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They were trying to do, that is the defendants here, was simply protect their neighborhood out of concern that ahmaud arbery was the person who had been engaging in these break-ins at the construction site and had been doing things that were perilous to the neighborhood. however, although they have said that, that is the defense, i think certainly the prosecution has in many ways connected the dots, has indicated that this racial animus and racial hatred is the thing that motivated them to do it...

What is the impact of being convicted in federal court as well? >> the impact of these convictions is if they are successful in overturning the state-level convictions or reducing them, theyre still going to be sentenced on the federal hate crimes charges, which carry a maximum of life in pris aren. thats quite significant and theres the expressive function of labelling a hate crime, underscoring this is a murder undertaken because of racial animus. >> which reinforces that using this procedure,...

Unsettling. >> richard, ambassador mcfall said something on this program yesterday that has stuck with me. he talked about the stoic of the ukrainian people about their concerns about war. can you speak to that? is that what youre seeing? >> its important to understand there are some divisions in this country. that is part and parcel to putins thinking. its part of his calculus. there is a divide between the ukrainian speaking west and the largely russian speaking far east. and it is a bilingual...

Hardly unsubstantiated. indeed, this courts in camera view of the thousands of documents responsive to the office of attorney generals prior subpoenas demonstrates that the office of attorney general has a sufficient basis for continuing its investigation, which undercuts the notion that this ongoing investigation is based on personal animus, not facts and law. so, there is the judge, again, saying that he has personally reviewed thousands of documents in this case. it is his rearview of those t...

It was these men did needed to be done on a federal level. thats why christian clark and thedoj hate crime unit decided to pursue it and prosecute it on that level. we got a verdict yesterday. >> what is the purpose? i can certainly understand if there wasnt an underlying verdict and so you needed a hate crime conviction to pin something on people. what is -- whats the purpose of stacking hate crime conviction on top of an underlying conviction? >> well, joe, the biggest issue there is that we w...

We talked about how dissatisfied they are with the sentence. and i want you to listen here to katie bryant, this is daunte wrights mother, this is the problem with our justice system today. white womens tears trumps justice, and i thought my tears would be good enough because their true and genuine. but when their coerced, coached, and taught by the defense attorney, i guess we didnt have a win in this at all. >> white women tears trump justice and i thought my white women tears would be enough....

This is an opportunity to reset his presidency. >> bret: getting word from the "wall street journal" that the u.s. government is expected to ban russian aircraft from american airspace broadening the aviation restrictions. as the west expands those sanctions. heres the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, guy. >> we will hear from a president who has signed a commission to study packing the supreme court because his party didnt like its current ideological makeup. we will hear from a presiden...

Going to hear a pretty straight forward case. ladies and gentlemen, you saw the text messages, all the other racist messages. you can now infer that because these were generally racist people that when they denied ahmaud arbery the use of a public road they were doing so with racist animus. from the defense youll hear the argument you may not like my client, you may think they are racist and there is evidence that they had racist thoughts, but the government, they will argue, has not proven that...

Again and again that thats why this happened so the charges on the federal hate crimes thats the significance of it, the issue of race. >> we thank you for your reporting on this breaking story. well let you g.charles, i want to bring you in. we just heard arberys mom, wanda cooper jones, say i knew wed get victory at the state and federal level from day one. are you surprised by this verdict and given how fast this verdict was reached given that these are federal hate crime charges. >> im not s...

We rely upon our justice department to prosecute those cases, particularly cases like this where the racial animus is so evident. so hopefully there will be more prosecutions but hopefully it will send a message to the justice department to do its job. >> that racial animus would not have come out if the federal trial hadnt happened. none of that was in play. >> shes amazing. she has been amazing during this whole process having to fight for justice for her own son. jury deliberations are going ...