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Officers. they are not in a marked patrol car. they are not with badges in their arms, theyre not in any uniform. without legal authority. once again, did not see him commit any crime. not a citizens arrest. >> not a citizens arrest. this is going to be tested. this jury is going to make a decision. as a legal matter, this case, the arbery trial of basically the people who killed him has no formal link to the acquittal of kyle rittenhouse. if you listen, some of the arguments overlap. a white pe...

Little built and come out of the zombie state we go into to protect ourselves i think. >> you know what everybody wants to know about you? >> dolly. >> whats the difference between collaborating with dolly and collaborating with bill clinton? >> not much. they have become good friends both of them. dolly sang happy birthday to me over the telephone. thats great, right? theyre very collaborative. they listen. theyre respectful. in both cases, the books are -- i mean, its very real in terms of if ...

And is trying to kill you with a lethal right, you would be exercising your self-defense. that is twisted in these cases to be offered as the justification for the killing. i want to play a little more from the prosecutor in the arbery trial. take a listen. >> they shot and killed ahmaud arbery. they all acted as a party to the crime. youll note theyve been indicted that way. the bottom line s but for their actions, but for their decisions, but for their choices, ahmaud arbery would be alive. an...

Legal analyst danny cevallos. lets start with that case, the arbery case. tensions have been really high. this is a trial thats been watched around the nation, especially coming on the heels of the rittenhouse case. what do you expect from developments today? >> closing arguments, the defense is the underdog in that they have to make the case somehow that even after they got in their cars, their trucks, they chased ahmaud arbery. they had plenty of chances to turn off their pursuit. they still h...

Very different from taking someone who beat the case and turning them immediately into some sort of hero or representative of self-defense or second amendment values or all of the rest. all of this is happening while these other cases remain open. again, i stress legally theyre not linked, but for america, as one nation they are in the public mind, as we figure out just where the line is how much has to be on tape and how much, not self-defense, but self-offense with armed people killing unarmed...

Suspected him of burglary and were trying to make a citizens arrest. but on this time, one of them admitted arbery did not pose a threat. >> weve also seen more we can protest across the country after kyle rittenhouse was acquitted a vulture. just take a look at the scenes on your screen here. people took their outreach to the streets in places like chicago, minneapolis and tampa, florida. lets get to the latest on both of these cases. nbc news correspondent stephanie stanton is in brunswick, ge...

Coming into this case, because you have three white men who essentially shot and killed an unarmed black man. as for the jury makeup, you talked about that. there is only one black person on this entire jury. that to some creates a big problem. earlier this morning on msnbc, human rights expert henderson talked about the makeup of the jury and why that could be problematic going forward. take a listen. >> the prosecutors should have done more about that. i know that historically, all you have to...

House, its sort of like the seventh inning stretch. theres a little bit of a break this week. the president, hell be taking off from here in wilmington, back to washington. just this hour, in fact, now, the senate isnt in session, so we dont expect to have too much in the way of in-person meetings with senators to try to resolve the many, many outstanding issues that julie just laid out. but you can expect that top white house officials and the president himself are remaining in touch by phone w...

Pretty serious stuff. but youre also an attorney. i want to get your reaction to the defenses strategy in the arbery case. do you think the kyle rittenhouse acquittal will help that defense of self-defense. theres so much publicity about kyle rittenhouse, it cant help be be something that could be taken into context, even though theyre not supposed to. >> potentially, yes, alex. i mean, its chilling to hear, obviously, the recitation of facts and i watched like so many americans the prosecutor t...

Specifically travis mcmichael who took the stand in his own defense, claiming self-defense, but the prosecutor was able to poke holes in a lot of travis mcmichaels assertions. after that, we saw ahmaud arberys mother came out. she addressed a crowd of supporters and said she feels confident that there will be a conviction in this case. so the question now is, is that -- are her words about her confidence helping to quell any potential unrest that we may see with regards to this case and how the ...