COSTELLO: Checking some top stories at 58 minutes past. This afternoon on Capitol Hill, Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland will finally meet with a Republican senator. Mark Kirk of Illinois is the first to break ranks and sit down with the federal appeals court judge to discuss his nomination. A few other Senate Republicans say they are open to meeting with Garland. The FBI says it's been able to break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. And that's because of this -- it's ending its fight against Apple. FBI investigators used a third party to get around Apple's encryption. Security advocates now want the government to explain how exactly it got into the phone to protect other iPhone users. We're now hearing from some of the jurors in the Hulk Hogan sex tape case. They awarded the pro-wrestler $140 million in damages. They said it was an invasion of privacy for Gawker Media to release the tape online. The jury deliberated for four hours, and two of them said it boiled down to one thing -- whether anyone had permission to release the tape.</s>KEVIN KENNEDY, JUROR IN HULK HOGAN V. GAWKER: Well, the fact that there was no evidence showing that they gave Gawker the rights to show the video. And that's really what the crux of the decision was about, and that's really what this -- a large part of what this case was about.</s>DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: So Shane --</s>KENNEDY: They didn't have their permission to show it.</s>SHANE O'NEIL, JUROR IN HULK HOGAN V. GAWKER: It was clear it was an invasion of privacy and it was very clear that he did not want that tape to be put out to the public. And so that was the evidence that was absolutely 100 percent clear to all of us.</s>COSTELLO: Gawker founder, Nick Denton, says he's looking forward to winning the case on appeal. His lawyer said the jury wasn't allowed access to evidence that would have told the other side of the story. The next hour of CNN NEWSROOM starts now.
Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Jurors Speak Out.