north dakota but we know the winters, you know. i don't know, christmastime is special. it is. a great time to be in new york city and see the sights. >> brian: how special to have governor burgum become cabinet secretary. >> we're excited. new energy council will be great and leading the department of interior. we're excited. >> lawrence: can you teach him to ride the horse? >> he is pretty good. >> brian: what should they do in new york? >> lawrence: you have to go see a broadway show. >> brian: a musical tonight. >> if you need a cab ride i know a guy. >> brian: we have bail money built into your ticket. thank you so much and thanks for putting us on the show. ♪

>> there is endless amounts of these images and pictures coming out of the middle east from over the weekend. you have a new era now especially in syria. rebel forces toppled the assad regime and the u.s. doing air strikes to stop isis. it is a moment of risk and uncertainty. >> isis will try to take advantage. we will not let that happen. >> bill: president-elect donald trump saying the u.s. should stay out of all of this. more on all that coming up in a moment. first want to get to this as well in new york. deliberations believe it or not about the resume in the daniel penny trial after the jury deadlocked on friday on the most serious charge of manslaughter prompting the judge to dismiss that particular charge. but not without major scrutiny. it would have been 15 years behind bars for that charge

alone. good morning, everybody. busy weekend and busy monday. i'm bill hemmer in new york city. >> dana: shot out of a cannon on a monday morning. i'm dana perino. daniel penny is facing a single count of criminally negligent homicide in the death of neely. penny's attorneys wanted the judge to declare a mistrial. the judge is urging the jury to consider is lesser charge. >> bill: cb cotton begins our week monday morning outside the courthouse yet again in new york city. cb, good morning. >> good morning. defense attorney told the judge that continued deliberations would be elbowing jurors to reach a verdict and called for a mistrial. ultimately the judge sided with prosecutors' request to dismiss the top charge this past friday after jurors came back deadlocked on it twice. so today jurors are back to

weigh whether penny was negligent when he placed jordan neely in a choke hold on a new york city subway last year. criminal defense attorney has said if penny is now convicted on the lesser charge defense attorneys will have a great appeal and he says how the judge handled deliberations is a miscarriage of justice. >> what that does is induces jurors to throw up their arms after deliberating three or four days and say okay, let's get him on the lesser charge. it is patently unfair. >> the trial has lasted more than a month and prosecutors argue neely, who was homeless battling mental illness had an outburst that lasted 30 seconds and say penny'sry strandy went way too far. penny's defense team that he protected others and subway riders were grateful penny stepped in. activists say the case wreaks of

racism. >> today white supremacy got another victory. today the kkk, the clansmen, evil in america got another victory. they got to top charge dismissed. >> so penny could now face up to four years in prison if convicted. but per new york law, the judge may also decide to sentence him to just probation. a lot more to watch here bill. back to you. >> bill: cb cotton in new york. thank you. >> dana: let's bring in andy mccarthy. two headlines from the "new york post" editorial board. daniel penny jurors duty now is to reject a kangaroo court injustice and then this is from you actually prosecutor judge make mockery of justice in trial of subway hero daniel penny. fox news opinion.com. tell me more, andy, about what we can expect today as this has settled in over the weekend. >> well dana, as far as the jury

thinks, they are coming to start all over again on a brand-new count that they hadn't considered yet. they've been at it for four days, about 30 hours and already been allen charged and yet the judge brought them back as if the case had only been what this case at most should ever have been, a single count of criminally negligent homicide. i think that is overkill as well under these circumstances but that's all this case should ever have been. bragg threw in the recklessness count of being exactly at this place, where, you know, he is driving the jury to a compromise verdict and now having not gotten the recklessness verdict, which wasn't supported by the evidence. he has a jury that's already exhausted ready to start on a whole new count in a way that was not the way that the trial was presented to them. >> bill: here is penny's lawyer, one of the many quotes from friday. allowing this to happen would

encourage prosecutor offices to overcharge in the grand jury. that's a sweeping statement maybe about this case and others. but i don't know if a d.a. alvin bragg has weighed in on prison time even if you get a conviction. is there a clarification on that on his position, andy? >> i don't think so, bill. the prison time will take care of itself if he gets convicted because there is a statute that prescribes it. what the criminally negligent count he could get probation but let's remember what bragg was pushing for until friday was the recklessness charge which carried a 15-year penalty. so i don't see any change in the position of the d.a. i see a change in the strategy. he couldn't get the count that he was pushing for so now he is onto this other count. but as far as overcharging is concerned, look, we've spent a lot of time this year talking about two cases from bragg. this case where he overcharged

it in order to push for a compromised verdict and the other case where he took what at most was a single transaction misdemeanor business records case and turned it into 34 felonies. that's what we're dealing with here. >> dana: i was trying to imagine how tired, frustrated, ready for this to be over the jurors are. and how will that play into this? if it took them four days to get to that result, what can we expect -- i know this is reading the tea leaves and we don't have a crystal ball. how does that affect what could happen in the next 24 hours? >> you have to worry, dana, that after all the work they put in and now they've been told never mind after four days and an allen charge, which is where the judge strong arms the jury into coming to a result, you have to wonder if some jurors think that they are basically being brought back to court every day until

they finally convict this guy of something. my only view of it is that you probably have at least two factions on the jury, one that has bought into the racial presentation by the d.a.'s office that wants penny convicted because neely died whether penny was actually responsible for that or not, and then you have another faction of jurors who think nothing -- nothing should happen here. this guy should be acquitted. what i assume is probably going to happen is after a day or two it will be clear we have a stalemate and there will be a mistrial. i would like to see him get acquitted but hard to believe that will happen given last week there were some jurors, at least one willing to convict him on the recklessness, which i don't think there is any evidence for. >> bill: thank you, andy. we'll stay close. >> dana: congressman eli crane a former navy seal said this. daniel penny's actions what it means to do right in a world

that rewards moral cowardice. a guest next hour says this will put a chill on people willing to step in and do the right thing. that's what representative crane is saying as well. >> bill: civil suits will follow this regardless brought on behalf of the family of the victim. i think what crane says is probably right. based on donald trump's previous track record when he was president and in all likelihood there could be award from the white house. >> dana: the family wants to sue daniel penny civilly. would you want to sue the government officials for not protecting jordan neely and not keeping him in jail when he should have been and then he maybe wouldn't have been in a subway on drugs causing a commotion. >> bill: new clues in the murder of this united healthcare ceo brian thompson. over the weekend police released photos of a person of interest captured by the front camera of

a new york city taxi cab. investigators believe the suspect has skipped town and might be headed or could be in atlanta by bus yet again. they also say they found what could be a gray backpack dumped in a wooded area of central park. remember he took the bicycle into the park. inside the backpack was a jacket and stack of monopoly money but no gun. scuba divers scouring a pond where he may have ditched the weapon. the f.b.i. is the lead on this case and we'll try to follow everything that we can starting today again. >> dana: rich edson will tell us a little more about president-elect donald trump'sing to announce his former lawyer alina habba joining the white house team as counselor to the president as trump outlines an aggressive agenda for his incoming administration on m"meet the press" and confirming he

wouldn't tell the justice department to prosecute the bidens. he names his former lawyer. let's go to rich edson. hi. >> good morning, dana. the president-elect is filling out a state department here named a number of officials to work under the secretary nominee marco rubio. they include christopher lon do you, ambassador to mexico. michael needham former chief of staff for senator rubio as counselor for the state department and michael anton to serve as the director of policy planning. the president-elect is laying out an aggressive start to his administration. he told "meet the press" he is going to deport those here illegally trying to cut a deal with democrats to protect immigrants brought here illegally as children. known as the dreamers. trump says he will not instruct his justice department to investigate the bidens or prosecute members of the january 6th committee but he says those members of congress

should be prosecuted. >> she was behind it and so was bennie thompson and everybody on that committee. for what they did, honestly, they should go to jail. >> former representative and committee member liz cheney responded quote donald trump's suggestion that members of congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic. the president-elect says he will also not instruct his justice department to investigate the special counsel jack smith. smith has started winding down his operations after trump won the election last month. back to you, dana. >> dana: rich edson, thank you. >> i'm trying to figure out what my future looks like right now. i'm fortunate that i have a lot of things potentially in front of me and as soon as i make a decision, i promise to let

everybody know. >> bill: that was lara trump on our program about five days ago. last week talking about her future as we learn she is now stepping down as the co-chair of the rnc. news coming at her father-in-law, donald trump, gets ready to go back to the white house. there was one option on the table and that suggests she could replace florida senator marco rubio. now rubio expected to be the next secretary of state in the new administration, some trump allies are backing her for the job with elon musk and elon musk's mom posting their support on twitters. that was seen on x over the weekend. there is this now. >> ultimately this comes down. deterrence come down. we have no deterrence whether he fears us.

>> chinese hackers behind a sweeping espionage operation and lawmakers want to know why it wasn't stopped in the first place. >> dana: who is flying drones in the skies above new jersey? and why are officials unable to crack this mystery? >> bill: major story in the middle east. rebel forces in syria toppled the president and taking damascus. general jack keane on what comes next. >> there is probably less danger right now than there was before because what you see are the iranians, lebanese hezbollah and russians are all on their back heels now as a result of what has happened in syria. (fisher investments) at fisher investments we may look like other money managers, but we're different. (other money manager) how so? (fisher investments) we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client'' best interest. (fisher investments) so we don't sell any commission-based products. (other money manager) then how do you make money? (fisher investments) we have a simple management fee, structured so we do better when our clients do better.

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>> bill: mystery deepens. more unidentified drones

lighting up the skies over new jersey. people are seeing dozens of large, low flying objects buzzing overhead. you have homeland security and f.b.i. and local officials all say they are on the case. so far no explanation. the sightings reported nearly every night since mid november in northern new jersey, staten island, new york. some drones flying near president-elect trump's bedminster golf course, toward the west there in new jersey. keep an eye on that in the sky, right? >> dana: president biden speaking more about the stunning collapse of the syrian government calling the downfall of bashar al-assad a fundamental act of justice and acknowledging the risks that come with regime change. tom cotton also said that. >> we have to be cleared eyed. trust by verify. in this situation, we need to distrust and verify anyone who might come to power in syria. >> dana: madeleine rivera is

live at the white house in her green coat today, >> the president is worried radical groups could take advantage of the turmoil in syria even as he tries to strike a hopeful tone. >> president biden: it would be a waste of this historic opportunity if one were toppled to see a new one rise in its place. it is incumbent upon opposition groups to seek a role in governing syria. >> the biggest concerns before the u.s. is the stockpile of chemical weapons and preventing the resurgence of isis. the u.s. launched dozens of strikes on isis targets in central syria yesterday. they will back their allies who could see spellover effects in the region. they are reportedly weighing the extent to which they should do so. the rebels who took down assad are let by hts a u.s. designated terrorist organization with

links to al qaeda. the biden administration is giving itself credit their support of ukraine and israel weakened russia and iran. darrell issa is pushing back on that. >> they gave financial advantage to russia and iran by effectively lifting sanctions and allowing oil to flow that funded that support. >> many world leaders are already looking to the next administration, though, to dictate foreign policy. president-elect trump was treated as a defacto leader in paris. he met with zelenskyy and macron. he said the u.s. should stay out of the fight in syria and now is the time for russia to negotiate a cease-fire deal with ukraine. >> dana: thank you so much. bill, tell us more. >> bill: we'll try and decipher a complicated matter and let you know what we think is important at the moment. first with regard to the united

states and what we're doing. keep in mind that what you have israel here, goalian heights. come back to that in a moment. u.s. forces on both sides of that border of iraq for several years trying to keep track on groups like isis. jake sullivan over the weekend told shannon bream isis would see no new oxygen as this story was developing and dozens of strikes that hit yesterday in the eastern part of syria. that's what is happening with the u.s. a lot on this map, okay? this is what is happening with russia. the russians had a longstanding agreement with the assad government and in return they got a big naval base and they got an air base in syria as well. very important for putin to have that position in the middle east. you see what's in green here? this is what's called the sdf. coalition of curdish groups backed by the united states.

you see all this? this is lost regime territory. we point that out because 14 days ago assad controlled that area. then in a lightning strike and three days over the weekend one just fell, one after the other and this is the area. this is how you get to damascus. aleppo has to file, hama has to fall. homes has to fall and you get into damascus. literally these forces were moving in on assad and his control here. the golan heights that israel has massive concerns about. the other topic here. i'll bring in jack keane in one moment. iran for years has been using this transit by ground or air to help feed and resupply hezbollah operating here in lebanon and causing israel all kinds of problems, okay? with regard to that, general jack keane is here to talk about

it and listen to benjamin netanyahu specifically when he talked about iran and what is happening now. watch. >> this is a historic day in the history of the middle east. the assad regime is a central link to iran's axis of evil. it fell. the result of the blows we inflicted on iran and hezbollah created a chain reaction of all those who wanted to be freed from this regime of oppression and tyranny. >> bill: what comes next and how you see this historic moment? >> there has been enough talk about certainly assad now removed from the shackles of repressing his own people and the alternative. we have to watch carefully because a lot of negative things could come from that. the strategic opportunity is right in front of our eyes and it concerns iran. we have the opportunity now to neutralize this regime once and

for all. why? look at what happened. you describe it vividly just now. hamas and hezbollah are decimated. their number one strategic client in the region which was enabling them to dominate and control the region is syria. they just lost it. they are completely defenseless at home. they have a weak conventional military and they have no air defense system to protect their strategic assets. what president trump can do coming into power is issue an ultimatum along with the prime minister of israel and the arab nations to the iranian leader and tell them number one, you are going to dismantle your nuclear enterprise. you are going to stop providing assistance to your proxies. you are going to tell your proxies to stand down in the region. the alternative, maximum toughest sanctions that will bankrupt your country.

number two, surgical strikes to cripple your nuclear enterprise and destroy the remaining rockets and missiles. he has to do that in conjunction with the prime minister. to be frank about it, i think the prime minister would prefer an alternative that moves much more quicker to cripple the nuclear enterprise. i think he would like not to depend on iran voluntarily doing it even with iae inspectors and u.s. and regional. he mistrusts the election system in the united states. subsequent elections could bring in another administration to reverse the policy that iran agreed to. so i think what needs to happen in the near term, consultation between these two leaders and they will agree, i think, on the

common objective. let's neutralize iran now once and for all. we have an opportunity to stop their aggressive and malign and shut the nuclear diplomatically. >> bill: we'll keep an eye on who rules syria. another topic quickly i want to squeeze in in 30 seconds. donald trump did an extended interview m"meet the press." >> should ukraine prepare for less aid? >> probably, sure. >> bill: should ukraine prepare for less aid, probably, sure. general, if you can in 30 seconds what's the fate of this under a new administration? ? >> general kellogg is putting

this team together and will get briefed in detail about the options available. there are very sound options to stop american taxpayers funding for ukraine using the russian frozen assets, using ukrainian's rich minerals for loans and that would be the collateral for this. there are lots of ways to get the american taxpayer funding out of this. i think that would minimize the frustration that the president feels and certainly many of his colleagues. there are options to be developed here that are very positive for ukraine. they are an ally and partner and we have to go into these negotiations with that understanding and we have an enemy, putin, and we certainly want to compel him to change his behavior. i'm optimistic this team that kellogg will put together will lay out clearly and succinctly to the president what a realistic options in terms of establishing an agreement.

recognize this, putin in terms of the cease-fire and any kind of agreement for him is a temporary pause. that's what he proved in other agreements and syria. the objective, he is not giving up on trying to take over kerb ukraine. >> bill: jake sullivan -- we'll talk later in the week. >> i expect a republican senate will confirm all of the republican president elect's nominees. >> dana: arkansas senator tom cotton he expects to confirm trump's cabinet picks as two nominees return to capitol hill today. trump outlines and aggressive immigration agenda including a promise to end birthright citizenship. will congress go along with

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>> bill: another round of meetings on the hill as senators push ahead with president-elect trump's incoming team. today dni nominee tulsi gabbard will make the rounds and pete hegseth, trump's pick tore defense secretary facing a bumpy path on confirmation. aishah hosni is watching the meetings today. good morning. >> let's start with tulsi gabbard. her past meeting with former assad will be front and center today. it happened during a secret trip to syria years ago with gabbard saying she was hoping to achieve peace by doing so. others say she is soft on russia and putin. debbie wasserman schultz calling her a russian asset. the top democrat jim himes disagrees saying there is no reason to believe that. the top republican not totally supportive of gabbard.

>> i differ a great deal in a number of areas with her judgment and her background and experience. but what i do trust is the senate's process and i think the senators are going to put her through a process. >> trump's pick to head the f.b.i. is on the hill today kash patel. pete hegseth is, too. he is set to have a second meeting with senator joni ernst. back live, bill, on sunday trump told nbc that he still has confidence in hegseth. also dismissing those reports of him having a drinking problem saying he has been told it's not true. >> pete hegseth will be the guest of sean hannity tonight in prime time. >> dana: kayleigh mcenany, co-host of outnumbered.

one of the senators who had questions of pete hegseth is joni ernst. >> i think for a number of our senators want to make sure that any allegations have been cleared and that's why we have to have a very thorough vetting process. all i will say at this time is that we did have a very thorough discussion over a number of those issues and the vetting will continue, i am certain, through the next month or so until we approach that hearing date. >> dana: the hearing date we don't have it yet. that will come. if and when this does go to a hearing you can imagine the democrats at this point have been quiet. i want to get your take on that. they haven't said anything. >> they haven't said anything. it is shocking to me. biden chose not to mention any of the nominees, adam schiff said let's focus on the economy. interesting they aren't waging a fight. >> dana: do you think it will last? >> no, but i think there is a

period of eating crow. joni ernst and hegseth has had multiple conversations. notably, the trump transition team points out. this isn't a matt gaetz situation with no votes. no one has said we're no. i think it gets to a hearing and pete hegseth gets through and public facing push has served him very well. >> bill: joni ernst will have another interview with hegseth this week. here is a question to trump about birthright citizenship. watch. >> do you promise to end birthright citizenship on day one? is that still your plan? >> yes. we're the only country that has it. do you know if somebody sets just a foot, one foot, you don't need two on our land, congratulations, you are now a citizen of the united states of america. yes, we are going to end that. it is ridiculous. >> through executive action. >> if we can through executive

action. i was going to do it through executive action. >> bill: take it to congress, too. >> if we can. birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th amendment and a supreme court case they upheld it. there is constitutional precedent and supreme court precedent. you can try but i think there will be some very big court hang-ups that might not go the way of the administration on birthright citizenship. >> bill: it is a loophole. >> dana: i have gone back and forth. i love the constitution. but then i also want -- i would love to hear what this court thinks about that. they are originalists when it comes to the constitution and see if that precedent would hold up. another issue with the dreamers. obama tried to deal with this by executive action. the courts were like it won't work out. here is what president trump said about working with democrats on that. >> the dreamers will come later and we have to do something about the dreamers. these are people that have been brought here at a very young age

and -- >> you want them to stay is what you are saying. >> we do. i think we can work with the democrats and work something out. >> that would be pretty historic if he were able to do that. he has the political will to do so. going back to january of 2019 he offered nancy pelosi daca in exchange for border wall funding. he has always had a heart for the dreamers and wanted to make an exception. makes common sense. he is the guy who gets it done. it is not biden or obama. it is trump. >> bill: others have tried and failed repeatedly. >> he will make it a day one priority. he will have at least five executive orders on day one. stephen miller wants a two-pronged approach. tax cuts. when you make it a day one priority. it wasn't last time. this time it is day one. last time it was obamacare. >> dana: day one will be

something else. thanks for coming in. >> thanks. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: get a load of this. new york mets reportedly winning the bidding war for superstar free agent soto. the 15-year con contract worth over 700 million. he heads to their cross town rival. has it happened before? >> bill: ben, has it? not directly, he said. off camera and off mic. do you like this deal? yeah, ben is our resident mets fan. you want to see big dollars? soto is at $756 million. a year ago ohtani for the dodgers signed -- the rest of these guys look like paupers. >> dana: why do people keep saying baseball is dying? that's what i don't get. >> bill: they are willing to pay big money for great stars. every team appears to be that

way scepter cincinnati. >> dana: the changes they made to make the game faster. did that help? >> it's similar to the nfl. they are paying their star quarterbacks a boat load of money to keep them on the team. it is similar in baseball. >> dana: they should protect them when they're on the field, right? >> bill: they try. varying degrees of success i would say. >> dana: come on, cincinnati. >> bill: u.s. treasury calls it digital gold. bitcoin coming off a wild week. where does it go from here and what does it mean to you? t. hey! eddie. no! fraser. frank. frank. fred. how are you? support up to seven brain health indicators, including memory. when you need to remember, remember neuriva.

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>> bill: to the bitcoin boom. it is on a tear with the price for that crypto currency climbing more than $100,000 per.

this as investors anticipate donald trump will usher in a new era of crypto -friendly policies and legislation during his first 100 days. what does it mean to you? the former chairman of the commodity futures trading commission under donald trump is here and good morning and thank you for coming in here. a treasury document calls bitcoin digital gold. we've heard that before. that's one element. next one elon musk praising el salvador crypto reserve. so that's an interesting relationship. why is this happening now? what does the incoming administration see as favorable for bitcoin? >> there are a number of reasons why this is happening. the technology has come about. we reached a stage of the internet where we can go beyond storing information on the internet to actually storing things of value. things of value like wealth, things of value like ownership of a home.

this is what they call the new wave of the internet. an internet of value. the technology is there. when you think about bitcoin or others what they really are is protocols that allow us to store value on the internet as opposed to the way we've been doing it in human society for the last 400 years. storing value in an iou from a financial institution. as we've learned in the last 40 years during which the internet has never gone down, banks have failed including three banks of america's top 20 just in the last three years. so moving value storage on the internet is an idea whose time has come. >> dana: call for number four, the number of crypto millionaires surging. one of the things that happened and you had a good question to im initially. what does it mean for you? most people are thinking of themselves, i don't understand this stuff so i don't know how to invest in it. one thing you said is crypto is

the umbrella, right? is that right? bitcoin is one type of crypto. there are lots of different types of crypto. >> exactly. >> dana: what's a good or bad crypto? how do you know? >> just as there are multiple protocols for information, html and http. some are good for email or website establishment. in a similar way different crypto s allow you to store different values. bitcoin might be the equivalent as you said to digital gold in the previous world, the analog world, what cash was to gold, in the digital world digital money may be to bitcoin. let me give you another example. we live in a time where one out of every $4 has been printed in the last five years. we the actively debasing our

currency. at the same time bitcoin into its designed programmed scarcity. you can never have more than a certain amount of bitcoin. so the dollar is depreciating, bitcoin is aappreciating. quick fact. in 2018, the average american home would have cost you over $206,000 and over 400 bitcoin. today the average american home is now over $460,000. it would cost you less than five bitcoin. what has been the better investment over the last four years? bitcoin or dollars. >> bill: a central american country in el salvador embrace crypto. two years ago. they have 24 months of a track record. has it worked for them? >> i don't know exactly the price, but two years ago bitcoin would have been less than $30,000 a bitcoin. today it is over $1 hundred thousand. they've seen three-fold increase of the value of their reserves

in el salvador. >> bill: look like a good deal for them. >> dana: there is a lot -- can i get your number? i have 20,000 questions. we don't have enough time and i am interested. i also feel like on the technology side of it setting aside the money and getting rich. on the technology side if my uncle gets a new car and waiting for the title and waiting for the title, the technology could make that fast. >> instant. accessible any time, anywhere, with a computer. it takes out the middleman. >> dana: thank you for being here. i am getting your number. new clues in a manhattan murder mystery. police say the gunman suspected of brian thompson last week is very close to wearing handcuffs. we shall see. be a crazy tim e of year. let's not lose focus on what really matters. in the name of the father, son, spirit.

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u.s. officials say china hacked at least eight telecommunication providers to spy on top political figures including president-elect trump and jd vance. until u.s. companies can address a cybersecurity gaps the chinese are likely to maintain access. now florida senator rick scott even said with the u.s. resources dedicated to fighting cybercrime, quote, the biden administration is taking no accountability for this and they have no plan to stop it. now a bipartisan pair of senators are asking the d.o.d. to look into renegotiating specific contracts with companies like at&t, verizon and t-mobile to make sure they have better and more strict cybersecurity measures, bill. >> bill: thank you. in miami on that, more to come. thanks. dana. >> dana: right now in lower manhattan the jury in the daniel penny trial is resumin