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They help us get justice for ahmaud. it feels so good. we know he just didn't die in vain. and his name is always remembered. >> marcus, ben, thank you both. i appreciate you joining. >> thank you, don. it was historic. thank you. >> so civil rights leaders applauding to day's victory. attorney general on the verge of tears talking about it. what this means in the fight for equal justice. we'll talk about that next. that's why dove men body wash has s skin-strengthening nutrients and moisturizers that help rebuild yourur skin. dove men+care. smoother, healthier skin with every shower.

Took to the stand and talked about their personal interactions with the defendants. and many of them say those conversations very quickly turned into racist rants against black people. one woman was so upset talking about her interactions with travis mcmichael that she left the jury box in tears running out of the courtroom and falling into the arms of marcus arbery, ahmaud arbery's father. we also saw from the prosecution text messages and social media posts of the men very freely using the "n" word and saying that they wished that all black people would die. that the world would be better of...

Forward, do you think? >> well, the hope, don, is that it sends the message that you can't think you're going to kill us and get away with it because on the federal level and state level, we can come after you. but when you think about george floyd and the video there and you think about the video and ahmaud arbery, you think so much about what technology has done to help us see for ourselves the evidence. and with trayvon martin, the anniversary of the tragedy happening on saturday, you can only try to fathom if we have video there and we have video in breonna taylor's case what measure of ju...

Father, said i am glad the world can see this. what is the realization that you think the country should be taking away from all of this as they hear these text messages and see the hatred in the heart of these three men? >> well, let's remind the country that this is not where it started, racial strife. i can remember february 26th of 2012 when trayvon martin was murdered and then you go forward eight more years on february 3rd of 2020 when ahmaud arbery was murdered. we have the dates when black men are literally murdered in our minds. that is not right. it shouldn't be right now and it shou...

Have a hate crime. we were one of eight states that does not have hate crime protections or to be prosecuted, so even while the racists that would happened was racist, there was actually no recourse for that district attorney to charge them with a hate crime which is why it's so important for the federal government to look into this under the hate crime act. to make sure these people are brought to justice, because otherwise communities in the state of georgia and the rest of the nation may ignore the problems that are still happening with racial bias in the state of georgia. >> to that end we...