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Republican party is. it's like it's a party of trolls who want to do nothing substantive but, as you said, you know, get back at the libs or make the liberals get mad because there is nothing else on their agenda except whiteness and nonsensical arguments. >> you know, maria-teresa, i mean, when the verdict came down, i mean, i wasn't surprised just given the way the judge behaved, the way the case went, the way the prosecution argued the case. this wasn't a surprise and yet that verdict sent a chill down my spine for what it could portend. >> well, i think one of the things that is so concern...

We're dealing with today the killing -- or the shooting of jacob blake jr. and then you have a kyle rittenhouse comes in, taking the law into his own hands and doing what he did. >> so, let's pivot then to -- because i was going to ask about the prosecution in this case, because it is sort of like where was the derek chauvin prosecution team for this case? what about ahmaud arbery? how concerned are you that those three guys will get off in the killing of ahmaud arbery? >> i'm not concerned that they're going to get off, jonathan. you always have the possibility of a hung jury. what stands out...

Suspected him of burglary and we're trying to make a citizens arrest. but on this time, one of them admitted arbery did not pose a threat. >> we've also seen more we can protest across the country after kyle rittenhouse was acquitted a vulture. just take a look at the scenes on your screen here. people took their outreach to the streets in places like chicago, minneapolis and tampa, florida. let's get to the latest on both of these cases. nbc news correspondent stephanie stanton is in brunswick, georgia. elizabeth lothian is in kenosha, wisconsin. 70, let's start with. you what's the mood ther...

Himself, the justice department, or he could have used a grand jury because the fifth amendment says no person shall be held for a capital or otherwise infamous crime except on indictment to the grand jury. that's almost exactly the text. what the supreme court has said, if that's a misdemeanor charge, you don't need a grand jury. that's what these two offenses are. what merrick garland did, he said it's kind of an infamous crime. i'm going to get the seal of approval of a grand jury to do this. he didn't have to do that to go after bannon but he did. woodward is right to say that discretionar...

Not find -- difficult to find rittenhouse guilty. isn't the problem the laws, the way they're written, that make us vulnerable? when i say us, the american people, but certainly black people. >> okay, so, jonathan, here is the problem we start talking about the law as it relates to the rittenhouse case. it is not the law on the books, it is the law provided to the jury for them to use in deliberation. the law they had to use during deliberation was actually more forgiving than you would think, with regard to reaching the right results in this case. but here is the problem, it is a structural p...