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Crowds everywhere. its a testament to how much his star has faded and how much he has been disgraced regardless of the outcome of this trial during the past years so that this is where we are now again, its just an incredible -- its just an incredible fall from grace, and its something that, again, remember it was rumored for years and years that r. kelly was allegedly up to no good, had a lot of relationships with young, underage girls. it was an open thing that was out there that trailed him e...

What a complicated case this was. can you talk about that for people who arent as averse to this >> sure. on one side you have r. kelly standing with criminal charges of racketeering. racketeering basically involves an enterprise, a group of individuals who enabled r. kelly. this can be very difficult for nonlegal minds to understand how such a crime, which involves a number of people, but yet theyre only looking at the criminal intent of just one, and thats r. kelly. but, really, once you break...

Sides, even, in this case if you talk about the democrat progressives, moderates and republicans particularly on the senate side. so the president is involved, but the indication that white house officials have given is that they see him playing the role as sort of honest broker. lee ann talks about that trust deficit on all sides the white house hopes to position the president as someone who can fill that void in that trust gap that can bring these parties together after a few months of stalema...

You. im sorry to interrupt you, but i have to share this with you, with kristen and ron we have now learned that r. kelly has been found guilty on all nine counts that he faced. so r. kelly guilty on nine counts, including that racketeering charge. sentencing will be on may 4th. that is the latest from the courthouse that youre looking at in brooklyn we know that the next phase of this sentencing will happen now, months from now. as suspected, guilty on all those counts lets see if anybody stops...

Comprehensive case that took the prosecutor three hours to sum up, there was so much evidence i would agree with what you now have been hearing. this is a pretty short verdict for such a comprehensive case with so many victims and so much evidence at first ill tell you, honestly, weve had some interesting notes from the jury thats come in in the last nine hours, and i was beginning to kind of wonder a little bit about that but now it seems like this is a quick verdict to me for such a complicate...

See that this, in fact, did happen where they said it did in chicago or los angeles, whatever the case may be. there were mountains and mountains of evidence r, some o it basic testimony from these women, like call logs and so on. some of it was evidence r. kelly had in his own possession like these sex tapes that showed in real graphic detail what was going on >> we are getting word now -- by the way, we should note thats gloria allred at the microphones getting ready to speak to the media. we ...

Kelly from guilt king, when you say he was shocked, im not surprised. but just as a human being even listening to the courts about this trial, it is absurd that he would be shocked again, this is the mind of a serial sexual predator for him to be shocked that hes being held accountable after decades of these women crying out for help and not being heard is unreasonable. but, thankfully, hes held accountable. >> kristen givens, cynthia auxney and ron allen, i want to thank you for being here for ...

Seeing live pictures here on screen obviously these are stills, these are images from previously we are getting information from whats happening in the courtroom as people who are, as sometimes happens, scrambling in and out of the room. let me bring in cynthia, an msnbc analyst. cynthia, as it relates to r. kelly, this was a case that captivated so many people in this country because of the extreme nature of the charges against him, the raw and emotional testimony from the women who were testif...

Point, kristen, and it says a lot about where we are now even culturally as a society where we would have been 10 or 15 years ago. cynthia, i wonder if you want to jump in on that. >> i see where cases are evolving these rape cases need to go to the enablers he was not able to do this unless people were handing out phone numbers, unless somebody was locking the door to that room to that radio announcer someone was getting the fake papers that said aleah was 18 and they ended up getting married. ...

Whether it might be r. kellys attorneys. well bring that to you live if we can get it. do you think, cynthia, it would have been made a difference if r. kelly had testified on his own behalf, or no? >> i dont think it would have made a difference, but let me tell you this. nobody has to testify. you have a constitutional right and its something we need to protect. but having said that, jurors expect it. and they sometimes, no matter what people say, its an ugly truth, is that juries do expect it...