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>> yes, absolutely. there are seven defendants against who we have entries of default, and the court is likely to be guided in its damages assessment by the jury's verdict today. a so that which obviously was substantial damages awarded, compensatory and punitive, so the court will be guided by that. as to james fields, the driver of the car, one extraordinary thing that happened in this verdict is that james fields was found to be part of a conspirace with richard spencer, jason kesler, chris campo and the res of the defendants in this case. the fact they said, we had nothing to do with this,...

Group of them were injured during the car attack that saturday. another group were attacked at the horrific incident the night before where students were surrounded at the thomas jefferson statue on campus. they all decided to join this because they wanted to stand up for what is right and for justice. they it wanted the world to know and to understand what happened to them. and so they are all feeling pretty good today. when we walked in from the courthouse yesterday, they were all waiting for us. there was a lot of screaming and cheering. and i think they have a sense of accountability and j...

Parse out that that was federal related. but, yeah, i -- i was glad the jury was able to recognize that. i mean, even when the evidence seems very clear, you can't always determine what a jury is going to say or do. um, so i was glad they were able to recognize the preponderance of the evidence definitely showed the clients to be guilty and the evidence was their own words. that was the beauty of the case. that integrity for america spent a great deal of time finding the defendants' own words to use in the case. >> this partial verdict, and obviously the previous-criminal trial of james fields...

Just and due consideration because that's what our legal system commands. however, i do think that this is also a very straightforward case in many regards, and hopefully a quick verdict will be a sign that justice -- that there is an attempt to have justice for ahmaud arbery. >> charles f. coleman jr., thank you so much for talking with us. i appreciate it. >> no problem. a federal jury has found the white nationalists who organized a violent demonstration in charlottesville, virginia, four years ago liable for more than $26 million in damages. the unite the right rally became a new front i...

He also defended himself in a very bizarre trial. the answer to your question is the plaintiffs don't expect that these defendants are going to be able to pay $25 million in damages. in fact, almost half of that money was leied against james fields, the man who drove the car into the crowd and killed heather heyer and injured many other people. he's serving life in prison, so he doesn't have $12 million. but the point here is to bankrupt these defendants. these judgments will follow them around for the rest of their lives, and to send a message that this kind of conduct, conspiring to commit r...