joining us now, to deal with all of the breaking news, we have our cnn senior legal analyst laura coates anz elie honig and allen turk heimer and eric gust is a trial attorney. to bring everybody up to speed again. kyle rittenhouse found not guilty on all five counts including the lesser included ones that were added. so, eli, surprise? it is not a surprise. because in our criminal justice system it is designed to be difficult to convict any person. that is why we have the standard beyond a reasonable doubt. it is even more difficult when there is a self-defense claim and it is even more difficult on top of that in the state of wisconsin which has a self-defense law. that is particularly favorable to a defendant. i think ultimately there were two key pieces of evidence in this case. one, this was a videotaped case. virtually all of the relevant conduct happened on videotape. and this was a split-second freeze-frame type of case. how close was rosenbaum to kyle
0 18-year-old man. and we ve also seen protesters. but not a lot. a number of people who are there with signs, who were perhaps hoping for a different outcome here. but the jurors, they looked at the law, they looked at jury instructions, they reviewed several pieces of evidence as they were deliberating over the course of four days, 25 hours. not guilty on all charges. the end of the kyle rittenhouse trial. the news continues right now with alisyn camerota. hello, everyone, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to newsroom. victor is off. we do have breaking news. minutes ago a jury acquitted kyle rittenhouse on all counts. rittenhouse was 17 years old when he fatally shot two men and wounded a third with an ar-15 style rifle that he brought to racial justice protests in august of 2020. he was charged with homicide and reckless endangerment. he could have gotten a life sentence but will walk free today. rittenhouse took the stand during trial, testifying that he acted in self-defense. the