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Jose? >> and ron, thank you. and maya, i mean, ron was just talking about that long jury selection process. the judge in the case, essentially said that his hands were tied, even if jury selection was discriminatory. how can that happen? >> reporter: unfortunately, it can happen because what the supreme court of the united states has said is, it's okay to allow lawyers to strike people from the jury for no reason at all. they don't have to give a reason. as long as race is not the only reason. so what happens is, we have, frankly, often, prosecutors -- in this case -- we have defense attorneys...

To explain why he was there, on these occasions, doing nothing wrong, they maintain. but this is an interesting part of the case, because the defendants maintain that that is why they suspected that he was a robber in the neighborhood at that time when all of this happened. it's a very methodical process. it's not a very emotional opening statement. perhaps it will get to be more so, as she goes on. she spoke briefly about arbery being an uuncle, being a brothe, and went on to this very methodical explanation of the case. this is expected to go on for some time, and the defense will have its o...

Looking live at opening statements in the trial of the three white men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. there you see it. it's in brunswick, georgia. arbry, a 25-year-old black man was fatally shot while jogging through a south florida neighborhood last february. each of the defendants has pleaded not guilty. joining me now, nbc's ron allen, who is in brunswick for us, as well as msnbc legal analyst, maya wiley. thank you for being with me. ron, what are we hearing out of the opening arguments today? >> reporter: the prosecutor started off by telling the jury that this case is all about assum...

Him. the defense maintains that this was them trying to make a citizen's arrest of a suspect. and that they acted in self-defense and that that's what caused his murder. the prosecutors, of course, tell a very different story about him being an innocent man who was out jogging less than two miles from his home and they made these terrible assumptions about him, that he was doing nothing wrong, and that's what resulted in his death. the prosecutors have gone through a very methodical process in the first hour of this, outlining what the nine counts the men face are. felony murder, malice murder...

The house committee investigating the riots. where does it stand right now. do you have any sense of a timetable? and what is this battle going to look like with the executive privilege between the current president and his predecessor? >> you know donald trump very well, and the idea he's not going to go to court to challenge the move the white house made friday is not likely. it's likely to be litigated in court. the white house, durchlt white hous plt has the authority to waive executive privilege as much as the former president tried to block some of the documents moving forward. it was in...