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The testimony in trial of kyle rittenhouse, a wanna-be militia member from illinois who traveled to wisconsin to the protests. he is accused of murdering two black lives matter protesters and wounding a third. one of the jurors was removed after making a vile joke about blakes shooting. joining me now georgetown law professor. you know my friend, paul, i dont have a good feeling about this case. im always cynical. i always assume that its very difficult to police almost never get convicted. and ...

In jury selection. but he did kwauf that by saying that when he questioned the jurors about why they knocked off some of the black jurors, they gave him what are called racially neutral reasons for having knocked the person off the jury. under the badsen case, thats a proper analysis. i think when lawyers look at what happened in this case its very unfortunate. but probably the judge acted legally. . >> joey, is this a good situation for the prosecution? who is to blame for this happening? . >> ...

Big problems and both of them are evident tonight. the one, the most consistent one, the biggest one, is that the party out of power just feels more urgency about voting and i think if you look at virginia, i think the evidence is pretty clear that its the change in the composition of the electorate that mattered more than the change in the preference of the electorate. i mean, people talking about big change in the preference. you know, i mean, if you compare this to 2017 -- i dont think you ca...

This is a state that joe biden won by ten points last year. but in that exit poll, among the voters this time, 47% said they voted for biden. 45% said they voted for trump. the trump side of the electorate turned out in really big numbers, and changed the composition. and the other thing that happens to the presidents party in midterms is that his coalition erodes. i mean, there is disenchantment, there is disappointment. there are people who voted for him and -- and -- and feel that they ideolo...

When terry mcauliffe win his -- his one term back in 2013, he was making history because the trend or the -- the way that virginia usually goes is they usually elect a governor in the opposite party of who is in the white house. >> right. >> so, that is why we -- we really dont know. thats -- if you look at the history, why we really dont know but more importantly, where the -- where the votes are and where the exit polls -- >> and what kind of ground games these different campaigns had and how ...

Steven breyer all take to the stage to tell us that the court is not composed of partisan hacks in the words of justice barrett, which suggests that they are really feeling the heat. theyve had their lowest public approval ratings over the last couple months. people are really beginning to believe that the court is not a neutral institution but rather because of this change in the courts composition that different theories that were off the wall are now on the wall and that the court is moving i...

The fourth Ardmore Art Walk will be from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the historic Ardmore neighborhood in Winston-Salem.

Scheme is permissible and federal courts cannot stop it, why would it rush to hear these cases? what does that signal, if anything, to you? >> well, again, i think we have seen the justices in just the last couple of weeks really be on the ropes about whether or not theyre going to step in to intervene here. we had justice amy coney barrett, justice clarence thomas, and justice stephen breyer all take to the stage to tell us that the court is not composed of partisan hacks in the words of justic...

Moss Arts Center has released its list of spring schedule performances. The first name on the list is a fun and good one — Angélique Kidjo.

Pieces of legislation. the infrastructure is easier to sell. thats more familiar, mo visible, but it will take a lot of work, effort and money and youll do that through media, but i think democrats will have to spend a lot of money doing that. that will be my one critique. for the most part there are things that i would wish for, but 50 with no margin, you know, this is probably the most joe biden could get with this composition. >> you make it an interesting point. david, if youre right, if it ...