do you want to read it to us? i have not. let me read it to you. do you have it? i m floored. floored with a capital f. laura hogue says, gregory mcmichael s lawyer, she said as she left the courtroom gallery her face was red with tears. well, frankly, i m not sure why she d be floored when she was in the gutter when it came to the comments about the hygiene of a victim. imagine, if you will, a lot of people didn t want to talk about this in terms of race. i ve talked about it in terms of gender, as potentially more palatable. what if we were talking about the clothing of a rape victim. we don t allow that in the courtroom because we know there is a line that ought to be drawn in the denigration of people who have been harmed by criminals. for her to engage in that behavior was egregious. but more importantly and less shockingly, it s not an effective strategy as a defense.
passed but in this case, in georgia, they have made changes already. reporter: and we have to mention one more thing. there are more charges coming, federal charges. so that s a whole other potential trial or maybe they make a deal, i don t know. but there are more charges coming. right now these three men are facing life in prison without parole if that is what the judge decides. we know that s what the prosecution is going to be asking for. but that is the potential sentence for each and every one of these men who all were convicted of several counts of murder. sara and ryan, thank you so much. please stand by. i do want to go back to our legal panel right now for some of those very questions that sara and ryan just raised. i want to go to you first, laura coates, because we re just getting response from the defense, from that attorney, laura hogue, who had made those comments about ahmaud arbery s appearance that struck so many as racist tropes. have you seen her response yet, l
0 served as well as a country. in fact going into this holiday weekend i think it would have torn this country apart. that s how fragile our democracy is. that s how tired and exhausting it is for people of color. i ve been talking to ben crump and lee merrick all day long. today we ve had that accountability. but i will tell you this is just one day and finally we got it. tomorrow will come and hopefully more black people won t be killed because of the color of their skin. bakari sellers, thank you. thank you to all of our guests, our analysts, our reporters this past hour. i m going to hand it off to alisyn camerota who picks up the breaking news now. hello, everyone. welcome to newsroom, i m alisyn camerota. after 11 1/2 hours of deliberations, jurors find all three defendants in the ahmaud arbery murder trial guilty of murder. ahmaud arbery s mother, wanda, was visibly emotional as the verdict was read. you can see that crowds outside of the courthouse are chanting ahmaud arber