this is what a pincer move looks like, to put it in political and military terms, if you were, if you will, between the state of New York and the court of appeals.

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