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In making this case. >> interesting. like you said one of the jurors is asking the judge in the court if the judge is going to provide counseling services today. they will. if youre the defense -- if youre the defense attorney in this case, what are you making of this counseling request? that cannot be good if you have -- and i want to hear from you, though -- if you have a member of the jury saying this was so disturbing i need counseling. >> oh, its not a good sign at all, don. and you couple ...

That the times had acted with actual malice. were back with dan henninger and holman jenkins. what do you make of the verdict, was it the right one? >> well, under the supreme court precedent that makes it almost impossible for a public figure to win a libel case, it was the expected and right outcome. the real issue this raises is should that supreme court precedent be revisited because it makes it possible for newspapers and gives them incentive to just make egregious errors in an offhand way....

So. theyll be back at 9:00 a.m. this morning and theyll see how they piece together, the jury, the evidence that they have so far to render a conclusion thats fair, just and appropriate. >> yeah. its interesting because the prosecution made a compelling case, presented a lot of evidence that these defendants are racist, but the bar is that the crime had to be committed with, as you say, racial animus because the victim was black. one of the things the prosecution had to do was say, had ahmaud ar...

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Cases, hard ones. whats she going to have to prove? >> well, what she has to prove in this case is the racial animus that we know the defendant had, that that motivated their actions when they chased down, shot and killed ahmaud arbery. did they commit the crime and was there justification? in this case, the issue is was race the motivating factor in terms of the actions they took. >> these cases, shes told the jury about some of the extremely racist language is glaring. it appears theyre sticki...

Not buy or believe that argument. its nonsensical to believe that you harbor this level, this degree of racial animus, of anti-black sentiment and that when you have the opportunity to make good on these threats, when you have the opportunity or the chance to actually do something about it which was presented on february 23rd, two years ago when ahmaud arbery was minding his business and jogging that you didnt take it, and thats what the prosecutors made clear. they made clear that these individ...

Attorney general made when she was campaigning for the job saying she wanted to target trump but the judge rejected those arguments first pointing out that trump is no stranger to the new york attorney generals office noting that he engaged in substantial settlements after investigations into his university and his foundation. also pointing to the fact that the judge said, look, the attorney general has the same first amendment right that donald trump has on the campaign trail. the judge also no...

To serve their sentences in a federal prison instead of a state facility. the three georgia men were given life sentences earlier this year after chasing down arbery in their trucks and fatally shooting him in 2020. >> lets bring in civil rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst charles coleman. a lot of people looing at this would say, they already have life in prison. what is the importance of this conviction? give us insight on that. >> joe, the easiest way to explain this is the civil right d...

The prosecution laid out the horrifically insidious language that was used. whats so glaring, they werent trying to hide their prejudice, their racial animus towards african-americans. they made the statements to co-workers, publicly on facebook. these three defendants have a history of expressioning their views they were criminals, and the prosecution has to prove that that racial animus is what motivated them. >> the nerms of terms they use, the pattern of it that it wasnt just in arberys case...

To distinguish that notion of walking that line. you dont have to hate, but i dont know how people are going to decipher the two. if you have racial animus to hunt and kill someone, i think hatred is sort of a foregone conclusion perhaps in many respects there. but, elie, you and i talked about this case when it first came out, the idea of i wonder what was behind the motive of the state prosecutors not to bring up race. maybe because they knew this was on the horizon and didnt want to do anythi...