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The u.s. has shared intelligence that show a build-up of russian troops and artillery to prepare for rapid large scale push in to ukraine from multiple locations. secretary state tony blinken announced additional sanctions that could target the nord stream 2 pipeline. >> we dont need what putins intentions are but we know what happened in the past. we know the playbook of citing some provocation from ukraine or any other country and using that as an excuse to do what russia is planning to do all...

If you are the unjustified initial aggressor. meaning if you started it. who started it? it wasnt ahmaud arbery. >> this is the crux of the matter from the prosecutions perspective. the jury agreed. you think there was any debate about that? >> no, i dont think so. i think that its interesting that its the week after we looked so long and hard at the rittenhouse case where there was so much talk about provocation and here we get the flip side where there was provocation by the person that turned...

Self-defense and of course, provocation. you cant force someone to defend themselves against you. this isnt the wild west. no. >> with me now katy fang, msnbc legal contributor and paul butler. katy, i have to play you one of the most despicable things ive ever seen in watching a lot of trials. this is the defense lawyer. doing what seems to me to be clearly trying to make this almost all white jury despise the dead ahmaud arbery, take a look and also the reaction of arberys mom. >> turning ahma...

The holiday. but next month, theyve got defense, and theyve got to keep the government open and of course there is the build back better act. with so many things with hard sand fad deadline, build back better, as much as some democrats want to get it done in december, is that a thing that can slip into the new year? particularly when you hear someone like senator manchin saying, hey, i wouldnt mind delaying that? >> oh, absolutely. you basically read the top of my column coming out in half an ho...

What has changed and do you think that the u.s. is doing enough to now deter them? >> i think thats the big question i think that the biden administration should be asking our intelligence community. what is it going to take to deter china further militarization of the south china sea and potentially an all-out invasion of taiwan? china wants us out of the south china sea. they want to be able to exploit the natural resources there and they want to be able to plan and potentially mount attacks a...

Malice murder counts. they decided with respect to those two defendants, premeditation and deliberation. with the defense, they were always going to have an uphill climb getting around the idea that you can start an altercation under georgia law and then claim self-defense. in other words, the chase, being in the vehicles, all of this was in fact the initial provocation. if you engage in the initial provocation such as committing false imprisonment by chasing someone with a vehicle, you cannot l...

Defendants its going to be between the mcmichaels and mr. bryan. but i dont believe they would convict travis and acquit george and mr. bryan. but i want viewers to know that is something that could happen in terms of one of them or two of them being convicted and another one going free or being acquitted and vice versa. >> of course, the recent kyle rittenhouse case dealt with vigilante justice and self-defense. in that case, rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges. this situation, however, is...

Crime was committed and if that crime was not committed in their presence, if they didnt actually see the crime, then they dont get the benefit of citizens arrest. and if theyre successful, then almost the entire defense falls with that first domino. >> and you know, charles, im curious what you see at the heart of this question over justification for citizens arrest because even though race was barely raised during the trial itself, the prosecutor was clear yesterday in closing saying that the ...

Together. because if theres no legitimate right to make a citizens arrest here, then this is just pure provocation by the mcmichaels, and no real way for them to employ the argument that they were acting in their own defense at this point. she did a beautiful job of making that connection and helping the jury understand how the facts and the law came together and why they should vote to convict. >> and joyce, youre saying you think the verdict could come back as early as today. >> i think that t...

Failing to stop for citizens rest. >> those actions put ahmaud arbery inned me fear of bodily harm? yes, now, whats he doing? hes running away from them. for five minutes hes running away from them. if they hadnt put him in serious bodily harm running away from him would he be dead? the answer is no. they do not get to claim self-defense. of course, provocation, you cant claim citizens arrest so you get to claim self-defense. no. they know exactly what they did. when you come back with your guil...