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That's all i can think about. what with you? >> now it's 2021, and we're still talking about virtually all white juries in a case in georgia about white men who lynched a black person. the georgia jury found 12 african americans were qualified to sit on that jury. they could be fair and objective. the defense then removed 11 of those 12 black jurors. the defense claimed it's based on how they answered questions. but some white jurors said the same things of things. they didn't get struck. one white juror said she thought mr. arbery had been racially profiled. another white juror said she had l...

Jurors, and in this case we're talking about the 11 african american jurors because of racial bias. >> defense lawyers rejected the accusations. >> we struck 13 white people to this 11 -- number of 11 african americans. and those were based on the same reasons, your honor, the same strong rooted bias. >> while the judge agreed that there was intentional discrimination, he ultimately declined to receipt the excluded jurors. >> quite a few african american jurors were excused through peremptory strikes exercised by the defense. but that doesn't mean that the court has the authority to receipt. >...

He is very, very public. he seems at least at this point to have made rulings that sounds like he's a part of the defense. what do you make of that? >> joy, today the judge went off on the media, claiming their criticism of the way he's conducting the case is undermining public confidence. you know what's undermining public confidence? the way the judge is conducting the case. here are legitimate concerns. last week he allowed the three men who rittenhouse killed to be described as criminals, but at the same time the prosecutors are allowed to call them victims. >> we're going to be watching t...

President having ever been elected, right, the fact that he was elected period means there is no racism. and even if they're literally trying to ban books about black people and saying you cannot talk about the black experience, we're going cut that out of schools because white people don't like it, they still want credit. they still want to be able to say it's not racist. in this case, i just want the get your comment on. this because the two choices voters had in virginia were a black woman who shares my daughter's name and jamaican heritage, and an afro latina who is part lebanese. so you h...

Country back into a trajectory using the peaceful means that we have at us. so to answer your question, and i just think it's overly blunt, we have to be the ones that do not play into the violent aims and ambitions of the other side. >> okay. credit were due. that is a decent answer. he is arguing violence to discredit the cause, kind of instrumental answer. -- again, i'm glad he said. that but that is not a lot of some of the -- including elective members of congress that are saying. in the core problem millions of people are being told every day that they're living under no legitimate gover...