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developing now, president biden and first lady jill biden just wrapped up a visit to a u.s. coast guard station, visiting service members in nantucket where they re spending their thanksgiving. the first couple thanking those coasties for their service. jeff zellny is life with the first family in nantucket. jeff, this is a family tradition. going back decades, but they skipped it last year and now they re back. alex, it is a family tradition for the bidens, but this is the first time that joe biden has been on nantucket as commander in chief and we are just seeing those images coming in right now from a visit that the president and first lady had to u.s. coast guard brant station. it s based here on nantucket island just off the coast of massachusetts. and the president had a virtual conversation with members of the military. all six branches. army, navy, air force, marines, space force, as well as the coast guards. he talked to service members
i m very, very thankful that god gave me the son of ahmaud, he gave me the assignment as ahmaud s mom. i m very, very thankful for the people in the community, the people in the state of georgia, the people in the united states of america who stood with us, supported us through this huge long fight that we finally got the chance to say, we got justice for ahmaud. and the trial is over now, to an extent the country will move on. i know you won t. i know you will never move on from ahmaud. what do you want people to remember about him? since the day we lost ahmaud, ahmaud implemented change. he s brought about the hate crime law in georgia. he caused that citizen s arrest law to be repelled. and i want people to think of ahmaud as change. ahmaud lost his life, but he
lose his life in vain. jennifer, that murder was caught on tape. we saw it on video. how important do you think that video was to this case? what it have happened at all without it? that s hard to say. it certainly didn t happen without it for some time and in fact, we have a prosecutor under indictment herself for obstructing the case. i think it s fair to say that without a videotape, it s very, very unlikely that we would have seen this case brought. it s crucial. oftentimes nowadays with the cameras around, much more is being captured than ever before. here on a rural road, that wasn t the case. it was due to mr. bryan and his cell phone. you re right. without the tape, we would have nothing, so it s a good thing we did. so much more on this saga still to come. we know you ll be watching closely. elliot, jennifer, thank you and happy thanksgiving. thank you.
it is thursday, november 25th. happy thanksgiving! happy thanksgiving, john. i m john berman. brianna is off. that is chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins and we re so grateful you re here. nice to see you. this morning, the nation is reflecting on the verdicts of the family of the ahmaud arbery once feared might never come. three white men convicted of murder. we the jury find the defendant travis mcmichael guilty. the judge read the word guilty 23 times, all three defendants guilty of murdering an unarmed black jogger. their self-defense claim dismantled by prosecutors. they now face the possibility of life in prison. and you heard someone become emotional there in the courtroom. after the judge read the first guilty verdict. that was ahmaud arbery s father, and the judge had him removed as he read the rest of the verdict. arbery s mother was also in the courtroom and in tears as the verdicts came down. she later thanked supporters