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Jose? >> and ron, thank you. and maya, i mean, ron was just talking about that long jury selection process. the judge in the case, essentially said that his hands were tied, even if jury selection was discriminatory. how can that happen? >> reporter: unfortunately, it can happen because what the supreme court of the united states has said is, its okay to allow lawyers to strike people from the jury for no reason at all. they dont have to give a reason. as long as race is not the only reason. so ...

To explain why he was there, on these occasions, doing nothing wrong, they maintain. but this is an interesting part of the case, because the defendants maintain that that is why they suspected that he was a robber in the neighborhood at that time when all of this happened. its a very methodical process. its not a very emotional opening statement. perhaps it will get to be more so, as she goes on. she spoke briefly about arbery being an uuncle, being a brothe, and went on to this very methodical...

Looking live at opening statements in the trial of the three white men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. there you see it. its in brunswick, georgia. arbry, a 25-year-old black man was fatally shot while jogging through a south florida neighborhood last february. each of the defendants has pleaded not guilty. joining me now, nbcs ron allen, who is in brunswick for us, as well as msnbc legal analyst, maya wiley. thank you for being with me. ron, what are we hearing out of the opening arguments to...

Him. the defense maintains that this was them trying to make a citizens arrest of a suspect. and that they acted in self-defense and that thats what caused his murder. the prosecutors, of course, tell a very different story about him being an innocent man who was out jogging less than two miles from his home and they made these terrible assumptions about him, that he was doing nothing wrong, and thats what resulted in his death. the prosecutors have gone through a very methodical process in the ...

The house committee investigating the riots. where does it stand right now. do you have any sense of a timetable? and what is this battle going to look like with the executive privilege between the current president and his predecessor? >> you know donald trump very well, and the idea hes not going to go to court to challenge the move the white house made friday is not likely. its likely to be litigated in court. the white house, durchlt white hous plt has the authority to waive executive privil...

Country, but i would love america to come together, which is why im here to announce im running for -- im just kidding, guys. im not running for president. we cant have three failed politicians in one family. time now for something totally different. all eyes were on kim kardashian west over the weekend as she made her "saturday night live" hosting debut. the business mogul and keeping up with kardashians star taking jabs at her family, her divorce from kanye west and, sure, the o.j. simpson c...

Whats so interesting and whats significant about what the biden white house did in waiving privilege, they said the former president and his legal team only were seeking to block a certain number of the documents as part of this larger tranche that the national archives was turning over, and what that signifies to me is when the white house comes in and says not only are we allowing that specific set of documents to move forward, but all of them moving forward, for as much as jen psaki and other...

Place in this judicial game of ping-pong while we awade the biden administrations response, after which it could go right back to being stricken for the time being, but its important to realize that the fifth circuit for most lit begans is effectively the supreme court. all the caughts are because they dont hear a lot of cases. its likely to hear this one, but we may see some more ping-ponging before it gets up to the supreme court. >> danny, you wrote a piece over the weekend on nba players, a ...

>> if theres a relationship that youre in that might not be the best thing for you, leave it. now. weve got more emails of men and women doing that, taking care of themselves first. >> an appeal hes making to people who are in unhealthy relationships. we do know, sara, moab police investigating officers who we saw -- we saw on video how they handled a domestic dispute between the couple. how should they have handled that? >> you know, the response to domestic violence calls really sort of escala...

Me alone. >> and so broadcast journalism loses its purity and it becomes much more shoddy, sensationalistic. and then it all comes together with o.j. simpson. >> im larry carroll in los angeles. the los angeles county district attorney has just filed murder charges against orenthal james simpson. >> i have to interrupt this call. i understand were going to go to a live picture in los angeles. police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car. >> the o.j. simpson story starts with the chase and the...