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Kim potter, the former minnesota police officer who drew a gun instead of a taser and fatally shot daunte wright during a traffic stop found guilty by a minnesota jury of first and second degree manslaughter. let's discuss anow with legal analyst joey jackson. good to see you. we were just talking about this case. we know it's not about intent, and the jury made the decision about what was proven by the prosecution. what's your reaction? >> yeah, laura, good to be with you. you know this is a very big deal. when you analyze and look at the jury, you know, six men and six women, nine who are wh...

Know, my wife. >> really? so when she said and she made the statement on the stand she was very sorry, buzz that the first time you had heard kim potter express that sorrow to you and your family? >> if you go back and listen to it, she didn't really express that sorrow to me and my family. it was -- to us it was more of a sorry that, you know, that it happened. and she never once said that she was sorry to the family or nothing like that. i didn't hear that. sorry. >> would that mean something to you? i mean obviously there's going to be sentencing in this case, and either one of you can jump...

The design of both the taser and location with respect to the firearm on the dominant and the taser on the nondominant, you should know better. and they concluded that equates to recklessness and negligence. so in summing that up, laura, yes, the juror was shaking, yes the juror was upset. and you may have that sympathy, but you know what the law says and the law compels you to reach a result, and that's what happened here. >> not to mention we talk a lot about the sympathy and the assumptions we make as a society about her crying on the stand, weather that evoked sympathy from the jury. but i...

Tests all over the country into everyone's home, and they turned that down. so there have been several missed opportunities, and they really have appeared now to be flat-footed when this very, very transmissible variant has come to this country. so now they have to play catch-up. they've been basically putting all their eggs in the vaccine basket, having trouble getting the full country vaccinated and getting testing. and now we see the full importance of testing in this country. >> ron, tell me if you agree. you know the polls best, but i have the feeling and impression it was just expected. ...

At this point, and that's obviously something this investigation will never be settled until we know what trump knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. >> and that's of course one of the reasons why there is this quest in the investigation for transparency to find out the information, to answer the questions you've said, not just about trump but other people as well. so what do you think about the former president asking the supreme court to block the national archives from turning over his white house records? i mean will he get what he wants? you know very well, of course, that the ...