fix it, not by simply saying to the jury that the law is going to come from the court, which it will, but that this is a misstatement of the law, this argument is improper. we join. thank you, your honor. yesterday, the defense got up here and argued their interpretation of the law. and i didn t object at all because i knew it was their interpretation of what they believe the law to be. they went through the whole probable cause thing, they callcall ed him a burglar. the state didn t objebobject, i understood this was their position. i declared to this jury and i will again this is what the law is and this is how you apply it to these facts and this is the state s interpretation of how you read the law, just like they gave their interpretation in their closing yesterday. i ask that you deny the mistrial. [ inaudible ]
0 this arm on ahmaud arbery was 25 inches, this arm was 26 inches and the barrel of the shotgun is over 28 inches. do the math. did he hit him? he did he punch him? did he strike him, when the shotgun is like this? easy, do the math. this is what travis mcmichael did. there is no fear here. there is only anger. remember, it is the standard of reasonable beliefs that the force used is necessary. do you really believe he had no other choice but to use this shot gun? is that what you really believe? no other choice. what are the alternatives? well, the first alternative is don t start this. i ll tell you something, my husband, he always tells this to our three nephews, david, ben and sam. what he says is there is some rules for life. you know what those rules are. don t go looking for trouble. because you will find it. and it is not going to turn out the way you think it is. what he s really saying is, don t be that guy who starts the bar fight and goes, let a s go t in the parking lot. i
fighting about the size of government and there is nothing in the record of the republican party to suggest that they will shrink government. it just doesn t it s not there. you ve written about this in your book drift, under reagan, we saw it under george w. bush. government grew as a share of gdp, spending, even things like medicare part d. the question is, who will government benefit? that is question at issue in the campaign. do not let yourself the reason that hypocrisy is so important, do not let yourself get suckered into the belief this is a battle over how big government is going to be. i don t think that s actually what s on the table. what s on the table is are the poor going to see their medicaid cut and the pentagon get $2 trillion or is the balance in the other direction? that is what is on the table. it s not just a false debate about the size of government. it s a false debate about whether or not government works. the thing that i thought was important last nig
finally, finally got a giant national spotlight shining on the fact that he had no specifics to offer. that s why this debate was awesome. that s why this debate went fast. this was an exhilarating amount of ground to have covered in 90 minutes, an exhilarating amount of new information and new political truths that we did not know about before last night, but that we know now. it started right away. started right away. paul ryan saying, we should have apologized for u.s. marines urinating on taliban corpses in aft afghanistan but not say when asked directly and when pressed with a follow-up would not say if the u.s. was right to apologize for burning korans. no answer. no position on that. george w. bush administration apologized for that, the obama administration did, too. paul ryan is running with a guy who literally wrote a book callcall ed no apologies. does he also mean no apology for that? no answer. whether a strike on iran would
from their achievement in health reform because they didn t like the way republicans talked about it then democrats, something click, a few braves one first, started running on it saying we see this as a great political asset. are we due for that with the stimulus, too? i would like to say yes. i think the stimulus, when the recovery happens, and if the recovery happens under a barack obama administration in the second term, retroactively, the stimulus will take on this very haloed view. people will go back and look at it and say it in incredibly favorable light. but everything hangs, as much does, as much as, frankly, the general opinion of the liberal project hangs on the re-election of barack obama. frankly. how that story is written is a story that is written about whether barack obama is re-elected or not. exactly right. you re very smart. chris hayes the host of msnbc s weekend morning show up with chris hayes which is going to be the bomb tomorrow. chris new book twiligh